Thenorthernreview.ca - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
87% 
Page quality
71% 
Page structure
90% 
Link structure
67% 
Server
95% 
External factors
9% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.08 s
File size
28.30 kB
Words
764
Media files
4
Number of links
70 internal / 14 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Northern Review
The page title is too short. (150 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Multidisciplinary research journal exploring human experience in the Circumpolar North. Published by Yukon University in Whitehorse.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (823 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
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-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
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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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No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 32.5 words is high.
This page contains 764 words. That's ok.
20.9% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
4 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
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This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 89 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"exploring northern economic development explorer le développement économique dans le nord"
Image SEO
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1 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
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There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
Additional markup
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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
...journals/1/pageHeaderLogoImage_en_US.jpgThe Northern Review masthead
/public/journals/1/cover_issue_65_en_US.jpg View No. 57 (2025)
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/templates/images/ojs_brand.pngMore information about the publishing system, Platform and Workflow by OJS/PKP.

Page structure

H1 heading
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Northern Review
The H1 heading is too short (15 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
There are 28 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

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H1 Northern Review
H2 Announcements
H2 Current Issue
H2 Make a Submission
H2 Developed By
H2 Information
H3 Peer-reviewed journal published at Yukon University in Whitehorse, Canada, on the Traditional Territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council
H3 Introduction
H3 Editorial
H3 Northern Economic Futures: Challenges and Opportunities
H3 New Research on Northern Development
H3 New Perspectives on Northern Economies
H3 Cover Art
H4 July 2025 New Call for Papers: Economic Development Special Issue #2
H4 The Northern Review 57
H4 Introduction to Special Issue: Northern Economic Development
H4 Article du numéro spécial de la Revue du Nord
H4 Editorial: Exploring Northern Economic Development Éditorial : Explorer le développement économique nordique
H4 Éditorial : Explorer le développement économique nordique
H4 Measuring the Effects of Diamond Mine Closures on Indigenous Communities in the Northwest Territories Mesurer les effets de la fermeture des mines de diamants sur les communautés Autochtones des Te...
H4 Against Fast-Tracking: Critical Minerals and Indigenous Rights in Nunavut Contre l’accélération des procédures : les minéraux critiques et les droits des Autochtones au Nunavut
H4 Yukon First Nations Settlement Land Development Développement des terres de règlement des Premières Nations du Yukon
H4 Acting on MacPherson’s Advice: Continuing to Study and Learn from the Northern Co-operative Experience Mettre en pratique les conseils du Dr MacPherson : Poursuivre l’étude et l’apprentissage de l’...
H4 The Canadian Rangers: A Force Multiplier for the Canadian Armed Forces in the Territorial North Les Rangers canadiens : multiplicateur de force pour les Forces armées canadiennes dans le Nord terri...
H4 The Changing Nature of the Social Economy in the Yukon: The Transformation of a Frontier Culture La nature changeante de l’économie sociale au Yukon : La transformation d’une culture frontalière
H4 Creating a More Prosperous Northern Economy: Development Insights from Northern Finland Créer une économie nordique plus prospère : Perspectives sur le développement dans le Nord de la Finlande
H4 Building a Policy Muscle: Learning from Northern Youth about Arctic Tourism Renforcer les capacités d’intervention politique : Apprendre de la jeunesse nordique à propos du tourisme arctique
H4 Arctic Cotton Grass
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 14 external links on this page.
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/index.php/nrAnchor Skip to main content
/index.php/nrAnchor Skip to main navigation menu
/index.php/nrAnchor Skip to announcements
/index.php/nrAnchor Skip to the current issue
/index.php/nrAnchor Skip to site footer
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/index.php/nr/issue/archiveArchives
/index.php/nr/announcementAnnouncements
/index.php/nr/aboutAbout
/index.php/nr/aboutAbout the Journal
/index.php/nr/about/submissionsSubmissions
/index.php/nr/about/editorialTeamEditorial Team
/index.php/nr/about/privacyPrivacy Statement
/index.php/nr/about/contactContact
/index.php/nr/searchSearch
/index.php/nr/user/registerRegister
/index.php/nr/loginLogin
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https://instagram.com/thenorth...External Instagram
/index.php/nr/announcement/vie...Read More Read more about Peer-reviewed journal published at Yukon University in Whitehorse, Canada, on the Traditional Territories of the Kwanlin Dün First ...
/index.php/nr/announcement/vie...July 2025 New Call for Papers: Economic Development Special Issue #2
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https://doi.org/10.22584/nr57.2025.100
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/index.php/nr/article/view/124...PDF (scaled up)
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/index.php/nr/article/view/126...Text duplicate PDF (scaled up)
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/index.php/nr/article/view/126...Text duplicate PDF (scaled up)
/index.php/nr/article/view/1169Against Fast-Tracking: Critical Minerals and Indigenous Rights in Nunavut Contre l’accélération des procédures : les minéraux critiques et les droits des Aut...
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/index.php/nr/article/view/1235Yukon First Nations Settlement Land Development Développement des terres de règlement des Premières Nations du Yukon
/index.php/nr/article/view/123...Text duplicate PDF (spreads view)
/index.php/nr/article/view/123...Text duplicate PDF (scaled up)
/index.php/nr/article/view/1255Acting on MacPherson’s Advice: Continuing to Study and Learn from the Northern Co-operative Experience Mettre en pratique les conseils du Dr MacPherson : Pou...
/index.php/nr/article/view/125...Text duplicate PDF (spreads view)
/index.php/nr/article/view/125...Text duplicate PDF (scaled up)
/index.php/nr/article/view/1167The Canadian Rangers: A Force Multiplier for the Canadian Armed Forces in the Territorial North Les Rangers canadiens : multiplicateur de force pour les Forc...
/index.php/nr/article/view/116...Text duplicate PDF (spreads view)
/index.php/nr/article/view/116...Text duplicate PDF (scaled up)
/index.php/nr/article/view/1259The Changing Nature of the Social Economy in the Yukon: The Transformation of a Frontier Culture La nature changeante de l’économie sociale au Yukon : La tra...
/index.php/nr/article/view/125...Text duplicate PDF (spreads view)
/index.php/nr/article/view/125...Text duplicate PDF (scaled up)
/index.php/nr/article/view/1179Creating a More Prosperous Northern Economy: Development Insights from Northern Finland Créer une économie nordique plus prospère : Perspectives sur le dével...
/index.php/nr/article/view/117...Text duplicate PDF (spreads view)
/index.php/nr/article/view/117...Text duplicate PDF (scaled up)
/index.php/nr/article/view/1221Building a Policy Muscle: Learning from Northern Youth about Arctic Tourism Renforcer les capacités d’intervention politique : Apprendre de la jeunesse nordi...
/index.php/nr/article/view/122...Text duplicate PDF (spreads view)
/index.php/nr/article/view/122...Text duplicate PDF (scaled up)
/index.php/nr/article/view/1267Arctic Cotton Grass
/index.php/nr/article/view/126...Text duplicate PDF (spreads view)
/index.php/nr/article/view/126...Text duplicate PDF (scaled up)
/index.php/nr/issue/archiveView All Issues
/index.php/nr/about/submissionsMake a Submission
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://thenorthernreview.ca/index.php/nr"
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 is very slow (2.08 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (28 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 3 referring domains.
This page only has 3 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 3 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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