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SEO

· 7 checks — Canonical, meta, content depth, internal links, image SEO, and hreflang rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
80
GRADE
B
FIX
1
REVIEW
1
PASS
4
INFO
1

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

Checks
7
4 PASS 1 REVIEW 1 FIX
F
Content Depth
Action
222 words, Difficult
FIX
222 words, Difficult
Warning::
Page has 222 words — thin content
Most well-ranking pages have 300+ words of substantive content.
Info::
Text-to-HTML ratio is 2%
Very low ratio suggests heavy framework overhead or boilerplate.
Info::
Reading level: Difficult (grade 17)
Warning::
Thin content — only 222 words
Got: 222 words
222 words

Thin content

Reading level

Very Easy
Easy
Fairly Easy
Standard
Fairly Difficult
Difficult
Very Difficult

Grade 17

Text-to-HTML Ratio

2% text 98% HTML

1 KB / 70 KB

Most well-ranking pages have 300+ words of substantive content.

Why this matters

Thin content (<300 words) rarely ranks — Google quality guidelines explicitly call out thin pages.

Source: Google Search Quality Guidelines

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.

B
Canonical URL
Minor issues
REVIEW
Minor issues
Info::
Canonical tag present
Got: https://www.channel4.com
Info::
Canonical is self-referencing
Info::
Canonical matches final URL after redirects
Critical::
Canonical target returns 403
Search engines cannot follow this canonical, effectively orphaning this page.
Info::
Canonical points to a different domain
Canonical URL Problem
Page URL https://channel4.com Canonical https://www.channel4.com Match Self-referencing (correct) Target 403

Search engines cannot follow this canonical, effectively orphaning this page.

Why this matters

Canonical URL returns a non-200 status — Google can't follow the canonical to confirm the relationship.

Source: Google Search Central

A+
Meta Tags
Title optimized
PASS
Title optimized
Info::
Page title is set
Got: Channel 4 | Stream & Watch Live TV
Info::
Title length (34 chars) is optimal
Info::
Title and H1 are well-aligned
Title

"Channel 4 | Stream & Watch Live TV"

34 characters Optimal ✓
Title: Channel 4 | Stream & Watch Live TV
H1: Channel 4
Match: Very different
Robots: Indexable (no restrictions)
A+
Image SEO
12 images, 6 descriptive filenames
PASS
12 images, 6 descriptive filenames
Info::
6 image(s) have hash/generic filenames
6 descriptive
6 hash-based
0 generic
12 total
FilenameQualityAltIssues
23964E91-3A84-4804-b622-fbdf954b19f1.jpghash✓1
Current: 23964E91-3A84-4804-b622-fbdf954b19f1.jpg
Suggested: 159381.jpg
44CD9E43-00D4-4308-92c0-12b162690b7f.pnghash✓1
Current: 44CD9E43-00D4-4308-92c0-12b162690b7f.png
Suggested: 159381.png
B577486A-7450-47e3-b61e-8e847d65aeeb.jpghash✓1
Current: B577486A-7450-47e3-b61e-8e847d65aeeb.jpg
Suggested: collections.jpg
C410205C-42E1-41fd-bb48-74b58861bb33.jpghash✓1
Current: C410205C-42E1-41fd-bb48-74b58861bb33.jpg
Suggested: collections.jpg
1A0581A2-35BB-47ef-80da-f28eae25d0e9.jpghash✓1
Current: 1A0581A2-35BB-47ef-80da-f28eae25d0e9.jpg
Suggested: collections.jpg
08580D8B-3BCE-4eb2-ab99-15b41b831b7d.jpghash✓1
Current: 08580D8B-3BCE-4eb2-ab99-15b41b831b7d.jpg
Suggested: collections.jpg

See Accessibility tab for detailed alt text quality analysis.

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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