Ted.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
58% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
88% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.66 s
File size
449.20 kB
Words
339
Media files
0
Number of links
39 internal / 20 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
TED: Ideas change everything
The length of the page title is perfect. (272 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://www.ted.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en
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

NameValue
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HandheldFriendlyTrue
MobileOptimized320
apple-mobile-web-app-titleTED Talks
mobile-web-app-capableyes
apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-styleblack
application-nameTED Talks
msapplication-confighttps://www.ted.com/browserconfig.xml
msapplication-TileColor#000000
rss-feedhttps://www.ted.com/feeds/talks.rss
theme-color#EB0028
al:android:app_nameTED
al:android:packagecom.ted.android
al:ios:app_nameTED
al:ios:app_store_id376183339
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@tedtalks
twitter:app:id:iphone376183339
twitter:app:id:ipad376183339
twitter:app:id:googleplaycom.ted.android
twitter:app:name:ipadTED
twitter:app:name:iphoneTED
twitter:app:name:googleplayTED
fb:app_id201021956610141
og:urlhttps://www.ted.com/
cleartypeon
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 339 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
26.5% 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.
The average number of words per sentence of 21 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no, initial-scale=1.0, viewport-fit=cover" 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 7 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)
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 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.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 20 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.ted.com/Ideas change everything
A-TITLE Return to TED Homepage
https://www.ted.com/talksTED Talks Browse the library of TED talks and speakers
https://www.ted.com/playlistsPlaylists 100+ collections of TED Talks, for curious minds
https://www.ted.com/seriesTED Series Go deeper into fascinating topics with original video series from TED
https://www.ted.com/watch/ted-edTED-Ed videos Watch, share and create lessons with TED-Ed
/watch/tedx-talksTEDx Talks Talks from independently organized local events
https://www.ted.com/topicsTopics Explore TED offerings by topic
https://audiocollective.ted.com/External Subdomain Podcasts Explore the TED Audio Collective
https://ideas.ted.com/External Subdomain Ideas Blog Our daily coverage of the world of ideas
https://www.ted.com/newslettersNewsletters Inspiration delivered straight to your inbox
https://www.ted.com/gamesTED Games Innovative games that challenge you to think differently
/attend/conferencesConferences Take part in our events: TED, TEDGlobal and more
https://ted.com/tedx/eventsTEDx Events Find and attend local, independently organized events
/attend/ted-on-screenTED on Screen Experience TED from home
https://courses.ted.com/External Subdomain TED Courses Learn from TED speakers who expand on their world-changing ideas
/participate/nominateNominate Recommend speakers, TED Prize recipients, Fellows and more
/participate/organize-a-local-...Organize a local TEDx Event Rules and resources to help you plan a local TEDx event
/about/programs/ted-edTED-Ed Award-winning educational content and programs
/participate/translateTranslate Bring TED to the non-English speaking world
https://fellows.ted.com/External Subdomain TED Fellows Join or support innovators from around the globe
https://www.ted.com/aboutOur Organization Our mission, history, team, and more
/about/conferencesConferences TED Conferences, past, present, and future
/about/programs-initiativesPrograms & Initiatives Details about TED's world-changing initiatives
/about/partner-with-tedPartner with TED Learn how you can partner with us
https://blog.ted.com/External Subdomain TED Blog Updates from TED and highlights from our global community
https://auth.ted.com/users/newExternal Subdomain SIGN IN
/membership?utm_medium=website...MEMBERSHIP
/about/programs-initiatives/te...TEDx
https://fellows.ted.com/External Subdomain TED Fellows
/about/programs/ted-edTED Ed
/about/programs-initiatives/te...TED Translators
/about/programs-initiatives/te...TED Institute
/about/programs-initiatives/th...The Audacious Project
https://tedatwork.ted.com/External Subdomain TED@Work
https://www.ted.com/podcastsPodcasts
https://blog.ted.com/External Subdomain TED Blog
/about/programs-initiatives/te...More ways to get TED
/people/speakersTED Speakers
https://fellows.ted.com/directoryExternal Subdomain Text duplicate TED Fellows
/people/translatorsText duplicate TED Translators
https://www.ted.com/people/tedxTEDx Organizers
https://www.ted.com/peopleTED Community
/about/our-organization/our-po...Privacy Policy
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/tedtalksExternal No Text
https://instagram.com/tedExternal No Text
https://www.youtube.com/tedExternal Subdomain No Text
https://www.facebook.com/TEDExternal Subdomain No Text
https://play.google.com/store/...External Subdomain No Text
https://apps.apple.com/app/app...External Subdomain No Text
https://play.google.com/store/...External Subdomain No Text
https://apps.apple.com/app/app...External Subdomain No Text
/about/our-organization/our-po...TED Talks Usage Policy
/about/our-organization/our-po...Text duplicate Privacy Policy
/about/partner-with-tedAdvertising / Partnership
/about/our-organization/our-po...TED.com Terms of Use
/about/our-organization/jobs-a...Jobs
/about/our-organization/contac...Press
https://support.ted.com/External Subdomain Help

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.ted.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 of 0.66 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (449 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-download-optionsnoopen
x-permitted-cross-domain-policiesnone
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
x-nextjs-cacheHIT
x-nextjs-prerender1
cache-controls-maxage=180, stale-while-revalidate=31535820
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content-encodinggzip
accept-rangesbytes
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x-cache-hits165, 0
varyAccept-Encoding
content-length118690
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 13,563 referring domains.
This page has 5,078,818 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 10,060 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /latest
Disallow: /latest-talk
Disallow: /latest-playlist
Disallow: /people
Disallow: /profiles
Disallow: /themes/rss
User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /latest
Disallow: /latest-talk
Disallow: /latest-playlist
Disallow: /people
Disallow: /profiles

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

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Ideas46%Check
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TED Talks46%Check
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