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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
90% 
Server
62% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.85 s
File size
261.70 kB
Words
288
Media files
42
Number of links
27 internal / 28 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Southeastern Connecticut News | The Day
The length of the page title is perfect. (380 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Day is southeastern Connecticut???s trusted news source, covering New London and the region with breaking news, sports, business, entertainment, and video since 1881.
The meta description is too long: 1086 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is 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)
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 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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
google-site-verificationHvi9elO4mA2aK9yCl3PybB5kh2YSpCgeMasSAyLsS74
robotsmax-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1
googlebotmax-snippet:-1
descriptionThe Day is southeastern Connecticut???s trusted news source, covering New London and the region with breaking news, sports, business, entertainment, and video since 1881.
keywordsThe Day, news, latest news, breaking news, local news, current events, video, New London, Connecticut, southeastern Connecticut
langen
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fb:app_id225224400876751
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og:typewebsite

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
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 288 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
22.6% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 15 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
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)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...day.mynews360.com/images/busySpinner.gifLoading
...Day_Live/0/0/0/1/76/403/1076403_originalRemembering the Revolution
..._TheDay_Live/0/0/0/0/8/136/8136_originalThe Day logo
...nt.net/360_TheDay_Live/0/0/0/0/6/64/6064Support The Day's Community Journalism Funds
...nt.net/360_TheDay_Live/0/0/0/0/6/65/6065Read more in the Imminent Horizons project
...nt.net/360_TheDay_Live/0/0/0/0/6/66/6066Newspaper.com image
...n.co/img?file=19952024120900000000001001Read Today's ePaper
...Day_Live/0/0/0/1/60/214/1060214_originalbest of promo
...t/360_TheDay_Live/0/0/0/0/444/229/444229Imminent Horizons Logo
...nt.net/360_TheDay_Live/0/0/0/0/0/373/373Welcome Home Image
...0_TheDay_Live/0/0/0/0/0/130/130_originalWhen Distaster Strikes: Shipwrecks, Storms and Other Calamities in Southeaster Connecticut Cover
...0_TheDay_Live/0/0/0/0/0/131/131_originalFirst & Finest: The 100-Year History of Naval Submarine Base New London Cover
...0_TheDay_Live/0/0/0/0/0/127/127_originalLooking Back: New London County Cover
...0_TheDay_Live/0/0/0/0/0/128/128_originalThe Charles W. Morgan: A Picture History of an American Icon Cover
...0_TheDay_Live/0/0/0/0/0/129/129_originalA Pictorial History of: The National Coast Guard Museum Cover
...0_TheDay_Live/0/0/0/0/0/134/134_originalA Generation of Excellence: UConn Women's 30-Year Reign Cover
...0_TheDay_Live/0/0/0/0/0/132/132_originalLooking Back - New London County Cover
...0_TheDay_Live/0/0/0/0/0/133/133_originalTreasure of Southeastern Connecticut Cover
...oop.com/images/custom/165/mobileLogo.svgThe Day Footer Logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Southeastern Connecticut News, Sports, and Community from The Day
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Southeastern Connecticut News, Sports, and Community from The Day
H4 Support Local News.
H5 Sign up for free newsletters and get news that interests you delivered to your inbox.
H6 MORE THAN A CENTURY OF INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
1 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.
There are too many external links (28) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://theday.com/user/edit/my profile
A-TITLE Link to my profile
/news-category/remembering-the...IMG-ALT Remembering the Revolution
https://theday.com/MORE THAN A CENTURY OF INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM
IMG-ALT The Day logo
https://givebutter.com/thedayExternal IMG-ALT Support The Day's Community Journalism Funds
A-TITLE Support The Day's Community Journalism Funds
https://theday.mynews360.com/n...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Read more in the Imminent Horizons project
A-TITLE Read more in the Imminent Horizons project
https://theday.newspapers.com/...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Newspaper.com image
A-TITLE Newspapers.com
http://epaper.theday.com/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Read Today's ePaper
A-TITLE Read Today's ePaper
http://www.theday.com/bestofIMG-ALT best of promo
https://givebutter.com/thedayExternal Donate
/news-category/imminent-horizo...Special Report: Imminent Horizons
/news-category/photo-galleries...Photo Galleries
/live-content/newslettersSign Up
/news-category/business/real-e...IMG-ALT Welcome Home Image
https://www.pediment.com/produ...External Subdomain When Distaster Strikes: Shipwrecks, Storms and Other Calamities in Southeaster Connecticut Buy
IMG-ALT When Distaster Strikes: Shipwrecks, Storms and Other Calamities in Southeaster Connecticut Cover
http://www.pediment.com/produc...External Subdomain First & Finest: The 100-Year History of Naval Submarine Base New London Buy
IMG-ALT First & Finest: The 100-Year History of Naval Submarine Base New London Cover
http://www.pedimentbooks.com/s...External Subdomain Looking Back: New London County: Vol.I - The 1860s - 1930s Buy
IMG-ALT Looking Back: New London County Cover
http://www.pedimentbooks.com/s...External Subdomain The Charles W. Morgan: A Picture History of an American Icon Buy
IMG-ALT The Charles W. Morgan: A Picture History of an American Icon Cover
http://store.pediment.com/prod...External Subdomain A Pictorial History of: The National Coast Guard Museum Buy
IMG-ALT A Pictorial History of: The National Coast Guard Museum Cover
https://www.pediment.com/produ...External Subdomain A Generation of Excellence: UConn Women's 30-Year Reign Buy
IMG-ALT A Generation of Excellence: UConn Women's 30-Year Reign Cover
https://www.pediment.com/produ...External Subdomain Looking Back - New London County: Vol.II - The 1940s, '50s, and 60s Buy
IMG-ALT Looking Back - New London County Cover
https://www.pediment.com/produ...External Subdomain Treasure of Southeastern Connecticut Buy
IMG-ALT Treasure of Southeastern Connecticut Cover
http://store.pediment.com/coll...External Subdomain View More Bookstore Information
A-TITLE More information on bookstore
https://theday.com/IMG-ALT The Day Footer Logo
/live-content/aboutAbout the Day
/live-content/staff-profiles/President/Publisher
/live-content/staff-profiles?f...Newsroom
https://theday.mynews360.com/l...External Subdomain Advertising/Marketing
https://theday.mynews360.com/l...External Subdomain FAQs
https://theday.mynews360.com/l...External Subdomain Jobs at The Day
/live-content/contact-us/Contact Us
http://www.facebook.com/thedayctExternal Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/thedayctExternal No Text
http://www.youtube.com/user/th...External Subdomain No Text
http://instagram.com/thedayctExternal No Text
http://thedaynews.tumblr.com/External Subdomain No Text
http://www.pinterest.com/thedayctExternal Subdomain No Text
/live-content/rssNo Text
http://epaper.theday.com/External Subdomain E-Paper
/live-content/contestsContests
/news-category/entertainment/h...Horoscopes
/live-content/games/Puzzles
/news-category/entertainment/m...Movies & TV
/news-category/milestones/8/Milestones
/live-content/newslettersNewsletters
/live-content/advertising-prod...About Our Ads
/live-content/advertise-with-t...Advertise
/live-content/classifiedsPlace a Classifieds Ad
/live-content/contact-us/Contact
https://www.theday.com/monsterFind New London Area Jobs
http://local.theday.com/External Subdomain Business Directory
https://daymediagroup.com/External Day Media Group
https://theday.smugmug.com/External Subdomain Photo Reprints
https://theday.mynews360.com/l...External Subdomain Privacy Policy & Terms
/live-content/rssRSS
/live-content/get text alertsText & SMS Alerts

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://theday.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
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 0.85 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 (262 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
set-cookie60 Characters
x-aspnet-version4.0.30319
x-powered-byASP.NET
access-control-allow-headerspragma
dateThu, 12 Mar 2026 09:06:07 GMT
content-length55019
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 475 referring domains.
This page has 1,069 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 185 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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Disallow: /oauth/
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Disallow: /zeroclipboard/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /user/register/

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The Day is southeastern Connecticut???s trusted news source, covering New London and the region with breaking news, sports, business, entertainment, and video since 1881.

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