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Meta information
97% 
Page quality
38% 
Page structure
71% 
Link structure
43% 
Server
75% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.89 s
File size
28.50 kB
Words
276
Media files
17
Number of links
105 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Welcome | Crossway
The page title is too short. (189 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Crossway is a not-for-profit Christian ministry that publishes the ESV Bible and gospel-centered books.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (631 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
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)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
No paragraphs were detected.
There are only 276 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
13.8% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 4 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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 amount of tags is very high (22). We recommend using a maximum of 6 tags for this page.
The following tag is repeated too often: category
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
2 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
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
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
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
H2 New Bibles
H2 View All
H2 New Books
H2 View All Duplicate text
H2 Bestsellers
H2 View All Duplicate text
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.
2 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 7 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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/bibles/category/text/Text Bibles
/bibles/category/study/Study Bibles
/bibles/category/journaling/Journaling Bibles
/bibles/category/children-teens/Children & Teen Bibles
/bibles/category/ministry/Church & Ministry Bibles
/bibles/category/premium/Premium Bibles
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/bibles/esv-church-bible-hc-4/ESV Church Bible
/bibles/esv-student-study-bibl...ESV Student Study Bible
/bibles/esv-large-print-thinli...ESV Large Print Thinline
/bibles/esv-economy-bible-tpb-3/ESV Economy Bible
/articles/crossway-special-gif...Gifts for Moms, Dads, and Grads
https://www.crossway.org/bibles/Browse All Bibles
https://www.crossway.org/books/Books
/collections/devotionals/Devotionals
/collections/bible-studies/Bible Studies
/collections/discipleship/Discipleship
/collections/christian-living/Christian Living
/collections/theology-and-bibl...Theological Studies
/collections/children-and-youth/Children and Youth
/authors/paul-tripp/Paul Tripp
/authors/dane-c-ortlund/Dane Ortlund
/authors/jen-wilkin/Jen Wilkin
/authors/kevin-deyoung/Kevin DeYoung
/authors/john-piper/John Piper
/authors/nancy-guthrie/Nancy Guthrie
/collections/for-women/For Women
/collections/for-men/For Men
/collections/for-church-leaders/For Church Leaders
/collections/for-academics/For Academics
/collections/for-parents/For Parents
/collections/for-children-and-...For Children & Youth
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https://www.crossway.org/books/Browse All Books
https://www.crossway.org/tracts/Tracts
/articles/Articles
https://www.crossway.org/donate/Donate
https://www.crossway.org/login/No Text
/checkout/cart/No Text
/bibles/esv-gracelaced-bible-j...ESV GraceLaced Bible, Journaling Edition (Artwork by Ruth Chou Simons)
IMG-ALT ESV GraceLaced Bible, Journaling Edition (Artwork by Ruth Chou Simons)
/books/morning-and-evening-3case/IMG-ALT Morning and Evening: A New Edition of the Classic Devotional Based on The Holy Bible, English Standa
/bibles/esv-vest-pocket-new-te...ESV Vest Pocket New Testament with Psalms and Proverbs, Red Letter
IMG-ALT ESV Vest Pocket New Testament with Psalms and Proverbs, Red Letter
/donate/onemillionbibles/One Million Bibles Initiative: Global South
/books/ephesians-tpb-4/IMG-ALT Ephesians: Life Together in Christ
/books/eat-drink-and-be-merry-...IMG-ALT Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: A Gospel Call to Bold Enjoyment
https://www.crossway.org/bibles/View All
/bibles/esv-kids-bible-thinlin...IMG-ALT ESV Kid's Bible, Thinline, Red Letter
/bibles/esv-kids-bible-thinlin...Text duplicate ESV Kid's Bible, Thinline, Red Letter
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/bibles/esv-gracelaced-bible-j...Text duplicate ESV GraceLaced Bible, Journaling Edition (Artwork by Ruth Chou Simons)
/bibles/esv-vest-pocket-new-te...Text duplicate IMG-ALT ESV Vest Pocket New Testament with Psalms and Proverbs, Red Letter
/bibles/esv-vest-pocket-new-te...Text duplicate ESV Vest Pocket New Testament with Psalms and Proverbs, Red Letter
/books/?sort=release_dateText duplicate View All
/books/bible-study-tpb/IMG-ALT Bible Study
/books/bible-study-tpb/Text duplicate Bible Study
/authors/glenna-marshall/Glenna Marshall
/authors/winfree-brisley/Winfree Brisley
/books/using-authority-well-tpb/IMG-ALT Using Authority Well
/books/using-authority-well-tpb/Text duplicate Using Authority Well
/authors/jonathan-leeman/Jonathan Leeman
/books/ephesians-tpb-4/IMG-ALT Ephesians
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/authors/megan-hill/Megan Hill
/books/?sort=best_sellingText duplicate View All
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/books/gentle-and-lowly-hcj/Text duplicate Gentle and Lowly
/authors/dane-c-ortlund/Text duplicate Dane Ortlund
/bibles/esv-study-bible-case/Text duplicate IMG-ALT ESV Study Bible
/bibles/esv-study-bible-case/Text duplicate ESV Study Bible
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/books/new-morning-mercies-hcj-3/Text duplicate New Morning Mercies
/authors/paul-tripp/Paul David Tripp
https://facebook.com/CrosswayB...External No Text
https://x.com/crosswayExternal No Text
https://instagram.com/crossway...External No Text
https://youtube.com/crosswayvidExternal No Text
https://www.crossway.org/books/Text duplicate Books
https://www.crossway.org/bibles/Text duplicate Bibles
https://www.crossway.org/tracts/Text duplicate Tracts
https://www.crossway.org/authors/Authors
https://www.crossway.org/donate/Text duplicate Donate
https://www.crossway.org/retail/Retail Partners
/international/International Distributors
https://www.crossway.org/plus/Churches
https://www.crossway.org/plus/Crossway+
https://www.esv.org/translation/External Subdomain About the ESV
https://www.esv.org/External Subdomain Read Online
https://www.esv.org/resources/...External Subdomain Mobile Apps
/podcasts/Podcasts
/press-room/Press Room
/crossway-review-program/Crossway Review Program
/exam-request/Exam Copies
/who-we-are/Who We Are
https://www.crossway.org/history/History of Crossway
/statement-of-faith/Statement of Faith
https://www.crossway.org/jobs/Jobs
https://www.crossway.org/policy/Privacy Policy
https://www.crossway.org/terms/Terms of Service
https://www.crossway.org/contact/Contact
https://www.crossway.org/orders/Orders
https://www.crossway.org/faq/FAQ
/submissions/Submissions
/permissions/Permissions

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.crossway.org/"
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 0.89 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.
This page loads 4 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 2 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (29 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

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This page has backlinks from 1,041 referring domains.
This page has 180,296 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 601 different ip addresses.

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