Makro.co.za - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
58% 
Page quality
38% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
85% 
Server
63% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
3.57 s
File size
77.30 kB
Words
49
Media files
0
Number of links
19 internal / 4 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Makro Online Site | Makro South Africa | Never Miss a Deal. Get the Best Deals
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 712 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportinitial-scale=1,width=device-width,maximum-scale=1,user-scalable=no
langen
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 49 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
No paragraphs were detected.
12.2% of the text are stop words.
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 17 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "initial-scale=1,width=device-width,maximum-scale=1,user-scalable=no" 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)
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

No media files were found.

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.
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
3 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 4 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/store-finderStore Locator
/my-account/ordersMy Orders
/my-account/my-listsMy Lists
https://www.makro.co.za/cart/viewNo Text
/search/?q=:relevance:sashOver...Promotions
https://www.makro.co.za/brandsBrands
https://www.makro.co.za/mcardMakro mRewards
https://www.makromarketplace.c...New window External Subdomain Sell on Makro
https://business.makro.co.za/c...External Subdomain Makro Business
/electronics-computers/c/BOffice Electronics
/pantry/c/P1Food & Kitchen
/stationary-office/c/LStationery
/stationary-office/office-furn...Office Furniture
/appliances/c/AAppliances
/household-supplies/c/HBCleaning
/search/?q=:relevance:sashOver...Text duplicate Promotions
/my-account/my-quotesQuotes
https://www.makromarketplace.c...External Subdomain Text duplicate Sell on Makro
https://business.makro.co.za/c...External Subdomain Text duplicate Makro Business
https://www.makro.co.za/contactusContact Us
https://www.makro.co.za/loginSign in
https://www.makro.co.za/cart/viewNo Text
https://www.makro.co.za/cart/viewNo Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.makro.co.za/"
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 very slow (3.57 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.
This page loads 17 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page does not require any CSS files.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (77 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
rtss2-15-117
accept-rangesbytes
content-encodinggzip
content-length42560
content-typetext/html
last-modifiedFri, 26 Apr 2024 05:45:28 GMT
x-envoy-upstream-service-time3
x-frame-optionsdeny
x-tb1
x-tb-optimization-total-bytes-saved0
cache-controlmax-age=563570
expiresFri, 03 May 2024 05:45:28 GMT
varyAccept-Encoding
server-timingcdn-cache; desc=HIT
dateFri, 26 Apr 2024 17:12:38 GMT
strict-transport-securitymax-age=15768000 ; includeSubDomains ; preload
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

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 1,527 referring domains.
This page has 475,636 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,116 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 21884 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

You can find more links using Wikipedia search

Robots.txt

# For all robots
User-agent: *

Allow: /
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Google-Image
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile
User-agent: Google-InspectionTool
User-agent: Google-Safety

# Block Search string pages
Disallow: /*?*

# Block access to specific groups of pages
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /register/
Disallow: /newpassword
Disallow: /otp
Disallow: /miscs/smartLink
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /search

# Allow search crawlers to discover the sitemap
Sitemap: https://www.makro.co.za/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.makro.co.za/categorySitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.makro.co.za/productSitemap.xml

# Block CazoodleBot as it does not present correct accept content headers
User-agent: CazoodleBot
Disallow: /

# Block MJ12bot as it is just noise
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

# Block dotbot as it cannot parse base urls properly
User-agent: dotbot/1.0
Disallow: /

# Block Gigabot
User-agent: Gigabot
Disallow: /

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Makro58%Check
Office34%Check
Office Furniture34%Check
Shop34%Check
Departments34%Check
Store34%Check
Locator34%Check
Orders34%Check
Lists34%Check
Hello34%Check
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