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Meta information
72% 
Page quality
81% 
Page structure
68% 
Link structure
71% 
Server
74% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
6.14 s
File size
99.60 kB
Words
689
Media files
17
Number of links
50 internal / 27 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Sebastian Junger
The page title is too short. (157 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
http://www.sebastianjunger.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
(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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twitter:descriptionSebastian Junger is the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of THE PERFECT STORM, FIRE, A DEATH IN BELMONT, WAR and TRIBE. As an award-winning journalist, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a special correspondent at ABC News, he has covered major international news stories around the world
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 689 words. That's ok.
41.5% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
7 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 18.44 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 12 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The amount of tags is very high (15). We recommend using a maximum of 14 tags for this page.
The following tag is repeated too often: •
Some tags are too long. With 95 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"a near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow."
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)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
Additional markup
(Nice to have)
No additional page markup was found.
HTTPS
(Somewhat important)
The HTTPS protocol for secure data transmission is not used.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
...76/freedom-junger-feature-2024-new-2.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ZOD8UO4ZCIPN0XDTFARR/junger-restrepo.jpgRestrepo
...XYWR58CCGB0UKIE/junger-koregal-movie.jpgKorengal
...4FHIIZIJC4G0KZQ6S/junger-last-patrol.jpgThe Last Patrol
...4IHNBD/junger-hetherington-frontline.jpgWhich Way Is the Front Line from Here?
...creen+Shot+2017-08-25+at+10.18.56+AM.pngHell On Earth - Official Trailer (National Geographic)

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Sebastian Junger
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (16 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Sebastian Junger
H1 Books
H1 Film
H2 Subscribe
H3 “A powerful book that comes as close as anything I’ve read in explaining what it means to be human. Sebastian Junger is one of the finest writers of our generation.” —James Patterson, NY Times #1 B...
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 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 too many external links (27) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
http://www.sebastianjunger.com/Home
/aboutAbout
/in-my-time-of-dying-book-tourBook Tour
/video-interviewsVideo
/riscRISC
https://www.facebook.com/sebas...New window External Subdomain Facebook
http://twitter.com/sebastianju...New window External Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/seba...External Subdomain Instagram
/in-my-time-of-dyingIn My Time of Dying
/freedom-by-sebastian-jungerFreedom
/tribe-by-sebastian-jungerTribe
/war-by-sebastian-jungerWar
/a-death-in-belmontA Death in Belmont
/fire-by-sebastian-jungerFire
/the-perfect-stormThe Perfect Storm
/films-1Films
/contactsContacts
/media-resourcesMedia Resources
/vets2021Vets Town Hall
http://www.sebastianjunger.com/Sebastian Junger
http://www.sebastianjunger.com/Text duplicate Home
/aboutText duplicate About
/in-my-time-of-dying-book-tourText duplicate Book Tour
/video-interviewsText duplicate Video
/riscText duplicate RISC
https://www.facebook.com/sebas...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Facebook
http://twitter.com/sebastianju...New window External Text duplicate Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/seba...External Subdomain Text duplicate Instagram
/in-my-time-of-dyingText duplicate In My Time of Dying
/freedom-by-sebastian-jungerText duplicate Freedom
/tribe-by-sebastian-jungerText duplicate Tribe
/war-by-sebastian-jungerText duplicate War
/a-death-in-belmontText duplicate A Death in Belmont
/fire-by-sebastian-jungerText duplicate Fire
/the-perfect-stormText duplicate The Perfect Storm
/films-1Text duplicate Films
/contactsText duplicate Contacts
/media-resourcesText duplicate Media Resources
/vets2021Text duplicate Vets Town Hall
/in-my-time-of-dyingNo Text
https://www.simonandschuster.c...New window External Subdomain On Sale May 21st 2024 • Available for pre-order Now
https://www.amazon.com/exec/ob...New window External Subdomain Amazon
https://www.anrdoezrs.net/clic...New window External Subdomain Barnes & Noble
https://bookshop.org/a/1688/97...New window External Bookshop
https://www.booksamillion.com/...New window External Subdomain BAM!
https://books.apple.com/us/boo...New window External Subdomain Apple
/in-my-time-of-dyingText duplicate In My Time of Dying
/in-my-time-of-dyingNew window About the book
/in-my-time-of-dying-book-tourText duplicate Book Tour
/freedom-by-sebastian-jungerText duplicate IMG-ALT Freedom
/freedom-by-sebastian-jungerText duplicate Freedom
/tribe-by-sebastian-jungerText duplicate IMG-ALT Tribe
/tribe-by-sebastian-jungerText duplicate Tribe
/war-by-sebastian-jungerText duplicate IMG-ALT War
/war-by-sebastian-jungerText duplicate War
/the-perfect-stormText duplicate IMG-ALT The Perfect Storm
/the-perfect-stormText duplicate The Perfect Storm
/fire-by-sebastian-jungerText duplicate IMG-ALT Fire
/fire-by-sebastian-jungerText duplicate Fire
/a-death-in-belmontText duplicate IMG-ALT A Death in Belmont
/a-death-in-belmontText duplicate A Death in Belmont
http://www.amazon.com/Restrepo...New window External Subdomain Buy the movie
http://restrepothemovie.com/New window External Find out more
http://www.amazon.com/Korengal...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Buy the movie
https://korengalthemovie.com/New window External Text duplicate Find out more
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Pat...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Buy the movie
http://www.hbo.com/documentari...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Find out more
http://www.amazon.com/Which-Fr...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Buy the movie
http://www.hbo.com/documentari...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Find out more
/aboutText duplicate Sebastian Junger
http://channel.nationalgeograp...New window External Subdomain Find out more.
https://twitter.com/sebastianj...New window External No Text
https://www.facebook.com/sebas...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/seba...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/sebastianj...New window External No Text
https://www.facebook.com/sebas...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/seba...New window External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "http://www.sebastianjunger.com/"
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 (6.14 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.
This page loads 12 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 1 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (100 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 211 referring domains.
This page has 4,304 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 179 different ip addresses.

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