News.nationalgeographic.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
93% 
Page quality
34% 
Page structure
50% 
Link structure
85% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.07 s
File size
88.10 kB
Words
190
Media files
6
Number of links
3 internal / 25 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
National Geographic Society Newsroom
The length of the page title is perfect. (358 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Ideas and Insight From the National Geographic Society
The length of the meta description is perfect. (345 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
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
Server location: United States of America
The language is not specified in the HTML markup.
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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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)
There are only 190 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
19.5% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
6 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 22.2 words is good.
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 usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
6 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

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
National Geographic Society Newsroom
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 National Geographic Society Newsroom
H1 Photo by Armando Vega
H2 Featured News
H2 Latest News
H6 ABOUT
H6 Explore
H6 Join Us
H6 Connect
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
There are too few (3) internal links on this page.
Every linktext is unique.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 25 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/national-geographic-society-i...Press Release National Geographic Society Introduces the Museum of Exploration October 21, 2024 State-of-the-art renovation will bring a new public attractio...
/photo-ark-marks-18th-annivers...Press Release Photo Ark Marks 18th Anniversary with Announcement of Endangered Santa Cruz Long-toed Salamander as 16,000th Species August 9, 2024 National Ge...
/the-national-geographic-socie...Press Release The National Geographic Society Announces the Recipients of the 2024 Wayfinder Award Presented by Kia June 6, 2024 The awards name 15 new Natio...
https://www.nationalgeographic...External Subdomain National Geographic Society
https://www.nationalgeographic...External Subdomain NatGeo.com
https://blog.nationalgeographi...External Subdomain News and Impact
https://support.nationalgeogra...External Subdomain Contact Us
https://www.nationalgeographic...External Subdomain Our Explorers
https://www.nationalgeographic...External Subdomain Our Programs
https://www.nationalgeographic...External Subdomain Education
https://www.nationalgeographic...External Subdomain Nat Geo Live
https://www.nationalgeographic...External Subdomain Storytellers Collective
https://exhibitions.nationalge...External Subdomain Traveling Exhibitions
https://www.nationalgeographic...External Subdomain Ways to Give
https://www.nationalgeographic...External Subdomain Apply for a Grant
https://www.nationalgeographic...External Subdomain Careers
https://give.nationalgeographi...External Subdomain donate
https://give.nationalgeographi...External Subdomain get updates
https://www.instagram.com/insi...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.facebook.com/Insid...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/inside...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.threads.net/@insid...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/InsideNatGeo/New window External No Text
https://www.nationalgeographic...New window External Subdomain Privacy Notice
https://www.nationalgeographic...New window External Subdomain Sustainability Policy
https://www.nationalgeographic...New window External Subdomain Terms of Service
https://www.nationalgeographic...New window External Subdomain Code of Ethics

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://news.nationalgeographic.org/"
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 0.07 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (88 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateFri, 15 Nov 2024 23:21:10 GMT
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set-cookie39 Characters
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content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
x-cacheHit from cloudfront
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age1418
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 582 referring domains.
This page has 870 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 256 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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