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SEO

· 7 checks — Canonical, meta, content depth, internal links, image SEO, and hreflang rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
88
GRADE
B
FIX
0
REVIEW
1
PASS
5
INFO
1

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

Checks
7
5 PASS 1 REVIEW
A+
Canonical URL
Properly configured
PASS
Properly configured
Info::
Canonical tag present
Got: https://www.wral.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://wral.com Canonical https://www.wral.com/ Match Self-referencing (correct) Target 200 ✓
A+
Meta Tags
Title optimized
PASS
Title optimized
Info::
Page title is set
Got: WRAL | News and Weather in Raleigh NC
Info::
Title length (37 chars) is optimal
Info::
Title and H1 are well-aligned
Title

"WRAL | News and Weather in Raleigh NC"

37 characters Optimal ✓
Title: WRAL | News and Weather in Raleigh NC
H1: WRAL News – Raleigh, NC Breaking News and Weather
Match: Similar ✓
Robots: Indexable (no restrictions)
A
Content Depth
2692 words, Difficult
PASS
2692 words, Difficult
Info::
Page has 2692 words — good depth for search engines
Info::
Text-to-HTML ratio is 3%
Very low ratio suggests heavy framework overhead or boilerplate.
Info::
Reading level: Difficult (grade 14)
2692 words

Good depth

Reading level

Very Easy
Easy
Fairly Easy
Standard
Fairly Difficult
Difficult
Very Difficult

Grade 14

Text-to-HTML Ratio

3% text 97% HTML

17 KB / 537 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
66 images, 49 descriptive filenames
PASS
66 images, 49 descriptive filenames
Info::
17 image(s) have hash/generic filenames
Info::
2 image(s) missing alt text — see Accessibility tab
49 descriptive
17 hash-based
0 generic
66 total
FilenameQualityAltIssues
2b7281f1-cb94-49e2-b0e1-a77085f0e36dhash1
190574ab-042c-436c-8441-b2a8690fa2b8hash1
a50f8489-7285-48b7-ac54-031afa8c76d7hash1
4fecc698-3442-4fc9-a168-e5fadd581cdahash1
55f933c8-db3e-4d42-9afa-efca071aafe4hash1
026710bb-1948-41ef-9577-9a9dd34c557ahash1
d8698aa9-f52f-4818-bff6-e5a3cef1c182hash1
45c04f19-ae22-4b06-a62b-cb7c6c10197bhash1
ee0a760d-4e84-59b3-bd6a-1dd5d61ce5efhash1
026710bb-1948-41ef-9577-9a9dd34c557ahash1
2ea8bec0-55c2-4231-aedd-f712882c9730hash1
023e4076-82f2-420a-be1f-1fd2cdc5b7adhash1
7c97909b-81f9-474e-88f1-096746994d38hash1
e00eb7aa-a7f1-4033-a4fe-26fafbc6ba39hash1
7c00a954-6897-501b-bfff-535073686b0fhash1
Chartdescriptive1
cc237a4d-e5f9-59f7-82d7-1163d0a27ef8hash1
c02b654a-a605-558a-8dd1-0a8cada082cchash1
insights.gifdescriptive1

See Accessibility tab for detailed alt text quality analysis.

A+
Schema Markup Audit
2 schema types detected
PASS

Rich result eligibility

WebSite Eligible

Sitelinks search box

Detected schema types

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
NewsMediaOrganization json-ld
0/0 required

Missing schema opportunities

  • easy

    Article

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

    Eligible for top-stories carousel and Discover

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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