SEO test result

Last tested URL from domain iol.co.za:

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

Retrieved from:
24. 12. 2024 01:43

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: 1

Your URL is redirected 1 times to another URL! It is better for SEO to use URLs without redirects.

1 / 2

Protocol: https

Well done! The URL uses the encrypted HTTPS protocol.

1 / 1

Redirect to: Error

Obě adresy 'https://themercury.co.za' a 'https://www.themercury.co.za' jsou dostupné. Jedná se o duplicitní obsah, jednu z adres přesměrujte na druhou.

0 / 1

URL length: 29 of characters

Well done! Your URL is a reasonable length.

1 / 1

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

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

2 / 2

Sitemap: https://www.iol.co.za/sitemap.xml

Well done! Your site contains a valid XML sitemap.

2 / 2

Achieved score:
9 / 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: 70 - 94 B

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

1 / 1

Language: en

Great! Your page is set to the language used.

1 / 1

Meta title: The Mercury

Well done! Your page has set a reasonably long headline.

2 / 2

Meta description: -

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>Mercury</h1>
<h1>Cellphones, cash found during raid at Pietermaritzburg Correctional Centre</h1>

Your page contains multiple H1 headings. It is best for SEO if the page contains just one H1 heading.

1 / 2

Order of headings:
     <h1>Mercury
     <h1>Cellphones, cash found during raid at Pietermaritz…
                    <h4>KZN South Coast woman, Nontobeko Cele killed by bo…
                              <h6>Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife faces backlash over 'poorly'…
                              <h6>Heavy rain causes retaining wall collapse, resulti…
                              <h6>KZN school nutrition programme service providers r…
                              <h6>Proteas pass Tests but still have limited failures
                              <h6>Durban University of Technology - Your gateway to …
                              <h6>The fourth is with Max but just barely
                         <h5>Zungu relishing emotional clash with Sundowns
                         <h5>Lions display fighting spirit despite losing to St…
                         <h5>Sharks’ victory over Bulls in Plum’s Top 10
                         <h5>Jake hoping that Man City boss can Pep up the Bull…
                         <h5>Stormers sweat over Sacha fitness ahead of Sharks …
                         <h5>eThekwini Municipality faces critical senior manag…
                         <h5>Electricity contractors, working for eThekwini Mun…
                         <h5>Fatal stabbing in Howick: Midlands EMS K9 Unit's q…
                         <h5>Mamelodi Sundowns coach Jerry Tshabalala placed on…
                         <h5>Mhlongo triumphant journey still ‘unbelievable’
                         <h5>Mhlakwana aiming for Comrades glory by going short
                         <h5>Ross ready to ‘Branch’ out in Dakar quest
                         <h5>Bucs’ week an opportunity to close in on Downs
                         <h5>SA’s goalkeeping posts must move to young talent
                         <h5>Zwane in a festive mood regarding fixtures
                         <h5>Second-string Sharks embarrass Bulls
                         <h5>Titans dominate warriors in giant win
                              <h6>Sections on IOL
                              <h6>More on IOL
                              <h6>Subscribe

The headings on your page are not in the correct order!

0 / 1

Number of headings: 29

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: 88

Well done! Your page contains pictures.

1 / 1

Number of pictures without description: 21

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

0 / 1

Number of links:
  • Number of internal follow links: 372
  • 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: 37
  • Number of external nofollow links: 0

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

2 / 2

Number of iframe tags: 1

Your page contains iframe tags, consider replacing them.

0 / 1

Page icon: The page icon is filled in
Icon

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

1 / 1

Page icon for Apple: The page icon is filled in
Icon

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

2 / 2

Paragraphs: Paragraphs contain text of 1733 characters. The length of all text on the page is 7143 characters.

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

0 / 1

Redundant content: The page contains content in the comments: 'Oovvuu ...'.

There is redundant content in the comments section of the page. Please consider removing this redundant content.

0 / 1

Achieved score:
16 / 24

HTML 5

Using HTML 5: OK

Well done! Your page uses the HTML 5 standard.

1 / 1

Using headers: OK

Well done! Yours contains the header.

1 / 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: OK

Well done! Yours has the content divided into sections.

1 / 1

Obsolete elements: -

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

1 / 1

Achieved score:
6 / 6

Tags for social networks

Language settings: -

Your page does not have the correct tag value for the page language!

0 / 1

Content type settings: article

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

1 / 1

URL settings:

Your page has a page URL tag set, but its value does not contain a valid absolute URL.

1 / 2

Page Title: The Mercury

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

2 / 2

Page description: -

Your page does not have the correct tag value for the page description!

0 / 2

Setting the cover image: /static/media/iol-logo.30fc4d23.svg

Your page has a tag set for the page title image, but its value does not contain a valid absolute URL.

1 / 2

Achieved score:
5 / 10

Keyword analysis

Number of words per page: 675

Well done! Your page contains enough words. There are '675' of words on the page.

2 / 2

The most common words on the page:
published | independent | reportpersonal | over | with | meletse | obakeng | singh | karen | msomi

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

1 / 1

Keyword consistency:
total numberin the captionin the descriptionin the headings
published25x0x0x0x
independent6x0x0x0x
reportpersonal6x0x0x0x
over5x0x0x5x
with5x0x0x2x
meletse4x0x0x0x
obakeng4x0x0x0x
singh4x0x0x0x
karen4x0x0x0x
msomi3x0x0x0x

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 uses gzip compression

Well done! Your server uses gzip compresses.

1 / 1

Page size: 48.5 kB

Well done! Your page is a reasonable size.

1 / 1

Files to load:
Linked files
/favicon/apple-touch-icon.png6.2 kB
/favicon/favicon-32x32.png0.6 kB
/favicon/favicon-16x16.png0.6 kB
/favicon/safari-pinned-tab.svg3.6 kB
https://www.iol.co.za/mercury48.9 kB
/mercury?page=244.5 kB
/static/css/client.8ce60b9e.css0.9 kB
/static/js/9.f5ec0af9.chunk.js77.8 kB
/static/js/60.5e118ac0.chunk.js84.6 kB
/static/js/client.03b42d1c.js83.5 kB
/static/js/1.83c773c1.chunk.js10.8 kB
/static/js/components-DefaultSection.016d3eb6.chunk.js4.3 kB
/static/js/routes-mercury.8a301f88.chunk.js3.9 kB
/static/js/0.5288b99b.chunk.js16.6 kB
/static/js/3.b9ffa288.chunk.js8.1 kB
/static/js/pages-TitleSectionPage.2575d099.chunk.js76.8 kB
/favicon.ico1.2 kB
/manifest.json0.8 kB
/static/css/client.8ce60b9e.css0.9 kB
/static/css/client.8ce60b9e.css0.9 kB
Linked script files
/static/js/9.f5ec0af9.chunk.js77.8 kB
/static/js/10.7195ec65.chunk.js7.5 kB
/static/js/vendor.03b42d1c.js67.1 kB
/static/js/9.f5ec0af9.chunk.js77.8 kB
/static/js/60.5e118ac0.chunk.js84.6 kB
/static/js/client.03b42d1c.js83.5 kB
/static/js/1.83c773c1.chunk.js10.8 kB
/static/js/components-DefaultSection.016d3eb6.chunk.js4.3 kB
/static/js/routes-mercury.8a301f88.chunk.js3.9 kB
/static/js/0.5288b99b.chunk.js16.6 kB
/static/js/3.b9ffa288.chunk.js8.1 kB
/static/js/pages-TitleSectionPage.2575d099.chunk.js76.8 kB
/cdn-cgi/scripts/7d0fa10a/cloudflare-static/rocket-loader.min.js4.3 kB
Linked image files
/static/media/iol.30fc4d23.svg1.1 kB
/static/media/bookmark-ico.18d10d1f.svg0.7 kB
/static/media/search-ico.c1a8f28e.svg0.8 kB
/static/media/menu-ico.f625b888.svg0.7 kB
/static/media/close-btn.323b7e3b.svg0.7 kB
/static/media/search-input-wht-ico.944fa476.svg0.8 kB
/static/media/arrow-left-ltgrey.bcbc5029.svg0.7 kB
/static/media/facebook-menu.c7066622.svg0.9 kB
/static/media/x.d9c40b69.svg0.9 kB
/static/media/instagram-menu.d13fec85.svg1.6 kB
/static/media/linkedin-menu.47f111b7.svg1.2 kB
/static/media/youtube-menu.abf84417.svg1.0 kB
/static/media/rss-menu.4b09e376.svg0.8 kB
/static/media/iol.30fc4d23.svg1.1 kB
/static/media/search-ico.c1a8f28e.svg0.8 kB
/static/media/menu-ico.f625b888.svg0.7 kB
/static/media/close-btn.323b7e3b.svg0.7 kB
/static/media/search-input-wht-ico.944fa476.svg0.8 kB
/static/media/arrow-left-ltgrey.bcbc5029.svg0.7 kB
/static/media/facebook-menu.c7066622.svg0.9 kB
/static/media/x.d9c40b69.svg0.9 kB
/static/media/instagram-menu.d13fec85.svg1.6 kB
/static/media/linkedin-menu.47f111b7.svg1.2 kB
/static/media/youtube-menu.abf84417.svg1.0 kB
/static/media/rss-menu.4b09e376.svg0.8 kB
/static/media/arrow-left-ltgrey.bcbc5029.svg0.7 kB
/static/media/iol-logo.30fc4d23.svg1.1 kB
/static/media/search-input-wht-ico.944fa476.svg0.8 kB
/static/media/notifications-ico.c9e00972.svg0.8 kB
/static/media/facebook.87210d65.svg0.9 kB
/static/media/x.d9c40b69.svg0.9 kB
/static/media/weather.fe15771a.svg1.6 kB
/static/media/e-mags-button.a97879bd.png14.5 kB
/static/media/iol-wht.36affc98.svg1.1 kB
/static/media/facebook-wht.f4d5995e.svg0.9 kB
/static/media/x-wht.e3a5a15f.svg0.9 kB
/static/media/instagram-wht.08ed7500.svg1.6 kB
/static/media/tiktok.12331f11.svg0.9 kB
/static/media/youtube-wht.adef66e4.svg1.0 kB
/static/media/rss-wht.74af5e36.svg0.8 kB
/static/media/google-play.089d2f5e.svg7.0 kB
/static/media/app-store.ae2ce25f.svg7.8 kB
TOTAL1 065.0 kB

Well done! Your page, including the source code, is a reasonable 1 113.6 kB size.

2 / 2

Number of requests: 75

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

0 / 1

Achieved score:
4 / 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 372 of internal links.

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

1 / 1

Achieved score:
4 / 6

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Achieved score:
(47 / 65)
72.3 %

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

Retrieved from:
24. 12. 2024 01:43

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: 1

Your URL is redirected 1 times to another URL! It is better for SEO to use URLs without redirects.

1 / 2

Protocol: https

Well done! The URL uses the encrypted HTTPS protocol.

1 / 1

Redirect to: Error

Obě adresy 'https://themercury.co.za' a 'https://www.themercury.co.za' jsou dostupné. Jedná se o duplicitní obsah, jednu z adres přesměrujte na druhou.

0 / 1

URL length: 29 of characters

Well done! Your URL is a reasonable length.

1 / 1

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

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

2 / 2

Sitemap: https://www.iol.co.za/sitemap.xml

Well done! Your site contains a valid XML sitemap.

2 / 2

Achieved score:
9 / 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: 70 - 94 B

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

1 / 1

Language: en

Great! Your page is set to the language used.

1 / 1

Meta title: The Mercury

Well done! Your page has set a reasonably long headline.

2 / 2

Meta description: -

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>Mercury</h1>
<h1>Cellphones, cash found during raid at Pietermaritzburg Correctional Centre</h1>

Your page contains multiple H1 headings. It is best for SEO if the page contains just one H1 heading.

1 / 2

Order of headings:
     <h1>Mercury
     <h1>Cellphones, cash found during raid at Pietermaritz…
                    <h4>KZN South Coast woman, Nontobeko Cele killed by bo…
                              <h6>Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife faces backlash over 'poorly'…
                              <h6>Heavy rain causes retaining wall collapse, resulti…
                              <h6>KZN school nutrition programme service providers r…
                              <h6>Proteas pass Tests but still have limited failures
                              <h6>Durban University of Technology - Your gateway to …
                              <h6>The fourth is with Max but just barely
                         <h5>Zungu relishing emotional clash with Sundowns
                         <h5>Lions display fighting spirit despite losing to St…
                         <h5>Sharks’ victory over Bulls in Plum’s Top 10
                         <h5>Jake hoping that Man City boss can Pep up the Bull…
                         <h5>Stormers sweat over Sacha fitness ahead of Sharks …
                         <h5>eThekwini Municipality faces critical senior manag…
                         <h5>Electricity contractors, working for eThekwini Mun…
                         <h5>Fatal stabbing in Howick: Midlands EMS K9 Unit's q…
                         <h5>Mamelodi Sundowns coach Jerry Tshabalala placed on…
                         <h5>Mhlongo triumphant journey still ‘unbelievable’
                         <h5>Mhlakwana aiming for Comrades glory by going short
                         <h5>Ross ready to ‘Branch’ out in Dakar quest
                         <h5>Bucs’ week an opportunity to close in on Downs
                         <h5>SA’s goalkeeping posts must move to young talent
                         <h5>Zwane in a festive mood regarding fixtures
                         <h5>Second-string Sharks embarrass Bulls
                         <h5>Titans dominate warriors in giant win
                              <h6>Sections on IOL
                              <h6>More on IOL
                              <h6>Subscribe

The headings on your page are not in the correct order!

0 / 1

Number of headings: 29

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: 88

Well done! Your page contains pictures.

1 / 1

Number of pictures without description: 21

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

0 / 1

Number of links:
  • Number of internal follow links: 372
  • 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: 37
  • Number of external nofollow links: 0

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

2 / 2

Number of iframe tags: 1

Your page contains iframe tags, consider replacing them.

0 / 1

Page icon: The page icon is filled in
Icon

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

1 / 1

Page icon for Apple: The page icon is filled in
Icon

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

2 / 2

Paragraphs: Paragraphs contain text of 1733 characters. The length of all text on the page is 7143 characters.

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

0 / 1

Redundant content: The page contains content in the comments: 'Oovvuu ...'.

There is redundant content in the comments section of the page. Please consider removing this redundant content.

0 / 1

Achieved score:
16 / 24

HTML 5

Using HTML 5: OK

Well done! Your page uses the HTML 5 standard.

1 / 1

Using headers: OK

Well done! Yours contains the header.

1 / 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: OK

Well done! Yours has the content divided into sections.

1 / 1

Obsolete elements: -

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

1 / 1

Achieved score:
6 / 6

Tags for social networks

Language settings: -

Your page does not have the correct tag value for the page language!

0 / 1

Content type settings: article

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

1 / 1

URL settings:

Your page has a page URL tag set, but its value does not contain a valid absolute URL.

1 / 2

Page Title: The Mercury

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

2 / 2

Page description: -

Your page does not have the correct tag value for the page description!

0 / 2

Setting the cover image: /static/media/iol-logo.30fc4d23.svg

Your page has a tag set for the page title image, but its value does not contain a valid absolute URL.

1 / 2

Achieved score:
5 / 10

Keyword analysis

Number of words per page: 675

Well done! Your page contains enough words. There are '675' of words on the page.

2 / 2

The most common words on the page:
published | independent | reportpersonal | over | with | meletse | obakeng | singh | karen | msomi

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

1 / 1

Keyword consistency:
total numberin the captionin the descriptionin the headings
published25x0x0x0x
independent6x0x0x0x
reportpersonal6x0x0x0x
over5x0x0x5x
with5x0x0x2x
meletse4x0x0x0x
obakeng4x0x0x0x
singh4x0x0x0x
karen4x0x0x0x
msomi3x0x0x0x

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 uses gzip compression

Well done! Your server uses gzip compresses.

1 / 1

Page size: 48.5 kB

Well done! Your page is a reasonable size.

1 / 1

Files to load:
Linked files
/favicon/apple-touch-icon.png6.2 kB
/favicon/favicon-32x32.png0.6 kB
/favicon/favicon-16x16.png0.6 kB
/favicon/safari-pinned-tab.svg3.6 kB
https://www.iol.co.za/mercury48.9 kB
/mercury?page=244.5 kB
/static/css/client.8ce60b9e.css0.9 kB
/static/js/9.f5ec0af9.chunk.js77.8 kB
/static/js/60.5e118ac0.chunk.js84.6 kB
/static/js/client.03b42d1c.js83.5 kB
/static/js/1.83c773c1.chunk.js10.8 kB
/static/js/components-DefaultSection.016d3eb6.chunk.js4.3 kB
/static/js/routes-mercury.8a301f88.chunk.js3.9 kB
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/static/js/3.b9ffa288.chunk.js8.1 kB
/static/js/pages-TitleSectionPage.2575d099.chunk.js76.8 kB
/favicon.ico1.2 kB
/manifest.json0.8 kB
/static/css/client.8ce60b9e.css0.9 kB
/static/css/client.8ce60b9e.css0.9 kB
Linked script files
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/static/js/pages-TitleSectionPage.2575d099.chunk.js76.8 kB
/cdn-cgi/scripts/7d0fa10a/cloudflare-static/rocket-loader.min.js4.3 kB
Linked image files
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/static/media/bookmark-ico.18d10d1f.svg0.7 kB
/static/media/search-ico.c1a8f28e.svg0.8 kB
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/static/media/instagram-menu.d13fec85.svg1.6 kB
/static/media/linkedin-menu.47f111b7.svg1.2 kB
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/static/media/rss-menu.4b09e376.svg0.8 kB
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/static/media/instagram-menu.d13fec85.svg1.6 kB
/static/media/linkedin-menu.47f111b7.svg1.2 kB
/static/media/youtube-menu.abf84417.svg1.0 kB
/static/media/rss-menu.4b09e376.svg0.8 kB
/static/media/arrow-left-ltgrey.bcbc5029.svg0.7 kB
/static/media/iol-logo.30fc4d23.svg1.1 kB
/static/media/search-input-wht-ico.944fa476.svg0.8 kB
/static/media/notifications-ico.c9e00972.svg0.8 kB
/static/media/facebook.87210d65.svg0.9 kB
/static/media/x.d9c40b69.svg0.9 kB
/static/media/weather.fe15771a.svg1.6 kB
/static/media/e-mags-button.a97879bd.png14.5 kB
/static/media/iol-wht.36affc98.svg1.1 kB
/static/media/facebook-wht.f4d5995e.svg0.9 kB
/static/media/x-wht.e3a5a15f.svg0.9 kB
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/static/media/tiktok.12331f11.svg0.9 kB
/static/media/youtube-wht.adef66e4.svg1.0 kB
/static/media/rss-wht.74af5e36.svg0.8 kB
/static/media/google-play.089d2f5e.svg7.0 kB
/static/media/app-store.ae2ce25f.svg7.8 kB
TOTAL1 065.0 kB

Well done! Your page, including the source code, is a reasonable 1 113.6 kB size.

2 / 2

Number of requests: 75

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

0 / 1

Achieved score:
4 / 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 372 of internal links.

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

1 / 1

Achieved score:
4 / 6

SEO test result

View the SEO test log Download the SEO test report
Achieved score:
(47 / 65)
72.3 %

Loading the page

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

Retrieved from:
10. 9. 2024 10:25

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: 1

Your URL is redirected 1 times to another URL! It is better for SEO to use URLs without redirects.

1 / 2

Protocol: https

Well done! The URL uses the encrypted HTTPS protocol.

1 / 1

Redirect to: Error

Obě adresy 'https://capetimes.co.za' a 'https://www.capetimes.co.za' jsou dostupné. Jedná se o duplicitní obsah, jednu z adres přesměrujte na druhou.

0 / 1

URL length: 31 of characters

Well done! Your URL is a reasonable length.

1 / 1

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

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

2 / 2

Sitemap: https://www.iol.co.za/sitemap.xml

Well done! Your site contains a valid XML sitemap.

2 / 2

Achieved score:
9 / 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: 70 - 94 B

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

1 / 1

Language: en

Great! Your page is set to the language used.

1 / 1

Meta title: Cape Times

Well done! Your page has set a reasonably long headline.

2 / 2

Meta description: -

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>Cape Times</h1>
<h1>Blame ‘poor policy’ for teacher post cuts</h1>

Your page contains multiple H1 headings. It is best for SEO if the page contains just one H1 heading.

1 / 2

Order of headings:
     <h1>Cape Times
     <h1>Blame ‘poor policy’ for teacher post cuts
                    <h4>We pick four potential relegation contenders for t…
                              <h6>Boks prove they can win pretty and ugly against Al…
                              <h6>Mthatha residents take the fight against extortion…
                              <h6>Five coaches to look out for this season
                              <h6>Court frowns upon no seat belt defence
                              <h6>Boks silence transformation debate by empowering p…
                              <h6>It’s lies that RAF is not paying claims ‒ manageme…
                         <h5>Lifeline for Land Bank to fulfil its development, …
                         <h5>New mpox case triggers calls for heightened vigila…
                         <h5>Katsande throws his weight behind Nabi
                         <h5>Springboks a metaphor for what SA could become
                         <h5>Weaponisation of financial power: democracy under …
                         <h5>Bafana very capable without Williams or Tau, says …
                         <h5>Kolisi back in the Shark Tank after French sojourn
                         <h5>Stop sexual abuse of children, says Pope Francis
                         <h5>Human resource development key factor in local gov…
                         <h5>It’s time for political leaders to prove the peopl…
                         <h5>A new documentary to give fans a fly-on-the-wall l…
                         <h5>New study reveals how our brain processes romantic…
                         <h5>Hawks eye kidnapping syndicate as more arrests exp…
                         <h5>LOOK: Letoya Makhene shades estranged partner on m…
                         <h5>Discover the Western Cape's hidden gems with Wesgr…
                         <h5>Sharp spike in problem buildings another nightmare…
                         <h5>Letter: Cut ministers’ pay, not education budget
                              <h6>Sections on IOL
                              <h6>More on IOL
                              <h6>Subscribe

The headings on your page are not in the correct order!

0 / 1

Number of headings: 29

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: 88

Well done! Your page contains pictures.

1 / 1

Number of pictures without description: 21

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

0 / 1

Number of links:
  • Number of internal follow links: 371
  • 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: 37
  • Number of external nofollow links: 0

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

2 / 2

Number of iframe tags: 1

Your page contains iframe tags, consider replacing them.

0 / 1

Page icon: The page icon is filled in
Icon

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

1 / 1

Page icon for Apple: The page icon is filled in
Icon

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

2 / 2

Paragraphs: Paragraphs contain text of 1716 characters. The length of all text on the page is 7081 characters.

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

0 / 1

Redundant content: The page contains content in the comments: 'Oovvuu ...'.

There is redundant content in the comments section of the page. Please consider removing this redundant content.

0 / 1

Achieved score:
16 / 24

HTML 5

Using HTML 5: OK

Well done! Your page uses the HTML 5 standard.

1 / 1

Using headers: OK

Well done! Yours contains the header.

1 / 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: OK

Well done! Yours has the content divided into sections.

1 / 1

Obsolete elements: -

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

1 / 1

Achieved score:
6 / 6

Tags for social networks

Language settings: -

Your page does not have the correct tag value for the page language!

0 / 1

Content type settings: article

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

1 / 1

URL settings:

Your page has a page URL tag set, but its value does not contain a valid absolute URL.

1 / 2

Page Title: Cape Times

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

2 / 2

Page description: -

Your page does not have the correct tag value for the page description!

0 / 2

Setting the cover image: /static/media/iol-logo.30fc4d23.svg

Your page has a tag set for the page title image, but its value does not contain a valid absolute URL.

1 / 2

Achieved score:
5 / 10

Keyword analysis

Number of words per page: 691

Well done! Your page contains enough words. There are '691' of words on the page.

2 / 2

The most common words on the page:
published | independent | reportpersonal | msomi | smiso | with | saturdaysunday | postdaily | iolcontact | codeprivacy

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

1 / 1

Keyword consistency:
total numberin the captionin the descriptionin the headings
published25x0x0x0x
independent7x0x0x0x
reportpersonal6x0x0x0x
msomi5x0x0x0x
smiso5x0x0x0x
with4x0x0x1x
saturdaysunday3x0x0x0x
postdaily3x0x0x0x
iolcontact3x0x0x0x
codeprivacy3x0x0x0x

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 uses gzip compression

Well done! Your server uses gzip compresses.

1 / 1

Page size: 47.6 kB

Well done! Your page is a reasonable size.

1 / 1

Files to load:
Linked files
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/favicon/favicon-32x32.png0.6 kB
/favicon/favicon-16x16.png0.6 kB
/favicon/safari-pinned-tab.svg3.5 kB
https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes47.9 kB
/capetimes?page=243.7 kB
/static/css/client.8ce60b9e.css0.9 kB
/static/js/9.f5ec0af9.chunk.js77.8 kB
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/static/js/client.0dd2a17c.js83.1 kB
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/static/js/components-DefaultSection.c53cec64.chunk.js4.3 kB
/static/js/routes-capetimes.aaf7d41b.chunk.js3.7 kB
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/static/js/pages-TitleSectionPage.377b89a1.chunk.js74.0 kB
/favicon.ico1.2 kB
/manifest.json0.7 kB
/static/css/client.8ce60b9e.css0.9 kB
/static/css/client.8ce60b9e.css0.9 kB
Linked script files
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/static/js/10.7195ec65.chunk.js7.4 kB
/static/js/vendor.0dd2a17c.js67.1 kB
/static/js/9.f5ec0af9.chunk.js77.8 kB
/static/js/60.5e118ac0.chunk.js84.5 kB
/static/js/client.0dd2a17c.js83.1 kB
/static/js/1.83c773c1.chunk.js10.8 kB
/static/js/components-DefaultSection.c53cec64.chunk.js4.3 kB
/static/js/routes-capetimes.aaf7d41b.chunk.js3.7 kB
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/static/js/pages-TitleSectionPage.377b89a1.chunk.js74.0 kB
/cdn-cgi/scripts/7d0fa10a/cloudflare-static/rocket-loader.min.js4.3 kB
Linked image files
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/static/media/bookmark-ico.18d10d1f.svg0.7 kB
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/static/media/instagram-menu.d13fec85.svg1.6 kB
/static/media/linkedin-menu.47f111b7.svg1.2 kB
/static/media/youtube-menu.abf84417.svg0.9 kB
/static/media/rss-menu.4b09e376.svg0.8 kB
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/static/media/close-btn.323b7e3b.svg0.7 kB
/static/media/search-input-wht-ico.944fa476.svg0.7 kB
/static/media/arrow-left-ltgrey.bcbc5029.svg0.6 kB
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/static/media/linkedin-menu.47f111b7.svg1.2 kB
/static/media/youtube-menu.abf84417.svg0.9 kB
/static/media/rss-menu.4b09e376.svg0.8 kB
/static/media/arrow-left-ltgrey.bcbc5029.svg0.6 kB
/static/media/iol-logo.30fc4d23.svg1.0 kB
/static/media/search-input-wht-ico.944fa476.svg0.7 kB
/static/media/notifications-ico.c9e00972.svg0.7 kB
/static/media/facebook.87210d65.svg0.8 kB
/static/media/x.d9c40b69.svg0.9 kB
/static/media/weather.fe15771a.svg1.5 kB
/static/media/e-mags-button.a97879bd.png14.5 kB
/static/media/iol-wht.36affc98.svg1.0 kB
/static/media/facebook-wht.f4d5995e.svg0.8 kB
/static/media/x-wht.e3a5a15f.svg0.9 kB
/static/media/instagram-wht.08ed7500.svg1.6 kB
/static/media/tiktok.12331f11.svg0.9 kB
/static/media/youtube-wht.adef66e4.svg0.9 kB
/static/media/rss-wht.74af5e36.svg0.8 kB
/static/media/google-play.089d2f5e.svg7.0 kB
/static/media/app-store.ae2ce25f.svg7.7 kB
TOTAL1 053.7 kB

Well done! Your page, including the source code, is a reasonable 1 101.3 kB size.

2 / 2

Number of requests: 75

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

0 / 1

Achieved score:
4 / 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:
ErrorURL
404https://www.iol.co.za/sport/commonwealth-games
Note: Only 30 of randomly selected internal links were tested. Your page contains 371 of internal links.

Your page contains links that lead to pages that end up with one of the 4xx or 5xx errors.

0 / 1

Achieved score:
3 / 6

SEO test result

View the SEO test log Download the SEO test report
Achieved score:
(46 / 65)
70.8 %