Skip to content
https://yoast.com

SEO

· 12 checks — Canonical, meta, content depth, internal links, image SEO, and hreflang rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
95
GRADE
A
FIX
0
REVIEW
1
PASS
10
INFO
1

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

Checks
12
10 PASS 1 REVIEW
B
Canonical URL
Minor issues
REVIEW
Minor issues
Info::
Canonical tag present
Got: https://yoast.com/
Info::
Canonical is self-referencing
Info::
Canonical matches final URL after redirects
Critical::
Canonical target returns 429
Search engines cannot follow this canonical, effectively orphaning this page.
Canonical URL Problem
Page URL https://yoast.com Canonical https://yoast.com/ Match Self-referencing (correct) Target 429

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: 26 chars
PASS
Title: 26 chars
Info::
Page title is set
Got: SEO for everyone • Yoast
Warning::
Title is only 26 characters — consider expanding
Info::
Meta description length (131 chars) is optimal
Info::
Title and H1 have very different wording
Alignment helps users confirm they've reached the right page.
Title

"SEO for everyone • Yoast"

26 characters Too short
Title: SEO for everyone • Yoast
H1: SEO starts with
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

A
Content Depth
1516 words, Difficult
PASS
1516 words, Difficult
Info::
Page has 1516 words — good depth for search engines
Info::
Text-to-HTML ratio is 4%
Very low ratio suggests heavy framework overhead or boilerplate.
Info::
Reading level: Difficult (grade 15)
1516 words

Good depth

Reading level

Very Easy
Easy
Fairly Easy
Standard
Fairly Difficult
Difficult
Very Difficult

Grade 15

Text-to-HTML Ratio

4% text 96% HTML

9 KB / 236 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
53 images, 52 descriptive filenames
PASS
53 images, 52 descriptive filenames
Info::
1 image(s) have hash/generic filenames
52 descriptive
0 hash-based
1 generic
53 total
FilenameQualityAltIssues
.generic1

See Accessibility tab for detailed alt text quality analysis.

A+
Hreflang URL Quality
No hreflang tags on the page
PASS
No hreflang tags on the page
Info::
No hreflang tags on the page
A+
Sitemap Freshness
Sitemap updated within 90 days (19/19 URLs have lastmod)
PASS
Sitemap updated within 90 days (19/19 URLs have lastmod)
Info::
Sitemap actively maintained — newest lastmod: today
Got: 2026-05-08T14:20:29Z
A+
Sitemap × Robots Consistency
No sitemap-vs-robots conflicts detected
PASS
No sitemap-vs-robots conflicts detected
Info::
Sitemap URLs are not blocked by robots.txt
A+
Sitemap Hygiene
Sitemap structure / size look healthy (19 URLs, 3 KB)
PASS
Sitemap structure / size look healthy (19 URLs, 3 KB)
Info::
Sitemap structure / size look healthy (19 URLs)
A+
Markup Quality
No HTML captured -- markup-quality check is N/A
PASS
No HTML captured -- markup-quality check is N/A
Info::
No HTML captured -- markup-quality check is N/A
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