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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
88% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
61% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.08 s
File size
59.20 kB
Words
713
Media files
26
Number of links
87 internal / 16 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
404 Media
The page title is too short. (96 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
404 Media is a new independent media company founded by technology journalists Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, Samantha Cole, and Joseph Cox.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (938 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.404media.co/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
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
(Somewhat important)
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Rel next URL https://www.404media.co/page/2/
The rel next and prev tags are set correctly.
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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HandheldFriendlyTrue
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theme-color#000000
description404 Media is a new independent media company founded by technology journalists Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, Samantha Cole, and Joseph Cox.
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twitter:title404 Media
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twitter:site@404mediaco
og:site_name404 Media
og:typewebsite
og:title404 Media
og:description404 Media is a new independent media company founded by technology journalists Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, Samantha Cole, and Joseph Cox.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are 2 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts...
This page contains 713 words. That's ok.
32.8% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
13 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 21 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=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 14 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...ages/img-placeholder-md.jpg?v=0a4b370697Behind the Blog: Newsworthy FOIA Files and the Art and Science of Paywalling
...ages/size/w30/2023/08/404-sam-10--1-.jpgSamantha Cole
...ages/img-placeholder-md.jpg?v=0a4b370697Apocalyptic Asteroid Impact Was Great for Ants
.../size/w30/2024/09/7BaR_tNV_400x400-1.jpgBecky Ferreira
...ages/img-placeholder-md.jpg?v=0a4b370697Behind the Blog: Newsworthy FOIA Files and the Art and Science of Paywalling
...ages/size/w30/2023/08/404-sam-10--1-.jpgSamantha Cole
...ages/img-placeholder-md.jpg?v=0a4b370697Podcast: One Year Anniversary Subscriber Bonanza
...ges/size/w30/2023/08/404-joseph-01-1.jpgJoseph Cox
...ages/img-placeholder-md.jpg?v=0a4b370697Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against BioLab for Toxic Plume
...ages/size/w30/2023/08/404-sam-10--1-.jpgSamantha Cole
...ages/img-placeholder-md.jpg?v=0a4b370697Telegram Confirms it Gave U.S. User Data to the Cops
...ges/size/w30/2023/08/404-joseph-01-1.jpgJoseph Cox
...ages/img-placeholder-md.jpg?v=0a4b370697Men Stole Over $1 Million From DoorDash Delivery Drivers By Impersonating Them to Customer Service
...t/images/size/w30/2024/04/IMG_8955-2.jpgJules Roscoe
...ages/img-placeholder-md.jpg?v=0a4b370697Internal Emails Reveal How Hate Overwhelmed Springfield After Trump's Lies About Haitian Immigrants
.../size/w30/2023/08/404-jason-01-copy.jpegJason Koebler
...ages/img-placeholder-md.jpg?v=0a4b370697Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers
...ges/size/w30/2023/08/404-joseph-01-1.jpgJoseph Cox
...ages/img-placeholder-md.jpg?v=0a4b370697Podcast: AI Companies Are Opting You In By Default
...ges/size/w30/2023/08/404-joseph-01-1.jpgJoseph Cox
...ages/img-placeholder-md.jpg?v=0a4b370697Hurricane Helene Knocked One of the World’s Largest Climate Data Archives Offline
...ages/size/w30/2023/08/404-sam-10--1-.jpgSamantha Cole
...ages/img-placeholder-md.jpg?v=0a4b370697A Network of AI ‘Nudify’ Sites Are a Front for Notorious Russian Hackers
...ges/size/w30/2023/08/404-joseph-01-1.jpgJoseph Cox
...ages/img-placeholder-md.jpg?v=0a4b370697Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic
...ages/size/w30/2023/08/404-sam-10--1-.jpgSamantha Cole

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 31 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H3 Unparalleled access to hidden worlds both online and IRL.
H4 Behind the Blog: Newsworthy FOIA Files and the Art and Science of Paywalling
H4 Apocalyptic Asteroid Impact Was Great for Ants
H4 Behind the Blog: Newsworthy FOIA Files and the Art and Science of Paywalling Duplicate text
H4 Podcast: One Year Anniversary Subscriber Bonanza
H4 Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against BioLab for Toxic Plume
H4 Telegram Confirms it Gave U.S. User Data to the Cops
H4 Men Stole Over $1 Million From DoorDash Delivery Drivers By Impersonating Them to Customer Service
H4 Internal Emails Reveal How Hate Overwhelmed Springfield After Trump's Lies About Haitian Immigrants
H4 Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers
H4 Podcast: AI Companies Are Opting You In By Default
H4 Hurricane Helene Knocked One of the World’s Largest Climate Data Archives Offline
H4 A Network of AI ‘Nudify’ Sites Are a Front for Notorious Russian Hackers
H4 Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic
H6 Account
H6 Navigation
H6 Follow us
H6 Behind The Blog
H6 Support our reporting. Subscribe.
H6 The Abstract
H6 Behind The Blog Duplicate text
H6 Podcast
H6 News
H6 News Duplicate text
H6 Courtwatch
H6 FOIA
H6 News Duplicate text
H6 Podcast Duplicate text
H6 News Duplicate text
H6 News Duplicate text
H6 waymo
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 1 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 16 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.404media.co/signin/Log in
https://www.404media.co/signup/Subscribe
https://www.404media.co/Subdomain Home
https://www.404media.co/about/Subdomain About
/404-media-now-has-a-full-text...Subdomain RSS
https://www.404media.co/faq/Subdomain Support/FAQ
/the-404-media-podcast/Subdomain Podcast
/foia-forum-archive/Subdomain FOIA Forum Archive
https://404media.myshopify.com/External Subdomain Merch
/advertise-with-404-media/Subdomain Advertise
/thank-yous/Subdomain Thanks
/privacy-policy/Subdomain Privacy
https://twitter.com/404mediacoNew window External Twitter
A-TITLE Twitter
https://bsky.app/profile/404me...New window External Bluesky
A-TITLE Bluesky
https://mastodon.social/@404me...New window External Mastodon
A-TITLE Mastodon
https://instagram.com/404mediacoNew window External Instagram
A-TITLE Instagram
https://tiktok.com/@404.mediaNew window External TikTok
A-TITLE TikTok
https://www.facebook.com/404me...New window External Subdomain Facebook
A-TITLE Facebook
https://www.404media.co/rssNew window Text duplicate RSS
A-TITLE RSS
https://www.404media.co/Subdomain No Text
https://www.404media.co/signin/Sign in
https://www.404media.co/signup/Text duplicate Subscribe
https://www.404media.co/about/Subdomain Text duplicate About
/404-media-now-has-a-full-text...Subdomain Text duplicate RSS
https://www.404media.co/faq/Subdomain Text duplicate Support/FAQ
/the-404-media-podcast/Subdomain Text duplicate Podcast
/foia-forum-archive/Subdomain Text duplicate FOIA Forum Archive
https://404media.myshopify.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Merch
/advertise-with-404-media/Subdomain Text duplicate Advertise
/thank-yous/Subdomain Text duplicate Thanks
/privacy-policy/Subdomain Text duplicate Privacy
/behind-the-blog-newsworthy-fo...IMG-ALT Behind the Blog: Newsworthy FOIA Files and the Art and Science of Paywalling
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/tag/behind-the-blog/Behind The Blog
A-TITLE Behind The Blog
/behind-the-blog-newsworthy-fo...Text duplicate Behind the Blog: Newsworthy FOIA Files and the Art and Science of Paywalling
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/author/samantha-cole/Samantha Cole
IMG-ALT Samantha Cole
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https://www.404media.co/Anchor Go ad free
https://www.404media.co/aboutTrivial anchor text
here
https://www.404media.co/signup/Text duplicate Subscribe
/apocalyptic-asteroid-impact-w...IMG-ALT Apocalyptic Asteroid Impact Was Great for Ants
A-TITLE Apocalyptic Asteroid Impact Was Great for Ants
/tag/the-abstract/The Abstract
A-TITLE The Abstract
/apocalyptic-asteroid-impact-w...Text duplicate Apocalyptic Asteroid Impact Was Great for Ants
A-TITLE Apocalyptic Asteroid Impact Was Great for Ants
/author/becky/Becky Ferreira
IMG-ALT Becky Ferreira
A-TITLE Becky Ferreira
/behind-the-blog-newsworthy-fo...Text duplicate IMG-ALT Behind the Blog: Newsworthy FOIA Files and the Art and Science of Paywalling
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A-TITLE Behind The Blog
/behind-the-blog-newsworthy-fo...Text duplicate Behind the Blog: Newsworthy FOIA Files and the Art and Science of Paywalling
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/author/samantha-cole/Text duplicate Samantha Cole
IMG-ALT Samantha Cole
A-TITLE Samantha Cole
/podcast-one-year-anniversary-...IMG-ALT Podcast: One Year Anniversary Subscriber Bonanza
A-TITLE Podcast: One Year Anniversary Subscriber Bonanza
/tag/podcast/Text duplicate Podcast
A-TITLE Podcast
/podcast-one-year-anniversary-...Text duplicate Podcast: One Year Anniversary Subscriber Bonanza
A-TITLE Podcast: One Year Anniversary Subscriber Bonanza
/author/joseph-cox/Joseph Cox
IMG-ALT Joseph Cox
A-TITLE Joseph Cox
/residents-file-class-action-l...IMG-ALT Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against BioLab for Toxic Plume
A-TITLE Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against BioLab for Toxic Plume
https://www.404media.co/tag/news/News
A-TITLE News
/residents-file-class-action-l...Text duplicate Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against BioLab for Toxic Plume
A-TITLE Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against BioLab for Toxic Plume
/author/samantha-cole/Text duplicate Samantha Cole
IMG-ALT Samantha Cole
A-TITLE Samantha Cole
/telegram-confirms-it-gave-u-s...IMG-ALT Telegram Confirms it Gave U.S. User Data to the Cops
A-TITLE Telegram Confirms it Gave U.S. User Data to the Cops
https://www.404media.co/tag/news/Text duplicate News
A-TITLE News
/telegram-confirms-it-gave-u-s...Text duplicate Telegram Confirms it Gave U.S. User Data to the Cops
A-TITLE Telegram Confirms it Gave U.S. User Data to the Cops
/author/joseph-cox/Text duplicate Joseph Cox
IMG-ALT Joseph Cox
A-TITLE Joseph Cox
/men-stole-over-1-million-from...IMG-ALT Men Stole Over $1 Million From DoorDash Delivery Drivers By Impersonating Them to Customer Service
A-TITLE Men Stole Over $1 Million From DoorDash Delivery Drivers By Impersonating Them to Customer Service
/tag/courtwatch/Courtwatch
A-TITLE Courtwatch
/men-stole-over-1-million-from...Text duplicate Men Stole Over $1 Million From DoorDash Delivery Drivers By Impersonating Them to Customer Service
A-TITLE Men Stole Over $1 Million From DoorDash Delivery Drivers By Impersonating Them to Customer Service
/author/jules-roscoe/Jules Roscoe
IMG-ALT Jules Roscoe
A-TITLE Jules Roscoe
/internal-emails-reveal-how-ha...IMG-ALT Internal Emails Reveal How Hate Overwhelmed Springfield After Trump's Lies About Haitian Immigrants
A-TITLE Internal Emails Reveal How Hate Overwhelmed Springfield After Trump's Lies About Haitian Immigrants
https://www.404media.co/tag/foia/FOIA
A-TITLE FOIA
/internal-emails-reveal-how-ha...Text duplicate Internal Emails Reveal How Hate Overwhelmed Springfield After Trump's Lies About Haitian Immigrants
A-TITLE Internal Emails Reveal How Hate Overwhelmed Springfield After Trump's Lies About Haitian Immigrants
/author/jason-koebler/Jason Koebler
IMG-ALT Jason Koebler
A-TITLE Jason Koebler
/someone-put-facial-recognitio...IMG-ALT Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers
A-TITLE Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers
https://www.404media.co/tag/news/Text duplicate News
A-TITLE News
/someone-put-facial-recognitio...Text duplicate Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers
A-TITLE Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers
/author/joseph-cox/Text duplicate Joseph Cox
IMG-ALT Joseph Cox
A-TITLE Joseph Cox
/podcast-ai-companies-are-opti...IMG-ALT Podcast: AI Companies Are Opting You In By Default
A-TITLE Podcast: AI Companies Are Opting You In By Default
/tag/podcast/Text duplicate Podcast
A-TITLE Podcast
/podcast-ai-companies-are-opti...Text duplicate Podcast: AI Companies Are Opting You In By Default
A-TITLE Podcast: AI Companies Are Opting You In By Default
/author/joseph-cox/Text duplicate Joseph Cox
IMG-ALT Joseph Cox
A-TITLE Joseph Cox
/hurricane-helene-ncei-nationa...IMG-ALT Hurricane Helene Knocked One of the World’s Largest Climate Data Archives Offline
A-TITLE Hurricane Helene Knocked One of the World’s Largest Climate Data Archives Offline
https://www.404media.co/tag/news/Text duplicate News
A-TITLE News
/hurricane-helene-ncei-nationa...Text duplicate Hurricane Helene Knocked One of the World’s Largest Climate Data Archives Offline
A-TITLE Hurricane Helene Knocked One of the World’s Largest Climate Data Archives Offline
/author/samantha-cole/Text duplicate Samantha Cole
IMG-ALT Samantha Cole
A-TITLE Samantha Cole
/a-network-of-ai-nudify-sites-...IMG-ALT A Network of AI ‘Nudify’ Sites Are a Front for Notorious Russian Hackers
A-TITLE A Network of AI ‘Nudify’ Sites Are a Front for Notorious Russian Hackers
https://www.404media.co/tag/news/Text duplicate News
A-TITLE News
/a-network-of-ai-nudify-sites-...Text duplicate A Network of AI ‘Nudify’ Sites Are a Front for Notorious Russian Hackers
A-TITLE A Network of AI ‘Nudify’ Sites Are a Front for Notorious Russian Hackers
/author/joseph-cox/Text duplicate Joseph Cox
IMG-ALT Joseph Cox
A-TITLE Joseph Cox
/men-harassed-a-woman-in-a-dri...IMG-ALT Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic
A-TITLE Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic
/tag/waymo/waymo
A-TITLE waymo
/men-harassed-a-woman-in-a-dri...Text duplicate Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic
A-TITLE Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic
/author/samantha-cole/Text duplicate Samantha Cole
IMG-ALT Samantha Cole
A-TITLE Samantha Cole
https://www.404media.co/about/Subdomain Text duplicate About
/404-media-now-has-a-full-text...Subdomain Text duplicate RSS
https://www.404media.co/faq/Subdomain Text duplicate Support/FAQ
/the-404-media-podcast/Subdomain Text duplicate Podcast
/foia-forum-archive/Subdomain Text duplicate FOIA Forum Archive
https://404media.myshopify.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Merch
/advertise-with-404-media/Subdomain Text duplicate Advertise
/thank-yous/Subdomain Text duplicate Thanks
/privacy-policy/Subdomain Text duplicate Privacy
https://twitter.com/404mediacoNew window External Text duplicate Twitter
A-TITLE Twitter
https://bsky.app/profile/404me...New window External Text duplicate Bluesky
A-TITLE Bluesky
https://mastodon.social/@404me...New window External Text duplicate Mastodon
A-TITLE Mastodon
https://instagram.com/404mediacoNew window External Text duplicate Instagram
A-TITLE Instagram
https://tiktok.com/@404.mediaNew window External Text duplicate TikTok
A-TITLE TikTok
https://www.facebook.com/404me...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Facebook
A-TITLE Facebook
https://www.404media.co/rssNew window Text duplicate RSS
A-TITLE RSS
https://ghost.org/External Ghost

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.404media.co/"
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 0.08 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (59 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
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 9,844 referring domains.
This page has 741,229 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 6,843 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

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Robots.txt

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Disallow: /ghost/
Disallow: /email/
Disallow: /members/api/comments/counts/
Disallow: /r/
Disallow: /webmentions/receive/

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