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Page quality
80% 
Page structure
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Link structure
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Server
77% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.72 s
File size
150.00 kB
Words
900
Media files
35
Number of links
116 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
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Home | Bolts
The page title is too short. (117 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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Bolts is a digital magazine that covers the nuts and bolts of power and political change, from the local up.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (644 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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https://boltsmag.org/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
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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
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Other meta tags
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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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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.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
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This page contains 900 words. That's ok.
32.6% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
12 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 18.33 words is good.
Frames
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This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
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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 18 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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35 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
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Additional markup
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HTTPS
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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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Headings
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The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 48 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 The latest
H2 Sign up and stay up-to-date
H2 Support us
H2 In 2024, Politics Is Local
H2 Criminal justice and local politics
H2 Abortion rights
H3 “There’s No Dignity in Giving Birth in Prison”: New Bills Would Improve Care Behind Bars
H3 Your Guide to the August 20 Primaries
H3 How Pregnancy is Policed: Your Questions Answered
H3 Tampa Voters Get Their Say Two Years After DeSantis Axed Their Democratic Prosecutor
H3 Direct Democracy Scores a Win in Michigan’s High Court. Can It Survive November?
H3 “A Vote Against Democracy”: Missouri Forces One City to Lock In More Money for Police
H3 In Nation’s Largest Swing County, Election Deniers Move Closer to Taking Over Elections
H3 Before Executing a Muslim Man, Alabama Denied Many of His Final Religious Requests
H3 He Kept Investigating the 2020 Election. Now This Michigan Sheriff Faces Voters Himself.
H3 In an Arizona Border County, Rifts Over How Much to Help the Feds Patrol the Border
H3 Court Upholds Mississippi’s Jim Crow-Era Lifetime Voting Ban
H3 Learn about State Courts
H3 Your State-by-State Guide to Every State Supreme Court
H3 Learn About Election Administration
H3 Who Counts Our Elections?
H3 Voting in California
H3 Disabled Californians Challenge Absentee Voting Rules That Deny Them a Secret Ballot
H3 Prosecution in Virginia
H3 “An Impossible Choice”: Virginians Asked to Waive Constitutional Rights to Get a Plea Deal
H3 Policing in Michigan
H3 A Michigan City Ended Low-Level Traffic Stops. Now the County Could Follow.
H3 Minnesota Just Became The Latest State to Eliminate Prison Gerrymandering
H3 Parole Plunges in South Carolina as Governor-Appointed Board Issues Denial After Denial
H3 His Shock Win Flipped a Pennsylvania County. Now He Vows to Raise Hell over Its Lethal Jail.
H3 Supreme Courts
H3 Your State-by-State Guide to the 2024 Supreme Court Elections
H3 Direct Democracy
H3 Utah’s Highest Court Safeguards the People’s Right to Direct Democracy
H3 Voter Registration
H3 Michigan Law Is First to Automatically Register People to Vote As They Leave Prison
H3 The 2024 Elections
H3 The Republican Nominee to Lead Oregon Elections Wants to Stop All Mail Voting
H3 A Revamped Ballot Design Jumpstarts Democracy in New Jersey
H3 Arizona Republicans Set Up a Ballot Measure to Squash Future Ballot Measures
H3 He Kept Investigating the 2020 Election. Now This Michigan Sheriff Faces Voters Himself. Duplicate text
H3 Long ReadS
H3 A Future for Susanville
H3 “Just an Opportunity to Come Home”
H3 If Abortion Measure Fails, Ohioans on Parole And Probation Could Face Graver Restrictions
H3 For Thousands of Georgians, Freely Traveling Across State Lines for an Abortion Is Not an Option
H3 What All State Constitutions Say About Abortion, and Why It Matters
H4 Stay Informed
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31 links don't have an anchor text.
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 6 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://boltsmag.org/about/About us
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https://boltsmag.org/ask-bolts/Ask Bolts
https://boltsmag.org/No Text
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/california-prison-pregnancy/No Text
/california-prison-pregnancy/“There’s No Dignity in Giving Birth in Prison”: New Bills Would Improve Care Behind Bars
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/authors/daniel-nichanian/Daniel Nichanian,
/how-pregnancy-is-policed-your...No Text
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/authors/lauren-gill/Lauren Gill,
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/authors/quinn-yeargain/Quinn Yeargain,
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/maricopa-county-arizona-elect...In Nation’s Largest Swing County, Election Deniers Move Closer to Taking Over Elections
/authors/alex-burness/Alex Burness,
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/authors/lauren-gill/Text duplicate Lauren Gill,
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/authors/alice-herman/Alice Herman,
/pima-county-sheriff-border-pa...No Text
/pima-county-sheriff-border-pa...In an Arizona Border County, Rifts Over How Much to Help the Feds Patrol the Border
/authors/pascal-sabino/Pascal Sabino,
/mississippi-lifetime-voting-b...No Text
/mississippi-lifetime-voting-b...Court Upholds Mississippi’s Jim Crow-Era Lifetime Voting Ban
/authors/alex-burness/Text duplicate Alex Burness,
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https://boltsmag.org/about/Trivial anchor text
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/whats-on-the-ballot/state-sup...No Text
/whats-on-the-ballot/state-sup...Your State-by-State Guide to Every State Supreme Court
/whats-on-the-ballot/who-count...No Text
/whats-on-the-ballot/who-count...Text duplicate Who Counts Our Elections?
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/california-electronic-voting-...No Text
/california-electronic-voting-...Disabled Californians Challenge Absentee Voting Rules That Deny Them a Secret Ballot
/fourth-amendment-waiver-virgi...No Text
/fourth-amendment-waiver-virgi...“An Impossible Choice”: Virginians Asked to Waive Constitutional Rights to Get a Plea Deal
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/traffic-stops-washtenaw-count...A Michigan City Ended Low-Level Traffic Stops. Now the County Could Follow.
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/minnesota-ends-prison-gerryma...Minnesota Just Became The Latest State to Eliminate Prison Gerrymandering
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/parole-plunges-in-south-carol...No Text
/parole-plunges-in-south-carol...Parole Plunges in South Carolina as Governor-Appointed Board Issues Denial After Denial
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/authors/alex-burness/Text duplicate Alex Burness,
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/your-state-by-state-guide-to-...Your State-by-State Guide to the 2024 Supreme Court Elections
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/utah-supreme-court-direct-dem...Utah’s Highest Court Safeguards the People’s Right to Direct Democracy
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/michigan-automatic-voter-regi...Michigan Law Is First to Automatically Register People to Vote As They Leave Prison
/oregon-secretary-of-state-ele...No Text
/oregon-secretary-of-state-ele...The Republican Nominee to Lead Oregon Elections Wants to Stop All Mail Voting
/authors/alex-burness/Text duplicate Alex Burness,
/new-jersey-primaries-county-l...No Text
/new-jersey-primaries-county-l...A Revamped Ballot Design Jumpstarts Democracy in New Jersey
/authors/nikita-biryukov/Nikita Biryukov,
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/arizona-ballot-measure-would-...Arizona Republicans Set Up a Ballot Measure to Squash Future Ballot Measures
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/authors/alice-herman/Text duplicate Alice Herman,
/susanville-prison-closure/No Text
/susanville-prison-closure/A Future for Susanville
/authors/piper-french/Piper French,
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/authors/daniel-nichanian/Text duplicate Daniel Nichanian,
/ohio-abortion-amendment-issue...No Text
/ohio-abortion-amendment-issue...If Abortion Measure Fails, Ohioans on Parole And Probation Could Face Graver Restrictions
/authors/piper-french/Text duplicate Piper French,
/georgia-abortion-ban-probatio...No Text
/georgia-abortion-ban-probatio...For Thousands of Georgians, Freely Traveling Across State Lines for an Abortion Is Not an Option
/authors/piper-french/Text duplicate Piper French,
/state-constitutions-and-abort...No Text
/state-constitutions-and-abort...What All State Constitutions Say About Abortion, and Why It Matters
/authors/quinn-yeargain/Text duplicate Quinn Yeargain,
https://boltsmag.org/No Text
https://boltsmag.org/about/Text duplicate About Us
http://boltsmag.org/donateSupport Us
/whats-on-the-ballot/Our Resources
https://boltsmag.org/posts-index/Our Articles
http://facebook.com/BoltsMagExternal No Text
http://twitter.com/BoltsMagExternal No Text
https://www.instagram.com/bolt...External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
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This page redirects to "https://boltsmag.org/"
HTTP header
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The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
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The page response time of 0.72 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 (150 kB).

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This page has backlinks from 1,487 referring domains.
This page has 28,476 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,103 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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