Technical SEO Audit for wikipedia.org
85
/ 100
Strong
TL;DR
Free technical SEO audit for wikipedia.org. Score: 85/100 across 60+ on-page, performance, mobile, and security signals. Run by Baaed FREE SEO Suite.
Audit Results
Analytics 3 signals
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Google Analytics No Google Analytics detected. Without analytics you can't measure traffic or conversions.
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Google Tag Manager No GTM detected. Optional — only worth adding if you run many tracking pixels.
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Facebook Pixel No Facebook Pixel detected. Optional — only worth adding if you run Meta ads and need retargeting.
Mobile 2 signals
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Mobile Viewport Viewport missing width=device-width — mobile experience will be subpar.
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Flash Content No Flash content — good, Flash has been discontinued since 2020.
Onpage 18 signals
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Title Tag Title is only 9 characters. Aim for 50–60 characters to maximize SERP display without truncation. Use our Meta Tag Generator →
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Meta Description Description present, 130 characters — within the sweet spot.
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Meta Keywords No meta keywords tag present — this is modern best practice. Google ignores this tag since 2009.
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H1 Heading Exactly one H1 on the page: "Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia"
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Heading Hierarchy Logical heading structure: H1:1 H2:5 H3:1 H4:0 H5:0 H6:0.
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Image Alt Text All 1 images have alt text. Excellent for accessibility and SEO.
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Internal vs External Links 0 internal, 374 external. Internal link ratio is low (0%). Consider linking more to your own content.
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Follow / Nofollow 374 dofollow, 0 nofollow. Link equity flows through dofollow links to linked pages.
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Canonical URL No <link rel="canonical"> tag. Helps prevent duplicate content issues. Rewrite URLs with our tool →
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Language Attribute Page declares lang="en".
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Character Encoding UTF-8 charset declared — correct modern default.
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DOCTYPE HTML5 DOCTYPE declared correctly.
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Custom 404 Page Missing URLs return a full 404 response (2,020 bytes). Visitors get proper feedback.
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W3C HTML Validity 34 W3C HTML errors. Worth cleaning up — most are usually 3rd-party scripts or non-standard attributes.
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Text to HTML Ratio Text/HTML ratio: 56.6% — healthy content-to-markup balance.
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Total Link Count 374 links on page.
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Author Meta No author meta tag. Optional — relevant for blogs and news sites.
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Readability Proxy Sentences are very short (~2 words). May indicate thin content or fragmented text.
Performance 12 signals
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HTTP Status Server returned HTTP 200.
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Response Time Fast TTFB: 200ms. Well under Google's 800ms target.
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Page Size Page weight: 30 KB. Lightweight — good for mobile users on slow connections.
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Compression Gzip compression active. Consider upgrading to Brotli for ~15-20% smaller responses.
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Browser Caching Static asset https://wikipedia.org/static/apple-touch/wikipedia.png caches well: max-age=31536000.
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HTTP Version Serving over HTTP/2 — multiplexed and modern.
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External Resources 0 CSS + 2 JS external files — reasonable.
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Inline <style> Tags 3 inline style blocks. A small amount can be fine (critical CSS), but keep it minimal.
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Inline <script> Tags 2 inline scripts. A few are fine; externalize if you can for caching benefits.
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Iframes No iframes — keeps load time predictable.
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Image Count 1 images.
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Broken Link Check Crawled 1 internal links — all returned a 2xx/3xx response. Run full broken-links scan →
Security 9 signals
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HTTPS Page served over HTTPS. Good for SEO, privacy, and user trust.
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HSTS Strict-Transport-Security header present. Forces HTTPS on future visits.
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Content Security Policy No CSP header. Modern defense against XSS — add one via your server config.
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X-Frame-Options / CSP frame-ancestors No X-Frame-Options or CSP frame-ancestors. Page can be embedded in a malicious frame.
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Mixed Content No mixed content — all resources loaded over HTTPS.
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Server Header Disclosure Server header reveals software and version: "ATS/9.2.13". Attackers use this to target known CVEs.
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X-Powered-By Disclosure No X-Powered-By header — good.
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security.txt security.txt file present — RFC 9116 standard for security contact info.
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DNSBL / Spam Blocklist IP is clean on the 5 major DNSBL zones spot-checked (Spamhaus, SpamCop, Barracuda, SORBS, PSBL).
Technical 16 signals
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Viewport Meta Tag Viewport tag present but missing width=device-width. Mobile rendering may be suboptimal.
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Robots Meta Tag No restrictive robots meta — default is index,follow (good).
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robots.txt robots.txt is present at https://wikipedia.org/robots.txt.
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XML Sitemap Sitemap declared in robots.txt: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/site/v1/sitemap/0.
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Structured Data (Schema) Structured data present — RDFa detected. Eligible for rich results.
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Structured Data Richness No schema types detected.
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Open Graph Tags 1 required OG tags missing: og:url. Complete OG tags improve social share appearance.
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Twitter Card No Twitter Card tags. Twitter shares fall back to Open Graph or plain text.
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AMP Page is not AMP. This is fine — AMP is optional and declining in Google's ranking signals.
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Favicon Favicon declared: /static/apple-touch/wikipedia.png.
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Hreflang No hreflang tags. This is correct for single-language sites.
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ads.txt No ads.txt file. This is optional — add one only if you monetize via programmatic display ads.
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Server IP / Location Resolved to 208.80.154.224.
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Server Location / Host Hosting provider: <strong>Unknown</strong> (rDNS: <code>text-lb.eqiad.wikimedia.org</code>).
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www / non-www canonical Apex redirects to www. Single canonical hostname configured correctly.
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Domain Age Registered 2001-01-13 (25 year(s) old). Mature domain — Google trusts age modestly.
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