Britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
76% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
92% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.56 s
File size
269.50 kB
Words
259
Media files
16
Number of links
50 internal / 19 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | Search the archive | British Newspaper Archive
The length of the page title is perfect. (492 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Whether you are a researcher, historian or you simply want to know more about Britain's history, take this fantastic opportunity to search The British Newspaper Archive - a vast treasure trove of historical newspapers from your own home.
The meta description is too long: 1460 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
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
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 name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width
AuthorThe British Newspaper Archive
keywordsbritish newspaper archive, british library, brightsolid, old newspapers, newspapers, newspaper prints, british library newspapers
descriptionWhether you are a researcher, historian or you simply want to know more about Britain's history, take this fantastic opportunity to search The British Newspaper Archive - a vast treasure trove of historical newspapers from your own home.
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 259 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
27.4% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 15 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width" 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 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
/images/bna-logo-small.svgBNA logo
/images/BNA-logo-blue.svgPartnership logo
/images/bna-logo-big.pngBNA logo
/images/BNA-logo-blue.svgPartnership logo
...f3_BNA-home-top.png?auto=compress,formatNo alt attribute provided
...5dcb_BNA-mobile.png?auto=compress,formatNo alt attribute provided
/images/search-hero-local.jpgSearch the BNA
...BNA-home-middle.png?auto=compress,formatNo alt attribute provided
/images/icon-pages.svgLatest Titles

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
History’s colourful stories in black and white
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 History’s colourful stories in black and white
H1 82,507,016 Pages
H1 285,153 Latest Titles
H2 @BNArchive
H3 Dating from the 1700s
H3 Learn
H3 Free to view
H3 Explore publications
H3 Follow Us
H3 Unlock the tools for your research
H4 Wolverhampton Express and Star
H4 Warwick Courier
H4 Ripon Gazette
H4 Chad (Alfreton)
H4 Brighouse Echo
H4 Discover history
H4 About the project
H4 Using the site
H4 Work with us
H4 Talk to us
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 19 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Subdomain IMG-ALT BNA logo
/content/a_unique_archiveSubdomain IMG-ALT Partnership logo
/account/loginSubdomain Sign-in
/account/registerSubdomain Register
/account/subscribeSubdomain Subscribe
/Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT BNA logo
/Subdomain Home
/search/advancedSubdomain Advanced search
/titlesSubdomain Browse by title
/titles/recently-added/7daysSubdomain Latest additions
/savedSubdomain Saved
https://blog.britishnewspapera...External Subdomain Blog
A-TITLE Read the latest news
https://help-and-advice.britis...External Subdomain Help
/help/aboutSubdomain About
/search/advancedSubdomain Text duplicate Advanced search
/titlesSubdomain Text duplicate Browse by title
/titles/recently-added/7daysSubdomain Text duplicate Latest additions
/content/a_unique_archiveSubdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Partnership logo
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/1...External Subdomain No Text
/search/advancedSubdomain Advanced Search
/searchDate
/searchCountry
/searchRegion
/searchCounty
/searchPlace
/searchRecently Added titles
/titles82,507,016 Pages
https://blog.britishnewspapera...External Subdomain Hints & Tips
/search/results?AccessType=Fre...Search now
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/1...External Subdomain No Text
/titles/BL/wolverhampton-expre...Wolverhampton Express and Star 107412 new pages added
/titles/BL/warwick-courierWarwick Courier 34606 new pages added
/titles/BL/ripon-gazetteRipon Gazette 5166 new pages added
/titles/BL/chad-alfretonChad (Alfreton) 35110 new pages added
/titles/BL/brighouse-echoBrighouse Echo 9402 new pages added
/titles/recently-added/7daysView Latest Titles
https://twitter.com/BNArchiveNew window External Read all @BNArchive
https://twitter.com/BNArchiveExternal IMG-ALT Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/user/B...External Subdomain IMG-ALT YouTube
https://www.facebook.com/TheBr...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Facebook
https://uk.pinterest.com/TheBr...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Pinterest
https://www.instagram.com/theb...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Instagram
/account/registerTry it for FREE
/content/a_unique_archiveSubdomain A unique archive
/content/how_you_can_use_itSubdomain How you can use it
/content/your_success_storiesSubdomain Your success stories
/content/get_started_todaySubdomain Get started today
https://search.findmypast.co.u...External Subdomain 1911 Census
/content/how_we_do_itSubdomain How we do it
/content/meet_the_teamSubdomain Meet the team
/content/our_partnersSubdomain Our partners
/content/company_informationSubdomain Company information
/content/terms_and_conditionsSubdomain Terms & conditions
/content/privacySubdomain Privacy
/cookiesSubdomain Cookies
/content/complaintsSubdomain Copyright questions
/content/site_mapSubdomain Site map
/content/publishersSubdomain Publishers
/content/libraries_educationSubdomain Libraries & education
/content/affiliatesSubdomain Become an affiliate
/content/press_roomSubdomain Press room
https://twitter.com/BNArchiveExternal Follow us on Twitter
A-TITLE Follow us on Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/TheBr...External Subdomain Find us on Facebook
A-TITLE Find us on Facebook
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain Watch us on YouTube
A-TITLE Watch us on YouTube
/help/contactSubdomain Contact us
http://www.findmypast.co.uk/New window External Subdomain Findmypast
http://www.bl.uk/New window External Subdomain British Library
http://www.findmypast.co.uk/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Findmypast
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/New window External Subdomain GenesReunited

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/"
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 0.56 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 (270 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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servercloudflare
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content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 5,471 referring domains.
This page has 621,463 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 3,102 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-Agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /saved
Disallow: /content/free-access

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Sitemap: https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/sitemap.xml

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Home | Search the archive | British Newspaper Archive
Whether you are a researcher, historian or you simply want to know more about Britain's history, take this fantastic opportunity to search The British Newspaper Archive - a vast treasure trove of historical newspapers from your own home.

Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

KeywordResultRecheck
Archive75%Check
Newspaper Archive73%Check
British Newspaper Archive72%Check
British71%Check
newspaper70%Check
History66%Check
Search65%Check
new pages56%Check
newspaper pages54%Check
British Library53%Check
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