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SEO

· 7 checks — Canonical, meta, content depth, internal links, image SEO, and hreflang rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
89
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
C
Content Depth
Action
600 words, Very Difficult
REVIEW
600 words, Very Difficult
Info::
Page has 600 words of content
Info::
Text-to-HTML ratio is 1%
Very low ratio suggests heavy framework overhead or boilerplate.
Info::
Reading level: Very Difficult (grade 17)
600 words

Good depth

Reading level

Very Easy
Easy
Fairly Easy
Standard
Fairly Difficult
Difficult
Very Difficult

Grade 17

Text-to-HTML Ratio

1% text 99% HTML

4 KB / 302 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+
Canonical URL
Properly configured
PASS
Properly configured
Info::
Canonical tag present
Got: https://abcnews.com/politics
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://fivethirtyeight.com Canonical https://abcnews.com/politics Match Self-referencing (correct) Target 200 ✓
A
Meta Tags
Title: 77 chars
PASS
Title: 77 chars
Info::
Page title is set
Got: Politics News | Breaking Political News, Video & Analysis-ABC News - ABC News
Warning::
Title is 77 characters — will be truncated in search results
Info::
Title and H1 are well-aligned
Title

"Politics News | Breaking Political News, Video & Analysis-ABC News - ABC News"

77 characters Will truncate
Title: Politics News | Breaking Political News, Video & Analysis-ABC News - ABC News
H1: Political News
Match: Very different
Robots: Indexable (no restrictions)
A+
Image SEO
24 images, 24 descriptive filenames
PASS
24 images, 24 descriptive filenames
Info::
All images have descriptive filenames
Info::
3 image(s) missing alt text — see Accessibility tab
24 descriptive
0 hash-based
0 generic
24 total
FilenameQualityAltIssues
logo.svgdescriptive✗1
ios-white.svgdescriptive✗1
android-white.svgdescriptive✗1

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 · 0/1 recommended
Required fields (Google)
  • name — Required for the sitelinks search box
  • url — Required to anchor the search box to your domain
Recommended fields
  • potentialAction — Add a SearchAction with target and query-input Enables the in-SERP search box
Google's spec for this type
WebPage json-ld
0/0 required

Adding these recommended fields improves chances of getting Sitelinks search box in search results.

Why this matters

Schema entity has required fields but could add recommended ones for richer SERP layouts (star ratings, prices, etc.).

Source: Google Search Central

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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