Lycos.de - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
61% 
Page quality
43% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
56% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.68 s
File size
13.40 kB
Words
46
Media files
9
Number of links
14 internal / 21 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Lycos.com
The page title is too short. (97 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Lycos, Inc., is a web search engine and web portal established in 1994, spun out of Carnegie Mellon University. Lycos also encompasses a network of email, webhosting, social networking, and entertainment websites.
The meta description is too long: 1335 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
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)
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
descriptionLycos, Inc., is a web search engine and web portal established in 1994, spun out of Carnegie Mellon University. Lycos also encompasses a network of email, webhosting, social networking, and entertainment websites.
authorEmpty
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 46 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
10.9% 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)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
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)
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
...ycos/images/weather/frontpage/cloudy.pngcloudy
....lygo.net/static/lycos/img/lang-icon.pngSelect Your Language
...go.net/static/lycos/img/in/lycoslogo.pngNo alt attribute provided
...tatic/lycos/img/us/slider/slider_us1.jpgFirst slide
...tatic/lycos/img/us/slider/slider_us2.jpgSecond slide
...tatic/lycos/img/us/slider/slider_us3.jpgThird slide
...t/static/lycos/images/lycos_swag_mug.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ygo.net/static/lycos/images/facebook.pngFacebook
...lygo.net/static/lycos/images/twitter.pngTwitter

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
There are no headings specified on the page. Headings are important for search engine optimization and help to structure your content.

Heading structure

No headings were found.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 21 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.lycos.de/Lycos.de
http://www.mail.lycos.com/External Subdomain Mail
https://weather.lycos.de/External Subdomain Lycos Wetter
http://www.tripod.lycos.com/External Subdomain Dreifuß
http://angelfire.com/External Angelfire
http://domains.lycos.com/External Subdomain Domänen
https://weather.lycos.de/External Subdomain Nuremberg 8° C
IMG-ALT cloudy
A-TITLE Lycos Wetter starten
https://lycos.de/English
A-TITLE Englisch
https://lycos.de/Español
A-TITLE Spanisch
https://lycos.de/日本語
A-TITLE Japanisch
https://lycos.de/Deutsch
A-TITLE Deutsch
https://lycos.de/한국어
A-TITLE Koreanisch
https://lycos.de/Français
A-TITLE Französisch
https://lycos.de/Italiano
A-TITLE Italienisch
https://lycos.de/Nederlands
A-TITLE Holländisch
https://lycos.de/Svenska
A-TITLE Schwedisch
https://lycos.de/Dansk
A-TITLE Dänisch
https://lycos.de/Suomi
A-TITLE Finnisch
https://lycos.de/Norsk
A-TITLE Norwegisch
https://lycos.de/Gaeilge
A-TITLE Irisch
https://lycos.itemorder.com/saleNew window External Subdomain Lycos SWAG
http://www.mail.lycos.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Mail
http://www.tripod.lycos.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Dreifuß
http://domains.lycos.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Domänen
https://weather.lycos.de/External Subdomain Wetter
http://www.angelfire.com/External Text duplicate Angelfire
https://info.lycos.com/External Subdomain Info
A-TITLE Über Lycos
https://info.lycos.com/career-...External Subdomain Stellenangebote
A-TITLE Offene Stellen by Lycos
https://advertising.lycos.com/External Subdomain Machen Sie mit uns Werbung
A-TITLE Werben Sie mit Lycos
https://info.lycos.com/resourc...Nofollow External Subdomain Recht
A-TITLE Lycos Netzwerk Recht
https://info.lycos.com/resourc...Nofollow External Subdomain Datenschutz
A-TITLE Lycos Datenschutzrichtlinie
https://registration.lycos.com...Nofollow External Subdomain Hilfe
A-TITLE Lycos Hilfeportal
https://info.lycos.com/resourc...External Subdomain Anchor Add Lycos Search to Browser
A-TITLE Make Lycos Search the Default Search Provider
https://www.facebook.com/lycos...New window External IMG-ALT Facebook
A-TITLE Befreunden Sie Lycos auf Facebook
https://twitter.com/SearchLycosNew window External IMG-ALT Twitter
A-TITLE Folgen Sie Lycos auf Twitter

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://lycos.de/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
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.
This page loads 10 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (13 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateTue, 12 Mar 2024 10:07:27 GMT
serverApache
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self'
x-powered-byPHP/7.2.24
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
content-length4153
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 13,211 referring domains.
This page has 5,251,088 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 7,742 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 3 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

You can find more links using Wikipedia search

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /web

Sitemap: http://www.lycos.de/sitemap.xml

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lycos.de
Lycos.com
Lycos, Inc., is a web search engine and web portal established in 1994, spun out of Carnegie Mellon University. Lycos also encompasses a network of email, webhosting, social networking, and entertainment websites.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Lycos71%Check
Search46%Check
Mail46%Check
SWAG36%Check
Wetter34%Check
Dreifuß34%Check
Angelfire34%Check
Domänen34%Check
Nuremberg34%Check
English34%Check
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