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SEO

· 7 checks — Canonical, meta, content depth, internal links, image SEO, and hreflang rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
82
GRADE
B
FIX
0
REVIEW
3
PASS
3
INFO
1

Cross-tab audit — SEO, performance, crawlability, mobile, structured data

Checks
7
3 PASS 3 REVIEW
B
Canonical URL
Minor issues
REVIEW
Minor issues
Warning::
No canonical tag found
Search engines will determine the canonical URL themselves, which may cause duplicate content issues.
No Canonical URL Set
Page URL https://news.ycombinator.com Canonical (not set)

Search engines will determine the canonical URL themselves, which may cause duplicate content issues.

Why this matters

Without a canonical, Google may treat each URL variant (with/without slash, with tracking params, http/https) as duplicate content and split ranking.

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A canonical link tells Google which URL is the 'real' one when multiple URLs serve identical content. Without it, link equity gets split across variants and none of them rank as well as a single canonical version would. One <link rel="canonical"> tag in <head> covers it.

Source: Google Search Central

B
Content Depth
752 words, Fairly Easy
REVIEW
752 words, Fairly Easy
Info::
Page has 752 words of content
Info::
Reading level: Fairly Easy (grade 6)
752 words

Good depth

Reading level

Very Easy
Easy
Fairly Easy
Standard
Fairly Difficult
Difficult
Very Difficult

Grade 6

Text-to-HTML Ratio

11% text 89% HTML

4 KB / 34 KB

B
Image SEO
2 images, 0 descriptive filenames
REVIEW
2 images, 0 descriptive filenames
Warning::
100% of images have non-descriptive filenames
Search engines use filenames as a signal. Rename to descriptive names like 'team-photo.jpg'.
Info::
2 image(s) missing alt text — see Accessibility tab
0 descriptive
0 hash-based
2 generic
2 total
FilenameQualityAltIssues
y18.svggeneric✗2
s.gifgeneric✗2

See Accessibility tab for detailed alt text quality analysis.

Search engines use filenames as a signal. Rename to descriptive names like 'team-photo.jpg'.

Why this matters

Most image filenames are non-descriptive (hash/IMG_X) — small SEO miss for Image Search ranking.

Source: Google Image SEO

A
Meta Tags
Title: 11 chars
PASS
Title: 11 chars
Info::
Page title is set
Got: Hacker News
Warning::
Title is only 11 characters — consider expanding
Title

"Hacker News"

11 characters Too short
Robots: Indexable (no restrictions)
A+
Schema Markup Audit
Per-type completeness vs Schema.org requirements + rich-result eligibility
PASS

No structured data detected

Without JSON-LD or microdata, this page can't qualify for any of Google's rich result formats. Even basic Organization or WebSite schema is a quick win.

Hreflang
0 hreflang tags
INFO
0 hreflang tags

No hreflang tags detected.

Hreflang tags are only needed for multilingual or multi-regional sites.

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