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Meta information
98% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
76% 
Link structure
95% 
Server
32% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.68 s
File size
32.50 kB
Words
279
Media files
1
Number of links
111 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The GitLab Handbook
The length of the page title is perfect. (200 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Learn more about GitLab and what makes us tick.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (306 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://handbook.gitlab.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
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
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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
No paragraphs were detected.
There are only 279 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
12.9% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
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.
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)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
/images/next-steps.pngHeadshots of three people

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
GitLab Handbook
The H1 heading is too short (15 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 GitLab Handbook
H3 Company
H3 Handbook
H3 People Group
H3 Engineering
H3 Security
H3 Marketing
H3 Sales
H3 Finance
H3 Product
H3 Legal and Corporate Affairs
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://handbook.gitlab.com/The GitLab Handbook
https://about.gitlab.com/New window External Subdomain GitLab
https://about.gitlab.com/teamopsNew window External Subdomain TeamOps
/handbook/Handbook
/job-families/Job Families
/reports/Reports
https://about.gitlab.com/External Subdomain Company
https://about.gitlab.com/company/External Subdomain About GitLab
/handbook/values/Values
/handbook/company/mission/Mission
/handbook/company/vision/Vision
/handbook/company/strategy/Strategy
/handbook/communication/Communication
/handbook/company/culture/Culture
/teamops/Text duplicate TeamOps
/handbook/ceo/CEO Readme
/handbook/ceo/office-of-the-ceo/Office of the CEO
/handbook/company/key-review/Key Reviews
/handbook/company/group-conver...Group Conversations
/handbook/company/e-group-weekly/E-Group Weekly
/handbook/company/esg/Environmental, Social, and Governance
/handbook/Text duplicate Handbook
/handbook/about/About the Handbook
/handbook/about/changelog/Handbook Changelog
/handbook/about/roadmap/Handbook Roadmap
/handbook/about/on-call/Handbook Escalation
/handbook/about/handbook-usage/Handbook Usage
/docs/development/Contribution Guide
/handbook/editing-handbook/Editing the handbook
/handbook/about/style-guide/Handbook Style Guide
/handbook/about/maintenance/Handbook maintenance
/handbook/people-group/People Group
/handbook/people-group/anti-ha...Anti-Harassment Policy
/handbook/people-group/givelab...Global Volunteer Month
/handbook/hiring/Hiring
/handbook/company/culture/incl...Inclusion & Diversity
/handbook/labor-and-employment...Labor and Employment Notices
/handbook/leadership/Leadership
/handbook/people-group/learnin...Learning & Development
/handbook/people-group/general...Onboarding
/handbook/people-group/offboar...Offboarding
/handbook/finance/spending-com...Spending Company Money
/handbook/people-group/team-me...Team Member Relations Philosophy
/handbook/total-rewards/Total Rewards
/handbook/tools-and-tips/Tools and Tips
/handbook/engineering/Engineering
/handbook/support/Customer Support Department
/handbook/engineering/developm...Development Department
/handbook/engineering/developm...Incubation Engineering Department
/handbook/engineering/infrastr...Infrastructure Department
/handbook/engineering/quality/Quality Department
/handbook/security/Security Practices
/handbook/engineering/open-sou...Open Source
/handbook/security/Security
/handbook/security/product-sec...Product Security
/handbook/security/security-op...Security Operations
/handbook/security/threat-mana...Threat Management
/handbook/security/security-as...Security Assurance
/handbook/marketing/Marketing
/handbook/marketing/team-membe...Team Member Social Media Policy
/handbook/marketing/blog/Blog
/handbook/marketing/brand-and-...Brand and Product Marketing
/handbook/marketing/integrated...Integrated Marketing
/handbook/marketing/sales-deve...Sales Development
/handbook/marketing/marketing-...Marketing Operations and Analytics
/handbook/marketing/growth/Growth
/handbook/marketing/developer-...Developer Relations
/handbook/marketing/corporate-...Corporate Communications
/handbook/sales/Sales
/handbook/alliances/Alliances
/handbook/sales/commercial/Commercial
/handbook/customer-success/Customer Success
/handbook/customer-success/csm/Customer Success Management
/handbook/resellers/Reseller Channels
/handbook/sales/field-operations/Field Operations
/handbook/business-technology/Reporting
/handbook/solutions-architects/Solutions Architecture
/handbook/finance/Finance
/handbook/finance/accounts-pay...Accounts Payable
/handbook/finance/accounting/Accounts Receivable
/handbook/business-technology/Business Technology
/handbook/finance/expenses/Expenses
/handbook/finance/financial-pl...Financial Planning & Analysis
/handbook/finance/payroll/Payroll
/handbook/finance/procurement/Procurement
/handbook/tax/Tax
/handbook/board-meetings/Board meetings
/handbook/internal-audit/Internal Audit
/handbook/total-rewards/stock-...Equity Compensation
/handbook/product/Product
/handbook/marketing/blog/relea...Release posts
/handbook/product/gitlab-the-p...About the GitLab Product
/handbook/product/product-mana...Being a Product Manager at GitLab
/handbook/product/product-prin...Product Principles
/handbook/product/product-proc...Product Processes
/handbook/product/categories/Product sections, stages, groups, and categories
/handbook/product-development-...Product Development Flow
/handbook/engineering/workflow/Product Development Timeline
/handbook/business-technology/...Data for Product Managers
/handbook/company/pricing/Product Pricing Model
/handbook/business-technology/...Data analysis
/handbook/acquisitions/Corporate Development / Acquisitions
/handbook/product/ux/UX Department
/handbook/legal/Legal and Corporate Affairs
/handbook/legal/commercial/Text duplicate Commercial
/handbook/legal/publiccompanyr...Corporate
/handbook/acquisitions/Corporate Development
/handbook/legal/employment-law/Employment
/handbook/legal/esg/Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG)
/handbook/legal/legalops/Operations
/handbook/legal/privacy/Privacy
/handbook/legal/product/Text duplicate Product
/handbook/legal/risk-managemen...Risk Management and Dispute Resolution
/handbook/legal/trade-compliance/Trade Compliance
https://gitlab.com/-/trials/ne...External Get free trial
https://about.gitlab.com/sales/External Subdomain Talk to an Expert
https://gitlab.slack.com/archi...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/...New window External No Text
/docs/developmentNew window No Text
https://about.gitlab.com/privacy/New window External Subdomain Privacy Statement

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://handbook.gitlab.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.68 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 (33 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

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This page has backlinks from 837 referring domains.
This page has 30,785 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 627 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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