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70% 
Page quality
38% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.29 s
File size
62.80 kB
Words
935
Media files
30
Number of links
177 internal / 15 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

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Title
(Critically important)
The Christian Century: Thoughtful, Independent, Progressive | The Christian Century
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 759 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
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Thoughtful, Independent, Progressive
The length of the meta description is perfect. (234 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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https://www.christiancentury.org/home
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
There is more than one canonical link on this page.
Language
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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
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There are no alternate links specified on this page.
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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
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The domain length is good.
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
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Content
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Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
There are 13 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate 1: Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary,...
  • Duplicate 2: It isn’t easy to lower the temperature of our political discourse. But...
  • Duplicate 3: The father of liberation theology endured much criticism, but he lived...
  • Duplicate 4: Equity requires people with power giving some of it up. What if we app...
  • Duplicate 5: In her memoir, Lore Ferguson Wilbert draws connections between her lif...
This page contains 935 words. That's ok.
32.8% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
18 paragraphs were found on this page.
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The average number of words per sentence of 15.13 words is good.
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Some tags are too long. With 136 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"since 1900, the christian century has published reporting, commentary, poetry, and essays on the role ..."
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Additional markup
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HTTPS
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Headings
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Heading structure

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H3 Gustavo Gutiérrez accompanied God’s suffering people
H3 Can we save democracy in the United States?
H3 Why church marketing won’t work with Gen Z
H3 Voting is important. It isn’t sacred.
H3 Healing from the ground up
H3 What happened to the American dream in the 20th century?
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H3 A poet’s quarrel with herself
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H3 What happened to the American dream in the 20th century? Duplicate text
H3 Healing from the ground up Duplicate text
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H3 Alejandra Oliva
H3 Brian Bantum
H3 Rachel Mann
H3 Isaac S. Villegas
H3 Samuel Wells
H3 Support the Christian Century
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H3 What happened to the American dream in the 20th century? Duplicate text
H3 Can we save democracy in the United States? Duplicate text
H3 Wisdom from Augustine in an election year
H4 Why church marketing won’t work with Gen Z Duplicate text
H4 Vegetables that are fearfully and wonderfully made
H4 Being salt
H4 What does poetry do?
H4 The meaning of a sermon
H4 Three responses to church decline
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Some anchor texts are used more than once.
18 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 15 external links on this page.

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Performance
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The page response time is excellent with 0.29 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (63 kB).

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