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Meta information
80% 
Page quality
92% 
Page structure
47% 
Link structure
81% 
Server
73% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.97 s
File size
278.70 kB
Words
642
Media files
22
Number of links
62 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | Obsidian Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora
The length of the page title is perfect. (510 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
There are more than one meta descriptions on the page. Only one is allowed.
The meta description is empty.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://obsidianlit.org/
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)
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 642 words. That's ok.
34.7% 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.
8 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 19.61 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=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 13 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)
This page uses Google authorship information without an image.
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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Outta Sight: Black Listening in Performance
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 32 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

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H1 Outta Sight: Black Listening in Performance
H1 Join us for our next public event on Thursday, June 27, 2024.
H1 Click the button to find out more.
H1 Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora
H2 Volume 48.1 and Volume 48.2 Latest Issues
H2 Obsidian Digital
H2 makalani bandele
H2 Elizabeth Owuor
H2 Elizabeth Miller
H2 Karma Mayet Johnson
H2 fahima ife
H2 Kengel Maysonet Baerga
H2 Japheth Asiedu-Kwarteng
H2 Airea D. Matthews
H2 Featured Content
H2 Featured Video: Processional Upstairs to Roof by C. Davida Ingram
H2 Audio Feature: Yolanda Wisher
H2 Audio Feature: Mankwe Ndosi
H2 Audio Feature: DJ Lynnée Denise
H2 Our Blog
H2 8 Resources for Creative Writers: Part 2
H2 8 Resources for Creative Writers: Part 1
H2 10 Organizations You Should Be Following On Social Media
H2 Stay in the know
H2 Success!
H2 Subscribe To Our Newsletter
H2 You have Successfully Subscribed!
H3 Empty heading
H3 Empty heading
H3 Artwork by Nettrice Gaskins, Algorhythmic Reverie, 2022.
H3 Empty heading
H3 Visit the O|Sessions Listening Room today.
H4 Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora Duplicate text
H4 Credits
H4 Policies
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.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are 12 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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/o-sessions-black-listening/O | Sessions
/obsidian-voices-dec-14-2023/Obsidian Voices
https://obsidianlit.org/gallery/Gallery
/how-to-submit/How To Submit
/open-calls/Open Calls
https://obsidianlit.org/blog/Blog
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https://obsidianlit.org/donate/Donate
/subscribe/Subscribe
https://obsidianlit.org/about/About
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https://obsidianlit.org/jobs/Jobs
https://obsidianlit.org/about/Anchor History
/in-memoriam/In Memoriam
https://obsidianlit.org/contact/Contact
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/cookie-policyCookie Policy
/accessibility-statement/Accessibility Statement
/terms-of-use/Terms of Use
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https://twitter.com/ObsidianLitNew window External Twitter
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://obsidianlit.org/"
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 0.97 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.
A Content Delivery Network like Google Hosted Libraries can save bandwidth for the JQuery files.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (279 kB).

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External factors

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This page has backlinks from 134 referring domains.
This page has 12,721 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 102 different ip addresses.

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