Jeffgeerling.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
43% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
91% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.12 s
File size
12.10 kB
Words
133
Media files
7
Number of links
13 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Jeff Geerling - Author and Software Developer in St. Louis, MO
The length of the page title is perfect. (564 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
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://www.jeffgeerling.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)
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)
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

NameValue
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 133 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
The average number of words per sentence of 9.25 words is low.
30.8% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
3 paragraphs were found on this page.
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)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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 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
/sites/default/files/files/jeff-2024.jpgJeff Geerling
...s/jeffgeerling/images/social/youtube.svgJeff Geerling on YouTube
...es/jeffgeerling/images/social/github.svggeerlingguy on GitHub
...s/jeffgeerling/images/social/patreon.svggeerlingguy on Patreon
...s/jeffgeerling/images/social/twitter.svggeerlingguy on Twitter
...jeffgeerling/images/social/instagram.svggeerlingguy on Instagram
...lt/files/files/geerling-family-crest.svgGeerling Family Crest

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Home
The H1 heading contains the words Home! Use important keywords instead.
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (4 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Home
H2 Main menu
H2 Recent Blog Posts
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://www.jeffgeerling.com/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/Jeff Geerling
A-TITLE Home
https://www.redshirtjeff.com/External Subdomain Merch
/aboutAbout
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blogBlog
/projectsProjects
https://www.google.com/search?...External Subdomain geerlingguy
https://www.youtube.com/c/Jeff...External Subdomain YouTube channel
https://github.com/geerlingguyExternal on GitHub
/booksa list of books I've written
/sponsorsponsoring my work
https://www.youtube.com/c/Jeff...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Jeff Geerling on YouTube
A-TITLE Subscribe on YouTube
https://github.com/sponsors/ge...External IMG-ALT geerlingguy on GitHub
A-TITLE Sponsor on GitHub
https://www.patreon.com/geerli...External Subdomain IMG-ALT geerlingguy on Patreon
A-TITLE Support on Patreon
https://twitter.com/geerlingguyExternal IMG-ALT geerlingguy on Twitter
A-TITLE Follow geerlingguy on Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/geer...External Subdomain IMG-ALT geerlingguy on Instagram
A-TITLE Follow geerlingguy on Instagram
/blog/2025/project-mini-rack-c...Project Mini Rack - compact and portable homelabs
/blog/2025/top-10-ways-monitor...Top 10 ways to monitor Linux in the console
/blog/2025/who-would-buy-raspb...Who would buy a Raspberry Pi for $120?
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blogAll blog posts »
/blog.xmlSubdomain Subscribe to Jeff Geerling's Blog
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/Anchor Top of page

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.jeffgeerling.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
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 is excellent with 0.12 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (12 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
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content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-powered-byPHP/8.3.15
cache-controlpublic, max-age=3600
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modifiedSat, 18 Jan 2025 16:21:45 GMT
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cacheHIT
x-proxy-cacheHIT
cf-cache-statusHIT
age2380
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servercloudflare
cf-ray90431317c87c6f48-CDG
content-encodinggzip
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
server-timingcfL4;desc="?proto=TCP&rtt=13537&min_rtt=13486&rtt_var=5094&sent=6&recv=9&lost=0&retrans=0&sent_bytes=3401&recv_bytes=916&delivery_rate=214741&cwnd=116&unsent_bytes=0&cid=735d12c8d9c29d8d&ts=34&x=0"
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 3,487 referring domains.
This page has 1,402,710 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,717 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

Disallow: /search
Disallow: /index.php/search

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KeywordResultRecheck
Jeff66%Check
Geerling66%Check
Jeff Geerling66%Check
author46%Check
dev46%Check
Louis45%Check
Blog38%Check
main38%Check
Posts38%Check
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