Help.nytimes.com - SEO Checker

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Meta information
59% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
93% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.53 s
File size
20.50 kB
Words
123
Media files
1
Number of links
24 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Help
The page title is too short. (43 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
The page title is only one word.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us
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)
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)
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

NameValue
csrf-paramauthenticity_token
csrf-tokenEmpty
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0
langen-us
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 123 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
32.5% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
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=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
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
...heming_assets/01HZPCK3HZV8PNB6VNEP2ZF5MWLogo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
How can we help you?
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 How can we help you?
H2 Here's how you can...
H2 Browse by Help topics
H2 Don't see what you need?
H3 Change Your Delivery Address
H3 Reset Your Password
H3 Report a Delivery Issue
H3 Update Your Payment Information
H3 Log in to Your Account
H3 Cancel Your Subscription
H3 Account Management
H3 Digital Access
H3 Products and Subscriptions
H3 Newsroom and Editorial
H3 Permissions and Policies
H3 Contact The New York Times
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://nytimes.com/External IMG-ALT Logo
A-TITLE Go to the New York Times homepage
https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-usHELP CENTER
A-TITLE Go to the New York Times help center page
https://myaccount.nytimes.com/...External Subdomain Your Account
https://www.nytimes.com/External Subdomain NYTimes.com
/hc/en-us/articles/4404994790804Subdomain Change Your Delivery Address
/hc/en-us/articles/360052335791Subdomain Reset Your Password
/hc/en-us/articles/360001418606Subdomain Report a Delivery Issue
/hc/en-us/articles/4408046933012Subdomain Update Your Payment Information
/hc/en-us/articles/115010905707Subdomain Log in to Your Account
/hc/en-us/articles/360003499613Subdomain Cancel Your Subscription
/hc/en-us/categories/115001711...Account Management
/hc/en-us/categories/115002055...Digital Access
/hc/en-us/categories/115001549...Products and Subscriptions
/hc/en-us/categories/115002052...Newsroom and Editorial
/hc/en-us/categories/115001547...Permissions and Policies
/hc/en-us/categories/115002052...Contact The New York Times
/hc/en-us/articles/115010905707Subdomain Help logging in
/hc/en-us/articles/4408046933012Subdomain Update payment info
/hc/en-us/articles/4404994790804Subdomain Change delivery address
/hc/en-us/articles/360001418606Subdomain Report delivery problem
/hc/en-us/articles/4413146685076Subdomain Explain my bill
/hc/en-us/articles/360003499613Subdomain Cancel Subscription
/hc/en-us/articles/115014792127Subdomain © The New York Times Company
/hc/en-us/articles/11501538588...Subdomain Contact Us
https://www.nytco.com/careers/New window External Subdomain Work with us
https://nytmediakit.com/New window External Advertise
https://www.nytimes.com/privac...New window External Subdomain Anchor Your Ad Choices
https://www.nytimes.com/privac...New window External Subdomain Privacy
/hc/en-us/articles/115014893428New window Subdomain Terms of Service
/hc/en-us/articles/115014893968New window Subdomain Terms of Sale
https://www.nytimes.com/sitemap/New window External Subdomain Sitemap
https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-usHelp
https://www.nytimes.com/subscr...New window External Subdomain Subscriptions

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us"
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 0.53 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 (21 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSat, 21 Sep 2024 06:50:32 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
cf-ray8c681f21bb64d392-FRA
cf-cache-statusHIT
age33
cache-controlmax-age=0, public
content-languageen-us
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
varyAccept-Encoding
protocolHTTP/1.1 always
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-request-id8c52ef7d8336d3b4-OTP
x-runtime0.096393
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-zendesk-origin-serverapp-server-7954f9b94b-7kzk5
x-zendesk-processed-host-headerhelp.nytimes.com
x-zendesk-zorgyes
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nel{"success_fraction":0.01,"report_to":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}
set-cookie127 Characters
servercloudflare
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 213 referring domains.
This page has 563,141 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 177 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

# See http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html for documentation on how to use the robots.txt file

User-agent: AppleBot # Allow /tickets
Disallow: /children
Disallow: /groups
Disallow: /organizations
Disallow: /requests
Disallow: /registration
Disallow: /plans
Disallow: /accounts
Disallow: /account
Disallow: /proxy
Disallow: /rules
Disallow: /tags
Disallow: /ticket_fields
Disallow: /reports
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /slas
Disallow: /integrations
Disallow: /users
Disallow: /suspended_tickets
Disallow: /events
Disallow: /console
Disallow: /requests/*/satisfaction/
Disallow: /hc/change_language/
Disallow: /hc/communities/public/topics/*?*filter=
Disallow: /hc/communities/public/questions$
Disallow: /hc/communities/public/questions?*filter=
Disallow: /hc/communities/public/questions/unanswered
Disallow: /hc/*/signin
Disallow: /hc/requests/
Disallow: /hc/*/requests/
Allow: /hc/*/requests/new
Disallow: /hc/*/search
Disallow: /access/normal
Disallow: /access/sso_bypass
Disallow: /access/unauthenticated
Disallow: /theming
Disallow: /knowledge
Disallow: /access/

Disallow: /cdn-cgi/

User-agent: *
Disallow: /children
Disallow: /groups
Disallow: /organizations
Disallow: /requests
Disallow: /registration
Disallow: /plans
Disallow: /accounts
Disallow: /account
Disallow: /proxy
Disallow: /rules
Disallow: /tags
Disallow: /ticket_fields
Disallow: /reports
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /slas
Disallow: /integrations
Disallow: /users
Disallow: /suspended_tickets
Disallow: /events
Disallow: /console
Disallow: /requests/*/satisfaction/
Disallow: /hc/change_language/
Disallow: /hc/communities/public/topics/*?*filter=
Disallow: /hc/communities/public/questions$
Disallow: /hc/communities/public/questions?*filter=
Disallow: /hc/communities/public/questions/unanswered
Disallow: /hc/*/signin
Disallow: /hc/requests/
Disallow: /hc/*/requests/
Allow: /hc/*/requests/new
Disallow: /hc/*/search
Disallow: /access/normal
Disallow: /access/sso_bypass
Disallow: /access/unauthenticated
Disallow: /theming
Disallow: /knowledge
Disallow: /access/

Disallow: /cdn-cgi/
Disallow: /tickets


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