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Meta information
80% 
Page quality
72% 
Page structure
72% 
Link structure
30% 
Server
98% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.43 s
File size
122.20 kB
Words
506
Media files
20
Number of links
110 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
In-depth news and investigations for New Orleans | The Lens
The length of the page title is perfect. (545 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://thelensnola.org/
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
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There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
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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
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Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
This page contains 506 words. That's ok.
30.4% 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 14.14 words is good.
Frames
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This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
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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 10 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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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...ens-opinion-0001.png?fit=1024,1024&ssl=1New Orleans does not want or need a mass enforcement operation
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...G_4502-scaled.jpg?resize=1200,1200&ssl=1Murrill: NOPD is breaking laws if it doesn’t ‘fully cooperate’ with ICE, Border Patrol
...8px-thelensnola.png?resize=600,600&ssl=1How cornbread dressing was banned from Angola prison’s Thanksgiving menu
...8px-thelensnola.png?resize=800,800&ssl=1Holiday giveaway brings hope to Tremé amid immigration fears
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...2025/11/Plant-3.jpg?resize=800,800&ssl=1Oily waste from Smitty’s Supply disaster will be injected under Jefferson Parish landfill
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Page structure

H1 heading
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There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 26 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Main Navigation
H2 Reapproval of Commonwealth LNG project rankles Cameron locals, environmentalists
H2 New Orleans does not want or need a mass enforcement operation
H2 We learned from Katrina what government-created trauma looks like. Let’s not repeat it.
H2 Recent Posts
H2 opinion
H2 PODCAST
H2 Our reporting has more urgency than ever.
H3 Focused On
H3 Focused On Duplicate text
H3 Topics
H3 Sign Up for the Latest News
H3 Follow The Lens
H3 Listen to Behind The Lens Podcast
H3 Murrill: NOPD is breaking laws if it doesn’t ‘fully cooperate’ with ICE, Border Patrol
H3 How cornbread dressing was banned from Angola prison’s Thanksgiving menu
H3 Holiday giveaway brings hope to Tremé amid immigration fears
H3 Last call at the First and Last Stop
H3 Compare 2025 school performance scores for New Orleans charters
H3 Oily waste from Smitty’s Supply disaster will be injected under Jefferson Parish landfill
H3 When a parent goes to prison, a child pays the price
H3 It takes all of us to help our unhoused neighbors
H3 Silence from Smitty’s Supply, EPA’s lagging response leave lasting stains
H3 An Oil Well in Reverse: Smitty’s hopes to inject liquid waste into a landfill in Jefferson Parish
H3 Kicking the Can: SNAP during the shutdown and charter schools await their fate
H3 “A Fundamental Reset”
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
15 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 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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/author/greg-larose/No Text
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/author/bernard-smith/No Text
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/2025/11/26/holiday-giveaway-b...IMG-ALT Holiday giveaway brings hope to Tremé amid immigration fears
/category/new-orleans/In the N.O.
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/author/gus-bennett/No Text
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/2025/11/20/compare-2025-schoo...IMG-ALT Compare 2025 school performance scores for New Orleans charters
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/author/marta-jewson/No Text
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/author/carolyne-heldman/No Text
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https://www.facebook.com/thele...External Subdomain Text duplicate Facebook
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A-TITLE About The Lens
https://thelensnola.org/donateSupport Us
A-TITLE Support Us
https://inn.org/External IMG-ALT INN Member
https://lionpublishers.com/External IMG-ALT LION Member

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HTTP redirects
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This page redirects to "https://thelensnola.org/"
HTTP header
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No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
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The page response time of 0.43 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 (122 kB).

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Smitty49%Check
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Supply49%Check
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