News.ycombinator.com - SEO Checker

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Meta information
59% 
Page quality
51% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
17% 
Server
76% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.91 s
File size
35.30 kB
Words
605
Media files
3
Number of links
192 internal / 31 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Hacker News
The page title is too short. (122 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
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)
No canonical link is 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)
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)
No doctype markup was found.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
No paragraphs were detected.
This page contains 605 words. That's ok.
17.7% of the text are stop words.
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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 12 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 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
https://news.ycombinator.com/y18.svgNo alt attribute provided
https://news.ycombinator.com/s.gifNo alt attribute provided
https://news.ycombinator.com/s.gifNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
There are no headings specified on the page. Headings are important for search engine optimization and help to structure your content.

Heading structure

No headings were found.
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.
29 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 1 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (31) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://news.ycombinator.com/Subdomain No Text
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsHacker News
/newestnew
/frontpast
/newcommentscomments
https://news.ycombinator.com/askask
https://news.ycombinator.com/showshow
https://news.ycombinator.com/jobsjobs
/submitNofollow submit
/login?goto=newslogin
/vote?id=41046773&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://about.fb.com/news/2024...External Subdomain Open source AI is the path forward
/from?site=fb.comfb.com
/user?id=atgctgatgctg
/item?id=4104677323 hours ago
/hide?id=41046773&goto=newshide
/item?id=41046773799 comments
/vote?id=41034297&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://d-star.ai/solving-the-...External Solving the out-of-context chunk problem for RAG
/from?site=d-star.aid-star.ai
/user?id=zmccormick7zmccormick7
/item?id=410342977 hours ago
/hide?id=41034297&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4103429729 comments
/vote?id=41050055&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://www.jhnewsandguide.com...External Subdomain Hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park
/from?site=jhnewsandguide.comjhnewsandguide.com
/user?id=jandrewrogersjandrewrogers
/item?id=4105005518 hours ago
/hide?id=41050055&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=41050055240 comments
/vote?id=41048707&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://www.chemistryworld.com...External Subdomain Computer program 'paints' porphyrin structures in the style of Piet Mondrian
/from?site=chemistryworld.comchemistryworld.com
/user?id=crescit_eundocrescit_eundo
/item?id=410487073 hours ago
/hide?id=41048707&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=410487072 comments
/vote?id=41056391&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://codewords.recurse.com/...Nofollow External Subdomain The algebra (and calculus) of algebraic data types
/from?site=recurse.comrecurse.com
/user?id=thunderbongthunderbong
/item?id=410563911 hour ago
/hide?id=41056391&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=41056391Text duplicate 2 comments
/vote?id=41056387&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://www.nature.com/article...External Subdomain You got a null result. Will anyone publish it?
/from?site=nature.comnature.com
/user?id=sohkamyungsohkamyung
/item?id=41056387Text duplicate 1 hour ago
/hide?id=41056387&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4105638742 comments
/vote?id=41053761&how=up&goto=...No Text
http://www.kohala.com/start/pa...External Subdomain "Doors" in Solaris: Lightweight RPC Using File Descriptors (1996)
/from?site=kohala.comkohala.com
/user?id=thunderbongText duplicate thunderbong
/item?id=410537619 hours ago
/hide?id=41053761&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4105376161 comments
/vote?id=41056694&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://www.newscientist.com/a...External Subdomain Physicists may now have a way to make element 120
/from?site=newscientist.comnewscientist.com
/user?id=_Microft_Microft
/item?id=41056694Text duplicate 1 hour ago
/hide?id=41056694&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4105669421 comments
/vote?id=41052365&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://martin.janiczek.cz/202...External Subdomain Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands (2024)
/from?site=janiczek.czjaniczek.cz
/user?id=mjaniczekmjaniczek
/item?id=4105236514 hours ago
/hide?id=41052365&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=41052365131 comments
/vote?id=41046956&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://letsencrypt.org/2024/0...External Intent to end OCSP service
/from?site=letsencrypt.orgletsencrypt.org
/user?id=soheilprosoheilpro
/item?id=41046956Text duplicate 23 hours ago
/hide?id=41046956&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=41046956124 comments
/vote?id=41045834&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://briefer.cloud/launches...External Show HN: Briefer – multiplayer notebooks with schedules, SQL, and built-in LLMs
/from?site=briefer.cloudbriefer.cloud
/user?id=lucasfcostalucasfcosta
/item?id=4104583422 hours ago
/hide?id=41045834&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4104583456 comments
/vote?id=41012854&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://www.nasa.gov/history/a...External Subdomain Apollo Lunar Surface Journal
/from?site=nasa.govnasa.gov
/user?id=NaOHNaOH
/item?id=4101285410 hours ago
/hide?id=41012854&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=410128547 comments
/vote?id=41052593&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://onlisp.co.uk/On-the-Or...External The Origin of Emacs in 1976
/from?site=onlisp.co.ukonlisp.co.uk
/user?id=rhabarbarhabarba
/item?id=4105259313 hours ago
/hide?id=41052593&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4105259352 comments
/vote?id=41049399&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://spectrum.ieee.org/moto...External Subdomain How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping”
/from?site=ieee.orgieee.org
/user?id=belterbelter
/item?id=4104939919 hours ago
/hide?id=41049399&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=41049399380 comments
/vote?id=41052371&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://github.com/tekknolagi/...External Scrapscript: A functional, content-addressable programming language
/from?site=github.com/tekknolagigithub.com/tekknolagi
/user?id=luuluu
/item?id=41052371Text duplicate 14 hours ago
/hide?id=41052371&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4105237128 comments
/vote?id=41052446&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://pnut.sh/External Pnut: A C to POSIX Shell Compiler you can Trust
/from?site=pnut.shpnut.sh
/user?id=feeleyfeeley
/item?id=41052446Text duplicate 14 hours ago
/hide?id=41052446&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4105244679 comments
/vote?id=41053201&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://github.com/trholding/l...External Llama 3.1 in C
/from?site=github.com/trholdinggithub.com/trholding
/user?id=AMICABoardAMICABoard
/item?id=4105320111 hours ago
/hide?id=41053201&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4105320123 comments
/vote?id=41048194&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://github.com/getomni-ai/...External Show HN: Zerox – Document OCR with GPT-mini
/from?site=github.com/getomni-aigithub.com/getomni-ai
/user?id=themanmaranthemanmaran
/item?id=4104819421 hours ago
/hide?id=41048194&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4104819475 comments
/vote?id=41047110&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://punkx.org/unix-pipe-game/External The Unix Pipe Card Game
/from?site=punkx.orgpunkx.org
/user?id=ShugyoushaShugyousha
/item?id=41047110Text duplicate 22 hours ago
/hide?id=41047110&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4104711035 comments
/vote?id=41022251&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz...External Subdomain Relationships are coevolutionary loops (2023)
/from?site=henrikkarlsson.xyzhenrikkarlsson.xyz
/user?id=walterbellwalterbell
/item?id=4102225117 hours ago
/hide?id=41022251&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4102225172 comments
/vote?id=41046397&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://fight-flash-fraud.read...External Subdomain Anchor A free tool to quickly detect counterfeit flash (2017)
/from?site=fight-flash-fraud.r...fight-flash-fraud.readthedocs.io
/user?id=popol12popol12
/item?id=41046397Text duplicate 23 hours ago
/hide?id=41046397&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=41046397123 comments
/vote?id=41048777&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://divisbyzero.com/2010/0...External Turing's topological proof that every written alphabet is finite (2010)
/from?site=divisbyzero.comdivisbyzero.com
/user?id=082349872349872082349872349872
/item?id=4104877720 hours ago
/hide?id=41048777&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4104877793 comments
/vote?id=41056188&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://evanhahn.com/programmi...External My programming beliefs as of July 2024
/from?site=evanhahn.comevanhahn.com
/user?id=signa11signa11
/item?id=410561882 hours ago
/hide?id=41056188&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4105618810 comments
/vote?id=41049587&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://github.com/Troels51/dtuiExternal Dtui – TUI for introspecting the state of the system/session dbus
/from?site=github.com/troels51github.com/troels51
/user?id=diggandiggan
/item?id=41049587Text duplicate 19 hours ago
/hide?id=41049587&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4104958725 comments
/vote?id=41001951&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://jpcamara.com/2024/07/1...External Ruby methods are colorless
/from?site=jpcamara.comjpcamara.com
/user?id=pmontrapmontra
/item?id=410019511 day ago
/hide?id=41001951&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=41001951172 comments
/item?id=41050801Meticulous (YC S21) is hiring to eliminate UI tests
/item?id=41050801Text duplicate 17 hours ago
/hide?id=41050801&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/vote?id=41033042&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://tommihovi.com/2024/05/...External Demystifying Cookies and Tokens
/from?site=tommihovi.comtommihovi.com
/user?id=fagnerbrackfagnerbrack
/item?id=41033042Text duplicate 14 hours ago
/hide?id=41033042&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4103304213 comments
/vote?id=41053383&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/mot...External Subdomain MPPP – The first 'designer drug' disaster (2023)
/from?site=bris.ac.ukbris.ac.uk
/user?id=aragonitearagonite
/item?id=41053383Text duplicate 10 hours ago
/hide?id=41053383&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=41053383113 comments
/vote?id=41000844&how=up&goto=...No Text
/item?id=41000844Ask HN: Fast data structures for disjoint intervals?
/user?id=grovesNLgrovesNL
/item?id=41000844Text duplicate 1 day ago
/hide?id=41000844&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=41000844103 comments
/vote?id=41055947&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://www.theregister.com/20...External Subdomain Arch-based CachyOS promises speed but trips over its laces
/from?site=theregister.comtheregister.com
/user?id=LorenDBLorenDB
/item?id=41055947Text duplicate 2 hours ago
/hide?id=41055947&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=410559475 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/?p=2Trivial anchor text
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/newsguidelines.htmlGuidelines
/newsfaq.htmlFAQ
/listsLists
https://github.com/HackerNews/APIExternal API
/security.htmlSecurity
https://www.ycombinator.com/le...External Subdomain Legal
https://www.ycombinator.com/ap...External Subdomain Apply to YC

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://news.ycombinator.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 0.91 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 (35 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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servernginx
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 52,693 referring domains.
This page has 43,008,165 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 30,852 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

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Robots.txt

User-Agent: *
Crawl-delay: 30
Disallow: /collapse?
Disallow: /context?
Disallow: /flag?
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /logout
Disallow: /r?
Disallow: /reply?
Disallow: /submitlink?
Disallow: /vote?
Disallow: /x?

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