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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
81% 
Page structure
87% 
Link structure
17% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.30 s
File size
137.00 kB
Words
2108
Media files
47
Number of links
63 internal / 82 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
MacStories
The page title is too short. (100 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
The page title is only one word.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Apple news, app reviews, and stories by Federico Viticci and friends.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (421 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.macstories.net/
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 prev meta tag on this page.
Rel next URL https://www.macstories.net/page/2/
The rel next and prev tags are set correctly.
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
These Typos were found:
  • officialy => officially
The average number of words per sentence of 25.81 words is high.
This page contains 2108 words. That's ok.
41.9% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
34 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
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)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-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 42 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
37 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)
This page uses Google authorship information without an image.
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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Getting Away from Your Desk with JSAUX’s FlipGo Pro Dual Display
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Getting Away from Your Desk with JSAUX’s FlipGo Pro Dual Display
H1 The iPad’s “Sweet” Solution
H1 On Apple Offering an Abstraction Layer for AI on Its Platforms
H1 Lux???s Sebastiaan de With on the iPhone 16e???s Essential Camera Experience→
H1 Podcast Rewind: New Apple Hardware, Avoiding the Echo Chamber, and the latest Apple TV+ Shows
H1 Getting Away from Your Desk with JSAUX’s FlipGo Pro Dual Display Duplicate text
H1 Ted Lasso Renewed for a Fourth Season on Apple TV+
H1 Apple Says It Will Adopt New RCS Encryption Standard in a Future OS Update
H1 The iPad’s “Sweet” Solution Duplicate text
H1 Where’s Swift Assist?→
H1 Podcast Rewind: Tech Ultimatums, Samsung’s Wild Prototype Handheld, and Our Gaming Origin Stories
H1 On Apple Offering an Abstraction Layer for AI on Its Platforms Duplicate text
H2 Comfort Zone
H2 MacStories Unwind
H2 Magic Rays of Light
H2 AppStories
H2 NPC: Next Portable Console
H2 NPC XL
H3 This Week's Sponsor:
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
17 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 5 links with a trivial 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 too many external links (82) on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://www.macstories.net/Subdomain IMG-ALT MacStories
https://mastodon.macstories.ne...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://bsky.app/profile/macst...New window External No Text
https://www.macstories.net/feed/Subdomain No Text
https://club.macstories.net/?u...External Subdomain Club MacStories Weekly newsletter, Discord, and other extras
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https://www.macstories.net/about/Subdomain ABOUT
/podcasts/Subdomain PODCASTS
/shortcuts/Subdomain SHORTCUTS
/setups/Subdomain SETUPS
https://www.macstories.net/ipad/Subdomain IPAD
/tag/ios-18/Subdomain iOS 18
/tag/ios-18/feedSubdomain No Text
/category/reviews/Subdomain APPS
/category/reviews/feedSubdomain No Text
/category/stories/Subdomain STORIES
/category/stories/feedSubdomain No Text
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/stories/the-ipads-sweet-solut...Subdomain No Text
/stories/the-ipads-sweet-solut...Subdomain The iPad’s “Sweet” Solution
/stories/on-apple-offering-an-...Subdomain No Text
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/linked/luxs-sebastiaan-de-wit...Subdomain No Text
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https://www.lux.camera/iphone-...New window External Subdomain →
/author/johnvoorhees/Subdomain Linked By John Voorhees
https://www.lux.camera/iphone-...External Subdomain Sebastiaan de With’s review of the iPhone 16e’s camera
/news/the-e-is-for-elemental/Subdomain my iPhone 16e review
https://youtu.be/snjaZM1KOGoExternal shoot video for our podcasts
https://halide.cam/External Halide
https://shotwithkino.com/External Kino
/linked/luxs-sebastiaan-de-wit...Subdomain Permalink
/news/podcast-rewind-new-apple...Subdomain No Text
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https://itunes.apple.com/us/po...External Subdomain No Text
https://overcast.fm/itunes1749...External No Text
https://open.spotify.com/show/...External Subdomain No Text
https://pca.st/itunes/1749879483External No Text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...External Subdomain No Text
https://feeds.libsyn.com/53155...External Subdomain No Text
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/...External Subdomain No Text
https://overcast.fm/itunes1510...External No Text
https://open.spotify.com/show/...External Subdomain No Text
https://pca.st/unwindExternal No Text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...External Subdomain No Text
https://feeds.libsyn.com/50620...External Subdomain No Text
https://itunes.apple.com/us/po...External Subdomain No Text
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/news/podcast-rewind-new-apple...Subdomain Trivial anchor text
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/reviews/getting-away-from-you...Subdomain No Text
/reviews/getting-away-from-you...Subdomain Text duplicate Getting Away from Your Desk with JSAUX’s FlipGo Pro Dual Display
/author/johnvoorhees/Subdomain Text duplicate By John Voorhees
https://cdn.macstories.net/img...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://amzn.to/43PF06uExternal JSAUX’s 16” FlipGo Pro Dual Portable Monitor
https://amzn.to/3R6gyGwExternal C-Force CF015 15.6” portable OLED display
https://amzn.to/3XPKHh3External 15.6” 1080p
https://us.espres.so/products/...External Subdomain 17” touch-enabled 4K
/reviews/getting-away-from-you...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/news/ted-lasso-renewed-for-a-...Subdomain No Text
/news/ted-lasso-renewed-for-a-...Subdomain Ted Lasso Renewed for a Fourth Season on Apple TV+
/author/devon/Subdomain By Devon Dundee
https://cdn.macstories.net/img...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.apple.com/tv-pr/ne...External Subdomain officialy renewed
https://www.newheightshow.com/External Subdomain New Heights podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/...External Subdomain Magic Rays of Light podcast
/news/apple-says-it-will-adopt...Subdomain No Text
/news/apple-says-it-will-adopt...Subdomain Apple Says It Will Adopt New RCS Encryption Standard in a Future OS Update
/author/johnvoorhees/Subdomain Text duplicate By John Voorhees
https://www.gsma.com/newsroom/...External Subdomain According to a post by Tom Van Pelt
https://9to5mac.com/2025/03/14...External In a statement to 9to5Mac
/stories/the-ipads-sweet-solut...Subdomain No Text
/stories/the-ipads-sweet-solut...Subdomain Text duplicate The iPad’s “Sweet” Solution
/author/viticci/Subdomain By Federico Viticci
https://cdn.macstories.net/ima...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...External Subdomain PWA
/stories/the-ipads-sweet-solut...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/linked/wheres-swift-assist/Subdomain No Text
https://www.macrumors.com/2025...New window External Subdomain Where’s Swift Assist?
https://www.macrumors.com/2025...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate →
/author/johnvoorhees/Subdomain Text duplicate Linked By John Voorhees
https://developer.apple.com/vi...External Subdomain Swift Assist
https://www.macrumors.com/2025...External Subdomain as Tim Hardwick writes for MacRumors
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/0...External Michael Tsai points out
https://developer.apple.com/do...External Subdomain release notes
https://www.cursor.com/External Subdomain Cursor
https://birchtree.me/blog/watc...External if not more
/linked/wheres-swift-assist/Subdomain Text duplicate Permalink
/news/podcast-rewind-tech-ulti...Subdomain No Text
/news/podcast-rewind-tech-ulti...Subdomain Podcast Rewind: Tech Ultimatums, Samsung’s Wild Prototype Handheld, and Our Gaming Origin Stories
/author/johnvoorhees/Subdomain Text duplicate By John Voorhees
https://cdn.macstories.net/unt...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://itunes.apple.com/us/po...External Subdomain No Text
https://overcast.fm/itunes1227...External No Text
https://open.spotify.com/show/...External Subdomain No Text
http://pca.st/appstoriesExternal No Text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...External Subdomain No Text
https://appstories.net/episode...External No Text
http://memberful.com/appstoriesExternal Memberful
https://itunes.apple.com/us/po...External Subdomain No Text
https://overcast.fm/itunes1749...External No Text
https://open.spotify.com/show/...External Subdomain No Text
https://pca.st/itunes/1749770019External No Text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...External Subdomain No Text
https://feeds.libsyn.com/53157...External Subdomain No Text
https://cdn.macstories.net/qeo...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.patreon.com/c/Next...External Subdomain No Text
/news/podcast-rewind-tech-ulti...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
/stories/on-apple-offering-an-...Subdomain No Text
/stories/on-apple-offering-an-...Subdomain Text duplicate On Apple Offering an Abstraction Layer for AI on Its Platforms
/author/viticci/Subdomain Text duplicate By Federico Viticci
https://cdn.macstories.net/img...New window External Subdomain No Text
/linked/is-apple-shipping-the-...Subdomain the best consumer-grade computers
https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/External Acorn
https://flyingmeat.com/retroba...External Retrobatch
https://shapeof.com/archives/2...External has been pondering similar thoughts
https://claude.ai/External Claude
https://www.theverge.com/2024/...External Subdomain burgeoning AI app ecosystem
/stories/on-apple-offering-an-...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
/page/2/Subdomain Next page
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https://www.macstories.net/club/Subdomain MEMBERSHIP
/advertise/Subdomain SPONSORSHIP
/privacy-policy/Subdomain PRIVACY POLICY
/terms-of-service/Subdomain TERMS OF SERVICE
https://mastodon.macstories.ne...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://bsky.app/profile/macst...New window External No Text
https://www.macstories.net/feed/Subdomain No Text
http://avedesign.me/New window External Alessandro Vendruscolo
https://www.macstories.net/about/New window Subdomain Anchor Silvia Gatta
https://www.macstadium.com/mac...New window External Subdomain MacStadium
/acknowledgements/Subdomain Acknowledgements
https://mastodon.macstories.ne...External Subdomain Find Federico on Mastodon
https://mastodon.macstories.ne...External Subdomain Find John on Mastodon
https://mastodon.macstories.ne...External Subdomain Find Alex on Mastodon
https://mastodon.macstories.ne...External Subdomain Find Silvia on Mastodon
https://mastodon.macstories.ne...External Subdomain Find MacStories on Mastodon
https://www.macstories.net/Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT MacStories

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.macstories.net/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.30 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (137 kB).

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This page has backlinks from 482 referring domains.
This page has 15,907 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 402 different ip addresses.

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