Awaytogarden.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
81% 
Page structure
26% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.23 s
File size
229.70 kB
Words
1876
Media files
53
Number of links
118 internal / 15 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
A Way to Garden Home -
The length of the page title is perfect. (228 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Organic gardening how-to and inspiration about nature from award-winning author and podcaster Margaret Roach. Plus: garden-to-table recipes and more.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (953 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://awaytogarden.com/
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)
This page contains 1876 words. That's ok.
39.3% 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.
46 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 17.92 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
43 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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Audio URL
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
A Way To Garden
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (15 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 58 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 A Way To Garden
H1 Home
H1 rethinking the lawn, with dan wilder
H2 GET THE PODCAST
H2 my weekly radio show & podcast
H2 when to start seed
H2 when to start seed Duplicate text
H2 MY ‘NY TIMES’ COLUMNS
H2 my latest assignment: a series in ‘the new york times’
H2 LATEST PODCASTS & POSTS
H2 oddball fruits from around the globe, with hortus arboretum
H2 do a garden audit, with arnold arboretum’s rodney eason
H2 the two-way benefits of garden visiting, with ken druse
H2 neonic dangers, with the american bird conservancy’s hardy kern
H2 Throwing in the Trowel?
H2 declaring it ‘throw in the trowel week’
H2 TIMELY ESSENTIALS
H2 the july garden chores
H2 new usda plant hardiness zone map, with todd rounsaville
H2 rethinking the lawn, with ecological horticulturist dan wilder
H2 dan koshansky’s refrigerator dill pickles
H2 NATURE TOPICS
H2 prairie and meadow plantings, succession and more, with neil diboll
H2 supporting our trees, all their lives long, with basil camu
H2 saving (and growing) native lady’s slipper orchids, with longwood’s peter zale
H2 ‘bio-productive gardens,’ with tim johnson of native plant trust
H2 the state of the native-plant movement, with rebecca mcmackin
H2 counting birds: be a better birder, with cornell’s rebecca rodomsky-bish
H2 NATIVE PLANT STORIES
H2 amsonias: dependable, beautiful bluestars, with mt. cuba’s sam hoadley
H2 ecological resolutions, with uli lorimer of native plant trust
H2 diverse, powerful milkweeds, with eric lee-mäder
H2 cornell’s take on the native lawn, with todd bittner
H2 GARDEN DOODLES BY ANDRE
H2 happy spring? andre jordan’s doodled thoughts on winter, as it officially slips away
H2 doodle by andre: oh yeah, sure; the weeds are sorry
H2 doodles by andre: what gardeners regret
H2 doodle by andre: gentle reminders
H2 doodle by andre: so long for now
H2 doodle by andre: horny birds
H2 RECIPES AND MORE
H2 david lebovitz’s french onion soup (from ‘my paris kitchen’)
H2 recipe: baking up some heirloom beans
H2 baking no-knead bread and using every crumb, with alexandra stafford
H2 recipe: power green soup, by rebecca katz
H2 clafoutis batter, universal solvent of fruit dessert
H2 soup garden: growing vegetable soup ingredients
H2 growing and storing a year of parsley
H2 How to Grow Everything
H2 16 things i know about growing tomatoes
H2 growing hellebores, with judith knott tyler
H2 lee reich’s blueberry-growing how-to
H2 how to grow kale, with sarah kleeger of adaptive seeds
H2 grow onions from seed, with seed breeder don tipping of siskiyou seeds
H2 how to grow garlic, a q&a with filaree farm
H2 10 top tips for growing root vegetables
H2 success with brassicas (including brussels sprouts), with don tipping
H2 FROM THE WEEKLY PODCAST
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
44 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 43 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 15 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://awaytogarden.com/IMG-ALT A Way To Garden
https://awaytogarden.com/No Text
https://awaytogarden.com/Text duplicate A Way To Garden
https://awaytogarden.com/podcast/Podcast
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/recipe-cooking-categories/Recipes
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/nature-categories/Nature
/books-by-margaret-roach/Books
https://awaytogarden.com/Home
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Read More
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https://awaytogarden.com/aboutMargaret Roach
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https://awaytogarden.com/contact/contact
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https://twitter.com/margaretroachNew window External Text duplicate Twitter
https://instagram.com/awaytoga...New window External Text duplicate Instagram
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https://stefanmatei.com/New window External Stefan Matei
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://awaytogarden.com/"
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 (1.23 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 (230 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is rated as "Only for Adults".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,051 referring domains.
This page has 158,194 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,440 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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A Way to Garden Home -
Organic gardening how-to and inspiration about nature from award-winning author and podcaster Margaret Roach. Plus: garden-to-table recipes and more.

Most important keywords

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Garden93%Check
Way81%Check
Podcast56%Check
away52%Check
how-to50%Check
margaret50%Check
Recipes50%Check
Nature50%Check
Show Podcast49%Check
margaret roach49%Check
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