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Meta information
100% 
Page quality
76% 
Page structure
66% 
Link structure
55% 
Server
87% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
10.75 s
File size
260.70 kB
Words
746
Media files
25
Number of links
103 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Recording Magazine: The Magazine For the Recording Musician
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (574 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
Recording Magazine: The Magazine For the Recording Musician. Learn how to make better recordings and read rich reviews of recording gear.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (879 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.recordingmag.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
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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
(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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
This page contains 746 words. That's ok.
26.1% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
9 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 20.06 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on this page.
The amount of tags is very high (24). We recommend using a maximum of 15 tags for this page.
Some tags are too long. With 74 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"editing and processing strategies to make background vocals serve the song"
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 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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Audio URL
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
CURRENT ISSUE: February 2026
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 CURRENT ISSUE: February 2026
H1 Vocals!
H1 FEATURED REVIEW
H1 FEATURED ARTICLE
H2 RECORDING INFORMATION RESOURCES
H2 17 New Reviews
H2 The Next Era of AKG Microphones
H2 Going Deep With Backing Vocals
H2 INDUSTRY NEWS
H3 ATC announces availability of SCS140iW Pro 2×12” and SCS240iW Pro 2×15” high-output in-wall subwoofers
H3 Live 12.4 is coming – with Link Audio, updated devices and more
H3 Sound Particles releases inShaper: a creative waveshaper
H3 Historic Grammy Win for USA Songwriting Competition Winners
H3 REC’s six monthly Sound Advice bulletins offer great advice:
H3 Empty heading
H3 SAMPLE BULLETINS
Anchor text is an URL
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.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 4 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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/advertise/advertisement-specs/Advertisement Specs
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/the-magazine/current-issue/CURRENT ISSUE: February 2026
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Read More
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.recordingmag.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 very slow (10.75 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 (261 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 56 referring domains.
This page has 119 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 39 different ip addresses.

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