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SEO Audit - The address of the analysed webpage boston.com is redirected to www.boston.com//?refresh=true

boston.com desktop preview
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Mobile devices

Mobile view
This website is optimal for mobile devices!
Tablet view
Mobile appearance
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Mobile optimisation
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Meta Tag (viewport tag, mobile devices)
Flash content

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Boston, MA news, breaking news, sports, video | Boston.com

www.boston.com//?refresh=true
Boston news, sports, travel, real estate, jobs, and cars. The sharpest reporting and commentary from the best city in the world.

Domain / URL audit

URL
Domain : www.boston.com//?refresh=true
Length (characters) : 29
Alexa
Alexa global rank: 2388
Alexa rank (United States): 676
IP checking
The 185.31.19.153 ip address is not on the spam list.
Visitors position
CountryPercentage
United States78.5%
India3.3%
Sweden1.8%
Australia1.8%
United Kingdom1.7%
Canada1.2%
Finland1.0%
Denmark0.7%
Netherlands0.6%
Belgium0.5%
Other8.9%
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Meta data

Keywords (meta keywords)
Excellent! The website does not use “meta keywords”. Using “meta keywords” is meaningless since September 2009.
Description (meta description)
Boston news, sports, travel, real estate, jobs, and cars. The sharpest reporting and commentary from the best city in the world.

Length (characters) : 128

Excellent! The length of the meta description on this site is between 70 and 160 characters.
Open Graph Protocol
Excellent! The OG (Open Graph) protocol is set on this website.

type: website
description: Boston news, sports, travel, real estate, jobs, and cars. The sharpest reporting and commentary from the best city in the world. | Boston.com
title: Breaking news, sports, video | Boston.com
site_name: Boston.com
url: http://www.boston.com
image: http://p.o0bc.com/rw/SysConfig/WebPortal/BDC/Framework/img/bcom_logo_with_name.png

Dublin Core
Error! The website does not use the Dublin Core schema.

SEO audit: Content analysis

Language
Error! No language localisation is found.
Title
Boston, MA news, breaking news, sports, video | Boston.com

Length (characters) : 58

Excellent! The title’s length is between 10 and 70 characters.
Text / HTML ratio
Ratio : 2%

Error! The text / HTML code ratio is under 15 percent on this website. This value shows that the website has relatively few text content.
Flash
Excellent! The website does not have any flash contents.
Frame
Excellent! The website does not use iFrame solutions.
Keywords cloud
entertainment  yankees  llc  twitter  volvo’s  concept  privacy  new  help  right  music  boston  team  please  first  idea  superhero  since  globe  brookline  enter  how  google  partners  facebook  seat  next  media  cup  advice  cars  policy  jobs  fans  estate  car  local  conan  all  been  search  drive  home  like  most  red  real  top  world  try  email  bdcwire  more  sox  front  fighting  bad  sports  news  address 
Keywords consistency
Keyword Content Title Description (meta description) Headings (headings)
boston 16
bdcwire 13
email 6
globe 5
privacy 5
sox 5
Keywords (2 words) Content Title Description (meta description) Headings (headings)
globe media 2
twitter facebook 2
been fighting 2
fighting since 2
media partners 2
privacy policy 2
Keywords (3 words) Content Title Description (meta description) Headings (headings)
please enter a valid 2
Headings (headings)
H1H2H3H4H5H6
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Heading structure in the source code
  • <H2> ICYMI
  • <H2> Sports
  • <H2> BDCwire
  • <H2> New in Autos
  • <H2> Entertainment
  • <H1> Share
  • <H2>
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Images
We found 15 images on this web page.

Alternate attributes for the following 14 images are missing. Search engines use "alt" tags to understand image content efficiently. We strongly recommend fixing this issue.

SEO audit: technology

Redirection (www / not www)
Excellent! The web address is accessible only in one version. The version without www is redirected to the version with www.
Favicon
Excellent! The website uses favicon.
Doctype
HTML 5
Encoding
Perfect! The character encoding is set: UTF-8.
W3C validity
  • Errors: 29
  • Warnings: 11
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Deprecated HTML
Excellent! No deprecated HTML tags are detected.
Printability
Suggestion! Unfortunately, no printer-friendly CSS found.
404 Page
The website has a 404 error page.
Checking the robots.txt file
There is robots.txt file.
http://www.boston.com/robots.txt
User-agentDisallow (parts which have been disallowed for the search engines)
*
  • /ajax
  • /_ajax
  • /css
  • /eom
  • /fragment
  • /img
  • /js
  • /login
  • /logout
  • /newsprojects/widgets/
  • /page
  • /rf
  • /rss
  • /rw
  • /templates
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Sitemap
Excellent! Sitemap is used on this website.
http://www.boston.com/streams_sitemap.xml.gz
Google Analytics
The Google Analytics tracking code is missing.
Google Tag Manager
Suggestion! The website does not use the Google Tag Manager.
Email encryption
Warning! The website contains at least one unencrypted email address.
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