Americantheatre.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
88% 
Page structure
27% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
87% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.93 s
File size
138.60 kB
Words
658
Media files
22
Number of links
141 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
AMERICAN THEATRE | The national magazine for the American not-for-profit theatre
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 761 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
American Theatre provides news, features, artist interviews, and editorials about theatre in the US and abroad.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (678 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is 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)
This page contains 658 words. That's ok.
26.9% 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.
10 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 17.31 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width" 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 13 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
19 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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
AMERICAN THEATRE
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (16 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 35 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

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H1 AMERICAN THEATRE
H1 Primary Menu
H1 Primary Menu Duplicate text
H1 ACLU-Led Lawsuit for NEA Funding Relief Denied
H1 People to Watch: Keiko Green
H1 The Subtext: Chloé Hung and the Magic of Writing
H1 Oregon Children’s Theatre to Pause Programming and Restructure
H1 The Arts and the Battle for the Soul of Civilization
H1 Non-Equity Jeffs, Shonda Rhimes Commission, DG Lifetime Award, and More
H1 ACLU-Led Lawsuit for NEA Funding Relief Denied Duplicate text
H1 People to Watch: Keiko Green Duplicate text
H1 The Subtext: Chloé Hung and the Magic of Writing Duplicate text
H1 Oregon Children’s Theatre to Pause Programming and Restructure Duplicate text
H1 The Arts and the Battle for the Soul of Civilization Duplicate text
H1 Non-Equity Jeffs, Shonda Rhimes Commission, DG Lifetime Award, and More Duplicate text
H1 Questions and Anniversaries
H1 Willem Dafoe Adds Festival Programmer to His Résumé
H1 Toward a Theatre of Care
H1 PlayPenn Announces Reimagined and Expanded New Play Conference
H1 Posts navigation
H1 Latest Issue
H1 Theatre Futures
H1 ADV – Solo Premium Pillow & Skyscraper
H1 ADV – Pillow Top 1
H1 ADV – Skyscraper Top 1
H1 ADV – Pillow Top 2
H1 ADV – Skyscraper Top 2
H1 ADV – Pillow Bottom 1
H1 ADV – Skyscraper Bottom 1
H1 ADV – Pillow Bottom 2
H1 ADV – Skyscraper Bottom 2
H2 ADV – Leaderboard
H2 The national magazine for the American not-for-profit theatre
H2 ADV – Billboard
H2 Strengthening the Fabric of Theatre
H2 Empty heading
H2 Empty heading
H3 Empty heading
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
17 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 10 external links on this page.
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/2025/04/03/the-subtext-chloe-...Subdomain Text duplicate The Subtext: Chloé Hung and the Magic of Writing
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/2025/04/02/questions-and-anni...Subdomain Questions and Anniversaries
/byline/gabriela-furtado-couti...Subdomain Gabriela Furtado Coutinho
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/category/feature/global/Subdomain Global
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/category/feature/Subdomain Text duplicate Features
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.americantheatre.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (1.93 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 (139 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 6,387 referring domains.
This page has 81,802 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,051 different ip addresses.

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www.americantheatre.org
AMERICAN THEATRE | The national magazine for the American not-for-p...
American Theatre provides news, features, artist interviews, and editorials about theatre in the US and abroad.

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