Skip to content
https://etymonline.com

SEO

· 7 checks — Canonical, meta, content depth, internal links, image SEO, and hreflang rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
82
GRADE
B
FIX
1
REVIEW
0
PASS
5
INFO
1

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

Checks
7
5 PASS 1 FIX
F
Content Depth
Action
200 words, Difficult
FIX
200 words, Difficult
Warning::
Page has 200 words — thin content
Most well-ranking pages have 300+ words of substantive content.
Info::
Text-to-HTML ratio is 1%
Very low ratio suggests heavy framework overhead or boilerplate.
Info::
Reading level: Difficult (grade 12)
Warning::
Thin content — only 200 words
Got: 200 words
200 words

Thin content

Reading level

Very Easy
Easy
Fairly Easy
Standard
Fairly Difficult
Difficult
Very Difficult

Grade 12

Text-to-HTML Ratio

1% text 99% HTML

1 KB / 125 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.

A+
Canonical URL
Properly configured
PASS
Properly configured
Info::
Canonical tag present
Got: https://www.etymonline.com
Info::
Canonical is self-referencing
Info::
Canonical matches final URL after redirects
Info::
Canonical target reachable (self-referencing)
Info::
Canonical points to a different domain
Canonical URL Problem
Page URL https://etymonline.com Canonical https://www.etymonline.com Match Self-referencing (correct)
A
Meta Tags
Title: 27 chars
PASS
Title: 27 chars
Info::
Page title is set
Got: Online Etymology Dictionary
Warning::
Title is only 27 characters — consider expanding
Info::
Title and H1 are identical
Consider differentiating — the title is for search results, the H1 is for the page.
Title

"Online Etymology Dictionary"

27 characters Too short
Title: Online Etymology Dictionary
H1: Online Etymology Dictionary
Match: Similar ✓
Robots: Indexable (no restrictions)

Consider differentiating — the title is for search results, the H1 is for the page.

Why this matters

Title and H1 match exactly — internally consistent but misses an opportunity to optimize each for its audience (Title for SERP CTR, H1 for on-page).

Learn more ▾

Title and H1 don't have to be identical — and often shouldn't be. The Title competes for SERP click-through (lead with keyword + value prop), while the H1 confirms to the visitor they're on the right page (more conversational is fine). Differentiating gains both surfaces.

Source: Google Search Central / on-page SEO

A+
Image SEO
4 images, 4 descriptive filenames
PASS
4 images, 4 descriptive filenames
Info::
All images have descriptive filenames
4 descriptive
0 hash-based
0 generic
4 total
All images have descriptive filenames and proper SEO attributes.

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.

All checks on this page are automated. Results are estimates - run targeted manual reviews when the score affects a release decision.

Send Feedback