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Meta information
81% 
Page quality
75% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
87% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.50 s
File size
485.50 kB
Words
1712
Media files
80
Number of links
155 internal / 21 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The Journal
The page title is too short. (106 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Read, share and shape the news on TheJournal.ie - Breaking Irish and International News
The length of the meta description is perfect. (553 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Ireland
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 prev meta tag on this page.
Rel next URL https://www.thejournal.ie/page/2/
The rel next and prev tags are set correctly.
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 XHTML 1.0 Transitional 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)
These Typos were found:
  • sucessful => successful
There are 2 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: In its ruling this afternoon, the three-judge Court of Appeal dismisse...
This page contains 1712 words. That's ok.
27.6% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
9 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 20.18 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No viewpoint tag 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.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
74 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.

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The H1 heading is empty
Headings
(Important)
There are no headings specified on the page. Headings are important for search engine optimization and help to structure your content.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Empty heading
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.
54 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 21 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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/contribute/?mode=recurring&am...€2 a Month
/contribute/?mode=recurring&am...€5 a Month
/contribute/?mode=one-offOne-off amount
/account-faqs/Find out more.
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/factcheck/news/Subdomain FactCheck
https://www.thejournal.ie/voices/Subdomain Voices
/investigates/Subdomain Investigates
https://www.thejournal.ie/tv/Subdomain J-TV
/contribute?utm_source=thejour...Support Us
https://www.thejournal.ie/voices/Text duplicate Voices
/factcheck/news/Text duplicate FactCheck
/investigates/Text duplicate Investigates
/quiz/news/Quizzes
/money-diaries/news/Money Diaries
/explainer/news/Explainers
/magazine/property/Daft.ie Property Magazine
/magazine/home/Allianz Home Magazine
/magazine/sports/The 42 Sports Magazine
/magazine/entertainment/TG4 Entertainment Magazine
https://www.thejournal.ie/tv/The Journal TV
https://www.thejournal.ie/irish/Text duplicate Irish News
/politics/Politics
/international/World News
/climate-change/news/Climate Crisis
/housing/news/Housing
/cost-of-living/news/Cost of Living
/road-safety/news/Road Safety
/courts/news/Courts
/ukraine/news/Ukraine
/gaza/news/Gaza
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/climate-newsletter-temperatur...Temperature Check
/inside-the-newsroom-2-6047744...Inside the Newsroom
/investigates-uncovered-newsle...The Journal Investigates
/the-explainer/news/?utm_sourc...The Explainer A deep dive into one big news story
/the-42fm/news/?utm_source=the...The 42FM Sport meets news, current affairs, society & pop culture
https://www.thejournal.ie/weatherDublin: 18°C
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https://www.thejournal.ie/page/2/Subdomain 2
https://www.thejournal.ie/page/3/Subdomain 3
https://www.thejournal.ie/page/4/Subdomain 4
https://www.thejournal.ie/page/5/Subdomain 5
https://www.thejournal.ie/page/2/Subdomain Next Articles
https://www.instagram.com/thej...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.facebook.com/thejo...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.tiktok.com/@thejou...External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/thejournal_ieExternal No Text
https://www.instagram.com/thej...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.facebook.com/thejo...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.tiktok.com/@thejou...External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/thejournal_ieExternal No Text
https://www.thejournal.ie/voices/Text duplicate Voices
/factcheck/news/Text duplicate FactCheck
/investigates/Text duplicate Investigates
/magazine/property/Text duplicate Daft.ie Property Magazine
/magazine/home/Text duplicate Allianz Home Magazine
/magazine/sports/Text duplicate The 42 Sports Magazine
/magazine/entertainment/Text duplicate TG4 Entertainment Magazine
/money-diaries/news/Text duplicate Money Diaries
https://www.thejournal.ie/tv/Text duplicate The Journal TV
/about-us/About us
https://careers.thejournal.ie/External Subdomain Careers
/contact/Contact
https://advertising.thejournal...External Subdomain Advertise With Us
/the-journal-factcheck/About FactCheck
https://www.the42.ie/New window External Subdomain The 42
https://www.factchecking.ie/New window External Subdomain FactCheck Knowledge Bank
https://www.thejournal.ie/terms/Terms of Use
/cookies-privacy-policy/Cookies & Privacy
/advertising-policy/Advertising
/comments-policy/Comments
/copyright-policy/Copyright
/competitions-terms-and-condit...Competition
https://www.instagram.com/thej...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.facebook.com/thejo...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.tiktok.com/@thejou...External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/thejournal_ieExternal No Text
/sports-tv-listings/news/TV Listings
/sports-quiz/news/Text duplicate Quizzes
/sport-liveblog/news/Live Blogs
/gaa-fixtures/news/GAA Fixtures
/the-video-review/news/The Video Review
/about-us/Text duplicate About us
https://careers.thejournal.ie/External Subdomain Text duplicate Careers
/contact/Text duplicate Contact
https://advertising.thejournal...External Subdomain Text duplicate Advertise With Us
https://www.thejournal.ie/New window Subdomain The Journal
https://www.factchecking.ie/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate FactCheck Knowledge Bank
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/cookies-privacy-policy/Text duplicate Cookies & Privacy
/advertising-policy/Text duplicate Advertising
/comments-policy/Text duplicate Comments
/copyright-policy/Text duplicate Copyright
/competitions-terms-and-condit...Text duplicate Competition
https://www.thejournal.ie/terms/Text duplicate Terms of Use
/cookies-privacy-policy/Text duplicate Cookies & Privacy
/advertising-policy/Text duplicate Advertising
/comments-policy/Text duplicate Comments
/copyright-policy/Text duplicate Copyright
/competitions-terms-and-condit...Text duplicate Competition
/?switcher=desktopSwitch to Desktop
/?switcher=mobileSwitch to Mobile
https://www.presscouncil.ie/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://ifcncodeofprinciples.p...External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.thejournal.ie/"
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 of 0.50 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 (486 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

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This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 638 referring domains.
This page has 167,131 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 409 different ip addresses.

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