Policymagazine.ca - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
89% 
Page quality
39% 
Page structure
50% 
Link structure
70% 
Server
95% 
External factors
68% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.82 s
File size
92.10 kB
Words
221
Media files
36
Number of links
55 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Policy Magazine
The page title is too short. (146 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Canadian Politics and Public Policy: Canada, US and international opinion and analysis, book reviews, online and in print. Plus, The Week in Policy.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (907 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.policymagazine.ca/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
(Somewhat important)
There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
(Somewhat important)
The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
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No parameters were found in the URL.
No session ID was found in the URL.
The URL does not have too many subdirectories.
Charset encoding
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
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The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 221 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
The average number of words per sentence of 8.5 words is low.
33% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
35 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
Additional markup
(Nice to have)
No additional page markup was found.
HTTPS
(Somewhat important)
This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

Media list

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Special Series: The Expert Group on Canada-US Relations
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

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H1 Special Series: The Expert Group on Canada-US Relations
H1 Policy Sponsored Print Issues
H2 The Making of the Minutes: Our Policy-Historica Canada Series
H3 Information and Communication Infrastructure Resiliency: Canada’s Invisible Security Risk
H3 Fixing the Fisc: Free Advice for Canada’s Next Prime Minister
H3 Redefining Abundance: Why Carney’s Agenda Shouldn’t Rely on Extraction
H3 Transparency Won Ghanaians’ Hearts During the Pandemic. Can it Save the Country’s Economy?
H3 From Rollout to Pileup: The Week that Was for the Carney Cabinet
H3 Updating Canada’s Trade Remedies to Better Equip Canadian Companies
H3 Good Fences: Managing the Bilateral Re-Set
H3 The COP26 Deal: President Sharma Rolls the Dice
H3 Overtime at COP26: Toward a Common Future
H4 Don Newman
H4 Jeremy Kinsman
H4 Lori Turnbull
H4 Daniel Béland
H4 Lisa Van Dusen
H4 Policy Magazine
H6 ‘With All My Heart, I Am Very Sorry’: The Apology of Pope Francis to Indigenous Peoples
H6 Toward a Better Balanced and More Resilient World Economy
13 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 10 external links on this page.
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/book-reviews/Subdomain No Text
/policy-dispatches/Subdomain A-TITLE Book Reviews
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.policymagazine.ca/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (2.82 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (92 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 21 referring domains.
This page only has 56 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 21 different ip addresses.
This page is referenced by wikipedia.

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Policy Magazine
Canadian Politics and Public Policy: Canada, US and international opinion and analysis, book reviews, online and in print. Plus, The Week in Policy.

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