Stevesouders.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
72% 
Page quality
27% 
Page structure
77% 
Link structure
83% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.88 s
File size
15.70 kB
Words
219
Media files
18
Number of links
43 internal / 36 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Steve Souders - High Performance Web Sites
The length of the page title is perfect. (411 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)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Server location: United States of America
The language is not specified in the HTML markup.
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

No meta tags were found.

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 219 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
19.6% 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.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No viewpoint tag is provided.
No 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)
18 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
/images/twitter-icon.pngNo alt attribute provided
/images/book-84x110.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/images/efws-cover-84x110.gifNo alt attribute provided
/images/wpd2-cover-85x112.gifNo alt attribute provided
/images/make-javascript-faster.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/images/vel-ams-2016-souders.jpgNo alt attribute provided
https://stevesouders.com/images/btconf.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/images/orm-high-speed-ux.gifNo alt attribute provided
/images/velocityny-prebrowsing.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/images/fluent-souders.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/images/html5devconf2013-souders.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/images/airbnb-souders.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/images/html5devconf2012.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/images/googleio-hphtml5.jpgNo alt attribute provided
https://stevesouders.com/images/chain.pngNo alt attribute provided
/images/sfsv-webperf-linkedin.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/images//google-io-video-thumb-234x125.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/images/more-arrow.gifNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
SteveSouders.com
The H1 heading is too short (16 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 SteveSouders.com
H3 HIGH PERFORMANCE WEB SITES BLOG
H3 BOOKS
H3 TWEETS
H3 Videos
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 1 links with a trivial anchor text.
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 too many external links (36) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://stevesouders.com/SteveSouders.com
/about.phpabout
http://twitter.com/souders/External A-TITLE Twitter @souders
/blog/Subdomain HIGH PERFORMANCE WEB SITES BLOG
/blog/2016/02/10/critical-metr...Subdomain Critical Metric: Critical Resources
/blog/2015/08/07/dominteractiv...Subdomain domInteractive: is it? really?
/blog/2015/05/12/hero-image-cu...Subdomain Hero Image Custom Metrics
/blog/2014/11/25/serious-confu...Subdomain SERIOUS CONFUSION with Resource Timing
/blog/2014/11/14/request-timeout/Subdomain Request Timeout
/blog/2014/08/21/resource-timi...Subdomain Resource Timing practical tips
/blog/2013/11/07/prebrowsing/Subdomain Prebrowsing
/blog/2013/09/05/domain-shardi...Subdomain Domain Sharding revisited
/blog/2013/09/05/domain-shardi...Subdomain Browser Busy Indicators
/blog/2013/05/17/creating-a-pe...Subdomain Creating a Performance Culture
/blog/2013/05/13/moving-beyond...Subdomain Moving beyond window.onload()
/blog/2012/12/03/the-perceptio...Subdomain The Perception of Speed
/blog/2012/11/14/comparing-rum...Subdomain Comparing RUM & Synthetic Page Load Times
/blog/2012/10/11/cache-is-king/Subdomain Cache is King
/blog/2012/09/12/preferred-cac...Subdomain Preferred Caching
/blog/2012/09/12/preferred-cac...Subdomain Don’t docwrite scripts
/blog/2012/04/02/radio-link-an...Subdomain Radio link and Nav Timing
/blog/2012/02/10/the-performan...Subdomain the Performance Golden Rule
/blog/2011/03/30/announcing-th...Subdomain Announcing the HTTP Archive
/blog/2010/12/06/evolution-of-...Subdomain Evolution of Script Loading
/blog/2010/09/30/render-first-...Subdomain Render first. JS second.
/blog/2010/07/23/redirect-cach...Subdomain Redirect caching deep dive
/blog/2010/06/01/frontend-spof/Subdomain Frontend SPOF
/blog/2010/05/07/wpo-web-perfo...Subdomain WPO – Web Performance Optimization
/blog/2010/05/07/wpo-web-perfo...Subdomain WebPagetest.org – top tool
/blog/2010/01/24/zen-and-the-a...Subdomain Zen and the Art of Web Performance
/blog/2009/10/19/http-archive-...Subdomain HTTP Archive Specification: Firebug and HttpWatch
/blog/2009/06/18/simplifying-c...Subdomain Simplifying CSS Selectors
/blog/2009/06/03/using-iframes...Subdomain Using Iframes Sparingly
/blog/2009/05/18/flushing-the-...Subdomain Flushing the Document Early
/blog/2009/05/12/sharding-domi...Subdomain Sharding Dominant Domains
/blog/2009/05/06/positioning-i...Subdomain Positioning Inline Scripts
/blog/2009/04/27/loading-scrip...Subdomain Loading Scripts Without Blocking
/blog/2009/04/09/dont-use-import/Subdomain don’t use @import
/blog/2009/03/10/performance-i...Subdomain Performance Impact of CSS Selectors
/blog/2008/12/27/coupling-asyn...Subdomain Coupling asynchronous scripts
http://www.amazon.com/dp/05965...External Subdomain No Text
http://www.amazon.com/dp/05965...External Subdomain High Performance Web Sites
https://stevesouders.com/hpws/website
http://www.amazon.com/dp/05965...External Subdomain No Text
http://www.amazon.com/dp/05965...External Subdomain Even Faster Web Sites
https://stevesouders.com/efws/Text duplicate website
http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...External Subdomain No Text
http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...External Subdomain Web Performance Daybook Volume 2
http://calendar.perfplanet.com...External Subdomain Text duplicate website
http://twitter.com/souders/External TWEETS
A-TITLE Twitter @souders
https://twitter.com/soudersExternal Tweets by @souders
/videos.phpVideos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...External Subdomain Make JavaScript Faster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...External Subdomain Metrics of Joy
https://vimeo.com/144595989External No Text
https://vimeo.com/144595989External Design+Performance
http://shop.oreilly.com/produc...External Subdomain No Text
http://shop.oreilly.com/produc...External Subdomain High Speed UX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...External Subdomain No Text
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...External Subdomain Text duplicate Prebrowsing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...External Subdomain Perception of Speed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...External Subdomain How fast are we going now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...External Subdomain Dive into Performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?f...External Subdomain No Text
http://www.youtube.com/watch?f...External Subdomain Text duplicate Cache is King
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...External Subdomain No Text
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...External Subdomain High Performance HTML5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...External Subdomain No Text
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...External Subdomain Your script just killed my site
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...External Subdomain No Text
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...External Subdomain High Performance Mobile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?f...External Subdomain No Text
http://www.youtube.com/watch?f...External Subdomain Text duplicate Even Faster Web Sites
/videos.phpTrivial anchor text
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://stevesouders.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 0.88 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 (16 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlmax-age=600
expiresFri, 30 Aug 2024 23:27:48 GMT
varyAccept-Encoding,User-Agent
content-encodinggzip
timing-allow-origin*
content-length4386
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
dateFri, 30 Aug 2024 23:17:48 GMT
serverApache
statuscode200
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 2,330 referring domains.
This page has 356,712 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,783 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: MJ12bot
Crawl-delay: 600
Disallow: /examples/
User-agent: YandexBot
Crawl-delay: 600
User-agent: Orangebot
Crawl-delay: 600
User-agent: Riddlerbot 
Crawl-delay: 600
Disallow: /
User-agent: Riddler
Crawl-delay: 600
Disallow: /
User-agent: Ning
Crawl-delay: 600
Disallow: /
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 600
Disallow: /bin/resource.cgi
Disallow: /bin/sleep.cgi
Disallow: /controljs/examples/
Disallow: /efws/c
Disallow: /efws/d
Disallow: /efws/f
Disallow: /efws/h
Disallow: /efws/iframe
Disallow: /efws/inline
Disallow: /efws/lo
Disallow: /efws/m
Disallow: /efws/p
Disallow: /efws/s
Disallow: /efws/t
Disallow: /efws/w
Disallow: /efws/y
Disallow: /hpws/rule-js-bottom.php
Disallow: /hpws/post-onload.php
Disallow: /hpws/max-connections.php
Disallow: /hpws/parallel-downloads.php
Disallow: /hpws2/
Disallow: /tests/
Disallow: /ua/
Disallow: /todo/

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Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

KeywordResultRecheck
Souders75%Check
Steve Souders74%Check
Steve73%Check
SteveSouders62%Check
WEB52%Check
HIGH52%Check
High Performance51%Check
Web Sites51%Check
Web Performance51%Check
HIGH PERFORMANCE WEB SITES51%Check
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