Gollancz.co.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
36% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
46% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.66 s
File size
90.90 kB
Words
141
Media files
52
Number of links
68 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | Gollancz - Bringing You News From Our World To Yours
The length of the page title is perfect. (569 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)
https://www.gollancz.co.uk/
There is a valid canonical link 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

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article:published_time2018-06-01T10:55:09+00:00
article:modified_time2023-10-02T11:44:15+00:00
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twitter:cardsummary
twitter:descriptionVisit the post for more.
og:typearticle
og:titleGollancz
og:urlhttps://www.gollancz.co.uk/
og:descriptionVisit the post for more.
og:site_nameGollancz - Bringing You News From Our World To Yours
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charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 141 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
30.5% of the text are stop words.
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 19 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 22 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" 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)
9 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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 NEWSLETTER SIGNUP
H2 Empty heading
H3 Read a Chapter Extract from Kavithri by Aman J Bedi
H3 GOLLANCZFEST 2024
There are 2 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 12 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.facebook.com/Golla...New window External IMG-ALT Facebook
A-TITLE Facebook
https://twitter.com/gollanczNew window External IMG-ALT Twitter
A-TITLE Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/goll...New window External IMG-ALT Instagram
A-TITLE Instagram
https://www.goodreads.com/user...New window External IMG-ALT GoodReads
A-TITLE GoodReads
https://www.youtube.com/user/G...New window External IMG-ALT YouTube
A-TITLE YouTube
https://www.gollancz.co.uk/No Text
/imprint/gollancz/page/books-g...BOOKS
/contributors/AUTHORS
/category/news/NEWS
/category/adviceWRITING ADVICE
/imprint/gollancz/page/team/TEAM
/imprint/gollancz/page/gollanc...GOLLANCZ PODCAST
/imprint/gollancz/page/contact...CONTACT
https://www.sfgateway.com/External SF GATEWAY
https://store.gollancz.co.uk/External Subdomain ONLINE STORE
https://www.orionbooks.co.uk/New window External The Orion Publishing Group Limited
https://www.orionbooks.co.uk/I...New window External Privacy Notice.
/gollancz-redirects/2021/08/12...EXPLORE THE STORE
/news/2021/05/17/gollancz-wins...Trivial anchor text
More
/titles/lucy-kissick/plutoshin...Trivial anchor text
MORE
https://www.gollancz.co.uk/Anchor No Text
https://www.gollancz.co.uk/Anchor No Text
/titles/rogba-payne/the-dance-...IMG-ALT The Dance of Shadows
/titles/kelly-andrew/your-bloo...IMG-ALT Your Blood, My Bones
/titles/brandon-sanderson/tres...IMG-ALT Tress of the Emerald Sea
/titles/stephen-baxter/behemot...IMG-ALT Behemoth
/titles/natasha-pulley-2/the-m...IMG-ALT The Mars House
/titles/various/gollanczfest-2...IMG-ALT GollanczFest 2024 eBook Sampler
/titles/brandon-sanderson/oath...IMG-ALT Oathbringer
/titles/brandon-sanderson/word...IMG-ALT Words of Radiance
/titles/brandon-sanderson/the-...IMG-ALT The Way of Kings
/titles/brandon-sanderson/rhyt...IMG-ALT Rhythm of War
/titles/brandon-sanderson/edge...IMG-ALT Edgedancer
/titles/none/the-stormlight-ar...IMG-ALT The Stormlight Archive Boxed Set
/titles/brian-herbert/sands-of...IMG-ALT Sands of Dune
/titles/jen-sugden/high-vaulta...IMG-ALT High Vaultage
/titles/ursula-k-le-guin/a-fis...IMG-ALT A Fisherman of the Inland Sea
/titles/ursula-k-le-guin/five-...IMG-ALT Five Ways to Forgiveness
/titles/evelyn-skye-3/damsel/9...IMG-ALT Damsel
/titles/brandon-sanderson/the-...IMG-ALT The Sunlit Man
https://www.gollancz.co.uk/Anchor No Text
https://www.gollancz.co.uk/Anchor No Text
/titles/aliette-de-bodard/a-fi...IMG-ALT A Fire Born of Exile
/titles/sterling-e-lanier/hier...IMG-ALT Hiero's Journey
/titles/karen-lord-2/the-galax...IMG-ALT The Galaxy Game
/titles/none/the-witcher-boxed...IMG-ALT The Witcher Boxed Set 2024
/titles/nalini-singh/archangel...IMG-ALT Archangel's Lineage
/titles/jilly-bond-4/red-star-...IMG-ALT Red Star Rising
/titles/j-t-greathouse/the-pat...IMG-ALT The Pattern of the World
/titles/rebecca-zahabi/the-lig...IMG-ALT The Lightborn
/titles/karen-lord-2/the-blue-...IMG-ALT The Blue, Beautiful World
/titles/peter-s-beagle-14/im-a...IMG-ALT I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons
/titles/aman-j-bedi/kavithri/9...IMG-ALT Kavithri
/titles/garth-nix/sir-hereward...IMG-ALT Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz
/titles/alexis-hall-3/mortal-f...IMG-ALT Mortal Follies
/titles/emily-hamilton-2/the-s...IMG-ALT The Stars Too Fondly
/titles/christopher-buehlman/t...IMG-ALT The Daughters' War
/titles/joanne-harris/the-moon...IMG-ALT The Moonlight Market
/titles/maureen-duffy-6/first-...IMG-ALT First Born
/titles/adam-roberts/lake-of-d...IMG-ALT Lake of Darkness
/titles/nalini-singh/primal-mi...IMG-ALT Primal Mirror
/titles/miles-cameron/deep-bla...IMG-ALT Deep Black
https://www.gollancz.co.uk/Anchor No Text
https://www.gollancz.co.uk/Anchor No Text
/news/2024/03/08/read-a-chapte...Read a Chapter Extract from Kavithri by Aman J Bedi
/news/2023/10/06/gollanczfest-...GOLLANCZFEST 2024
https://www.gollancz.co.uk/Anchor No Text
https://www.gollancz.co.uk/Anchor No Text
/landing-page/hachette/contact...Contact Us
/landing-page/hachette/accessi...Accessibility
/landing-page/gender-and-ethni...Gender and Ethnicity pay gaps
/landing-page/huk-statement-of...Statement of business ethics
https://www.hachette.co.uk/wp-...External Modern slavery statement
https://www.hachette.co.uk/wp-...External Sustainable sourcing policy
/landing-page/orion/orion-comp...Company information
/landing-page/orion/privacy-no...Privacy notices
/landing-page/hachette/use-of-...Use of cookies
/landing-page/terms-and-condit...Terms and conditions
/landing-page/huk-pensions-v2/Pensions
https://www.hachette.co.uk/wp-...External Tax strategy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.gollancz.co.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.66 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 10 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 22 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (91 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateWed, 24 Apr 2024 22:12:29 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-hackerIf you're reading this, you should visit wpvip.com/careers and apply to join the fun, mention this header.
x-powered-byWordPress VIP <https://wpvip.com>
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content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self' www.bookends.info *.bookends.info
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
link<https://www.gollancz.co.uk/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
content-encodinggzip
x-rqvie1 111 254 443
accept-rangesbytes
cache-controlmax-age=300, must-revalidate
x-cacheEXPIRED
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

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 1,843 referring domains.
This page has 174,510 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 528 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 1782 shares and comments on Facebook.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
GOLLANCZ65%Check
NEWS50%Check
News New50%Check
Read42%Check
Extract40%Check
Kavithri40%Check
GOLLANCZFEST40%Check
NEWSLETTER38%Check
SIGNUP38%Check
Sign38%Check

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