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SEO

· 14 checks — Canonical, meta, content depth, internal links, image SEO, and hreflang rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
96
GRADE
A
FIX
0
REVIEW
1
PASS
12
INFO
1

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

Checks
14
12 PASS 1 REVIEW
B
Sitemap Freshness
Sitemap updated within the last year
REVIEW
Sitemap updated within the last year
Info::
Newest sitemap lastmod is 3 months ago -- stale beyond 90 days
No URL in the sitemap has been updated in the last 90 days. The sitemap is technically valid but signals to crawlers that the site isn't actively changing.
A+
Canonical URL
Properly configured
PASS
Properly configured
Info::
Canonical tag present
Got: https://duckduckgo.com/
Info::
Canonical is self-referencing
Info::
Canonical matches final URL after redirects
Info::
Canonical target returns 200
Canonical URL Configured
Page URL https://duckduckgo.com Canonical https://duckduckgo.com/ Match Self-referencing (correct) Target 200 ✓
A+
Meta Tags
Title optimized
PASS
Title optimized
Info::
Page title is set
Got: DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.
Info::
Title length (48 chars) is optimal
Info::
Meta description length (133 chars) is optimal
Info::
Title and H1 are well-aligned
Title

"DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind."

48 characters Optimal ✓
Title: DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.
H1: DuckDuckGo
Match: Very different
Robots: Indexable (no restrictions)
A+
Title Style Depth
Title style is clean -- consistent separator, no stale year, no keyword stuffing
PASS
Title style is clean -- consistent separator, no stale year, no keyword stuffing
Info::
Title style is clean
A
Content Depth
2232 words, Fairly Difficult
PASS
2232 words, Fairly Difficult
Info::
Page has 2232 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: Fairly Difficult (grade 10)
2232 words

Good depth

Reading level

Very Easy
Easy
Fairly Easy
Standard
Fairly Difficult
Difficult
Very Difficult

Grade 10

Text-to-HTML Ratio

3% text 97% HTML

14 KB / 402 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
67 images, 67 descriptive filenames
PASS
67 images, 67 descriptive filenames
Info::
All images have descriptive filenames
67 descriptive
0 hash-based
0 generic
67 total
All images have descriptive filenames and proper SEO attributes.

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+
Hreflang Completeness
No hreflang tags on this page -- check is N/A (single-language site or unannotated)
PASS
No hreflang tags on this page -- check is N/A (single-language site or unannotated)
Info::
No hreflang tags found -- completeness check is N/A
A+
Sitemap × Robots Consistency
No sitemap-vs-robots conflicts in the URL sample
PASS
No sitemap-vs-robots conflicts in the URL sample
Info::
All 5 sampled sitemap URLs are crawlable per robots.txt
A+
Sitemap Hygiene
Sitemap structure / size look healthy (26 URLs, 5 KB)
PASS
Sitemap structure / size look healthy (26 URLs, 5 KB)
Info::
Sitemap structure / size look healthy (26 URLs)
A+
Markup Quality
No markup-quality issues detected
PASS
No markup-quality issues detected
Info::
No markup-quality issues detected
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.

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