SEO report for www.bookstackapp.com
https://www.bookstackapp.com/ · checked Wed, 11 Nov 2026 04:08 GMT
Fix these first
- Entity clarityhigh
No Organization / LocalBusiness structured data – search engines and AI have to guess who runs this site.
Fix: Add Organization or LocalBusiness JSON-LD with name, url, logo, contact details and sameAs links to your official profiles.
- JSON-LD present & validhigh
No JSON-LD structured data.
Fix: Add JSON-LD describing the business and the page (Organization/LocalBusiness, WebSite, WebPage or Article, BreadcrumbList).
- Title tagcritical
“BookStack”
Fix: Write a unique title of roughly 50–60 characters with the main search phrase first.
- H1 headingcritical
“Simple & Free Wiki Software”
Fix: Use one H1 that states the page topic with its main keyword.
- Heading structuremedium
32 headings for 683 words – a lot for the amount of text.
Fix: Use H2s for main sections and H3s inside them, without skipping levels.
- Question-led contentmedium
No headings phrased as questions.
Fix: Add headings that match real questions ("How much does…?") followed by a direct one- or two-sentence answer – an easy format for search and AI answers to quote.
- Freshness signalsmedium
No published/updated date found.
Fix: Show a 'last updated' date and add dateModified to your structured data.
- Trust pages (E-E-A-T)medium
Links found to about; missing contact and privacy.
Fix: Link to About, Contact and Privacy pages from every page – they help visitors, Google and AI tools see who stands behind the content.
Real-world speed Google PageSpeed
Loading Core Web Vitals from Google… this can take up to 30 seconds.
Authority & backlinks
Looking up which websites link to bookstackapp.com…
Indexing & crawling 88%
Can search engines reach, read and index this page?
- ✓
Status codecritical
The page returned HTTP 200.
- ✓
Indexablecritical
No noindex instruction – the page can appear in search.
- !
robots.txthigh
No robots.txt found (HTTP 404) – crawlers may read everything.
Googlebot is allowed to crawl this page.
Fix: Add a robots.txt that allows crawling and lists your sitemap.
- !
XML sitemaphigh
Sitemap found at https://www.bookstackapp.com/sitemap.xml with 244 URLs.
Not declared in robots.txt.
This page is listed in it.
Most recent lastmod: 2026-10-24T00:04:18+01:00.
Fix: Add a 'Sitemap:' line to robots.txt, list every indexable page and include accurate lastmod dates.
- ✓
Canonical URLhigh
Canonical: https://www.bookstackapp.com/
Points to this page (self-referencing).
- ✓
Redirectshigh
1 redirect before the page loaded.
https://bookstackapp.com/ → https://www.bookstackapp.com/
A single redirect to your preferred address is normal; just make sure your own links use the final address.
- ✓
www / non-wwwmedium
bookstackapp.com redirects to www.bookstackapp.com.
Search snippet & sharing 71%
How the page looks in Google results and when shared.
- !
Title tagcritical
“BookStack”
About 96px of Google's ~580px desktop width – short; use the space.
Fix: Write a unique title of roughly 50–60 characters with the main search phrase first.
- ✓
Meta descriptionhigh
109 characters, ~673px of ~990px.
Good length.
Google sometimes rewrites descriptions to match the search; a good one is still used most often.
- ✓
Faviconlow
Favicon linked (Google shows it next to results).
- ✓
Languagelow
lang="en-gb"
Content quality 70%
Is there enough clear, useful text that matches what the page targets?
- ✓
Word countmedium
683 words of main content (menus and footer excluded).
Google has no minimum word count – this is a rough guide to whether the page answers the question in full.
- ✓
Readabilitymedium
Flesch reading ease 57 (fairly easy), about 12 words per sentence.
- ✓
Topic focushigh
1 of 1 title keywords appear in the main content.
- !
H1 headingcritical
“Simple & Free Wiki Software”
The H1 shares no keywords with the title.
Fix: Use one H1 that states the page topic with its main keyword.
- ✗
Heading structuremedium
32 headings for 683 words – a lot for the amount of text.
4 skipped level(s), e.g. H2 → H4.
Fix: Use H2s for main sections and H3s inside them, without skipping levels.
- ✓
Text-to-code ratiolow
12% of the HTML is visible text.
AI search readiness 38%
Can ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews read, understand and cite this site?
- ✓
AI crawler accesshigh
Search and AI-search crawlers (Googlebot, Bingbot, OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot…) can read this page.
- ✓
Snippet controlshigh
No snippet restrictions – search and AI answers can quote this page.
- ✗
llms.txtlow
No /llms.txt file. It's an optional, emerging convention – few AI tools are confirmed to read it yet, so this is low priority.
Fix: Optionally add /llms.txt: a short Markdown summary of who you are with links to your key pages.
- ✗
Question-led contentmedium
No headings phrased as questions.
Fix: Add headings that match real questions ("How much does…?") followed by a direct one- or two-sentence answer – an easy format for search and AI answers to quote.
- ✗
Entity clarityhigh
No Organization / LocalBusiness structured data – search engines and AI have to guess who runs this site.
Fix: Add Organization or LocalBusiness JSON-LD with name, url, logo, contact details and sameAs links to your official profiles.
- ✗
Freshness signalsmedium
No published/updated date found.
Fix: Show a 'last updated' date and add dateModified to your structured data.
- ✗
Trust pages (E-E-A-T)medium
Links found to about; missing contact and privacy.
Fix: Link to About, Contact and Privacy pages from every page – they help visitors, Google and AI tools see who stands behind the content.
Structured data 0%
Machine-readable facts for rich results and AI.
- ✗
JSON-LD present & validhigh
No JSON-LD structured data.
Fix: Add JSON-LD describing the business and the page (Organization/LocalBusiness, WebSite, WebPage or Article, BreadcrumbList).
Links 100%
Internal linking, anchor text and broken links.
- ✓
Internal linkinghigh
44 internal and 40 external links.
- ✓
Anchor text qualitymedium
No link text points to two different pages.
- ✓
Broken links (sample)high
Checked 12 internal link(s).
No broken links found.
6 link(s) point to a redirect – link to the final address instead.
Performance 81%
Speed signals from the HTML and server. Real-user Core Web Vitals load below.
- ✓
Server response (TTFB)high
643 ms until the first response from our checker, including connection setup (Google rates TTFB good under 0.8 s, poor over 1.8 s).
- ✓
HTML sizemedium
51 kB of HTML.
- ✓
Compressionmedium
Compressed with br.
- ✓
Render-blocking resourceshigh
0 blocking script(s) and 1 stylesheet(s) in <head>.
- ✓
Scripts & third partiesmedium
3 script tag(s); files loaded from 0 other domain(s).
- ✗
Imagesmedium
26 image(s).
22 without width/height – can cause layout shift (CLS).
10 image(s) after the first three aren't lazy-loaded.
5 use WebP/AVIF or responsive srcset.
Fix: Give every image width and height, lazy-load images below the fold (but not the main image) and serve WebP/AVIF.
- ✗
Cachinglow
No Cache-Control header.
Fix: Set Cache-Control so browsers and CDNs can reuse the page.
- ✓
HTTP/3low
Server advertises HTTP/3 (faster on mobile networks).
Security 100%
Visitor safety signals that browsers and Google check.
- ✓
HTTPScritical
Secure HTTPS with no mixed content.
- ✓
HTTP → HTTPS redirecthigh
http:// redirects to https://.
- ✓
HSTSmedium
HSTS: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
- ✓
Security headerslow
Present: CSP, nosniff, Referrer-Policy, clickjacking protection.
- ✓
Server fingerprintlow
No X-Powered-By header (server: cloudflare).
Mobile & accessibility 67%
Usable on phones and by everyone – Google indexes the mobile version.
- ✓
Mobile viewportcritical
viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
- ✓
Image alt textmedium
All 26 images have alt text.
- ✗
Form labelsmedium
1 of 3 form field(s) have no label.
Fix: Give every form field a <label> or aria-label (a placeholder isn't a label).
- ✓
Link nameslow
Every link has a readable name.
- ✗
Tap-to-contactmedium
No tel: or mailto: links.
Fix: Add a tap-to-call or tap-to-email button so phone visitors can contact you instantly.
Local SEO not scored
This site doesn't look like a local business, so these checks are shown for information and not scored.
- i
LocalBusiness markuphigh
No LocalBusiness structured data.
- i
Contact details on pagemedium
No phone number found.
No postcode found (fine for service-area businesses).
- i
Map & directionslow
No map or directions link.