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Meta information
92% 
Page quality
91% 
Page structure
83% 
Link structure
41% 
Server
74% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.95 s
File size
122.50 kB
Words
920
Media files
36
Number of links
142 internal / 23 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
PC Gamer Forums
The page title is too short. (170 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Join the PC Gamer community to share your passion for gaming with people from around the world!
The length of the meta description is perfect. (615 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://forums.pcgamer.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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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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theme-color#dc191b
msapplication-TileColor#dc191b
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apple-mobile-web-app-capableyes
langen-us
twitter:descriptionJoin the PC Gamer community to share your passion for gaming with people from around the world!
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twitter:cardsummary
og:descriptionJoin the PC Gamer community to share your passion for gaming with people from around the world!
og:site_namePC Gamer Forums
og:typewebsite
og:titlePC Gamer Forums
og:urlhttps://forums.pcgamer.com/
og:imagehttps://forums.pcgamer.com/data/avatars/l/15/15548.jpg
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 920 words. That's ok.
20.9% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
6 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 10.28 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, viewport-fit=cover" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The following tag is repeated too often: visit our corporate site
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
5 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
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/styles/pcgamer/images/uix-brandmark.pngPC Gamer Forums
/styles/pcgamer/pcgamer/pcgamer-logo.pngPC Gamer Forums
/styles/pcgamer/images/uix-brandmark.pngPC Gamer Forums
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....forum/avatars/s/28/28599.jpg?1598344205Brian Boru
...nity.forum/avatars/s/0/84.jpg?1730718413Colif
...ity.forum/avatars/s/0/581.jpg?1724635585ZedClampet
...nity.forum/avatars/s/0/84.jpg?1730718413Colif
....forum/avatars/s/45/45123.jpg?1667144121mjs warlord
...orum/avatars/s/494/494058.jpg?1715630228red_5ive
....forum/avatars/s/28/28599.jpg?1598344205Brian Boru
...orum/avatars/s/484/484135.jpg?1701989968mesziahs
...ity.forum/avatars/s/0/818.jpg?1579304827Alm
...nity.forum/avatars/s/0/84.jpg?1730718413Colif
...unity.forum/avatars/s/0/7.jpg?1611773623SWard
...nity.forum/avatars/s/0/84.jpg?1730718413Colif
...nity.forum/avatars/s/0/84.jpg?1730718413Colif
...orum/avatars/s/484/484135.jpg?1701989968mesziahs
...orum/avatars/s/500/500259.jpg?1731294508Your king Bilo
...orum/avatars/s/494/494058.jpg?1715630228red_5ive
...nity.forum/avatars/s/0/84.jpg?1730718413Colif
...nity.forum/avatars/s/0/84.jpg?1730718413Colif
...orum/avatars/s/494/494058.jpg?1715630228red_5ive
...orum/avatars/s/497/497252.jpg?1724295473yonatan_flores
....forum/avatars/s/45/45123.jpg?1667144121mjs warlord
...orum/avatars/s/484/484135.jpg?1701989968mesziahs
...nity.forum/avatars/s/0/84.jpg?1730718413Colif
...nity.forum/avatars/s/0/84.jpg?1730718413Colif
...ty.forum/avatars/s/1/1708.jpg?1672682703Kaamos_Llama
...orum/avatars/s/177/177320.jpg?1623083086COLGeek
...les/pcgamer/future/FUTURE_logo_white.pngNo alt attribute provided
...les/pcgamer/future/FUTURE_logo_white.pngNo alt attribute provided
/styles/pcgamer/future/icon-facebook2.pngNo alt attribute provided
/styles/pcgamer/future/icon-twitter2.pngNo alt attribute provided
/styles/pcgamer/future/icon-instagram2.pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Forum list
The H1 heading is too short (10 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 26 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Forum list
H2 PC Gaming Discussions
H2 Computer Hardware
H2 Community
H3 Search
H3 Search Duplicate text
H3 Search Duplicate text
H3 General Gaming New
H3 Shooters New
H3 RPG New
H3 Strategy & Simulation New
H3 Retro Gaming New
H3 Game Troubleshooting New
H3 Desktop Hardware New
H3 Gaming Accessories New
H3 Gaming Laptops New
H3 Chat Log Podcast New
H3 Studio Spotlight
H3 Pop Culture & Entertainment New
H3 Competitions & Events
H3 Forum Features & Feedback New
H3 TRENDING THREADS
H3 Latest posts
H3 Moderators online
H3 Share this page
H4 Sub-forums
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 23 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.pcgamer.com/External Subdomain IMG-ALT PC Gamer Forums
https://www.pcgamer.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT PC Gamer Forums
https://www.pcgamer.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT PC Gamer Forums
https://www.pcgamer.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT PC Gamer Forums
/search/A-TITLE Search
/search/Text duplicate A-TITLE Search
/search/Advanced search...
/search/Nofollow Advanced...
https://forums.pcgamer.com/login/Log in
/register/Register
/search/Text duplicate A-TITLE Search
/search/Text duplicate A-TITLE Search
/search/Text duplicate Advanced search...
/search/Nofollow Text duplicate Advanced...
/trending/Trending
/forums/-/-/listForum list
/whats-new/What's new
https://forums.pcgamer.com/Subdomain Home
/featured/Featured
https://forums.pcgamer.com/Forums
/whats-new/posts/New posts
/trending/Text duplicate Trending
/search/?type=postSearch forums
/whats-new/Text duplicate What's new
/whats-new/posts/Nofollow Text duplicate New posts
/whats-new/latest-activityNofollow Latest activity
/members/Members
/online/Current visitors
/billboard/Billboard
/trophies/Trophies
/account/dismiss-notice?notice...A-TITLE Dismiss notice
https://futurecommunity.link/p...External Best Black Friday PC gaming deals 2024: The best discounts in the run up to the big event!
/account/dismiss-notice?notice...Text duplicate A-TITLE Dismiss notice
https://futurecommunity.link/t...External I tracked down the guy who gave a negative review to Battlezone 98 Redux after playing for over 8,000 hours, and came away convinced he was right
/register/Join the community
/search/Text duplicate A-TITLE Search
/search/Text duplicate A-TITLE Search
/search/Text duplicate Advanced search...
/search/Nofollow Text duplicate Advanced...
https://www.google.com/chrome/New window External Subdomain alternative browser
/categories/pc-gaming-discussi...PC Gaming Discussions
/forums/general-gaming.33/General Gaming
/members/zloth.424/IMG-ALT Zloth
/threads/november-2024-general...November 2024 General Gaming Discussion Thread
A-TITLE November 2024 General Gaming Discussion Thread
/members/zloth.424/Text duplicate Zloth
/forums/shooters.12/Shooters
/members/brian-boru.28599/IMG-ALT Brian Boru
/threads/ghost-recon-breakpoin...Ghost Recon Breakpoint questions
A-TITLE Ghost Recon Breakpoint questions
/members/brian-boru.28599/Text duplicate Brian Boru
/forums/rpg.7/RPG
/members/colif.84/IMG-ALT Colif
/threads/rpg-general-discussio...RPG General discussion thread
A-TITLE RPG General discussion thread
/members/colif.84/Text duplicate Colif
/forums/strategy-simulation.6/Strategy & Simulation
/members/zedclampet.581/IMG-ALT ZedClampet
/threads/2024-city-builder-and...2024 City Builder and Colony Sim General Discussion Thread
A-TITLE 2024 City Builder and Colony Sim General Discussion Thread
/members/zedclampet.581/Text duplicate ZedClampet
/forums/retro-gaming.42/Retro Gaming
/members/colif.84/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Colif
/threads/general-retro-discuss...General Retro Discussion
A-TITLE General Retro Discussion
/members/colif.84/Text duplicate Colif
/forums/game-troubleshooting.38/Game Troubleshooting
/members/mjs-warlord.45123/IMG-ALT mjs warlord
/threads/gta-sa-save-failed.14...Question gta sa save failed
A-TITLE gta sa save failed
/members/mjs-warlord.45123/Text duplicate mjs warlord
/categories/computer-hardware.19/Computer Hardware
/forums/desktop-hardware.20/Desktop Hardware
/members/red_5ive.494058/IMG-ALT red_5ive
/threads/random-hardware-topic...Random Hardware topics
A-TITLE Random Hardware topics
/members/red_5ive.494058/Text duplicate red_5ive
/forums/gaming-accessories.22/Gaming Accessories
/members/brian-boru.28599/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Brian Boru
/threads/headphone-random-conv...Headphone random conversation
A-TITLE Headphone random conversation
/members/brian-boru.28599/Text duplicate Brian Boru
/forums/gaming-laptops.21/Gaming Laptops
/members/mesziahs.484135/IMG-ALT mesziahs
/threads/game-delay.146621/pos...Game delay
A-TITLE Game delay
/members/mesziahs.484135/Text duplicate mesziahs
/categories/community.1/Community
/forums/chat-log-podcast.43/Chat Log Podcast
/members/alm.818/IMG-ALT Alm
/threads/whats-on-your-pc-gami...What's on your PC gaming bucket list?
A-TITLE What's on your PC gaming bucket list?
/members/alm.818/Text duplicate Alm
/forums/studio-spotlight.31/Studio Spotlight
/forums/studio-spotlight-archi...Studio Spotlight Archive
/members/colif.84/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Colif
/threads/developing-a-dynamic-...Feature Developing a dynamic, romantic, platonic visual novel
A-TITLE Developing a dynamic, romantic, platonic visual novel
/members/colif.84/Text duplicate Colif
/forums/pop-culture-entertainm...Pop Culture & Entertainment
/members/phdgamergirl.470163/P
/threads/gaming-research.14114...Gaming research
A-TITLE Gaming research
/members/phdgamergirl.470163/PhDgamergirl
/forums/competitions-events.32/Competitions & Events
/members/sward.7/IMG-ALT SWard
/threads/help-us-support-speci...Help us support SpecialEffect in our September EPOS audio giveaway!
A-TITLE Help us support SpecialEffect in our September EPOS audio giveaway!
/members/sward.7/Text duplicate SWard
/forums/forum-features-feedbac...Forum Features & Feedback
/members/colif.84/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Colif
/threads/how-can-i-delete-my-a...How can I delete my account?
A-TITLE How can I delete my account?
/members/colif.84/Text duplicate Colif
/trending/threads.1/Nofollow TRENDING THREADS
/members/colif.84/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Colif
/threads/what-is-the-best-shoo...What is the best shooting game on PC?
/forums/shooters.12/Text duplicate Shooters
/members/geert98.500313/G
/threads/buying-a-computer-for...Buying a computer for games, question.
/forums/desktop-hardware.20/Text duplicate Desktop Hardware
/members/mesziahs.484135/Text duplicate IMG-ALT mesziahs
/threads/game-delay.146621/Text duplicate Game delay
/forums/gaming-laptops.21/Text duplicate Gaming Laptops
/members/your-king-bilo.500259/IMG-ALT Your king Bilo
/threads/opinions-on-my-own-fi...Question Opinions on my own first pc build?
/forums/desktop-hardware.20/Text duplicate Desktop Hardware
/members/drumans.494081/D
/threads/new-aio-opinions-for-...NEW AIO OPINIONS FOR BLACK FRIDAY?
/forums/desktop-hardware.20/Text duplicate Desktop Hardware
/members/red_5ive.494058/Text duplicate IMG-ALT red_5ive
/threads/ryzen-cpu-am4-vs-am5....Ryzen CPU: AM4 vs AM5
/forums/desktop-hardware.20/Text duplicate Desktop Hardware
/members/colif.84/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Colif
/threads/headphone-random-conv...Text duplicate Headphone random conversation
/forums/gaming-accessories.22/Text duplicate Gaming Accessories
/whats-new/posts/?skip=1Nofollow Latest posts
/members/colif.84/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Colif
/threads/rpg-general-discussio...Text duplicate RPG General discussion thread
/forums/rpg.7/Text duplicate RPG
/members/red_5ive.494058/Text duplicate IMG-ALT red_5ive
/threads/random-hardware-topic...Text duplicate Random Hardware topics
/forums/desktop-hardware.20/Text duplicate Desktop Hardware
/members/yonatan_flores.497252/IMG-ALT yonatan_flores
/threads/3-4k-monitors.146276/...3 4k monitors
/forums/desktop-hardware.20/Text duplicate Desktop Hardware
/members/mjs-warlord.45123/Text duplicate IMG-ALT mjs warlord
/threads/buying-a-computer-for...Text duplicate Buying a computer for games, question.
/forums/desktop-hardware.20/Text duplicate Desktop Hardware
/members/mesziahs.484135/Text duplicate IMG-ALT mesziahs
/threads/game-delay.146621/pos...Text duplicate Game delay
/forums/gaming-laptops.21/Text duplicate Gaming Laptops
/members/why_me.160137/W
/threads/opinions-on-my-own-fi...Text duplicate Question Opinions on my own first pc build?
/forums/desktop-hardware.20/Text duplicate Desktop Hardware
/members/colif.84/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Colif
/threads/cpu’s.146568/post-399113CPU’s
/forums/desktop-hardware.20/Text duplicate Desktop Hardware
/members/?key=moderatorsModerators online
/members/colif.84/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Colif
/members/kaamos_llama.1708/IMG-ALT Kaamos_Llama
/members/colgeek.177320/IMG-ALT COLGeek
https://www.futureplc.com/External Subdomain Visit our corporate site
https://www.facebook.com/pcgam...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/pcga...External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/pcgamerExternal No Text
/misc/styleNofollow PC Gamer
A-TITLE Style chooser
https://www.futureplc.com/serv...Nofollow External Subdomain Advertising
https://www.futureplc.com/cook...Nofollow External Subdomain Cookies Policies
https://www.futureplc.com/priv...Nofollow External Subdomain Privacy
https://www.futureplc.com/term...Nofollow External Subdomain Terms & Conditions
https://www.futureplc.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Visit our corporate site
https://www.futureplc.com/serv...External Subdomain Text duplicate Advertising
https://www.futureplc.com/cook...External Subdomain Text duplicate Cookies Policies
https://www.futureplc.com/priv...External Subdomain Text duplicate Privacy
https://www.futureplc.com/term...External Subdomain Term & Conditions
https://www.facebook.com/pcgam...External Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/pcgamerExternal Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/pcga...External Subdomain Instagram

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://forums.pcgamer.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 of 0.95 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 (123 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateWed, 13 Nov 2024 05:21:47 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
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x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
last-modifiedWed, 13 Nov 2024 05:19:20 GMT
expiresWed, 13 Nov 2024 05:24:20 GMT
cache-controls-maxage=300, max-age=0
x-xf-cache-statusHIT
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
set-cookie40 Characters
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

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This page has backlinks from 872 referring domains.
This page has 19,014 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 470 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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