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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
74% 
Page quality
53% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
33% 
Server
76% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.91 s
File size
116.30 kB
Words
4700
Media files
29
Number of links
96 internal / 94 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Amusement Today
The page title is too short. (169 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
(Important)
No canonical link is 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
(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.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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robotsindex,follow, max-image-preview:large
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og:typewebsite
og:titleAmusement Today
og:descriptionYour Amusement Industry NEWS Site
og:urlhttps://amusementtoday.com/
og:site_nameAmusement Today
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og:localeen_US
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The content of this page is too large (4700 words). Maybe the content could be divided into several pages.
These Typos were found:
  • sould => could, should, sold, soul
34.4% 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.
74 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 23.26 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No viewpoint tag is provided.
No Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on this page.
The following tag is repeated too often: underground
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
24 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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)
This page uses Google authorship information without an image.
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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 April 2024
H2 Sacoa Cashless System chosen for newly-inaugurated Sould Park Game at Rosaleda Shopping Center, Malaga, Spain
H2 Intercard debuts iQ reader in Saudi Arabia at Sea Expo
H2 Universal Studios Hollywood introduces an 87North produced live show, “The Fall Guy Stuntacular Pre-Show,” added to its popular “WaterWorld,” inspired by the new film
H2 Wild Waves Theme and Water Park opens for the 2024 season May 18
H2 Adventureland Resort unveils new additions for 2024, celebrating 50 years of thrills
H2 Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo mourns the loss of African Lion
H2 Noah’s Ark Waterpark wins Newsweek Readers’ Choice Award for Best Outdoor Waterpark
H2 Spanish engineering company Wavegarden and URBNSURF group bring perfect waves to Sydney’s Olympic Park
H2 Kings Island breaking news: First test run of new coaster is complete!
H2 Lake Compounce opens April 27 with park-wide enhancements
H2 Subscribe to Amusement Today's Digital Edition and our daily EXTRA! EXTRA! Your Desktop Edition
H3 Search AmusementToday.com
H3 Answering the call for Fire In The Hole!
H3 SUBSCRIBE TODAY!
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
5 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (94) on this page.

Found links on this page

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/they-are-asking-about-you/Notebook & Opinions
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/digitalCurrent Issue
/2020-issues/Previous Issues
/2024-issues/2024 issues
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/2022-issues/2022 Issues
/2021-issues/2021 Issues
/2020-issues/2020 Issues
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/2017-issues/2017 Issues
/2016-issues/2016 Issues
/2015-issues/2015 Issues
/2014-issues/2014 Issues
/2013-issues/2013 Issues
/2012-issues/2012 Issues
/2011-issues/2011 Issues
/2010-issues/2010 Issues
/issues/2023/whatsnew/2023 Park Previews
/mediaguide/index.htmlAdvertise
/subscribe/Subscribe
/about-at/About AT
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/2024/03/april-2024/March 27, 2024
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/2024/04/adventureland-resort-...A-TITLE Adventureland Resort unveils new additions for 2024, celebrating 50 years of thrills
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/2024/04/fort-wayne-childrens-...A-TITLE Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo mourns the loss of African Lion
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/2024/04/noahs-ark-waterpark-w...A-TITLE Noah’s Ark Waterpark wins Newsweek Readers’ Choice Award for Best Outdoor Waterpark
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/2024/04/spanish-engineering-c...A-TITLE Spanish engineering company Wavegarden and URBNSURF group bring perfect waves to Sydney’s Olympic Park
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/videotrack-archive/Click here to see previous VideoTrack entries.
https://amusementtoday.com/Amusement Today
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://amusementtoday.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
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 (116 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 2,107 referring domains.
This page has 8,029 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 558 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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