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Meta information
90% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
91% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.03 s
File size
7.10 kB
Words
177
Media files
2
Number of links
20 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Markdown Guide
The page title is too short. (151 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
A free and open-source reference guide that explains how to use Markdown.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (468 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.markdownguide.org/
There is a valid canonical link 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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
descriptionA free and open-source reference guide that explains how to use Markdown.
HandheldFriendlyTrue
MobileOptimized320
langen
twitter:cardsummary
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://www.markdownguide.org/
og:titleMarkdown Guide
og:descriptionA free and open-source reference guide that explains how to use Markdown.
og:imagehttps://www.markdownguide.org/assets/images/markdown-guide-og.jpg
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 177 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
37.3% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
4 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 18.6 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)
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
/assets/images/markdown-mark-white.svgMarkdown Guide
/assets/images/markdown-mark-white.svgMarkdown logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Everything you need to learn Markdown.
H2 Stay in the loop.
H4 Learn the ropes.
H4 Dive into the syntax.
H4 Take it up a notch.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
3 links don't have an anchor text.
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 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.markdownguide.org/Markdown Guide
IMG-ALT Markdown Guide
/getting-started/Get Started
/cheat-sheet/Cheat Sheet
/basic-syntax/Basic Syntax
/extended-syntax/Extended Syntax
/hacks/Hacks
/tools/Tools
/book/Book
/getting-started/Text duplicate Get Started
/getting-started/No Text
/getting-started/Getting Started
/basic-syntax/No Text
/basic-syntax/basic syntax page
/extended-syntax/No Text
/extended-syntax/extended syntax
https://pika.forklabs.com/subs...External Subdomain Stay Updated
/about/About
/contact/Contact
https://github.com/mattcone/ma...External GitHub
/api/v1/API
/privacy-policy/Privacy Policy
/terms-and-conditions/Terms and Conditions
https://www.mattcone.com/External Subdomain Matt Cone
https://creativecommons.org/li...External CC BY-SA 4.0
https://www.newmexico.org/External Subdomain New Mexico

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.markdownguide.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
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 0.03 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (7 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
content-typetext/html
last-modifiedSat, 01 Feb 2025 17:26:39 GMT
etag"679e594f-1c81"
x-frame-optionsDENY
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
permissions-policyinterest-cohort=()
content-encodingbr
via1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
cache-controlno-store, max-age=0
accept-rangesbytes
age3287783
dateFri, 16 May 2025 05:10:12 GMT
x-served-bycache-iad-kiad7000169-IAD, cache-fra-etou8220035-FRA
x-cacheHIT, HIT
x-cache-hits310, 0
x-timerS1747372213.959523,VS0,VE1
varyAccept-Encoding
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31557600
alt-svch3=":443";ma=86400,h3-29=":443";ma=86400,h3-27=":443";ma=86400
content-length2192
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 3,519 referring domains.
This page has 95,898 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,231 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Sitemap: https://www.markdownguide.org/sitemap.xml
Disallow: /assets/markdown-cheat-sheet.md
Disallow: /assets/markdown-guide-sample.pdf

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Markdown Guide
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