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Meta information
80% 
Page quality
74% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
67% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.66 s
File size
26.00 kB
Words
348
Media files
4
Number of links
73 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Etymonline - Online Etymology Dictionary
The length of the page title is perfect. (371 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The online etymology dictionary (etymonline) is the internet's go-to source for quick and reliable accounts of the origin and history of English words, phrases, and idioms. It is professional enough to satisfy academic standards, but accessible enough to be used by anyone.
The meta description is too long: 1667 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.etymonline.com/
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)
The specified alternate links have no errors.
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 348 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
34.5% 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.
6 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 16.93 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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 7 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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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
https://cdn.etymonline.com/web/logo.pngEtymology
...res/8a25579a5409fe7e01edb70e4403ff99.pngWord origin stories
...es/26ee3524809288468910846c1f835b07.jpegWord origin stories
...res/3b67af6eeaa9d584eb6fd0712edaf01a.pngWord origin stories

Page structure

H1 heading
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There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 A Word or Two
H2 Online Etymology Dictionary
H3 Empty heading
H3 Empty heading
H3 Empty heading
There are 1 links with a trivial anchor text.
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.
There are 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://chrome.google.com/webs...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Install the Chrome extension
/word/gauzegauze
A-TITLE Origin and meaning of gauze
/word/atonementatonement
A-TITLE Origin and meaning of atonement
/word/yachtyacht
A-TITLE Origin and meaning of yacht
/word/chinesechinese
A-TITLE Origin and meaning of chinese
/word/bonfirebonfire
A-TITLE Origin and meaning of bonfire
/word/researchresearch
A-TITLE Origin and meaning of research
/word/vampirevampire
A-TITLE Origin and meaning of vampire
/word/butterflybutterfly
A-TITLE Origin and meaning of butterfly
/word/daughterdaughter
A-TITLE Origin and meaning of daughter
/word/metaphormetaphor
A-TITLE Origin and meaning of metaphor
/search?q=aNofollow A
/search?q=bNofollow B
/search?q=cNofollow C
/search?q=dNofollow D
/search?q=eNofollow E
/search?q=fNofollow F
/search?q=gNofollow G
/search?q=hNofollow H
/search?q=iNofollow I
/search?q=jNofollow J
/search?q=kNofollow K
/search?q=lNofollow L
/search?q=mNofollow M
/search?q=nNofollow N
/search?q=oNofollow O
/search?q=pNofollow P
/search?q=qNofollow Q
/search?q=rNofollow R
/search?q=sNofollow S
/search?q=tNofollow T
/search?q=uNofollow U
/search?q=vNofollow V
/search?q=wNofollow W
/search?q=xNofollow X
/search?q=yNofollow Y
/search?q=zNofollow Z
/columnsTrivial anchor text
More
A-TITLE See more columns
/columns/post/etymology-entomo...Nofollow Etymology Entomology What's in a name? That which we call a centipede by any other name would be as... uh... parasitic? By Talia Felix, Assistant Editor. Rea...
IMG-ALT Word origin stories
A-TITLE Etymology Entomology
/columns/post/is-a-sandwich-a-...Nofollow IS A SANDWICH A TACO It depends on the meaning of the word 'is' Read article
IMG-ALT Word origin stories
A-TITLE IS A SANDWICH A TACO
/columns/post/immodest-disposalNofollow IMMODEST DISPOSAL [by D.R.H.] Read article
IMG-ALT Word origin stories
A-TITLE IMMODEST DISPOSAL
/word/etymologyEtymologies
/columns/post/sourcesNofollow here.
https://forum.etymonline.com/External Subdomain Forum
/columns/post/sourcesNofollow Full List of Sources
/columns/post/linksNofollow Links
https://apps.apple.com/app/app...Nofollow External Subdomain iOS App
https://play.google.com/store/...Nofollow External Subdomain Android App
https://chrome.google.com/webs...Nofollow External Subdomain Chrome Extension
/columns/post/bioNofollow Who Did This
/columns/post/abbrNofollow Subdomain Introduction and Explanation
https://www.facebook.com/etymo...Nofollow External Subdomain Follow on Facebook
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin...Nofollow External Subdomain Donate with PayPal
https://www.redbubble.com/peop...Nofollow External Subdomain Ye Olde Swag Shoppe
https://www.patreon.com/etymon...Nofollow External Subdomain Support on Patreon
/legal/termsNofollow Subdomain Terms of Service
A-TITLE Terms of Service
/legal/privacyNofollow Subdomain Privacy Policy
A-TITLE Privacy Policy
https://www.etymonline.com/English (English)
https://www.etymonline.com/deDeutsch (German)
https://www.etymonline.com/cn简体中文 (Chinese)
https://www.etymonline.com/jp日本語 (Japanese)
https://www.etymonline.com/kr한국어 (Korean)
https://www.etymonline.com/esEspañol (Spanish)
https://www.etymonline.com/frFrançais (French)
https://www.etymonline.com/nlNederlands (Dutch)
https://www.etymonline.com/ptPortuguês (Portuguese)
https://www.etymonline.com/ruРусский (Russian)
https://www.etymonline.com/tw繁體中文 (Chinese)
https://www.etymonline.com/trTürkçe (Turkish)
https://www.etymonline.com/itItaliano (Italian)
https://www.etymonline.com/seSvenska (Swedish)
https://www.etymonline.com/vnTiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
https://www.etymonline.com/plPolski (Polish)
https://www.etymonline.com/noNorsk (Norwegian)
https://www.etymonline.com/dkDansk (Danish)
https://www.etymonline.com/fiSuomi (Finnish)
https://www.etymonline.com/czČeština (Czech)
https://www.etymonline.com/huMagyar (Hungarian)
https://www.etymonline.com/grΕλληνικά (Greek)
https://www.etymonline.com/uaУкраїнська (Ukrainian)
https://www.etymonline.com/thภาษาไทย (Thai)
https://www.etymonline.com/inहिन्दी (Hindi)

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.etymonline.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.66 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.
This page loads 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 2 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (26 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 21,132 referring domains.
This page has 2,874,205 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 14,359 different ip addresses.

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Etymonline - Online Etymology Dictionary
The online etymology dictionary (etymonline) is the internet's go-to source for quick and reliable accounts of the origin and history of English words, phrases, and idioms. It is professional enough to satisfy academic standards, but accessible enough to be used by anyone.

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