Laurenkessler.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
68% 
Page quality
62% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
81% 
Server
100% 
External factors
63% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.24 s
File size
156.70 kB
Words
274
Media files
9
Number of links
47 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Lauren Kessler
The page title is too short. (137 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Lauren Kessler is an award-winning narrative nonfiction author who has published 15 books and hundreds of articles, essays, and blogs. She instructs and inspires writers and resides in the Pacific Northwest.
The meta description is too long: 1278 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.laurenkessler.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)
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
descriptionLauren Kessler is an award-winning narrative nonfiction author who has published 15 books and hundreds of articles, essays, and blogs. She instructs and inspires writers and resides in the Pacific Northwest.
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twitter:urlhttps://www.laurenkessler.com
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:descriptionLauren Kessler is an award-winning narrative nonfiction author who has published 15 books and hundreds of articles, essays, and blogs. She instructs and inspires writers and resides in the Pacific Northwest.
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og:typewebsite
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og:image:width810
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X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
Accept-CHSec-CH-UA-Platform-Version, Sec-CH-UA-Model
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 274 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 8.43 words is low.
35.8% 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.
5 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The following tag is repeated too often: real
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
2 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
...ground+white+background.png?format=1500wLauren Kessler
...ground+white+background.png?format=1500wLauren Kessler
...b6/me+coffee+Vienna+Sept+22+copy[28].jpgAuthor Lauren Kessler
...49d93-1f9f-47c4-8a7e-4396bd0ecde7/nw.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...6-4449-b70f-832914203761/doodles+(1).pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Hey there. Welcome.
H2 Books
H2 Articles
H2 Blogs
H4 Recent Thoughts
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 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/cartNo Text
https://www.laurenkessler.com/Anchor Skip to Content
https://www.instagram.com/laur...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.facebook.com/laure...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.laurenkessler.com/IMG-ALT Lauren Kessler
/homeHome
/aboutAbout
/published-worksPublications
/bookBooks
/essays-articlesArticles & Essays
/lauren-chroniclesBlog
/lauren-chroniclesLauren Chronicles
/contactContact
https://www.instagram.com/laur...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.facebook.com/laure...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.laurenkessler.com/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Lauren Kessler
/homeText duplicate Home
/aboutText duplicate About
/published-worksText duplicate Publications
/bookText duplicate Books
/essays-articlesText duplicate Articles & Essays
/lauren-chroniclesText duplicate Blog
/lauren-chroniclesText duplicate Lauren Chronicles
/contactText duplicate Contact
/homeText duplicate Home
/aboutText duplicate About
/published-worksFolder: Publications
https://www.laurenkessler.com/Back
/bookText duplicate Books
/essays-articlesText duplicate Articles & Essays
/lauren-chroniclesText duplicate Blog
/lauren-chroniclesText duplicate Lauren Chronicles
/contactText duplicate Contact
https://www.instagram.com/laur...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.facebook.com/laure...New window External Subdomain No Text
/bookNew window books
/essaysNew window magazine articles
/lauren-chroniclesblogs
/bookDISCOVER
/essays-articlesREAD
/lauren-chroniclesFOLLOW
/lauren-chronicles/a-river-run...IMG-ALT A river runs through it
/lauren-chronicles/a-river-run...Text duplicate A river runs through it
/lauren-chronicles/walking-wou...IMG-ALT Walking wounded/ walking healed
/lauren-chronicles/walking-wou...Text duplicate Walking wounded/ walking healed
/lauren-chronicles/along-the-wayIMG-ALT Along “The Way”
/lauren-chronicles/along-the-wayText duplicate Along “The Way”
/lauren-chronicles/the-hard-th...IMG-ALT The hard things
/lauren-chronicles/the-hard-th...Text duplicate The hard things
https://www.instagram.com/laur...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.facebook.com/laure...New window External Subdomain No Text
/aboutText duplicate About
/contactText duplicate Contact
/lauren-chroniclesNew window Lauren Chronicles (a Blog)
/contactNew window get in touch

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.laurenkessler.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.24 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (157 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
accept-rangesbytes
age48460
content-encodinggzip
content-typetext/html;charset=utf-8
dateThu, 17 Oct 2024 19:56:03 GMT
etagW/"861f6f7557ac8a1259996b67ddf2307d--gzip"
expiresThu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
serverSquarespace
set-cookie72 Characters
strict-transport-securitymax-age=0
varyAccept-Encoding
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-contextidPBbrXMfe/rEeSaCt2
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
content-length25882
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 21 referring domains.
This page only has 172 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 21 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

# Squarespace Robots Txt

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User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile
User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps
User-agent: *
Disallow: /config
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /account$
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /commerce/digital-download/
Disallow: /api/
Allow: /api/ui-extensions/
Disallow: /static/
Disallow:/*?author=*
Disallow:/*&author=*
Disallow:/*?tag=*
Disallow:/*&tag=*
Disallow:/*?month=*
Disallow:/*&month=*
Disallow:/*?view=*
Disallow:/*&view=*
Disallow:/*?format=json
Disallow:/*&format=json
Disallow:/*?format=page-context
Disallow:/*&format=page-context
Disallow:/*?format=main-content
Disallow:/*&format=main-content
Disallow:/*?format=json-pretty
Disallow:/*&format=json-pretty
Disallow:/*?format=ical
Disallow:/*&format=ical
Disallow:/*?reversePaginate=*
Disallow:/*&reversePaginate=*

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Lauren Kessler
Lauren Kessler is an award-winning narrative nonfiction author who has published 15 books and hundreds of articles, essays, and blogs. She instructs and inspires writers and resides in the Pacific Northwest.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Lauren71%Check
Kessler71%Check
Lauren Kessler71%Check
Articles50%Check
Books50%Check
blogs50%Check
author48%Check
nonfiction author47%Check
Essays46%Check
nonfiction46%Check
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