Sibleyguides.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
86% 
Page structure
99% 
Link structure
60% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.79 s
File size
227.00 kB
Words
1498
Media files
18
Number of links
67 internal / 4 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Sibley Guides – Identification of North American birds and trees
The length of the page title is perfect. (568 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
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)
https://www.sibleyguides.com/
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
(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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
robotsmax-image-preview:large
msapplication-TileImagehttps://www.sibleyguides.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-AppIcon_20190530-270x270.jpg
langen-us
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 1498 words. That's ok.
44.5% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
22 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 22.3 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 71 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"check out the new updates to my art gallery page, with more coming soon"
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
9 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
...s/SibleyGuides_LogoWebsite-1-400x122.jpgSibley Guides
...t/uploads/SibleyGuides_LogoWebMobile.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...s/SibleyGuides_LogoWebsite-1-400x122.jpgSibley Guides
...t/uploads/SibleyGuides_LogoWebMobile.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...2_Sibl_9780307957894_art_r1-772x1024.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/VireoSong-232x300.pngNo alt attribute provided
...nt/uploads/RBGR_age_sex_8x11-232x300.pngNo alt attribute provided
..._Martin_Reid_33agullstoomany-300x200.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...lArt_sale_screenshot_Nov2023-300x257.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ploads/CAEG_subspp_26Oct2023-231x300.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/IMG_2020-225x300.jpgNo alt attribute provided
.../WhatItsLiketobeaBird_cover-785x1024.jpgCover image
/wp-content/uploads/SGTBE2-300x489.jpgThe Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America: Second Edition
...t/uploads/131120_SGTB_cover-300x478.jpegThe Sibley Guide to Birds - Second Edition
/wp-content/uploads/SGTBW2-300x489.jpgThe Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America: Second Edition
...ploads/BirdersLifeList_cover-300x439.jpgThe Sibley Birder's Life List and Field Diary
/wp-content/uploads/TreeBook.jpgThe Sibley Guide to Trees
...nt/uploads/BasicsCover_small-300x485.jpgSibley's Birding Basics

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
About Sibley Guides
The H1 heading is too short (19 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 About Sibley Guides
H2 Most helpful FAQs
H3 Recent Blog Posts
H3 Most popular products from the shop
H3 Recent posts
H4 Sign up for my newsletter
H4 Distinguishing Philadelphia and Red-eyed Vireos by song: Is it possible?
H4 Determining age and sex of Rose-breasted Grosbeaks in spring and summer
H4 Test your skills at estimating numbers with a new course
H4 New original art for sale in the Sibley Guides shop!
H4 Two species of Cattle Egrets?
H4 Identification of the newest meadowlark – Chihuahuan
H4 My newest book – April 2020
H4 I see Sibley Guides for sale elsewhere as “paperback”, “hardcover”, and “flexibound”? Which one should I buy?
H4 What are the differences between the Sibley Guide to Birds and the Field Guides to Eastern and Western Birds?
H4 How can I get a signed (autographed) book?
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
6 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 7 links with a trivial 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 4 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.sibleyguides.com/Anchor Skip to content
A-TITLE Skip to content
https://www.sibleyguides.com/Subdomain IMG-ALT Sibley Guides
https://www.sibleyguides.com/Subdomain No Text
/shop/Subdomain Shop
/blog/Subdomain Blog
/bird-info/Subdomain Birds
/tree-info/Subdomain Trees
/art-gallery/Subdomain Art
/events-and-products/Subdomain Events
/contact-me/Subdomain Contact
/cart/Subdomain Cart
https://www.sibleyguides.com/Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Sibley Guides
https://www.sibleyguides.com/Subdomain No Text
/shop/Subdomain Text duplicate Shop
/blog/Subdomain Text duplicate Blog
/bird-info/Subdomain Text duplicate Birds
/tree-info/Subdomain Text duplicate Trees
/art-gallery/Subdomain Text duplicate Art
/events-and-products/Subdomain Text duplicate Events
/contact-me/Subdomain Text duplicate Contact
/cart/Subdomain Text duplicate Cart
/product-category/books/Subdomain Sibley Guides and other books
/product-category/apps/Subdomain now apps as well
/art-gallery/Subdomain drawing and painting
/art-gallery/Subdomain Art Gallery
https://mailchi.mp/94510aa0a21...External Sign up for my newsletter
https://www.facebook.com/David...External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/sibl...External Subdomain Instagram
/product-category/art/Subdomain original art for sale
/contact-me/Subdomain Ask me now about artwork
/events-and-products/Subdomain listing and map of upcoming events
/2024/04/distinguishing-philad...Subdomain No Text
/2024/04/distinguishing-philad...Subdomain Distinguishing Philadelphia and Red-eyed Vireos by song: Is it possible?
/2024/04/distinguishing-philad...Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Read More
/2024/04/determining-age-and-s...Subdomain No Text
/2024/04/determining-age-and-s...Subdomain Determining age and sex of Rose-breasted Grosbeaks in spring and summer
/2024/04/determining-age-and-s...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/2023/12/test-your-skills-at-e...Subdomain No Text
/2023/12/test-your-skills-at-e...Subdomain Test your skills at estimating numbers with a new course
/2023/12/test-your-skills-at-e...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/2023/11/new-original-art-for-...Subdomain No Text
/2023/11/new-original-art-for-...Subdomain New original art for sale in the Sibley Guides shop!
/2023/11/new-original-art-for-...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/2023/10/two-species-of-cattle...Subdomain No Text
/2023/10/two-species-of-cattle...Subdomain Two species of Cattle Egrets?
/2023/10/two-species-of-cattle...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/2022/09/identification-of-the...Subdomain No Text
/2022/09/identification-of-the...Subdomain Identification of the newest meadowlark – Chihuahuan
/2022/09/identification-of-the...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/product/what-its-like-to-be-a...Subdomain My newest book – April 2020
/contact-me/Subdomain Let me know
/ultfaqs/whats-the-difference-...Subdomain Permalink
/ultfaqs/what-are-the-differen...Subdomain Text duplicate Permalink
/product-tag/direct/Subdomain Trivial anchor text
click here
/product-category/prints/Subdomain sold directly here
/events-and-products/Subdomain my events schedule
/events-and-products/Subdomain my events
/ultfaqs/how-can-i-get-a-signe...Subdomain Text duplicate Permalink
/product/sibley-field-guide-bi...Subdomain The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America: Second Edition
IMG-ALT The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America: Second Edition
/product/the-sibley-guide-to-b...Subdomain The Sibley Guide to Birds – Second Edition
IMG-ALT The Sibley Guide to Birds - Second Edition
/product/sibley-field-guide-bi...Subdomain The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America: Second Edition
IMG-ALT The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America: Second Edition
/product/the-sibley-birders-li...Subdomain The Sibley Birder’s Life List and Field Diary
IMG-ALT The Sibley Birder's Life List and Field Diary
/product/the-sibley-guide-to-t...Subdomain The Sibley Guide to Trees
IMG-ALT The Sibley Guide to Trees
/product/sibleys-birding-basics/Subdomain Sibley’s Birding Basics
IMG-ALT Sibley's Birding Basics
/2024/04/distinguishing-philad...Subdomain Text duplicate Distinguishing Philadelphia and Red-eyed Vireos by song: Is it possible?
/2024/04/determining-age-and-s...Subdomain Text duplicate Determining age and sex of Rose-breasted Grosbeaks in spring and summer
/2023/12/test-your-skills-at-e...Subdomain Text duplicate Test your skills at estimating numbers with a new course
/2023/11/new-original-art-for-...Subdomain Text duplicate New original art for sale in the Sibley Guides shop!
/2023/10/two-species-of-cattle...Subdomain Text duplicate Two species of Cattle Egrets?
https://wpastra.com/New window Nofollow External Astra WordPress Theme
/my-account/edit-account/Subdomain Account details

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.sibleyguides.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 is very slow (1.79 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (227 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateMon, 16 Dec 2024 22:46:06 GMT
serverApache
link<https://www.sibleyguides.com/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/", <https://www.sibleyguides.com/wp-json/wp/v2/pages/15601>; rel="alternate"; title="JSON"; type="application/json", <https://www.sibleyguides.com/>; rel=shortlink
set-cookie66 Characters
cache-controlmax-age=600
expiresMon, 16 Dec 2024 22:56:06 GMT
varyAccept-Encoding,User-Agent
content-encodinggzip
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,053 referring domains.
This page has 11,902 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 842 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/wc-logs/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_transient_files/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_uploads/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: https://www.sibleyguides.com/wp-sitemap.xml

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Sibley81%Check
Guides81%Check
Sibley Guides81%Check
Sibley Guides Identification68%Check
Guide Birds63%Check
Field Guides62%Check
Western Guides62%Check
big guide59%Check
David Sibley59%Check
Guide includes59%Check
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