SEO report

SEO report for ghost.org

https://ghost.org/ · checked Sun, 01 Nov 2026 16:05 GMT

✓ 29 Passed! 7 Warnings✗ 10 FailedAI readiness 50%

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  1. 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.

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  2. H1 headingcritical

    “Turn your audience into a business .”

    Fix: Use one H1 that states the page topic with its main keyword.

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  3. 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.

    See the details

  4. Freshness signalsmedium

    No published/updated date found.

    Fix: Show a 'last updated' date and add dateModified to your structured data.

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  5. Anchor text qualitymedium

    Same text used for different pages: “learn more →”.

    Fix: Make every link text describe its destination, e.g. “logo design prices” instead of “click here”.

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  6. Imagesmedium

    78 image(s).

    Fix: Give every image width and height, lazy-load images below the fold (but not the main image) and serve WebP/AVIF.

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  7. Image alt textmedium

    23 of 78 images have no alt attribute.

    Fix: Describe each meaningful image in its alt attribute (use alt="" for decorative ones).

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  8. 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.

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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 ghost.org…

Indexing & crawling 100%

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

    robots.txt found.

    Googlebot is allowed to crawl this page.

  • ✓

    XML sitemaphigh

    Sitemap index found at https://ghost.org/sitemap.xml listing 20 sitemaps.

    Declared in robots.txt.

    Most recent lastmod: 2026-11-01T14:24:42+00:00.

  • ✓

    Canonical URLhigh

    Canonical: https://ghost.org/

    Points to this page (self-referencing).

  • ✓

    Redirectshigh

    Loads directly with no redirects.

  • ✓

    www / non-wwwmedium

    www.ghost.org redirects to ghost.org.

Search snippet & sharing 79%

How the page looks in Google results and when shared.

  • ✓

    Title tagcritical

    “Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform”

    About 495px of Google's ~580px desktop width.

  • !

    Meta descriptionhigh

    167 characters, ~1061px of ~990px.

    Long – Google will probably truncate it.

    Google sometimes rewrites descriptions to match the search; a good one is still used most often.

    Fix: Write a 140–155 character description that answers the searcher's question and invites the click.

  • ✓

    Open Graph & social cardsmedium

    Open Graph title and image set.

    Twitter/X card: summary_large_image.

  • ✗

    Faviconlow

    No favicon linked.

    Fix: Add a square favicon at least 48×48px.

  • ✓

    Languagelow

    lang="en-gb"

Content quality 63%

Is there enough clear, useful text that matches what the page targets?

  • ✓

    Word countmedium

    617 words of main content (inside <main>).

    Google has no minimum word count – this is a rough guide to whether the page answers the question in full.

  • ✓

    Readabilitymedium

    Flesch reading ease 56 (fairly easy), about 11 words per sentence.

  • !

    Topic focushigh

    4 of 6 title keywords appear in the main content (missing: best, blog).

    Fix: Use your main title phrases naturally in the opening paragraph and headings.

  • !

    H1 headingcritical

    “Turn your audience into a business .”

    The H1 shares no keywords with the title.

    Fix: Use one H1 that states the page topic with its main keyword.

  • !

    Heading structuremedium

    30 headings for 617 words – a lot for the amount of text.

    Levels are in order.

    Fix: Use H2s for main sections and H3s inside them, without skipping levels.

  • !

    Text-to-code ratiolow

    5% of the HTML is visible text.

    Fix: Trim unused markup, inline scripts and builder bloat.

AI search readiness 50%

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 all three: about, contact and privacy.

Structured data 100%

Machine-readable facts for rich results and AI.

  • ✓

    JSON-LD present & validhigh

    1 JSON-LD block(s): WebSite, WebPage, ImageObject.

    All blocks parse correctly.

  • ✓

    Required propertiesmedium

    Key types include Google's required properties.

  • i

    Breadcrumbslow

    Home page – breadcrumbs not needed.

Performance 77%

Speed signals from the HTML and server. Real-user Core Web Vitals load below.

  • ✓

    Server response (TTFB)high

    95 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

    120 kB of HTML.

  • ✓

    Compressionmedium

    Compressed with br.

  • ✓

    Render-blocking resourceshigh

    0 blocking script(s) and 1 stylesheet(s) in <head>.

  • !

    Scripts & third partiesmedium

    12 script tag(s); files loaded from 4 other domain(s): cdn.firstpromoter.com, dubcdn.com, analytics.ahrefs.com, ghbtns.com.

    Fix: Remove unused tracking and widget scripts; every third party adds connection time.

  • ✗

    Imagesmedium

    78 image(s).

    7 without width/height – can cause layout shift (CLS).

    4 image(s) after the first three aren't lazy-loaded.

    68 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

    Cache-Control: public,max-age=0,must-revalidate

    Fix: Set Cache-Control so browsers and CDNs can reuse the page.

  • i

    HTTP/3low

    Couldn't be confirmed from our server – the alt-svc header that advertises HTTP/3 isn't always visible to it. Your site is on Cloudflare, which offers HTTP/3 under Network settings.

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

  • ✓

    Security headerslow

    Present: CSP, nosniff, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy, clickjacking protection.

  • ✓

    Server fingerprintlow

    No X-Powered-By header (server: cloudflare).

Mobile & accessibility 50%

Usable on phones and by everyone – Google indexes the mobile version.

  • ✓

    Mobile viewportcritical

    viewport: width=device-width,initial-scale=1

  • ✗

    Image alt textmedium

    23 of 78 images have no alt attribute.

    Fix: Describe each meaningful image in its alt attribute (use alt="" for decorative ones).

  • ✗

    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.

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