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Meta information
100% 
Page quality
86% 
Page structure
34% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
20% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.05 s
File size
1,059.30 kB
Words
1299
Media files
13
Number of links
147 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Pitchfork | The Most Trusted Voice in Music. | Pitchfork
The length of the page title is perfect. (486 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Most Trusted Voice in Music.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (205 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://pitchfork.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Language defined in HTTP-Equiv meta tag: en-us
Server location: Germany
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
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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
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The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 1299 words. That's ok.
30.6% 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.
21 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.
The average number of words per sentence of 22.21 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
The file size of the HTML document is very large (1059.3 kB).
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 26 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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)
Pitchfork
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (9 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
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

Heading levelContent
H1 Pitchfork
H2 The Latest
H2 Reviews
H2 More Reviews
H2 More From Pitchfork
H2 Features
H2 Sunday Reviews
H3 Turnstile Blew Up. Now What?
H3 An Interview With 1100 Himself, the Oakland Rapper With Stories for Days
H3 Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Releases Statement on Israel and Gaza
H3 Lorde Looks Within on the Piercing “Man of the Year”
H3 Taylor Swift Regains Control of Master Recordings
H3 King of the Hill Revival to Premiere on Hulu This Summer
H3 Ariana Grande Joins the Cast of New Meet the Parents Movie
H3 Addison Rae Shares Video for New Song “Fame Is a Gun”
H3 Sigur Rós Add North American Dates to Orchestral Tour
H3 Fit for Consequences: Original Recordings, 1984-1987
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H3 I Got Too Sad for My Friends
H3 I look at her and light goes all through me
H3 Sounds Like...
H3 Possession
H3 Big city life
H3 I’m the Problem
H3 MAYHEM
H3 Instant Holograms on Metal Film
H3 Even in Arcadia
H3 Crooked Wing
H3 Los Thuthanaka
H3 Clipse Pick Up Right Where They Left Off on “Ace Trumpets”
H3 New Music Releases and Upcoming Albums in 2025
H3 Alex G Finds a Strong Signal on “Afterlife”
H3 Listen to Haim’s New Song “Take Me Back”
H3 Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning Review: Boom and Doom
H3 Kneecap Live Review: Beer, Baggies, and a Little Revolution
H3 Smerz Announce New Tour Dates, Share New “Dreams” Video
H3 Into the Horrid Depths of Instagram Reels Music
H3 The 37 Most Anticipated Albums of Summer 2025
H3 A Rare Interview With Bladee, the Mystic Oracle of Internet Rap
H3 5 Highlights From Pitchfork Music Festival CDMX 2025
H3 The 39 Best Albums of 2025 So Far
H3 The Nashville Sessions
H3 Kate & Anna McGarrigle
H3 Universal Consciousness
H3 Melting Moment
H3 Hysteria
H3 Rain Dogs
H3 Underground Vol. 1: 1991-1994
H3 New York Dolls
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
27 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 12 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://pitchfork.com/best/Best New Music
https://pitchfork.com/features/Features
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https://pitchfork.com/tv/Video
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/reviews/albums/chuquimamani-c...Los Thuthanaka
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/news/new-album-releases/No Text
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/news/new-album-releases/New Music Releases and Upcoming Albums in 2025
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/thepitch/mission-impossible-f...No Text
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/Text duplicate Columns
/thepitch/mission-impossible-f...Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning Review: Boom and Doom
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/thepitch/into-the-horrid-dept...No Text
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/Text duplicate Columns
/thepitch/into-the-horrid-dept...Into the Horrid Depths of Instagram Reels Music
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/features/lists-and-guides/Lists & Guides
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/reviews/albums/townes-van-zan...Text duplicate The Nashville Sessions
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/reviews/albums/alice-coltrane...IMG-ALT Universal Consciousness
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https://twitter.com/pitchforkNew window External No Text
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Performance
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The file size of the HTML document is very large (1,059 kB).
The page response time is excellent with 0.05 seconds.

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This page has 116,091 backlinks.
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