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Meta information
98% 
Page quality
75% 
Page structure
53% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.88 s
File size
192.50 kB
Words
498
Media files
13
Number of links
42 internal / 21 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Animals | HowStuffWorks
The length of the page title is perfect. (227 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Animals are multicellular organisms that play an integral role in nature. Read about the different types of animals at HowStuffWorks.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (808 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://animals.howstuffworks.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Language defined in HTTP-Equiv meta tag: en-us
Server location: Germany
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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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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descriptionAnimals are multicellular organisms that play an integral role in nature. Read about the different types of animals at HowStuffWorks.
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article:publisherhttps://www.howstuffworks.com
article:published_time2008-04-22T03:00:00-04:00
langen-us
twitter:dnton
fb:admins100001675325868
fb:app_id899104866837181
fb:pages20767777944
og:titleAnimals
og:urlhttps://animals.howstuffworks.com/
og:site_nameHowStuffWorks
og:descriptionExplore the world of wild animals, pets and extinct species. Learn about ants, dinosaurs, mammals and everything that crawls, swims or flies under the sun.
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og:typearticle
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
content-languageen-us
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 498 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
35.3% 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 13.88 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,minimum-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)
5 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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Animals
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (7 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Animals
H3 Do Kangaroos Really Box?
H3 What's the Largest Land Animal That Ever Existed on Earth?
H3 How to Make a Dog Throw Up
H3 How to Know When It's Time to Say Goodbye to a Pet
H3 Trending in Animals
H3 10 Most Affectionate Cat Breeds for Pet Parents Who Need Love Too
H3 Why Is My Cat Sneezing? Does It Have Allergies?
H3 Peterbald Cat Breed Origins and Coat Types
H3 The Most Expensive Chicken Costs About $6K Per Bird
H3 Pets
H3 Wild Animals
H3 Animal Facts
H3 Endangered Species
H3 Extinct Animals
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 1 links with a trivial 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 21 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.howstuffworks.com/External Subdomain No Text
https://science.howstuffworks....External Subdomain Science
https://electronics.howstuffwo...External Subdomain Tech
https://home.howstuffworks.com/External Subdomain Home & Garden
https://auto.howstuffworks.com/External Subdomain Auto
https://people.howstuffworks.c...External Subdomain Culture
https://health.howstuffworks.com/External Subdomain Health
https://money.howstuffworks.com/External Subdomain Money
/Subdomain Animals
https://lifestyle.howstuffwork...External Subdomain Lifestyle
https://entertainment.howstuff...External Subdomain Entertainment
https://play.howstuffworks.com/External Subdomain Quizzes
https://science.howstuffworks....External Subdomain Text duplicate Science
https://electronics.howstuffwo...External Subdomain Text duplicate Tech
https://home.howstuffworks.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Home & Garden
https://auto.howstuffworks.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Auto
https://people.howstuffworks.c...External Subdomain Text duplicate Culture
https://health.howstuffworks.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Health
https://money.howstuffworks.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Money
/Subdomain Text duplicate Animals
https://lifestyle.howstuffwork...External Subdomain Text duplicate Lifestyle
https://entertainment.howstuff...External Subdomain Text duplicate Entertainment
https://play.howstuffworks.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Quizzes
/birds/cassowary.htmSubdomain The Cassowary Is the World's Most Dangerous Bird
/birds/cassowary.htmSubdomain Trivial anchor text
Read More
/wild-animalsSubdomain Wild Animals
/petsSubdomain Pets
/animal-factsSubdomain Animal Facts
/endangered-speciesSubdomain Endangered Species
/extinct-animalsSubdomain Extinct Animals
/mammals/do-kangaroos-really-b...Subdomain Do Kangaroos Really Box?
IMG-ALT Do Kangaroos Really Box?
/animal-facts/largest-land-ani...Subdomain What's the Largest Land Animal That Ever Existed on Earth?
IMG-ALT What's the Largest Land Animal That Ever Existed on Earth?
/pets/how-to-make-dog-throw-up...Subdomain How to Make a Dog Throw Up
IMG-ALT How to Make a Dog Throw Up
/pets/when-to-say-goodbye-to-p...Subdomain How to Know When It's Time to Say Goodbye to a Pet
IMG-ALT How to Know When It's Time to Say Goodbye to a Pet
/pets/most-affectionate-cat-br...Subdomain 10 Most Affectionate Cat Breeds for Pet Parents Who Need Love Too
IMG-ALT 10 Most Affectionate Cat Breeds for Pet Parents Who Need Love Too
/pets/why-is-my-cat-sneezing.htmSubdomain Why Is My Cat Sneezing? Does It Have Allergies?
IMG-ALT Why Is My Cat Sneezing? Does It Have Allergies?
/pets/peterbald-cat.htmSubdomain Peterbald Cat Breed Origins and Coat Types
IMG-ALT Peterbald Cat Breed Origins and Coat Types
/birds/most-expensive-chicken.htmSubdomain The Most Expensive Chicken Costs About $6K Per Bird
IMG-ALT The Most Expensive Chicken Costs About $6K Per Bird
/petsSubdomain Text duplicate Pets
/pets/how-to-discipline-a-cat.htmSubdomain How to Discipline a Cat Without Eliciting Its Scorn FIND OUT MORE
/pets/laperm-cat.htmSubdomain LaPerm Cat Breed History and Quirks FIND OUT MORE
/pets/cat-snoring.htmSubdomain Cat Snoring: Obnoxious, Cute, or Cautionary? FIND OUT MORE
/pets/most-protective-dog-bree...Subdomain 10 Most Protective Dog Breeds to Lovingly Guard Your Family FIND OUT MORE
/wild-animalsSubdomain Text duplicate Wild Animals
/fish/swai-vs-catfish.htmSubdomain Swai vs. Catfish: One Is Much Better for You (and for the Planet) FIND OUT MORE
/mammals/caribou-vs-elk.htmSubdomain Caribou vs. Elk: Comparing Completely Different Deer Species FIND OUT MORE
/birds/most-beautiful-birds.htmSubdomain 10 Most Beautiful Birds That Look Too Cool to Be Real FIND OUT MORE
/mammals/panther-vs-cougar.htmSubdomain Panther vs. Cougar: Different Names for the Same Cat FIND OUT MORE
/animal-factsSubdomain Text duplicate Animal Facts
/animal-facts/most-expensive-h...Subdomain The Most Expensive Horse Ever Sold for $70M FIND OUT MORE
/animal-facts/slug-vs-snail.htmSubdomain Slug vs. Snail: More Than Shell vs. No Shell (But Not Much More) FIND OUT MORE
/animal-facts/coyote-vs-dog.htmSubdomain Coyote vs. Dog: More Than Just Wild vs. Domesticated FIND OUT MORE
/animal-facts/mammoth-vs-eleph...Subdomain Mammoth vs. Elephant: Same Family, Different Species FIND OUT MORE
/endangered-speciesSubdomain Text duplicate Endangered Species
/endangered-species/yangtze-fi...Subdomain Yangtze Finless Porpoise: The World's Only Freshwater Porpoise FIND OUT MORE
/endangered-species/sunda-tige...Subdomain Sunda Tiger: A Critically Endangered Subspecies in Sumatra FIND OUT MORE
/endangered-species/sumatran-o...Subdomain The Sumatran Orangutan Faces Large-scale Habitat Loss FIND OUT MORE
/endangered-species/saola.htmSubdomain The Saola Is Southeast Asia's 'Unicorn' FIND OUT MORE
/extinct-animalsSubdomain Text duplicate Extinct Animals
/dinosaurs/smartest-dinosaur.htmSubdomain The Smartest Dinosaur (and 9 More Clever Prehistoric Reptiles) FIND OUT MORE
/dinosaurs/pteranodon-vs-ptero...Subdomain Pteranodon vs. Pterodactyl: Comparing Non-dinosaur Species FIND OUT MORE
/dinosaurs/giganotosaurus-vs-t...Subdomain Giganotosaurus vs. T. rex: Two Dinosaurs With Big Reputations FIND OUT MORE
/dinosaurs/brontosaurus-vs-bra...Subdomain Brontosaurus vs. Brachiosaurus: Comparing Long Necks FIND OUT MORE

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://animals.howstuffworks.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 0.88 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 (193 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html;charset=UTF-8
dateThu, 24 Jul 2025 03:44:22 GMT
expiresThu, 24 Jul 2025 05:44:21 -0400
content-encodinggzip
servernginx
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statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 187 referring domains.
This page has 364 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 91 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /framed.htm
Disallow: /editor/
Allow: /*?page
Allow: /*?photo
Allow: /*?utm
Disallow: /*?
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:

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Animals | HowStuffWorks
Animals are multicellular organisms that play an integral role in nature. Read about the different types of animals at HowStuffWorks.

Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
Animals89%Check
Animals Animal88%Check
HowStuffWorks69%Check
Wild Animals65%Check
Extinct Animals65%Check
Types52%Check
different types49%Check
Read46%Check
Different46%Check
play46%Check
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