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· 7 checks — Canonical, meta, content depth, internal links, image SEO, and hreflang rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
89
GRADE
B
FIX
1
REVIEW
1
PASS
4
INFO
1

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

Checks
7
4 PASS 1 REVIEW 1 FIX
D
Schema Markup Audit
Action
2 schema types detected
FIX

Rich result eligibility

WebSite Not eligible

Sitelinks search box

Missing: name

Organization Not eligible

Organization knowledge panel

Missing: name

Detected schema types

WebSite json-ld → Sitelinks search box
1/2 required · 1/1 recommended
Required fields (Google)
  • name — Add the site 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
Organization json-ld → Organization knowledge panel
1/2 required · 2/4 recommended
Required fields (Google)
  • name — Add the organization name Required for the knowledge panel
  • url — Required for entity matching
Recommended fields
  • logo — Strongly recommended — appears in the knowledge panel header
  • sameAs — Connects the entity across the web
  • contactPoint — Add ContactPoint with telephone and contactType Enables direct contact from the knowledge panel
  • description — Add an organization description Used as the panel summary
Google's spec for this type

Missing schema opportunities

  • easy

    Article

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

    Eligible for top-stories carousel and Discover

  • easy

    FAQPage

    Page has Q&A-style content (questions in headings) that could be marked up as FAQPage

    FAQ rich results take 2-3× more SERP real estate

Your WebSite structured data is missing required fields for Google's Sitelinks search box. Without these, the page won't qualify for rich results.

Why this matters

Schema entity missing required properties — Google's rich-result eligibility check fails; the schema is in source but never renders enhanced.

Source: Google Search Central

Your Organization structured data is missing required fields for Google's Organization knowledge panel. Without these, the page won't qualify for rich results.

Why this matters

Schema entity missing required properties — Google's rich-result eligibility check fails; the schema is in source but never renders enhanced.

Source: Google Search Central

B
Image SEO
71 images, 11 descriptive filenames
REVIEW
71 images, 11 descriptive filenames
Warning::
85% of images have non-descriptive filenames
Search engines use filenames as a signal. Rename to descriptive names like 'team-photo.jpg'.
11 descriptive
0 hash-based
60 generic
71 total
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See Accessibility tab for detailed alt text quality analysis.

Search engines use filenames as a signal. Rename to descriptive names like 'team-photo.jpg'.

Why this matters

Most image filenames are non-descriptive (hash/IMG_X) — small SEO miss for Image Search ranking.

Source: Google Image SEO

A+
Canonical URL
Properly configured
PASS
Properly configured
Info::
Canonical tag present
Got: https://www.snopes.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://snopes.com Canonical https://www.snopes.com/ Match Self-referencing (correct) Target 200 ✓
A
Meta Tags
Title: 131 chars
PASS
Title: 131 chars
Info::
Page title is set
Got: Snopes.com | The definitive fact-checking site and reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
Warning::
Title is 131 characters — will be truncated in search results
Info::
Title and H1 have very different wording
Alignment helps users confirm they've reached the right page.
Title

"Snopes.com | The definitive fact-checking site and reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation."

131 characters Will truncate
Title: Snopes.com | The definitive fact-checking site and reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
H1: Snopes Homepage
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

A
Content Depth
2570 words, Fairly Difficult
PASS
2570 words, Fairly Difficult
Info::
Page has 2570 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)
2570 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

15 KB / 601 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.

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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