SEO report for www.thinkific.com
https://www.thinkific.com/ · checked Sun, 01 Nov 2026 16:04 GMT
Fix these first
- Render-blocking resourceshigh
0 blocking script(s) and 11 stylesheet(s) in <head>.
Fix: Add defer to scripts, inline critical CSS and load the rest asynchronously.
- Title tagcritical
“Online Course Platform to Sell Courses and Communities | Thinkific”
Fix: Write a unique title of roughly 50–60 characters with the main search phrase first.
- H1 headingcritical
“Serious growth . Surprisingly simple .”
Fix: Use one H1 that states the page topic with its main keyword.
- 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.
- HTML sizemedium
474 kB of HTML – heavy for phones.
Fix: Remove inline bloat, base64 images and unused markup.
- Imagesmedium
33 image(s).
Fix: Give every image width and height, lazy-load images below the fold (but not the main image) and serve WebP/AVIF.
- 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 thinkific.com…
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://www.thinkific.com/sitemap_index.xml listing 8 sitemaps.
Declared in robots.txt.
Most recent lastmod: 2026-10-30T20:36:53+00:00.
- ✓
Canonical URLhigh
Canonical: https://www.thinkific.com/
Points to this page (self-referencing).
- ✓
Redirectshigh
1 redirect before the page loaded.
https://thinkific.com/ → https://www.thinkific.com/
A single redirect to your preferred address is normal; just make sure your own links use the final address.
- ✓
www / non-wwwmedium
thinkific.com redirects to www.thinkific.com.
Search snippet & sharing 71%
How the page looks in Google results and when shared.
- !
Title tagcritical
“Online Course Platform to Sell Courses and Communities | Thinkific”
About 600px of Google's ~580px desktop width – it will probably be cut off.
Fix: Write a unique title of roughly 50–60 characters with the main search phrase first.
- ✓
Meta descriptionhigh
153 characters, ~946px of ~990px.
Good length.
Google sometimes rewrites descriptions to match the search; a good one is still used most often.
- ✗
Faviconlow
No favicon linked.
Fix: Add a square favicon at least 48×48px.
- ✓
Languagelow
lang="en-US"
Content quality 70%
Is there enough clear, useful text that matches what the page targets?
- ✓
Word countmedium
625 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 56 (fairly easy), about 9 words per sentence.
- ✓
Topic focushigh
6 of 6 title keywords appear in the main content.
- !
H1 headingcritical
“Serious growth . Surprisingly simple .”
The H1 shares no keywords with the title.
Fix: Use one H1 that states the page topic with its main keyword.
- !
Heading structuremedium
10 headings for 625 words.
1 skipped level(s), e.g. H2 → H4.
Fix: Use H2s for main sections and H3s inside them, without skipping levels.
- ✗
Text-to-code ratiolow
2% of the HTML is visible text.
Fix: Trim unused markup, inline scripts and builder bloat.
AI search readiness 81%
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
/llms.txt found.
- ✗
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
Identified as: Organization, Person.
11 official profile link(s) (sameAs).
- ✓
Freshness signalsmedium
The page shows when it was published or last updated.
- !
Trust pages (E-E-A-T)medium
Links found to about and privacy; missing contact.
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): WebPage, ReadAction, ImageObject, BreadcrumbList, ListItem, WebSite, SearchAction, EntryPoint, PropertyValueSpecification, Organization, Person, PostalAddress.
All blocks parse correctly.
- ✓
Required propertiesmedium
Key types include Google's required properties.
Recommended but missing: Organization.name, Organization.url, Organization.logo.
Review stars aren't shown for reviews a business publishes about itself (Google's self-serving review rule).
Links 69%
Internal linking, anchor text and broken links.
- ✓
Internal linkinghigh
109 internal and 23 external links.
- !
Anchor text qualitymedium
No link text points to two different pages.
1 vague link(s) like “click here” or “read more”.
Fix: Make every link text describe its destination, e.g. “logo design prices” instead of “click here”.
- !
Broken links (sample)high
Checked 12 internal link(s).
Broken: /plus/ (403).
Fix: Fix or remove links that return errors, and update links that redirect.
Performance 31%
Speed signals from the HTML and server. Real-user Core Web Vitals load below.
- ✓
Server response (TTFB)high
477 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
474 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
0 blocking script(s) and 11 stylesheet(s) in <head>.
Fix: Add defer to scripts, inline critical CSS and load the rest asynchronously.
- !
Scripts & third partiesmedium
19 script tag(s); files loaded from 3 other domain(s): kit.fontawesome.com, googletagmanager.com, cdn.jsdelivr.net.
Fix: Remove unused tracking and widget scripts; every third party adds connection time.
- ✗
Imagesmedium
33 image(s).
8 without width/height – can cause layout shift (CLS).
12 image(s) after the first three aren't lazy-loaded.
15 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.
- 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 92%
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; preload
- ✗
Security headerslow
Present: nosniff, clickjacking protection.
Fix: Add X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy and X-Frame-Options (or a CSP).
- ✓
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 33 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.