Guidingstar.ca - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
89% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
76% 
External factors
26% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.74 s
File size
54.90 kB
Words
1662
Media files
2
Number of links
19 internal / 4 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Discover Markham: Thriving City Filled with Opportunities
The length of the page title is perfect. (511 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
With a growing population, thriving business community, and range of activities, Markham offers something for all. Explore the city with us.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (848 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.guidingstar.ca/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-ca
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-ca
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
descriptionWith a growing population, thriving business community, and range of activities, Markham offers something for all. Explore the city with us.
robotsmax-image-preview:large
generatorWordPress 6.1.1
msapplication-TileImagehttps://www.guidingstar.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/star.png
article:published_time2021-04-30T10:03:16+00:00
article:modified_time2024-07-15T10:09:12+00:00
langen-ca
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:titleDiscover Markham: Thriving City Filled with Opportunities
twitter:descriptionWith a growing population, thriving business community, and range of activities, Markham offers something for all. Explore the city with us.
twitter:imagehttps://www.guidingstar.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-1-46.png
og:localeen_US
og:site_nameGuidingStar -
og:typearticle
og:titleDiscover Markham: Thriving City Filled with Opportunities
og:descriptionWith a growing population, thriving business community, and range of activities, Markham offers something for all. Explore the city with us.
og:urlhttps://www.guidingstar.ca/
og:imagehttps://www.guidingstar.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-1-46.png
og:image:secure_urlhttps://www.guidingstar.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-1-46.png
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 1662 words. That's ok.
36.7% 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.
31 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 21.35 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" 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 33 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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
...content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-1-46.pnglogo
...ent/uploads/2023/04/Markham-1024x394.pngMarkham

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Discover Markham: Thriving City Filled with Opportunities
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Discover Markham: Thriving City Filled with Opportunities
H2 Overview of the City
H2 Popular Activities and Events in Markham
H2 Where to Go on Shopping in Markham
H2 Housing Sector in Markham
H2 Job Opportunities in Markham
H2 Visit the City!
H3 Fitness and Sports Equipment
H3 Moving Services
H3 Information Technology Education
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 4 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.guidingstar.ca/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.guidingstar.ca/Subdomain IMG-ALT logo
https://www.guidingstar.ca/Subdomain GuidingStar
https://www.guidingstar.ca/Subdomain Home
/markhams-venue-gambling-integ...Subdomain Markham’s Gambling Integration
/category/sports-and-active-re...Subdomain Active Recreation
/category/useful-information/Subdomain Useful Information
/tech-pioneers/Subdomain Markham & Dublin Edge
/oktoberfest-in-unionville/Subdomain Oktoberfest in Unionville
/remembrance-day-in-unionville/Subdomain Remembrance Day in Unionville
/local-festivals-and-events-in...Subdomain Local Festivals in Unionville
/remembrance-day-in-canada/Subdomain Remembrance Day in Canada
/about-markhams/Subdomain About Markham’s Geography
/markhams-new-year-celebrations/Subdomain Guide to Markham’s
/black-history-month-celebration/Subdomain Black History Month
/tech-pioneers/hub for innovation and technology
https://www.facebook.com/share...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/share?text...New window External No Text
https://pinterest.com/pin/crea...New window External No Text
http://www.linkedin.com/shareA...New window External Subdomain No Text
/category/casino-blog/Subdomain Casino Blog
/about-us/Subdomain About
/contact/Subdomain Contact

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.guidingstar.ca/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.74 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 (55 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSun, 11 May 2025 14:02:20 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
x-powered-byPHP/8.0.25
nel{"report_to":"cf-nel","success_fraction":0.0,"max_age":604800}
expiresThu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
cache-controlno-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
pragmano-cache
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
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content-encodingzstd
servercloudflare
set-cookie44 Characters
cf-ray93e236a45f07a1a7-CDG
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 2 referring domains.
This page only has 4 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 2 different ip addresses.
This page is referenced by wikipedia.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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User-agent: cosmos
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User-agent: AhrefsBot/6.1
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User-agent: sitesnagger
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User-agent: jobo
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User-agent: MJ12bot
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User-agent: netants
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User-agent: backweb
Disallow: /

User-agent: verticalleap-backlinkchecker
Disallow: /

User-agent: stealer
Disallow: /

User-agent: indylibrary
Disallow: /

User-agent: anarchie
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: zade
Disallow: /

User-agent: blexbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /MyListOrder
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /_qa/
Disallow: /guidingst/*
Disallow: /guidingst-cntont/*
Disallow: /guidingst-igmont/*
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

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www.guidingstar.ca
Discover Markham: Thriving City Filled with Opportunities
With a growing population, thriving business community, and range of activities, Markham offers something for all. Explore the city with us.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Markham78%Check
City77%Check
Thriving73%Check
Thriving City Filled72%Check
Discover Markham68%Check
Opportunities65%Check
city offers63%Check
Discover62%Check
Filled62%Check
Markham offers61%Check
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