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Page quality
76% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
56% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.30 s
File size
47.00 kB
Words
773
Media files
26
Number of links
98 internal / 14 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Howtoforge Linux Tutorials.
The length of the page title is perfect. (244 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (259 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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https://www.howtoforge.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
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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
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Language for link pointing to page itself inaccurate
Other meta tags
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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
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The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
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Meta tags

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Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 773 words. That's ok.
31.8% 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.
11 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 17.21 words is good.
Frames
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This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
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A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
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Image SEO
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5 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
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Additional markup
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This page uses Google authorship information without an image.
HTTPS
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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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/images/featured/ubuntu-24-04-nessus.pngHow to Install and Use Nessus Vulnerability Scanner on Ubuntu 24.04
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Page structure

H1 heading
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HowtoForge provides user-friendly Linux tutorials.
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
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The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

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H1 HowtoForge provides user-friendly Linux tutorials.
H2 How to Install GlassFish Application Server with Nginx Reverse Proxy on Debian 12
H2 How to Install WildFly Application Server with Nginx Reverse Proxy on Debian 12
H2 How to Install Emby Media Server on Debian 12
H2 How to Install Actual Budgeting Software on Debian 12 Server
H2 How to Install and Use Nessus Vulnerability Scanner on Ubuntu 24.04
H2 How to Install Apache Solr on an Ubuntu 24.04 Server
H2 How to Install ntopng on Debian 12
H2 How to install PHP 5.6 and 7.0 - 8.4 with PHP-FPM and FastCGI mode for ISPConfig 3.2 with apt on Ubuntu 22.04 - 24.04
H2 How to install PHP 5.6 and 7.0 - 8.4 with PHP-FPM and FastCGI mode for ISPConfig 3.2 with apt on Debian 11 to 12
H2 How to Install Fast API with MongoDB on Ubuntu 24.04
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Baselink: https://www.howtoforge.com
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
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 14 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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/how-to-install-and-use-nessus...IMG-ALT How to Install and Use Nessus Vulnerability Scanner on Ubuntu 24.04
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/how-to-install-ntopng-on-debi...IMG-ALT How to Install ntopng on Debian 12
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/author/arvid+l/Text duplicate Arvid L
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/tutorials/linux/Text duplicate linux
/tutorials/monitoring/monitoring
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https://twitter.com/howtoforgecomNew window External No Text
https://www.facebook.com/howto...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://news.ycombinator.com/New window Nofollow External Subdomain No Text
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/contribute/Contribute
https://forum.howtoforge.com/m...External Subdomain Contact
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/imprint/Imprint and Legal Notice
https://www.howtoforge.com/Anchor Top
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https://forum.howtoforge.com/h...External Subdomain Terms and Rules
https://forum.howtoforge.com/h...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://www.howtoforge.com/Subdomain Howtoforge © projektfarm GmbH.
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.howtoforge.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 0.30 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (47 kB).

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