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Meta information
98% 
Page quality
46% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
83% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.70 s
File size
75.60 kB
Words
339
Media files
17
Number of links
87 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Policy Options - Institute for Research on Public Policy
The length of the page title is perfect. (486 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The public forum for the public good.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (225 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://policyoptions.irpp.org/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en
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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
(Somewhat important)
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
(Somewhat important)
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 339 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
20.4% of the text are stop words.
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.
The average number of words per sentence of 11 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" 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 7 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
8 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)
Why doesn’t equalization apply to Indian reserves?
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

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H1 Why doesn’t equalization apply to Indian reserves?
H2 Are consultations with First Nations really the obstacle to fast-tracking national projects?
H2 Why Canada needs a “deep prevention” approach to pandemic preparedness
H2 Changes to open work permits undermine women’s self-sufficiency
H2 Recent stories
H2 Lessons for Canada from the treatment of trans communities in Scotland
H2 Ontario’s focus on child welfare finances won’t keep kids safe
H2 Ontario’s nurses are fighting back
H2 The health-care system needs rebuilding
H2 Canada’s outdated laws leave spyware oversight dangerously weak
H2 Trending Stories
H2 The public service needs to get better at firing its underperformers
H2 Five big moves Mark Carney must make to secure Canada’s place in the world
H2 Why Canada needs age verification laws for porn
H2 Get the Policy Options Newsletter
H2 Contact Us
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
2 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 10 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://policyoptions.irpp.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.70 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (76 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 163 referring domains.
This page has 347 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 149 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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