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Meta information
100% 
Page quality
54% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
71% 
Server
83% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.33 s
File size
49.50 kB
Words
878
Media files
22
Number of links
82 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The Skinny: Independent Cultural Journalism
The length of the page title is perfect. (401 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Skinny Magazine: bringing you Independent Cultural Journalism and events online and in print across Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and beyond.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (915 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The following language is defined by HTML: en
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
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
The average number of words per sentence of 113 words is high.
This page contains 878 words. That's ok.
30.9% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
16 paragraphs were found on this page.
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 "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 18 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
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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Page structure

H1 heading
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There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

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H2 Listen to The Cineskinny podcast!
H2 Lucy Dacus @ Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 30 Jun
H2 Reclaiming the Gallery: Alia Syed, migration, and the CCA
H2 Remembering cult TV series Moviedrome with Alex Cox
H2 Scottish New Music Round-up: July 2025
H2 Get The July 2025 Issue of The Skinny!
H2 Find Things To Do
H2 Scottish Theatre Highlights: July 2025
H2 Scottish Clubbing Highlights: July 2025
H2 Scottish Live Music Highlights: July 2025
H2 Rival Consoles – Landscape From Memory
H2 Hot Milk
H2 Moderation by Elaine Castillo
H2 Lana Del Rey @ Hampden Park, Glasgow, 26 Jun
H2 The Croft @ Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
H2 Heads Up: 16 things to do in Edinburgh this summer
H2 Scottish Film Events: July 2025
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 11 external links on this page.

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https://www.theskinny.co.uk/Text duplicate The Skinny
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/whats-onText duplicate What's on
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/whats-on/glasgowGlasgow
/listingsSubmit Your Event Listings
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/lifestyleText duplicate Lifestyle
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/festivals/international-festi...International Festivals
/festivals/edinburgh-fringeEdinburgh Fringe
/festivals/edinburgh-festivalsEdinburgh Festivals
/competitions/win-tickets-to-t...Win tickets to The Gathering festival!
/competitionsCompetitions
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https://www.theskinny.co.uk/aboutAbout
/art/news/cca-palestine-protes...Art 'A profound rift': Anger grows over CCA's response to Palestine protests Jamie Dunn | 27 Jun 2025 Read more ❯
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/music/opinion/on-lorde-virgin...Music On Lorde, Virgin and running away Anahit Behrooz | 27 Jun 2025 Read more ❯
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/clubs/interviews/the-bagpipe-...Clubs The Bagpipe Stereotype: Cain talks Celtic tunes Cammy Gallagher | 17 Jun 2025 Read more ❯
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/film/interviews/scotland-on-s...Film Open the Doors: Filmhouse returns Jamie Dunn | 12 Jun 2025 Read more ❯
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/music/interviews/malin-lewis-...Music Malin Lewis on piping, songwriting, and their Queen's Hall gigs Laurie Presswood | 22 May 2025 Read more ❯
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/festivals/uk-festivals/film/a...Festivals New Ways of Seeing: Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival 2025 Xuanlin Tham | 15 May 2025 Read more ❯
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/music/live-music/reviews/lucy...Music Lucy Dacus @ Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 30 Jun Indie darling Lucy Dacus gives us a sweet, sparkling show as her Forever is a Feeling tour arrives at the Us...
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/art/features/reclaiming-the-g...Art Reclaiming the Gallery: Alia Syed, migration, and the CCA Alia Syed's solo exhibition, The Ring in the Fish, explores what role imagination plays in migr...
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/film/interviews/remembering-c...Film Remembering cult TV series Moviedrome with Alex Cox Long before Netflix and torrent files, there was Moviedrome, the TV series from the 80s and 90s that...
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/music/new-music/scottish-new-...Music Scottish New Music Round-up: July 2025 In July's new Scottish music column, we look forward to releases from Hannah Laing, Carsick Charlie, Annie Booth...
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/music/reviews/albums/rival-co...Music Rival Consoles – Landscape From Memory The latest from Ryan Lee West injects some heart into his technically brilliant, but icy electronics Read more »...
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/film/new-releases/hot-milkFilm Hot Milk Fiona Shaw is excellent, but there's little else to recommend in this limp adaptation of Deborah Levy's 2016 novel Read more » ★★ Katie Driscol...
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/books/book-reviews/moderation...Books Moderation by Elaine Castillo In her sophomore novel, Elaine Castillo explores ideas of innovation and ethics through a subtle speculative narrative Re...
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/things-to-do/scotland/heads-u...Things To Do Heads Up: 16 things to do in Edinburgh this summer We asked our team for their favourite things to do as Edinburgh residents – here are the plac...
IMG-ALT Calton Hill
/film/film-events/scottish-fil...Film Scottish Film Events: July 2025 This month, check out the newly renovated Filmhouse, celebrate Pride at GFT, enjoy some alfresco cinema at Queen's Park ...
IMG-ALT Videodrome
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HTTP redirects
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This page redirects to "https://www.theskinny.co.uk/"
HTTP header
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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 is excellent with 0.33 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (50 kB).

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