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Meta information

83%

Page quality

74%

Page structure

29%

Link structure

71%

Server

90%

External factors

100%

SEO Score

SEO Score Widget

Response time

0.59 s

File size

70.00 kB

Words

807

Media files

Number of links

46 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements 5 Tasks

Only use 1 H1 Heading in your text.Very important!
The H1 heading should suit better to the page content. (Words from the heading are rarely used in the text)Important!
Use good alternative descriptions (alt attributes) for your images.Important!
Remove duplicate heading texts.Important!
Improve the page response time.Tip!

Meta specifications 83% achieved

Title

(Critically important)

Desiring God

The page title is too short. (117 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title

There are no duplicate words in the title

Meta Title

Meta description

(Critically important)

Find your joy in God with sermons, books, podcasts, video, and daily articles from the ministry of John Piper.

The length of the meta description is perfect. (666 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)

Meta Description

Crawlability

(Critically important)

There are no problems in accessing the website.

Search Engine Crawlers

Canonical URL

(Important)

https://www.desiringgod.org/

There is a valid canonical link specified.

Canonical Tag

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

Declaring language in HTML

Alternate/Hreflang Links

(Somewhat important)

There are no alternate links specified on this page.

Hreflang

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.

Meta Tags

Domain

(Somewhat important)

The domain is no subdomain.

The domain length is good.

The domain does not contain non-latin characters.

Domain for SEO

Page URL

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No parameters were found in the URL.

No session ID was found in the URL.

The URL does not have too many subdirectories.

SEO-friendly URLs

Charset encoding

(Somewhat important)

The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.

Character Encoding

Doctype

(Nice to have)

The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.

The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.

HTML Doctype

Favicon

(Nice to have)

The favicon is linked correctly.

Favicon

Meta tags

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Accept-CH	DPR, Width, Viewport-Width

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Page quality 74% achieved

Content

(Critically important)

Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.

This page contains 807 words. That's ok.

31.7% of the text are stop words.

Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!

14 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 13.83 words is good.

Content is King

Frames

(Critically important)

This page does not use a frameset.

Frames and framesets

Mobile optimization

(Somewhat important)

A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=0" is provided.

At least one Apple touch icon is specified.

Mobile Optimization

Bold and strong tags

(Somewhat important)

The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 16 tags for this page.

Strong and Bold Tags

Image SEO

(Somewhat important)

22 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.

Image SEO

There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.

Social Sharing

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.

HTTPS

Media list

URL	Alt attribute	Title
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...s&fit=min&w=871&h=490&dpr=2&ch=Width,DPR	Dawning of the King
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...ess&fit=min&w=30&h=30&dpr=2&ch=Width,DPR	No alt attribute provided
data:[...] Base64	He Dawns as Everlasting Father
...ess&fit=min&w=30&h=30&dpr=2&ch=Width,DPR	No alt attribute provided
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...ess&fit=min&w=30&h=30&dpr=2&ch=Width,DPR	No alt attribute provided
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...ess&fit=min&w=30&h=30&dpr=2&ch=Width,DPR	No alt attribute provided
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...ess&fit=min&w=30&h=30&dpr=2&ch=Width,DPR	No alt attribute provided
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...ess&fit=min&w=30&h=30&dpr=2&ch=Width,DPR	No alt attribute provided
...400fe49428cd97bfaaede57aecdb30e84f61.png	No alt attribute provided
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data:[...] Base64	The Gift Trap
...ess&fit=min&w=30&h=30&dpr=2&ch=Width,DPR	No alt attribute provided
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...ess&fit=min&w=30&h=30&dpr=2&ch=Width,DPR	No alt attribute provided
...6901dd7c74e0dee899e0761bc03196f07fe1.png	No alt attribute provided
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data:[...] Base64	On a Day in Bethlehem
...ess&fit=min&w=30&h=30&dpr=2&ch=Width,DPR	No alt attribute provided
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...ess&fit=min&w=30&h=30&dpr=2&ch=Width,DPR	No alt attribute provided
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...ess&fit=min&w=30&h=30&dpr=2&ch=Width,DPR	No alt attribute provided
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...ess&fit=min&w=30&h=30&dpr=2&ch=Width,DPR	No alt attribute provided
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Page structure 29% achieved

H1 heading

(Critically important)

Word, Prayer, and People

Too many H1 headings

H1-H6 headings

Headings

(Important)

Some headings occur twice on the page.

There are 36 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

H1-H6 headings

Heading structure

Heading level	Content
H1	Word, Prayer, and People
H1	New Resources in Your Inbox
H2	Three Habits for Enjoying Jesus
H2	Dawning of the King
H2	Current Theme Dawning of the King All Available
H2	He Dawns as Mighty God
H2	He Dawns as Everlasting Father
H2	He Dawns as Prince of Peace
H2	Recent More
H2	Who Was Titus?
H2	The Joy of Bible Journaling
H2	Election That Strengthens Faith
H2	The Gift Trap
H2	Jesus Showed Up
H2	On a Day in Bethlehem
H2	‘I Will Be Yours’: A Promise for Wavering Saints
H2	Eternal Life Was Manifested as the Word
H2	The Promise for All Who Believe
H2	What a Fruitful Devotional Feels Like
H2	God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him
H3	Ask Pastor John
H3	Look at the Book
H3	Solid Joys
H3	Light + Truth
H3	Ask Pastor John Duplicate text
H3	Look at the Book Duplicate text
H3	Solid Joys Duplicate text
H3	Light + Truth Duplicate text
H3	Titus 1:1–4, Part 9
H3	The In-Person Visit of the Incarnation
H3	Titus 1:1–4, Part 8
H3	Ways to Follow
H3	New Resources in Your Inbox Duplicate text
H4	He Dawns as Mighty God Duplicate text
H4	He Dawns as Everlasting Father Duplicate text
H4	He Dawns as Prince of Peace Duplicate text

Link structure 71% achieved

Internal links

(Important)

Some internal link anchor texts are too long.

Some anchor texts are used more than once.

There are 1 links with a trivial anchor text.

The number of internal links is ok.

All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.

Internal Linking

External links

(Nice to have)

There are 9 external links on this page.

External Links

Found links on this page

Link	Attributes	Anchor text
https://give.desiringgod.org/?...	External Subdomain	Spread great joy in a big God.Join us →
https://www.desiringgod.org/		No Text
/articles		Articles
/messages		Messages
/books/all		Books
/podcasts		Podcasts
https://www.desiringgod.org/about		About
https://give.desiringgod.org/	External Subdomain	Give
/ask-pastor-john		Ask Pastor John Questions and answers with John Piper
https://www.desiringgod.org/labs		Look at the Book Interactive Bible study with John Piper
/solid-joys		Solid Joys Daily devotional with John Piper
/light-and-truth		Light + Truth Classic sermons from John Piper
/articles	Text duplicate	Articles
/messages	Text duplicate	Messages
/books/all	Text duplicate	Books
/podcasts	Text duplicate	Podcasts
/resources/all		Filter Resources By
/ask-pastor-john	Text duplicate	Ask Pastor John Questions and answers with John Piper
https://www.desiringgod.org/labs	Text duplicate	Look at the Book Interactive Bible study with John Piper
/solid-joys	Text duplicate	Solid Joys Daily devotional with John Piper
/light-and-truth	Text duplicate	Light + Truth Classic sermons from John Piper
https://www.desiringgod.org/about	Text duplicate	About
https://account.desiringgod.org/	External Subdomain	Account
https://give.desiringgod.org/	External Subdomain Text duplicate	Give
/messages/word-prayer-and-people		Message Word, Prayer, and People Three Habits for Enjoying Jesus David Mathis IMG-ALT Word, Prayer, and People
/themes/dawning-of-the-king		IMG-ALT Dawning of the King
/articles/he-dawns-as-mighty-god		Dec 14 He Dawns as Mighty God David Mathis
/articles/he-dawns-as-everlast...		Dec 21 He Dawns as Everlasting Father Marshall Segal
/articles/he-dawns-as-prince-o...		Dec 25 He Dawns as Prince of Peace Greg Morse
/themes/dawning-of-the-king		All Available
/themes/dawning-of-the-king		Current Theme Dawning of the King All Available
/articles/he-dawns-as-mighty-god		Article He Dawns as Mighty God Dec 14, 2025 We needed far more than a human warrior to rescue us from sin and death. We needed the divine Son himself to come... IMG-ALT He Dawns as Mighty God
/articles/he-dawns-as-everlast...		Article He Dawns as Everlasting Father Dec 21, 2025 In Jesus, you have not only an older brother but also an Everlasting Father. He will provide for you. He ... IMG-ALT He Dawns as Everlasting Father
/articles/he-dawns-as-prince-o...		Article He Dawns as Prince of Peace Dec 25, 2025 At Christmas, the peace we forfeited comes to us as a child born, a son given, a prince we don’t deserve. Gr... IMG-ALT He Dawns as Prince of Peace
/resources/all		Recent More
/labs/who-was-titus		Look at the Book Who Was Titus? Titus 1:1–4, Part 9 Dec 27, 2025 Paul had a trusted messenger all over the Roman Empire, grounded in the same faith and so de... IMG-ALT Who Was Titus? Titus 1:1–4, Part 9
/articles/the-joy-of-bible-jou...		Article The Joy of Bible Journaling Dec 26, 2025 When you open Scripture, what habits help to make you happy in God? If you’ve never tried Bible journaling, ... IMG-ALT The Joy of Bible Journaling
/light-and-truth/gods-unshakab...		Light + Truth Election That Strengthens Faith Dec 26, 2025 Can controversial truth still nourish faith? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper shows ho... IMG-ALT Election That Strengthens Faith
/interviews/the-gift-trap		Ask Pastor John The Gift Trap Dec 25, 2025 How can we root our joy in Jesus rather than in his gifts? Pastor John gives four strategies for loving God in and... IMG-ALT The Gift Trap
/articles/jesus-showed-up		Article Jesus Showed Up The In-Person Visit of the Incarnation Dec 24, 2025 An online, video-chat, remote-work world devalues the good gift of in-person visi... IMG-ALT Jesus Showed Up: The In-Person Visit of the Incarnation
/light-and-truth/born-to-bring...		Light + Truth On a Day in Bethlehem Dec 24, 2025 What really happened that first Christmas? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Luke 2:1–20 to... IMG-ALT On a Day in Bethlehem
/articles/i-will-be-yours-a-pr...		Article ‘I Will Be Yours’: A Promise for Wavering Saints Dec 23, 2025 Christian, your hope does not rest on the strength of your faith but on the constancy o... IMG-ALT ‘I Will Be Yours’: A Promise for Wavering Saints
/labs/eternal-life-was-manifes...		Look at the Book Eternal Life Was Manifested as the Word Titus 1:1–4, Part 8 Dec 23, 2025 When Paul talks about the hope of eternal life, he considers the wo... IMG-ALT Eternal Life Was Manifested as the Word: Titus 1:1–4, Part 8
/light-and-truth/gods-love-in-...		Light + Truth The Promise for All Who Believe Dec 22, 2025 What does it mean to truly believe? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens John 3:16 t... IMG-ALT The Promise for All Who Believe
/interviews/what-a-fruitful-de...		Ask Pastor John What a Fruitful Devotional Feels Like Dec 22, 2025 What does it feel like to meet the living God in the pages of Scripture? Pastor John gives... IMG-ALT What a Fruitful Devotional Feels Like
/resources/all		Trivial anchor text More
https://www.desiringgod.org/about		Learn more about Desiring God
https://www.facebook.com/desir...	New window External Subdomain	Follow Desiring God on Facebook
https://instagram.com/desiringgod	New window External	Follow Desiring God on Instagram
https://x.com/desiringGod	New window External	Follow Desiring God on X
https://www.youtube.com/user/d...	New window External Subdomain	Follow Desiring God on YouTube
/translations		Translations
/permissions		Permissions
/privacy-policy		Privacy
https://give.desiringgod.org/	External Subdomain Text duplicate	Give

Server configuration 90% achieved

HTTP redirects

(Critically important)

This page redirects to "https://www.desiringgod.org/"

WWW Redirect

HTTP header

(Important)

No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.

The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.

HTTP headers

Performance

(Somewhat important)

The page response time of 0.59 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 (70 kB).

Page Speed

HTTP Response Header

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vary	Origin
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server	cloudflare
cf-ray	9b4965b30887bbc2-FRA
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http_version	HTTP/2

External factors 100% achieved

Backlinks

(Critically important)

This page is referenced by wikipedia.

This website has excellent links from other websites.

This page has backlinks from 1,102 referring domains.

This page has 54,049 backlinks.

This page has backlinks from 737 different ip addresses.

Backlinks

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Robots.txt

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User-agent: *
Disallow: /donate/create
Disallow: /ask-pastor-john/recent
Disallow: /ask-pastor-john/popular
Disallow: /ask-pastor-john/search
Disallow: *.rss
Disallow: */audio
Allow: */download/audio*
Disallow: */video
Allow: */download/video*

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Find your joy in God with sermons, books, podcasts, video, and daily articles from the ministry of John Piper.

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God	81%	Check
Desiring God	71%	Check
Follow Desiring God	60%	Check
Desiring	58%	Check
Word	58%	Check
John	56%	Check
joy	54%	Check
people	54%	Check
He Dawns as	54%	Check
Book	54%	Check
Prayer	54%	Check
John Piper	53%	Check
as Mighty	52%	Check
Pastor John	49%	Check
Piper	48%	Check
Daily	48%	Check
Pastor John gives	47%	Check
John Piper opens	47%	Check
Jesus	46%	Check
everlasting	46%	Check
Dawns	46%	Check
Father	46%	Check
Peace	46%	Check
Titus	46%	Check
Articles	46%	Check

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Link structure 71% achieved

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Server configuration 90% achieved

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External factors 100% achieved

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