Website Review: howstuffworks.com
Generated on February 01 2024 22:38 PM
Old data? UPDATE !
The score is 55/100
SEO Content
Title
HowStuffWorks - Learn How Everything Works!
Length : 43
Great, your title tag's length is between 40 and 70 characters. Title tag length between 50 and 70 characters is optimal for SEO.
Description
HowStuffWorks has been explaining how things work to curious minds since 1998. Providing factual, unbiased content that's fun to read and makes difficult topics easy to understand.
Length : 180
Your meta description tag's length should be between 90 and 160 characters (spaces included). A description tag of 155 to 160 characters is optimal. Use this free tool to calculate text length.
Keywords
Not good (but low priority). We haven't found a meta keywords tag on your page. Use this free online meta tags generator to create a keywords tag.
Og Meta Properties
Good, your page takes advantage of Open Graph Properties. Open Graph properties can help with indexing.
| Property | Content |
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| title | HowStuffWorks - Learn How Everything Works! |
| url | https://www.howstuffworks.com/ |
| site_name | HowStuffWorks |
| description | HowStuffWorks has been explaining how things work to curious minds since 1998. Providing factual, unbiased content that's fun to read and makes difficult topics easy to understand. |
| image | https://cdn.hswstatic.com/gif/hsw-logo-120x90.jpg |
| image:width | 120 |
| image:height | 90 |
| type | website |
Headings
| H1 | H2 | H3 | H4 | H5 | H6 |
| 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
- [H2] Our Top Reads
- [H2] In the News
- [H2] Did You Hear?
- [H3] Try Our Crosswords, Riddles and Puzzles!
- [H3] Editor's Picks
- [H4] Science
- [H4] Culture
- [H4] Animals
- [H4] Auto
- [H4] A River Runs Through It
- [H4] Get Your Garden On
- [H4] Deserts of the World
Images
We found 85 images on this web page.
7 image alt attributes were missing. Please add alt text to all images to help search engines better understand the content of your images.
Text/HTML Ratio
Ratio : 7%
This page's ratio of text to HTML code is below 20 percent, this means that your website probably needs more text content in order to do well in search engines. Note: This may also result from a false reading due to your server blocking external scripts from accessing the home page.
Flash
Perfect, no Flash content has been detected on this page.
Iframe
Not ideal - You have Iframes on the web page, this mean that content in an Iframe cannot be indexed.
SEO Links
URL Rewrite
Good. Your links look SEO friendly and are easy to crawl!
Underscores in the URLs
Great! No underscores found in your URLs.
In-page links
We found a total of 13 links including 0 link(s) to files
| Anchor | Type | Juice |
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| Science | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Tech | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Home & Garden | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Auto | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Culture | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Health | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Money | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Animals | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Lifestyle | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Entertainment | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Quizzes | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Coupons | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Sign up for our Newsletter! | Internal | Passing Juice |
SEO Keywords
Keywords Cloud
Keywords Consistency
| Keyword | Content | Title | Keywords | Description | Headings |
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| how | 10 |  |
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| mobile | 9 | |
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| jan | 8 | |
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| howstuffworks | 6 | |
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Usability
Url
Domain : howstuffworks.com
Length : 17
Favicon
Great, your website has a favicon.
Printability
We could not find a Print-Friendly CSS.
Language
Good. Your declared language is en.
Dublin Core
This page does not take advantage of Dublin Core.
Document
Doctype
HTML 5
Encoding
Great. Your declared charset is UTF-8.
W3C Validity
Errors : 274
Warnings : 89
Email Privacy
Warning! At least one email address has been found in plain text. Consider using an image or a form to hide email from spammers.
Deprecated HTML
Great! We haven't found deprecated HTML tags in your HTML.
Speed Tips
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Excellent, your website doesn't use nested tables. |
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Not great, your website is using inline styles. This is not optimal. |
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Great, your website has few CSS files. |
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Perfect, your website has few JavaScript files. |
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Awesome, your website takes advantage of GZIP compression for SEO optimization. |
Mobile
Mobile Optimization
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Apple Icon |
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Meta Viewport Tag |
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Flash content |
Optimization
XML Sitemap
Great, your website has an XML sitemap.
| https://www.howstuffworks.com/www-sitemap-index.xml |
Robots.txt
http://howstuffworks.com/robots.txt
Great, your website has a robots.txt file.
Analytics
Great, your website uses an analytics script.
Google Analytics |
PageSpeed Insights
Device
Categories
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