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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
55% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
73% 
Server
76% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.92 s
File size
94.30 kB
Words
257
Media files
19
Number of links
38 internal / 22 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - RyanHoliday.net
The length of the page title is perfect. (218 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://ryanholiday.net/
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

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viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1
format-detectiontelephone=no
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
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generatorPowered by Slider Revolution 5.4.3.1 - responsive, Mobile-Friendly Slider Plugin for WordPress with comfortable drag and drop interface.
article:modified_time2022-01-07T20:10:45+00:00
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleHome - RyanHoliday.net
og:descriptionTweet
og:urlhttps://ryanholiday.net/
og:site_nameRyanHoliday.net
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 257 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
41.2% of the text are stop words.
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.
The average number of words per sentence of 21.2 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The amount of tags is very high (9). We recommend using a maximum of 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
5 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...oads/2018/05/ryan_holiday_logo_black.pngRyanHoliday.net - Meditations on strategy and life
...oads/2018/05/ryan_holiday_logo_white.pngRyanHoliday.net - Meditations on strategy and life
...018/04/ryan-holiday-featured-image_1.jpgWORK WITH RYAN
...018/04/ryan-holiday-featured-image_2.jpgBOOKS BY RYAN
...018/04/ryan-holiday-featured-image_4.jpgDAILY STOIC STORE
.../revslider/admin/assets/images/dummy.pngNo alt attribute providedRH bestseller call
.../revslider/admin/assets/images/dummy.pngNo alt attribute providedHome
.../revslider/admin/assets/images/dummy.pngNo alt attribute providedRobert&RyanJuly23 (1)
.../revslider/admin/assets/images/dummy.pngNo alt attribute providedRH1
.../revslider/admin/assets/images/dummy.pngNo alt attribute providedHome
/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/nyt-logo.pngNew York Times
/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/wsj-logo.pngWall Street Journal
/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/si-logo.pngSports Illustrated
/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/tt-logo.pngThe Times
/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/cnn-logo.pngCNN
.../uploads/2018/04/brain-pickings-logo.pngBrain Pickings
/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/npr-logo.pngNPR
/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/espn-logo.pngESPN
/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/twp-logo.pngWashington Post

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
There are no headings specified on the page. Headings are important for search engine optimization and help to structure your content.

Heading structure

No headings were found.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 5 links with a trivial 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 22 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://ryanholiday.net/IMG-ALT RyanHoliday.net - Meditations on strategy and life
https://ryanholiday.net/Home
https://ryanholiday.net/about/About
/reading-list/Newsletter
/the-reading-list/Reading List
https://ryanholiday.net/blog/Blog
/best-articles/Best Articles
https://ryanholiday.net/archive/Archive
https://ryanholiday.net/speaking/Speaking
/books-courses/Books and Courses
https://ryanholiday.net/contact/Contact
https://ryanholiday.net/Text duplicate Home
https://ryanholiday.net/about/Text duplicate About
/reading-list/Text duplicate Newsletter
/the-reading-list/Text duplicate Reading List
https://ryanholiday.net/blog/Text duplicate Blog
/best-articles/Text duplicate Best Articles
https://ryanholiday.net/archive/Text duplicate Archive
https://ryanholiday.net/speaking/Text duplicate Speaking
/books-courses/Text duplicate Books and Courses
https://ryanholiday.net/contact/Text duplicate Contact
https://ryanholiday.net/Text duplicate Home
https://ryanholiday.net/about/Text duplicate About
/reading-list/Text duplicate Newsletter
/the-reading-list/Text duplicate Reading List
https://ryanholiday.net/blog/Text duplicate Blog
/best-articles/Text duplicate Best Articles
https://ryanholiday.net/archive/Text duplicate Archive
https://ryanholiday.net/speaking/Text duplicate Speaking
/books-courses/Text duplicate Books and Courses
https://ryanholiday.net/contact/Text duplicate Contact
https://twitter.com/ryanholidayNew window External A-TITLE Twitter
http://www.facebook.com/ryanho...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/ryan...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Instagram
https://ryanholiday.net/Text duplicate IMG-ALT RyanHoliday.net - Meditations on strategy and life
https://www.amazon.com/Trust-M...New window External Subdomain Trust Me, I’m Lying
https://www.amazon.com/Obstacl...New window External Subdomain The Obstacle Is the Way
https://www.amazon.com/Ego-Ene...New window External Subdomain Ego Is the Enemy
https://www.amazon.com/Conspir...External Subdomain Conspiracy
http://www.brasscheck.net/New window External Subdomain Brass Check
https://ryanholiday.net/about/Learn More
http://www.brasscheck.net/External Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Click Here
A-TITLE Image
https://www.amazon.com/default...New window External Subdomain Amazon
https://www.barnesandnoble.com...New window External Subdomain Barnes & Noble
https://www.indiebound.org/sea...New window External Subdomain Indie Bound
https://prints.dailystoic.com/External Subdomain Buy Now
A-TITLE Image
/i-stopped-caring-about-result...Trivial anchor text
READ MORE
/what-you-work-on-works-on-you...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
READ MORE
/without-this-youll-never-reac...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
READ MORE
/deep-dive/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
READ MORE
/this-hobby-can-change-your-life/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
READ MORE
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/1...External Subdomain IMG-ALT New York Times
A-TITLE New York Times
https://www.wsj.com/articles/r...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Wall Street Journal
A-TITLE Wall Street Journal
https://www.si.com/nfl/2015/12...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Sports Illustrated
A-TITLE Sports Illustrated
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/art...External Subdomain IMG-ALT The Times
A-TITLE The Times
http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/2...External Subdomain IMG-ALT CNN
A-TITLE CNN
https://www.brainpickings.org/...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Brain Pickings
A-TITLE Brain Pickings
https://www.npr.org/books/auth...External Subdomain IMG-ALT NPR
A-TITLE NPR
http://www.espn.com/blog/nflna...External Subdomain IMG-ALT ESPN
A-TITLE ESPN
https://www.washingtonpost.com...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Washington Post
A-TITLE Washington Post

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://ryanholiday.net/"
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 of 0.92 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
A Content Delivery Network like Google Hosted Libraries can save bandwidth for the JQuery files.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (94 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
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content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-length20331
cache-providerCLOUDWAYS-CACHE-DE
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
last-modifiedWed, 05 Nov 2025 19:42:22 GMT
cache-controlmax-age=0, s-maxage=2592000
expiresSun, 09 Nov 2025 19:47:30 GMT
age23257
x-cacheHIT
accept-rangesbytes
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 999 referring domains.
This page has 37,456 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 641 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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Disallow:

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Sitemap: https://ryanholiday.net/sitemap.xml

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RYAN HOLIDAY62%Check
HOLIDAY61%Check
Books41%Check
Best41%Check
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Reading39%Check
READ39%Check
Newsletter39%Check
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