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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
35% 
Page structure
40% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
54% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.62 s
File size
49.60 kB
Words
476
Media files
20
Number of links
89 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Oxford Reference - Answers with Authority
The length of the page title is perfect. (381 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Oxford Reference - Answers with Authority
The length of the meta description is perfect. (381 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.oxfordreference.com/
There is a valid canonical link 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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 476 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
26.3% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
3 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 20.5 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 29 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, minimum-scale=1.0, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 10 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
20 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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Explore by Subject
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (18 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Explore by Subject
H1 The Oxford Companion to Wine (5 ed.)
H2 Featured Title
H2 Did You Know?
H2 News
H3 Recently viewed (0)
H3 Recently viewed (0) Duplicate text
H3 2023
H3 What's New: April 2024
H3 What's New: March 2024
H3 What's New: February 2024
H4 APRIL 25, 2024
H4 MARCH 21, 2024
H4 FEBRUARY 22, 2024
H6 Browse All
H6 Browse All Duplicate text
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.
4 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 6 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/oso/start.layout.odopopupwidg...Update
https://www.oxfordreference.com/Anchor Jump to Content
/loginPersonal Profile
/page/aboutAbout
/page/newsNews
/page/subscriber/subscriber-se...Subscriber Services
/page/contact-usContact Us
/page/helpHelp
/page/for-authorsFor Authors
https://www.oxfordreference.com/Oxford Reference
/browsePublications
/searchSecondaryPages
/helpText duplicate Help
/browse?t0=ORO:AHU00020Archaeology
/browse?t0=ORO:AHU00001OROArt & Architecture
/browse?t0=ORO:GEN00155Bilingual dictionaries
/browse?t0=ORO:AHU00670Classical studies
/browse?t0=ORO:GEN00230Encyclopedias
/browse?t0=ORO:GEN00001OROEnglish Dictionaries and Thesauri
/browse?t0=ORO:AHU00830History
/browse?t0=ORO:GEN00180Language reference
/browse?t0=ORO:LAW00010Law
/browse?t0=ORO:AHU01290Linguistics
/browse?t0=ORO:AHU01560Literature
/browse?t0=ORO:AHU01750Media studies
/browse?t0=ORO:MED00010Medicine and health
/browse?t0=ORO:AHU01790Music
/browse?t0=ORO:GEN00290Names studies
/browse?t0=ORO:AHU02650Performing arts
/browse?t0=ORO:AHU02720Philosophy
/browse?t0=ORO:GEN00170Quotations
/browse?t0=ORO:AHU03020Religion
/browse?t0=ORO:SCI00010Science and technology
/browse?t0=ORO:SOC00010Social sciences
/browse?t0=ORO:AHU03380Society and culture
/browseBrowse All
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/browse?type_0=subjectreferenceSubject Reference
/browse?type_0=timelinesTimelines
/browse?type_0=quotationsText duplicate Quotations
/browse?type_0=englishdictiona...English Dictionaries
/browse?type_0=bilingualdictio...Bilingual Dictionaries
/browseText duplicate Browse All
https://www.oxfordreference.com/No Text
/browse?btog=bookNo Text
https://academic.oup.com/my-ac...New window External Subdomain Forgot password?
A-TITLE Forgot password?
/page/subscribeDon't have an account?
https://shibboleth2sp.sams.oup...External Subdomain Sign in via your Institution
/page/aboutNo Text
/page/aboutFind out more >
/page/aboutText duplicate Find out more >
/page/titlelists/title-listsDownload a full title list
/browse?avail_0=lib&isQuickSea...Historic Timelines
/view/10.1093/acref/9780191866...Essential Quotations
/browse?pageSize=10&sort=title...Subject Overviews
/page/archaeologyText duplicate Archaeology
/page/artandarchitecture/art-a...Art and Architecture
/page/classical-studiesClassical Studies
/page/historyText duplicate History
/page/languagereference/langua...Language Reference
/page/linguisticsText duplicate Linguistics
/page/performingarts/performin...No Text
/page/performingarts/performin...Performing Arts
/page/performingarts/performin...No Text
/page/law-subject/lawText duplicate Law
/page/medicineandhealth/medici...Medicine and Health
/page/mediastudies/media-studiesMedia Studies
/page/musicText duplicate Music
/page/namesstudies/names-studiesNames Studies
/page/literatureText duplicate Literature
/page/philosophyText duplicate Philosophy
/page/quotationsText duplicate Quotations
/page/religionText duplicate Religion
/page/scienceandtech/science-a...Science and Technology
/page/socialsciences/social-sc...Social Sciences
/page/societyandculture/societ...Society and Culture
/display/10.1093/acref/9780198...The Oxford Companion to Wine (5 ed.)
/display/10.1093/acref/9780198...Read more >
/rss/factofthedayRSS
/oso/emailsignupform/factofthedayEmail updates signup
/viewbydoi/10.1093/acref/97801...View the answer
/newsText duplicate News
/newsitem/300/whats-new-april-...What's New: April 2024
/newsitem/299/whats-new-march-...What's New: March 2024
/newsitem/298/whats-new-februa...What's New: February 2024
/newsrssRSS Feed
/newsMore News »
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https://global.oup.com/privacyNew window External Subdomain Privacy Policy
/page/legal-noticeNew window Legal Notice
https://global.oup.com/cookiep...External Subdomain Cookie Policy
https://global.oup.com/privacyExternal Subdomain Text duplicate Privacy Policy
/page/legal-noticeText duplicate Legal Notice
/page/33/creditsCredits
/page/accessibilityAccessibility

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.oxfordreference.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 of 0.62 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 loads 25 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 29 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (50 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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set-cookie69 Characters
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
content-encodinggzip
content-typetext/html;charset=UTF-8
transfer-encodingchunked
dateSat, 11 May 2024 12:13:24 GMT
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statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

Blacklists
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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 16,788 referring domains.
This page has 1,357,277 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 10,277 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

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