Thespecials.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
58% 
Page quality
49% 
Page structure
63% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
76% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.91 s
File size
39.10 kB
Words
61
Media files
6
Number of links
17 internal / 15 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)
The meta description is empty.
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: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The following language is defined by HTML: en
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
The specified alternate links have no errors.
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
descriptionEmpty
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0
langen
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 61 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
31.1% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
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=1.0, user-scalable=0" 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)
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)
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
...especials-protestsongs-title-large-1.pngThe Specials - Protest Songs 1924-2012
...hespecials-protestsongs-tour-large-1.pngThe Specials - The Protest Tour 2021
...-08/instagram-header-the-specials-1.jpegNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The Band
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (8 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 The Band
H1 The Music
H1 Tour Dates
H1 Shop
H1 Gallery
H2 Protest Songs
H2 Latest News
H3 1924 - 2012
H4 Sign up for the latest news
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 15 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://twitter.com/thespecialsNew window External No Text
https://www.facebook.com/thesp...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/thes...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.thespecials.com/No Text
https://www.thespecials.com/No Text
https://www.thespecials.com/Home
/protest-songsProtest Songs
/the-bandThe Band
/the-musicThe Music
https://www.thespecials.com/liveTour Dates
/galleryGallery
https://thespecialsstore.com/External Shop
https://www.thespecials.com/No Text
https://www.thespecials.com/No Text
https://www.thespecials.com/No Text
https://thespecials.lnk.to/Pro...New window External Subdomain Buy Now
https://www.thespecials.com/liveView Tour Dates Here
/the-bandText duplicate The Band
/protest-songsProtest Songs 1924 - 2012
/the-musicText duplicate The Music
https://www.thespecials.com/liveText duplicate Tour Dates
https://thespecialsstore.com/New window External Text duplicate Shop
/galleryText duplicate Gallery
https://www.facebook.com/thesp...External Subdomain The Specials (Official)
https://twitter.com/thespecial...External Tweets by thespecials
https://www.instagram.com/thes...New window External Subdomain No Text
http://www.terryhall.com/New window External Subdomain TerryHall.com
http://www.horacepanterart.com/New window External Subdomain HoracePanterArt.com
https://www.fredperry.com/subc...New window External Subdomain FredPerry.com/Subculture
https://twitter.com/thespecialsNew window External No Text
https://www.facebook.com/thesp...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/thes...New window External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.thespecials.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 0.91 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 (39 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateSat, 09 Aug 2025 22:30:05 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length10384
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 162 referring domains.
This page has 837 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 151 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

# www.robotstxt.org/
# www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156449

User-agent: *

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Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

KeywordResultRecheck
Specials50%Check
Band50%Check
thespecials48%Check
Latest News43%Check
Tour42%Check
Protest42%Check
Songs42%Check
Tour Dates40%Check
New Album40%Check
Music38%Check
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