Paulgraham.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
51% 
Page quality
27% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
67% 
Server
88% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.65 s
File size
5.30 kB
Words
16
Media files
8
Number of links
18 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Paul Graham
The page title is too short. (120 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)
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)
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.
The character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
No doctype markup was found.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

No meta tags were found.

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 16 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.
18.8% 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 viewpoint tag is provided.
No 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 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
8 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
...turbifycdn.com/aah/paulgraham/img-32.gifNo alt attribute provided
sep.turbifycdn.com/ca/Img/trans_1x1.gifNo alt attribute provided
....turbifycdn.com/aah/paulgraham/bel-8.gifNo alt attribute provided
...rbifycdn.com/aah/paulgraham/index-21.gifNo alt attribute provided
http://www.virtumundo.com/images/spacer.gif
Insecure Content		No alt attribute provided
http://www.virtumundo.com/images/spacer.gif
Insecure Content		No alt attribute provided
http://www.virtumundo.com/images/spacer.gif
Insecure Content		No alt attribute provided
http://www.virtumundo.com/images/spacer.gif
Insecure Content		No alt attribute provided

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.
14 links don't have an anchor text.
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 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/foundermode.htmlFounder Mode
/persistence.htmlStubborn
/google.htmlGoogle
/superlinear.htmlSuperlinear
http://ycombinator.com/apply.htmlExternal Y Combinator
/articles.htmlNo Text
http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...External Subdomain No Text
https://paulgraham.com/books.htmlNo Text
http://ycombinator.com/External No Text
https://paulgraham.com/arc.htmlNo Text
https://paulgraham.com/bel.htmlNo Text
https://paulgraham.com/lisp.htmlNo Text
/antispam.htmlNo Text
/kedrosky.htmlNo Text
https://paulgraham.com/faq.htmlNo Text
https://paulgraham.com/raq.htmlNo Text
https://paulgraham.com/quo.htmlNo Text
https://paulgraham.com/rss.htmlNo Text
https://paulgraham.com/bio.htmlNo Text
https://twitter.com/paulgExternal No Text
https://mas.to/@paulgExternal No Text
https://paulgraham.com/ind.htmlNo Text
https://paulgraham.com/info.htmlNo Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://paulgraham.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 0.65 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (5 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSun, 15 Sep 2024 10:48:02 GMT
content-typetext/html
cache-controlprivate, max-age=3600
x-xrds-locationhttp://paulgraham.com/ystore/openid/rp.xrds
varyUser-Agent,Accept-Encoding
expiresSun, 15 Sep 2024 11:48:02 GMT
content-encodinggzip
age0
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 22,151 referring domains.
This page has 1,315,749 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 12,474 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /RT/
Disallow: /TG/
Disallow: /QS/
Disallow: /wgl/
Disallow: /P/
Disallow: /ymix/
Disallow: /OS/
Disallow: /cs/
Disallow: /en=
Disallow: /io=
Disallow: /*/cgi-bin/

User-agent: Roverbot
Disallow: /

Sitemap: /sitemap.xml

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
New39%Check
start39%Check
startup39%Check
Founder34%Check
Mode34%Check
Stubborn34%Check
Google34%Check
Superlinear34%Check
Get34%Check
funded34%Check
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