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Meta information
100% 
Page quality
61% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
88% 
Server
31% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.32 s
File size
22.30 kB
Words
488
Media files
7
Number of links
25 internal / 30 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Associated Press Stylebook
The length of the page title is perfect. (254 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The AP Stylebook is a writing and editing reference for newsrooms, classrooms and corporate offices worldwide.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (693 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
Language defined in HTTP-Equiv meta tag: 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)
There are only 488 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
28.9% 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.
6 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 18.42 words is good.
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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
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)
5 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)
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

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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 AP Stylebook, 57th Edition (spiral-bound print)
H2 AP Stylebook Online
H2 AP Style-Checking Tools
H2 AP Stylebook Workshop On Demand
H2 AP Stylebook Study Guides
H3 Log in to your Stylebook account
H3 Don't Have an Account Yet?
H3 Sign Up for our Newsletter
H3 More Resources
H3 AP Stylebook
H3 The Associated Press
H3 More From AP
H3 Follow AP Stylebook
H4 The classic, practical spiral-bound edition now is published every other year.
H4 STYLE GUIDANCE ON YOUR COMPUTER, TABLET AND PHONE
H4 AP StyleGuard and Lingofy
H4 LEARN AP STYLE DIRECTLY FROM AP’S EDITORS
H4 TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE WITH OUR STUDY GUIDES
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 1 links with a trivial 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 too many external links (30) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://apstylebook.com/Anchor Skip to content
https://apstylebook.com/IMG-ALT AP Stylebook
https://apstylebook.com/Text duplicate AP Stylebook
/users/sign_inLog in
/users/sign_upRegister
https://store.stylebooks.com/?...External Subdomain Shop
https://apstylebook.com/helpHelp Center
https://store.stylebooks.com/External Subdomain IMG-ALT The AP Stylebook is a must-have reference.
https://store.stylebooks.com/a...New window External Subdomain Learn more
https://store.stylebooks.com/a...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more
https://store.stylebooks.com/a...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more
https://store.stylebooks.com/a...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more
https://store.stylebooks.com/a...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more
https://store.stylebooks.com/?...External Subdomain See all the AP Stylebook products and choose the right one for you
/users/password/newTrivial anchor text
here
/users/sign_upText duplicate Register
/newsletterSign Up
/bibliographyNew window More Resources
https://apstylebook.com/Home
/users/sign_inLog in to my account
https://store.stylebooks.com/?...External Subdomain Browse AP Stylebook products
/blog_postsAP Style Blog
https://apstylebook.com/newsAP Stylebook news
/suggestionsSuggest a Stylebook change or addition
/ask_the_editors/style_guidanceAsk the Editor: Highlights
/ask_the_editors/last_seven_daysLast seven days of Ask the Editor
/topical_most_recentCurrent Topical Guide
/bibliographyBibliography
/social_media_highlightsSocial media highlights
/user_guideUser Guide
https://www.apstylebook.com/helpSubdomain Text duplicate Help Center
https://apstylebook.com/Anchor Back to Top
https://store.stylebooks.com/?...External Subdomain AP Stylebook products
https://store.stylebooks.com/c...External Subdomain Compare products
https://www.apstylebook.com/helpSubdomain Text duplicate Help Center
https://apnews.com/privacystat...New window External Privacy Policy
https://apstylebook.com/termsTerms and Conditions
https://www.ap.org/about/New window External Subdomain Company
https://www.ap.org/about/media...New window External Subdomain Media Center
https://www.ap.org/content/New window External Subdomain AP Content
https://www.ap.org/solutions/New window External Subdomain AP Solutions
https://www.ap.org/who-we-serv...New window External Subdomain AP Planner
https://www.ap.org/solutions/p...New window External Subdomain AP Newsroom
https://www.ap.org/content/arc...New window External Subdomain AP Archive
https://www.ap.org/content/for...New window External Subdomain AP Video
https://www.ap.org/contact-us/External Subdomain Contact Us
https://apnews.com/New window External AP News
https://www.ap.org/books/New window External Subdomain AP Books
https://www.ap.org/solutions/p...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate AP Newsroom
https://www.ap.org/content/arc...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate AP Archive
https://www.facebook.com/apsty...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Facebook
https://twitter.com/APStylebookNew window External A-TITLE Twitter
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Linkedin
https://www.instagram.com/apst...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Instagram
https://www.pinterest.com/APSt...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Pinterest

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://apstylebook.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.32 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 (22 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

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This website has excellent links from other websites.
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This page has 180,738 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,780 different ip addresses.

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