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Meta information
94% 
Page quality
75% 
Page structure
69% 
Link structure
91% 
Server
93% 
External factors
12% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.44 s
File size
15.90 kB
Words
785
Media files
2
Number of links
26 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Lars Tesmer's Blog
The page title is too short. (172 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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Today a bunch of co-workers and me got together right after work to hone our skills, more specifically, our unit testing skills. A couple of weeks …
The length of the meta description is perfect. (892 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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http://www.lars-tesmer.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
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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
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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)
This page contains 785 words. That's ok.
43.3% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
13 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 25 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 16 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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2 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)
The HTTPS protocol for secure data transmission is not used.

Media list

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Page structure

H1 heading
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Lars Tesmer's Blog
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (18 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

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H1 Lars Tesmer's Blog
H1 What My Co-Workers and I Learned When Trying to Write Unit Tests for PHPUnit
H1 Review: The Clean Coder - a Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers
H1 Review: Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen
H1 PHPUnit: Better Syntax for Expecting Exceptions
H1 Colored Diffs in Thunderbird
H1 No Time to Read That Blog - Read It Later!
H1 Git - How to Get Better Diffs for Images
H1 Recent Posts
H1 Latest Tweets
H1 On Delicious
H2 From Journeyman to Master - A Software Craftsman's Blog
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 10 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
http://www.lars-tesmer.com/Lars Tesmer's Blog
http://feeds.feedburner.com/la...External Subdomain RSS
A-TITLE subscribe via RSS
http://www.lars-tesmer.com/Blog
/blog/archivesArchives
http://www.lars-tesmer.com/aboutAbout
/contactContact
/blog/2011/09/08/what-my-co---...What My Co-Workers and I Learned When Trying to Write Unit Tests for PHPUnit
https://github.com/sebastianbe...External PHPUnit
https://github.com/sebastianbe...External Constraint classes
/blog/2011/09/08/what-my-co---...Read on →
/blog/2011/09/04/review-the-cl...Review: The Clean Coder - a Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers
http://www.amazon.com/Clean-Co...External Subdomain The Clean Coder
/blog/2011/09/04/review-the-cl...Text duplicate Read on →
/blog/2011/09/04/review-eloque...Review: Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen
http://www.amazon.com/Eloquent...External Subdomain Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen
/blog/2011/08/29/phpunit-bette...ideas for the programming language you currently use
/blog/2011/09/04/review-eloque...Text duplicate Read on →
/blog/2011/08/29/phpunit-bette...PHPUnit: Better Syntax for Expecting Exceptions
/blog/2011/08/29/phpunit-bette...Text duplicate Read on →
/blog/2010/10/01/colored-diffs...Colored Diffs in Thunderbird
/blog/2010/10/01/colored-diffs...Text duplicate Read on →
/blog/2010/09/29/no-time-to-re...No Time to Read That Blog - Read It Later!
http://news.ycombinator.com/External Subdomain Hacker News
http://readitlaterlist.com/External Read It Later
/blog/2010/09/29/no-time-to-re...Text duplicate Read on →
/blog/2010/09/20/git---how-to-...Git - How to Get Better Diffs for Images
/blog/2010/09/20/git---how-to-...Text duplicate Read on →
/blog/archivesBlog Archives
/blog/2011/09/08/what-my-co---...Text duplicate What My Co-Workers and I Learned When Trying to Write Unit Tests for PHPUnit
/blog/2011/09/04/review-the-cl...Text duplicate Review: The Clean Coder - a Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers
/blog/2011/09/04/review-eloque...Text duplicate Review: Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen
/blog/2011/08/29/phpunit-bette...Text duplicate PHPUnit: Better Syntax for Expecting Exceptions
/blog/2010/10/01/colored-diffs...Text duplicate Colored Diffs in Thunderbird
http://twitter.com/larstesmerExternal Follow @larstesmer
http://delicious.com/sprudelpaulExternal My Delicious Bookmarks »
http://octopress.org/External Octopress

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "http://www.lars-tesmer.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 0.44 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.
This page loads 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 3 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (16 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 4 referring domains.
This page only has 6 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 3 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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