On-page SEO audit
SEO audit of www.nytimes.com
https://www.nytimes.com/
54
/ 100
Needs work
6 error(s)
9 warning(s)
14 passed
Google preview
Simulated desktop search result.
www.nytimes.com
https://www.nytimes.com
nytimes.com
No meta description: Google will show a snippet automatically picked from the page content.
- Title11 chars
- Description—
- Canonical—
- Languagefr
Top issues to fix
Sorted by impact on the score.
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HTTP statusErrorReturned status 403.The page must return 200 to be indexed.
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Meta descriptionErrorNo meta description.Write a compelling 120–160 character description.
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H1 headingErrorNo H1 heading on the page.Add a single H1 describing the page topic.
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Content lengthError8 words — very thin content.Add useful, original text content.
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Mobile viewportErrorNo viewport tag: poor mobile display.Add <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">.
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Open GraphErrorNo Open Graph tags.Add Open Graph tags for better shares on Facebook, LinkedIn and WhatsApp.
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Title tagNeeds work11 characters — title too short.Aim for 30 to 60 characters to use all the space in Google.
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Canonical URLNeeds workNo canonical tag.Add <link rel="canonical"> to avoid duplicate content.
+ 7 more item(s) in the details below.
Content & tags
28 / 100
Title tag
11 characters — title too short.Aim for 30 to 60 characters to use all the space in Google.
Meta description
No meta description.Write a compelling 120–160 character description.
H1 heading
No H1 heading on the page.Add a single H1 describing the page topic.
Heading structure
No headings (H1–H6).Structure your content with H2/H3 headings.
Content length
8 words — very thin content.Add useful, original text content.
Text-to-HTML ratio
5.6% — very heavy code compared to text.Slim down the HTML (external CSS/JS, less unnecessary markup).
Declared language
lang="fr".
Technical & indexability
63 / 100
HTTP status
Returned status 403.The page must return 200 to be indexed.
HTTPS
Secure connection.
Redirects
1 redirect (301).
Indexability
Page is indexable.
Canonical URL
No canonical tag.Add <link rel="canonical"> to avoid duplicate content.
Mobile viewport
No viewport tag: poor mobile display.Add <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">.
Encoding
Charset declared.
robots.txt
Present and not blocking.
XML sitemap
Found: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/news.xml.gz (587 entries).
Favicon
No favicon declared.Add <link rel="icon">, shown in Google’s mobile results.
Readable URL
Short, clean URL.
Links & images
63 / 100
Alt attributes
No images on the page.
Internal linking
Only 0 internal link(s).Add links to your important pages.
Outbound links
0 external link(s), 0 nofollow (across all links).
Anchor text
All links have text.
Social & structured data
29 / 100
Open Graph
No Open Graph tags.Add Open Graph tags for better shares on Facebook, LinkedIn and WhatsApp.
Twitter Card
No Twitter Card.Add <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image">.
Structured data
No structured data.Add schema.org JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product, FAQ…) for rich results.
Performance
92 / 100
Server response time
96 ms (TTFB).
HTML size
771 B.
Compression
Uncompressed response.Enable gzip or Brotli on the server.
Render-blocking scripts
No render-blocking scripts in <head>.
External resources
1 script(s), 0 stylesheet(s).
HSTS
HSTS header present.
Cache-Control
max-age=0, private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
Heading structure
H1 · 0H2 · 0H3 · 0H4 · 0H5 · 0H6 · 0
No headings found.
Top keywords
Most frequent words in the visible content (4+ letters).
| Word | Count | Density | Title | Desc. | H1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| please | 1 | 12.50 % | — | — | — |
| enable | 1 | 12.50 % | — | — | — |
| disable | 1 | 12.50 % | — | — | — |
| blocker | 1 | 12.50 % | — | — | — |
Links & images
- Internal links0
- External links0
- Nofollow links0
- Images0 (0 lazy-loaded)
- Images without alt0
Social sharing & schema.org
- og:title—
- og:description—
- og:image—
- twitter:card—
- schema.org types—
- Sitemaphttps://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/news.xml.gz
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