Xml.com - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
71% 
Page structure
12% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
74% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.96 s
File size
18.90 kB
Words
435
Media files
5
Number of links
67 internal / 2 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
XML.com
The page title is too short. (87 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)
High-quality information on XML, XSLT, XQuery, DITA, Schematron, related standards and technologies. How to use them to solve real-world problems.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (932 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
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
descriptionHigh-quality information on XML, XSLT, XQuery, DITA, Schematron, related standards and technologies. How to use them to solve real-world problems.
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 435 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
23.9% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
5 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 9.82 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
This page only loads 3 JavaScript files. That's good!
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 9 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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
News
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (4 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 36 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 News
H1 Articles
H1 Foundations
H2 DeltaXML Unveils New DITA Compare Release with REST API Capability
H2 DeltaXML Transitions to Employee Ownership
H2 Securing Future Innovation and Stability
H2 Release of XMLmind XSL-FO Converter v6.4.3
H2 Oxygen Content Fusion 7.0 introduces a personal authoring workspace and support for Continuous Deployment
H2 Saxon 12.5 released
H2 .NET command line tools for XSLT 3.0 and XQuery 3.1 updated to Saxon HE 12.5
H2 Michael Sperberg-McQueen (1954-2024)
H2 String analysis with XSLT's analyze-string
H2 XPath higher order functions in the context of XSLT
H2 Visualizing XML Schemas
H2 Schematron Query Language Binding and XSLT
H2 A CALS Table Viewer for Visual Studio Code
H2 Annotated XML
H2 What is XSLT?
H2 Introduction to XProc 3.0
H2 Introduction to XForms
H2 What is XSL-FO?
H3 21 August 2024 Read
H3 5 August 2024 Read
H3 29 July 2024 Read
H3 10 July 2024 Read
H3 2 July 2024 Read
H3 2 July 2024 Read Duplicate text
H3 24 August 2024 Read
H3 22 July 2024 Read
H3 5 December 2023 Read
H3 6 March 2023 Read
H3 17 October 2022 Read
H3 23 June 2022 Read
H4 Release of XMLmind XSL-FO Converter v6.4.3 Duplicate text
H4 Popular tags: articles
H4 Popular tags: news
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 2 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.xml.com/IMG-ALT XML.com logo
https://www.xml.com/Home
https://www.xml.com/articles/Articles
https://www.xml.com/authors/Authors
https://www.xml.com/news/News
https://www.xml.com/job-board/Job Board
https://www.xml.com/about/About
/about/contribute/Contribute
/about/style-guide/Style guide
/about/copyright/Copyright
/about/contact/Contact
/about/privacy/Privacy Policy
/news/2024-08-deltaxml-dita-co...DeltaXML Unveils New DITA Compare Release with REST API Capability
/news/2024-08-deltaxml-dita-co...Read
/news/2024-08-deltaxml-transit...DeltaXML Transitions to Employee Ownership
https://www.deltaxml.com/External Subdomain DeltaXML
/news/2024-08-deltaxml-transit...Text duplicate Read
/news/2024-07-xmlmind-xsl-fo-c...Release of XMLmind XSL-FO Converter v6.4.3
/news/2024-07-xmlmind-xsl-fo-c...Text duplicate Read
/news/2024-07-oxygen-content-f...Oxygen Content Fusion 7.0 introduces a personal authoring workspace and support for Continuous Deployment
/news/2024-07-oxygen-content-f...Text duplicate Read
/news/2024-07-saxon-125-released/Saxon 12.5 released
/news/2024-07-saxon-125-released/Text duplicate Read
/news/2024-07-net-command-line....NET command line tools for XSLT 3.0 and XQuery 3.1 updated to Saxon HE 12.5
/news/2024-07-net-command-line...Text duplicate Read
https://www.xml.com/news/All news items
/news/submit-news-item/Submit a news item
/articles/2024/08/24/michael-s...Michael Sperberg-McQueen (1954-2024)
/articles/2024/08/24/michael-s...Text duplicate Read
/articles/2024/07/22/string-an...String analysis with XSLT's analyze-string
/articles/2024/07/22/string-an...Text duplicate Read
/articles/2023/12/05/xml-path-...XPath higher order functions in the context of XSLT
/articles/2023/12/05/xml-path-...Text duplicate Read
/articles/2023/03/06/visualisi...Visualizing XML Schemas
/articles/2023/03/06/visualisi...Text duplicate Read
/articles/2022/10/17/schematro...Schematron Query Language Binding and XSLT
/articles/2022/10/17/schematro...Text duplicate Read
/articles/2022/06/23/cals-tabl...A CALS Table Viewer for Visual Studio Code
/articles/2022/06/23/cals-tabl...Text duplicate Read
https://www.xml.com/articles/All articles
/axml/axml.htmlNew window Subdomain Annotated XML
IMG-ALT AXML
/articles/2017/01/01/what-is-x...New window What is XSLT?
IMG-ALT XSLT
/articles/2019/11/05/introduct...New window Introduction to XProc 3.0
IMG-ALT An example pipeline
/articles/2018/11/27/introduct...New window Introduction to XForms
/articles/2017/01/01/what-is-x...New window What is XSL-FO?
IMG-ALT The processing model for formatting an XSL-FO document
/articles/?tag=xsltxslt
/articles/?tag=xformsxforms
/articles/?tag=UBLUBL
/articles/?tag=xprocxproc
/articles/?tag=vocabularyvocabulary
/articles/?tag=xml schemaxml schema
/articles/?tag=xsdxsd
/articles/?tag=nisoniso
/articles/?tag=schematronschematron
/articles/?tag=xpathxpath
https://www.xml.com/news/?tag=xmlxml
/news/?tag=xsltText duplicate xslt
/news/?tag=ditadita
/news/?tag=docbookdocbook
/news/?tag=xqueryxquery
/news/?tag=xhtmlxhtml
/news/?tag=xmlmindxmlmind
/news/?tag=docxdocx
/news/?tag=htmlhtml
/news/?tag=epubepub
/news/2020-04-slack-workspace-...Subdomain Announcing the XML slack community
https://www.xml.com/feed/all/Subdomain Articles + news feed
http://eepurl.com/cDZrPXExternal Email notifications of new articles
/pub/a/archive/Subdomain 1998 - 2008 archives

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.xml.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.96 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 only loads 3 CSS files. That's ok.
This page only loads 3 JavaScript files. That's good!
The file size of the HTML document is fine (19 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSun, 01 Sep 2024 17:54:57 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
transfer-encodingchunked
connectionkeep-alive
varyAccept-Encoding
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-clacks-overheadGNU Terry Pratchett
content-encodinggzip
serverPythonAnywhere
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

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 6,161 referring domains.
This page has 1,091,414 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 4,264 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Search preview

www.xml.com
XML.com
High-quality information on XML, XSLT, XQuery, DITA, Schematron, related standards and technologies. How to use them to solve real-world problems.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
XML81%Check
Oxygen XML61%Check
XML Schemas61%Check
XSLT58%Check
News54%Check
Query54%Check
DITA50%Check
Schematron50%Check
XQuery50%Check
August47%Check

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