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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
89% 
Page structure
29% 
Link structure
55% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.04 s
File size
244.10 kB
Words
1066
Media files
36
Number of links
76 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Viet Thanh Nguyen
The length of the page title is perfect. (243 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)
https://vietnguyen.info/
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)
The average number of words per sentence of 26.77 words is high.
This page contains 1066 words. That's ok.
36.4% 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.
17 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.
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 21 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
22 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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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data:[...] Base64Cover of The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 37 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other
H1 The Cleaving
H1 Simone
H1 A Man of Two Faces
H1 The Committed
H1 Chicken of the Sea
H1 The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
H1 The Refugees
H2 Viet’s Books
H2 About Viet Thanh Nguyen
H2 Upcoming Events
H3 GZERO | 50 years after the Vietnam War
H3 Time Magazine | How America Became Afraid of the Other
H3 Scott Simon’s Open Book | Viet Thanh Nguyen Joins Us for To Save and To Destroy
H3 Chicago Review of Books | Otherness Fuels Solidarity in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “To Save and To Destroy”
H3 BBC | Iran and US Agree to Follow Up Talks
H3 Zeteo | Trump and the Reality of Betrayal
H3 To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other Duplicate text
H3 The Cleaving Duplicate text
H3 Simone Duplicate text
H3 A Man of Two Faces Duplicate text
H3 The Sympathizer
H3 The Committed Duplicate text
H3 Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
H3 The Refugees Duplicate text
H3 Chicken of the Sea Duplicate text
H3 The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives Duplicate text
H3 Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field
H3 Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America
H4 Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy Book Tour
H4 Elliott Bay Book Company | Viet Thanh Nguyen with Shawn Wong at Seattle Public Library
H4 Spokane Public Library | An Evening with Viet Thanh Nguyen
H4 Sante Fe International Literacy Festival | 2025 International Literacy Festival
H4 Chevalier’s Books | Viet Thanh Nguyen in Conversation With Andre Dao
H4 WBUR | The WBUR Festival
H4 Bay Area Book Festival | “Writing as an Other”
H4 Sign up for Updates
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
13 links don't have an 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 12 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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/author-viet-thanh-nguyenBio
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/category/short-storiesShort Stories
https://vietnguyen.info/classesClasses
https://vietnguyen.info/eventsEvents
/category/highlightsHighlights
/category/reviewsReviews
/category/interviewsInterviews
/category/newsNews
https://vietnguyen.info/videosVideos
https://vietnguyen.info/downloadsDownloads
/2012/frequently-asked-questio...FAQ
/category/booksText duplicate Books
/author-viet-thanh-nguyenText duplicate Bio
/category/essaysText duplicate Essays
/category/short-storiesText duplicate Short Stories
https://vietnguyen.info/classesText duplicate Classes
https://vietnguyen.info/eventsText duplicate Events
/category/highlightsText duplicate Highlights
/category/reviewsText duplicate Reviews
/category/interviewsText duplicate Interviews
/category/newsText duplicate News
https://vietnguyen.info/videosText duplicate Videos
https://vietnguyen.info/downloadsText duplicate Downloads
/2012/frequently-asked-questio...Text duplicate FAQ
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/2025/gzero-50-years-after-the...No Text
/2025/gzero-50-years-after-the...GZERO | 50 years after the Vietnam War
/2025/time-magazine-how-americ...No Text
/2025/time-magazine-how-americ...Time Magazine | How America Became Afraid of the Other
/2025/scott-simons-open-book-v...No Text
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/2025/chicago-review-of-books-...No Text
/2025/chicago-review-of-books-...Chicago Review of Books | Otherness Fuels Solidarity in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “To Save and To Destroy”
/2025/bbc-iran-and-us-agree-to...No Text
/2025/bbc-iran-and-us-agree-to...BBC | Iran and US Agree to Follow Up Talks
/2025/zeteo-trump-and-the-real...No Text
/2025/zeteo-trump-and-the-real...Zeteo | Trump and the Reality of Betrayal
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/2025/the-cleavingThe Cleaving
/2024/simoneSimone
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/2023/a-man-of-two-facesA Man of Two Faces
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/2014/sympathizerThe Sympathizer
IMG-ALT The Sympathizer book cover
/2023/the-committedThe Committed
IMG-ALT The Committed book cover
/2016/nothing-ever-dies-vietna...Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
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/2016/the-refugeesThe Refugees
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/2023/chicken-of-the-seaChicken of the Sea
/2018/introducing-displaced-re...The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
/2014/transpacific-studies-fra...Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field
/2002/race-resistance-literatu...Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America
IMG-ALT Race and Resistance book cover
/author-viet-thanh-nguyenFull bio
/events/viet-thanh-nguyen-to-s...No Text
/events/viet-thanh-nguyen-to-s...Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy Book Tour
/events/elliott-bay-book-compa...No Text
/events/elliott-bay-book-compa...Elliott Bay Book Company | Viet Thanh Nguyen with Shawn Wong at Seattle Public Library
/events/spokane-public-library...No Text
/events/spokane-public-library...Spokane Public Library | An Evening with Viet Thanh Nguyen
/events/sante-fe-international...No Text
/events/sante-fe-international...Sante Fe International Literacy Festival | 2025 International Literacy Festival
/events/chevaliers-books-viet-...No Text
/events/chevaliers-books-viet-...Chevalier’s Books | Viet Thanh Nguyen in Conversation With Andre Dao
/events/wbur-the-wbur-festivalNo Text
/events/wbur-the-wbur-festivalWBUR | The WBUR Festival
/events/bay-area-book-festival...No Text
/events/bay-area-book-festival...Bay Area Book Festival | “Writing as an Other”
https://www.facebook.com/VietT...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/viet...New window External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain Youtube
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/category/booksText duplicate Books
/author-viet-thanh-nguyenText duplicate Bio
https://vietnguyen.info/contactContact
https://vietnguyen.info/archivesArchives
/category/booksText duplicate Books
/author-viet-thanh-nguyenText duplicate Bio
https://vietnguyen.info/contactText duplicate Contact
https://vietnguyen.info/archivesText duplicate Archives
/privacy-policyPrivacy Policy
/privacy-policyText duplicate Privacy Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://vietnguyen.info/"
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 slow (1.04 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 (244 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 151 referring domains.
This page has 266 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 130 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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