SEO test result

Last tested URL from domain witness.co.za:

https://witness.co.za/

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

Retrieved from:
1. 7. 2024 19:45

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://witness.co.za/' and 'https://www.witness.co.za/' have been redirected to the same URL.

1 / 1

URL length: 22 of characters

Well done! Your URL is a reasonable length.

1 / 1

File robots.txt: -

There is a robots.txt file uploaded on your site, but the sitemap address is not filled in.

1 / 2

Sitemap: -

The site map address is not filled in the robots.txt file.

0 / 2

Achieved score:

8 / 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: 71 - 95 B

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

1 / 1

Language: en-US

Great! Your page is set to the language used.

1 / 1

Meta title: The Witness | Your compass in the community

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

2 / 2

Meta description: -

Your page does not have the correct meta description!

0 / 2

H1 heading:
<h1>The Witness</h1>

Well done! Your page contains H1 heading.

2 / 2

Order of headings:
     <h1>The Witness
               <h3>Top Stories
          <h2>Cremation crisis in Pietermaritzburg after fire at…
          <h2>The time for finger-pointing is over: Steenhuisen
          <h2>Condition of Pietermaritzburg river causes concern
          <h2>We will not purge but will build unity, says KZN p…
          <h2>President announces Cabinet
          <h2>Protesting jobless teachers left out of talks
          <h2>Woman’s body found in a river in oThongathi
               <h3>More News
          <h2>KZN Premier’s Office warns public of fake vacancie…
          <h2>Crime prevention meeting encourages youth to secur…
          <h2>President Ramaphosa to announce cabinet at 9pm ton…
          <h2>Beard transplants on the rise as study finds that …
          <h2>Fire temporarily closes Cedar Ridge Crematorium in…
               <h3>Opinion
          <h2>Opinion | Public servants
          <h2>Madam and Eve | July 1, 2024
          <h2>Opinion | The cancel cult
          <h2>Stidy | June 29, 2024
               <h3>Capital Newspapers
          <h2>Tamil School pupils excel
          <h2>Action-packed cricket matches at the Oval
          <h2>Injured wild animals need expert care, cautions Fr…
          <h2>KZN Squash teams shine
               <h3>Sport
          <h2>Huge support for the Proteas
          <h2>Analysis | Fish finicky and fussy as winter remain…
          <h2>Junior Winter League at the Pietermaritzburg Oval
          <h2>Local coaches hail Orlando Pirates’ overseas train…
          <h2>Analysis | A mixed bag of results at fishing event…
               <h3>Lotto
          <h2>PowerBall and Daily Lotto numbers: June 28, 2024
          <h2>LottoPlus and Daily Lotto numbers: June 26, 2024
          <h2>Daily Lotto numbers: June 23, 2024
               <h3>Puzzles
          <h2>Puzzles | July 1, 2024
          <h2>Puzzles | June 25, 2024
          <h2>Puzzles | June 24, 2024
               <h3>Obituaries
          <h2>Obituary: Hloniphizwe Zondi
          <h2>Obituary: Tributes pour in for veteran photojourna…
          <h2>Obituary: Michael ‘Mick’ Hyatt
          <h2>Obituary: A trout fishing legend passes — Tom Sutc…
          <h2>Obituary: Derrick Banks
               <h3>Network News
          <h2>Child pornography case: Man (25) to appear in Moss…
          <h2>Bloemfontein cops pounce on stock theft suspects
          <h2>Derbies spark new-look Currie Cup
          <h2>Roodepoort police refutes wrongful arrest allegati…
          <h2>Attempted cash-in-transit heist in KaNyamazane: Su…
               <h3>Network Sport
          <h2>Vote: Did Proteas choke in T20 World Cup final?
          <h2>Australia legend calls it quits
          <h2>Opinion: A Proteas effort to praise
          <h2>Watch: Proteas have hunger to win – Markram
          <h2>Watch: Boks versus Ireland is personal
               <h3>Lifestyle
          <h2>Toasted cheese with pear, caramelised onion & avoc…
          <h2>5 common hair loss and transplant myths busted!
          <h2>Tips for camping in winter
          <h2>Rich and gooey hot marshmallow fudge sundaes
          <h2>How chemical peels help your skin
               <h3>The Witness | June 28 2024
               <h3>Msun280624
               <h3>Public Eye 280624
               <h3>Village Talk 28.06.2024
               <h3>The Hilton 28.06.2024
               <h3>Greytown Gazette 280624
               <h3>
                    <h4>We Use Cookies
               <h3>Nersa compliance in question
               <h3>D-Day for DA to accept cabinet positions offer
               <h3>Icy plunge to raise awareness

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

0 / 1

Number of headings: 74

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: 64

Well done! Your page contains pictures.

1 / 1

Number of pictures without description: OK

Well done! All the images on your page have a filled in caption (alt attribute).

1 / 1

Number of links:

Number of internal follow links: 192
Number of internal nofollow links: 1

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

2 / 2

Number of links:

Number of external follow links: 62
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

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 1868 characters. The length of all text on the page is 9100 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: '.tie-popup-search-wrap / ...'.

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

0 / 1

Achieved score:

17 / 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: 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:

5 / 6

Tags for social networks

Language settings: en_US

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

1 / 1

Content type settings: website

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

1 / 1

URL settings: https://witness.co.za/

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

2 / 2

Page Title: The Witness | Your compass in the community

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: -

Your page does not have the correct tag value for the page title image!

0 / 2

Achieved score:

6 / 10

Keyword analysis

Number of words per page: 1339

Well done! Your page contains enough words. There are '1339' 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
read	24x	0x	0x	0x
hours	21x	0x	0x	0x
more	20x	0x	0x	2x
2024	20x	0x	0x	9x
fixedbottom	15x	0x	0x	0x
june	14x	0x	0x	7x
28062024	9x	0x	0x	2x
news	9x	0x	0x	2x
page	8x	0x	0x	0x
public	8x	0x	0x	3x

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: 32.3 kB

Well done! Your page is a reasonable size.

1 / 1

Files to load:

Linked files
https://witness.co.za/wp-content/themes/jannah/assets/fonts/tielabs-fonticon/tielabs-fonticon.woff	25.0 kB
https://witness.co.za/wp-content/themes/jannah/assets/fonts/fontawesome/fa-solid-900.woff2	79.4 kB
https://witness.co.za/wp-content/themes/jannah/assets/fonts/fontawesome/fa-brands-400.woff2	76.6 kB
https://witness.co.za/wp-content/themes/jannah/assets/fonts/fontawesome/fa-regular-400.woff2	13.6 kB
https://witness.co.za/	32.3 kB
https://witness.co.za/	32.3 kB
https://witness.co.za/wp-content/themes/jannah/assets/css/style.min.css?ver=2.4.34	26.8 kB
https://witness.co.za/wp-content/themes/jannah/assets/css/plugins/shortcodes.min.css?ver=2.4.34	4.0 kB
https://witness.co.za/wp-content/themes/jannah/assets/css/widgets.min.css?ver=2.4.34	9.3 kB
https://witness.co.za/wp-content/themes/jannah/assets/css/helpers.min.css?ver=2.4.34	8.4 kB
https://witness.co.za/wp-content/themes/jannah/assets/css/helpers.min.css?ver=2.4.34	8.4 kB
https://witness.co.za/wp-content/themes/jannah/assets/css/fontawesome.css?ver=2.4.34	13.1 kB
https://witness.co.za/wp-content/themes/jannah/assets/css/fontawesome.css?ver=2.4.34	13.1 kB
Linked script files
Linked image files
https://witness.co.za/wp-content/uploads/sites/144/2024/06/top-front-page-scaled.jpg	1 100.3 kB
TOTAL	1 442.9 kB

Well done! Your page, including the source code, is a reasonable 1 475.2 kB size.

2 / 2

Number of requests: 14

Well done! Your page needs a reasonable number of requests to load.

1 / 1

Achieved score:

5 / 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:

Error	URL
403	https://witness.co.za/?random-post=1

Note: Only 30 of randomly selected internal links were tested. Your page contains 193 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

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Achieved score:

(47 / 65)

72.3 %

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Loading the page

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

Retrieved from:
1. 7. 2024 19:45

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://witness.co.za/' and 'https://www.witness.co.za/' have been redirected to the same URL.

1 / 1

URL length: 22 of characters

Well done! Your URL is a reasonable length.

1 / 1

File robots.txt: -

There is a robots.txt file uploaded on your site, but the sitemap address is not filled in.

1 / 2

Sitemap: -

The site map address is not filled in the robots.txt file.

0 / 2

Achieved score:

8 / 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: 71 - 95 B

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

1 / 1

Language: en-US

Great! Your page is set to the language used.

1 / 1

Meta title: The Witness | Your compass in the community

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

2 / 2

Meta description: -

Your page does not have the correct meta description!

0 / 2

H1 heading:
<h1>The Witness</h1>

Well done! Your page contains H1 heading.

2 / 2

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

0 / 1

Number of headings: 74

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: 64

Well done! Your page contains pictures.

1 / 1

Number of pictures without description: OK

Well done! All the images on your page have a filled in caption (alt attribute).

1 / 1

Number of links:

Number of internal follow links: 192
Number of internal nofollow links: 1

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

2 / 2

Number of links:

Number of external follow links: 62
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

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 1868 characters. The length of all text on the page is 9100 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: '.tie-popup-search-wrap / ...'.

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

0 / 1

Achieved score:

17 / 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: 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:

5 / 6

Tags for social networks

Language settings: en_US

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

1 / 1

Content type settings: website

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

1 / 1

URL settings: https://witness.co.za/

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

2 / 2

Page Title: The Witness | Your compass in the community

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: -

Your page does not have the correct tag value for the page title image!

0 / 2

Achieved score:

6 / 10

Keyword analysis

Number of words per page: 1339

Well done! Your page contains enough words. There are '1339' 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
read	24x	0x	0x	0x
hours	21x	0x	0x	0x
more	20x	0x	0x	2x
2024	20x	0x	0x	9x
fixedbottom	15x	0x	0x	0x
june	14x	0x	0x	7x
28062024	9x	0x	0x	2x
news	9x	0x	0x	2x
page	8x	0x	0x	0x
public	8x	0x	0x	3x

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: 32.3 kB

Well done! Your page is a reasonable size.

1 / 1

Files to load:

Linked files
https://witness.co.za/wp-content/themes/jannah/assets/fonts/tielabs-fonticon/tielabs-fonticon.woff	25.0 kB
https://witness.co.za/wp-content/themes/jannah/assets/fonts/fontawesome/fa-solid-900.woff2	79.4 kB
https://witness.co.za/wp-content/themes/jannah/assets/fonts/fontawesome/fa-brands-400.woff2	76.6 kB
https://witness.co.za/wp-content/themes/jannah/assets/fonts/fontawesome/fa-regular-400.woff2	13.6 kB
https://witness.co.za/	32.3 kB
https://witness.co.za/	32.3 kB
https://witness.co.za/wp-content/themes/jannah/assets/css/style.min.css?ver=2.4.34	26.8 kB
https://witness.co.za/wp-content/themes/jannah/assets/css/plugins/shortcodes.min.css?ver=2.4.34	4.0 kB
https://witness.co.za/wp-content/themes/jannah/assets/css/widgets.min.css?ver=2.4.34	9.3 kB
https://witness.co.za/wp-content/themes/jannah/assets/css/helpers.min.css?ver=2.4.34	8.4 kB
https://witness.co.za/wp-content/themes/jannah/assets/css/helpers.min.css?ver=2.4.34	8.4 kB
https://witness.co.za/wp-content/themes/jannah/assets/css/fontawesome.css?ver=2.4.34	13.1 kB
https://witness.co.za/wp-content/themes/jannah/assets/css/fontawesome.css?ver=2.4.34	13.1 kB
Linked script files
Linked image files
https://witness.co.za/wp-content/uploads/sites/144/2024/06/top-front-page-scaled.jpg	1 100.3 kB
TOTAL	1 442.9 kB

Well done! Your page, including the source code, is a reasonable 1 475.2 kB size.

2 / 2

Number of requests: 14

Well done! Your page needs a reasonable number of requests to load.

1 / 1

Achieved score:

5 / 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:

Error	URL
403	https://witness.co.za/?random-post=1

Note: Only 30 of randomly selected internal links were tested. Your page contains 193 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:

(47 / 65)

72.3 %

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