Thegreatcourses.com - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
75% 
Page quality
51% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
0% 
Server
91% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.53 s
File size
7.70 kB
Words
0
Media files
0
Number of links
0 internal / 0 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The Great Courses
The page title is too short. (174 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 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)
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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, viewport-fit=cover
robotsindex, follow
apple-mobile-web-app-titleThe Great Courses
apple-mobile-web-app-capableyes
apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-styledefault
theme-color#ffffff
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 0 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
No paragraphs were detected.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 4 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, viewport-fit=cover" 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)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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

No media files were found.

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.
This page seems to be an entry page, because only very few links were found.
There are no external links on this page.
No internal links were found.

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.thegreatcourses.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 0.53 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 4 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 2 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (8 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html
last-modifiedMon, 10 Jun 2024 13:19:55 GMT
etag"6666fd7b-1293"
accept-rangesbytes
x-akamai-transformed9 4755 0 pmb=mTOE,1mRUM,1
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
expiresWed, 19 Jun 2024 14:43:47 GMT
cache-controlmax-age=0, no-cache, no-store
pragmano-cache
dateWed, 19 Jun 2024 14:43:47 GMT
content-length3483
connectionkeep-alive
server-timingcdn-cache; desc=MISS
set-cookie541 Characters
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

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 6,342 referring domains.
This page has 157,438 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 3,292 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 23163 shares and comments on Facebook.

Robots.txt

#Crawlers Setup
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10

#TGC
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /digital-library/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /search/

#Stock Magento

#Allowable Index
Allow: /*?p=
Allow: /media/

#Directories
Disallow: /404/
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /downloader/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /js/
Disallow: /lib/
Disallow: /magento/
Disallow: /pkginfo/
Disallow: /report/
Disallow: /skin/
Disallow: /stats/
Disallow: /var/

#Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/
Disallow: /catalog/category/view/
Disallow: /catalog/product/view/
Disallow: /catalogsearch/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /control/
Disallow: /contacts/
Disallow: /customer/
Disallow: /customize/
Disallow: /newsletter/
Disallow: /poll/
Disallow: /review/
Disallow: /sendfriend/
Disallow: /tag/
Disallow: /wishlist/

#Files
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /cron.sh
Disallow: /error_log
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /LICENSE.html
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE_AFL.txt
Disallow: /STATUS.txt

#Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /*.js$
Disallow: /*.css$
Disallow: /*.php$
Disallow: /?p=&
Disallow: /*?SID=

Sitemap: https://www.thegreatcourses.com/sitemap.xml

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The Great Courses

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
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Courses23%Check
Great Courses23%Check

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