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Meta information
100% 
Page quality
55% 
Page structure
50% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.15 s
File size
61.20 kB
Words
318
Media files
14
Number of links
32 internal / 2 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
World’s Best Cities | The Definitive Power Rankings
The length of the page title is perfect. (461 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The World’s Best Cities rankings are the most credible source of city performance in the eyes of visitors, investors and residents alike.
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)
https://www.worldsbestcities.com/
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
(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)
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 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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apple-mobile-web-app-titleresonance
application-nameresonance
msapplication-TileColor#151515
msapplication-confighttps://www.worldsbestcities.com/wp-content/themes/bestcities/favicons/browserconfig.xml
theme-color#ffffff
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
descriptionThe World’s Best Cities rankings are the most credible source of city performance in the eyes of visitors, investors and residents alike.
article:publisherhttps://www.facebook.com/bestcitiesorg/
article:modified_time2025-06-24T01:52:50+00:00
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:titleWorld’s Best Cities
twitter:site@bestcitiesorg
fb:app_id287145495125345
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleWorld’s Best Cities | The Definitive Power Rankings
og:descriptionThe World’s Best Cities rankings are the most credible source of city performance in the eyes of visitors, investors and residents alike.
og:urlhttps://www.worldsbestcities.com/
og:site_nameWorld’s Best Cities
og:imagehttps://media.worldsbestcities.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/18055934/London-Social.jpg
og:image:width1200
og:image:height630
og:image:typeimage/jpeg
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 318 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
27% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
4 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 12.17 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 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 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
...ities/dist/images/graphics/icon-data.svgNo alt attribute provided
...ist/images/graphics/icon-forecasting.svgNo alt attribute provided
...es/dist/images/graphics/icon-support.svgNo alt attribute provided
...agazine-Cover-Flat-view_America-2025.pngAmerica’s 100 Best Cities
...Magazine-Cover-Flat-view_Europe-2025.pngEurope’s 100 Best Cities
...s/home/APBC_2025_Magazine-Cover-Flat.pngAsia Pacifc’s 100 Best Cities
...rlds-Best-Cities-Magazine-Cover-Flat.pngWorld’s 100 Best Cities
.../images/home/logos/logo-fast-company.pngFast Company
...ties/dist/images/home/logos/logo-cnn.pngCNN
...ies/dist/images/home/logos/logo-afar.pngAFAR
.../dist/images/home/logos/logo-timeout.pngTimeOut
...ist/images/home/logos/logo-bloomberg.pngBloomberg
...st/images/report/Report-Preview-EMRB.pngState of the City report

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The global authority in forward-looking city intelligence.
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 The global authority in forward-looking city intelligence.
H1 See our intelligence in action.
H1 Let’s discuss what your team could achieve with forward-looking city intelligence.
H3 From city snapshot to full strategy.
H4 We unlock the power in urban data to identify opportunities for regions, cities, and companies.
H4 Single-City Data Set
H4 National Data Set
H4 State of the City Report
H4 Economic Development Strategy
H4 Since 2016, we’ve realized the power and potential of today’s urban economies through data, insight, and guidance.
H6 Trustworthy Data
H6 Unique Forecasting
H6 Consultant Support
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 2 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.worldsbestcities.com/No Text
https://www.worldsbestcities.com/No Text
/solutions/Solutions
https://www.worldsbestcities.com/Reports
/about-us/About Us
/contact/Contact
/reports/2025-americas-best-ci...Download
/solutions/Explore Solutions
/rankings/americas-best-cities/IMG-ALT America’s 100 Best Cities
/rankings/americas-best-cities/Text duplicate America’s 100 Best Cities
/rankings/americas-best-cities/A ranking of the top-performing U.S. cities with metro populations of 500,000 people of more.
/rankings/americas-best-cities/Explore
/reports/2025-americas-best-ci...Text duplicate Download
/rankings/europes-best-cities/IMG-ALT Europe’s 100 Best Cities
/rankings/europes-best-cities/Text duplicate Europe’s 100 Best Cities
/rankings/europes-best-cities/A ranking of the top-performing European cities with metro populations of 500,000 people of more.
/rankings/europes-best-cities/Text duplicate Explore
/reports/2025-europes-best-cit...Text duplicate Download
/rankings/asia-pacifics-best-c...IMG-ALT Asia Pacifc’s 100 Best Cities
/rankings/asia-pacifics-best-c...Asia-Pacific’s 100 Best Cities
/rankings/asia-pacifics-best-c...A ranking of the top-performing cities in the Asia-Pacific region with metro populations of a million people of more.
/rankings/asia-pacifics-best-c...Text duplicate Explore
/reports/2025-asia-pacifics-be...Text duplicate Download
/rankings/worlds-best-cities/IMG-ALT World’s 100 Best Cities
/rankings/worlds-best-cities/The World’s 100 Best Cities
/rankings/worlds-best-cities/A ranking of the top-performing global cities with metro populations of a million people of more.
/rankings/worlds-best-cities/Text duplicate Explore
/reports/2025-worlds-best-cities/Text duplicate Download
/about-us/Text duplicate About Us
https://www.instagram.com/thew...New window External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.google.com/maps/pl...New window External Subdomain 65 Greene St. 3F New York, NY 10014
/terms-of-useTerms of Use
/privacy-policyPrivacy Policy
https://www.worldsbestcities.com/No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.worldsbestcities.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
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 slow (1.15 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 (61 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateThu, 03 Jul 2025 04:19:01 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length12991
serverApache/2.4.52 (Ubuntu)
link<https://www.worldsbestcities.com/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 322 referring domains.
This page has 1,019 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 201 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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World’s Best Cities | The Definitive Power Rankings
The World’s Best Cities rankings are the most credible source of city performance in the eyes of visitors, investors and residents alike.

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Best Cities75%Check
Best73%Check
World73%Check
city65%Check
100 Best Cities62%Check
Best Cities Reports61%Check
Cities and Urban59%Check
forward-looking city59%Check
World’s Best Cities58%Check
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