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51% 
Page quality
78% 
Page structure
91% 
Link structure
67% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.53 s
File size
94.90 kB
Words
6783
Media files
29
Number of links
14 internal / 189 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Curious Cook
The page title is too short. (124 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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https://curiouscook.typepad.com/site/
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Language
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Language detected in text: en
Server location: United States of America
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Favicon
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Content
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The content of this page is too large (6783 words). Maybe the content could be divided into several pages.
42.8% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
96 paragraphs were found on this page.
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The average number of words per sentence of 20.53 words is good.
Frames
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This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
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No viewpoint tag is provided.
No Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 136 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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Social Networks
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This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
Additional markup
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No additional page markup was found.
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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.

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Curious Cook
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Headings
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The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
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