https://caranddriver.com
SEO
· 7 checks — Canonical, meta, content depth, internal links, image SEO, and hreflang rolled into one auditable list.SCORE
95
GRADE
A
FIX
0
REVIEW
0
PASS
6
INFO
1
Cross-tab audit — SEO, performance, crawlability, mobile, structured data
Checks
76 PASS
A+Canonical URLProperly configuredPASS
Canonical URL
Properly configured
Properly configured
Info::
Canonical tag present
Got: https://www.caranddriver.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://caranddriver.com Canonical https://www.caranddriver.com/ Match Self-referencing (correct) Target 200 ✓
A+Meta TagsTitle optimizedPASS
Meta Tags
Title optimized
Title optimized
Info::
Page title is set
Got: Car and Driver: New Car Reviews, Buying Advice and News
Info::
Title length (55 chars) is optimal
Info::
Title and H1 have very different wording
Alignment helps users confirm they've reached the right page.
Title
"Car and Driver: New Car Reviews, Buying Advice and News"
55 characters Optimal ✓
Title: Car and Driver: New Car Reviews, Buying Advice and News
H1: Find Your Next Car.
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
AContent Depth1572 words, DifficultPASS
Content Depth
1572 words, Difficult
1572 words, Difficult
Info::
Page has 1572 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: Difficult (grade 16)
Good depth
Reading level
Very Easy
Easy
Fairly Easy
Standard
Fairly Difficult
Difficult
Very Difficult
Grade 16
Text-to-HTML Ratio
1% text 99% HTML
9 KB / 812 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+Internal Links149 internal, 50 externalPASS
Internal Links
149 internal, 50 external
149 internal, 50 external
Info::
149 internal links (75%)
Info::
100% of links use descriptive anchor text
Info::
149 internal / 50 external links
Link Distribution
75% internal (149) 25% external (50)
Anchor Text Quality
199 Descriptive
Most Linked Internal Pages
| # | URL | Links |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | |
| 2 | / | 4 |
| 3 | /new-cars/ | 3 |
| 4 | /cars-for-sale/ | 3 |
| 5 | /features/ | 2 |
| 6 | /reviews/a70984750/2026-volvo-xc90-b6-awd-ultra-reliability-maintenance/ | 2 |
| 7 | /?page=2 | 2 |
| 8 | /about/a15064611/contact-us/ | 2 |
| 9 | /car-value-estimator?origin=mainmenu | 2 |
| 10 | /reviews/a69660668/2026-acura-integra-a-spec-drive/ | 2 |
Top External Domains
| Domain | Links |
|---|---|
| www.caranddriver.com | 23 |
| www.hearst.com | 11 |
| www.facebook.com | 2 |
| www.instagram.com | 2 |
| www.youtube.com | 2 |
| www.tiktok.com | 2 |
| x.com | 2 |
| policies.google.com | 2 |
| store.caranddriver.com | 2 |
| www.hearstautos.com | 1 |
A+Image SEO123 images, 86 descriptive filenamesPASS
Image SEO
123 images, 86 descriptive filenames
123 images, 86 descriptive filenames
Info::
37 image(s) have hash/generic filenames
86 descriptive
35 hash-based
2 generic
123 total
| Filename | Quality | Alt | Issues |
|---|---|---|---|
| x.3361b6d.svg | generic | ✓ | 1 |
Current: x.3361b6d.svg Suggested: social.svg | |||
| 37701dbd-2acc-4fd4-a593-bb073dc3760e.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: 37701dbd-2acc-4fd4-a593-bb073dc3760e.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| 313b6a22-6c3f-4178-ac8d-76f8865d6adc.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: 313b6a22-6c3f-4178-ac8d-76f8865d6adc.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| 273f7bab-d962-4348-a05b-491ed80d7a93.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: 273f7bab-d962-4348-a05b-491ed80d7a93.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| 3a51a3ac-203c-4f12-9e5c-0d53ea0f460f.jpeg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: 3a51a3ac-203c-4f12-9e5c-0d53ea0f460f.jpeg Suggested: images.jpeg | |||
| 02b56e0f-9f19-4443-be82-e953aefdf7cf.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: 02b56e0f-9f19-4443-be82-e953aefdf7cf.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| 2f89d85c-2b02-4cdd-b231-f92197cd5b37.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: 2f89d85c-2b02-4cdd-b231-f92197cd5b37.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| bfba7cfd-a3d2-4bbc-afbb-bae614249ca8.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: bfba7cfd-a3d2-4bbc-afbb-bae614249ca8.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| fa6753de-9365-4591-95f5-b3112b5a5f94.jpeg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: fa6753de-9365-4591-95f5-b3112b5a5f94.jpeg Suggested: images.jpeg | |||
| 0a4aa676-bf6d-463f-96bb-74e6b46b8cb7.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: 0a4aa676-bf6d-463f-96bb-74e6b46b8cb7.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| abdbe2bc-7d5b-4b71-950f-ea4da21f6676.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: abdbe2bc-7d5b-4b71-950f-ea4da21f6676.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| 740d9319-bc19-43d0-a38f-3930cad0a6c2.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: 740d9319-bc19-43d0-a38f-3930cad0a6c2.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| 6590eedc-baca-4692-8658-eaec0b63916a.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: 6590eedc-baca-4692-8658-eaec0b63916a.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| f1e617d5-a52e-4a43-8670-134b9817281e.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: f1e617d5-a52e-4a43-8670-134b9817281e.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| 87cc2f2e-dc86-4a67-8853-0e4feda99d25.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: 87cc2f2e-dc86-4a67-8853-0e4feda99d25.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| 19b378c3-bfd6-4bf4-a5ad-7a13b853260e.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: 19b378c3-bfd6-4bf4-a5ad-7a13b853260e.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| 10d948e8-1cd0-4991-a856-54f13b3ba63a.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: 10d948e8-1cd0-4991-a856-54f13b3ba63a.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| 819ffe75-9015-450b-96e6-5a2b5e6b0e9b.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: 819ffe75-9015-450b-96e6-5a2b5e6b0e9b.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| f9773236-1ba1-4602-b191-d09726207391.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: f9773236-1ba1-4602-b191-d09726207391.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| cb9d37b7-2d62-4df8-ab5e-c70b97f03067.jpeg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: cb9d37b7-2d62-4df8-ab5e-c70b97f03067.jpeg Suggested: images.jpeg | |||
| 9ebc6b6e-1c17-45e4-8974-3e7433b1c42d.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: 9ebc6b6e-1c17-45e4-8974-3e7433b1c42d.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| dc9d95fe-a5c5-43b1-975f-1a0f02697ae6.png | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: dc9d95fe-a5c5-43b1-975f-1a0f02697ae6.png Suggested: images.png | |||
| 3ebf6962-a995-4fe5-b0b9-39862a456e19.jpeg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: 3ebf6962-a995-4fe5-b0b9-39862a456e19.jpeg Suggested: images.jpeg | |||
| 6b7f9417-3670-4a2c-b327-8238b0b381fa.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: 6b7f9417-3670-4a2c-b327-8238b0b381fa.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| 78c4f177-7e30-4ea3-b0b5-10b8f2e9f52c.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: 78c4f177-7e30-4ea3-b0b5-10b8f2e9f52c.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| 1e350114-d5c5-42e1-a679-6012f86f12e8.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: 1e350114-d5c5-42e1-a679-6012f86f12e8.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| e5def795-6228-438d-b1ac-ff6a66c18008.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: e5def795-6228-438d-b1ac-ff6a66c18008.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| 5213b1a6-3ab4-447a-9e85-b95410f2dbdc.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: 5213b1a6-3ab4-447a-9e85-b95410f2dbdc.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| f310d3e4-2fe7-4fe9-b12d-87253b7cebb6.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: f310d3e4-2fe7-4fe9-b12d-87253b7cebb6.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| 67a1c0b0-ef9d-4e59-af9d-0b0723a863de.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: 67a1c0b0-ef9d-4e59-af9d-0b0723a863de.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| 6e53d288-4b94-4f6e-8a59-878082eff20f.jpeg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: 6e53d288-4b94-4f6e-8a59-878082eff20f.jpeg Suggested: images.jpeg | |||
| 6ce9d94c-0d5f-41a3-a312-8c04eb062427.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: 6ce9d94c-0d5f-41a3-a312-8c04eb062427.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| e28a7013-3d26-4a31-b26b-939197b271f1.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: e28a7013-3d26-4a31-b26b-939197b271f1.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| 3cb7fc85-b6dc-4128-8a3c-9908b38b010d.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: 3cb7fc85-b6dc-4128-8a3c-9908b38b010d.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| e2622912-0b62-414a-b873-c1048d3a8918.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: e2622912-0b62-414a-b873-c1048d3a8918.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| da2ad3aa-75dd-4fe8-a435-5a6ebe218d35.jpg | hash | ✓ | 1 |
Current: da2ad3aa-75dd-4fe8-a435-5a6ebe218d35.jpg Suggested: images.jpg | |||
| x.3361b6d.svg | generic | ✓ | 1 |
Current: x.3361b6d.svg Suggested: social.svg | |||
See Accessibility tab for detailed alt text quality analysis.
A+Schema Markup Audit2 schema types detectedPASS
Schema Markup Audit
2 schema types detected
Detected schema types
[ItemList CollectionPage] json-ld 0/0 required
WebPage json-ld 0/0 required
Hreflang0 hreflang tagsINFO
Hreflang
0 hreflang tags
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.