Thoughtco.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
69% 
Page quality
58% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
65% 
Server
100% 
External factors
53% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.37 s
File size
177.10 kB
Words
423
Media files
23
Number of links
95 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
ThoughtCo.com is the World's Largest Education Resource
The domain is used in the page's title.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
From chemistry to computer programming, arts to World War II, ThoughtCo.com provides guides, tips, and resources to help you understand more about the world around us.
The meta description is too long: 1068 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.thoughtco.com/
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Canada
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)
There should not be dynamic parameters 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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 423 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
26% 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 9.5 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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 8 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
(Critically important)
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

Heading levelContent
H2 BEHIND THE NEWS
H2 Follow Us
H2 We Care About Your Privacy
H3 We and our partners process data to provide:
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.thoughtco.com/?google_nofetch=true"
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 excellent with 0.37 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (177 kB).

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External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 1 referring domains.
This page only has 1 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 1 different ip addresses.
This page is referenced by wikipedia.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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ThoughtCo.com is the World's Largest Education Resource
From chemistry to computer programming, arts to World War II, ThoughtCo.com provides guides, tips, and resources to help you understand more about the world around us.

Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
ThoughtCo65%Check
Resources50%Check
Computer48%Check
Arts46%Check
Programming46%Check
Tips46%Check
Understand46%Check
Guide46%Check
or access information44%Check
Computer Science43%Check
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