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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
95% 
Page quality
72% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
85% 
Server
99% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.41 s
File size
64.40 kB
Words
757
Media files
47
Number of links
35 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Stears: African financial data, solutions and insight
The length of the page title is perfect. (450 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Stears is Africa’s most comprehensive financial database and source of market intelligence for global funds investing in Africa.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (773 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://stears.co/
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Canada
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)
The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
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
The average number of words per sentence of 25.92 words is high.
This page contains 757 words. That's ok.
26.7% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
11 paragraphs were found on this page.
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 amount of tags is very high (17). We recommend using a maximum of 15 tags for this page.
The following tag is repeated too often: the only data platform exclusively focused on africa
Some tags are too long. With 96 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"accurate and actionable intelligence for african fund managers, corporates and service providers"
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
39 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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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...b6f/65155919834e35ee7da83ffe_QR Code.pngNo alt attribute provided
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...c958148b26151833_google-play-badge-1.pngNo alt attribute provided
...d93bdc14e58c421109d3_Vectors-Wrapper.svgStears logo
...d93cef78b74609634ba5_Vectors-Wrapper.svgInstagram logo
...40d7e35ebc3705f3fb49_Vectors-Wrapper.svg'X' logo
...d93daf27d75c79d7ecb7_Vectors-Wrapper.svgLinkedin logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
There are no headings specified on the page. Headings are important for search engine optimization and help to structure your content.

Heading structure

No headings were found.
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
3 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 12 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.stears.co/IMG-ALT Stears logo
https://www.stears.co/about-usAbout us
/accounts/signin/Sign in
/info/request-trialNew window Request a Trial
/info/request-trialNew window Text duplicate Request a Trial
/info/request-trialNew window Text duplicate Request a Trial
/info/request-trialText duplicate Request a Trial
/premium/article/limited-partn...No Text
/premium/article/africas-bigge...Where to find liquidity in African Private Equity Stears Research | Jul 25, 2025
/premium/article/financial-ser...No Text
/premium/article/gaming-indust...Gaming Industry in West and Southern Africa: Business Model, Growth, Competition (July 2025) Stears Research | Jul 23, 2025
/premium/article/weekly-africa...No Text
/premium/article/african-pe-fu...African PE funds must build to exit, not deploy Stears Research | Jul 18, 2025
/premium/article/financial-ser...IMG-ALT FX tracker articls
/premium/article/q2-2025-priva...Q2 2025 Private Capital in Africa Activity: Regional Dynamics Stears Research | Jul 17, 2025
/premium/article/stears-approv...Subdomain Learn more
/elections/2023/president/Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more
/premium/article/how-stears-ac...Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://play.google.com/store/...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://play.google.com/store/...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.stears.co/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Stears logo
https://www.stears.co/about-usAbout
https://stears.bamboohr.com/jobs/External Subdomain Careers
https://stears.freshdesk.com/s...External Subdomain FAQs
https://stears.freshdesk.com/s...External Subdomain Contact
/privacy-policy/Subdomain Privacy
https://www.stears.co/Stears Platform
/open-data/elections/upcoming-...African Election Tracker
/open-data/elections/african-c...African Democracy
https://www.stears.co/electionsSubdomain Nigeria 2023
https://www.stears.co/about-usText duplicate About
https://stears.bamboohr.com/jobs/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Careers
https://stears.freshdesk.com/s...External Subdomain Text duplicate Contact
/privacy-policy/Subdomain Text duplicate Privacy
/terms-and-conditions/Subdomain Terms
https://www.stears.co/Text duplicate Stears Platform
/open-data/elections/upcoming-...Open Data: African Election Tracker
/open-data/elections/african-c...Open Data: African Democracy
https://www.stears.co/electionsSubdomain Open Data: Nigeria 2023
https://www.instagram.com/stea...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Instagram logo
https://twitter.com/StearsInsi...New window External IMG-ALT 'X' logo
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Linkedin logo
/privacy-policy/Subdomain Privacy policy
/terms-and-conditions/Subdomain Terms of use
/cdn-cgi/l/email-protectionText duplicate Contact

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.stears.co/"
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 of 0.41 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 (64 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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servercloudflare
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 191 referring domains.
This page has 453 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 173 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

# GPTBot
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: */premium/*

# *
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: */weal/*
Disallow: */admin/*
Disallow: */api/*
Disallow: */?next=/*
Disallow: */?intent*

# Host
Host: https://www.stears.co

# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://www.stears.co/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.stears.co/sitemap/open-data.xml
Sitemap: https://www.stears.co/sitemap/topics.xml
Sitemap: https://www.stears.co/sitemap/news-0.xml
Sitemap: https://www.stears.co/sitemap/news-1.xml
Sitemap: https://www.stears.co/sitemap/news-2.xml
Sitemap: https://www.stears.co/sitemap/news-3.xml
Sitemap: https://www.stears.co/sitemap/news-4.xml
Sitemap: https://www.stears.co/sitemap/news-5.xml
Sitemap: https://www.stears.co/sitemap/news-6.xml
Sitemap: https://www.stears.co/sitemap/news-7.xml
Sitemap: https://www.stears.co/sitemap/news-8.xml
Sitemap: https://www.stears.co/sitemap/news-9.xml
Sitemap: https://www.stears.co/sitemap/news-10.xml
Sitemap: https://www.stears.co/sitemap/news-11.xml
Sitemap: https://www.stears.co/sitemap/news-12.xml
Sitemap: https://www.stears.co/sitemap/news-13.xml

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Stears: African financial data, solutions and insight
Stears is Africa’s most comprehensive financial database and source of market intelligence for global funds investing in Africa.

Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
Stears71%Check
data64%Check
Africa62%Check
financial data61%Check
financial58%Check
Market Data57%Check
African financial data57%Check
Data and Research54%Check
Stears built53%Check
comprehensive financial52%Check
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