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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
91% 
Page quality
58% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
98% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.05 s
File size
170.70 kB
Words
281
Media files
17
Number of links
31 internal / 16 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Latest World & National News & Headlines - USATODAY.com
The length of the page title is perfect. (548 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
USA TODAY delivers current national and local news, sports, entertainment, finance, technology, and more through award-winning journalism, photos, and videos.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (996 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.usatoday.com/
The canonical link points to a different domain.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: 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)
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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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 281 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
25.6% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 21 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 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)
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
...ia-trump-deal.jpg?crop=5183,2917,x0,y269Columbia agrees to $200 million deal with Trump administration
...=3668,2064,x0,y1100&quality=50&width=270Pam Bondi reportedly told Donald Trump he's named in Epstein files
...p=3570,2008,x0,y186&quality=50&width=270Hegseth sent classified info on Houthi strikes in Signal chat
.../20/USAT/83749755007-clean.jpg?crop=10809 inmates who broke out of New Orleans jail plead not guilty to escape charges
...5348021007-usatsi-26431497.jpg?crop=3144If only Browns generated wins like they do headlines and ugly helmets
...USAT/85350831007-537930132.jpg?crop=1996Miller Lite giving away 50,000 free beers. How to get one
...-mc-donald-personal-trainer.jpg?crop=469Why women are put on antidepressants instead of hormones during menopause
...-26663216-168410231-lowres.jpg?crop=1679House committee to subpoena Epstein files, Clintons, other Democrats
...-3-idahostudentssentencing.JPG?crop=1624Bryan Kohberger gets life sentence after tearful testimony from victim families
...5350176007-usatsi-25330276.jpg?crop=3024Five sentenced after feds shut down $37.5M 'Jetflicks' pirate network
...dp-3-peopleliampaynefrance.JPG?crop=3605One Direction's anniversary, Liam Payne's death and how fans grieve
...SAT/85273096007-2224835101.jpg?crop=4828Trump DOJ loses bid to unseal Epstein grand jury testimony
...6/13/USAT/84188508007-clean.jpg?crop=952Abrego Garcia to be released from jail, put under ICE supervision
...-0-u-rtrmadp-3-usafarmfood.JPG?crop=3988RFK Jr. to remove controversial ingredient from all flu vaccines
...eb/universal/icons/icon-instagram_24.pnginstagram logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
There are no headings specified on the page. Headings are important for search engine optimization and help to structure your content.

Heading structure

No headings were found.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 16 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://eu.usatoday.com/Anchor Skip to main content
https://eu.usatoday.com/IMG-ALT USA TODAY
https://eu.usatoday.com/Home
/news/nation/U.S.
/news/politics/Politics
https://eu.usatoday.com/sports/Sports
/entertainment/Entertainment
https://eu.usatoday.com/life/Life
https://eu.usatoday.com/money/Money
https://eu.usatoday.com/tech/Tech
https://eu.usatoday.com/travel/Travel
https://eu.usatoday.com/opinion/Opinion
http://puzzles.usatoday.com/External Subdomain Crossword
https://eu.usatoday.com/Text duplicate IMG-ALT USA TODAY
/story/news/politics/2025/07/2...Columbia agrees to $200 million deal with Trump administration
IMG-ALT Columbia agrees to $200 million deal with Trump administration
/story/news/politics/2025/07/2...Pam Bondi reportedly told Donald Trump he's named in Epstein files
IMG-ALT Pam Bondi reportedly told Donald Trump he's named in Epstein files
/story/news/politics/2025/07/2...Hegseth sent classified info on Houthi strikes in Signal chat
IMG-ALT Hegseth sent classified info on Houthi strikes in Signal chat
/story/news/politics/2025/07/2...Appeals court rules Trump birthright order unconstitutional Politics
/story/news/nation/2025/07/23/...USPS is about to turn 250. Could its own pink slip be in the mail? Nation
/story/money/2025/07/23/costco...You're never going to believe what people are returning to Costco Money
/story/news/politics/2025/07/2...Video shows red sculpture of Trump emerge from NYC manhole Politics
/story/news/nation/2025/07/23/...9 inmates who broke out of New Orleans jail plead not guilty to escape charges Nation
IMG-ALT 9 inmates who broke out of New Orleans jail plead not guilty to escape charges
/story/sports/nfl/columnist/na...If only Browns generated wins like they do headlines and ugly helmets Nate Davis
IMG-ALT If only Browns generated wins like they do headlines and ugly helmets
/story/money/2025/07/23/miller...Miller Lite giving away 50,000 free beers. How to get one Money
IMG-ALT Miller Lite giving away 50,000 free beers. How to get one
/story/life/health-wellness/20...Why women are put on antidepressants instead of hormones during menopause Health and Wellness
IMG-ALT Why women are put on antidepressants instead of hormones during menopause
/story/news/politics/2025/07/2...House committee to subpoena Epstein files, Clintons, other Democrats Politics
IMG-ALT House committee to subpoena Epstein files, Clintons, other Democrats
/story/news/nation/2025/07/23/...Bryan Kohberger gets life sentence after tearful testimony from victim families Nation
IMG-ALT Bryan Kohberger gets life sentence after tearful testimony from victim families
/story/news/nation/2025/07/23/...Five sentenced after feds shut down $37.5M 'Jetflicks' pirate network Nation
IMG-ALT Five sentenced after feds shut down $37.5M 'Jetflicks' pirate network
/story/life/health-wellness/20...One Direction's anniversary, Liam Payne's death and how fans grieve Health and Wellness
IMG-ALT One Direction's anniversary, Liam Payne's death and how fans grieve
/story/news/politics/2025/07/2...Trump DOJ loses bid to unseal Epstein grand jury testimony Politics
IMG-ALT Trump DOJ loses bid to unseal Epstein grand jury testimony
/story/news/nation/2025/07/23/...Abrego Garcia to be released from jail, put under ICE supervision Nation
IMG-ALT Abrego Garcia to be released from jail, put under ICE supervision
/story/news/health/2025/07/23/...RFK Jr. to remove controversial ingredient from all flu vaccines Health
IMG-ALT RFK Jr. to remove controversial ingredient from all flu vaccines
https://help.usatoday.com/External Subdomain Help
https://cm.usatoday.com/terms/External Subdomain Terms of Service
https://cm.usatoday.com/about-...External Subdomain Subscription Terms & Conditions
https://cm.usatoday.com/privacy/External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://www.usatoday.com/sitemap/External Subdomain Site Map
http://cm.usatoday.com/accessi...External Subdomain Accessibility
http://cm.usatoday.com/ethical...External Subdomain Our Ethical Principles
https://www.gannett.com/respon...External Subdomain Responsible Disclosure
http://cm.usatoday.com/your-pr...External Subdomain Your Privacy Choices
https://www.facebook.com/usatodayExternal Subdomain No Text
https://www.twitter.com/usatodayExternal Subdomain No Text
https://go.snapchat.com/add/us...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/usat...External Subdomain IMG-ALT instagram logo
http://www.linkedin.com/compan...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.pinterest.com/usat...External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://eu.usatoday.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 0.05 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (171 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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set-cookie66 Characters
varyAccept-Encoding
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 8,428 referring domains.
This page has 837,904 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 3,680 different ip addresses.

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