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Meta information
66% 
Page quality
68% 
Page structure
63% 
Link structure
26% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.53 s
File size
109.30 kB
Words
496
Media files
46
Number of links
142 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Aikido Journal
The page title is too short. (127 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
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
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https://aikidojournal.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
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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
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The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
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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
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
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The favicon is linked correctly.

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 496 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
26% 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.
5 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 17.5 words is good.
Frames
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This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
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A viewport "width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 10 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
43 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
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Aikido Journal
The H1 heading is too short (14 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 31 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

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H1 Aikido Journal
H2 Business Lessons from the Tatami: How Aikido Principles Shape Entrepreneurship
H2 O-Sensei’s Spiritual Writings: Where did they really come from? by Stanley Pranin
H2 Letter from the Editor, March 2024
H2 Aikido at a Crossroads: Interview with Jason Perna
H2 A Journey of Rediscovery: Ray Feliciano’s Path from Black Belt to White and Back
H2 Discover Aikido
H2 Featured
H2 Interviews
H2 Podcasts
H2 On AikidoJournal.TV
H2 Photo Journals
H2 Technical
H2 Academy
H2 Encyclopedia
H2 Featured Stories
H2 Survey: Motivations and Beliefs
H2 Interview with Jeff Imada
H2 Bruce Bookman: Beginnings and the Golden Age of Aikido
H2 The Role of Ukemi in Aikido: An interview with George Ledyard
H2 Penny Bernath: On Getting a Seat at the Table
H2 Community Insights: 2017
H2 Ellis Amdur: The Role of Martial Arts in Modern Society
H2 Philip Lee: How Aikido Took Singapore by Storm
H2 An Insider’s View of Hombu Dojo: Podcast with Guillaume Erard
H2 Aikido’s kotegaeshi wrist-turn technique under the microscope.
H2 The Origins of Modern Aikido: The Shomenuchi Dilemma by Stanley Pranin
H2 A True Aiki Swordsman: Philip Greenwood on Shoji Nishio
H4 Follow Us
H4 Contact
H4 Pages
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 10 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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/author/joshikazuchi-com/Text duplicate Josh Gold
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/author/joshikazuchi-com/Text duplicate Josh Gold
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A-TITLE Facebook
https://www.vimeo.com/aikidojo...New window External Subdomain vimeo
A-TITLE vimeo
https://www.youtube.com/Aikido...New window External Subdomain youtube
A-TITLE YouTube
https://www.instagram.com/aiki...New window External Subdomain instagram
A-TITLE Instagram
/cdn-cgi/l/email-protectionEmail Us
/about-us/About Aikido Journal
https://aikidojournal.com/faq/FAQ
/privacy-policy/Privacy Policy
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/category/discover-aikido/Text duplicate Discover Aikido
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/category/technical/Text duplicate Technical
/category/photo-journal/Text duplicate Photo Journals
/category/on-aikidojournal-tv/Text duplicate On Aikido Journal.TV
http://aikidojournal.tv/External Text duplicate TV
http://academy.aikidojournal.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Academy

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HTTP redirects
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This page redirects to "https://aikidojournal.com/"
HTTP header
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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 (2.53 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 (109 kB).

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