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SEO

· 7 checks — Canonical, meta, content depth, internal links, image SEO, and hreflang rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
94
GRADE
A
FIX
0
REVIEW
0
PASS
6
INFO
1

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

Checks
7
6 PASS
A+
Canonical URL
Properly configured
PASS
Properly configured
Info::
Canonical tag present
Got: https://www.rawstory.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://rawstory.com Canonical https://www.rawstory.com/ Match Self-referencing (correct) Target 200 ✓
A+
Meta Tags
Title optimized
PASS
Title optimized
Info::
Page title is set
Got: Raw Story - Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Journalism
Info::
Title length (58 chars) is optimal
Info::
Title and H1 have very different wording
Alignment helps users confirm they've reached the right page.
Title

"Raw Story - Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Journalism"

58 characters Optimal ✓
Title: Raw Story - Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Journalism
H1: Kash Patel alarmed FBI by snooping on reporter who wrote about his girlfriend: report
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.

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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

A
Content Depth
1008 words, Very Difficult
PASS
1008 words, Very Difficult
Info::
Page has 1008 words — good depth for search engines
Info::
Text-to-HTML ratio is 1%
Very low ratio suggests heavy framework overhead or boilerplate.
Info::
Reading level: Very Difficult (grade 25)
1008 words

Good depth

Reading level

Very Easy
Easy
Fairly Easy
Standard
Fairly Difficult
Difficult
Very Difficult

Grade 25

Text-to-HTML Ratio

1% text 99% HTML

7 KB / 534 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
9 images, 6 descriptive filenames
PASS
9 images, 6 descriptive filenames
Info::
3 image(s) have hash/generic filenames
6 descriptive
0 hash-based
3 generic
9 total
FilenameQualityAltIssues
image.pnggeneric✓1
Current: image.png
Suggested: eyjhbgcioijiuzi1niisinr5cci6ikpxvcj9eyjpbwfnzsi6imh0dhbzoi8vyxnzzxrzlnjibc5tcy81mdu1ntu0ns9vcmlnaw4ucg5niiwizxhwaxjlc19hdci6mtgynjqwmtkwm30jeluqzt5qw9vtphkainkkkmanhgoinlpu1fjfevbw.png
.generic✓1
image.pnggeneric✓1
Current: image.png
Suggested: eyjhbgcioijiuzi1niisinr5cci6ikpxvcj9eyjpbwfnzsi6imh0dhbzoi8vyxnzzxrzlnjlymvsbw91c2uuaw8vzxlkagjhy2lpaupjvxpjmu5psxnjbli1y0njnklrcfhwq0o5lmv5snbiv0zuwlnjnkltadbksej6t2k4dllytnpawfj6tg5kawjdnxrjetgytvrjmu1qzzrpuzl2y21sbmfxnhvjrzvuswl3avpyahdhwepsyze5agrdstznvgd4tlrnee5erxppwdauzuu1amxhegl3ay1hzzlpehlwvzvhyuxwvehxewvwthpwcndptxfzqvlfrs9pbwcucg5niiwizxhwaxjlc19hdci6mtgxnji1mtyznn0cdbj-1j3fy3bbnzhfbbau5jzxou0ftxquioo8k1w-ks.png

See Accessibility tab for detailed alt text quality analysis.

A+
Schema Markup Audit
2 schema types detected
PASS

Rich result eligibility

Organization Eligible

Organization knowledge panel

WebSite Eligible

Sitelinks search box

Detected schema types

Organization json-ld → Organization knowledge panel
2/2 required · 2/4 recommended
Required fields (Google)
  • 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 — Add ContactPoint with telephone and contactType 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
2/2 required · 1/1 recommended
Required fields (Google)
  • name — Required for the sitelinks search box
  • url — Required to anchor the search box to your domain
Recommended fields
  • potentialAction — Enables the in-SERP search box
Google's spec for this type

Adding these recommended fields improves chances of getting Organization knowledge panel in search results.

Why this matters

Schema entity has required fields but could add recommended ones for richer SERP layouts (star ratings, prices, etc.).

Source: Google Search Central

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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