Microformats.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
63% 
Page structure
69% 
Link structure
71% 
Server
83% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.53 s
File size
48.10 kB
Words
3687
Media files
8
Number of links
47 internal / 52 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Microformats – building blocks for data-rich web pages
The length of the page title is perfect. (486 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
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.
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
generatorWordPress 5.4.16
msapplication-TileImagehttps://microformats.org/media/2020/06/microformats-logo.png
langen-us
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
This page contains 3687 words. That's ok.
40.6% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
73 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 24.76 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No viewpoint tag is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
This page only loads 2 JavaScript files. That's good!
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 103 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"never assume that the microformat struct you’re looking for will be in the top-level of the items list!"
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
6 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)
The HTTPS protocol for secure data transmission is not used.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
microformats
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (12 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 microformats
H2 Latest microformats news Feed
H2 Choose a Parser
H2 Considerations During Fetching and Parsing
H2 Storing Raw HTML vs Parsed Canonical JSON vs Derived Data
H2 Navigating Microformat Structures
H2 Possible Property Values
H2 Know Your Algorithms and Vocabularies
H2 Sanitise, Validate, and Truncate
H2 Test with Real-World Data
H2 Next Steps
H3 How to Consume Microformats 2 Data
H3 Google confirms Microformats are still a recommended metadata format for content
H3 microformats.org Year 14 — Welcome New Admins
H3 Happy 13th to microformats.org!
H3 Improving the php-mf2 parser
H3 Browse all entries by month in the blog archive
H3 What are microformats?
H3 Microformat specifications
H3 Upcoming Events
H3 Post Categories
H4 Tags for this entry
H4 Tags for this entry Duplicate text
H4 Tags for this entry 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 too many external links (52) on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
http://microformats.org/blogBlog
http://microformats.org/wikiWiki
http://microformats.org/wiki/ircDiscuss
/wiki/aboutAbout
/wiki/code-toolsCode & Tools
/wiki/get-startedGet Started
https://microformats.org/feedIMG-ALT Feed
A-TITLE link to RSS feed
/2022/02/19/how-to-consume-mic...How to Consume Microformats 2 Data
A-TITLE Permanent Link to How to Consume Microformats 2 Data
https://waterpigs.co.uk/articl...External Getting Started with Microformats 2
https://waterpigs.co.uk/articl...External on waterpigs.co.uk
/wiki/microformats2Anchor microformats 2 parsers
https://pkg.go.dev/willnorris....External Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Go
https://github.com/microformat...External Javascript (server-side and browser)
https://github.com/indieweb/ph...External PHP
https://github.com/microformat...External Python
https://github.com/microformat...External Ruby
https://crates.io/crates/micro...External Rust
https://waterpigs.co.uk/php-mf2/External php-mf2 sandbox
https://microformats.io/External microformats.io
https://aaronparecki.com/External Aaron Parecki
http://pin13.net/mf2/External pin13.net microformats parser
https://indieweb.org/discussExternal happy to help
https://github.com/aaronpk/XRay/External XRay
http://pin13.net/mf2/?url=http...External the parsed canonical microformats JSON for the article you’re reading right now
https://github.com/barnabywalt...External my microformats2 PHP functions
https://indieweb.org/authorshi...External authorship algorithm
https://indieweb.org/authorshi...External Text duplicate authorship algorithm
/wiki/representative-h-card-pa...representative h-card
https://indieweb.org/feedExternal Anchor How to consume h-feed
https://indieweb.org/authorshi...External How to consume h-entry
https://indieweb.org/commentsExternal Anchor How to display comments
https://owasp.org/www-communit...External XSS Prevention
https://owasp.org/www-communit...External Unicode Attacks
https://owasp.org/Top10/A03_20...External Injection Attacks
https://github.com/ezyang/html...External HTML Purifier
https://indieweb.org/External indieweb.org
https://indieweb.org/discussExternal indieweb chat room
/2022/02/19/how-to-consume-mic...February 19th, 2022
A-TITLE Permanent Link to How to Consume Microformats 2 Data
/2020/03/04/google-confirms-mi...Google confirms Microformats are still a recommended metadata format for content
A-TITLE Permanent Link to Google confirms Microformats are still a recommended metadata format for content
https://www.jvt.me/posts/2020/...External Subdomain originally appeared on Jamie Tanna’s site
https://webmasters.googleblog....External Subdomain removing support for the data-vocabulary metadata
https://microformats.io/External Microformats
https://twitter.com/JohnMu/sta...External January 21, 2020
https://t.co/ZCE7rTKmPaExternal URL anchor text
https://t.co/ZCE7rTKmPa
https://twitter.com/JohnMu/sta...External Text duplicate January 21, 2020
/2012/06/25/microformats-org-at-7Anchor 7th anniversary blog post
/wiki/google-searchsince at least 2009
https://indieweb.org/External IndieWeb
/tag/indiewebindieweb
/tag/microformats2microformats2
/2020/03/04/google-confirms-mi...March 4th, 2020
A-TITLE Permanent Link to Google confirms Microformats are still a recommended metadata format for content
/2020/03/04/google-confirms-mi...Anchor 1 Comment
/2018/06/22/microformats-org-y...microformats.org Year 14 — Welcome New Admins
A-TITLE Permanent Link to microformats.org Year 14 — Welcome New Admins
/wiki/adminsnew admins
https://aaronparecki.com/External Text duplicate Aaron Parecki
https://gregorlove.com/External Gregor Morrill
https://vanderven.se/martijn/External Martijn van der Ven
https://www.svenknebel.de/External Subdomain Sven Knebel
/wiki/microformats2Anchor microformats2 parser updates
http://tantek.com/2018/173/t2/...External tantek.com
/tag/microformats2Text duplicate microformats2
/2018/06/22/microformats-org-y...June 22nd, 2018
A-TITLE Permanent Link to microformats.org Year 14 — Welcome New Admins
/2018/06/21/happy-13th-to-micr...Happy 13th to microformats.org!
A-TITLE Permanent Link to Happy 13th to microformats.org!
/wiki/microformats2Text duplicate microformats2
https://indieweb.org/External Text duplicate indieweb
/wiki/microformats2-parsingkey
/wiki/h-feedspecs
http://tantek.com/2018/171/t2/...External Text duplicate tantek.com
/tag/indiewebText duplicate indieweb
/tag/microformats2Text duplicate microformats2
/2018/06/21/happy-13th-to-micr...June 21st, 2018
A-TITLE Permanent Link to Happy 13th to microformats.org!
/2017/06/22/improving-the-php-...Improving the php-mf2 parser
A-TITLE Permanent Link to Improving the php-mf2 parser
https://github.com/indieweb/ph...External php-mf2
/wiki/hcardhCard microformat
https://withknown.com/External Known
https://wordpress.org/plugins/...External WordPress plugins
https://modules.processwire.co...External Subdomain ProcessWire plugins
https://github.com/aaronpk/XRayExternal Text duplicate XRay
https://microformats.io/External Text duplicate microformats.io
https://gregorlove.com/2017/06...External URL anchor text
https://gregorlove.com/2017/06/improving-the-php-mf2-parser/
/2017/06/22/improving-the-php-...June 22nd, 2017
A-TITLE Permanent Link to Improving the php-mf2 parser
http://microformats.org/blog/blog archive
/wiki/aboutLearn more about microformats
/wiki/h-cardh-card
http://microformats.org/wiki/xfnXFN
/wiki/h-calendarh-calendar
/wiki/h-reviewh-review
/wiki/rel-licenserel-license
/wiki/rel-tagrel-tag
http://microformats.org/wiki/xoxoXOXO
http://microformats.org/wiki/the list of all microformats
/wiki/eventsSee microformats events on the wiki
http://indiewebcamp.com/eventsExternal See also IndieWebCamp Events!
/category/eventsEvents
A-TITLE Events about or including microformats; parties, conferences and hack days.
/category/newsNews
/category/this-weekThis Week in Microformats
A-TITLE This Week in Microformats is a semi-regular update of what's happened on the microformats.org wiki and mailing lists.
http://wordpress.org/External WordPress
https://www.linode.com/?r=f27e...External Subdomain Linode
http://no-www.org/External No WWW

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
The checked page does not redirect to another URL.
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.53 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 loads 4 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page only loads 2 JavaScript files. That's good!
The file size of the HTML document is fine (48 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx/1.17.10 (Ubuntu)
dateMon, 28 Apr 2025 23:13:58 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
transfer-encodingchunked
connectionkeep-alive
link<https://microformats.org/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,997 referring domains.
This page has 758,748 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,499 different ip addresses.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
microformats81%Check
Microformats Data68%Check
microformat data66%Check
HTML or64%Check
microformats parser62%Check
real-world microformats61%Check
parsing microformats61%Check
one or60%Check
properties or60%Check
Consume Microformats Data59%Check

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