Michaelcrichton.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
97% 
Page quality
65% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
61% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.14 s
File size
235.90 kB
Words
410
Media files
41
Number of links
41 internal / 43 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Michael Crichton - The Official Site of Michael Crichton
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (487 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
The award-winning Michael Crichton wrote and produced revolutionary books, shows, and films that continue to speak to all generations.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (839 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.michaelcrichton.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: Canada
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
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

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og:site_nameMichael Crichton
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charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 410 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 25.5 words is high.
38.3% 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.
6 paragraphs were found on this page.
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 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
28 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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Video URLWidthHeight
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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 In THe News
H2 EXPLORING THE WORLD OF MICHAEL CRICHTON
H3 Michael Crichton & James Patterson Bestseller ‘Eruption’ Being Adapted By Kaz & Ryan Firpo For Sony
H3 TIME: The Decades-Long Journey to Publishing Michael Crichton and James Patterson’s Eruption
H3 CBS News: How James Patterson completed Michael Crichton’s “Eruption”
H3 Subscribe to our mailing list
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 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 too many external links (43) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.michaelcrichton.com/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.michaelcrichton.com/IMG-ALT Michael Crichton
https://www.michaelcrichton.com/Anchor No Text
/work/books/Explore
/works/eruption/No Text
https://bit.ly/46LYZ4BNew window External IMG-ALT Amazon
https://bit.ly/3Q8KoueNew window External IMG-ALT Barnes & Noble
https://bit.ly/3SvzaBKNew window External IMG-ALT Indie Bound
https://bit.ly/3QSnjN3New window External IMG-ALT Apple Books
https://michaelcrichto.wpengin...External Subdomain Biography
https://deadline.com/2025/07/m...External Anchor No Text
https://deadline.com/2025/07/m...External Anchor Michael Crichton & James Patterson Bestseller ‘Eruption’ Being Adapted By Kaz & Ryan Firpo For Sony
https://deadline.com/2025/07/m...External Anchor Read More »
https://time.com/6981428/erupt...External Anchor No Text
https://time.com/6981428/erupt...External Anchor TIME: The Decades-Long Journey to Publishing Michael Crichton and James Patterson’s Eruption
https://time.com/6981428/erupt...External Anchor Text duplicate Read More »
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/h...External Subdomain Anchor No Text
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/h...External Subdomain Anchor CBS News: How James Patterson completed Michael Crichton’s “Eruption”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/h...External Subdomain Anchor Text duplicate Read More »
/works/eruption/More "Eruption" Press & News
https://michaelcrichto.wpengin...External Subdomain IMG-ALT The Andromeda Strain 1969
https://michaelcrichto.wpengin...External Subdomain No Text
https://michaelcrichto.wpengin...External Subdomain No Text
https://michaelcrichto.wpengin...External Subdomain No Text
https://michaelcrichto.wpengin...External Subdomain No Text
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https://michaelcrichto.wpengin...External Subdomain No Text
https://michaelcrichto.wpengin...External Subdomain No Text
https://michaelcrichto.wpengin...External Subdomain IMG-ALT The Lost World
https://michaelcrichto.wpengin...External Subdomain No Text
https://michaelcrichto.wpengin...External Subdomain No Text
https://michaelcrichto.wpengin...External Subdomain No Text
https://michaelcrichto.wpengin...External Subdomain No Text
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https://michaelcrichto.wpengin...External Subdomain No Text
https://michaelcrichto.wpengin...External Subdomain No Text
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https://www.instagram.com/mich...New window External Subdomain Follow us on Instagram
https://www.michaelcrichton.com/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Michael Crichton
/faq/FAQ
/for-younger-readers/For Younger Readers
/business-inquiries/Business Inquiries
/faq/Text duplicate FAQ
/for-younger-readers/Text duplicate For Younger Readers
/business-inquiries/Text duplicate Business Inquiries
https://www.facebook.com/offic...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/mich...New window External Subdomain Instagram
https://twitter.com/CrichtonBooksNew window External Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain Youtube
https://michaelcrichto.wpengin...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://michaelcrichto.wpengin...External Subdomain Terms of Use
https://www.michaelcrichton.com/Home
/works/Works
/works/View All
/work/writer/books/Books
/work/filmmaker/Film/TV
/work/writer/written-under-a-p...Pseudonyms
/biography/Text duplicate Biography
/awards/Awards
/biography/visionary/Visionary
/biography/doctor/Doctor
/biography/programmer/Programmer
/biography/teacher/Teacher
/biography/adventurer/Adventurer
/news/In the News
https://www.michaelcrichton.com/Text duplicate Home
/works/Text duplicate Works
/works/Text duplicate View All
/work/writer/books/Text duplicate Books
/work/filmmaker/Text duplicate Film/TV
/work/writer/written-under-a-p...Text duplicate Pseudonyms
/biography/Text duplicate Biography
/awards/Text duplicate Awards
/biography/visionary/Text duplicate Visionary
/biography/doctor/Text duplicate Doctor
/biography/programmer/Text duplicate Programmer
/biography/teacher/Text duplicate Teacher
/biography/adventurer/Text duplicate Adventurer
/news/Text duplicate In the News

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.michaelcrichton.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.14 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 (236 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateSun, 10 Aug 2025 14:39:06 GMT
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content-encodingbr
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link<https://www.michaelcrichton.com/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
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x-cacheableSHORT
cache-controlmax-age=600, must-revalidate
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x-cache-groupnormal
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
set-cookie289 Characters
servercloudflare
cf-ray96d03d9fff140220-CDG
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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 538 referring domains.
This page has 2,369 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 400 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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Michael Crichton - The Official Site of Michael Crichton
The award-winning Michael Crichton wrote and produced revolutionary books, shows, and films that continue to speak to all generations.

Most important keywords

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Crichton79%Check
Michael Crichton76%Check
Michael Crichton James Patterson60%Check
books50%Check
Official46%Check
Site46%Check
generations46%Check
Official Site46%Check
film46%Check
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