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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
91% 
Page quality
41% 
Page structure
63% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
72% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.00 s
File size
114.40 kB
Words
234
Media files
25
Number of links
43 internal / 13 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
HICKS: Graphic design, branding, illustration & iconography.
The length of the page title is perfect. (540 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Graphic design, branding, illustration & iconography. You may recognise our identity work on logos for Firefox, Mailchimp and Shopify, as well as emoticons for Skype.
The meta description is too long: 1022 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 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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width,initial-scale=1.0
descriptionGraphic design, branding, illustration & iconography. You may recognise our identity work on logos for Firefox, Mailchimp and Shopify, as well as emoticons for Skype.
keywordsdesign, icons, screens, mobile, icondesign, illustration, logos, branding, interfaces, ui
fediverse:creator@[email protected]
CCBotnofollow
robotsnoai, noimageai
tdm-reservation1
langen
twitter:titleHICKS: Graphic design, branding, illustration & iconography.
twitter:site@hicksdesign
twitter:creator@hicksdesign
twitter:descriptionGraphic design, branding, illustration & iconography. You may recognise our identity work on logos for Firefox, Mailchimp and Shopify, as well as emoticons for Skype.
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:imagehttps://hicks.design/media/pages/home/c4631c5405-1733663143/hicks_social.png
og:urlhttps://hicks.design
og:typewebsite
og:titleHICKS: Graphic design, branding, illustration & iconography.
og:descriptionGraphic design, branding, illustration & iconography. You may recognise our identity work on logos for Firefox, Mailchimp and Shopify, as well as emoticons for Skype.
og:imagehttps://hicks.design/media/pages/home/c4631c5405-1733663143/hicks_social.png
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 234 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
23.1% 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 14 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
This page only loads 1 JavaScript files. That's good!
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)
21 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
...-1734700690/seatspy-landscape-thumb.webpNo alt attribute provided
...09bff7c942-1734700691/Workbrew_Thumb.svgNo alt attribute provided
...y/cd30814787-1734700691/Share-Openly.svgThe ShareOpenly icon is a slight spiral pointing upwards with an arrowhead at the top
...hero/e7a5a38962-1734700691/Thumbnail.svgRock Hero logo is a hand holding a white delivery bag over a large red letter R, the hand and arm are cutout of the R, showing the dark purple background.
...a672e9c-1734700692/thunderbird-thumb.svgNo alt attribute provided
...a1198f1-1734700692/thumb-spellstruck.svgNo alt attribute provided
...cffbfba48e-1733662998/thumb-tigereye.svgNo alt attribute provided
...ck/6503f2760b-1734700692/thumb-truck.svgNo alt attribute provided
...7bb20d3d-1734700693/bryan-thumb-wide.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...pgi/40927aada0-1733662992/thumb-tgpi.svgNo alt attribute provided
...125cca-1733662992/thumb-tetralogical.svgNo alt attribute provided
...ve/2a8187237b-1734700688/thumb-rtsl.webpNo alt attribute provided
...r/a916398dfd-1734700689/thumb-traces.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...kers/33c538ace2-1734700690/thumb-hcw.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...b3ad6385e7-1733662994/thumb-kezzler.webpNo alt attribute provided
...c6491e3b92-1733662994/thumb-coverage.svgNo alt attribute provided
...cons/4f0d01e03b-1733662994/thumb-zip.svgNo alt attribute provided
...o/2282e34dd6-1733662994/thumb-ihasco.svgNo alt attribute provided
...sport/26b6ec0b7f-1733662994/thumb-f1.svgNo alt attribute provided
...o/682f5437a8-1734700690/Podcast-Logo.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...url/bbddf9c7eb-1734700690/thumb-curl.svgNo alt attribute provided
.../97e0adf007-1734700691/thumb-spotify.svgNo alt attribute provided
...735034952/img_4992-900x900-crop-q70.webpA pre made sandwich sits alluringly on a desk
...sts/99e0d26bf8-1733663140/troika-53.webpNo alt attribute provided
...300/38e341b349d99d7fe50df5138a4fc24f.pngThe National - Runaway (Live in Rome)

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Design twaddle
The H1 heading is too short (14 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 39 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Design twaddle
H2 About us
H2 Latest from Hicks.design
H2 Contact
H3 SeatSpy
H3 Workbrew
H3 ShareOpenly
H3 Rock Hero
H3 Thunderbird Logo Redesign
H3 SpellStruck Icons
H3 TigerEye Identity
H3 Truck
H3 Bryan Font
H3 TPGi Identity
H3 Tetralogical Identity
H3 Resolve to Save Lives
H3 Traces EP Cover
H3 Health Care Worker Illustrations
H3 Kezzler
H3 CoverageBook logo
H3 ZipMoney Icons
H3 iHasco Identity
H3 Motorsport Iconography
H3 Rissington Podcast Logo
H3 Curl logo
H3 Spotify Iconography
H3 Festive Sandwich Reviews 2024
H3 Troika #53: Shoegazin' Part 5 - Black Artists
H3 Runaway (Live in Rome)
H4 © 2002–25
H4 Latest Work
H4 Latest Post
H4 24 Dec 2024
H4 Troika Podcast
H4 25 Nov 2024
H4 Now Playing
H4 The National
H4 Colophon
H4 © 2002–25 Duplicate text
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 13 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://hicks.design/Anchor Skip navigation
https://hicks.design/No Text
https://hicks.design/workWork
https://hicks.design/aboutAbout
https://hicks.design/journalJournal
https://hicks.design/troikaTroika
https://hicks.design/shopShop
https://hicks.design/Anchor Contact
/feeds/journal/A-TITLE Subscribe to Hicks.design
https://hicks.design/eggs/A-TITLE Look at some eggs
/journal/mini-clubmanA-TITLE My Mini Clubman Untold Edition
https://hicks.design/work/seatspyLatest Work SeatSpy
A-TITLE SeatSpy
/work/workbrewWorkbrew
A-TITLE Workbrew
/work/shareopenlyShareOpenly
IMG-ALT The ShareOpenly icon is a slight spiral pointing upwards with an arrowhead at the top
A-TITLE ShareOpenly
/work/rock-heroRock Hero
IMG-ALT Rock Hero logo is a hand holding a white delivery bag over a large red letter R, the hand and arm are cutout of the R, showing the dark purple background.
A-TITLE Rock Hero
/work/thunderbird-logo-redesignThunderbird Logo Redesign
A-TITLE Thunderbird Logo Redesign
/work/spellstruckSpellStruck Icons
A-TITLE SpellStruck Icons
/work/tigereye-identityTigerEye Identity
A-TITLE TigerEye Identity
https://hicks.design/work/truckTruck
A-TITLE Truck
/work/bryan-fontBryan Font
A-TITLE Bryan Font
https://hicks.design/work/tpgiTPGi Identity
A-TITLE TPGi Identity
/work/tetralogicalTetralogical Identity
A-TITLE Tetralogical Identity
https://hicks.design/work/resolveResolve to Save Lives
A-TITLE Resolve to Save Lives
/work/traces-ep-coverTraces EP Cover
A-TITLE Traces EP Cover
/work/health-care-workersHealth Care Worker Illustrations
A-TITLE Health Care Worker Illustrations
https://hicks.design/work/kezzlerKezzler
A-TITLE Kezzler
/work/coveragebookCoverageBook logo
A-TITLE CoverageBook logo
/work/zipmoney-iconsZipMoney Icons
A-TITLE ZipMoney Icons
https://hicks.design/work/ihascoiHasco Identity
A-TITLE iHasco Identity
/work/motorsportMotorsport Iconography
A-TITLE Motorsport Iconography
/work/rissington-podcast-logoRissington Podcast Logo
A-TITLE Rissington Podcast Logo
https://hicks.design/work/curlCurl logo
A-TITLE Curl logo
https://hicks.design/work/spotifySpotify Iconography
A-TITLE Spotify Iconography
https://hicks.design/about/Read more about our services
https://hicks.design/Anchor contact us
/journal/festive-sandwich-revi...Festive Sandwich Reviews 2024 24 Dec 2024
IMG-ALT A pre made sandwich sits alluringly on a desk
/troika/troika-53-shoegazin-pa...Troika #53: Shoegazin' Part 5 - Black Artists 25 Nov 2024
https://www.last.fm/user/Hicks...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.last.fm/music/The+...New window External Subdomain Runaway (Live in Rome) The National Music is scrobbled from my Plex library and streaming services.
IMG-ALT The National - Runaway (Live in Rome)
A-TITLE The National - Runaway (Live in Rome)
https://mastodon.social/@jonhicksExternal @jonhicks
https://mastodon.social/@jonhicksExternal Mastodon
https://bsky.app/profile/hicks...External BlueSky
https://www.threads.net/@hicks...External Subdomain Threads
https://www.instagram.com/hick...External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jo...External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.last.fm/user/Hicks...External Subdomain Last.fm
https://music.apple.com/profil...External Subdomain Apple Music
https://www.discogs.com/user/h...External Subdomain Discogs
https://hicks.design/about/human
https://f37foundry.com/fonts/f...External F37 Beckett
https://getkirby.com/External Kirby
/feeds/journal/Text duplicate Journal
/feeds/troika-podcastTroika Episodes
/feeds/journal/Text duplicate A-TITLE Subscribe to Hicks.design
https://hicks.design/eggs/Text duplicate A-TITLE Look at some eggs
/journal/mini-clubmanText duplicate A-TITLE My Mini Clubman Untold Edition

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
The checked page does not redirect to another URL.
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 1.00 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.
This page only loads 1 CSS files. That's ok.
This page only loads 1 JavaScript files. That's good!
The file size of the HTML document is fine (114 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
varyAccept-Encoding
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
dateSat, 18 Jan 2025 05:01:24 GMT
serverApache
connectionkeep-alive
keep-alivetimeout=5
content-length117116
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1
content-encodinggzip

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 3,963 referring domains.
This page has 69,444 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,414 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

Sitemap: https://hicks.design/sitemap.xml

User-agent: *
Disallow: /assets/
Disallow: /assets/css/
Disallow: /assets/js/
Disallow: /else/
Disallow: /clients/

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

# The example for img2dataset, although the default is *None*
User-agent: img2dataset
Disallow: /

# Brandwatch - "AI to discover new trends"
User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow: /

# webz.io - they sell data for training LLMs.
User-agent: Omgilibot
Disallow: /

# Items below were sourced from darkvisitors.com
# Categories included: "AI Data Scraper", "AI Assistant", "AI Search Crawler", "Undocumented AI Agent"

# AI Search Crawler
# https://darkvisitors.com/agents/amazonbot

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

# Undocumented AI Agent
# https://darkvisitors.com/agents/anthropic-ai

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

# AI Search Crawler
# https://darkvisitors.com/agents/applebot

User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://darkvisitors.com/agents/applebot-extended

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://darkvisitors.com/agents/bytespider

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://darkvisitors.com/agents/ccbot

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

# AI Assistant
# https://darkvisitors.com/agents/chatgpt-user

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

# Undocumented AI Agent
# https://darkvisitors.com/agents/claude-web

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://darkvisitors.com/agents/claudebot

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

# Undocumented AI Agent
# https://darkvisitors.com/agents/cohere-ai

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://darkvisitors.com/agents/diffbot

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://darkvisitors.com/agents/facebookbot

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://darkvisitors.com/agents/google-extended

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://darkvisitors.com/agents/gptbot

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://darkvisitors.com/agents/omgili

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /

# AI Search Crawler
# https://darkvisitors.com/agents/perplexitybot

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

# AI Search Crawler
# https://darkvisitors.com/agents/youbot

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

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Design91%Check
Graphic Design76%Check
Iconography65%Check
Hicks63%Check
Illustration61%Check
Branding58%Check
Logo58%Check
Identity56%Check
Work56%Check
Icons56%Check
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