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Meta information
92% 
Page quality
40% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
56% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.28 s
File size
214.80 kB
Words
178
Media files
24
Number of links
89 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Sarabande Books
The page title is too short. (162 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Award-winning independent publisher of poetry, short fiction, and essay, headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (680 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.sarabandebooks.org/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: 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
(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
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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
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 178 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
15.2% 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.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 17.67 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)
5 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
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There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 New & Forthcoming
H2 News & Updates
H4 QUICK LINKS Newsletter Signup Contact Accessibility Editorial Panel Submissions
H4 © 2024 Sarabande Books | Louisville, KY
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
4 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://www.sarabandebooks.org/Anchor Skip to Content
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/zine-lunchZine Lunch!
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http://facebook.com/sarabandeb...New window External No Text
http://vimeo.com/sarabandebooksNew window External No Text
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.sarabandebooks.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 0.28 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (215 kB).

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 591 referring domains.
This page has 85,402 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 474 different ip addresses.

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Sarabande Books
Award-winning independent publisher of poetry, short fiction, and essay, headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.

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