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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
62% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
23% 
Link structure
98% 
Server
80% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.64 s
File size
5.10 kB
Words
196
Media files
0
Number of links
13 internal / 26 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Nick Montfort
The page title is too short. (121 pixels of 580 max pixel length) 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 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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

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viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
og:titleNick Montfort
og:typewebsite
og:imagehttps://nickm.com/images/cards/site.jpg
og:urlhttps://nickm.com
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 196 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.
No paragraphs were detected.
17.3% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
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.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
This page does not require any JavaScript files.
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)
lab/studio
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (10 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
There are 43 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 lab/studio
H1 editorial
H1 curation
H1 poetry books
H1 digital+books
H1 digital
H1 academic books
H1 Empty heading
H2 Nick Montfort About NM & further links ◊ CV with links to OA publications
H2 The Trope Tank
H2 Bad Quarto & Taper‡
H2 Platform Studies‡
H2 Using Electricity
H2 Electronic Literature Collection‡
H2 Memory Slam 2.0 2024
H2 Hops Ahead‡ 2023
H2 Generative Unfoldings 2021
H2 Post Hoc 2020
H2 Narcissystem 2024 (pre-order now)
H2 Golem 2021
H2 Hard West Turn 2018
H2 The Truelist 2017
H2 Megawatt 2014
H2 #! 2014
H2 2002‡2002
H2 Autopia 2016
H2 2×6‡2016
H2 Process Pages 2022
H2 101 BASIC Poems 2013–
H2 The Deletionist‡2013
H2 Sea and Spar Between‡2010
H2 Taroko Gorge 2009
H2 80+ other poems & artworks 1999–
H2 Output‡ 2024
H2 Exploratory Programming, 2e 2021
H2 The Future 2017
H2 10 PRINT‡2012
H2 Racing the Beam‡2009
H2 Twisty Little Passages 2003
H2 The New Media Reader‡ 2003
H2 ‡ collaborations
H3 Forthcoming books: Narcissystem (Anteism); All the Way for the Win (Penteract Press)
H3 Upcoming event: Online book launch for Output, hosted by the University of Maryland. Co-editors Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Montfort will be in conversation with Matt Kirschenbaum. Register on Zoom....
H3 Upcoming event: Book launch at WordHack, with me, David Gissen, Sasha Stiles, Andrew Yoon, and open mic presenters. $15: Purchasing a ticket online, in advance, strongly recommended! Wonderville, 1...
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 too many external links (26) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.anteism.com/shop/n...External Subdomain Narcissystem
https://english.umd.edu/events...External Subdomain Online book launch for Output,
https://english.umd.edu/events...External Subdomain Register on Zoom.
https://www.wonderville.nyc/ev...External Subdomain Book launch at WordHack,
https://nickm.com/me.htmlNick Montfort
https://nickm.com/me.htmlAbout NM & further links
https://nickm.com/cv.htmlCV with links to OA publications
https://tropetank.com/External The Trope Tank
https://badquar.to/External Bad Quarto
https://taper.badquar.to/External Subdomain Taper
https://platformstudies.com/External Platform Studies
http://counterpathpress.org/us...External Using Electricity
http://collection.eliterature....External Subdomain Electronic Literature Collection
https://nickm.com/memslamMemory Slam 2.0
https://tropetank.com/hops_ahead/External Hops Ahead
https://generative-unfoldings....External Subdomain Generative Unfoldings
/post/2020/05/post-hoc-an-onli...Post Hoc
https://www.anteism.com/shop/n...External Subdomain Text duplicate Narcissystem
https://deadalivemagazine.com/...External Golem
http://badquar.to/publications...External Hard West Turn
http://counterpathpress.org/th...External The Truelist
https://apod.li/megawattExternal Megawatt
http://counterpathpress.org/ni...External #!
http://www.spinelessbooks.com/...External Subdomain 2002
https://nickm.com/autopiaAutopia
https://nickm.com/22×6
https://22.piksel.no/2022/11/0...External Subdomain Process Pages
https://thedigitalreview.com/i...External 101 BASIC Poems
https://thedeletionist.com/External The Deletionist
/montfort_strickland/sea_and_s...Sea and Spar Between
https://nickm.com/taroko_gorge/Taroko Gorge
https://nickm.com/poems/80+ other poems & artworks
https://mitpress.mit.edu/97802...External Subdomain Output
https://nickm.com/ep2e/Exploratory Programming, 2e
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books...External Subdomain The Future
http://10-print.org/External 10 PRINT
https://nickm.com/vcs/Racing the Beam
https://nickm.com/twisty/Twisty Little Passages
http://www.newmediareader.com/External Subdomain The New Media Reader

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://nickm.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.64 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 does not require any CSS files.
This page does not require any JavaScript files.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (5 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateThu, 14 Nov 2024 12:44:44 GMT
serverApache/2.4.52 (Ubuntu)
strict-transport-securitymax-age=15552000; includeSubDomains
last-modifiedWed, 13 Nov 2024 23:55:40 GMT
etag"148c-626d41231c549-gzip"
accept-rangesbytes
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
content-length2047
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,303 referring domains.
This page has 118,772 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 791 different ip addresses.

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