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Meta information
85% 
Page quality
66% 
Page structure
84% 
Link structure
12% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.27 s
File size
170.90 kB
Words
710
Media files
20
Number of links
84 internal / 35 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Strong Towns
The page title is too short. (123 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Strong Towns, a bottom-up revolution to rebuild American prosperity. Make your community stronger and more prosperous.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (758 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.strongtowns.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
(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.
This page contains 710 words. That's ok.
30.6% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
7 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 18.18 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 "initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 74 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"escaping the housing trap: the strong towns response to the housing crisis"
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
(Critically important)
A broken development pattern is bankrupting your city and endangering your neighborhood. Steer your place away from decline and toward prosperity.
The H1 heading is too long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 A broken development pattern is bankrupting your city and endangering your neighborhood. Steer your place away from decline and toward prosperity.
H2 Transform How You Understand Your Town
H2 What Is Strong Towns?
H2 Take Action Today. Change Your Place Forever.
H2 Game-Changing. Empowering. Bestselling.
H2 Thank you!
H3 The Strong Towns Accelerator
H3 6 Core Principles
H3 5 Priority Campaigns
H3 An Approach That Transcends Politics
H3 Local Conversations
H3 Events
H3 Membership
H3 As seen in:
H3 Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
H3 Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
H3 Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis
H3 Become a Strong Towns Subscriber
H3 Get Involved
H3 Resources
H3 About
H3 Site
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.
2 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (35) on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://www.strongtowns.org/aboutAbout
/membershipSubdomain Become a Member
https://www.strongtowns.org/calCommunity Action Lab
/crash-studioCrash Analysis Studio
https://www.strongtowns.org/localSubdomain Local Conversations
https://academy.strongtowns.org/External Subdomain Academy
https://actionlab.strongtowns....External Subdomain Action Lab
https://www.housingtrap.org/External Subdomain Housing Trap
https://www.strongtowns.org/bookSubdomain All Books
/eventsSubdomain Book an Event
/attend-eventAttend an Event
https://academy.strongtowns.or...External Subdomain Local-Motive Tour
https://twitter.com/StrongTownsNew window External No Text
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/stmediaText duplicate Articles
/podcastsText duplicate Podcasts
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/programsPrograms
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/crash-studioText duplicate Crash Analysis Studio
https://www.strongtowns.org/localSubdomain Text duplicate Local Conversations
https://www.strongtowns.org/learnLearn
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https://www.housingtrap.org/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Housing Trap
https://www.strongtowns.org/bookSubdomain Text duplicate All Books
/events-1Events
/eventsSubdomain Text duplicate Book an Event
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https://www.strongtowns.org/aboutText duplicate About
https://www.strongtowns.org/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Strong Towns
/membershipSubdomain Text duplicate Become a Member
https://www.strongtowns.org/localSubdomain Join a Local Group
/stmediaSee More
https://pages.strongtowns.org/...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://pages.strongtowns.org/...New window External Subdomain The Strong Towns Accelerator
https://pages.strongtowns.org/...New window External Subdomain Learn More About the Accelerator
/journal/2024/3/18/strong-town...IMG-ALT Strong Towns' Guide to the Election Year
/journal?author=53dd6675e4b0a3...Charles Marohn
/journal/2024/3/18/strong-town...Text duplicate Strong Towns' Guide to the Election Year
/journal?author=53dd6675e4b0a3...Text duplicate Charles Marohn
/journal?author=53dd6675e4b0a3...Text duplicate Charles Marohn
/journal/2020/5/14/americas-gr...IMG-ALT America's Growth Ponzi Scheme
/journal?author=53dd6675e4b0a3...Text duplicate Charles Marohn
/journal/2020/5/14/americas-gr...Text duplicate America's Growth Ponzi Scheme
/journal?author=53dd6675e4b0a3...Text duplicate Charles Marohn
/journal?author=53dd6675e4b0a3...Text duplicate Charles Marohn
/journal/2018/1/3/10-questions...IMG-ALT 10 Questions to Ask Someone Running for Local Office
/journal?author=54b3e65ae4b0d2...Rachel Quednau
/journal/2018/1/3/10-questions...Text duplicate 10 Questions to Ask Someone Running for Local Office
/journal?author=54b3e65ae4b0d2...Text duplicate Rachel Quednau
/journal?author=54b3e65ae4b0d2...Text duplicate Rachel Quednau
/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-rea...IMG-ALT The Real Reason Your City Has No Money
/journal?author=53dd6675e4b0a3...Text duplicate Charles Marohn
/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-rea...Text duplicate The Real Reason Your City Has No Money
/journal?author=53dd6675e4b0a3...Text duplicate Charles Marohn
/journal?author=53dd6675e4b0a3...Text duplicate Charles Marohn
/stmediaText duplicate See More
/journal/2021/5/12/6-principle...Subdomain 6 Core Principles
/journal/2021/5/12/6-principle...Subdomain See Our Principles
https://www.strongtowns.org/aboutSubdomain Anchor 5 Priority Campaigns
https://www.strongtowns.org/aboutSubdomain Anchor See Our Priorities
/journal/2024/3/18/strong-town...Subdomain An Approach That Transcends Politics
/journal/2024/3/18/strong-town...Subdomain How We Transcend Politics
https://www.strongtowns.org/localSubdomain Find a Nearby Group
/eventsSubdomain Text duplicate Book an Event
/membershipSubdomain Text duplicate Become a Member
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT cnbc.png
https://99percentinvisible.org...New window External IMG-ALT 99-invisible.png
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/22...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT cnn.png
https://www.usatoday.com/bookl...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT usa-today_best-selling-book.png
https://www.wsj.com/business/l...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT wsj.png
https://www.strongtowns.org/bookNo Text
https://www.strongtowns.org/bookLearn More and Order
https://www.confessions.engineer/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.confessions.engineer/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More and Order
https://www.housingtrap.org/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.housingtrap.org/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More and Order
https://www.strongtowns.org/Anchor Homepage Banner (2024)
https://www.strongtowns.org/Anchor Homepage Featured Media (2024)
https://www.strongtowns.org/Anchor Homepage About (2024)
https://www.strongtowns.org/Anchor Homepage Action (2024)
https://www.strongtowns.org/Anchor Homepage Recognition (2024)
https://www.strongtowns.org/Anchor Homepage Books (2024)
https://www.strongtowns.org/Anchor Homepage Email (2024)
https://twitter.com/StrongTownsNew window External No Text
https://www.facebook.com/stron...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/@stron...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain No Text
/membershipSubdomain Text duplicate Become a Member
https://www.strongtowns.org/emailSubdomain Sign Up for Emails
https://www.strongtowns.org/pitchNew window Subdomain Pitch a Story
/journal?format=rssNew window Subdomain RSS Feed
https://strongtowns.org/bookBooks
https://actionlab.strongtowns....New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Action Lab
http://strongtowns.org/blogrollNew window Blog Roll
https://strongtowns.org/shopShop
https://www.strongtowns.org/pressPress
https://www.strongtowns.org/aboutSubdomain About Us
https://www.strongtowns.org/teamSubdomain Team
https://www.strongtowns.org/boardSubdomain Advisory Board
/employmentSubdomain Employment
/contactSubdomain Contact Us
/privacySubdomain Privacy Policy
/comment-policySubdomain Comment Policy
https://actionlab.strongtowns....New window External Subdomain FAQ
https://actionlab.strongtowns....New window External Subdomain Search
http://creativecommons.org/lic...External Strong Towns is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Our work is performed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.strongtowns.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 0.27 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (171 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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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 4,938 referring domains.
This page has 336,418 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 3,212 different ip addresses.

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