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Overview of the SEO Check

Meta information

98%

Page quality

39%

Page structure

58%

Link structure

82%

Server

100%

External factors

100%

SEO Score

SEO Score Widget

Response time

0.04 s

File size

67.40 kB

Words

188

Media files

Number of links

38 internal / 2 external

Task list of SEO Improvements 5 Tasks

Add a H1 heading to this page.Very important!
The page title should be better suited to the content of the page.Important!
Use good alternative descriptions (alt attributes) for your images.Important!
Remove duplicate heading texts.Important!
Review and improve the heading structure.Tip!

Meta specifications 98% achieved

Title

(Critically important)

Free Daily Puzzles, Games & Horoscopes | USA TODAY PLAY

The length of the page title is perfect. (561 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)

There are no duplicate words in the title

Meta Title

Meta description

(Critically important)

Play free daily puzzles, crosswords, sudoku, solitaire, and word games, plus horoscopes and classic comics—all instantly online at USA TODAY.

The length of the meta description is perfect. (888 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)

Meta Description

Crawlability

(Critically important)

There are no problems in accessing the website.

Search Engine Crawlers

Canonical URL

(Important)

https://play.usatoday.com/

There is a valid canonical link specified.

Canonical Tag

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

Declaring language in HTML

Alternate/Hreflang Links

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There are no alternate links specified on this page.

Hreflang

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.

Meta Tags

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.

Domain for SEO

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.

SEO-friendly URLs

Charset encoding

(Somewhat important)

The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.

Character Encoding

Doctype

(Nice to have)

The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.

The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.

HTML Doctype

Favicon

(Nice to have)

The favicon is linked correctly.

Favicon

Meta tags

Name	Value
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apple-mobile-web-app-capable	yes
mobile-web-app-capable	yes
robots	index,follow
description	Play free daily puzzles, crosswords, sudoku, solitaire, and word games, plus horoscopes and classic comics—all instantly online at USA TODAY.
lang	en
og:title	Free Daily Puzzles, Games & Horoscopes \| USA TODAY PLAY
og:description	Play free daily puzzles, crosswords, sudoku, solitaire, and word games, plus horoscopes and classic comics—all instantly online at USA TODAY.
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Page quality 39% achieved

Content

(Critically important)

There are only 188 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

No paragraphs were detected.

23.9% of the text are stop words.

No placeholders texts or images were found.

Content is King

Frames

(Critically important)

This page does not use a frameset.

Frames and framesets

Mobile optimization

(Somewhat important)

A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.

At least one Apple touch icon is specified.

Mobile Optimization

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.

Strong and Bold Tags

Image SEO

(Somewhat important)

30 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.

Image SEO

There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.

Social Sharing

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.

HTTPS

Media list

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...static-prod/assets/cards/pyw-quizzes.png	No alt attribute provided
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...static-prod/assets/horoscopes/gemini.png	No alt attribute provided
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...-static-prod/assets/horoscopes/libra.png	No alt attribute provided
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...-static-prod/assets/cards/pyw-comics.png	No alt attribute provided
...static-prod/assets/cards/pyw-quizzes.png	No alt attribute provided

Page structure 58% achieved

H1 heading

(Critically important)

There is no H1 heading specified.

H1-H6 headings

Headings

(Important)

Some headings occur twice on the page.

The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

There are 44 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Some headings do not have any content.

H1-H6 headings

Heading structure

Heading level	Content
H2	Play Your Way Into the Holidays
H2	Horoscopes
H2	Comics
H2	Empty heading
H2	Play Your Way Into the Holidays Duplicate text
H3	‌
H3	‌ Duplicate text
H3	‌ Duplicate text
H3	Sagittarius
H4	Zits
H5	Mutts
H5	Hagar The Horrible
H6	USA TODAY CROSSWORD
H6	‌ Duplicate text
H6	‌ Duplicate text
H6	‌ Duplicate text
H6	‌ Duplicate text
H6	‌ Duplicate text
H6	Games & Puzzles
H6	Horoscopes Duplicate text
H6	Comics Duplicate text
H6	Quizzes
H6	‌ Duplicate text
H6	‌ Duplicate text
H6	‌ Duplicate text
H6	FEATURED HOROSCOPE
H6	Aries
H6	Taurus
H6	Gemini
H6	Cancer
H6	Leo
H6	Virgo
H6	Libra
H6	Scorpio
H6	Sagittarius Duplicate text
H6	Capricorn
H6	Aquarius
H6	Pisces
H6	Crossword
H6	Quick Cross
H6	Sudoku
H6	Games & Puzzles Duplicate text
H6	Horoscopes Duplicate text
H6	Comics Duplicate text
H6	Quizzes Duplicate text

Link structure 82% achieved

Internal links

(Important)

Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.

Some anchor texts are used more than once.

The number of internal links is ok.

None of the anchor texts is too long.

Internal Linking

External links

(Nice to have)

There are 2 external links on this page.

External Links

Found links on this page

Link	Attributes	Anchor text
https://play.usatoday.com/		IMG-ALT logo
https://play.usatoday.com/	Text duplicate	IMG-ALT logo
/crossword		Puzzles
https://games.usatoday.com/	External Subdomain	Games
/horoscopes		Horoscopes
https://play.usatoday.com/comics		Comics
https://play.usatoday.com/quizzes		Quizzes
https://play.usatoday.com/		Start Playing
/crossword		Games & Puzzles Festive puzzles and seasonal challenges
/horoscopes		Horoscopes Celestial insight for the season
https://play.usatoday.com/comics		Comics Holiday laughs delivered daily
https://play.usatoday.com/quizzes		Quizzes Start 2026 with a trivia refresh
/horoscopes	Text duplicate	Horoscopes
/horoscopes		See More
/horoscopes/daily/sagittarius		FEATURED HOROSCOPE Sagittarius Nov 22 - Dec 21
/horoscopes/daily/aries		Aries Mar 21 - Apr 19
/horoscopes/daily/taurus		Taurus Apr 20 - May 20
/horoscopes/daily/gemini		Gemini May 21 - Jun 21
/horoscopes/daily/cancer		Cancer Jun 22 - Jul 22
/horoscopes/daily/leo		Leo Jul 23 - Aug 22
/horoscopes/daily/virgo		Virgo Aug 23 - Sep 22
/horoscopes/daily/libra		Libra Sep 23 - Oct 22
/horoscopes/daily/scorpio		Scorpio Oct 23 - Nov 21
/horoscopes/daily/sagittarius		Sagittarius Nov 22 - Dec 21
/horoscopes/daily/capricorn		Capricorn Dec 22 - Jan 19
/horoscopes/daily/aquarius		Aquarius Jan 20 - Feb 18
/horoscopes/daily/pisces		Pisces Feb 19 - Mar 20
https://play.usatoday.com/comics	Text duplicate	Comics
https://play.usatoday.com/comics	Text duplicate	See More
/comics/zits/ZTS01		Zits Read
/comics/mutts/MTS01		Mutts
/comics/hagar-the-horrible/HH01		Hagar The Horrible
/todays-puzzle?gametype=crossword		Crossword Word Game
/todays-puzzle?gametype=quickc...		Quick Cross Word Game
/todays-puzzle?gametype=sudoku		Sudoku Strategy Game
/crossword	Text duplicate	Games & Puzzles Festive puzzles and seasonal challenges
/horoscopes	Text duplicate	Horoscopes Celestial insight for the season
https://play.usatoday.com/comics	Text duplicate	Comics Holiday laughs delivered daily
https://play.usatoday.com/quizzes	Text duplicate	Quizzes Start 2026 with a trivia refresh
https://cm.usatoday.com/site-f...	External Subdomain	Let us know what you think A-TITLE Play Experience

Server configuration 100% achieved

HTTP redirects

(Critically important)

This page redirects to "https://play.usatoday.com/"

WWW Redirect

HTTP header

(Important)

No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.

The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.

HTTP headers

Performance

(Somewhat important)

The page response time is excellent with 0.04 seconds.

The file size of the HTML document is fine (67 kB).

Page Speed

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age	3930
date	Tue, 16 Dec 2025 07:05:39 GMT
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External factors 100% achieved

Backlinks

(Critically important)

This page is referenced by wikipedia.

This website has excellent links from other websites.

This page has backlinks from 31 referring domains.

This page has 25,204 backlinks.

This page has backlinks from 21 different ip addresses.

Backlinks

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Free Daily Puzzles, Games & Horoscopes | USA TODAY PLAY

Play free daily puzzles, crosswords, sudoku, solitaire, and word games, plus horoscopes and classic comics—all instantly online at USA TODAY.

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Keyword	Result	Recheck
TODAY PLAY	79%	Check
PLAY	78%	Check
USA TODAY PLAY	78%	Check
USA Today	75%	Check
USA	74%	Check
TODAY	74%	Check
Puzzles	68%	Check
Horoscopes	68%	Check
Games	66%	Check
Games Horoscopes	66%	Check
daily puzzles	64%	Check
crossword puzzles	61%	Check
daily	58%	Check
Word Games	58%	Check
Comics	56%	Check
Sudoku	52%	Check
Play Free	51%	Check
free daily puzzles	50%	Check
Delivered Daily	46%	Check
Quizzes	44%	Check
Sagittarius	44%	Check
Way	43%	Check
Holidays	43%	Check
Aries	40%	Check
Taurus	40%	Check

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Task list of SEO Improvements 5 Tasks

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Page structure 58% achieved

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Link structure 82% achieved

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Server configuration 100% achieved

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External factors 100% achieved

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