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Meta information
89% 
Page quality
39% 
Page structure
50% 
Link structure
70% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.75 s
File size
91.80 kB
Words
199
Media files
36
Number of links
55 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Policy Magazine
The page title is too short. (146 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Canadian Politics and Public Policy: Canada, US and international opinion and analysis, book reviews, online and in print. Plus, The Week in Policy.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (907 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.policymagazine.ca/
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)
There are only 199 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
The average number of words per sentence of 8.5 words is low.
33.7% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
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" 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)
35 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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Special Series: The Expert Group on Canada-US Relations
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Special Series: The Expert Group on Canada-US Relations
H1 Policy Sponsored Print Issues
H2 Online Series: The Road to 2025*
H3 Fixing the Fisc: Free Advice for Canada’s Next Prime Minister
H3 Whistling Past the Tradeyard
H3 Canada’s Global Standing: Prosperous, Progressive, and Peaceful
H3 War and Politics in the Digital Age
H3 The Poilievre Predicament
H3 Canada’s Trade War Arsenal Should Include a Team America
H3 Sláinte and Elbows Up to a New Era of Canada-Irish Relations
H3 The COP26 Deal: President Sharma Rolls the Dice
H3 Overtime at COP26: Toward a Common Future
H4 Don Newman
H4 Jeremy Kinsman
H4 Lori Turnbull
H4 Daniel Béland
H4 Lisa Van Dusen
H4 Policy Magazine
H6 ‘You Are Fighting For Us All’: Ambassador Bob Rae on the UNGA Ukraine Resolution
H6 Call to Action: Carrying the Torch of Human Rights Forward
13 links don't have an anchor text.
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 10 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
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/about-us/Subdomain About Us
A-TITLE About Us
/advertise-policy/Subdomain ADVERTISE
A-TITLE ADVERTISE
/archive/Subdomain Archive
A-TITLE Archive
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/author/don-newman/Subdomain Don Newman
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/author/jeremy-kinsman/Subdomain Jeremy Kinsman
/author/lturbull/Subdomain No Text
/author/lturbull/Subdomain Lori Turnbull
/author/daniel-beland/Subdomain No Text
/author/daniel-beland/Subdomain Daniel Béland
/author/lisa/Subdomain No Text
/author/lisa/Subdomain Lisa Van Dusen
/online-analysis/Subdomain A-TITLE Online Analysis
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/online-analysis/Subdomain More Online Analysis
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/author/showtell-browne/Subdomain by Showtell Browne and Kevin Page
/war-and-politics-in-the-digit...Subdomain War and Politics in the Digital Age
/author/sam-howard/Subdomain by Sam Howard
/emerging-voices/Subdomain More Emerging Voices
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/policy-special/New window Subdomain No Text
https://www.thebusinesscouncil...External Subdomain No Text
/the-poilievre-predicament/Subdomain The Poilievre Predicament
/author/daniel-beland/Subdomain by Daniel Béland
/canadas-trade-war-arsenal-sho...Subdomain Canada’s Trade War Arsenal Should Include a Team America
/author/colin-robertson/Subdomain by Colin Robertson
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/author/ben-collins/Subdomain by Ben Collins
/policy-specialSubdomain More Policy Specials
https://thoughtleadership.rbc....External Subdomain No Text
/cop26/New window Subdomain A-TITLE The Best Prime Ministers and President on Canada-US Relations of the Last 100 Years
/letter-from-cop26-glasgow-pre...Subdomain The COP26 Deal: President Sharma Rolls the Dice
/author/elizabeth-may/Subdomain by Elizabeth May
/overtime-at-cop26/Subdomain Overtime at COP26: Toward a Common Future
/author/velma-mccoll/Subdomain by Velma McColl
/cop26/Subdomain More COP26
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/policy-sponsored-print-issues/Subdomain Policy Sponsored Print Issues
/policy-sponsored-print-issues/Subdomain No Text
/our-policy-online-series-the-...Subdomain Online Series: The Road to 2025*
/our-policy-online-series-the-...Subdomain No Text
/politics-players/Subdomain No Text
https://buy.stripe.com/aEU9C25...External Subdomain Text duplicate DONATE TO POLICY
https://bit.ly/4iwgL1EExternal No Text
/book-reviews/Subdomain No Text
/policy-dispatches/Subdomain A-TITLE Book Reviews
/verbatim/Subdomain No Text
/you-are-fighting-for-us-all-a...Subdomain ‘You Are Fighting For Us All’: Ambassador Bob Rae on the UNGA Ukraine Resolution
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/author/brandony-silver/Subdomain by Brandon Silver
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https://twitter.com/policy_magNew window External No Text
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.policymagazine.ca/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (2.75 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (92 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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This page has 6,247 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 442 different ip addresses.

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