Cookpolitical.com - SEO Checker

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Meta information
61% 
Page quality
94% 
Page structure
67% 
Link structure
50% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.69 s
File size
117.30 kB
Words
727
Media files
15
Number of links
119 internal / 3 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
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Cook Political Report | Non-Partisan Political Analysis for US Elections & Campaigns
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 757 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter is an independent, non-partisan newsletter that analyzes state, federal and presidential elections, and American political trends.
The meta description is too long: 1049 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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https://www.cookpolitical.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
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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
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There are no alternate links specified on this page.
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The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
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Page quality

Content
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This page contains 727 words. That's ok.
23.4% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
11 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
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There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 13.26 words is good.
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Mobile optimization
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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 15 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
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There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
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HTTPS
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This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

Page structure

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Headings
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Some headings occur twice on the page.
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Heading structure

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H2 What is The Cook Political Report?
H2 What People Are Saying...
H2 Subscribe Today
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H3 Down-Ballot: State of Play
H3 Is the 2024 Presidential Contest About the Past, Present or Future?
H3 Federal Court Ruling Throws New Black-Majority Louisiana Seat in Limbo
H3 Policy vs. Personality
H3 Does a Messy Michigan Republican Primary Await?
H3 2024 Maryland Primary Preview: New Faces in the Old Line State
H3 Will the New York Trump Trial Matter?
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The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 3 external links on this page.
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Performance
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The page response time of 0.69 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 (117 kB).

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