SEO test result

Last tested URL from domain heraldlive.co.za:

https://www.heraldlive.co.za/

Loading the page

URL address (destination address in case of redirection):
https://www.heraldlive.co.za/

Retrieved from:
25. 6. 2024 06:13

Status code: 200

Well done! Your URL returns a successful HTTP status code.

1 / 1

Content type: text/html

Well done! Your URL returns content in HTML format.

1 / 1

Number of redirects: 0

Well done! The URL goes directly to your content.

2 / 2

Protocol: https

Well done! The URL uses the encrypted HTTPS protocol.

1 / 1

Redirect to: OK

Well done! Both 'https://heraldlive.co.za/' and 'https://www.heraldlive.co.za/' have been redirected to the same URL.

1 / 1

URL length: 29 of characters

Well done! Your URL is a reasonable length.

1 / 1

File robots.txt: https://www.heraldlive.co.za/robots.txt

Well done! Your site contains a robots.txt file with the sitemap address filled in.

2 / 2

Sitemap: https://www.heraldlive.co.za/sitemap/

Well done! Your site contains a valid XML sitemap.

2 / 2

Achieved score:

11 / 11

Content analysis

Character set settings: utf-8

Well done! Your page has the correct character set.

1 / 1

Meta tag position with character set: 49 - 69 B

Well done! The character set settings are located in the first 1024 bytes of your page.

1 / 1

Language: en-ZA

Great! Your page is set to the language used.

1 / 1

Meta title:

The headline has less than 4 of characters. Your page has a headline set, but it is too short.

1 / 2

Meta description: HeraldLIVE - The Voice of Nelson Mandela Bay

The meta description has less than 50 of characters. Your page has a meta description set, but it is too short.

1 / 2

H1 heading:
<h1>HeraldLIVE</h1>

Well done! Your page contains H1 heading.

2 / 2

Order of headings:
     <h1>HeraldLIVE
          <h2>Overcrowded! Conditions 'out of control' for many …
          <h2>Little girl’s love for reading blossoms into Gqebe…
          <h2>Bloody end to beachfront towing drama
          <h2>Creche teacher escapes jail term after beating boy
          <h2>ACDP steps up efforts to remove Nelson ...
          <h2>ELECTIONS 2024 | All you need to know
          <h2>‘I’m there for power, the fight is about ...
          <h2>LISTEN | Malgas speaks out on EP Rugby furore
          <h2>SA edge West Indies to reach World Cup semifinals
          <h2>Marine science symposium ignites love of ocean
          <h2>Aitsa! This Gqeberha-born beauty is going places
          <h2>Comedic sensation Siya Seya set to have NMB Stadiu…
          <h2>TRIBUTE EDITION | Weekend Post calls it a wrap
          <h2>Daniel Pienaar pupil takes top honours at Motor Me…
          <h2>Depleted Springboks ease to 41-13 win over Wales
          <h2>Sad loss inspired artist to follow her heart
          <h2>A community invested in protecting the natural env…
          <h2>Rising East Cape author shines light on once-taboo…
               <h3>Most Read
          <h2>Multimedia
               <h3>Gogo's House | Isuzu Cares
               <h3>Zuma receives rapturous welcome at voting station …
               <h3>Man caught cutting down ANC poster says he wants t…
          <h2>Podcasts
          <h2>Opinion
          <h2>The truth behind Zuma crew’s racist insults agains…
          <h2>Competent police minister needed to tackle crime e…
          <h2>SA’s Big Men have been unmasked as tiny, shrieking…
          <h2>The Herald #ForYou
          <h2>The Herald #FORYOU
          <h2>Inside HeraldLIVE
          <h2>Sibu G to showcase healing power of his songs on .…
          <h2>Dlala Thukzin prepares for his US tour
          <h2>'I have the freedom to let my creativity flow': fi…
          <h2>Mafikizolo’s Nhlanhla on the road to regaining her…
          <h2>Doja Cat hopes to 'drive action' at this year's Gl…
          <h2>WATCH | ‘I Googled the recipe’: Nara Smith on ‘ste…
          <h2>Promotions
          <h2>Prestons Liquor Stores specials
          <h2>The Herald Corporate Social Responsibility
          <h2>Shopmore specials
          <h2>Eduvos
          <h2>The Willows
          <h2>Capsicum Cooking
          <h2>St Georges Preparatory Open Day
          <h2>Forever Plettenberg Resort
          <h2>George's Electrical Wholesalers
          <h2>Royal St Andrews
          <h2>The Herald 2024 Youth Day Supplement
          <h2>The Herald Special Features
               <h3>News
               <h3>Business
               <h3>Sport
               <h3>Opinion
               <h3>Multimedia
               <h3>Lifestyle
               <h3>Notices
               <h3>E-Edition

Your page contains multiple headings and they are used in the correct order.

1 / 1

Number of headings: 59

Your page contains more than 20 of headlines.

0 / 1

Length of headings: OK

Well done! Your page contains only reasonably long headlines.

1 / 1

Number of pictures: 20

Well done! Your page contains pictures.

1 / 1

Number of pictures without description: 2

Your page contains images that do not have a filled in caption (alt attribute).

0 / 1

Number of links:

Number of internal follow links: 185
Number of internal nofollow links: 0

Well done! Your site contains a good amount of internal follow links.

2 / 2

Number of links:

Number of external follow links: 23
Number of external nofollow links: 0

Well done! Your site contains a good amount of internal follow links.

2 / 2

Number of iframe tags: 2

Your page contains iframe tags, consider replacing them.

0 / 1

Page icon: The page icon is filled in

Well done! Your page has filled in the page icon.

1 / 1

Page icon for Apple: The page icon is filled in

Well done! Your page has the page icon filled in for Apple devices.

2 / 2

Paragraphs: Paragraphs contain text of 3185 characters. The length of all text on the page is 8285 characters.

Less than half of all text on the page is in paragraphs. Consider using paragraphs for text placement.

0 / 1

Redundant content: -

Well done! Your site contains no superfluous content.

1 / 1

Achieved score:

18 / 24

HTML 5

Using HTML 5: OK

Well done! Your page uses the HTML 5 standard.

1 / 1

Using headers: NO

Your page does not contain a header. Consider adding a header tag.

0 / 1

Use of footers: OK

Well done! Yours contains a footer.

1 / 1

Using navigation: OK

Well done! Yours includes navigation.

1 / 1

Division of content into sections: NO

Your page is not divided into sections. Consider dividing your content into section tags.

0 / 1

Obsolete elements: -

Well done! Your page does not contain any outdated HTML elements.

1 / 1

Achieved score:

4 / 6

Tags for social networks

Language settings: en-ZA

Well done! Your page has the language tag set correctly.

1 / 1

Content type settings: landing

Well done! Your page has the correct tag for the page content type.

1 / 1

URL settings: https://www.heraldlive.co.za/

Well done! Your page has the correct tag for the page URL.

2 / 2

Page Title: HeraldLIVE

Well done! Your page has the correct page title tag and the title is the appropriate size.

2 / 2

Page description: HeraldLIVE - The Voice of Nelson Mandela Bay

Your page has a page description tag set, but its value is less than 50 characters. Consider extending it.

1 / 2

Setting the cover image: https://www.heraldlive.co.za/publication/custom/static/logos/logo.herald-live.png

Well done! Your page has the correct tag for the page title image.

2 / 2

Achieved score:

9 / 10

Keyword analysis

Number of words per page: 1288

Well done! Your page contains enough words. There are '1288' of words on the page.

2 / 2

The most common words on your site should include your keywords.

1 / 1

Keyword consistency:

	total number	in the caption	in the description	in the headings
news	17x	0x	0x	1x
leisure	11x	0x	0x	0x
with	7x	0x	0x	2x
have	6x	0x	0x	3x
display	6x	0x	0x	0x
color	6x	0x	0x	0x
from	5x	0x	0x	0x
gqeberha	5x	0x	0x	1x
none;	5x	0x	0x	0x
2024	5x	0x	0x	2x

In the title, description and headings you have few key consider adding them.

0 / 0

Achieved score:

3 / 3

Loading resources

Using gzip compression: The web server does not use gzip compression

Consider using gzip compression on your web server.

0 / 1

Page size: 278.0 kB

Well done! Your page is a reasonable size.

1 / 1

Files to load:

Linked files
https://www.heraldlive.co.za/	278.0 kB
https://www.heraldlive.co.za/	278.0 kB
/manifest.json?v=2	0.1 kB
/favicon.png	1.1 kB
/static/images/icons/app-icons/app-icon.57x57.png?v=2	2.6 kB
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Linked image files
/publication/shared/static/banners/all-the-news-popup-4.gif	95.7 kB
/static/icons/arena.png	33.4 kB
/static/icons/times-live.png	14.0 kB
/static/icons/sunday-times.png	24.6 kB
/static/icons/sowetan-live.png	38.2 kB
/static/icons/business-live.png	13.7 kB
/static/icons/business-day.png	29.1 kB
/static/icons/financial-mail.png	11.9 kB
/static/icons/business-times.png	23.8 kB
/static/icons/herald-live.png	21.4 kB
/static/icons/dispatch-live.png	15.7 kB
/static/icons/wanted.png	46.0 kB
/static/icons/sa-home-owner.png	28.7 kB
/static/icons/business-media-mags.png	27.4 kB
/static/icons/arena-events.png	21.5 kB
/publication/custom/static/logos/TheWeekendPostLogo.png	28.0 kB
/publication/shared/static/banners/all-the-news-cta-4.gif	65.9 kB
/publication/custom/static/logos/arena-holdings.logo.png	17.6 kB
TOTAL	2 513.8 kB

Your page, including the source code, is 2 791.7 kB in size. Consider reducing the data transferred to display the page.

0 / 2

Number of requests: 42

Your page needs more than 30 of additional HTTP requests to load. Consider optimizing its number.

0 / 1

Achieved score:

1 / 5

Other

Responsiveness: It is responsive

Well done! Your page is responsive and uses the viewport meta tag.

1 / 1

Using schema.org: Unused

Your site does not use schema.org, consider using structured data.

0 / 2

Using Google Tag Manager: It is used

Well done! Your site uses GTM.

2 / 2

Links to error pages: Excludes

Note: Only 30 of randomly selected internal links were tested. Your page contains 185 of internal links.

Well done! Your page does not contain links to error pages.

1 / 1

Achieved score:

4 / 6

SEO test result

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Achieved score:

(50 / 65)

76.9 %

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URL address (destination address in case of redirection):
https://www.heraldlive.co.za/

Retrieved from:
25. 6. 2024 06:13

Status code: 200

Well done! Your URL returns a successful HTTP status code.

1 / 1

Content type: text/html

Well done! Your URL returns content in HTML format.

1 / 1

Number of redirects: 0

Well done! The URL goes directly to your content.

2 / 2

Protocol: https

Well done! The URL uses the encrypted HTTPS protocol.

1 / 1

Redirect to: OK

Well done! Both 'https://heraldlive.co.za/' and 'https://www.heraldlive.co.za/' have been redirected to the same URL.

1 / 1

URL length: 29 of characters

Well done! Your URL is a reasonable length.

1 / 1

File robots.txt: https://www.heraldlive.co.za/robots.txt

Well done! Your site contains a robots.txt file with the sitemap address filled in.

2 / 2

Sitemap: https://www.heraldlive.co.za/sitemap/

Well done! Your site contains a valid XML sitemap.

2 / 2

Achieved score:

11 / 11

Content analysis

Character set settings: utf-8

Well done! Your page has the correct character set.

1 / 1

Meta tag position with character set: 49 - 69 B

Well done! The character set settings are located in the first 1024 bytes of your page.

1 / 1

Language: en-ZA

Great! Your page is set to the language used.

1 / 1

Meta title:

The headline has less than 4 of characters. Your page has a headline set, but it is too short.

1 / 2

Meta description: HeraldLIVE - The Voice of Nelson Mandela Bay

The meta description has less than 50 of characters. Your page has a meta description set, but it is too short.

1 / 2

H1 heading:
<h1>HeraldLIVE</h1>

Well done! Your page contains H1 heading.

2 / 2

Your page contains multiple headings and they are used in the correct order.

1 / 1

Number of headings: 59

Your page contains more than 20 of headlines.

0 / 1

Length of headings: OK

Well done! Your page contains only reasonably long headlines.

1 / 1

Number of pictures: 20

Well done! Your page contains pictures.

1 / 1

Number of pictures without description: 2

Your page contains images that do not have a filled in caption (alt attribute).

0 / 1

Number of links:

Number of internal follow links: 185
Number of internal nofollow links: 0

Well done! Your site contains a good amount of internal follow links.

2 / 2

Number of links:

Number of external follow links: 23
Number of external nofollow links: 0

Well done! Your site contains a good amount of internal follow links.

2 / 2

Number of iframe tags: 2

Your page contains iframe tags, consider replacing them.

0 / 1

Page icon: The page icon is filled in

Well done! Your page has filled in the page icon.

1 / 1

Page icon for Apple: The page icon is filled in

Well done! Your page has the page icon filled in for Apple devices.

2 / 2

Paragraphs: Paragraphs contain text of 3185 characters. The length of all text on the page is 8285 characters.

Less than half of all text on the page is in paragraphs. Consider using paragraphs for text placement.

0 / 1

Redundant content: -

Well done! Your site contains no superfluous content.

1 / 1

Achieved score:

18 / 24

HTML 5

Using HTML 5: OK

Well done! Your page uses the HTML 5 standard.

1 / 1

Using headers: NO

Your page does not contain a header. Consider adding a header tag.

0 / 1

Use of footers: OK

Well done! Yours contains a footer.

1 / 1

Using navigation: OK

Well done! Yours includes navigation.

1 / 1

Division of content into sections: NO

Your page is not divided into sections. Consider dividing your content into section tags.

0 / 1

Obsolete elements: -

Well done! Your page does not contain any outdated HTML elements.

1 / 1

Achieved score:

4 / 6

Tags for social networks

Language settings: en-ZA

Well done! Your page has the language tag set correctly.

1 / 1

Content type settings: landing

Well done! Your page has the correct tag for the page content type.

1 / 1

URL settings: https://www.heraldlive.co.za/

Well done! Your page has the correct tag for the page URL.

2 / 2

Page Title: HeraldLIVE

Well done! Your page has the correct page title tag and the title is the appropriate size.

2 / 2

Page description: HeraldLIVE - The Voice of Nelson Mandela Bay

Your page has a page description tag set, but its value is less than 50 characters. Consider extending it.

1 / 2

Setting the cover image: https://www.heraldlive.co.za/publication/custom/static/logos/logo.herald-live.png

Well done! Your page has the correct tag for the page title image.

2 / 2

Achieved score:

9 / 10

Keyword analysis

Number of words per page: 1288

Well done! Your page contains enough words. There are '1288' of words on the page.

2 / 2

The most common words on your site should include your keywords.

1 / 1

Keyword consistency:

	total number	in the caption	in the description	in the headings
news	17x	0x	0x	1x
leisure	11x	0x	0x	0x
with	7x	0x	0x	2x
have	6x	0x	0x	3x
display	6x	0x	0x	0x
color	6x	0x	0x	0x
from	5x	0x	0x	0x
gqeberha	5x	0x	0x	1x
none;	5x	0x	0x	0x
2024	5x	0x	0x	2x

In the title, description and headings you have few key consider adding them.

0 / 0

Achieved score:

3 / 3

Loading resources

Using gzip compression: The web server does not use gzip compression

Consider using gzip compression on your web server.

0 / 1

Page size: 278.0 kB

Well done! Your page is a reasonable size.

1 / 1

Files to load:

Linked files
https://www.heraldlive.co.za/	278.0 kB
https://www.heraldlive.co.za/	278.0 kB
/manifest.json?v=2	0.1 kB
/favicon.png	1.1 kB
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Linked script files
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Linked image files
/publication/shared/static/banners/all-the-news-popup-4.gif	95.7 kB
/static/icons/arena.png	33.4 kB
/static/icons/times-live.png	14.0 kB
/static/icons/sunday-times.png	24.6 kB
/static/icons/sowetan-live.png	38.2 kB
/static/icons/business-live.png	13.7 kB
/static/icons/business-day.png	29.1 kB
/static/icons/financial-mail.png	11.9 kB
/static/icons/business-times.png	23.8 kB
/static/icons/herald-live.png	21.4 kB
/static/icons/dispatch-live.png	15.7 kB
/static/icons/wanted.png	46.0 kB
/static/icons/sa-home-owner.png	28.7 kB
/static/icons/business-media-mags.png	27.4 kB
/static/icons/arena-events.png	21.5 kB
/publication/custom/static/logos/TheWeekendPostLogo.png	28.0 kB
/publication/shared/static/banners/all-the-news-cta-4.gif	65.9 kB
/publication/custom/static/logos/arena-holdings.logo.png	17.6 kB
TOTAL	2 513.8 kB

Your page, including the source code, is 2 791.7 kB in size. Consider reducing the data transferred to display the page.

0 / 2

Number of requests: 42

Your page needs more than 30 of additional HTTP requests to load. Consider optimizing its number.

0 / 1

Achieved score:

1 / 5

Other

Responsiveness: It is responsive

Well done! Your page is responsive and uses the viewport meta tag.

1 / 1

Using schema.org: Unused

Your site does not use schema.org, consider using structured data.

0 / 2

Using Google Tag Manager: It is used

Well done! Your site uses GTM.

2 / 2

Links to error pages: Excludes

Note: Only 30 of randomly selected internal links were tested. Your page contains 185 of internal links.

Well done! Your page does not contain links to error pages.

1 / 1

Achieved score:

4 / 6

SEO test result

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Achieved score:

(50 / 65)

76.9 %

SEO test result

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Content analysis

HTML 5

Tags for social networks

Keyword analysis

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Other

SEO test result

Our type for linkbuilding

Contact form

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Content analysis

HTML 5

Tags for social networks

Keyword analysis

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Other

SEO test result