Lycos.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
61% 
Page quality
43% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
56% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.68 s
File size
13.40 kB
Words
47
Media files
9
Number of links
14 internal / 21 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Lycos.com
The page title is too short. (95 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
The domain is used in the page's title.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Lycos, Inc., is a web search engine and web portal established in 1994, spun out of Carnegie Mellon University. Lycos also encompasses a network of email, webhosting, social networking, and entertainment websites.
The meta description is too long: 1333 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
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 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
descriptionLycos, Inc., is a web search engine and web portal established in 1994, spun out of Carnegie Mellon University. Lycos also encompasses a network of email, webhosting, social networking, and entertainment websites.
authorEmpty
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 47 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
10.6% 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)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
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)
2 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/weather/frontpage/night_clear.pngnight_clear
....lygo.net/static/lycos/img/lang-icon.pngSelect Your Language
...go.net/static/lycos/img/in/lycoslogo.pngNo alt attribute provided
...tatic/lycos/img/us/slider/slider_us1.jpgFirst slide
...tatic/lycos/img/us/slider/slider_us2.jpgSecond slide
...tatic/lycos/img/us/slider/slider_us3.jpgThird slide
...t/static/lycos/images/lycos_swag_mug.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ygo.net/static/lycos/images/facebook.pngFacebook
...lygo.net/static/lycos/images/twitter.pngTwitter

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.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 21 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.lycos.com/Subdomain Lycos.com
http://www.mail.lycos.com/External Subdomain Correo
http://weather.lycos.com/External Subdomain Lycos Tiempo
http://www.tripod.lycos.com/External Subdomain Tripod
http://angelfire.com/External Angelfire
http://domains.lycos.com/External Subdomain Dominios
http://weather.lycos.com/External Subdomain Nuremberg 43° F
IMG-ALT night_clear
A-TITLE Iniciar Lycos Tiempo
https://www.lycos.com/English
A-TITLE Inglés
https://www.lycos.com/Español
A-TITLE Español
https://www.lycos.com/日本語
A-TITLE Japonés
https://www.lycos.com/Deutsch
A-TITLE Alemán
https://www.lycos.com/한국어
A-TITLE Coreano
https://www.lycos.com/Français
A-TITLE Francés
https://www.lycos.com/Italiano
A-TITLE Italiano
https://www.lycos.com/Nederlands
A-TITLE Holandés
https://www.lycos.com/Svenska
A-TITLE Sueco
https://www.lycos.com/Dansk
A-TITLE Danés
https://www.lycos.com/Suomi
A-TITLE Finlandés
https://www.lycos.com/Norsk
A-TITLE Noruego
https://www.lycos.com/Gaeilge
A-TITLE Irlandés
https://lycos.itemorder.com/saleNew window External Subdomain Lycos SWAG
http://www.mail.lycos.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Correo
http://www.tripod.lycos.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Tripod
http://domains.lycos.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Dominios
http://weather.lycos.com/External Subdomain Tiempo
http://www.angelfire.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Angelfire
https://info.lycos.com/External Subdomain Acerca de
A-TITLE Acerca de Lycos
https://info.lycos.com/career-...External Subdomain Empleo
A-TITLE Empleo en Lycos
https://advertising.lycos.com/External Subdomain Anúnciese con nosotros
A-TITLE Anúnciese en Lycos
https://info.lycos.com/resourc...Nofollow External Subdomain Legal
A-TITLE Lycos Información legal de la red
https://info.lycos.com/resourc...Nofollow External Subdomain Privacidad
A-TITLE Lycos Política de privacidad
https://registration.lycos.com...Nofollow External Subdomain Ayuda
A-TITLE Lycos Portal de ayuda
https://info.lycos.com/resourc...External Subdomain Anchor Add Lycos Search to Browser
A-TITLE Make Lycos Search the Default Search Provider
https://www.facebook.com/lycos...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Facebook
A-TITLE Hacerse amigo de Lycos en Facebook
https://twitter.com/SearchLycosNew window External IMG-ALT Twitter
A-TITLE Seguir a Lycos en Twitter

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.lycos.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.68 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 10 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (13 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateMon, 12 May 2025 02:47:39 GMT
serverApache
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self' *.lycos.com
x-powered-byPHP/7.2.24
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
content-length4162
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 3,134 referring domains.
This page has 27,261 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,292 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /web

Sitemap: http://www.lycos.com/sitemap.xml

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www.lycos.com
Lycos.com
Lycos, Inc., is a web search engine and web portal established in 1994, spun out of Carnegie Mellon University. Lycos also encompasses a network of email, webhosting, social networking, and entertainment websites.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Lycos71%Check
Search46%Check
SWAG36%Check
Tiempo34%Check
endif34%Check
Correo34%Check
Tripod34%Check
Angelfire34%Check
Dominios34%Check
Nuremberg34%Check
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