Eu.desertsun.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
52% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
98% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.02 s
File size
158.00 kB
Words
261
Media files
17
Number of links
32 internal / 19 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home
The title contains the word Home! More content should be covered in the title.
The page title is too short. (55 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
The page title is only one word.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.desertsun.com/
The canonical link points to a different domain.
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 next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
(Somewhat important)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width,initial-scale=1
HandheldFriendlyTrue
MobileOptimized320
apple-itunes-appapp-id=531366663, app-argument=https://www.desertsun.com/home
theme-color#ffffff
descriptionEmpty
og:descriptionEmpty
langen
og:site_nameThe Desert Sun
cleartypeon
x-ua-compatibleie=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
No paragraphs were detected.
There are only 261 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
19.2% 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)
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 6 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
...256489-sheriff.jpg?crop=859,483,x330,y72CVUSD employee arrested for sexually assaulting student
...rop=4827,2715,x0,y0&quality=50&width=270Firebirds inch closer to first place with 5-2 win over Tucson
...rop=4239,2385,x0,y0&quality=50&width=270PSUSD approves new AP African American Studies course
...photo-credit-charlie-denis.jpg?crop=6525Pop singer Tate McRae announces Acrisure Arena date: What to know
...ert-christian-academy-9067.JPG?crop=1732Time to vote for The Desert Sun Athlete of the Week, playoff edition
...-screenshot-20250218-104201.png?crop=510More roadwork planned for Gene Autry Trail beginning Wednesday
...8662597007-manitou-falls-5.jpg?crop=30245 things we learned about historic Indian Wells enclave Manitou Springs
...007-restaurant-inspections.png?crop=2807Palm Desert eatery gets 'B' for food temps, contaminated ice, more
...7-psiff-red-carpet-2025-39.jpg?crop=2918We recently chatted with these Oscar-nominated directors in Palm Springs
...07-getty-images-2191103795.jpg?crop=3747Bernhard Langer, Colin Montgomerie among latest Galleri Classic commits
...8985783007-usatsi-25428011.jpg?crop=3399PGA Tour's West Coast Swing saw European winners, a tournament relocation
...007-oscar-night-promo-shot.jpg?crop=3975Enjoy Hollywood's biggest night, raise funds for AAP – Food Samaritans
...r-candidate-announcement-1.jpg?crop=4001Chad Bianco kicks off campaign for governor of California
...mages-529449380.jpg?quality=50&width=1355 shows to see in the Coachella Valley this week
...eb/universal/icons/icon-instagram_24.pnginstagram logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
There are no headings specified on the page. Headings are important for search engine optimization and help to structure your content.

Heading structure

No headings were found.
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 19 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://eu.desertsun.com/Anchor Skip to main content
https://eu.desertsun.com/IMG-ALT The Desert Sun
https://eu.desertsun.com/Home
https://eu.desertsun.com/sports/Sports
/business/Business
https://eu.desertsun.com/news/News
https://eu.desertsun.com/life/Life
https://eu.desertsun.com/opinion/Opinion
https://www.desertsun.com/obit...External Subdomain Obituaries
https://eu.desertsun.com/weather/Weather
/desert-magazine/Desert Magazine
https://www.desertsun.com/enew...External Subdomain eNewspaper
http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-8...External Subdomain Archives
http://puzzles.usatoday.com/External Subdomain Crosswords
https://www.usatoday.com/comics/External Subdomain Comics
/fromthevault/From The Vault
https://profile.desertsun.com/...External Subdomain Newsletters
https://www.desertsun.com/life...External Subdomain Desert Scene & Giving
/for-subscribers/For Subscribers
/contributor-content/Contributor Content
https://eu.desertsun.com/Text duplicate IMG-ALT The Desert Sun
/story/news/crime_courts/2025/...CVUSD employee arrested for sexually assaulting student
IMG-ALT CVUSD employee arrested for sexually assaulting student
/story/sports/hockey/firebirds...Firebirds inch closer to first place with 5-2 win over Tucson
IMG-ALT Firebirds inch closer to first place with 5-2 win over Tucson
/story/news/education/2025/02/...PSUSD approves new AP African American Studies course
IMG-ALT PSUSD approves new AP African American Studies course
/story/news/local/palm-springs...Pickleball court expansion, temporary closure has players worried Palm Springs
/story/sports/tennis/bnp/2025/...BNP Paribas Open to introduce champions luncheon for 2025 event BNP Paribas Open
/story/news/local/palm-desert/...Palm Desert city manager being hired away by South Pasadena Palm Desert
/story/sports/tennis/bnp/2025/...Venus Williams, Petra Kvitová receive wild cards to Indian Wells BNP Paribas Open
/story/life/entertainment/musi...Pop singer Tate McRae announces Acrisure Arena date: What to know music
IMG-ALT Pop singer Tate McRae announces Acrisure Arena date: What to know
/story/sports/high-school/2025...Time to vote for The Desert Sun Athlete of the Week, playoff edition HS Sports
IMG-ALT Time to vote for The Desert Sun Athlete of the Week, playoff edition
/story/news/traffic/2025/02/18...More roadwork planned for Gene Autry Trail beginning Wednesday traffic
IMG-ALT More roadwork planned for Gene Autry Trail beginning Wednesday
/story/life/entertainment/even...5 things we learned about historic Indian Wells enclave Manitou Springs modernism
IMG-ALT 5 things we learned about historic Indian Wells enclave Manitou Springs
/story/life/food/2025/02/14/pa...Palm Desert eatery gets 'B' for food temps, contaminated ice, more food
IMG-ALT Palm Desert eatery gets 'B' for food temps, contaminated ice, more
/story/life/entertainment/movi...We recently chatted with these Oscar-nominated directors in Palm Springs Film Fest
IMG-ALT We recently chatted with these Oscar-nominated directors in Palm Springs
/story/sports/golf/2025/02/18/...Bernhard Langer, Colin Montgomerie among latest Galleri Classic commits golf
IMG-ALT Bernhard Langer, Colin Montgomerie among latest Galleri Classic commits
/story/sports/golf/american-ex...PGA Tour's West Coast Swing saw European winners, a tournament relocation AmericanExpressPGA
IMG-ALT PGA Tour's West Coast Swing saw European winners, a tournament relocation
/story/life/entertainment/peop...Enjoy Hollywood's biggest night, raise funds for AAP – Food Samaritans people
IMG-ALT Enjoy Hollywood's biggest night, raise funds for AAP – Food Samaritans
/story/news/nation/california/...Chad Bianco kicks off campaign for governor of California california
IMG-ALT Chad Bianco kicks off campaign for governor of California
/story/life/entertainment/even...5 shows to see in the Coachella Valley this week events
IMG-ALT 5 shows to see in the Coachella Valley this week
https://help.desertsun.com/External Subdomain Help
https://cm.desertsun.com/terms/External Subdomain Terms of Service
https://cm.desertsun.com/about...External Subdomain Subscription Terms & Conditions
https://cm.desertsun.com/privacy/External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://www.desertsun.com/site...External Subdomain Site Map
http://cm.desertsun.com/access...External Subdomain Accessibility
http://cm.desertsun.com/ethica...External Subdomain Our Ethical Principles
https://www.gannett.com/respon...External Subdomain Responsible Disclosure
http://cm.desertsun.com/your-p...External Subdomain Your Privacy Choices
https://www.facebook.com/thede...External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/mydesert/External No Text
http://instagram.com/desertsun/External IMG-ALT instagram logo

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
The checked page does not redirect to another URL.
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 0.02 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (158 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-encodinggzip
content-security-policyupgrade-insecure-requests
x-robots-tagnoindex, nofollow
gannett-debug-pathregion: west ---> region: east
gannett-debug-path-fullrestarts: 0 ttl: 2592000.000 shield: true server: cache-fra-etou8220174-FRA path: region: west ---> region: east
accept-rangesbytes
dateThu, 20 Feb 2025 09:51:21 GMT
via1.1 varnish
age575
strict-transport-securitymax-age=600
x-served-bycache-fra-etou8220131-FRA, cache-fra-etou8220078-FRA
x-cacheMISS, HIT
x-cache-hits0, 1
x-timerS1740045081.327850,VS0,VE6
set-cookie67 Characters
varyAccept-Encoding
content-length35313
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 5,469 referring domains.
This page has 105,726 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,732 different ip addresses.

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