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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
86% 
Page quality
45% 
Page structure
91% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.25 s
File size
147.20 kB
Words
856
Media files
12
Number of links
86 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Film Comment
The page title is too short. (129 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Founded in 1962, Film Comment is an independent nonprofit magazine publishing in-depth interviews and critical analysis of cinema from around the world.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (956 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.filmcomment.com/
There is a valid canonical link 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)
These Typos were found:
  • thru => through
  • everytime => every time
The average number of words per sentence of 544 words is high.
This page contains 856 words. That's ok.
30.8% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
17 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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 17 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
11 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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

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...Can-See-Everything_FEATURE-2560x1920.jpgNo alt attribute provided
.../All-of-a-Sudden_FEATURE-1-2560x1713.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...-Tiger-Interview-2_FEATURE-2560x1073.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...articles//Lovers-on-the-Bridge_Carax.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...les/Dolly-Parton_FEATURE-1-2560x1685.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ere-to-Lay-My-Eyes_NYFF64_02_for-WEB.jpgNo alt attribute provided
.../uploads/articles//TheRemotes_Torres.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...uploads/articles//La-Gravida_FEATURE.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...rt/thumbnail-festival-report-640x473.jpgNo alt attribute provided
.../thumbnail-sex-in-the-cinema-640x473.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/themes/fc/assets/flc-logo.pngFilm at Lincoln Center Logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Film Comment
The H1 heading is too short (12 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Film Comment
H2 Menu
H3 Letter from the Editors
H3 Cover Story
H3 Features
H3 Interviews
H3 Reviews
H3 Essays
H3 Print Out
H3 Interviews Duplicate text
H3 Podcasts
H3 Past Events
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.
9 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.filmcomment.com/Film Comment
/archive/Fall 2026 Archive
/article/interview-lee-chang-d...No Text
/article/interview-lee-chang-d...Lee Chang-dong on Possible Love
/archive/?contributor=devika-g...Devika Girish
/article/interview-lee-chang-d...Read more about Lee Chang-dong on Possible Love
/article/critics-grid-fall-2026/No Text
/article/critics-grid-fall-2026/Critics’ Grid
/article/critics-grid-fall-2026/Read more about Critics’ Grid
/article/welcome-to-the-fall-2...Welcome to the Fall 2026 issue
/archive/?contributor=clinton-...Clinton Krute
/archive/?contributor=devika-g...Text duplicate Devika Girish
/archive/?contributor=michael-...Michael Blair
/article/a-way-with-words-all-...No Text
/article/a-way-with-words-all-...A Way with Words: All of a Sudden
/archive/?contributor=melissa-...Melissa Anderson
/article/a-way-with-words-all-...Text duplicate A Way with Words: All of a Sudden
/article/family-business-paper...No Text
/article/family-business-paper...Family Business: Paper Tiger
/archive/?contributor=imogen-s...Imogen Sara Smith
/article/family-business-paper...Text duplicate Family Business: Paper Tiger
/article/revisions-caraxmaxxing/No Text
/article/revisions-caraxmaxxing/Revisions: Caraxmaxxing
/archive/?contributor=nathan-leeNathan Lee
/article/revisions-caraxmaxxing/Text duplicate Revisions: Caraxmaxxing
/article/travelin-thru-dolly-p...No Text
/article/travelin-thru-dolly-p...Travelin’ Thru: Dolly Parton
/archive/?contributor=sophie-a...Sophie Abramowitz
/article/travelin-thru-dolly-p...Text duplicate Travelin’ Thru: Dolly Parton
/article/interview-ryusuke-ham...Ryûsuke Hamaguchi on All of a Sudden
/archive/?contributor=inney-pr...Inney Prakash
/article/interview-james-gray-...James Gray on Paper Tiger
/archive/?contributor=robert-d...Robert Daniels
/article/short-takes-the-socia...Short Takes: The Social Reckoning
/archive/?contributor=katie-kadueKatie Kadue
/article/short-takes-digger-re...Short Takes: Digger
/archive/?contributor=steven-m...Steven Mears
/article/short-takes-the-histo...Short Takes: The History of Concrete
/archive/?contributor=mark-aschMark Asch
/article/critics-grid-fall-2026/Text duplicate Critics’ Grid
/article/small-talk-hong-sangs...No Text
/article/small-talk-hong-sangs...Small Talk
/archive/?contributor=molly-ha...Molly Haskell
/article/small-talk-hong-sangs...Text duplicate Small Talk
/article/theres-an-app-for-tha...No Text
/article/theres-an-app-for-tha...There’s an App for That
/archive/?contributor=adam-naymanAdam Nayman
/article/theres-an-app-for-tha...Text duplicate There’s an App for That
/article/on-the-threshold-la-g...No Text
/article/on-the-threshold-la-g...On the Threshold
/archive/?contributor=beatrice...Beatrice Loayza
/article/on-the-threshold-la-g...Text duplicate On the Threshold
/article/print-out-a-portrait-...Print Out: A portrait, in our own way
/archive/?contributor=jean-jac...Jean-Jacques Schuhl
/archive/?contributor=albert-s...Albert Serra
/article/interview-alain-gomis...Alain Gomis on Dao
/archive/?contributor=beatrice...Text duplicate Beatrice Loayza
/article/interview-nicolas-per...Nicolás Pereda on Everything Else Is Noise
/archive/?contributor=david-sc...David Schwartz
/article/interview-mariano-lli...Mariano Llinás on Life of Jorge Luis Borges
/archive/?contributor=jordan-c...Jordan Cronk
/the-film-comment-podcast-nyff...NYFF64 Festival Report
/the-film-comment-podcast-nyff...The Film Comment Podcast: NYFF64 Festival Report
/the-film-comment-podcast-sex-...Sex in the Cinema at NYFF64
/the-film-comment-podcast-sex-...The Film Comment Podcast: Sex in the Cinema at NYFF64
/the-film-comment-podcast-crit...Critics Academy x NYFF Shorts #2
/the-film-comment-podcast-crit...The Film Comment Podcast: Critics Academy x NYFF Shorts #2
/the-film-comment-podcast-crit...Critics Academy x NYFF Shorts #1
/the-film-comment-podcast-crit...The Film Comment Podcast: Critics Academy x NYFF Shorts #1
https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2...External Subdomain Film Comment Live: Festival Report
https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2...External Subdomain Learn more
https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2...External Subdomain Film Comment Live: Sex in the Cinema
https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2...External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more
https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2...External Subdomain No Text
/subscribe/Subscribe
/register/account/?redirect_to...Log In
/upcoming-events/Events
/contact/Contact
/about/About
/advertise-with-film-comment/Advertise
/support/Support Film Comment
https://www.instagram.com/film...New window External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.facebook.com/filmc...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://letterboxd.com/filmcom...New window External letterboxd
https://x.com/filmcommentNew window External X
https://www.filmlinc.org/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Film at Lincoln Center Logo
/privacy-policy/Privacy Policy
/terms-of-service/Terms of Service
https://www.filmcomment.com/Current Issue
/podcast/Podcast
/archive/Archive
/subscribe/Text duplicate Subscribe
/register/account/?redirect_to...Text duplicate Log In
/about/Text duplicate About
/advertise-with-film-comment/Text duplicate Advertise
/support/Text duplicate Support Film Comment

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.filmcomment.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 0.25 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (147 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 268 referring domains.
This page has 2,585 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 211 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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User-agent: meta-externalagent
Crawl-delay: 10
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Crawl-delay: 10

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Crawl-delay: 10

User-agent: MJ12bot
Crawl-delay: 10

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Film Comment
Founded in 1962, Film Comment is an independent nonprofit magazine publishing in-depth interviews and critical analysis of cinema from around the world.

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new Film66%Check
Interviews59%Check
cinema52%Check
magazine51%Check
menu43%Check
Letter43%Check
Editors43%Check
Features43%Check
Cover43%Check
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