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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
65% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
52% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.04 s
File size
93.70 kB
Words
555
Media files
18
Number of links
112 internal / 1 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The Millions - Books, Arts, and Culture
The length of the page title is perfect. (345 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Books, Arts, and Culture
The meta description is too short. (151 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length) Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://themillions.com/
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 prev meta tag on this page.
Rel next URL https://themillions.com/page/2
The rel next and prev tags are set correctly.
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)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
This page contains 555 words. That's ok.
31.5% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
7 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 16 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 9 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no" 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 11 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
18 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)
This page uses Google authorship information without an image.
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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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Most Anticipated: The Great Spring 2024 Preview
H2 Against ‘Latin American Literature’
H2 What Millions Readers Are Reading (Vol. 1)
H2 Hymn for Walpurgisnacht
H2 Why Write Memoir? Two Debut Authors Weigh In
H2 “You Can Almost Hear the Ghosts”: Valeria Luiselli on Juan Rulfo
H2 Cover Reveal: ‘Yr Dead’ by Sam Sax
H2 Suzanne Scanlon’s Life Was Shaped by Books— for Better and for Worse
H2 Several Attempts at Understanding Percival Everett
H2 Kate Briggs Isn’t Trying to Be Original
H2 In Alexandra Tanner’s ‘Worry,’ Illness Is the Status Quo
H2 The Other Boy and the Heron
H2 Álvaro Enrigue Won’t Romanticize Mexican History
H2 Yomi Adegoke Contains Multitudes
H2 The Virtue of Slow Writers
H2 Xochitl Gonzalez Wants to Reframe Art History
H2 Deafness Is Not a Silence: On the Suppression of Sign Language
H2 Dan Sinykin on Fiction, Scholarship, and Academic Twitter
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
36 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 1 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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/category/features/reviewsReviews
/category/person-to-personQ&A
/category/lists/book-previewsPreviews
/category/lists/year-in-readingYIR
/about-the-millionsAbout Us
/support-usSupport Us
https://twitter.com/The_MillionsExternal Twitter
/category/lists/book-previewsBook Previews
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/2024/04/most-anticipated-the-...No Text
/2024/04/most-anticipated-the-...Most Anticipated: The Great Spring 2024 Preview
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/2024/05/against-latin-america...No Text
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/2024/05/what-millions-readers...No Text
/2024/05/what-millions-readers...No Text
/2024/05/what-millions-readers...What Millions Readers Are Reading (Vol. 1)
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/author/editorText duplicate Editor
/category/features/essaysText duplicate Essays
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/2024/04/hymn-for-walpurgisnac...No Text
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/author/ed-simonText duplicate Ed Simon
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/2024/04/why-write-memoir-two-...No Text
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/author/shze-hui-tjoa-and-davi...Text duplicate Shze-Hui Tjoa and David Martinez
/category/person-to-personText duplicate Person to Person
/2024/04/you-can-almost-hear-t...No Text
/2024/04/you-can-almost-hear-t...No Text
/2024/04/you-can-almost-hear-t...“You Can Almost Hear the Ghosts”: Valeria Luiselli on Juan Rulfo
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/category/cover-revealCover Reveal
/2024/04/cover-reveal-yr-dead-...No Text
/2024/04/cover-reveal-yr-dead-...No Text
/2024/04/cover-reveal-yr-dead-...Cover Reveal: ‘Yr Dead’ by Sam Sax
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/category/person-to-personText duplicate Person to Person
/2024/04/suzanne-scanlons-life...No Text
/2024/04/suzanne-scanlons-life...No Text
/2024/04/suzanne-scanlons-life...Suzanne Scanlon’s Life Was Shaped by Books— for Better and for Worse
/author/joanna-novakJoAnna Novak
/category/profilesProfiles
/2024/04/several-attempts-at-u...No Text
/2024/04/several-attempts-at-u...No Text
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/2024/04/kate-briggs-isnt-tryi...No Text
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/author/jaeyeon-yooText duplicate Jaeyeon Yoo
/category/features/reviewsText duplicate Reviews
/2024/03/in-alexandra-tanner-w...No Text
/2024/03/in-alexandra-tanner-w...No Text
/2024/03/in-alexandra-tanner-w...In Alexandra Tanner’s ‘Worry,’ Illness Is the Status Quo
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/author/irene-katz-connellyText duplicate Irene Katz Connelly
/category/features/essaysText duplicate Essays
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/2024/03/the-other-boy-and-the...No Text
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/category/person-to-personText duplicate Person to Person
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/2024/03/alvaro-enrigue-wont-r...No Text
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/author/nick-hildenText duplicate Nick Hilden
/category/person-to-personText duplicate Person to Person
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/2024/03/yomi-adegoke-contains...No Text
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/author/tara-okekeTara Okeke
/author/tara-okekeText duplicate Tara Okeke
/category/features/essaysText duplicate Essays
/2024/03/the-virtue-of-slow-wr...No Text
/2024/03/the-virtue-of-slow-wr...No Text
/2024/03/the-virtue-of-slow-wr...The Virtue of Slow Writers
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/author/lauren-alwanText duplicate Lauren Alwan
/category/person-to-personText duplicate Person to Person
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/2024/03/xochitl-gonzalez-want...No Text
/2024/03/xochitl-gonzalez-want...Xochitl Gonzalez Wants to Reframe Art History
/author/liv-albrightLiv Albright
/author/liv-albrightText duplicate Liv Albright
/category/features/essaysText duplicate Essays
/2024/03/deafness-is-not-a-sil...No Text
/2024/03/deafness-is-not-a-sil...No Text
/2024/03/deafness-is-not-a-sil...Deafness Is Not a Silence: On the Suppression of Sign Language
/author/sarah-marshSarah Marsh
/category/person-to-personText duplicate Person to Person
/2024/03/dan-sinykin-on-fictio...No Text
/2024/03/dan-sinykin-on-fictio...No Text
/2024/03/dan-sinykin-on-fictio...Dan Sinykin on Fiction, Scholarship, and Academic Twitter
/author/brendan-chambersBrendan Chambers
/author/brendan-chambersText duplicate Brendan Chambers

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://themillions.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
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.
This page loads 8 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 9 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (94 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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servercloudflare
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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 6,185 referring domains.
This page has 926,633 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 3,101 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Crawl-delay: 600

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
books62%Check
Arts and Culture47%Check
history43%Check
Write43%Check
Isn43%Check
Heron40%Check
Twitter38%Check
writers38%Check
Reading38%Check
Latin38%Check
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