Blackpast.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
70% 
Page quality
89% 
Page structure
0% 
Link structure
62% 
Server
96% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.47 s
File size
157.00 kB
Words
671
Media files
14
Number of links
148 internal / 3 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Welcome to Blackpast •
The title contains the word Welcome to! More content should be covered in the title.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.blackpast.org/
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 671 words. That's ok.
26.5% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
3 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 15.11 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)
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)
5 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
/wp-content/uploads/black-past-logo.pngBlackPast Logo
...la_and_Prince_Etherius_tapestry_1520.jpgBlack musicians, Lisbon, Portugal, ca. 1522
...de-William-Black-www.findagrave.com_.pngClaude William Black (www.findagrave.com)
...e-Ravi-License-CC-BY-SA-3.0-1024x570.jpgUS Supreme Court
/wp-content/uploads/John-Amos-Wikipedia.pngJohn Amos (Wikipedia)
...nt/uploads/Howard-Lee-1969-Wikipedia.pngHoward Lee, 1969 (Wikipedia)
...loads/Jon-Batiste-Austin-City-Limits.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ngeles-County-Natural-History-Museum.jpgDiorama, Founding Los Angeles, 1781 (Los Angeles County Natural History Museum)
/wp-content/uploads/walter-sisulu.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...s/files/blackpast_images/africa_hall.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ontent/uploads/Edward_Austin_Johnson.jpgEdward Austin Johnson
/wp-content/uploads/eugene-parker.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/barry-rand.pngNo alt attribute provided
...February_14_2010_Photo_by_David_Byrd.jpgDaniel Bernard Roumain, Vancouver, February 14, 2010

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to Blackpast
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 33 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 Welcome to Blackpast
H1 Welcome to BlackPast
H2 BlackPast is dedicated to providing a global audience with reliable and accurate information on the history of African America and of people of African ancestry around the world. We aim to promote ...
H2 WHO'S NEW ON BLACKPAST?
H2 EXPLORE MORE ...
H2 African American History
H2 Global African History
H2 About BlackPast
H2 Contact BlackPast
H3 Claude William Black Jr. (1916-2009)
H3 (2023) Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina
H3 John Amos (1939-2024)
H3 Howard Nathaniel Lee (1934- )
H4 Claude William Black Jr. (1916-2009) Duplicate text
H4 (2023) Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina Duplicate text
H4 John Amos (1939-2024) Duplicate text
H4 Howard Nathaniel Lee (1934- ) Duplicate text
H5 Jon Batiste (1986- )
H5 North from Mexico: The First Black Settlers in the U.S. West
H5 Walter Sisulu (1912-2003)
H5 Organization of African Unity (1963-2002)
H5 Edward A. Johnson (1860-1944)
H5 Eugene Parker (1956-2016)
H5 Addison Barry Rand (1944-2018)
H5 Daniel Bernard Roumain (1971- )
H6 Click here to learn more.
H6 Click here to learn more. Duplicate text
H6 Click here to learn more. Duplicate text
H6 Click here to learn more. Duplicate text
H6 Click here to learn more. Duplicate text
H6 Click here to learn more. Duplicate text
H6 Click here to learn more. Duplicate text
H6 Click here to learn more. Duplicate text
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 3 external links on this page.
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https://www.blackpast.org/Anchor Skip to content
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/about-us/advisory-board/Subdomain Academic Advisory Board
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/african-american-history/prim...Subdomain A-TITLE (2023) Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina
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/african-american-history/peop...Subdomain A-TITLE Howard Nathaniel Lee (1934- )
/african-american-history/peop...Subdomain Text duplicate A-TITLE Howard Nathaniel Lee (1934- )
/african-american-history/jon-...Subdomain A-TITLE Jon Batiste (1986- )
/african-american-history/jon-...Subdomain Text duplicate A-TITLE Jon Batiste (1986- )
/african-american-history/jon-...Subdomain Text duplicate Jon Batiste (1986- )
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/african-american-history/nort...Subdomain A-TITLE North from Mexico: The First Black Settlers in the U.S. West
/african-american-history/nort...Subdomain Text duplicate A-TITLE North from Mexico: The First Black Settlers in the U.S. West
/african-american-history/nort...Subdomain Text duplicate North from Mexico: The First Black Settlers in the U.S. West
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/global-african-history/sisulu...Subdomain Text duplicate Walter Sisulu (1912-2003)
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/global-african-history/organi...Subdomain Text duplicate Organization of African Unity (1963-2002)
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https://www.instagram.com/blac...External Subdomain Instagram
https://twitter.com/BlackPastO...External Twitter
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.blackpast.org/"
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 of 0.47 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (157 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 15,878 referring domains.
This page has 513,394 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 8,537 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

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Welcome to Blackpast •

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Welcome66%Check
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