Crn.com - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
53% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
62% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.10 s
File size
5.10 kB
Words
15
Media files
0
Number of links
13 internal / 0 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Technology News For IT Channel Partners and Solution Providers | CRN
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 649 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
CRN is the top technology news and information source for solution providers, IT channel partners, and value-added resellers (VARs). Get exclusive and breaking news, IT vendor and product reviews, channel partner resources and more.
The meta description is too long: 1462 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.crn.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
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

NameValue
descriptionCRN is the top technology news and information source for solution providers, IT channel partners, and value-added resellers (VARs). Get exclusive and breaking news, IT vendor and product reviews, channel partner resources and more.
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viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:titleTechnology News For IT Channel Partners and Solution Providers | CRN
twitter:descriptionCRN is the top technology news and information source for solution providers, IT channel partners, and value-added resellers (VARs). Get exclusive and breaking news, IT vendor and product reviews, channel partner resources and more.
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og:titleTechnology News For IT Channel Partners and Solution Providers | CRN
og:descriptionCRN is the top technology news and information source for solution providers, IT channel partners, and value-added resellers (VARs). Get exclusive and breaking news, IT vendor and product reviews, channel partner resources and more.
og:urlhttps://www.crn.com/
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 15 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.
6.7% of the text are stop words.
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)
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)
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.
Anchor text is an URL
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are no external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/rankings-and-lists/crn-channe...Subdomain Channel Madness
/news/internet-of-things/2025/...Subdomain IoT 50
/partner-program-guide/ppg2025Subdomain Partner Program Guide
/rankings-and-lists/te2025Subdomain Tech Elite 250
https://www.crn.com/xchange2025Subdomain XChange 2025
/news/channel-news/2025/25-to-...Subdomain 25 In 2025
/news/computing/2025/confusion...Subdomain URL anchor text
https://www.crn.com/news/computing/2025/confusion-uncertainty-pain-solution-providers-grapple-with-trump-s-tariff-regime
/news/data-center/2025/dell-s-...Subdomain URL anchor text
https://www.crn.com/news/data-center/2025/dell-s-project-fort-zero-passes-dod-muster
/news/security/2025/oracle-dis...Subdomain URL anchor text
https://www.crn.com/news/security/2025/oracle-disclosed-breach-of-legacy-environment-to-customers-report
/events/2025/cloudflare-s-tom-...Subdomain URL anchor text
https://www.crn.com/events/2025/cloudflare-s-tom-evans-captures-channel-madness-victory-amid-major-partner-push
/news/components-peripherals/2...Subdomain URL anchor text
https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/2025/intel-s-chief-people-officer-is-leaving-for-a-job-at-caterpillar
/news/storage/2025/new-pure-st...Subdomain URL anchor text
https://www.crn.com/news/storage/2025/new-pure-storage-vp-hope-galley-let-s-have-some-fun-and-make-some-money
/news/components-peripherals/2...Subdomain URL anchor text
https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/2025/intel-s-christoph-schell-warns-partners-of-pain-on-path-to-a-better-future

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.crn.com/"
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 excellent with 0.10 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (5 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateMon, 07 Apr 2025 00:10:36 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
last-modifiedFri, 04 Apr 2025 21:28:33 GMT
via1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
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x-cacheMISS, HIT, MISS
x-cache-hits0, 3, 0
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31557600
cache-controlmax-age=7200, must-revalidate
cdn-cache-controlmax-age=172800, must-revalidate
varyAccept-Encoding,X-Forwarded-Host
cf-cache-statusHIT
servercloudflare
cf-ray92c54d8b7ea66b98-CDG
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,019 referring domains.
This page has 20,790 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 703 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Sitemap: https://www.crn.com/sitemap-index.xml
Host: https://www.crn.com

Disallow: */breakingnews.asp
Disallow: */channel-encyclopedia/
Disallow: */channelcommunity/
Disallow: */components/
Disallow: */Components/
Disallow: */contributions/
Disallow: */emailthisarticle.htm
Disallow: */encyclopedia/
Disallow: */int/
Disallow: */nl/
Disallow: */print/
Disallow: */printablearticle.htm
Disallow: */printableArticle.jhtml
Disallow: */printerFriendly.jhtml
Disallow: */printmail/
Disallow: */printpdf/
Disallow: */reviews/client-devices/
Disallow: */sections/
Disallow: */Sections/
Disallow: */sponsored/
Disallow: */stock-quotes-financial-data/
Disallow: */tabletablearticle.htm
Disallow: */tools/quotes/index.jhtml
Disallow: */var/
Disallow: /*.asp
Disallow: /*.asp$
Disallow: /*.jhtml
Disallow: /*.jhtml$
Disallow: /channel-encyclopedia/
Disallow: /encyclopedia/
Disallow: /search-request.htm
Disallow: /slide-shows/channel-programs/240007608/the-top-female-executives-of-the-2012-fast-growth-100.htm
Disallow: */tag/ 
Disallow: /query/related/related


User-agent: sentibot
Disallow: /

User Agent: Miso/1.0.0 (Linux)
Allow: /

Search preview

www.crn.com
Technology News For IT Channel Partners and Solution Providers | CRN
CRN is the top technology news and information source for solution providers, IT channel partners, and value-added resellers (VARs). Get exclusive and breaking news, IT vendor and product reviews, channel partner resources and more.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Channel58%Check
Partner58%Check
Tech58%Check
Channel Partner58%Check
Channel Partners40%Check
News Channel40%Check
Madness34%Check
IoT34%Check
Program34%Check
Guide34%Check

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