Help.nytimes.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
98% 
Page quality
34% 
Page structure
45% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
31% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.25 s
File size
62.10 kB
Words
168
Media files
14
Number of links
27 internal / 15 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The New York Times Help Center Knowledge Base
The length of the page title is perfect. (454 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The New York Times Help Center Support Center helps you to find FAQ, how-to guides and step-by-step tutorials.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (698 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
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: 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)
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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account-subdirectory-prefixEmpty
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 168 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.
The average number of words per sentence of 6.67 words is low.
31.5% 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.
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)
14 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
How can we help you?
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 How can we help you?
H1 Empty heading
H2 Here's how you can...
H2 Browse by Help topics
H2 Don't see what you need?
H3 Account Management
H3 Digital Access
H3 Products and Subscriptions
H3 Newsroom and Editorial
H3 Permissions and Policies
H3 Contact The New York Times
H6 COMMON TOPICS
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 15 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://nytimes.com/External No Text
https://help.nytimes.com/HELP CENTER
https://www.nytimes.com/accountExternal Subdomain Your Account |
https://www.nytimes.com/External Subdomain NYTimes.com
/hc/en-us/articles/115014792127Subdomain © 2025 The New York Times Company
/hc/en-us/articles/115015385887Subdomain Contact Us
https://www.nytco.com/careersExternal Subdomain Work with us
https://advertising.nytimes.com/External Subdomain Advertise
https://www.nytimes.com/privac...External Subdomain Your Ad Choices
https://www.nytimes.com/privac...External Subdomain Privacy
/hc/en-us/articles/115014893428Subdomain Terms of Service
/hc/en-us/articles/115014893968Subdomain Terms of Sale
https://www.nytimes.com/sitemapExternal Subdomain Sitemap
https://www.nytimes.com/subscr...External Subdomain Subscriptions
/115003007668-Manage-Account/1...Log in to Your New York Times Account
/115003007668-Manage-Account/3...Reset Your Password
/115003007668-Manage-Account/4...Change Your Delivery Address
/115003007668-Manage-Account/3...Cancel Your Subscription
/115003007668-Manage-Account/3...Report a Newspaper Delivery Issue
/4413127329812-Manage-Your-Bil...Update Your Payment Information
/115001711108-Account-ManagementAccount Management
/115002055847-Digital-AccessDigital Access
/115001549367-Products-and-Sub...Products and Subscriptions
/115002052408--Newsroom-and-Ed...Newsroom and Editorial
/permissions-and-policiesPermissions and Policies
/115002052428-Contact-The-New-...Contact The New York Times
/hc/en-us/articles/115010905707Subdomain Help logging in
/hc/en-us/articles/4408046933012Subdomain Update payment info
/hc/en-us/articles/4404994790804Subdomain Change delivery address
/hc/en-us/articles/360001418606Subdomain Report delivery problem
/hc/en-us/articles/4413146685076Subdomain Explain my bill
/hc/en-us/articles/36000349961...Subdomain Cancel Subscription
/hc/en-us/articles/115014792127Subdomain Text duplicate © 2025 The New York Times Company
/hc/en-us/articles/115015385887Subdomain Text duplicate Contact Us
https://www.nytco.com/careersExternal Subdomain Text duplicate Work with us
https://advertising.nytimes.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Advertise
https://www.nytimes.com/privac...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://www.nytimes.com/privac...External Subdomain Cookie Policy
/hc/en-us/articles/115014893428Subdomain Text duplicate Terms of Service
/hc/en-us/articles/115014893968Subdomain Text duplicate Terms of Sale
https://www.nytimes.com/sitemapExternal Subdomain Text duplicate Sitemap
https://www.nytimes.com/subscr...External Subdomain Text duplicate Subscriptions

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://help.nytimes.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 is slow (1.25 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (62 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateTue, 26 May 2026 22:58:02 GMT
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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 305 referring domains.
This page has 3,988 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 176 different ip addresses.

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