Biblegateway.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
77% 
Page quality
68% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
33% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.40 s
File size
89.40 kB
Words
479
Media files
7
Number of links
54 internal / 24 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
BibleGateway.com: A searchable online Bible in over 150 versions and 50 languages.
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 761 pixels long. Optimize title
The domain is used in the page's title.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Read, hear, and study Scripture at the world's most-visited Christian website. Grow your faith with devotionals, Bible reading plans, and mobile apps.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (913 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.biblegateway.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Language defined in HTTP-Equiv meta tag: en
Server location: Germany
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)
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
googlenotranslate
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
descriptionRead, hear, and study Scripture at the world's most-visited Christian website. Grow your faith with devotionals, Bible reading plans, and mobile apps.
apple-itunes-appapp-id=506512797, affiliate-data=bg-home
langen
og:imagehttps://www.biblegateway.com/assets/images/logos/logo_bg-sharing.png?8a7b51b3
og:image:secure_urlhttps://www.biblegateway.com/assets/images/logos/logo_bg-sharing.png?8a7b51b3
og:image:typeimage/png
og:image:width200
og:image:height200
Content-Languageen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
There are only 479 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
30.7% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
6 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 14.64 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 10 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...ewAccountHeader-Rnd2_green highlight.jpghomepage block image
...the-go-bag-v2-with-blue-circle-price.pnghomepage block image
...025/06/27113658/story-of-bible-small.jpghomepage block image
...025/04/07081346/Home-block-Audio-App.pnghomepage block image
...06/16105721/bible-gateway-plus-small.jpghomepage block image
...ts/images/homepage-blocks/play-store.pngGoogle Play Store
...ets/images/homepage-blocks/app-store.pngApple App Store

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Access Your Bible from Anywhere
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Access Your Bible from Anywhere
H3 About
H3 Help
H3 Our Network
H3 Social
H3 Preferences
H3 Preferences Duplicate text
H6 Receive your daily verse by email
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
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.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are 24 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.biblegateway.com/No Text
/reading-plans/Reading Plans
/passage/Advanced Search
/versions/Available Versions
/resources/audio/Audio Bibles
/resources/scripture-engagement/Scripture Engagement
/resources/More Resources
/plus/?utm_source=bg&utm_mediu...Bible Gateway Plus
/learn/News & Knowledge
/newsletters/Newsletters
/devotionals/Devotionals
https://www.biblegateway.com/app/Bible Gateway App
/bible-audio-app/Bible Audio App
https://biblegateway.com/blog/Bible Gateway Blog
https://faithgateway.com/pages...External Bibles
https://faithgateway.com/colle...External Deals
https://faithgateway.com/?utm_...External Trivial anchor text
More
/landing/investigating_faith/?...Subdomain Tough questions about faith? Get answers from Lee Strobel—FREE weekly emails.
/plus/?utm_source=bg&utm_mediu...Subdomain Discover the NIV Application Bible, built from the NIV Application Commentary series, to bring the Bible’s ancient message into your world.
/login/Log In/Sign Up
/versions/New-International-Ve...Bible Book List
/passage/?search=Isaiah 33:22&...Isaiah 33:22 (New International Version)
A-TITLE Isaiah 33:22
/audio/mclean/niv/Isa.33.22No Text
/passage/?search=Isaiah+33&ver...Read Full Chapter
A-TITLE Isaiah 33
/legal/privacy/Privacy Policy
/login/?utm_source=bg&utm_medi...IMG-ALT homepage block image
/login/?utm_source=bg&utm_medi...Log In
/plus/?utm_source=bg&utm_mediu...Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT homepage block image
/plus/?utm_source=bg&utm_mediu...Subdomain Join Bible Gateway Plus!
/learn/bible-101/about-the-bib...Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT homepage block image
/learn/bible-101/about-the-bib...Subdomain Read more!
/bible-audio-app/?utm_source=b...Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT homepage block image
/bible-audio-app/?utm_source=b...Subdomain Download
/learn/bible-gateway-updates/b...Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT homepage block image
/learn/bible-gateway-updates/b...Subdomain Text duplicate Read more!
https://www.biblegateway.com/appand more
https://play.google.com/store/...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Google Play Store
https://itunes.apple.com/us/ap...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Apple App Store
/about/About
/learn/Text duplicate News & Knowledge
/about/faith/Statement of Faith
https://www.biblegateway.com/app/Mobile App
https://faithgateway.com/?utm_...External Store
/blog/Subdomain Blog
/newsroom/Newsroom
/supporting-biblegateway/Support Us
https://support.biblegateway.c...External Subdomain FAQs
/help/tutorial/Tutorials
/usage/Use Bible Gateway on Your Site
https://www.infinite.media/bib...External Subdomain Advertise with us
/feedback/Nofollow Contact us
/legal/privacy/Privacy policy
/legal/california/California Privacy Rights
/legal/consent/Do Not Sell My Personal Information
/legal/cookie-notice/Cookie notice
/legal/terms/Site: Terms of use
A-TITLE Site: Terms of use
/legal/widget-terms/Widget: Terms of use
A-TITLE Widget: Terms of use
https://www.faithgateway.com/New window External Subdomain FaithGateway
https://www.studygateway.com/New window External Subdomain StudyGateway
https://www.churchsource.com/New window External Subdomain ChurchSource
https://www.harpercollinschris...New window External Subdomain HarperCollins Christian Publishing
https://www.editorialhccp.com/...New window External Subdomain Grupo Nelson
https://www.editorialhccp.com/...New window External Subdomain Editorial Vida
https://www.thomasnelson.com/New window External Subdomain Thomas Nelson
https://guide.westbowpress.com...New window External Subdomain WestBow Press
https://www.zondervan.com/New window External Subdomain Zondervan
https://masterlectures.zonderv...New window External Subdomain MasterLectures
https://www.facebook.com/Bible...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/Bibl...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.pinterest.com/bibl...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Pinterest
https://www.tiktok.com/@bibleg...New window Nofollow External Subdomain TikTok
https://twitter.com/biblegateway/New window Nofollow External Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/user/B...New window Nofollow External Subdomain YouTube
/languages/update/?language=es...Nofollow Versión en español
/preferences/Preferences
A-TITLE Set your preferences for BibleGateway.com
/legal/privacy/Text duplicate Privacy Policy
/languages/update/?language=es...Nofollow Text duplicate Versión en español
/preferences/Text duplicate Preferences
A-TITLE Set your preferences for BibleGateway.com

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.biblegateway.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 is excellent with 0.40 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (89 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
dateThu, 07 Aug 2025 23:33:13 GMT
strict-transport-securitymax-age=7776000
content-encodinggzip
servernginx
varyAccept-Encoding
x-cacheHit from cloudfront
via1.1 c80ae6bd97b709ed6e4747f0d5ea4efc.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-popFRA60-P3
x-amz-cf-idMP-FFvf1wAZksjimHbNQEBHye7HTVNmlo8sO_4KFa6Pn2xyKQeYs1g==
age1124
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 8,918 referring domains.
This page has 3,048,162 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 5,515 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/guestbook
Disallow: /feedback
Disallow: /user
Disallow: /6177/
Disallow: /12741980/
Disallow: /bible/1*
Disallow: /bible/2*
Disallow: /bible/3*
Disallow: /bible/4*
Disallow: /bible/A*
Disallow: /bible/C*
Disallow: /bible/D*
Disallow: /bible/E*
Disallow: /bible/G*
Disallow: /bible/H*
Disallow: /bible/I*
Disallow: /bible/J*
Disallow: /bible/L*
Disallow: /bible/M*
Disallow: /bible/N*
Disallow: /bible/O*
Disallow: /bible/P*
Disallow: /bible/R*
Disallow: /bible/S*
Disallow: /bible/T*
Disallow: /bible/Z*

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