Citationmachine.net - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
92% 
Page quality
67% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
82% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.21 s
File size
150.50 kB
Words
660
Media files
7
Number of links
60 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Citation Machine®: Format & Generate - APA, MLA, & Chicago
The length of the page title is perfect. (568 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Citation Machine® helps students and professionals properly credit the information that they use. Cite sources in APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, and Harvard for free.
The meta description is too long: 1019 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.citationmachine.net/
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 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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width
descriptionCitation Machine® helps students and professionals properly credit the information that they use. Cite sources in APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, and Harvard for free.
next-head-count8
turbolinks-visit-controlreload
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 660 words. That's ok.
27.9% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
13 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 15.3 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" is provided.
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)
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
/static/logo.svgCitation Machine, a Chegg service
...ges/compressed/card-create-citations.svgCreate citations
...ges/compressed/card-check-your-paper.svgCheck your paper
.../images/compressed/eb-tabs-citations.pngcite using APA, MLA, Chicago and more
...images/compressed/eb-tabs-plagiarism.pngcheck for potential plagiarism
...ages/compressed/eb-tabs-expert-check.pngexperts will proofread your paper
...ic/images/compressed/eb-tabs-grammar.pngcheck for grammar mistakes and writing issues

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Citation Machine® — Write Smarter
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Citation Machine® — Write Smarter
H1 Use Citation Machine® Plus to get smart recommendations!
H1 See what's included with Citation Machine® Plus
H2 Check your paper for grammar and plagiarism
H2 Know you're citing correctly
H2 Check for unintentional plagiarism
H2 Strengthen your writing
H2 Find and fix grammar errors
H2 Citation Machine® Guides & Resources
H3 MLA Format: Everything You Need to Know and More
H3 Comprehensive Guide to APA Format
H3 Everything You Need to Know About Chicago Style
H3 Citation Machine®’s Ultimate Writing Guides
H3 Student Blog
H3 Company
H3 Resources
H3 Follow Us
H3 Business
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 10 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/grammar-and-plagiarism/Plagiarism and grammar
/resources/Citation guides
https://www.chegg.com/contactu...External Subdomain Support
/upgradeUpgrade
https://www.citationmachine.net/IMG-ALT Citation Machine, a Chegg service
/upgradeText duplicate Upgrade
/registerSign up
/loginSign in
/apaCreate citations
/grammar-and-plagiarism/Check your paper
/apaGet started
/grammar-and-plagiarism/Text duplicate Get started
/grammar-and-plagiarism/expert...Text duplicate Get started
/grammar-and-plagiarism/Text duplicate Get started
/registerText duplicate Sign up
/upgradeText duplicate Sign up
https://www.chegg.com/study-pa...External Subdomain Text duplicate Sign up
/terms-and-conditions/New window Subdomain *See Terms and Conditions
/mla/cite-a-websiteSubdomain MLA Format: Everything You Need to Know and More
/mlaSubdomain MLA Citation Generator
/mla/cite-a-websiteSubdomain Website
/mla/cite-a-bookSubdomain Books
/mla/cite-a-journalSubdomain Journal Articles
/mla/cite-a-filmSubdomain YouTube
/mla/cite-a-imageSubdomain Images
/mla/cite-a-filmSubdomain Movies
/mla/cite-a-interviewSubdomain Interview
/mla/cite-a-digitalSubdomain PDFs
/apa/cite-a-bookSubdomain Comprehensive Guide to APA Format
/apaSubdomain APA Citation Generator
/apa/cite-a-websiteSubdomain Text duplicate Website
/apa/cite-a-bookSubdomain Text duplicate Books
/apa/cite-a-journalSubdomain Text duplicate Journal Articles
/apa/cite-a-filmSubdomain Text duplicate YouTube
/apa/cite-a-imageSubdomain Text duplicate Images
/apa/cite-a-filmSubdomain Text duplicate Movies
/apa/cite-a-interviewSubdomain Text duplicate Interview
/apa/cite-a-digitalSubdomain Text duplicate PDFs
/chicagoSubdomain Everything You Need to Know About Chicago Style
/chicagoSubdomain Chicago Citation Generator
/chicago/cite-a-websiteSubdomain Text duplicate Website
/chicago/cite-a-bookSubdomain Text duplicate Books
/chicago/cite-a-journalSubdomain Text duplicate Journal Articles
/chicago/cite-a-filmSubdomain Text duplicate YouTube
/chicago/cite-a-imageSubdomain Text duplicate Images
/chicago/cite-a-filmSubdomain Text duplicate Movies
/chicago/cite-a-interviewSubdomain Text duplicate Interview
/chicago/cite-a-digitalSubdomain Text duplicate PDFs
/resources/grammar-guides/Subdomain Citation Machine®’s Ultimate Writing Guides
/resources/cite-sources/Subdomain Citing Sources Guide
/resources/grammar-guides/Subdomain Grammar Guide
/resources/plagiarism/Subdomain Plagiarism Guide
/resources/writing-resources/Subdomain Writing Tips
/resourcesSubdomain Student Blog
/resources/blog/Subdomain Blog
https://www.chegg.com/External Subdomain Chegg Inc.
https://www.chegg.com/contactu...External Subdomain Contact Us
https://www.chegg.com/contactu...External Subdomain Text duplicate Support
/upgradeSubdomain Citation Machine® Plus
/resources/Subdomain Citation Guides
/apaSubdomain APA
/mlaSubdomain MLA
/chicagoSubdomain Chicago Style
/harvardSubdomain Harvard Referencing
https://www.facebook.com/Citat...Nofollow External Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/citemachineNofollow External Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/playli...Nofollow External Subdomain Youtube
https://www.chegg.com/termsofuseExternal Subdomain Terms of Use
https://www.chegg.com/privacyp...External Subdomain Global Privacy Policy
/cookie-noticeSubdomain Cookie Notice

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.citationmachine.net/"
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 (1.21 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 (151 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
serverCloudFront
dateTue, 09 Apr 2024 21:32:46 GMT
set-cookie141 Characters
etagW/"25a06-J9Fl67KLR3JELonQB4Uf290nJmA"
cache-controlmax-age=0, private, must-revalidate
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
x-cacheMiss from cloudfront
via1.1 98845fbd1cb14abbe9d464a4caf17976.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-popFRA60-P7
x-amz-cf-idsyOPBZv2EblKKM9c74MW1YOfR-ur0lIXyWTTPIIdu7HM6vfd_7eB_A==
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 3,210 referring domains.
This page has 99,524 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,359 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

Sitemap: http://www.citationmachine.net/sitemap.xml

User-agent: WeSEE
Disallow: /

User-agent: WeSEE:Ads/PageBot (http://www.wesee.com/bot/)
Disallow: /

User-agent: WeSEE:Ads/PictureBot (http://www.wesee.com/bot/)
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /items/

User-agent: *
Disallow: /bibliographies/

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Citation guides68%Check
Format66%Check
Citation Generator65%Check
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MLA62%Check
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