howstuffworks.com

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
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.

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
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

garden      how      newsletter      search      howstuffworks      world      mobile      jan      chat      deserts     

Keywords Consistency

Keyword Content Title Keywords Description Headings
how 10
newsletter 10
mobile 9
jan 8
howstuffworks 6

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

Excellent, your website doesn't use nested tables.
Not great, your website is using inline styles. This is not optimal.
Great, your website has few CSS files.
Perfect, your website has few JavaScript files.
Awesome, your website takes advantage of GZIP compression for SEO optimization.

Mobile

Mobile Optimization

Apple Icon
Meta Viewport Tag
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


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