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Meta information
72% 
Page quality
50% 
Page structure
92% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
90% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.05 s
File size
272.40 kB
Words
469
Media files
3
Number of links
204 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Alternet.org
The page title is too short. (107 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
The domain is used in the page's title.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Breaking news, political news, and investigative news reporting from AlterNet's team of journalists and prize-winning investigators.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (800 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.alternet.org/
There is more than one canonical link on this page.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en
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
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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
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
No paragraphs were detected.
There are only 469 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
22.8% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width,initial-scale=1,minimum-scale=1.0" 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 9 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)
Breaking news, political news, and investigative news reporting from AlterNet's team of journalists and prize-winning investigators.
The H1 heading is too long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Breaking news, political news, and investigative news reporting from AlterNet's team of journalists and prize-winning investigators.
H2 'Assault on our democracy': Federal judge hands down 7-month prison sentence to pro-Trump influencer
H2 'Preventable tragedy': Here are 5 ways the FBI dropped the ball before Jan. 6 insurrection
H2 'A slap in the face of MAGA': Jim Jordan torched after losing another speaker vote
H2 Watch: Sarah Sanders snaps at reporter for asking why she’s not using controversial $19,000 lectern
H2 GOP senator blames Israel-Hamas war on 'bit of a weenie' Biden
H2 'Thug' Jim Jordan is following in his mentor's footsteps
H2 From robber barons to Bezos: Is history repeating itself?
H2 How risky will it be for America and the world for Jim Jordan to become Speaker of the House?
H2 For a Speaker Jordan, the chaos is the point
H2 The corrosiveness of hate
H2 The disaster that is Jim Jordan
H2 The contemptible thievery of gentrification
H2 On Putin's ability to get MAGA Republicans to mouth his talking points
H2 How about we pray for our ghastly hypocrisy?
H2 'Doesn’t look like' Jordan will become speaker — here’s how Dems may help end GOP 'civil war'
H2 'Contemptible': GOP strategist slams 'cowardly' Republicans for allowing speakership chaos
H2 Pelosi delivers devastating response to Jim Jordan’s failed speaker vote
H2 Fox News hosts urge GOP to elect speaker so Biden will look 'weak'
H2 Trump goes after NY AG in civil trial one day after criminal case gag order
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
21 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 9 external links on this page.

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HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
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HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.05 seconds.
This page does not require any CSS files.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (272 kB).

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This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 28,623 referring domains.
This page has 4,449,821 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 18,829 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
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This website is listed on Webwiki.

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