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SEO

· 7 checks — Canonical, meta, content depth, internal links, image SEO, and hreflang rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
91
GRADE
A
FIX
0
REVIEW
2
PASS
4
INFO
1

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

Checks
7
4 PASS 2 REVIEW
B
Canonical URL
Minor issues
REVIEW
Minor issues
Warning::
No canonical tag found
Search engines will determine the canonical URL themselves, which may cause duplicate content issues.
No Canonical URL Set
Page URL https://lichess.org Canonical (not set)

Search engines will determine the canonical URL themselves, which may cause duplicate content issues.

Why this matters

Without a canonical, Google may treat each URL variant (with/without slash, with tracking params, http/https) as duplicate content and split ranking.

Learn more ▾

A canonical link tells Google which URL is the 'real' one when multiple URLs serve identical content. Without it, link equity gets split across variants and none of them rank as well as a single canonical version would. One <link rel="canonical"> tag in <head> covers it.

Source: Google Search Central

B
Content Depth
812 words, Difficult
REVIEW
812 words, Difficult
Info::
Page has 812 words of content
Info::
Reading level: Difficult (grade 13)
812 words

Good depth

Reading level

Very Easy
Easy
Fairly Easy
Standard
Fairly Difficult
Difficult
Very Difficult

Grade 13

Text-to-HTML Ratio

9% text 91% HTML

5 KB / 51 KB

A+
Meta Tags
Title optimized
PASS
Title optimized
Info::
Page title is set
Got: lichess.org • Free Online Chess
Info::
Title length (33 chars) is optimal
Title

"lichess.org • Free Online Chess"

33 characters Optimal ✓
Robots: Indexable (no restrictions)
A+
Image SEO
23 images, 23 descriptive filenames
PASS
23 images, 23 descriptive filenames
Info::
All images have descriptive filenames
Info::
10 image(s) missing alt text — see Accessibility tab
23 descriptive
0 hash-based
0 generic
23 total
FilenameQualityAltIssues
displaydescriptive✗1
displaydescriptive✗1
displaydescriptive✗1
displaydescriptive✗1
displaydescriptive✗1
displaydescriptive✗1
displaydescriptive✗1
displaydescriptive✗1
displaydescriptive✗1
displaydescriptive✗1

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.

Missing schema opportunities

  • moderate

    Event

    Page mentions an event (time element or event markup) that could be marked up as Event

    Events appear in dedicated event search and Google Events

  • moderate

    VideoObject

    Page embeds video content that could be marked up as VideoObject

    Videos appear in the video carousel and have a thumbnail badge

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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