contractingbusiness.com | Website SEO Review

Response time

0.53 s

File size

306.30 kB

Words

504

Media files

33

Number of links

68 internal / 11 external

Meta specifications 98% achieved

Title

(Critically important)

Home | Contracting Business

The length of the page title is perfect. (263 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)

There are no duplicate words in the title

Meta Title

Meta description

(Critically important)

News, insights and how-to content for HVACR professionals who support commercial, residential and industrial facilities.

The length of the meta description is perfect. (741 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)

Meta Description

Crawlability

(Critically important)

There are no problems in accessing the website.

Search Engine Crawlers

Canonical URL

(Important)

https://www.contractingbusiness.com/

There is a valid canonical link specified.

Canonical Tag

Language

(Somewhat important)

Language detected in text: en

Language defined in HTML: en

Server location: United States of America

The following language is defined by HTML: en

Declaring language in HTML

Alternate/Hreflang Links

(Somewhat important)

There are no alternate links specified on this page.

Hreflang

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.

Meta Tags

Domain

(Somewhat important)

The domain name is very long.

The domain is no subdomain.

The domain does not contain non-latin characters.

Domain for SEO

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.

SEO-friendly URLs

Charset encoding

(Somewhat important)

The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.

Character Encoding

Doctype

(Nice to have)

The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.

The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.

HTML Doctype

Favicon

(Nice to have)

The favicon is linked correctly.

Favicon

Meta tags

Name	Value
viewport	width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
description	News, insights and how-to content for HVACR professionals who support commercial, residential and industrial facilities.
og:url	https://www.contractingbusiness.com/
og:site_name	Contracting Business
og:locale	en
og:type	website
type	website
theme-color	#0082a1
image	https://img.contractingbusiness.com/files/base/ebm/contractingbusiness/image/website/logos/1709667132056-contractingbus_80th.png?auto=format,compress&fit=fill&fill=solid&fill-color=&w=1200&h=627
robots	max-image-preview:large
tag	Empty
BlueConic	{"page_type":"content","canonical_path":"/","content":{"id":66690,"type":"section","name":"Home"},"company":{"id":"","name":""},"section":{"id":"","name":"","alias":"","fullName":""},"taxonomy":[],"authors":[]}
lang	en
twitter:card	summary_large_image
twitter:title	Home
twitter:description	News, insights and how-to content for HVACR professionals who support commercial, residential and industrial facilities.
twitter:image:src	https://img.contractingbusiness.com/files/base/ebm/contractingbusiness/image/website/logos/1709667132056-contractingbus_80th.png?auto=format,compress&fit=fill&fill=solid&fill-color=&w=1200&h=627
og:description	News, insights and how-to content for HVACR professionals who support commercial, residential and industrial facilities.
og:title	Home
og:image	https://img.contractingbusiness.com/files/base/ebm/contractingbusiness/image/website/logos/1709667132056-contractingbus_80th.png?auto=format,compress&fit=fill&fill=solid&fill-color=&w=1200&h=627
X-UA-Compatible	IE=edge
charset	utf-8

Page quality 76% achieved

Content

(Critically important)

Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.

The average number of words per sentence of 9.25 words is low.

This page contains 504 words. That's ok.

20.8% 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.

No placeholders texts or images were found.

There are no duplicates on the site.

Content is King

Frames

(Critically important)

This page does not use a frameset.

Frames and framesets

Mobile optimization

(Somewhat important)

A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.

At least one Apple touch icon is specified.

Mobile Optimization

Bold and strong tags

(Somewhat important)

The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 10 tags for this page.

Strong and Bold Tags

Image SEO

(Somewhat important)

6 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.

Image SEO

There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.

Social Sharing

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.

HTTPS

Media list

URL	Alt attribute	Title
...t,compress&fit=fill&fill=solid&height=45	Contracting Business
...it&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	women_board_of_directors	women_board_of_directors
...it&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	trophy	trophy
...it&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	No alt attribute provided
...it&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	dreamstime_l_304945176	dreamstime_l_304945176
...it&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	flooded_florida_neighborhood	flooded_florida_neighborhood
...it&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	call_dad_austin	call_dad_austin
...it&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	whitepaper_featured_image	whitepaper_featured_image
...it&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	lennox_webinar_featured_image_hpac	lennox_webinar_featured_image_hpac
...it&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	dreamstime_l_145023458	dreamstime_l_145023458
...it&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	No alt attribute provided
...it&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	No alt attribute provided
...it&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	exit_maze	exit_maze
...it&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	winter_and_fall	winter_and_fall
...it&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	No alt attribute provided
...it&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	No alt attribute provided
...it&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	No alt attribute provided
...it&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	light_bulb	light_bulb
...it&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	trucks	trucks
...it&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	creative_business_people	creative_business_people
...it&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	phone_users	phone_users
...it&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	asian_man_behind_counter	asian_man_behind_counter
...it&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	Families that have received home AC systems, Air Pro employees and Miami Dolphins cheerleaders pose for photo.	Families that have received home AC systems, Air Pro employees and Miami Dolphins cheerleaders pose for photo.
...te&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	heat_pumps	heat_pumps
...it&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	dan_and_daniel_akers_cropped	dan_and_daniel_akers_cropped
...it&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	november_24_collage	november_24_collage
...it&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	vincent_giglio	vincent_giglio
...it&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	trane_odyssey_split_systems_with_symbio_thermostat	trane_odyssey_split_systems_with_symbio_thermostat
...te&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	Past & Present	Past & Present
...it&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250	loring_29	loring_29
...t,compress&fit=fill&fill=solid&height=45	Contracting Business
/images/corporate_logo.png	Endeavor Business Media Logo

Page structure 58% achieved

H1 heading

(Critically important)

There is no H1 heading specified.

H1-H6 headings

Headings

(Important)

The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

There are 38 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Some headings do not have any content.

H1-H6 headings

Heading structure

Heading level	Content
H2	Recent
H2	Top Stories
H2	Recommended
H2	Learning Resources
H2	Empty heading
H2	Empty heading
H2	Columns
H2	Empty heading
H2	Empty heading
H2	Contracting Business Success
H2	Empty heading
H2	Empty heading
H2	Residential HVAC
H2	Empty heading
H2	FEATURED MEDIA
H2	Empty heading
H2	Empty heading
H3	Women in HVACR Announces Open Board Positions
H3	ACCA Accepting Award Nominations
H3	Download "Refrigerants Revolution 2024"
H3	Download "Revise and Conquer"
H3	Why Your HVAC Company Needs a 'Cheerleader'
H3	ACCA urges homeowners and businesses to take caution before restarting systems in flood zones
H3	Help in Time of Uncertainty: HVAC Company Reaches Out to Flood Victims
H3	Why HVAC Contractors Must Embrace Smart Home Tech to Survive and Thrive
H3	Low GWP Transition: Making the Shift to A2L Refrigerants Safe & Simple
H3	Maximize Compressor Heat Pump Performance and Lifespan
H3	Modernizing Buildings with Digital Equipment Controls
H3	Transforming Sustainability Commitments to Action: Building Electrification and the Power of Air-Source Multi-Pipe Systems
H3	When Should You Exit Your HVAC Business? Part 1
H3	10 Ways to Weatherproof Your HVAC Business
H3	We Must Replenish Our Dwindling HVACR Workforce
H3	8 Lies HVAC Contractors Tell Themselves
H3	A 30-year HVAC Time Capsule
H3	Contractor University’s Cracking the Code: How We Learn
H3	7 Ways to Keep Your HVAC Install Crews Busy All Year
H3	'Cracking the Code' on How Digital Marketing Adds to Your Overall Marketing HVAC Plan
H3	Contractor University’s Cracking the Code Weekly Show: Using Financing to Adapt to the Modern Consumer
H3	Contractor University’s Cracking the Code Weekly Show: How to Be the Best Sales Professional In Your Market
H3	Air Pros USA Teams Up with Miami Dolphins Football UNITES™ to Provide AC Units to Three Florida Families
H3	HVAC Heat Pumps: Hype or Hero?
H3	Leap Partners Expands with West Virginia Acquisition
H3	November Product Parade
H3	Many Awards Presented at PHCC CONNECT 2024
H3	Busy Year: Trane, METUS Launch Many Redesigned HVAC Products
H3	Schlosser HVAC, Plumbing Legacy Continues
H3	New Heat Pumps Change Multi-family Landscape in NYC

Link structure 83% achieved

Internal links

(Important)

Some internal link anchor texts are too long.

Some anchor texts are used more than once.

6 links don't have an anchor text.

The number of internal links is ok.

All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.

Internal Linking

External links

(Nice to have)

There are 11 external links on this page.

External Links

Found links on this page

Link	Attributes	Anchor text
/		IMG-ALT Contracting Business
https://endeavor.dragonforms.c...	New window External Subdomain	Newsletter Subscriptions
https://endeavor.dragonforms.c...	New window External Subdomain	Magazine Subscription
/search		Search
/association-news/news/5523967...		IMG-ALT women_board_of_directors
/association-news/news/5523967...		Women in HVACR Announces Open Board Positions
/association-news/news/5524026...		IMG-ALT trophy
/association-news/news/5524026...		ACCA Accepting Award Nominations
/whitepapers/whitepaper/212793...	New window Subdomain	No Text
/whitepapers/whitepaper/212793...	Subdomain	Download "Refrigerants Revolution 2024"
/whitepapers/whitepaper/212580...	Subdomain	Download "Revise and Conquer"
/contracting-business-success/...		IMG-ALT dreamstime_l_304945176
/contracting-business-success/...		Why Your HVAC Company Needs a 'Cheerleader'
/association-news/article/5523...		IMG-ALT flooded_florida_neighborhood
/association-news/article/5523...		ACCA urges homeowners and businesses to take caution before restarting systems in flood zones
/residential-hvac/media-galler...		IMG-ALT call_dad_austin
/residential-hvac/media-galler...		Help in Time of Uncertainty: HVAC Company Reaches Out to Flood Victims
/learning-resources/white-pape...		IMG-ALT whitepaper_featured_image
/learning-resources/white-pape...		Why HVAC Contractors Must Embrace Smart Home Tech to Survive and Thrive
/webinars/webinar/55235924/low...		IMG-ALT lennox_webinar_featured_image_hpac
/webinars/webinar/55235924/low...		Low GWP Transition: Making the Shift to A2L Refrigerants Safe & Simple
/refrigeration/whitepaper/5523...		IMG-ALT dreamstime_l_145023458
/refrigeration/whitepaper/5523...		Maximize Compressor Heat Pump Performance and Lifespan
/webinars/webinar/55128876/mod...		No Text
/webinars/webinar/55128876/mod...		Modernizing Buildings with Digital Equipment Controls
/webinars/webinar/55125983/tra...		No Text
/webinars/webinar/55125983/tra...		Transforming Sustainability Commitments to Action: Building Electrification and the Power of Air-Source Multi-Pipe Systems
/columns		Columns
/columns/article/55239928/when...		IMG-ALT exit_maze
/columns/article/55239928/when...		When Should You Exit Your HVAC Business? Part 1
/columns/last-word/article/551...		IMG-ALT winter_and_fall
/columns/last-word/article/551...		10 Ways to Weatherproof Your HVAC Business
/columns/article/55128662/we-m...		No Text
/columns/article/55128662/we-m...		We Must Replenish Our Dwindling HVACR Workforce
/columns/the-rant/article/5508...		No Text
/columns/the-rant/article/5508...		8 Lies HVAC Contractors Tell Themselves
/columns/last-word/blog/550555...		No Text
/columns/last-word/blog/550555...		A 30-year HVAC Time Capsule
/contracting-business-success		Contracting Business Success
/contracting-business-success/...		IMG-ALT light_bulb
/contracting-business-success/...		Contractor University’s Cracking the Code: How We Learn
/contracting-business-success/...		IMG-ALT trucks
/contracting-business-success/...		7 Ways to Keep Your HVAC Install Crews Busy All Year
/contracting-business-success/...		IMG-ALT creative_business_people
/contracting-business-success/...		'Cracking the Code' on How Digital Marketing Adds to Your Overall Marketing HVAC Plan
/contracting-business-success/...		IMG-ALT phone_users
/contracting-business-success/...		Contractor University’s Cracking the Code Weekly Show: Using Financing to Adapt to the Modern Consumer
/contracting-business-success/...		IMG-ALT asian_man_behind_counter
/contracting-business-success/...		Contractor University’s Cracking the Code Weekly Show: How to Be the Best Sales Professional In Your Market
/residential-hvac		Residential HVAC
/around-the-web/news/55238274/...		IMG-ALT Families that have received home AC systems, Air Pro employees and Miami Dolphins cheerleaders pose for photo.
/around-the-web/news/55238274/...		Air Pros USA Teams Up with Miami Dolphins Football UNITES™ to Provide AC Units to Three Florida Families
/residential-hvac/article/5518...		IMG-ALT heat_pumps
/residential-hvac/article/5518...		HVAC Heat Pumps: Hype or Hero?
/mergers-acquisitions/news/551...		IMG-ALT dan_and_daniel_akers_cropped
/mergers-acquisitions/news/551...		Leap Partners Expands with West Virginia Acquisition
/media-galleries		FEATURED MEDIA
/product-news/media-gallery/55...		IMG-ALT november_24_collage
/product-news/media-gallery/55...		November Product Parade
/association-news/media-galler...		IMG-ALT vincent_giglio
/association-news/media-galler...		Many Awards Presented at PHCC CONNECT 2024
/product-news/media-gallery/55...		IMG-ALT trane_odyssey_split_systems_with_symbio_thermostat
/product-news/media-gallery/55...		Busy Year: Trane, METUS Launch Many Redesigned HVAC Products
/contracting-business-success/...		IMG-ALT Past & Present
/contracting-business-success/...		Schlosser HVAC, Plumbing Legacy Continues
/residential-hvac/media-galler...		IMG-ALT loring_29
/residential-hvac/media-galler...		New Heat Pumps Change Multi-family Landscape in NYC
/	Text duplicate	IMG-ALT Contracting Business
https://www.facebook.com/CBMag...	New window External Subdomain	URL anchor text https://www.facebook.com/CBMag/?fref=ts
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...	New window External Subdomain	URL anchor text https://www.linkedin.com/company/contracting-business-mag/
https://twitter.com/Contractin...	New window External	URL anchor text https://twitter.com/ContractingBiz
/page/about-us		About Us
/page/contact-us		Contact Us
https://buildings.endeavorb2b....	New window External Subdomain	Advertise
https://endeavor.dragonforms.c...	New window External Subdomain	Do Not Sell or Share
https://www.endeavorbusinessme...	New window External Subdomain	Privacy & Cookie Policy
https://www.endeavorbusinessme...	New window External Subdomain	Terms of Service
https://www.endeavorbusinessme...	New window External Subdomain	© 2024 Endeavor Business Media, LLC. All rights reserved.
https://www.endeavorbusinessme...	New window External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Endeavor Business Media Logo

Server configuration 85% achieved

HTTP redirects

(Critically important)

This page redirects to "https://www.contractingbusiness.com/"

WWW Redirect

HTTP header

(Important)

The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)

This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.

HTTP headers

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.

The file size of the HTML document is fine (306 kB).

Page Speed

HTTP Response Header

Name	Value
date	Sun, 10 Nov 2024 18:39:16 GMT
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cache-control	s-maxage=86400, max-age=3600, must-revalidate
vary	Accept-Encoding
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x-powered-by	Nuxt
server-timing	dtSInfo;desc="0", dtRpid;desc="1975502512"
set-cookie	143 Characters
x-oneagent-js-injection	true
x-ruxit-js-agent	true
cf-cache-status	MISS
server	cloudflare
cf-ray	8e082a108c0a4d84-FRA
content-encoding	gzip
alt-svc	h3=":443"; ma=86400
statuscode	200
http_version	HTTP/2

External factors 100% achieved

Backlinks

(Critically important)

This page is referenced by wikipedia.

This website has excellent links from other websites.

This page has backlinks from 1,418 referring domains.

This page has 88,066 backlinks.

This page has backlinks from 797 different ip addresses.

Backlinks

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /print/*
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api
SiteMap: https://www.contractingbusiness.com/sitemap.xml
SiteMap: https://www.contractingbusiness.com/sitemap-google-news.xml

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Home | Contracting Business

News, insights and how-to content for HVACR professionals who support commercial, residential and industrial facilities.

Most important keywords

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

Keyword	Result	Recheck
Business	72%	Check
Contracting Business	70%	Check
Contracting	65%	Check
HVAC Business	56%	Check
HVACR	54%	Check
Residential	50%	Check
Heat	48%	Check
systems	48%	Check
flood	48%	Check
Time	48%	Check
Pumps	48%	Check
Heat Pumps	48%	Check
HVAC	46%	Check
Content	46%	Check
Women	44%	Check
Board	44%	Check
Refrigerants	43%	Check
Company	43%	Check
Cracking	43%	Check
Code	43%	Check
ACCA	43%	Check
Contractors	43%	Check
Digital	43%	Check
Ways	43%	Check
Contractor	43%	Check

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Meta specifications 98% achieved

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Page structure 58% achieved

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Link structure 83% achieved

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Server configuration 85% achieved

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External factors 100% achieved

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