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Meta information
80% 
Page quality
45% 
Page structure
4% 
Link structure
22% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.08 s
File size
116.30 kB
Words
986
Media files
167
Number of links
104 internal / 27 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Gramophone – classical music magazine, podcast and reviews | Gramophone
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 697 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The best classical music reviews, news, playlists, features and blogs from Gramophone, the world's leading classical music magazine.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (826 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/
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
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There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
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The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
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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
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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
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The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 51.71 words is high.
This page contains 986 words. That's ok.
30.2% 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.
14 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.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=5" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 20 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
17 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
Additional markup
(Nice to have)
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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Features
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (8 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 49 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

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H1 Features
H1 The Gramophone Podcast
H1 News
H1 Reviews Database
H1 Follow us
H1 Editor's Choice
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H1 Blogs
H1 Special Editions
H2 Top 5 classical releases you need to hear this week – featuring Yo-Yo Ma, Esther Abrami & Arabella Steinbacher
H2 Cellist Zlatomir Fung on his debut recording of opera fantasies
H2 Sheku Kanneh-Mason on Shostakovich & Britten, Takács Quartet at 50, and Aimard plays Kurtág – all in the May 2025 issue of Gramophone
H2 Editor's Choice – May 2025: this month's outstanding classical recordings
H2 Takács Quartet at 50: a legacy of reinvention, artistic vitality, and expanding horizons
H2 Gramophone Classical Music Awards 1984
H2 Gramophone Classical Music Awards 1982-83
H2 Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto: a century of recordings – from the composer to contemporary mavericks
H2 In the presence of a national treasure: Kurtág’s Játékok through Aimard’s hands
H2 Cellist Zlatomir Fung on his debut recording of opera fantasies Duplicate text
H2 Conductor Alan Gilbert on Brahms and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
H2 Leif Ove Andsnes on Liszt's Via Crucis
H2 Jessica Duchen on the life of pianist Myra Hess
H2 Top 5 classical releases you need to hear this week – featuring Yo-Yo Ma, Esther Abrami & Arabella Steinbacher Duplicate text
H2 Kazuki Yamada to lead DSO Berlin from 2026/27 season
H2 Video of the Day: Hans Christian Aavik performs Bruch's Violin Concerto No 1
H2 BBC Proms 2025: 86 concerts, 80 debut soloists, and a return to overnight music-making
H2 The five unmissable new classical recordings this week, featuring Lise Davidsen, Alan Gilbert & Margaret Fingerhut
H2 Subscribe to Gramophone
H2 The Best Classical Albums of 2025 (So Far)
H2 Editor's Choice – May 2025: this month's outstanding classical recordings Duplicate text
H2 Echoes of Genius: From the Dawn of Electrical Recording to Hidden Violin Treasures
H2 Myra Hess: a national treasure revisited in Jessica Duchen’s biography
H2 Mahler in miniature: Stephen Downes delivers a witty, wry portrait for the Critical Lives series
H2 Michel Béroff at 75: Erato's monumental box-set celebrates a brilliant and versatile pianist
H2 Recording’s importance and uniqueness
H2 I had to tell my wife I would no longer be able to earn a living as a concert pianist
H2 As two early career female musicians, we felt it was our responsibility to create positive change: the musicians behind EMPOWER
H2 Why I’m Leaving the UK and moving to Madrid: a reflection on music, opportunities, and the changing landscape for emerging artists
H2 Gramophone Presents ... My Classical Music
H2 Gramophone Presents ... Film Music
H2 Gramophone Presents ... Mahler
H2 Gramophone Presents ... Mozart
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H6 The Gramophone Newsletter
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
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.
34 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are too many external links (27) on this page.

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The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
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The page response time is slow (1.08 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (116 kB).

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