Alternet.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
72% 
Page quality
50% 
Page structure
92% 
Link structure
36% 
Server
90% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.37 s
File size
255.20 kB
Words
382
Media files
3
Number of links
165 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Alternet.org
The page title is too short. (107 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
The domain is used in the page's title.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Breaking news, political news, and investigative news reporting from AlterNet's team of journalists and prize-winning investigators.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (800 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.alternet.org/
There is more than one canonical link on this page.
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
No paragraphs were detected.
There are only 382 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
19.9% 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)
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width,initial-scale=1,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no" 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 8 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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Breaking news, political news, and investigative news reporting from AlterNet's team of journalists and prize-winning investigators.
The H1 heading is too long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

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H1 Breaking news, political news, and investigative news reporting from AlterNet's team of journalists and prize-winning investigators.
H2 'The 'radical tactic' that has GOP clamoring to replace its ranks
H2 'Not afraid': McCarthy dares Republicans to oust him as his frustration with House GOP grows
H2 Boebert’s 'Beetlejuice' boot came after she refused to quit vaping near a pregnant woman: report
H2 Revealed: DeSantis 'took at least 6 undisclosed trips on private jets' from wealthy donors
H2 Don’t bet on the disqualification of Donald Trump
H2 Why religious believers are so desperate for the atheist seal of approval
H2 The axis of authoritarianism
H2 The scientific reason why Trump's supporters won't believe any evidence
H2 Dear Millennials: I'm sorry we didn't stop them
H2 'Hogwash': Pelosi dismisses McCarthy’s attempt to blame Biden impeachment inquiry on her
H2 'I’ve said it’s over': Judge cautions Chesebro lawyer over rant about 'PowerPoint' and 'personal attacks'
H2 Retiring joint chiefs chair refutes Trump: I 'never recommended a wholesale attack on Iran'
H2 'I don’t have it': Gaetz unable to pony up 'agreement' with Speaker McCarthy that 'no one is disputing'
H2 'Everybody has seen that': Fox host buries Republican over Biden 'Burismo' video people 'not talking about'
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
16 links don't have an anchor text.
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 9 external links on this page.
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.alternet.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.37 seconds.
This page does not require any CSS files.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (255 kB).

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External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 28,623 referring domains.
This page has 4,449,821 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 18,829 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.
Listed on Webwiki
(Nice to have)
This website is listed on Webwiki.

Robots.txt

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