Theminimalists.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
68% 
Page quality
80% 
Page structure
97% 
Link structure
78% 
Server
81% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.79 s
File size
158.00 kB
Words
494
Media files
16
Number of links
81 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The Minimalists
The page title is too short. (140 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Emmy-nominated Netflix stars, podcasters, and New York Times–bestselling authors Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus help millions of people live meaningfully with less.
The meta description is too long: 1110 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.theminimalists.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: Canada
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 prev meta tag on this page.
Rel next URL https://www.theminimalists.com/page/2/
The rel next and prev tags are set correctly.
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 XHTML 1.0 Transitional 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
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
descriptionEmmy-nominated Netflix stars, podcasters, and New York Times–bestselling authors Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus help millions of people live meaningfully with less.
google-site-verificationoS4cdEAfGljcAklzrxalBwP2_ONZ6hDufxtFi1B8Agc
generatorWP Rocket 3.18.3
impact-site-verificationEmpty
viewportwidth=device-width,initial-scale=1
ir-site-verification-tokenEmpty
msapplication-TileImagehttps://www.theminimalists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-the-minimalists-favicon-270x270.png
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@theminimalists
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleThe Minimalists
og:descriptionEmmy-nominated Netflix stars, podcasters, and New York Times–bestselling authors Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus help millions of people live meaningfully with less.
og:urlhttps://www.theminimalists.com/
og:site_nameThe Minimalists
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
nexthttps://www.theminimalists.com/page/2/

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 494 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
41.7% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
5 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 15.45 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" 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
(Somewhat important)
1 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute providedThe Minimalists FAMZ, photo by Danny Unknwn
data:[...] Base64Everything That Remains, by The Minimalists
data:[...] Base64Sunday Symposium Photo by Danny Martinez
data:[...] Base64Photo by Joshua EarlePhoto by Joshua Earle
data:[...] Base64Photo by Georgi KalaydzhievPhoto by Georgi Kalaydzhiev
data:[...] Base64Fragments by The Minimalists
data:[...] Base64Photo by Akira HojoPhoto by Akira Hojo
data:[...] Base64The Minimalists 2025
data:[...] Base64Photo by Kateryna Hliznitsova
data:[...] Base64Books by The Minimalists
data:[...] Base64Photo by Getty Images
data:[...] Base64The Minimalists Decluttering Rules
data:[...] Base64Photo by Alex Shuper
data:[...] Base64Simplify Everything by The Minimalists
data:[...] Base64Photo Credit: Getty Images

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The Minimalists
The H1 heading is too short (15 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 The Minimalists
H2 Monthly Zoom Calls with The Minimalists
H2 Everything Is Final
H2 Sunday Symposium
H2 Letting Go in Advance
H2 The Perfect Closet
H2 Fragments
H2 A Film Series by The Minimalists
H2 Stop Clinging
H2 Breaking Silence: The Minimalists Return to Social Media
H2 Things Own You
H2 Don’t Collect All Four!
H2 Minimalist Gift-Giving: Less Is More
H2 30 Decluttering Rules
H2 I Shouldn’t Have to Deal with This
H2 My Story of Minimizing Autoimmune Disease, Chronic Pain, and Inflammation with Grounding
H2 Simplify Everything
H2 Clutter Counseling
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 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/about/Subdomain About
/archives/Subdomain Blog
/podcast/Subdomain Podcast
/books/Subdomain Books
/films/Subdomain Films
/tour/Subdomain Events
/resources/Subdomain Resources
/cc/Subdomain Counseling
https://www.theminimalists.com/Subdomain The Minimalists
/about/Subdomain Text duplicate About
/about/Subdomain Text duplicate The Minimalists
/praise/Subdomain Media Praise
/media/Subdomain Interviews
/speaking/Subdomain Hire to Speak
https://simplifyeverything.xyz/External Simplify Everything
https://howtowritebetter.org/External How to Write Better
/contact/Subdomain Contact
/archives/Subdomain Text duplicate Blog
/start/Subdomain Start Here
/minimalism/Subdomain What’s Minimalism?
/game/Subdomain 30-Day Minimalism Game
/21days/Subdomain Our 21-Day Journey
/archives/Subdomain Anchor Popular Essays
/archives/Subdomain Anchor All Essays
/blog/Subdomain How to Start a Blog
/podcast/Subdomain Text duplicate Podcast
/books/Subdomain Text duplicate Books
/films/Subdomain Text duplicate Films
/tour/Subdomain Text duplicate Events
/resources/Subdomain Text duplicate Resources
/cc/Subdomain Text duplicate Counseling
https://theminimalists.com/about/Learn More
https://www.facebook.com/themi...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://instagram.com/theminim...New window External Instagram
https://www.tiktok.com/@themin...New window External Subdomain No Text
/youtubeNew window Subdomain YouTube
https://www.patreon.com/themin...New window External Subdomain No Text
/searchSubdomain No Text
/zoom/Subdomain Monthly Zoom Calls with The Minimalists
https://www.instagram.com/them...External Subdomain Text duplicate The Minimalists
/zoom/Subdomain No Text
https://www.patreon.com/themin...External Subdomain Patreon
/subscribe/email
https://www.facebook.com/share...New window External Subdomain Share
https://twitter.com/intent/twe...New window External Post
/everythingisfinal/Subdomain IMG-ALT Everything That Remains, by The Minimalists
/everythingisfinal/Subdomain Everything Is Final
/everythingisfinal/Subdomain MORE +
/sunday/Subdomain IMG-ALT Sunday Symposium Photo by Danny Martinez
/sunday/Subdomain Sunday Symposium
/sunday/Subdomain Text duplicate MORE +
/advance/Subdomain IMG-ALT Photo by Joshua Earle
/advance/Subdomain Letting Go in Advance
/advance/Subdomain Text duplicate MORE +
/perfectcloset/Subdomain IMG-ALT Photo by Georgi Kalaydzhiev
/perfectcloset/Subdomain The Perfect Closet
/perfectcloset/Subdomain Text duplicate MORE +
/fragments/Subdomain IMG-ALT Fragments by The Minimalists
/fragments/Subdomain Fragments
/fragments/Subdomain Text duplicate MORE +
/stop/Subdomain IMG-ALT Photo by Akira Hojo
/stop/Subdomain Stop Clinging
/stop/Subdomain Text duplicate MORE +
/return/Subdomain IMG-ALT The Minimalists 2025
/return/Subdomain Breaking Silence: The Minimalists Return to Social Media
/return/Subdomain Text duplicate MORE +
/things/Subdomain IMG-ALT Photo by Kateryna Hliznitsova
/things/Subdomain Things Own You
/things/Subdomain Text duplicate MORE +
/four/Subdomain IMG-ALT Books by The Minimalists
/four/Subdomain Don’t Collect All Four!
/four/Subdomain Text duplicate MORE +
/minimalistgiftgiving/Subdomain IMG-ALT Photo by Getty Images
/minimalistgiftgiving/Subdomain Minimalist Gift-Giving: Less Is More
/minimalistgiftgiving/Subdomain Text duplicate MORE +
/declutteringrules/Subdomain IMG-ALT The Minimalists Decluttering Rules
/declutteringrules/Subdomain 30 Decluttering Rules
/declutteringrules/Subdomain Text duplicate MORE +
/earthing/Subdomain IMG-ALT Photo by Alex Shuper
/earthing/Subdomain I Shouldn’t Have to Deal with This
/earthing/Subdomain Text duplicate MORE +
/simplifyeverything/Subdomain IMG-ALT Simplify Everything by The Minimalists
/simplifyeverything/Subdomain Text duplicate Simplify Everything
/simplifyeverything/Subdomain Text duplicate MORE +
/counseling/Subdomain IMG-ALT Photo Credit: Getty Images
/counseling/Subdomain Clutter Counseling
/counseling/Subdomain Text duplicate MORE +
/page/2/Subdomain Next Page »
/archivesView More
/blog/Subdomain Bluehost
https://spyr.me/New window External Site by SPYR
/policy/© & policies

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.theminimalists.com/"
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 0.79 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 (158 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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last-modifiedFri, 09 May 2025 21:13:57 GMT
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cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
content-encodingzstd
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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 1,499 referring domains.
This page has 6,652 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,206 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

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The Minimalists
Emmy-nominated Netflix stars, podcasters, and New York Times–bestselling authors Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus help millions of people live meaningfully with less.

Most important keywords

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Joshua52%Check
authors Joshua Fields Millburn47%Check
New46%Check
clutter46%Check
live46%Check
Ryan46%Check
people46%Check
Podcast46%Check
Emmy-nominated46%Check
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