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Meta information
80% 
Page quality
78% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
35% 
Server
99% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.41 s
File size
249.20 kB
Words
3511
Media files
60
Number of links
139 internal / 26 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

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Title
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Fiction - Literary Magazine | Celebrating 50 Years!
The length of the page title is perfect. (448 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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Fiction has featured stories by Alice Hoffman, Donald Barthelme, Italo Calvino, Jamaica Kincaid, & Joyce Carol Oates. Read select stories online, submit your work for publication (see submission guidelines), view a full list of past contributors, or subscribe to the print magazine.
The meta description is too long: 1706 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.fictioninc.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
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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
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There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
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Domain
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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.
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Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
This page contains 3511 words. That's ok.
43.4% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
44 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 19.88 words is good.
Frames
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This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
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Bold and strong tags
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Empty bold or strong tags were found on this page.
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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.
Additional markup
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No additional page markup was found.
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.

Media list

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Page structure

H1 heading
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Fiction
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (7 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
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Some headings occur twice on the page.

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H1 Fiction
H1 Fiction Duplicate text
H2 Fiction Online Excerpts and full stories from the print magazine
H2 Editors' Corner Recent blog posts by Fiction editors
H2 Hot Type Free short stories available only online
H2 Art in Fiction Selected covers of previous issues of Fiction
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
2 links don't have an anchor text.
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 too many external links (26) on this page.

Found links on this page

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/hot-type/2015/2/24/all-apolog...All Apologies to Frida Kahlo
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https://www.instagram.com/p/Cz...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT A quick thank you to CUNY Center of Humanities for hosting such a wonderful event to remember the beloved Burton Pike. It was a treat to hear so many memorie...
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This page has 2,910 backlinks.
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Fiction - Literary Magazine | Celebrating 50 Years!
Fiction has featured stories by Alice Hoffman, Donald Barthelme, Italo Calvino, Jamaica Kincaid, & Joyce Carol Oates. Read select stories online, submit your work for publication (see submission guidelines), view a full list of past contributors, or subscribe to the print magazine.

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