Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
67% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
0% 
Server
44% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.42 s
File size
3.00 kB
Words
32
Media files
0
Number of links
0 internal / 0 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Client Challenge
The page title is too short. (148 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
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: Canada
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
langen
Content-Security-Policydefault-src 'self'; img-src 'self' data:; media-src 'self' data:; object-src 'none'; style-src 'self' 'sha256-o4vzfmmUENEg4chMjjRP9EuW9ucGnGIGVdbl8d0SHQQ='; script-src 'self' 'sha256-KXex2o39zxtnzVWK4H5rW07g2+BlwSPtn+aguzsWkNg=';

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 32 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
28.1% of the text are stop words.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 12 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

No media files were found.

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.
This page seems to be an entry page, because only very few links were found.
There are no external links on this page.
No internal links were found.

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.ft.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.42 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 (3 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
set-cookie281 Characters
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
cache-controlprivate, no-store
accept-rangesbytes
dateWed, 16 Jul 2025 06:24:08 GMT
age0
varyFT-Site, FT-Regional-News, Accept-Encoding, FT-Site, FT-Regional-News
strict-transport-securitymax-age=63072000; includeSubDomains; preload
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
content-security-policyupgrade-insecure-requests; frame-ancestors https://*.ft.com https://*.chromatic.com ; report-uri https://csp-report.ft.com/33C06499-DBAB-4FCB-880F-75B0467895F5
content-security-policy-report-onlydefault-src https://*.ft.com https: ; font-src https://*.ft.com https: data: ; img-src https://*.ft.com https: data: ; media-src https://*.ft.com https: data: ; script-src 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' https://*.ft.com https: ; style-src 'unsafe-inline' https://*.ft.com https: ; worker-src blob: ; connect-src https: wss://ft.coral.coralproject.net ; frame-ancestors https://*.ft.com https://*.chromatic.com ; report-uri https://csp-report.ft.com/33C06499-DBAB-4FCB-880F-75B0467895F5
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 14,133 referring domains.
This page has 2,808,742 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 9,831 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

# All use of FT content is subject to the Terms & Conditions and
# Copyright Policy set out on FT.com

# We expressly prohibit any use of our content or data for any
# machine learning or artificial intelligence purposes, including
# the training or development of AI technologies or machine learning
# language models.
#
# For any licensing queries please contact content.licensing@ft.com

Sitemap: https://www.ft.com/sitemaps/index.xml

User-agent: *
Disallow: /__
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /advanced-search
Disallow: /offline/
Disallow: /myft/
Disallow: /cancel/
Disallow: /preferences/cookies
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /page-resources
Disallow: /_fs-ch
Allow: /__origami/
Allow: /__assets/
Crawl-Delay: 1

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: NewsNow
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Disallow: /

Search preview

www.ft.com
Client Challenge

Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

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