Thedrive.ca - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
50% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
43% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.15 s
File size
266.90 kB
Words
245
Media files
9
Number of links
48 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The Drive – Commercial Drive Vancouver Canada
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (446 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://thedrive.ca/
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, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=0
robotsmax-image-preview:large
generatorPowered by WPBakery Page Builder - drag and drop page builder for WordPress.
msapplication-TileImagehttp://thedrive.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/THEDRIVE-favicon-1.png
langen-us
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 245 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
The average number of words per sentence of 38.75 words is high.
29.4% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
6 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=0" is provided.
At least one 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)
5 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
...s/2023/08/THEDRIVE_logo_homepage4png.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HOME-1-1.webpHOME-1HOME-1
/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HOME-2-1.webpHOME-2HOME-2
/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HOME-3-1.webpHOME-3HOME-3
/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HOME-4-1.webpHOME-4HOME-4
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
/wp-content/themes/salient/img/icons.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ntent/uploads/2023/08/LittleItaly250.pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
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
H3 Celebrate the 15 Year Anniversario of Italian Day on The Drive
H3 Professional Services on The Drive
H3 A Perfect Day on Commercial Drive
H3 Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Award Finalists
H3 Embracing the Zero-Proof Lifestyle
H3 Discover Healthy Eating on The Drive
H4 Subscribe to TheDrive
H5 in the neighbourhood newsletter
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
19 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 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://thedrive.ca/Anchor Skip to main content
https://thedrive.ca/discover/DISCOVER
/directory/eatndrinkEAT’N DRINK
/directory/shopsSHOPS
/directory/servicesSERVICES
https://thedrive.ca/littleitaly/LITTLE ITALY
https://thedrive.ca/discoverNo Text
https://thedrive.ca/discover/No Text
/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HO...No Text
/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HO...No Text
/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HO...No Text
/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HO...No Text
/italianday-2025/No Text
/italianday-2025/No Text
/category/thedrive/Commercial Drive
/professional-services-on-the-...No Text
/professional-services-on-the-...No Text
/category/thedrive/Text duplicate Commercial Drive
/day-on-the-drive/No Text
/day-on-the-drive/No Text
/category/thedrive/Text duplicate Commercial Drive
/vanmagawards-2025/No Text
/vanmagawards-2025/No Text
/category/awards/Awards
https://thedrive.ca/zero-proof/No Text
https://thedrive.ca/zero-proof/No Text
/category/thedrive/Text duplicate Commercial Drive
/discover-healthy-eating-on-th...No Text
/discover-healthy-eating-on-th...No Text
/category/thedrive/Text duplicate Commercial Drive
https://thedrive.ca/discover/Text duplicate DISCOVER
/directory/eatndrinkText duplicate EAT’N DRINK
/directory/shopsText duplicate SHOPS
/directory/servicesText duplicate SERVICES
https://thedrive.ca/littleitaly/Text duplicate LITTLE ITALY
https://thedrive.ca/resources/MEMBER RESOURCES
https://thedrive.ca/events/EVENTS
https://thedrive.ca/news/NEWS
https://thedrive.ca/littleitaly/No Text
https://thedrive.ca/contactContact
http://www.masterhousemedia.com/New window External Subdomain Masterhouse
https://www.facebook.com/comme...New window External Subdomain facebook
https://www.instagram.com/comm...New window External Subdomain instagram
https://thedrive.ca/discover/Text duplicate DISCOVER
/directory/eatndrinkText duplicate EAT’N DRINK
/directory/shopsText duplicate SHOPS
/directory/servicesText duplicate SERVICES
https://thedrive.ca/littleitaly/Text duplicate LITTLE ITALY
https://thedrive.ca/resources/Text duplicate MEMBER RESOURCES
https://thedrive.ca/events/Text duplicate EVENTS
https://thedrive.ca/news/Text duplicate NEWS
https://www.facebook.com/comme...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/comm...New window External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://thedrive.ca/"
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 slow (1.15 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 (267 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSat, 15 Mar 2025 13:45:57 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
link<http://thedrive.ca/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/", <http://thedrive.ca/wp-json/wp/v2/pages/6429>; rel="alternate"; title="JSON"; type="application/json", <http://thedrive.ca/>; rel=shortlink
content-security-policyupgrade-insecure-requests
strict-transport-securitymax-age=0; includeSubdomains
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
report-to{"endpoints":[{"url":"https:\/\/a.nel.cloudflare.com\/report\/v4?s=qTblVjWu9uPefumIje1KDKw9ft7Eu3LAu3lJP8%2Fi1rDtoAxzM%2BX4D1Nq2VnyMTzcB1pSW0NQdyEmUurqEEW1ADsVUtmnP3MMrvbfuvR7qA56zK3YUnO8AGveEkXlGA%3D%3D"}],"group":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}
nel{"success_fraction":0,"report_to":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}
servercloudflare
cf-ray920c74407f6fbb63-CDG
content-encodinggzip
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
server-timingcfL4;desc="?proto=TCP&rtt=13858&min_rtt=13782&rtt_var=3976&sent=6&recv=8&lost=0&retrans=0&sent_bytes=3408&recv_bytes=894&delivery_rate=210129&cwnd=129&unsent_bytes=0&cid=cf8a3e03cab67610&ts=821&x=0"
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 539 referring domains.
This page has 277,423 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 264 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: http://thedrive.ca/wp-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
Drive65%Check
Commercial Drive56%Check
Commercial Drive Vancouver53%Check
TheDrive52%Check
Vancouver50%Check
Drive Business48%Check
Day43%Check
Commercial Drive Vancouver Canada41%Check
Contact39%Check
Masterhouse39%Check
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