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· 7 checks — Canonical, meta, content depth, internal links, image SEO, and hreflang rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
92
GRADE
A
FIX
1
REVIEW
0
PASS
5
INFO
1

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

Checks
7
5 PASS 1 FIX
D
Schema Markup Audit
Action
2 schema types detected
FIX

Rich result eligibility

Organization Not eligible

Organization knowledge panel

Missing: name

WebSite Not eligible

Sitelinks search box

Missing: name

Detected schema types

Organization json-ld → Organization knowledge panel
1/2 required · 3/4 recommended
Required fields (Google)
  • name — Add the organization name Required for the knowledge panel
  • url — Required for entity matching
Recommended fields
  • logo — Strongly recommended — appears in the knowledge panel header
  • sameAs — Connects the entity across the web
  • contactPoint — Enables direct contact from the knowledge panel
  • description — Add an organization description Used as the panel summary
Google's spec for this type
WebSite json-ld → Sitelinks search box
1/2 required · 0/1 recommended
Required fields (Google)
  • name — Add the site name Required for the sitelinks search box
  • url — Required to anchor the search box to your domain
Recommended fields
  • potentialAction — Add a SearchAction with target and query-input Enables the in-SERP search box
Google's spec for this type

Missing schema opportunities

  • easy

    Article

    Page reads as an article (long body + headline) — add Article schema

    Eligible for top-stories carousel and Discover

  • easy

    FAQPage

    Page has Q&A-style content (questions in headings) that could be marked up as FAQPage

    FAQ rich results take 2-3× more SERP real estate

Your Organization structured data is missing required fields for Google's Organization knowledge panel. Without these, the page won't qualify for rich results.

Why this matters

Schema entity missing required properties — Google's rich-result eligibility check fails; the schema is in source but never renders enhanced.

Source: Google Search Central

Your WebSite structured data is missing required fields for Google's Sitelinks search box. Without these, the page won't qualify for rich results.

Why this matters

Schema entity missing required properties — Google's rich-result eligibility check fails; the schema is in source but never renders enhanced.

Source: Google Search Central

A+
Canonical URL
Properly configured
PASS
Properly configured
Info::
Canonical tag present
Got: https://www.bostonglobe.com
Info::
Canonical is self-referencing
Info::
Canonical matches final URL after redirects
Info::
Canonical target returns 200
Info::
Canonical points to a different domain
Canonical URL Configured
Page URL https://bostonglobe.com Canonical https://www.bostonglobe.com Match Self-referencing (correct) Target 200 ✓
A
Meta Tags
Title: 11 chars
PASS
Title: 11 chars
Info::
Page title is set
Got: Filter Icon
Warning::
Title is only 11 characters — consider expanding
Title

"Filter Icon"

11 characters Too short
Robots: Indexable (no restrictions)
A
Content Depth
5055 words, Difficult
PASS
5055 words, Difficult
Info::
Page has 5055 words — good depth for search engines
Info::
Text-to-HTML ratio is 2%
Very low ratio suggests heavy framework overhead or boilerplate.
Info::
Reading level: Difficult (grade 13)
5055 words

Good depth

Reading level

Very Easy
Easy
Fairly Easy
Standard
Fairly Difficult
Difficult
Very Difficult

Grade 13

Text-to-HTML Ratio

2% text 98% HTML

31 KB / 1983 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.

A+
Image SEO
70 images, 70 descriptive filenames
PASS
70 images, 70 descriptive filenames
Info::
All images have descriptive filenames
Info::
1 image(s) missing alt text — see Accessibility tab
70 descriptive
0 hash-based
0 generic
70 total
FilenameQualityAltIssues
Boston-Globe-Logo-Digital-Black+%281%29.pngdescriptive✗1

See Accessibility tab for detailed alt text quality analysis.

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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