Etymonline.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
86% 
Page quality
50% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
90% 
Server
91% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.32 s
File size
163.30 kB
Words
160
Media files
4
Number of links
44 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Online Etymology Dictionary
The length of the page title is perfect. (254 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The online etymology dictionary (etymonline) is the internet's go-to source for quick and reliable accounts of the origin and history of English words, phrases, and idioms.
The meta description is too long: 1036 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.etymonline.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)
The specified alternate links have no errors.
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
theme-color#c27c78
descriptionThe online etymology dictionary (etymonline) is the internet's go-to source for quick and reliable accounts of the origin and history of English words, phrases, and idioms.
robotsindex, follow
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:titleOnline Etymology Dictionary
twitter:descriptionThe online etymology dictionary (etymonline) is the internet's go-to source for quick and reliable accounts of the origin and history of English words, phrases, and idioms.
twitter:imagehttps://www.etymonline.com/images/logo/png/app-icon-medium.png
og:titleOnline Etymology Dictionary
og:descriptionThe online etymology dictionary (etymonline) is the internet's go-to source for quick and reliable accounts of the origin and history of English words, phrases, and idioms.
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og:image:width720
og:image:height720
og:image:altetymonline logo
og:typewebsite
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 160 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
33.1% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
3 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 19 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
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)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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
/images/logo/legacy.svg?w=3840&q=75Online Etymology Dictionary
/images/logo/legacy-white.svg?w=3840&q=75Online Etymology Dictionary
/images/logo/horizontal-full.svg?w=384&q=75logo
...ogo/horizontal-full-white.svg?w=384&q=75logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Online Etymology Dictionary
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Online Etymology Dictionary
H2 A Word or Two
H2 About
H2 Support
H2 Apps
There are too few (6) internal links on this page.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 2 links with a trivial anchor text.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/columnsNofollow Subdomain Columns
https://forum.etymonline.com/Nofollow External Subdomain Forum
/download/appNofollow Subdomain Apps
/premiumNofollow Subdomain Premium
/word/etymologyEtymologies
/word/serendipitySubdomain Anchor serendipity
/columns/post/sourcesTrivial anchor text
here
/columns/post/abbrSubdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
here
/columnsA Word or Two
/search?q=ANofollow Subdomain A
A-TITLE Browse words starting with "A"
/search?q=BNofollow Subdomain B
A-TITLE Browse words starting with "B"
/search?q=CNofollow Subdomain C
A-TITLE Browse words starting with "C"
/search?q=DNofollow Subdomain D
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/search?q=ENofollow Subdomain E
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/search?q=FNofollow Subdomain F
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/search?q=GNofollow Subdomain G
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/search?q=HNofollow Subdomain H
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/search?q=INofollow Subdomain I
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/search?q=JNofollow Subdomain J
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/search?q=KNofollow Subdomain K
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/search?q=LNofollow Subdomain L
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/search?q=MNofollow Subdomain M
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/search?q=NNofollow Subdomain N
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/search?q=ONofollow Subdomain O
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/search?q=PNofollow Subdomain P
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/search?q=QNofollow Subdomain Q
A-TITLE Browse words starting with "Q"
/search?q=RNofollow Subdomain R
A-TITLE Browse words starting with "R"
/search?q=SNofollow Subdomain S
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/search?q=TNofollow Subdomain T
A-TITLE Browse words starting with "T"
/search?q=UNofollow Subdomain U
A-TITLE Browse words starting with "U"
/search?q=VNofollow Subdomain V
A-TITLE Browse words starting with "V"
/search?q=WNofollow Subdomain W
A-TITLE Browse words starting with "W"
/search?q=XNofollow Subdomain X
A-TITLE Browse words starting with "X"
/search?q=YNofollow Subdomain Y
A-TITLE Browse words starting with "Y"
/search?q=ZNofollow Subdomain Z
A-TITLE Browse words starting with "Z"
https://www.etymonline.com/Subdomain IMG-ALT logo
A-TITLE Etymonline - Online Etymology Dictionary
https://www.patreon.com/etymon...New window Nofollow External Subdomain A-TITLE Support on Patreon
https://bsky.app/profile/etymo...New window Nofollow External A-TITLE Follow on Bluesky
https://www.facebook.com/etymo...New window Nofollow External Subdomain A-TITLE Follow on Facebook
/feed/columns.xml?utm_source=e...New window Nofollow Subdomain A-TITLE RSS Feed
/columns/post/bioNofollow Subdomain Who Did This
A-TITLE Who Did This
/columns/post/sourcesNofollow Subdomain Sources
A-TITLE Full List of Sources
/columns/post/abbrNofollow Subdomain Introduction
A-TITLE Introduction and Explanation
/columns/post/linksNofollow Subdomain Links
A-TITLE Links
/premium?utm_source=etymonline...Nofollow Subdomain Text duplicate Premium
A-TITLE Go Premium
https://www.patreon.com/etymon...Nofollow External Subdomain Patreon
A-TITLE Support on Patreon
https://www.redbubble.com/peop...Nofollow External Subdomain Merch
A-TITLE Merch
https://chrome.google.com/webs...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Get Chrome Extension
A-TITLE Etymonline Chrome Extension
https://apps.apple.com/app/app...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Get iOS App
A-TITLE Etymonline iOS App
https://play.google.com/store/...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Get Android App
A-TITLE Etymonline Android App
/legal/termsNofollow Subdomain Terms of Services
A-TITLE Terms of Services
/legal/privacyNofollow Subdomain Privacy Policy
A-TITLE Privacy Policy
/cdn-cgi/l/email-protectionNofollow © 2001 - 2025 Douglas Harper
A-TITLE Douglas Harper

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.etymonline.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.32 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (163 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
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x-ua-browser-nameChrome
x-ua-devicedesktop
x-middleware-rewrite/en
varyRSC, Next-Router-State-Tree, Next-Router-Prefetch, Next-Router-Segment-Prefetch, Accept-Encoding
x-powered-byNext.js
cache-controlmax-age=0, must-revalidate, no-store
last-modifiedThu, 24 Jul 2025 08:14:44 GMT
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server-timingcfCacheStatus;desc="HIT"
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content-encodingzstd
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alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
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 3,819 referring domains.
This page has 28,347 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,890 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /app/feedback
Disallow: /api/

User-agent: Bingbot
Disallow: /classic
Disallow: /classic/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /app/feedback
Disallow: /api/
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: CCBot
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User-agent: ChatGPT-User
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User-agent: SemrushBot
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User-agent: *
Allow: /search
Allow: /word/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /web/login
Disallow: /classic
Disallow: /classic/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /app/feedback

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Sitemap: https://www.etymonline.com/sitemap-article.xml

Sitemap: https://www.etymonline.com/locale-sitemap/home.xml
Sitemap: https://www.etymonline.com/sitemaps/words-locale.xml

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Online Etymology Dictionary
The online etymology dictionary (etymonline) is the internet's go-to source for quick and reliable accounts of the origin and history of English words, phrases, and idioms.

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