Payless.com - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
77% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
82% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.18 s
File size
99.30 kB
Words
127
Media files
3
Number of links
29 internal / 32 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Payless ShoeSource
The page title is too short. (186 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
PAYLESS IS STILL HERE! You can still get your favorite Payless styles on Amazon in the United States. More shoes are arriving every week from Champion®, SafeTStep, SmartFit®, Spotlights, and more!
The meta description is too long: 1266 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.payless.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
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)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportinitial-scale=1
descriptionPAYLESS IS STILL HERE! You can still get your favorite Payless styles on Amazon in the United States. More shoes are arriving every week from Champion®, SafeTStep, SmartFit®, Spotlights, and more!
langen-us
twitter:titlePayless ShoeSource
twitter:imagehttp://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cab8f9ea09a7e53a9347eed/t/64d26443f3c5da0c87122d95/1723823455540/Payless-500x100.png?format=1500w
twitter:urlhttps://www.payless.com
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:descriptionPAYLESS IS STILL HERE! You can still get your favorite Payless styles on Amazon in the United States. More shoes are arriving every week from Champion®, SafeTStep, SmartFit®, Spotlights, and more!
og:site_namePayless ShoeSource
og:titlePayless ShoeSource
og:urlhttps://www.payless.com
og:typewebsite
og:descriptionPAYLESS IS STILL HERE! You can still get your favorite Payless styles on Amazon in the United States. More shoes are arriving every week from Champion®, SafeTStep, SmartFit®, Spotlights, and more!
og:imagehttp://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cab8f9ea09a7e53a9347eed/t/64d26443f3c5da0c87122d95/1723823455540/Payless-500x100.png?format=1500w
og:image:width500
og:image:height100
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
Accept-CHSec-CH-UA-Platform-Version, Sec-CH-UA-Model
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 127 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
The average number of words per sentence of 6 words is low.
18.9% of the text are stop words.
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 "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

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Have you missed us? We’ve missed you!
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Have you missed us? We’ve missed you!
H2 New look, same Payless. Find your favorites on Amazon.
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 (32) on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.payless.com/IMG-ALT Payless ShoeSource
https://www.payless.com/cartCart 0
https://www.payless.com/searchNo Text
https://www.payless.com/Home
/women-shoesWomen
/girls-shoesGirls
/boys-shoesBoys
/mens-shoesMen
https://paylesschat.com/barbad...External Barbados
https://www.paylesscolombia.co/External Subdomain Colombia
https://www.payless.cr/es/External Subdomain Costa Rica
https://paylesschat.com/republ...External Domincan Republic
https://paylesschat.com/caribb...External Eastern Caribbean
https://ecuador.payless.com/External Subdomain Ecuador
https://elsalvador.payless.com/External Subdomain El Salvador
https://guatemala.payless.com/External Subdomain Guatemala
https://paylesschat.com/guyana...External Guyana
https://honduras.payless.com/External Subdomain Honduras
https://paylesschat.com/jamaic...External Jamaica
https://paylesschat.com/nicara...External Nicaragua
https://paylesschat.com/panama...External Panama
https://peru.payless.com/External Subdomain Peru
https://www.payless.ph/External Subdomain Philippines
https://paylesschat.com/trinid...External Trinidad and Tobago
https://www.payless.com/Subdomain USA
https://www.payless.com/cartText duplicate Cart 0
https://www.payless.com/Text duplicate Home
/women-shoesText duplicate Women
/girls-shoesText duplicate Girls
/boys-shoesText duplicate Boys
/mens-shoesText duplicate Men
/find-us-onlineFind Us Online
https://paylesschat.com/barbad...External Text duplicate Barbados
https://www.paylesscolombia.co/External Subdomain Text duplicate Colombia
https://www.payless.cr/es/External Subdomain Text duplicate Costa Rica
https://paylesschat.com/republ...External Text duplicate Domincan Republic
https://paylesschat.com/caribb...External Text duplicate Eastern Caribbean
https://ecuador.payless.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Ecuador
https://elsalvador.payless.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate El Salvador
https://guatemala.payless.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Guatemala
https://paylesschat.com/guyana...External Text duplicate Guyana
https://honduras.payless.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Honduras
https://paylesschat.com/jamaic...External Text duplicate Jamaica
https://paylesschat.com/nicara...External Text duplicate Nicaragua
https://paylesschat.com/panama...External Text duplicate Panama
https://peru.payless.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Peru
https://www.payless.ph/External Subdomain Text duplicate Philippines
https://paylesschat.com/trinid...External Text duplicate Trinidad and Tobago
https://www.payless.com/Subdomain Text duplicate USA
https://www.payless.com/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Payless ShoeSource
/women-shoesShop Womens
/girls-shoesShop Girls
/boys-shoesShop Boys
/mens-shoesShop Mens
https://www.payless.com/Anchor Feature
https://www.payless.com/Anchor Philosophy
https://www.payless.com/aboutAbout
/terms-of-serviceTerms of Service
https://www.payless.com/privacyPrivacy Policy
https://www.payless.com/contactContact
/onlinestoresOnline Stores

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.payless.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
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 0.18 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (99 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
accept-rangesbytes
age15771
content-encodinggzip
content-typetext/html;charset=utf-8
dateFri, 08 Aug 2025 18:34:50 GMT
etagW/"0d033feee9d5096157efba0c88103265--gzip"
expiresThu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
serverSquarespace
set-cookie72 Characters
strict-transport-securitymax-age=15552000
varyAccept-Encoding
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-contextide8KlHLAL/GidGeh0Y
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
content-length22976
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 556 referring domains.
This page has 9,015 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 448 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

# Squarespace Robots Txt

User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Quora-Bot
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile
User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps
User-agent: *
Disallow: /config
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /account$
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /commerce/digital-download/
Disallow: /api/
Allow: /api/ui-extensions/
Disallow: /static/
Disallow:/*?author=*
Disallow:/*&author=*
Disallow:/*?tag=*
Disallow:/*&tag=*
Disallow:/*?month=*
Disallow:/*&month=*
Disallow:/*?view=*
Disallow:/*&view=*
Disallow:/*?format=json
Disallow:/*&format=json
Disallow:/*?format=page-context
Disallow:/*&format=page-context
Disallow:/*?format=main-content
Disallow:/*&format=main-content
Disallow:/*?format=json-pretty
Disallow:/*&format=json-pretty
Disallow:/*?format=ical
Disallow:/*&format=ical
Disallow:/*?reversePaginate=*
Disallow:/*&reversePaginate=*

Sitemap: https://www.payless.com/sitemap.xml

Search preview

www.payless.com
Payless ShoeSource
PAYLESS IS STILL HERE! You can still get your favorite Payless styles on Amazon in the United States. More shoes are arriving every week from Champion®, SafeTStep, SmartFit®, Spotlights, and more!

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Payless77%Check
Payless ShoeSource62%Check
Amazon50%Check
missed50%Check
ShoeSource48%Check
Find38%Check
New38%Check
look38%Check
favorites38%Check
Trinidad and Tobago38%Check

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