SEO report for www.scribd.com
https://www.scribd.com/ · checked Sun, 01 Nov 2026 18:12 GMT
Fix these first
- XML sitemaphigh
No XML sitemap found at /sitemap.xml or in robots.txt.
Fix: Create an XML sitemap listing every page and submit it in Google Search Console.
- H1 headingcritical
“Connect the docs. Make this semester a success.”
Fix: Use one H1 that states the page topic with its main keyword.
- 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
No links found to about, contact or privacy pages.
Fix: Link to About, Contact and Privacy pages from every page – they help visitors, Google and AI tools see who stands behind the content.
- HTML sizemedium
405 kB of HTML – heavy for phones.
Fix: Remove inline bloat, base64 images and unused markup.
- Scripts & third partiesmedium
43 script tag(s); files loaded from 5 other domain(s): js.stripe.com, cmp.osano.com, cdn.jsdelivr.net, s-f.scribdassets.com, googletagmanager.com.
Fix: Remove unused tracking and widget scripts; every third party adds connection time.
- Form labelsmedium
1 of 1 form field(s) have no label.
Fix: Give every form field a <label> or aria-label (a placeholder isn't a label).
- 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.
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 scribd.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
robots.txt found.
Googlebot is allowed to crawl this page.
- ✗
XML sitemaphigh
No XML sitemap found at /sitemap.xml or in robots.txt.
Fix: Create an XML sitemap listing every page and submit it in Google Search Console.
- ✓
Canonical URLhigh
Canonical: https://www.scribd.com
Points to this page (self-referencing).
- ✓
Redirectshigh
1 redirect before the page loaded.
https://scribd.com/ → https://www.scribd.com/
A single redirect to your preferred address is normal; just make sure your own links use the final address.
- ✓
www / non-wwwmedium
scribd.com redirects to www.scribd.com.
- ✓
hreflangmedium
10 hreflang link(s).
All language codes are valid.
Search snippet & sharing 100%
How the page looks in Google results and when shared.
- ✓
Title tagcritical
“Scribd: Home to the world’s documents.”
About 353px of Google's ~580px desktop width.
- ✓
Meta descriptionhigh
147 characters, ~950px 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-US"
Content quality 60%
Is there enough clear, useful text that matches what the page targets?
- ✓
Word countmedium
520 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 58 (fairly easy), about 8 words per sentence.
- !
Topic focushigh
2 of 3 title keywords appear in the main content (missing: world).
Fix: Use your main title phrases naturally in the opening paragraph and headings.
- !
H1 headingcritical
“Connect the docs. Make this semester a success.”
The H1 shares no keywords with the title.
Fix: Use one H1 that states the page topic with its main keyword.
- !
Heading structuremedium
27 headings for 520 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
1% of the HTML is visible text.
Fix: Trim unused markup, inline scripts and builder bloat.
AI search readiness 59%
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
7 heading(s) phrased as questions, e.g. “What is Scribd?”.
- !
Entity clarityhigh
Identified as: Organization.
No sameAs links to official profiles (Google Business Profile, LinkedIn, Facebook, Companies House…).
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
No links found to about, contact or privacy pages.
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 100%
Machine-readable facts for rich results and AI.
- ✓
JSON-LD present & validhigh
2 JSON-LD block(s): WebSite, SearchAction, Organization.
All blocks parse correctly.
- ✓
Required propertiesmedium
Key types include Google's required properties.
Recommended but missing: Organization.logo.
Links 100%
Internal linking, anchor text and broken links.
- ✓
Internal linkinghigh
36 internal and 42 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.
Performance 50%
Speed signals from the HTML and server. Real-user Core Web Vitals load below.
- ✓
Server response (TTFB)high
56 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
405 kB of HTML – heavy for phones.
Fix: Remove inline bloat, base64 images and unused markup.
- i
Compressionmedium
Couldn't be measured from our server (our fetch decodes compressed pages before we see them). Check in your browser's developer tools that HTML is sent with br or gzip.
- !
Render-blocking resourceshigh
1 blocking script(s) and 4 stylesheet(s) in <head>.
Fix: Add defer to scripts, inline critical CSS and load the rest asynchronously.
- ✗
Scripts & third partiesmedium
43 script tag(s); files loaded from 5 other domain(s): js.stripe.com, cmp.osano.com, cdn.jsdelivr.net, s-f.scribdassets.com, googletagmanager.com.
Fix: Remove unused tracking and widget scripts; every third party adds connection time.
- !
Imagesmedium
35 image(s).
All images reserve their space.
The first image is lazy-loaded – if it's the main (LCP) image, that delays it. Don't lazy-load images visible on arrival.
29 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, no-cache
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=63072000; 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
- ✓
Image alt textmedium
All 35 images have alt text.
- ✗
Form labelsmedium
1 of 1 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.