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Meta information
80% 
Page quality
45% 
Page structure
4% 
Link structure
23% 
Server
93% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.54 s
File size
116.50 kB
Words
929
Media files
166
Number of links
106 internal / 26 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Gramophone – classical music magazine, podcast and reviews | Gramophone
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 697 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The best classical music reviews, news, playlists, features and blogs from Gramophone, the world's leading classical music magazine.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (826 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Ireland
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
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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.
Charset encoding
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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)
The average number of words per sentence of 72.4 words is high.
This page contains 929 words. That's ok.
28.2% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
14 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)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=5" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 19 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
16 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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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Features
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (8 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 49 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

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H1 Features
H1 The Gramophone Podcast
H1 News
H1 Reviews Database
H1 Follow us
H1 Blogs
H1 Editor's Choice
H1 Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
H1 Special Editions
H2 The five new classical albums to hear this week – featuring the Miró Quartet & Guy Johnston
H2 Schoenfeld International String Competition Finalists Announced
H2 Icon: Sir Roger Norrington
H2 Introducing the August 2025 issue of Gramophone, celebrating electrical recording at 100
H2 Editor's Choice: August 2025 | The best new classical recordings
H2 Gramophone Classical Music Awards 1995
H2 Notes from the Spa: A Few Days at Kissinger Sommer
H2 Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year 2025 Nominee
H2 Orchestre Classique de Montréal: an introduction
H2 Cellist Guy Johnston on the Bliss Cello Concerto | Gramophone Classical Music Podcast
H2 2025 BBC Proms: Our Top Picks | Gramophone Classical Music Podcast
H2 Julian Bream: an archive interview from 2013 with the great guitarist
H2 Music and conversation: 500 episodes of the Gramophone Podcast
H2 The five new classical albums to hear this week – featuring the Miró Quartet & Guy Johnston Duplicate text
H2 Meng Zou, Jeri Lee and Trio Archai win top prizes at 2025 Schoenfeld International String Competition
H2 Schoenfeld International String Competition Finalists Announced Duplicate text
H2 The five new classical albums to hear this week – featuring Yuja Wang, Laura Lootens & Chloe Chua
H2 Sir András Schiff wins Praemium Imperiale prize
H2 Subscribe to Gramophone
H2 Puccini, Leoncavallo and Italian Opera’s Noxious Hothouse
H2 The Nagata Effect: how one man gambled his fortune on whisky and launched a cultural revolution
H2 Classical Pride at the Barbican: Choosing joy over fear
H2 Editorial: introducing the July issue
H2 Editor's Choice: August 2025 | The best new classical recordings Duplicate text
H2 The Best Classical Albums of 2025 (So Far)
H2 Three box-sets to treasure: Würtz, Frühbeck de Burgos and Coates in the spotlight
H2 Review - two new box-sets paying tribute to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
H2 Review - Walter Weller: The Decca Legacy
H2 Review - Giulini Remastered: Complete Studio Recordings on Columbia, HMV, Pathé & Electrola
H2 Gramophone Presents ... My Classical Music
H2 Gramophone Presents ... Film Music
H2 Gramophone Presents ... Mahler
H2 Gramophone Presents ... Mozart
H4 Gramophone Print
H4 From £6.67 / month
H4 Gramophone Digital Club
H4 From £8.75 / month
H4 Gramophone Full Club
H4 From £11.00 / month
H6 The Gramophone Newsletter
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.
34 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (26) on this page.

Found links on this page

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http://www.markallengroup.com/External Subdomain About Mark Allen Group
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HTTP redirects
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This page redirects to "https://www.gramophone.co.uk/"
HTTP header
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No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
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The page response time of 0.54 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 (117 kB).

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This page has backlinks from 285 referring domains.
This page has 161,319 backlinks.
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