Nibbler SEO audit for slate.com

Overall7.8

The overall score for this website.

Accessibility7.9

How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.

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Experience7.6

How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.

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Marketing7.6

How well marketed, and popular the website is.

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Technology8.4

How well designed and built the website is.

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  • Check how the website looks using a mobile and a tablet. Consider adding mobile-only styling using media queries. Some websites employ other techniques for mobile visitors which we cannot currently detect. (read more)
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  • Ensure that headings are defined in a semantically correct way, i.e. always start with a H1 tag. This is used to summarise the page content. Further tags (H2, H3, H4 etc) are meant to summarise and partition sections within the content. (read more)

Analytics0.0

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0% of pages use analytics

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Mobile3.0

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  • None of this website appears to be fully optimised for viewing on a mobile or tablet (using CSS media queries). It is important to make sure your content can be viewed easily across a wide range of devices as a growing percentage of web browsing is now done on phones and tablets.
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Headings8.0

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  • All pages were found to use defined headings. This is excellent as it allows visitors and search engines to summarise the content of webpages quickly. Correctly defined headings aid accessibility and are particularly important for search engine optimisation.
  • Some pages did not define headings correctly. The H1 tag should be used for the most top-level heading, with H2 being used for sub-headings and H3 for further sub-headings and so-on. Not conforming to this convention may confuse visitors.
    • Ensure that headings are defined in a semantically correct way, i.e. always start with a H1 tag. This is used to summarise the page content. Further tags (H2, H3, H4 etc) are meant to summarise and partition sections within the content.

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slate.com/A philosophy podcast that turns stories into ideas.H1
slate.com/Get Slate in Your InboxH1
slate.com/Zendaya’s Instant-Classic New Tennis Movie Will Make You Sweat As Much As Its StarsH2
slate.com/Bad News for Jack Smith’s Election Interference CaseH2
slate.com/The Creator of The Crown Has Brought Putin to Broadway. The Result Is a Mixed Bag.H2
slate.com/I Was in Therapy for a Decade. Then, My World Shifted.H2
slate.com/What Is Really Going On at Columbia University? Not What You’ve Been Told.H2
slate.com/Trump on TrialH2
slate.com/The Most Revealing New Piece of Evidence Offered Up on MondayH2
slate.com/I Was in the Courtroom With Trump. He Seems Pretty Checked Out.H2
slate.com/GOPH2
slate.com/Trump’s Secret Weapon Is Not Having a Good MonthH2
slate.com/What … Is … Lara Trump’s Music Career?H2
slate.com/EntertainmentH2
slate.com/A Broadway Classic Has Learned Some Fresh Moves. We Talked to the Wizard Behind Them.H2
slate.com/GamesH2
slate.com/Slate Crossword: Tony-Winning Portrayer of Aaron Burr, Sir (Four Letters)H2
slate.com/Which Food Item Replaces the Bun in a Luther Burger?H2
slate.com/Hi-Phi NationH2
slate.com/The Digital Future of GriefH2
slate.com/I’ve Noticed That People Who Write “Parenting Doesn’t Matter” Articles Have One Thing in CommonH2
slate.com/If You Were Shocked by Caitlin Clark’s Salary, Wait Until You Hear About the Nike DealH2
slate.com/ScotusH2
slate.com/A Supreme Court Case About the Rights of Homeless People Went Better Than ExpectedH2
slate.com/Why the EMTALA Case Is One of the Most Infuriating Since DobbsH2
slate.com/The Absurd Case About Whether Doctors Can Let You Bleed Out in the ER Is Reaching SCOTUSH2
slate.com/AdviceH2
slate.com/More Good AdviceH2
slate.com/Most RecentH2
slate.com/Most ReadH2
slate.com/CultureH2
slate.com/Tech & BusinessH2
slate.com/Human InterestH2
slate.com/News & PoliticsH2
slate.com/If you create an A.I. version of a dying loved one, do you ever really grieve?H3
slate.com/Help! I Can’t Believe What My Roommate’s Boyfriend Has Been Doing to My Cat.H3
slate.com/pay dirtH3
slate.com/care and feedingH3
slate.com/how to do itH3
slate.com/Care and Feeding PodcastH3
slate.com/When—and Why—Are Teens Using Cannabis?H3
slate.com/Help! I Nursed My Girlfriend Back to Health. Now I Want to Leave Her.H3
slate.com/Help! I Reconnected With My Estranged Daughter—Only to Realize She’s Too Damn Sensitive.H3
slate.com/Content Lockedfor Slate Plus members Help! My Neighbors Dumped Their Crazy Dogs on Me. I’m About to Get Rid of Them.H3
slate.com/Help! My Wife’s Bipolar Diagnosis Is Creating a Rift in Our Marriage.H3
slate.com/The Creator of The Crown Has Brought Putin to Broadway. The Result Is a Mixed Bag.H3
slate.com/I’ve Noticed That People Who Write “Parenting Doesn’t Matter” Articles Have One Thing in CommonH3
slate.com/Zendaya’s Instant-Classic New Tennis Movie Will Make You Sweat As Much As Its StarsH3
slate.com/I’m Tricking My Boyfriend Into Having Sex With Me. And It’s Working.H3
slate.com/Slate Adds Scaachi Koul as a Senior WriterH3
slate.com/What Does Your Therapy Appointment Time Say About You?H3
slate.com/What Is Really Going On at Columbia University? Not What You’ve Been Told.H3
slate.com/The Most Revealing New Piece of Evidence Offered Up at Today’s Trump TrialH3
slate.com/Trump Figured Out a New Way to Avoid Facing His Many Alleged CrimesH3
slate.com/Keeping Up With the Trump Trials: Bad News for Jack Smith’s Election Interference CaseH3
slate.com/The Problem With Taylor Swift’s New AlbumH3
slate.com/The Creator of The Crown Has Brought Putin to Broadway. The Result Is a Mixed Bag.H3
slate.com/Zendaya’s Instant-Classic New Tennis Movie Will Make You Sweat As Much As Its StarsH3
slate.com/Is Major League Baseball Finally Doing Something About Its Pitcher Injury Crisis?H3
slate.com/If You Were Shocked by Caitlin Clark’s Salary, Wait Until You Hear About the Nike DealH3
slate.com/President Biden’s Central Mistake in AfghanistanH3
slate.com/One of History’s Most Famous True-Crime Series Is Getting a Sequel, but Why?H3
slate.com/How I Became a Best Buy BelieverH3
slate.com/The History of Aruba—and All of Our Websites—Is at RiskH3
slate.com/Elon Musk Wants His PaydayH3
slate.com/What’s Driving Tesla’s Layoffs?H3
slate.com/Is It Too Late to Do Something About Dangerous “Forever Chemicals”?H3
slate.com/Why Conflict is Essential to Creative WorkH3
slate.com/I Poured My Sweat and Tears Into My Mom’s Old House. Now My Sister-in-Law Wants to Waltz Right In.H3
slate.com/How Factual Accuracy Can Propel Great FictionH3
slate.com/The Lost Art of Steamship GossipH3
slate.com/I’ve Noticed That People Who Write “Parenting Doesn’t Matter” Articles Have One Thing in CommonH3
slate.com/I’m Tricking My Boyfriend Into Having Sex With Me. And It’s Working.H3
slate.com/What Does Your Therapy Appointment Time Say About You?H3
slate.com/A Tarot Reader Explains Why Intuition Is So TrickyH3
slate.com/Help! I Nursed My Girlfriend Back to Health. Now I Want to Leave Her.H3
slate.com/Slate Crossword: Tony-Winning Portrayer of Aaron Burr, Sir (Four Letters)H3
slate.com/Jeff Yass Is Really Having More of a “Jeff No” Kind of Month, LOLH3
slate.com/What … Is … Lara Trump’s Music Career?H3
slate.com/Third Parties Are Saving DemocracyH3
slate.com/Your Right to Protest? Not the Supreme Court’s Problem.H3
slate.com/Keeping Up With the Trump Trials: Bad News for Jack Smith’s Election Interference CaseH3
slate.com/A Supreme Court Case About the Rights of Homeless People Went Better Than ExpectedH3
slate.com/I Was in the Courtroom With Trump. He Seems Pretty Checked Out.H3
slate.com/Which Food Item Replaces the Bun in a Luther Burger?H3
slate.com/PodcastH4
slate.com/I Poured My Sweat and Tears Into My Mom’s Old House. Now My Sister-in-Law Wants to Waltz Right In.H4
slate.com/I’m About to Spend a Tumultuous Summer With My Conservative Dad. He’s Already Making Veiled Threats.H4
slate.com/I’m Tricking My Boyfriend Into Having Sex With Me. And It’s Working.H4
slate.com/Slate’s parenting podcast on sparking up some conversations.H4
slate.com/AboutH4
slate.com/SubscriptionsH4
slate.com/AdvertisingH4
slate.com/Follow UsH4
slate.com/tag/slate-gamesRecently in Slate GamesH1
slate.com/tag/slate-gamesAboutH4
slate.com/tag/slate-gamesSubscriptionsH4
slate.com/tag/slate-gamesAdvertisingH4
slate.com/tag/slate-gamesFollow UsH4
slate.com/newslettersNewslettersH1
slate.com/newslettersChoose the newsletters you want to read.H2
slate.com/newslettersThe SlatestH3
slate.com/newslettersDear PrudenceH3
slate.com/newslettersThe SurgeH3
slate.com/newslettersSlate GamesH3
slate.com/newslettersCultureH3
slate.com/newslettersSlate ParentingH3
slate.com/newslettersHow to Do ItH3
slate.com/newslettersPay DirtH3
slate.com/newslettersThe Slate ShopH3
slate.com/newslettersSlate Plus DigestH3
slate.com/newslettersAboutH4
slate.com/newslettersSubscriptionsH4
slate.com/newslettersAdvertisingH4
slate.com/newslettersFollow UsH4
slate.com/sign-inAboutH4
slate.com/sign-inSubscriptionsH4
slate.com/sign-inAdvertisingH4
slate.com/sign-inFollow UsH4
slate.com/accountAboutH4
slate.com/accountSubscriptionsH4
slate.com/accountAdvertisingH4
slate.com/accountFollow UsH4

Amount of content8.3

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Amount of content discovered

Images8.7

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65% of images have a clearly defined size

15 images are being resized by the browser

Server behaviour9.2

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YesCompression

  • This website handles missing pages correctly by sending a 404 HTTP status code.
  • This website was served with GZIP encoding. This is very good because it reduces the loading time of a web page.
  • This website uses a temporary (HTTP 302) redirect between URLs with/without trailing slashes. This is OK, but using permanent (HTTP 301) redirects would be better.
  • This website uses a temporary (HTTP 302) redirect from http://www.slate.com to http://slate.com. This is OK, but a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect is considered best practice.
    • If possible, change the temporary redirect to a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect.

Internal links9.4

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Page titles10.0

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100% of pages have defined titles

0% of page titles are weak

  • All pages were found to use page titles appropriately. Page titles appear in search results and at the top of the browser's window when visiting the site. Appropriate page titles are particularly important for search engine optimisation.

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Meta tags10.0

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This is how this website will look in Google search listings:

The Slate Group logo

slate.com/

Online magazine of news, politics, technology, and culture. Combines humor and insight in thoughtful analyses of current events and political news.

  • All pages were found to include a meta description. This is good because search engines (like Google) show this text in search result pages.

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slate.com/dfp-cache-busterf476aa21b8ba5505192fceb75f9668ce398a7e7e
slate.com/twitter:titleSlate Magazine - Politics, Business, Technology, and the Arts
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slate.com/descriptionOnline magazine of news, politics, technology, and culture. Combines humor and insight in thoughtful analyses of current events and political news.
slate.com/twitter:descriptionOnline magazine of news, politics, technology, and culture. Combines humor and insight in thoughtful analyses of current events and political news.
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slate.com/twitter:cardsummary
slate.com/tag/slate-gamesviewportwidth=device-width,initial-scale=1,shrink-to-fit=no
slate.com/tag/slate-gamestwitter:titleSlate Games
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slate.com/tag/slate-gamesdescriptionAll stories about Slate Games
slate.com/tag/slate-gamestwitter:descriptionAll stories about Slate Games
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slate.com/tag/slate-gamestwitter:site@slate
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slate.com/newslettersviewportwidth=device-width,initial-scale=1,shrink-to-fit=no
slate.com/newsletterstwitter:titleChoose Your Slate Newsletter Subscriptions
slate.com/newslettersrobotsmax-image-preview:large
slate.com/newslettersdescriptionGet the best of Slate's newsletters in your inbox, including culture, advice, technology, news and politics.
slate.com/newsletterstwitter:descriptionGet the best of Slate's newsletters in your inbox, including culture, advice, technology, news and politics.
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slate.com/newsletterstwitter:site@slate
slate.com/newsletterstheme-color#f8f8f8
slate.com/newsletterstheme-color#000000
slate.com/sign-inviewportwidth=device-width,initial-scale=1,shrink-to-fit=no
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slate.com/sign-intwitter:descriptionSign in to your Slate account to comment or access your Slate Plus subscription.
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slate.com/sign-intwitter:site@slate
slate.com/sign-intheme-color#f8f8f8
slate.com/sign-intheme-color#000000
slate.com/accountviewportwidth=device-width,initial-scale=1,shrink-to-fit=no
slate.com/accounttwitter:titleManage Your Slate Account and Profile
slate.com/accountrobotsmax-image-preview:large
slate.com/accountdescriptionManage your Slate account, including your profile information.
slate.com/accounttwitter:descriptionManage your Slate account, including your profile information.
slate.com/accounttwitter:imagehttps://slate.com/media/sites/slate-com/icon.400x400.png
slate.com/accounttwitter:cardsummary
slate.com/accounttwitter:site@slate
slate.com/accounttheme-color#f8f8f8
slate.com/accounttheme-color#000000

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slate.com/tag/slate-gamesX-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
slate.com/newslettersX-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
slate.com/sign-inX-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
slate.com/accountX-UA-CompatibleIE=edge

Printability10.0

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100% of pages are optimised for printing

  • All of this website appears to be optimised for printing (using CSS).

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URL format10.0

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  • This website uses appropriate web addresses (URLs) throughout. This is excellent and will help search engine placement, usability and the marketability of this website.

Freshness10.0

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Last updated April 23, 2024

  • It looks like this website was last updated on Tuesday, 23 April 2024. This is good because visitors perceive up-to-date websites as more credible. Websites that are updated regularly are also spidered by search engines more often.
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