Jameslao.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
57% 
Page quality
70% 
Page structure
36% 
Link structure
98% 
Server
72% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.15 s
File size
24.10 kB
Words
300
Media files
1
Number of links
11 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
James Lao
The page title is too short. (101 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Staff Software Engineer
The meta description is too short. (149 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length) Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://jameslao.com/
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)
The alternate link to the page itself is missing.
An alternate link incorrectly contains an URL with a relative path.
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
generatorHugo 0.52
authorJames Lao
descriptionStaff Software Engineer
theme-color#2962ff
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary
og:site_nameJames Lao
og:url/
og:titleJames Lao
og:descriptionStaff Software Engineer
og:image/img/portrait.jpg
og:localeen-us
og:updated_time2017-10-15T00:00:00+00:00
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 300 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
30.3% 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.
5 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 9.5 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 11 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)
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
...d725e70d6207a70a3245a39bf3463447?s=200')Avatar

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Search
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (6 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Search
H1 Biography
H1 Experience
H1 Recent Posts
H2 James Lao
H3 Staff Software Engineer
H3 Unity Technologies
H3 Rate Limit Status Headers With GCRA
H3 GCRA Rate Limiting
H3 How to Implement IDisposable
H3 Ninjas Space Horror and Crafting
H3 Bioshock Infinite
H4 Staff Software Engineer Duplicate text
H4 Unity Technologies Duplicate text
H4 Principal Architect
H4 Microsoft
H4 Undergraduate
H4 Carnegie Mellon University
H5 Cite
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://jameslao.com/James Lao
https://jameslao.com/Home
https://jameslao.com/Posts
https://jameslao.com/Contact
https://unity.com/New window External Unity Technologies
https://github.com/jlaoNew window External No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ja...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://unity.com/New window External Text duplicate Unity Technologies
https://www.microsoft.com/New window External Subdomain Microsoft
https://www.cmu.edu/New window External Subdomain Carnegie Mellon University
/post/gcra-rate-limit-status/Rate Limit Status Headers With GCRA
/categories/programming/Programming
/post/gcra-rate-limiting/GCRA Rate Limiting
/categories/programming/Text duplicate Programming
/post/how-to-implement-idispos...How to Implement IDisposable
/post/ninjas-space-horror-and-...Ninjas Space Horror and Crafting
/post/bioshock-infinite/Bioshock Infinite
https://sourcethemes.com/acade...New window External Academic theme
https://gohugo.io/New window External Hugo

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://jameslao.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 7 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.15 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (24 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
accept-rangesbytes
age38605
cache-controlpublic,max-age=0,must-revalidate
cache-status"Netlify Edge"; hit
content-encodinggzip
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
dateFri, 17 May 2024 00:13:52 GMT
etag"c276dc60521725ef167c1304084304f5-ssl-df"
serverNetlify
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
varyAccept-Encoding
x-nf-request-id01HY1YBSC06CMKTKDWNG0KVGHE
content-length5631
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 123 referring domains.
This page has 373 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 63 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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Most important keywords

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

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Lao62%Check
James Lao62%Check
Software54%Check
Engineer54%Check
Staff54%Check
Software Engineer54%Check
Staff Software Engineer54%Check
Search50%Check
Rate43%Check
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