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Meta information
89% 
Page quality
39% 
Page structure
50% 
Link structure
63% 
Server
95% 
External factors
59% 
SEO Score
Response time
3.26 s
File size
96.60 kB
Words
235
Media files
38
Number of links
59 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Policy Magazine
The page title is too short. (146 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Canadian Politics and Public Policy: Canada, US and international opinion and analysis, book reviews, online and in print. Plus, The Week in Policy.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (907 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.policymagazine.ca/
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
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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)
There are only 235 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
The average number of words per sentence of 8.5 words is low.
34% 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.
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)
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)
37 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Policy Special Series: On Being Canadian
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Policy Special Series: On Being Canadian
H1 Special Series: The Expert Group on Canada-US Relations
H1 Policy Sponsored Print Issues
H2 The Making of the Minutes: Our Policy-Historica Canada Series
H3 The Never-Ending Trade Drama: 35 Is the New 25
H3 Summer Markets: All Quiet on the Crazy Train
H3 The Perils of AI Chatbots and Canada’s Online Safety Vacuum
H3 Conversion Therapy is Banned. Why Does its Harmful Ideology Persist?
H3 Trump’s Quarterly Report Card is Coming Up: Will the Money Talk?
H3 Trump’s Spectacle Presidency and the Politics of Attention
H3 Canada’s Trump-Tariff Summer and the August 1st Non-Surprise
H3 The COP26 Deal: President Sharma Rolls the Dice
H3 Overtime at COP26: Toward a Common Future
H4 Don Newman
H4 Jeremy Kinsman
H4 Lori Turnbull
H4 Daniel Béland
H4 Anil Wasif
H4 Lisa Van Dusen
H4 Policy Magazine
H6 Ambassador Bob Rae’s Address to the United Nations on the 80th Anniversary of the Signing of the UN Charter
H6 Despair is Not an Option: Ambassador Bob Rae on Accepting the U of T Law Faculty Distinguished Alumni Award
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
15 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 10 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
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/about-us/Subdomain About Us
A-TITLE About Us
/advertise-policy/Subdomain ADVERTISE
A-TITLE ADVERTISE
/archive/Subdomain Archive
A-TITLE Archive
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/author/don-newman/Subdomain No Text
/author/don-newman/Subdomain Don Newman
/author/jeremy-kinsman/Subdomain No Text
/author/jeremy-kinsman/Subdomain Jeremy Kinsman
/author/lturbull/Subdomain No Text
/author/lturbull/Subdomain Lori Turnbull
/author/daniel-beland/Subdomain No Text
/author/daniel-beland/Subdomain Daniel Béland
/author/anil-wasif/Subdomain No Text
/author/anil-wasif/Subdomain Anil Wasif
/author/lisa/Subdomain No Text
/author/lisa/Subdomain Lisa Van Dusen
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/online-analysis/Subdomain More Online Analysis
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/author/isabella-coronado/Subdomain by Isabella Coronado Doria
/conversion-therapy-is-banned-...Subdomain Conversion Therapy is Banned. Why Does its Harmful Ideology Persist?
/author/al-ahamed/Subdomain by Al-Amin Ahamed
/emerging-voices/Subdomain More Emerging Voices
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/policy-special/New window Subdomain No Text
https://www.thebusinesscouncil...External Subdomain No Text
/trumps-quarterly-report-card-...Subdomain Trump’s Quarterly Report Card is Coming Up: Will the Money Talk?
/author/bruce-anderson/Subdomain by Bruce Anderson
/trumps-spectacle-presidency-a...Subdomain Trump’s Spectacle Presidency and the Politics of Attention
/author/daniel-beland/Subdomain by Daniel Béland
/canadas-trump-tariff-summer-a...Subdomain Canada’s Trump-Tariff Summer and the August 1st Non-Surprise
/author/don-newman/Subdomain by Don Newman
/policy-specialSubdomain More Policy Specials
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/cop26/New window Subdomain A-TITLE The Best Prime Ministers and President on Canada-US Relations of the Last 100 Years
/letter-from-cop26-glasgow-pre...Subdomain The COP26 Deal: President Sharma Rolls the Dice
/author/elizabeth-may/Subdomain by Elizabeth May
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/author/velma-mccoll/Subdomain by Velma McColl
/cop26/Subdomain More COP26
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/the-making-of-the-minutes-our...Subdomain No Text
/policy-sponsored-print-issues/Subdomain Policy Sponsored Print Issues
/policy-sponsored-print-issues/Subdomain No Text
/politics-players/Subdomain No Text
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/book-reviews/Subdomain No Text
/policy-dispatches/Subdomain A-TITLE Book Reviews
/verbatim/Subdomain No Text
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.policymagazine.ca/"
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 very slow (3.26 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 (97 kB).

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External factors

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This page only has backlinks from 18 referring domains.
This page only has 631 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 16 different ip addresses.
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