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Meta information
100% 
Page quality
80% 
Page structure
34% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
75% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.04 s
File size
1,041.00 kB
Words
1226
Media files
13
Number of links
148 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Pitchfork | The Most Trusted Voice in Music. | Pitchfork
The length of the page title is perfect. (489 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Most Trusted Voice in Music.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (208 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://pitchfork.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Language defined in HTTP-Equiv meta tag: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
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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
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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
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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
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The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
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This page contains 1226 words. That's ok.
30.1% 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.
21 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 19.8 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
The file size of the HTML document is very large (1041 kB).
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 25 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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Pitchfork
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (9 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
There are 49 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Pitchfork
H2 The Latest
H2 Reviews
H2 More Reviews
H2 More From Pitchfork
H2 Features
H2 Sunday Reviews
H3 Panda Bear and Cindy Lee Pair Up on “Defense”
H3 Tyler, the Creator Teases Chromakopia, Shares New “St. Chroma” Video
H3 Remembering Ka, the Quiet Sage of Underground Rap
H3 Benjamin Booker Announces Tour and First Album Since 2017, Shares New Video
H3 Taylor Swift Announces Eras Tour Book
H3 Alana Haim Cast in New Movies The Mastermind and The Drama
H3 Father John Misty Announces Winter 2025 Tour, Shares New Song “She Cleans Up”
H3 Rufus Wainwright Denounces Donald Trump’s Use of His “Hallelujah” Cover
H3 Greg Mendez Announces 2025 Tour Dates, Shares Video for New Song “Alone”
H3 Beautifully Broken
H3 I SHOULD CALL THEM
H3 iiyo iiyo iiyo
H3 Cool World
H3 When you wake up
H3 The Thief Next to Jesus
H3 My Method Actor
H3 Dunya
H3 Mixtape Pluto
H3 Absolute Elsewhere
H3 You’ll Have to Lose Something
H3 Leon
H3 Manning Fireworks
H3 The 10 Ka Records That Defined His Legacy
H3 MJ Lenderman Adds More 2025 Tour Dates
H3 11 Songs You Should Listen to Now: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist
H3 For the Softies, It’s All About Friendship
H3 New Music Releases and Upcoming Albums in 2024 and 2025
H3 Listen to Pablo Skywalkin’s “Hot and Ready”: The Ones
H3 Martin Scorsese Produces New Beatles Documentary
H3 Kassie Krut Rev Up on “Reckless”
H3 The 100 Best Albums of the 2020s So Far
H3 The Lost Promises of Hyperpoptimism
H3 It’s Time for Electronic Music to Turn Its Dreams Into Reality
H3 The 100 Best Songs of the 2020s So Far
H3 Jealous One’s Envy
H3 Come Away With Me
H3 The Natural Bridge
H3 Version 2.0
H3 BCD
H3 Rum Sodomy & the Lash
H3 Chocolate and Cheese
H3 Soundbombing II
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
29 links don't have an anchor text.
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 12 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://pitchfork.com/features/Features
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https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/The Pitch
https://pitchfork.com/tv/Video
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/news/charli-xcx-blue-lake-chu...11 Songs You Should Listen to Now: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist
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/news/new-album-releases/New Music Releases and Upcoming Albums in 2024 and 2025
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https://pitchfork.com/news/Text duplicate News
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/genre/experimentalExperimental
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https://twitter.com/pitchforkNew window External No Text
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https://pitchfork.com/info/adAdvertising

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HTTP redirects
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This page redirects to "https://pitchfork.com/"
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This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
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The file size of the HTML document is very large (1,041 kB).
The page response time is excellent with 0.04 seconds.

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