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SEO audit: www.gamespot.com

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Video Games Reviews & News - GameSpot

www.gamespot.com/
GameSpot is the world's leading source for PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U, PS Vita, Wii, PC, 3DS, and DS video game news, reviews, previews ...

Domain / URL audit

URL

Domain : www.gamespot.com/
Length (characters) : 17

Alexa

Alexa global rank: 855
Alexa rank (United States): 473

IP checking

The 64.30.228.81 ip address is not on the spam list.

Visitors position

Country	Percentage
United States	46.2%
United Kingdom	6.0%
India	4.5%
Canada	3.8%
Netherlands	3.0%
Australia	2.1%
Brazil	1.7%
Mexico	1.6%
Indonesia	1.5%
Russian Federation	1.5%
Germany	1.5%
Turkey	1.5%
France	1.4%
Sweden	1.3%
Greece	1.1%
Norway	1.1%
Finland	1.1%
Italy	0.9%
Pakistan	0.9%
Malaysia	0.9%
Portugal	0.9%
Japan	0.9%
Denmark	0.9%
Poland	0.8%
Spain	0.7%
Romania	0.7%
Argentina	0.7%
Singapore	0.7%
Belgium	0.6%
Ireland	0.5%
Other	9.1%
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Keywords (meta keywords)

Excellent! The website does not use “meta keywords”. Using “meta keywords” is meaningless since September 2009.

Description (meta description)

GameSpot is the world's leading source for PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U, PS Vita, Wii, PC, 3DS, and DS video game news, reviews, previews, trailers, walkthroughs, and more.

Length (characters) : 179

Suggestion! The length of the meta description should be between 70 and 160 characters.

Open Graph Protocol

Excellent! The OG (Open Graph) protocol is set on this website.

url: http://www.gamespot.com
title: Video Games Reviews & News - GameSpot
type: website
description: GameSpot is the world's leading source for PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U, PS Vita, Wii, PC, 3DS, and DS video game news, reviews, previews, trailers, walkthroughs, and more.
site_name: GameSpot

Dublin Core

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

SEO audit: Content analysis

Language

We have found the language localisation: ”en”.

Title

Video Games Reviews & News - GameSpot

Length (characters) : 37

Excellent! The title’s length is between 10 and 70 characters.

Text / HTML ratio

Ratio : 4%

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

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Keywords consistency

Keyword	Content	Title	Description (meta description)	Headings (headings)
new	21
news	16
minutes	12
games	12
coming	11
xbox	10

Keywords (2 words)	Content	Title	Description (meta description)	Headings (headings)
minutes ago	8
resident evil	3
xbox one	3
arkham knight	3
total war	2
releases now	2

Keywords (3 words)	Content	Title	Description (meta description)	Headings (headings)
minutes ago news	6
top 5 skyrim mods	2

Headings (headings)

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Heading structure in the source code

<H2> Gotham's Worst Unite Against Batman in This Arkham Knight Trailer
<H3> Major PlayStation 4 Update Due, Sources Claim
<H3> Review: Nvidia's GTX 960 is a Good, Not Great 1080p GPU
<H3> GS News - Destiny Griefer says “Suck it Up”; New PS4 System Update?
<H3> 4 Things We Don't Want In The New Mass Effect In 2 Minutes
<H3> Quick Time Event Fails Montage - Out of Order: 1886
<H3> Raid Mode in Resident Evil Revelations 2 Ep. 1 - GameSpot Plays
<H3> Resident Evil Revelations 2 Removes Features From PC Version
<H3> You Might Not Survive An Assassin's Creed-Style Haystack Dive
<H3> New ToeJam & Earl In Development, First Details Revealed
<H3> [UPDATE] That Final Fantasy Mystic Quest Remake is Probably a Scam
<H3> Gaming Deals: Get Titanfall for $6, and More
<H3> Battlefield Hardline Dev Talks Single-Player Campaign Length, More
<H3> Destiny Patch Fixes Heavy Ammo Bug, Other Changes Detailed
<H3> Destiny File Troll Comes Forward, Confesses Trail of Deletions
<H4> Top Upcoming Games
<H4> Tom Clancy's The Division
<H4> Mortal Kombat X
<H4> The Legend of Zelda Wii U
<H4> The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
<H4> Final Fantasy XV
<H4> Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
<H4> Battlefield Hardline
<H4> Batman: Arkham Knight
<H4> Star Wars: Battlefront
<H4> Hatred
<H4> Reviews
<H4> Resident Evil: Revelations 2 - Episode One
<H4> Aaru's Awakening
<H4> Grow Home
<H4> The Order: 1886
<H4> The Legend of Candlewind: Nights & Candles
<H4> Kirby and the Rainbow Curse
<H4> Heroes of Might & Magic III - HD Edition
<H4> Criminal Girls: Invite Only
<H4> Total War: Attila
<H4> The Escapists
<H4> Popular Features
<H3> This Week in GameTech - PS4 SharePlay Backfires; Project Morpheus News
<H3> Nintendo's Clay Fueled Vision for Kirby and the Rainbow Curse
<H3> Games That Are Better On The New Nintendo 3DS
<H3> New Nintendo 3DS XL Launch Guide
<H3> This Week in GameTech - Nintendo Releases its New 3DS; Samsung TVs Record Our Conversations
<H4> Popular Videos
<H3> Gaming Trends That Need to Die in 2015
<H3> Batman: Arkham Knight - Gotham is Mine Trailer
<H3> Dragon Ball XenoVerse Character Customization of all Five Classes
<H3> Short Games Worth Playing
<H3> Reality Check - Can You Tell The Difference Between PS4, XONE and PC?
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Images

We found 38 images on this web page.

Alternate attributes for the following 11 images are missing. Search engines use "alt" tags to understand image content efficiently. We strongly recommend fixing this issue.

SEO audit: Links

Search engine friendly URLs

Excellent! The website uses SEO friendly URLs.

Underscores in the URLs

Error! Hyphen (-) is a better solution than underscore (_) in the URLs

http://www.gamespot.com/shows/New_Releases ("New Releases")
http://www.gamespot.com/shows/New_Releases ("SunNew Releases4PM")

Links

We found a total of 126 different links.
Internal links: 112
External links: 14

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Gotham's Worst Unite Against Batman in This Arkham Knight TrailerNew two-minute video sets darker tone for the M-rated action title.
Major PlayStation 4 Update Due, Sources Claim
Review: Nvidia's GTX 960 is a Good, Not Great 1080p GPU
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Video Video 30 GS News - Destiny Griefer says “Suck it Up”; New PS4 System Update?Nvidia apologise for false advertising, an insider thinks a new PS4 system update is coming, and the Destiny PS4 Share Play drama thickens!
Video Video 120 4 Things We Don't Want In The New Mass Effect In 2 MinutesLucy and Seb can't wait for a new Mass Effect game, but they have strong opinions on what it shouldn't have.
Feature 4 Quick Time Event Fails Montage - Out of Order: 1886 Sir Galahad is having a shitty day. He just can’t hit his marks with all these damn quick time events! Will he ever catch a break? CONTAINS SPOILERS.58 minutes, 26 seconds ago
Feature 4 Raid Mode in Resident Evil Revelations 2 Ep. 1 - GameSpot Plays Peter shows Mary the ropes in Raid mode, doing a daily mission and a new main mission and showing off the unlockable weapons, skills and ridiculous gestures.2 hours, 4 minutes ago
News 67 Resident Evil Revelations 2 Removes Features From PC Version Resident Evil Revelations 2 will not have offline co-op as advertised.4 hours, 18 minutes ago
News 212 You Might Not Survive An Assassin's Creed-Style Haystack Dive New study shows that Assassin's Creed's trademark Leap of Faith moments are pretty unrealistic.6 hours, 16 minutes ago
News 37 New ToeJam & Earl In Development, First Details Revealed Original designer Greg Johnson announces plans to revive the long-dormant action series.6 hours, 43 minutes ago
News 224 [UPDATE] That Final Fantasy Mystic Quest Remake is Probably a Scam Without Square Enix's permission, a developer is trying to put out an unauthorized version of one of Square's lesser known Final Fantasy games.6 hours, 43 minutes ago
Deals News 44 Gaming Deals: Get Titanfall for $6, and More Get Civilization: Beyond Earth for $30, Total War: Rome II for $30, and more.7 hours, 1 minute ago
News 25 Battlefield Hardline Dev Talks Single-Player Campaign Length, More Visceral Games offers new details about the upcoming shooter's single-player campaign, which will span ten total chapters.7 hours, 2 minutes ago
News 28 Destiny Patch Fixes Heavy Ammo Bug, Other Changes Detailed Update 1.1.1 rolling out now across all platforms; see the full patch notes here.7 hours, 46 minutes ago
News 823 Destiny File Troll Comes Forward, Confesses Trail of Deletions Delinquent teen deleted Destiny and GTA 5 data on other people's accounts; Says he has no regrets.8 hours, 48 minutes ago
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Tom Clancy's The Division Coming 2015unreleased
Mortal Kombat X Coming Apr 14, 2015unreleased
The Legend of Zelda Wii U Coming 2015unreleased
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Coming May 19, 2015unreleased
Final Fantasy XVUnknown Release Dateunreleased
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Coming 2015unreleased
Battlefield Hardline Coming Mar 17, 2015unreleased
Batman: Arkham Knight Coming Jun 2, 2015unreleased
Star Wars: Battlefront Coming Q3 2015unreleased
Hatred Coming Q4 2015unreleased
GameSpot 50 See all upcoming games
Resident Evil: Revelations 2 - Episode One Reviewed on:XONE 7 Good
Aaru's Awakening 4Poor
Grow Home 8Great
The Order: 1886 5Mediocre
The Legend of Candlewind: Nights & Candles 2Terrible
Kirby and the Rainbow Curse 5Mediocre
Heroes of Might & Magic III - HD Edition 6Fair
Criminal Girls: Invite Only 4Poor
Total War: Attila 7Good
The Escapists 8Great
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MonThe Gist12PM
TueThe Lobby2PM
ThuTop 5 Skyrim Mods of the Week12PM
FriReality Check12PM
SunNew Releases4PM
40 This Week in GameTech - PS4 SharePlay Backfires; Project Morpheus NewsDestiny player's account ruined via PS4 SharePlay, Sony promises big Project Morpheus news at GDC, and Xbox One updates coming in time for Windows 10.
31 Nintendo's Clay Fueled Vision for Kirby and the Rainbow CurseKirby creators share a glimpse of Kirby and the Rainbow Curse's development process.
128 Games That Are Better On The New Nintendo 3DSThe New Nintendo 3DS boasts improved hardware and a slew of new features. We pick games that get the most of the new and improved handheld.
21 New Nintendo 3DS XL Launch GuideThe best of GameSpot's New Nintendo 3DS coverage.
15 This Week in GameTech - Nintendo Releases its New 3DS; Samsung TVs Record Our ConversationsNintendo releases a new handheld, Nvidia teases the future of gaming, and Samsung is lambasted for recording your conversations.
00:06:58 2077 Gaming Trends That Need to Die in 2015Skimpy armor, Kickstarter games gone missing, moba fever, huge day 1 patches, and more. Video games have a number of trends that we would like to see go away in 2015. Have any you would like to see gone? Let us know in the comments.
00:02:10 20 Batman: Arkham Knight - Gotham is Mine TrailerScarecrow is uniting the Rogues Gallery to take down The Dark Knight and Gotham itself in Batman: Arkham Knight.
00:05:28 23 Dragon Ball XenoVerse Character Customization of all Five ClassesTake a look at what the five different character races including Saiyan, Majin, Earthling, Namekian and Freeza Race and how you can customize each character in this Dragon Ball XenoVerse montage.
00:06:59 140 Short Games Worth PlayingIn light of the recent game length controversy, I spoke with the GameSpot staff to determine how exactly a short game can still be great.
00:10:53 780 Reality Check - Can You Tell The Difference Between PS4, XONE and PC?Cam undertakes the mother of all console war experiments: Can people REALLY tell the difference between PS4, XONE and PC based on graphics alone? Link to vote on the clips - tinyurl.com/RCGFXTEST Link to download the video file - tinyurl.com/RCGFXBLOG
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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: 184
Warnings: 25

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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 no standard 404 error page.

Checking the robots.txt file

There is robots.txt file.
http://www.gamespot.com/robots.txt

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Sitemap

Error! No sitemap found!

Google Analytics

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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.