https://dev.to
SEO
· 7 checks — Canonical, meta, content depth, internal links, image SEO, and hreflang rolled into one auditable list.SCORE
90
GRADE
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Cross-tab audit — SEO, performance, crawlability, mobile, structured data
Checks
76 PASS
A+Canonical URLProperly configuredPASS
Canonical URL
Properly configured
Properly configured
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Canonical tag present
Got: https://dev.to/
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Canonical is self-referencing
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Canonical matches final URL after redirects
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Canonical target returns 200
Canonical URL Configured
Page URL https://dev.to Canonical https://dev.to/ Match Self-referencing (correct) Target 200 ✓
AMeta TagsTitle: 13 charsPASS
Meta Tags
Title: 13 chars
Title: 13 chars
Info::
Page title is set
Got: Dropdown menu
Warning::
Title is only 13 characters — consider expanding
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Title and H1 have very different wording
Alignment helps users confirm they've reached the right page.
Title
"Dropdown menu"
13 characters Too short
Title: Dropdown menu
H1: Posts
Match: Very different
Robots: Indexable (no restrictions)
Alignment helps users confirm they've reached the right page.
Why this matters
Title and H1 disagree significantly — Google may treat one as the canonical topic and the other as off-topic, weakening ranking.
Learn more ▾ ▴
Title is the SERP headline; H1 is the on-page headline. They should describe the same page. Large divergence (different topics, different keywords) signals confusion and Google may rewrite the title in SERP. Align both to the same primary topic.
Source: Google Search Central / on-page SEO
AContent Depth1587 words, DifficultPASS
Content Depth
1587 words, Difficult
1587 words, Difficult
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Page has 1587 words — good depth for search engines
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Text-to-HTML ratio is 3%
Very low ratio suggests heavy framework overhead or boilerplate.
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Reading level: Difficult (grade 16)
Good depth
Reading level
Very Easy
Easy
Fairly Easy
Standard
Fairly Difficult
Difficult
Very Difficult
Grade 16
Text-to-HTML Ratio
3% text 97% HTML
9 KB / 274 KB
Very low ratio suggests heavy framework overhead or boilerplate.
Why this matters
Informational: ratio of visible text bytes to total HTML bytes. Very low ratios suggest excessive markup overhead.
AInternal Links354 internal, 20 externalPASS
Internal Links
354 internal, 20 external
354 internal, 20 external
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354 internal links (95%)
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99% of links use descriptive anchor text
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Page has 374 links — consider reducing
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354 internal / 20 external links
Warning::
2 internal links have no anchor text
Got: 2 links
Link Distribution
95% internal (354) 5% external (20)
Anchor Text Quality
371 Descriptive 3 Empty
Most Linked Internal Pages
| # | URL | Links |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | /t/ai | 9 |
| 2 | https://dev.to/devteam/top-7-featured-dev-posts-of-the-week-4idc | 7 |
| 3 | /t/opensource | 6 |
| 4 | / | 6 |
| 5 | /++ | 5 |
| 6 | https://dev.to/copilotkit/google-maps-for-codebases-paste-a-github-url-ask-anything-3hk8 | 5 |
| 7 | https://dev.to/phalkmin/move-over-vibe-coding-i-built-an-ai-editor-for-stress-coding-4243 | 5 |
| 8 | /t/showdev | 4 |
| 9 | https://dev.to/rain9/tired-of-boring-ai-assistants-i-built-a-desktop-pet-copilot-that-wanders-around-your-screen-and-52pg | 4 |
| 10 | https://dev.to/piyush6348/master-class-understanding-database-replication-single-multi-and-leaderless-hhm | 4 |
Top External Domains
| Domain | Links |
|---|---|
| www.algolia.com | 3 |
| shop.forem.com | 2 |
| mlh.io | 2 |
| www.forem.com | 2 |
| neon.tech | 2 |
| aistudio.google.com | 2 |
| x.com | 1 |
| github.com | 1 |
| instagram.com | 1 |
| twitch.com | 1 |
A+Image SEO93 images, 93 descriptive filenamesPASS
Image SEO
93 images, 93 descriptive filenames
93 images, 93 descriptive filenames
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All images have descriptive filenames
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34 image(s) missing alt text — see Accessibility tab
93 descriptive
0 hash-based
0 generic
93 total
| Filename | Quality | Alt | Issues |
|---|---|---|---|
| raised-hands-74b2099fd66a39f2d7eed9305ee0f4553df0eb7b4f11b01b6b1b499973048fe5.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| exploding-head-daceb38d627e6ae9b730f36a1e390fca556a4289d5a41abb2c35068ad3e2c4b5.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| sparkle-heart-5f9bee3767e18deb1bb725290cb151c25234768a0e9a2bd39370c382d02920cf.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| fire-f60e7a582391810302117f987b22a8ef04a2fe0df7e3258a5f49332df1cec71e.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| raised-hands-74b2099fd66a39f2d7eed9305ee0f4553df0eb7b4f11b01b6b1b499973048fe5.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| sparkle-heart-5f9bee3767e18deb1bb725290cb151c25234768a0e9a2bd39370c382d02920cf.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| multi-unicorn-b44d6f8c23cdd00964192bedc38af3e82463978aa611b4365bd33a0f1f4f3e97.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| raised-hands-74b2099fd66a39f2d7eed9305ee0f4553df0eb7b4f11b01b6b1b499973048fe5.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| sparkle-heart-5f9bee3767e18deb1bb725290cb151c25234768a0e9a2bd39370c382d02920cf.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| exploding-head-daceb38d627e6ae9b730f36a1e390fca556a4289d5a41abb2c35068ad3e2c4b5.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| multi-unicorn-b44d6f8c23cdd00964192bedc38af3e82463978aa611b4365bd33a0f1f4f3e97.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| sparkle-heart-5f9bee3767e18deb1bb725290cb151c25234768a0e9a2bd39370c382d02920cf.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| multi-unicorn-b44d6f8c23cdd00964192bedc38af3e82463978aa611b4365bd33a0f1f4f3e97.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| raised-hands-74b2099fd66a39f2d7eed9305ee0f4553df0eb7b4f11b01b6b1b499973048fe5.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| sparkle-heart-5f9bee3767e18deb1bb725290cb151c25234768a0e9a2bd39370c382d02920cf.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| sparkle-heart-5f9bee3767e18deb1bb725290cb151c25234768a0e9a2bd39370c382d02920cf.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| sparkle-heart-5f9bee3767e18deb1bb725290cb151c25234768a0e9a2bd39370c382d02920cf.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| sparkle-heart-5f9bee3767e18deb1bb725290cb151c25234768a0e9a2bd39370c382d02920cf.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| raised-hands-74b2099fd66a39f2d7eed9305ee0f4553df0eb7b4f11b01b6b1b499973048fe5.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| exploding-head-daceb38d627e6ae9b730f36a1e390fca556a4289d5a41abb2c35068ad3e2c4b5.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| sparkle-heart-5f9bee3767e18deb1bb725290cb151c25234768a0e9a2bd39370c382d02920cf.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| exploding-head-daceb38d627e6ae9b730f36a1e390fca556a4289d5a41abb2c35068ad3e2c4b5.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| multi-unicorn-b44d6f8c23cdd00964192bedc38af3e82463978aa611b4365bd33a0f1f4f3e97.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| sparkle-heart-5f9bee3767e18deb1bb725290cb151c25234768a0e9a2bd39370c382d02920cf.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| sparkle-heart-5f9bee3767e18deb1bb725290cb151c25234768a0e9a2bd39370c382d02920cf.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| multi-unicorn-b44d6f8c23cdd00964192bedc38af3e82463978aa611b4365bd33a0f1f4f3e97.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| sparkle-heart-5f9bee3767e18deb1bb725290cb151c25234768a0e9a2bd39370c382d02920cf.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fi4t3ch1ql6fivzf981w8.png | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Frdm71t7pdpmtsc87ketf.png | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| sparkle-heart-5f9bee3767e18deb1bb725290cb151c25234768a0e9a2bd39370c382d02920cf.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| multi-unicorn-b44d6f8c23cdd00964192bedc38af3e82463978aa611b4365bd33a0f1f4f3e97.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| exploding-head-daceb38d627e6ae9b730f36a1e390fca556a4289d5a41abb2c35068ad3e2c4b5.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| raised-hands-74b2099fd66a39f2d7eed9305ee0f4553df0eb7b4f11b01b6b1b499973048fe5.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
| fire-f60e7a582391810302117f987b22a8ef04a2fe0df7e3258a5f49332df1cec71e.svg | descriptive | ✗ | 1 |
See Accessibility tab for detailed alt text quality analysis.
A+Schema Markup AuditPer-type completeness vs Schema.org requirements + rich-result eligibilityPASS
Schema Markup Audit
Per-type completeness vs Schema.org requirements + rich-result eligibility
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.
Missing schema opportunities
- easy
Article
Page reads as an article (long body + headline) — add Article schema
Eligible for top-stories carousel and Discover
- moderate
Event
Page mentions an event (time element or event markup) that could be marked up as Event
Events appear in dedicated event search and Google Events
Hreflang0 hreflang tagsINFO
Hreflang
0 hreflang tags
0 hreflang tags
No hreflang tags detected.
Hreflang tags are only needed for multilingual or multi-regional sites.
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