Cyclist.co.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
32% 
Page structure
32% 
Link structure
26% 
Server
77% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.60 s
File size
76.30 kB
Words
906
Media files
25
Number of links
96 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Cyclist | Road cycling news, bike reviews, in-depth analysis & tips
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 588 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The road bike site. The place for all your road cycling news, reviews, events, tutorials, buying advice and tips.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (673 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.cyclist.co.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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 prev meta tag on this page.
Rel next URL https://www.cyclist.co.uk/homepage/page/1/0
The rel next and prev tags are set correctly.
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
descriptionThe road bike site. The place for all your road cycling news, reviews, events, tutorials, buying advice and tips.
generatorDrupal 7 (http://drupal.org)
copyrightDennis Publishing Limited, licensed by Felden
viewportuser-scalable=yes, width=device-width, maximum-scale=1.6, initial-scale=1.0
apple-mobile-web-app-capableyes
format-detectiontelephone=no
HandheldFriendlytrue
langen
twitter:descriptionThe road bike site. The brand new place for all your road cycling news, reviews, events, tutorials, buying advice and tips.
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:urlhttps://www.cyclist.co.uk/
twitter:titleCyclist
og:titleCyclist
og:descriptionThe road bike site. The brand new place for all your road cycling news, reviews, events, tutorials, buying advice and tips.
og:imagehttps://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/451377639358341120/lVd794Ze.jpeg
og:urlhttps://www.cyclist.co.uk/
og:site_nameCyclist
og:typewebsite
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
Content-Typetext/html; charset=utf-8
x-dns-prefetch-controlon
nexthttps://www.cyclist.co.uk/homepage/page/1/0

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
There are 4 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate 1: A gravel bike from the rough side of the tracks, mountain bike special...
  • Duplicate 2: Latest collab for EF Education-EasyPost and EF Education-TIBCO SVB has...
The average number of words per sentence of 91.67 words is high.
This page contains 906 words. That's ok.
30.1% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
13 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 8 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "user-scalable=yes, width=device-width, maximum-scale=1.6, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 18 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
23 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)
This page uses Google authorship information without an image.
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
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...stage-1-tt-gallery-1_0.jpg?itok=IO5D6JzCNo alt attribute provided
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...6/07/cyclist-covers-51.png?itok=gJW8GdhCCyclist Issue 51Cyclist Issue 51
...themes/bikesetc/images/cyclist-merch.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ites/cyclist/themes/bikesetc/favicon.icoNo alt attribute provided
/sites/cyclist/themes/bikesetc/logo.pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Latest
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (6 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 35 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 Latest
H2 Tour de France 2022 Stage 4 gallery: Wow-t van Aert
H2 Stanton Switchpath Ti review
H2 Tour de France bikes: Ruben Guerreiro's Rapha × Palace Cannondale SuperSix Evo
H2 Stanton Switchpath Ti review Duplicate text
H2 Tour de France bikes: Ruben Guerreiro's Rapha × Palace Cannondale SuperSix Evo Duplicate text
H2 How to use chain quick links
H2 The cheapest titanium bike I’ve ever seen just got even cheaper
H2 Sponsored: The 2022 Trek Madone SLR – the evolution of speed
H2 Robyn’s Extremely Online Round-up #21: Death. Taxes. Pre-Tour busts and cuts
H2 Moda Vivo Disc review
H2 Tech tussle: Is it time to ditch the press-fit bottom bracket?
H2 Tour de France recap gallery: Denmark shines while racing simmers
H2 Tour de France bikes: Tadej Pogačar’s Colnago Prototipo
H2 Tour de France 2022 Stage 2 BTS gallery: New bikes from Canyon, Giant and Trek
H2 Tour de France bikes: Luke Durbridge’s unreleased Giant Propel
H2 Tour de France 2022 Stage 1 TT tech mega gallery
H2 Wetting the appetite: Behind the scenes gallery at the Tour de France Stage 1 in Copenhagen
H3 Subscribe to Cyclist
H3 Cyclist Shop
H3 Cyclist Newsletter
H4 Main menu
H4 Latest Reviews
H4 Most Popular
H4 More Cycling
H4 Latest News
H5 Stanton Switchpath Ti review Duplicate text
H5 Moda Vivo Disc review Duplicate text
H5 Lapierre Xelius SL 9.0 review
H5 Tour de France 2022 Stage 2 BTS gallery: Bikes, riders, dogs
H5 Tour de France 2022: All you need to know
H5 How to watch and live stream the Tour de France 2022
H5 Tour de France 2022 Stage 4 gallery: Wow-t van Aert Duplicate text
H5 Tour de France recap gallery: Denmark shines while racing simmers Duplicate text
H5 Robyn’s Extremely Online Round-up #21: Death. Taxes. Pre-Tour busts and cuts Duplicate text
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.
20 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.cyclist.co.uk/Anchor Skip to main content area
https://www.metropolis.co.uk/c...New window External cookies
https://www.cyclist.co.uk/IMG-ALT Cyclist
A-TITLE Cyclist
https://www.cyclist.co.uk/Home
/tags/tour-de-franceTdF
https://www.cyclist.co.uk/reviewsReviews
https://www.cyclist.co.uk/newsNews
/tags/big-rideRides
/tags/womens-cyclingWomen
https://www.cyclist.co.uk/ebikese-Bikes
/news/10759/tour-de-france-202...No Text
https://www.cyclist.co.uk/eventsEvents
/authors/robyn-davidsonRobyn Davidson
/news/10759/tour-de-france-202...Tour de France 2022 Stage 4 gallery: Wow-t van Aert
/reviews/10663/stanton-switchp...No Text
/authors/will-stricksonWill Strickson
/reviews/10663/stanton-switchp...Stanton Switchpath Ti review
/news/10748/cannondale-supersi...No Text
/authors/matthew-loveridgeMatthew Loveridge
/news/10748/cannondale-supersi...Tour de France bikes: Ruben Guerreiro's Rapha × Palace Cannondale SuperSix Evo
/reviews/10663/stanton-switchp...No Text
/reviews/10663/stanton-switchp...Text duplicate Stanton Switchpath Ti review
/authors/will-stricksonText duplicate Will Strickson
/news/10748/cannondale-supersi...No Text
/news/10748/cannondale-supersi...Text duplicate Tour de France bikes: Ruben Guerreiro's Rapha × Palace Cannondale SuperSix Evo
/authors/matthew-loveridgeText duplicate Matthew Loveridge
/tutorials/10685/how-to-use-ch...No Text
/tutorials/10685/how-to-use-ch...How to use chain quick links
/authors/stu-bowersStu Bowers
/authors/joseph-delvesJoseph Delves
/buying-guides/10582/titanium-...No Text
/buying-guides/10582/titanium-...The cheapest titanium bike I’ve ever seen just got even cheaper
/authors/matthew-loveridgeText duplicate Matthew Loveridge
/sponsored/10720/2022-trek-mad...No Text
/sponsored/10720/2022-trek-mad...Sponsored: The 2022 Trek Madone SLR – the evolution of speed
/authors/sponsoredSponsored
/news/10751/geraint-thomas-hai...No Text
/news/10751/geraint-thomas-hai...Robyn’s Extremely Online Round-up #21: Death. Taxes. Pre-Tour busts and cuts
/authors/robyn-davidsonText duplicate Robyn Davidson
/reviews/10754/moda-vivo-disc-...No Text
/reviews/10754/moda-vivo-disc-...Moda Vivo Disc review
/authors/will-stricksonText duplicate Will Strickson
/in-depth/10752/press-fit-vs-t...No Text
/in-depth/10752/press-fit-vs-t...Tech tussle: Is it time to ditch the press-fit bottom bracket?
/authors/sam-challisSam Challis
/authors/matthew-loveridgeText duplicate Matthew Loveridge
/news/10753/tour-de-france-202...No Text
/news/10753/tour-de-france-202...Tour de France recap gallery: Denmark shines while racing simmers
/authors/will-stricksonText duplicate Will Strickson
/news/10744/tadej-pogacar-bikeNo Text
/news/10744/tadej-pogacar-bikeTour de France bikes: Tadej Pogačar’s Colnago Prototipo
/authors/will-stricksonText duplicate Will Strickson
/authors/matthew-loveridgeText duplicate Matthew Loveridge
/news/10747/tour-de-france-202...No Text
/news/10747/tour-de-france-202...Tour de France 2022 Stage 2 BTS gallery: New bikes from Canyon, Giant and Trek
/authors/will-stricksonText duplicate Will Strickson
/authors/matthew-loveridgeText duplicate Matthew Loveridge
/news/10743/giant-propel-2023-...No Text
/news/10743/giant-propel-2023-...Tour de France bikes: Luke Durbridge’s unreleased Giant Propel
/authors/matthew-loveridgeText duplicate Matthew Loveridge
/authors/will-stricksonText duplicate Will Strickson
/news/10745/tour-de-france-202...No Text
/news/10745/tour-de-france-202...Tour de France 2022 Stage 1 TT tech mega gallery
/authors/matthew-loveridgeText duplicate Matthew Loveridge
/news/10746/tour-de-france-202...No Text
/news/10746/tour-de-france-202...Wetting the appetite: Behind the scenes gallery at the Tour de France Stage 1 in Copenhagen
/authors/will-stricksonText duplicate Will Strickson
/homepage?page=1,0More Stories
https://www.cyclist.co.uk/reviewsLatest Reviews
/reviews/10663/stanton-switchp...Text duplicate Stanton Switchpath Ti review
/reviews/10754/moda-vivo-disc-...Text duplicate Moda Vivo Disc review
/reviews/10653/lapierre-xelius...Lapierre Xelius SL 9.0 review
/news/10747/tour-de-france-202...Tour de France 2022 Stage 2 BTS gallery: Bikes, riders, dogs
/news/10747/tour-de-france-202...No Text
/news/1755/tour-de-france-rout...Tour de France 2022: All you need to know
/news/1755/tour-de-france-rout...No Text
/news/8632/how-to-watch-and-li...How to watch and live stream the Tour de France 2022
/news/8632/how-to-watch-and-li...No Text
http://cyclistmag.co.uk/?chann...New window External Subscribe to Cyclist Sign up for Cyclist subscription here.
IMG-ALT Cyclist Issue 51
https://shop.cyclist.co.uk/?ut...New window External Subdomain Cyclist Shop Shop the Cyclist merchandise here.
https://cyclistmag.co.uk/newsl...New window External Cyclist Newsletter Sign up to the Cyclist newsletter here.
https://www.cyclist.co.uk/newsLatest News
/news/10759/tour-de-france-202...Text duplicate Tour de France 2022 Stage 4 gallery: Wow-t van Aert
/authors/robyn-davidsonText duplicate Robyn Davidson
/news/10753/tour-de-france-202...Text duplicate Tour de France recap gallery: Denmark shines while racing simmers
/authors/will-stricksonText duplicate Will Strickson
/news/10751/geraint-thomas-hai...Text duplicate Robyn’s Extremely Online Round-up #21: Death. Taxes. Pre-Tour busts and cuts
/authors/robyn-davidsonText duplicate Robyn Davidson
https://www.facebook.com/Cycli...External Facebook
https://twitter.com/CyclistExternal Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/cycl...External Instagram
https://store.cyclist.co.uk/loginExternal Subdomain Manage your account
http://cyclistmag.co.uk/faqExternal FAQ page
http://cyclistmag.co.uk/contac...External Trivial anchor text
here
https://www.cyclist.co.uk/Text duplicate Home
/tags/tour-de-franceText duplicate TdF
https://www.cyclist.co.uk/reviewsText duplicate Reviews
https://www.cyclist.co.uk/newsText duplicate News
/tags/big-rideText duplicate Rides
/tags/womens-cyclingText duplicate Women
https://www.cyclist.co.uk/ebikesText duplicate e-Bikes
/contact-usContact us
/about-usAbout us
https://www.cyclist.co.uk/feedsFeeds
https://www.metropolis.co.uk/c...Nofollow External Privacy Policy
https://www.cyclist.co.uk/authorsAuthors
https://www.cyclist.co.uk/sitemapSitemap

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.cyclist.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 0.60 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 loads 8 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (76 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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cache-controlmax-age=315360000
content-encodinggzip
content-languageen
content-length15937
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
dateWed, 06 Jul 2022 04:48:54 GMT
expiresThu, 31 Dec 2037 23:55:55 GMT
link<https://www.cyclist.co.uk/>; rel="canonical"
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x-varnish-content-typedyn
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http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 3,640 referring domains.
This page has 256,037 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,936 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares, comments and likes on Facebook.
Listed on Webwiki
(Nice to have)
This website is listed on Webwiki.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
# Directories
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /scripts/
# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /user/logout/
Disallow: /search/
# Prevent crawling DFP tags
Disallow: /359/
#Prevent crawling content with default url aliases
Disallow: /content/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Sitemap: https://www.cyclist.co.uk/sitemap.xml

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