Merkinvestments.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
79% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
68% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.22 s
File size
95.10 kB
Words
795
Media files
23
Number of links
17 internal / 70 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | Merk Investments
The length of the page title is perfect. (231 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Home
The meta description is too short. (38 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length) Optimize description
The meta description contains only one word.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
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=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no
descriptionHome
msapplication-TileColor#233c72
theme-color#233c72
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
These Typos were found:
  • wanna => want to
There are 2 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: Our Team is here for you. Give us a call or send us an email. We will ...
This page contains 795 words. That's ok.
26.4% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
11 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 13.26 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" 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 16 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
19 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
/build/images/logo.pngNo alt attribute provided
/build/images/logo.pngNo alt attribute provided
/build/images/hero-image.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/build/images/owl-copyright.pngNo alt attribute provided
...e/1/conversions/eitErpSateUk-100x100.pngAxel Merk
...FtNTMOI1SaSpljU7TlFsoxsfYv971GVQGdNP.jpgEndeavoring to Generate Value in Gold Mining
...e/1/conversions/eitErpSateUk-100x100.pngAxel Merk
/build/images/banner-bg-type-1.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/build/images/banner-bg-type-1-mobile.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/build/images/banner-axel-photo.pngNo alt attribute provided
.../1590383046515040261/47_lYXM2_bigger.jpgNo alt attribute provided
.../1590383046515040261/47_lYXM2_bigger.jpgNo alt attribute provided
.../1590383046515040261/47_lYXM2_bigger.jpgNo alt attribute provided
.../1590383046515040261/47_lYXM2_bigger.jpgNo alt attribute provided
.../1590383046515040261/47_lYXM2_bigger.jpgNo alt attribute provided
.../1590383046515040261/47_lYXM2_bigger.jpgNo alt attribute provided
pbs.twimg.com/media/GYbfW4lacAApknm.pngNo alt attribute provided
.../1590383046515040261/47_lYXM2_bigger.jpgNo alt attribute provided
pbs.twimg.com/media/GYaQtdKaMAM-13h.pngNo alt attribute provided
/build/images/logo-light.pngNo alt attribute provided
/build/images/logo.pngNo alt attribute provided
/build/images/contact-form-owl.pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Helping our clients achieve superior risk-adjusted portfolio performance is Merk's mission
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Helping our clients achieve superior risk-adjusted portfolio performance is Merk's mission
H2 Investment Strategies
H2 Insights & Reports
H2 Please join us for our upcoming webinar
H2 Tweets
H2 Become a Part of the Merk Community
H3 The Gold ETF That Delivers. Literally.
H3 Endeavoring to Generate Value in Gold Mining
H3 Company
H3 Information
H3 Contact Us
H3 Let's stay in touch. Contact Us
H3 Subscribe
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 too many external links (70) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://calendly.com/d/drt-g8h...New window Nofollow External Schedule a Call
https://www.merkinvestments.com/Subdomain Go to homepage
https://www.merkgold.com/New window Nofollow External Subdomain Gold
https://www.asaltd.com/New window Nofollow External Subdomain Gold Equities
/insights-and-reportsInsights & Research
/aboutAbout Merk
/insights-and-reportsText duplicate Insights & Research
/aboutText duplicate About Merk
https://www.merkgold.com/New window Nofollow External Subdomain Text duplicate Gold
https://www.asaltd.com/New window Nofollow External Subdomain Text duplicate Gold Equities
/insights-and-reportsInsights
https://www.merkgold.com/overv...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Gold
https://www.asaltd.com/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Gold Equities
https://www.merkfunds.com/insi...External Subdomain The Gold ETF That Delivers. Literally.
https://www.merkfunds.com/insi...External Subdomain Learn more
/insights-and-reports/endeavor...Subdomain Endeavoring to Generate Value in Gold Mining
/insights-and-reports/endeavor...Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more
/insights-and-reports/endeavor...Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more
/insights-and-reportsView All
https://twitter.com/AxelMerkNew window External Open Axel Merk's Twitter in new tab
https://twitter.com/AxelMerkNew window External Axel Merk
https://twitter.com/AxelMerkNew window External @AxelMerk
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External September 27, 2024
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Replies Count 0
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Retweets Count 0
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Likes Count 0
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Open tweet in new tab
https://twitter.com/AxelMerkNew window External Text duplicate Open Axel Merk's Twitter in new tab
https://twitter.com/AxelMerkNew window External Text duplicate Axel Merk
https://twitter.com/AxelMerkNew window External Text duplicate @AxelMerk
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Text duplicate September 27, 2024
https://t.co/I0bz6sbX31New window Nofollow External wsj.com/personal-finan...
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Replies Count 2
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Text duplicate Retweets Count 0
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Text duplicate Likes Count 0
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Text duplicate Open tweet in new tab
https://twitter.com/AxelMerkNew window External Text duplicate Open Axel Merk's Twitter in new tab
https://twitter.com/AxelMerkNew window External Text duplicate Axel Merk
https://twitter.com/AxelMerkNew window External Text duplicate @AxelMerk
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Text duplicate September 27, 2024
https://t.co/jDmVXzfd46New window Nofollow External x.com/i/web/status/1...
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Text duplicate Replies Count 0
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Retweets Count 1
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Likes Count 5
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Text duplicate Open tweet in new tab
https://twitter.com/AxelMerkNew window External Text duplicate Open Axel Merk's Twitter in new tab
https://twitter.com/AxelMerkNew window External Text duplicate Axel Merk
https://twitter.com/AxelMerkNew window External Text duplicate @AxelMerk
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Text duplicate September 27, 2024
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Replies Count 3
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Text duplicate Retweets Count 1
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Likes Count 10
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Text duplicate Open tweet in new tab
https://twitter.com/AxelMerkNew window External Text duplicate Open Axel Merk's Twitter in new tab
https://twitter.com/AxelMerkNew window External Text duplicate Axel Merk
https://twitter.com/AxelMerkNew window External Text duplicate @AxelMerk
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External September 26, 2024
https://t.co/w68MawtHpGNew window Nofollow External wsj.com/politics/elect...
https://twitter.com/RichardRub...New window Nofollow External @RichardRubinDC
https://twitter.com/JeanneWhalenNew window Nofollow External @JeanneWhalen
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Replies Count 1
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Text duplicate Retweets Count 1
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Text duplicate Likes Count 5
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Text duplicate Open tweet in new tab
https://twitter.com/AxelMerkNew window External Text duplicate Open Axel Merk's Twitter in new tab
https://twitter.com/AxelMerkNew window External Text duplicate Axel Merk
https://twitter.com/AxelMerkNew window External Text duplicate @AxelMerk
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Text duplicate September 26, 2024
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Text duplicate Replies Count 0
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Retweets Count 2
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Likes Count 3
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Text duplicate Open tweet in new tab
https://twitter.com/AxelMerkNew window External Text duplicate Open Axel Merk's Twitter in new tab
https://twitter.com/AxelMerkNew window External Text duplicate Axel Merk
https://twitter.com/AxelMerkNew window External Text duplicate @AxelMerk
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Text duplicate September 26, 2024
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Text duplicate Replies Count 0
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Text duplicate Retweets Count 0
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Likes Count 2
https://twitter.com/AxelMerk/s...New window External Text duplicate Open tweet in new tab
/privacy-policyPrivacy Policy
https://www.merkinvestments.com/Subdomain Text duplicate Go to homepage
/storage/237/HjeDqaMFfzXiOb9Pg...Subdomain Merk's statutory brochure
/insights-and-reportsText duplicate Insights & Research
/aboutText duplicate About Merk
/legal-noticeLegal Notice
/privacy-policyText duplicate Privacy Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.merkinvestments.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 slow (1.22 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 (95 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
dateSat, 28 Sep 2024 20:55:26 GMT
serverApache
cache-controlno-cache, private
set-cookie428 Characters
content-encodinggzip
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 1,892 referring domains.
This page has 527,307 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,447 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

User-agent: *
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
Merk86%Check
Merk Investments74%Check
Axel Merk64%Check
Merk Investments LLC61%Check
Investments59%Check
achieve55%Check
superior55%Check
risk-adjusted55%Check
portfolio55%Check
mission55%Check
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