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Meta information
77% 
Page quality
71% 
Page structure
43% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
87% 
External factors
0% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.75 s
File size
122.50 kB
Words
265
Media files
0
Number of links
25 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home
The title contains the word Home! More content should be covered in the title.
The page title is too short. (52 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
The page title is only one word.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
This site hosts a variety of things in which I am involved. It is broken down into an area for some of my recent publications, an area describing some of sof...
The length of the meta description is perfect. (956 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://stevengould.org/wp/
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
robotsindex, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1, follow
googlenositelinkssearchbox
descriptionThis site hosts a variety of things in which I am involved. It is broken down into an area for some of my recent publications, an area describing some of sof...
generatorWordPress 6.8.2
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:localeen_US
twitter:titleHome
twitter:descriptionThis site hosts a variety of things in which I am involved. It is broken down into an area for some of my recent publications, an area describing some of sof...
twitter:urlhttps://stevengould.org/wp/
twitter:site@stevengould.org
og:urlhttps://stevengould.org/wp/
og:site_namestevengould.org
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleHome
og:descriptionThis site hosts a variety of things in which I am involved. It is broken down into an area for some of my recent publications, an area describing some of sof...
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 265 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
30.6% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
4 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 20.67 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" is provided.
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)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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

No media files were found.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Home
The H1 heading contains the words Home! Use important keywords instead.
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (4 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Home
H2 Software
H2 Writings & Publications
H2 Other Steven Goulds
H3 A sample of some of my more recent publications.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://stevengould.org/wpstevengould.org
https://stevengould.org/wp/Home
/wp/home/privacy-policy/Privacy Policy
/wp/software/Software
/wp/software/cleanup/CleanUp!
/wp/software/cleanup/download/Download and Installation
/wp/software/cleanup/download/...CleanUp! 4.5 Release Notes
/wp/software/cleanup/download/...CleanUp! 4.0 Release Notes
/wp/software/cleanup/download/...CleanUp! 3.1 Release Notes
/wp/software/cleanup/download/...CleanUp! 3.0 Release Notes
/wp/software/cleanup/download/...CleanUp! 2.0 Release Notes
/wp/software/cleanup/record-re...Record Recoveries
/wp/software/cleanup/license-a...License / Warranty
/wp/software/private-eye/Private Eye
/wp/software/index-dat-spy/Index Dat Spy
/wp/writing/Writing
/wp/writing/books/Books
/wp/writing/articles/Articles
/wp/writing/columns/Columns
/wp/writing/independent-writing/Independent Writing
http://cleanup.stevengould.org/External Subdomain Windows CleanUp! Utility
http://privateeye.stevengould....External Subdomain Text duplicate Private Eye
http://indexdatspy.stevengould...External Subdomain Text duplicate Index Dat Spy
http://openforecast.sf.net/External Subdomain OpenForecast
https://stevengould.org/softwareMore...
/wp/writing/books/Text duplicate Books
/wp/writing/articles/Text duplicate Articles
/wp/writing/columns/Text duplicate Columns
/wp/writing/independent-writing/Independent Writings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...External Subdomain Steven C. Gould
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...External Subdomain Prof. Stephen Jay Gould
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/h...External Subdomain Dr. Steven Gould Axelrod
http://www.stephengould.com/External Subdomain Stephen Gould Corporation

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://stevengould.org/wp/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
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 (2.75 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 (123 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSat, 26 Jul 2025 16:29:11 GMT
servernginx/1.23.4
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
link<https://stevengould.org/wp/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/", <https://stevengould.org/wp/wp-json/wp/v2/pages/19>; rel="alternate"; title="JSON"; type="application/json", <https://stevengould.org/wp/>; rel=shortlink
cache-controlmax-age=7200
expiresSat, 26 Jul 2025 18:29:09 GMT
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
x-newfold-cache-level2
x-endurance-cache-level2
x-nginx-cacheWordPress
x-server-cachetrue
x-proxy-cacheMISS
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

We didn't find any backlinks to this page.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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