Craigmod.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
80% 
Page structure
72% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.15 s
File size
29.20 kB
Words
648
Media files
4
Number of links
28 internal / 26 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer
The length of the page title is perfect. (323 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The homepage of author and photographer Craig Mod — long walks across Japan, pizza toast, books, photography, literature, and more.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (843 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://craigmod.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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
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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og:urlhttps://craigmod.com/
og:site_nameCraig Mod
og:imagehttps://craigmod.com/images/craigmod-homepage-image.jpg
og:descriptionThe homepage of author and photographer Craig Mod — long walks across Japan, pizza toast, books, photography, literature, and more.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
This page contains 648 words. That's ok.
34.9% 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 15.9 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "user-scalable=yes, width=device-width" 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)
1 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
...become_other_things/tbot-cover-small.jpgThings Become Other Things — Random House cover
...ssabykissa/kissabykissa-cover-2small.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ge/headshot/craigmod-headshot-square.jpgCraig Mod in his messy home studio in the morning light of November 2023
...ge/headshot/craigmod-headshot-square.jpgCraig Mod in his messy home studio in the morning light of November 2023

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 28 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Published Essays
H2 Pizza Toast
H2 Recent Essays
H3 Things Become Other Things
H3 About the Book
H3 Kissa by Kissa
H3 Popular Essays
H3 Five Years of Memberships
H3 Running a Membership Program: Four Years In
H3 Drumming
H3 Electric Bike, Stupid Love of My Life
H3 Memberships Work
H3 Photos and Words and Teju Cole's Golden Apple of the Sun
H4 A Walking Memoir
H4 Six Tōkaidō Moments
H4 Boredom and the Long Walk
H4 How I Got My Attention Back
H4 Soviet Horse Race
H4 I've been running the SPECIAL PROJECTS membership program for five years; here's what I know.
H4 Everything I've learned in the first four years of running SPECIAL PROJECTS
H4 Returning to drumming after a fourteen-year break
H4 Reflections on eighteen months of electric bike ownership
H4 What I learned during the third year of running my SPECIAL PROJECTS membership program
H4 Containers matter; what makes Teju Cole's latest book so great
H5 Six moments on the Tōkaidō
H5 Long long long walks
H5 Technology is commanding our attention in infinite, insurmountable loops. A country trip off-grid helped me escape.
H5 A walk is both a walk and not a walk
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (26) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://craigmod.com/about/About Craig
https://craigmod.com/books/Books
https://craigmod.com/essays/Essays
https://craigmod.com/membership/Membership
https://shop.specialprojects.jp/External Subdomain Shop!
https://craigmod.com/membership/“Special Projects” Membership
https://craigmod.com/onmargins/On Margins
https://sw945.craigmod.com/External Subdomain SW945
https://craigmod.com/newsletters/Newsletters
https://craigmod.com/roden/Roden
https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/Ridgeline
https://threads.net/@craigmod/External No Text
https://instagram.com/craigmod/External No Text
https://mastodon.social/@craigmodExternal No Text
/books/things_become_other_thi...IMG-ALT Things Become Other Things — Random House cover
https://www.penguinrandomhouse...External Subdomain Random House
https://amzn.to/3z1CjStExternal Amazon
https://bookshop.org/p/books/t...External Bookshop.org
https://books.apple.com/us/boo...External Subdomain Apple Books
https://www.barnesandnoble.com...External Subdomain Barnes & Noble
https://shop.specialprojects.j...External Subdomain No Text
https://shop.specialprojects.j...External Subdomain Purchase online.
https://craigmod.com/about/IMG-ALT Craig Mod in his messy home studio in the morning light of November 2023
https://craigmod.com/roden/Text duplicate Roden
https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/Text duplicate Ridgeline
https://craigmod.com/about/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Craig Mod in his messy home studio in the morning light of November 2023
https://craigmod.com/essays/essays and articles
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/0...External Subdomain "A Long Walk in a Fading Corner of Japan"
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/l...External Subdomain "Last of the Kumano Kodō Kissaten"
https://www.wired.com/story/si...External Subdomain "The Glorious, Almost-Disconnected Boredom of My Walk in Japan"
https://www.wired.com/story/he...External Subdomain "The Healing Power of Code"
https://www.theatlantic.com/he...External Subdomain "How I Mastered the Art of Ventilating my Home"
https://www.theatlantic.com/te...External Subdomain "The Facebook-Loving Farmers of Myanmar"
https://shop.specialprojects.j...External Subdomain Kissa by Kissa
https://shop.specialprojects.j...External Subdomain 2nd ed.
https://shop.specialprojects.j...External Subdomain third edition
https://shop.specialprojects.j...External Subdomain fourth edition!
https://github.com/cmod/craigs...External Craigstarter
https://craigmod.com/membership/SPECIAL PROJECTS
/ridgeline/099/Six Tōkaidō Moments Six moments on the Tōkaidō
/ridgeline/012/Boredom and the Long Walk Long long long walks
/essays/how_i_got_my_attention...How I Got My Attention Back Technology is commanding our attention in infinite, insurmountable loops. A country trip off-grid helped me escape.
/ridgeline/035/Soviet Horse Race A walk is both a walk and not a walk
/essays/memberships_year_five/Five Years of Memberships I've been running the SPECIAL PROJECTS membership program for five years; here's what I know.
/essays/memberships_year_four/Running a Membership Program: Four Years In Everything I've learned in the first four years of running SPECIAL PROJECTS
/essays/drumming/Drumming Returning to drumming after a fourteen-year break
/essays/electric_bikes/Electric Bike, Stupid Love of My Life Reflections on eighteen months of electric bike ownership
/essays/memberships_work/Memberships Work What I learned during the third year of running my SPECIAL PROJECTS membership program
/essays/photos_and_words/Photos and Words and Teju Cole's Golden Apple of the Sun Containers matter; what makes Teju Cole's latest book so great
https://craigmod.com/about/Craig Mod
https://threads.net/@craigmod/External No Text
https://instagram.com/craigmod/External No Text
https://mastodon.social/@craigmodExternal No Text
https://craigmod.com/index.xmlNo Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://craigmod.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 excellent with 0.15 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (29 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,251 referring domains.
This page has 421,071 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,542 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer
The homepage of author and photographer Craig Mod — long walks across Japan, pizza toast, books, photography, literature, and more.

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Book56%Check
walk54%Check
Long54%Check
Long Walk54%Check
long walks54%Check
Books Book53%Check
walks50%Check
Pizza50%Check
Toast50%Check
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