Review of soundcloud.com
Generated on 2013-05-17 13:54:53Successfully passed 0
Room for improvement 0
Errors to fix 0
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Visitors
Traffic Estimations
We use multiple tools to estimate web traffic, including Google™ Trends and Alexa™.
Nevertheless, your analytics will provide the most accurate traffic data.
Traffic Rank
225th most visited website in the World
191th most visited website in United States
A low rank means that your website gets a lot of visitors.
Your Alexa Rank is a good estimate of the worldwide traffic to your website, although it is not 100 percent accurate.
Reviewing the most visited websites by country can give you valuable insights.
Quantcast provides similar services.
Distinctive Audience
This website tends to be popular amongst:
Relative to the general internet population, the above audience is over-represented at soundcloud.com. This data is provided by Alexa™.
Adwords Traffic
- 0
- 100
Visitors Localization
| N° | Popular Countries (ccTLD) | Status | Expiration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soundcloud.us | Domain Not Available | 3 Year(s) 5 Month(s) 27 Day(s) |
| 2 | soundcloud.co.uk | Domain Not Available | - |
| 3 | soundcloud.in | Domain Not Available | 0 Year(s) 0 Month(s) 5 Day(s) |
| 4 | soundcloud.de | Domain Not Available | - |
| 5 | soundcloud.com.br | Domain Not Available | 0 Year(s) 5 Month(s) 27 Day(s) |
| 6 | soundcloud.fr | Domain Not Available | - |
We recommend that you book the domain names for the countries where your website is popular. This will prevent potential competitors from registering these domains and taking advantage of your reputation in such countries.
Social Monitoring
Twitter™ Account
The Twitter™ Account @SoundCloud is booked and it is linked to your website.
NameSoundCloud
Followers638919
Tweets12209
BioHear the world's sounds. Need help? Tweet @SCsupport.
LocationBerlin
Account Age6 years, 6 days ago
Your Twitter usage statistics look great. You can enhance them even more by building connections with industry experts and exchanging expertise or content. Learn from today's top Twitter-using brands.
Plus, here are a few tips to help create a Twitter promotion plan.
Latest Tweets
Latest tweets mentioning your website.
Mobile
Mobile Load Time
Try to load your website on a mobile device and measure the download time. If your website takes more than five seconds to download on a mobile device, you will lose 74 percent of your audience! Mobile usage is growing fast, especially in North America, where it will soon outpace desktop browsing usage. Make sure your site loads fast and that it looks nice on all types of mobile devices. Be sure to not use Flash, and keep photos and videos to a minimum. Here are two useful tips from Google™ for optimizing your mobile site speed.
Mobile Optimization
Great, your web page is super optimized for Mobile Visitors
Mobile CSS
Meta Viewport Tag
Apple Icon
Mobile Redirection
Flash content
Click each category for tips on how to optimize the mobile experience even further:
SEO Basics
WWW Resolve
Perfect! Your website with and without www redirects to the same page.
Great, your website directs www.soundcloud.com and soundcloud.com to the same URL.
Redirecting requests from a non-preferred domain is important because search engines consider URLs with and without "www" as two different websites.
URL Rewrite
Perfect, your URLs look clean.
Great! You have clean (user-friendly) URLs which do not contain query strings.
Clean URLs are not only SEO-friendly but are also important for usability.
IP Canonicalization
Yes
Good, your website's IP address is forwarding to your website's domain name.
To check this for your website, enter your IP address in the browser and see if your site loads with the IP address. Ideally, the IP should redirect to your website's URL or to a page from your website hosting provider.
If it does not redirect, you should do an htaccess 301 redirect to make sure the IP does not get indexed.
robots.txt
Great, your website has a robots.txt file.
A robots.txt file allows you to restrict the access of search engine robots that crawl the web and it can prevent these robots from accessing specific directories and pages. It also specifies where the XML sitemap file is located.
Click here to check your robots.txt file for syntax errors.
XML Sitemap
Great, your website has an XML sitemap.
A sitemap lists URLs that are available for crawling and can include additional information like your site's latest updates, frequency of changes and importance of the URLs. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently.
It is also good practice to specify your sitemap's location in your robots.txt file.
Underscores in the URLs
Yes
SEO Content
Title
SoundCloud - Share Your Sounds
Length: 30 character(s)
Great, your title contains between 10 and 70 characters.
Make sure your title is explicit and contains your most important keywords.
Be sure that each page has a unique title.
Description
Explore the largest community of artists, bands, podcasters and creators of music & audio.
Length: 90 character(s)
Great, your meta description contains between 70 and 160 characters (spaces included).
Meta descriptions allow you to influence how your web pages are described and displayed in search results.
Ensure that your meta description is explicit and contains your most important keywords.
Check your Google™ Webmaster Tools for any warning messages on duplicate meta descriptions.
Meta Keywords
record, sounds, share, sound, audio, tracks, music, soundcloud
Length: 62 character(s)
Meta keywords are used to indicate keywords that are relevant to your website's content. Because search engine spammers have abused this tag, however, it provides little to no benefit to your search rankings.
You can safely avoid the use of this tag for new web pages. For existing web pages, make sure the meta keywords do not appear to be spammy.
Headings
| H1 | H2 | H3 | H4 | H5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 0 |
- [H1] Share Your Sounds
- [H2] Capture a voice, moment or music in seconds or upload audio you’ve already created.
- [H2] Everyone has sounds to share. Now you can share yours.
- [H2] Take the tour or check our mobile apps
- [H2] Share to WordPress.com
- [H2] Sign up
- [H3] Create Original Sounds
- [H3] Share With The World
- [H3] Connect With People
- [H3] Get Inspired With SoundCloud
- [H3] Get More From SoundCloud
- [H4] You
- [H4] Sign Up
- [H4] Explore
- [H4] Pro Plans
- [H4] About Us
- [H4] Help
- [H4] Developers
Great, your website is structured using HTML headings (<H1> to <H6>).
Use your keywords in the headings and make sure the first level (<H1>) includes your most important keywords. Never duplicate your title tag content in your header tag.
For more effective SEO, use only one <H1> tag per page.
Images
We found 2 images on this website.
1 alt attributes are empty or missing.
Alternative text (the alt attribute) is missing for several images. Add alternative text so that search engines can better understand the content of your images.
Remember that search engine crawlers cannot actually "see" images, so the alternative text attribute allows you to assign a specific description to each image.
Alternative text describes your images so they can appear in Google™ Images search results.
Check the images on your website and make sure effective alternative text is specified for each image.
Restrict the number of characters in alt text to 150, including spaces, and minimize the size of images to optimize your website's page load times.
Text/HTML Ratio
13.57 %
This page's ratio of text to HTML code is below 15 percent, this means that your website probably needs more text content.
A ratio between 25 and 70 percent is ideal. When it goes beyond that, the page might run the risk of being considered spam.
As long as the content is relevant and gives essential information, it is a plus to have more of it.
Flash
No
Good, no Flash content has been detected on this page.
Flash should only be used for specific enhancements. Although Flash content often looks nicer, it cannot be properly indexed by search engines. Avoid full Flash websites to maximize SEO.
This advice also applies to AJAX.
Frames
No
Great, there are no frames detected on this page.
Frames can cause problems on your web page because search engines will not crawl or index the content within them.
Avoid frames whenever possible and use a NoFrames tag if you must use them.
Blog
We found a Blog on this website.
Starting a blog is a great way to boost your SEO and attract qualified visitors.
Use these great tips to boost the SEO performance of your blog.
Inside Pages Analysis
| Title | Description | Text/HTML |
|---|---|---|
| philosophunculist's sounds on SoundCloud - Hear the world’s sounds | I am mediocre at best. But I write songs sometimes and it's fun for me to do. So I hope you enjoy. | Explore the largest community of artists, bands, podcasters and creators of music & audio. | 6.26 % |
| Ficg's sounds on SoundCloud - Hear the world’s sounds | Explore the largest community of artists, bands, podcasters and creators of music & audio. | 7.56 % |
| Blackdog Presents's sounds on SoundCloud - Hear the world’s sounds | Explore the largest community of artists, bands, podcasters and creators of music & audio. | 8 % |
No duplicate content has been detected on the pages of your website.
Use Google™ Webmaster Tools to improve the way search engines index your website.
SEO Links
In-Page Links
We found a total of 97 link(s) including 0 link(s) to files
- 0
- 5
- 95
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| App Gallery | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Get help | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Go Pro | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| What's new? | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Soundcloud | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
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| Settings | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Inbox | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Log out | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
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| Home | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| The Tour | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
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| Dashboard | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| You | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Sounds | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Sets | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Comments | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Favorites | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Groups | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Your public Profile | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Your Stats | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Tracks | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Explore Sounds | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Creative Commons | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Search for Sounds | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| People | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Explore People | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Find Friends | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| You Follow | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Following You | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Your Contact Lists | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Search for People | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Groups | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| You've joined | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Explore Groups | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Search for Groups | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Upload & Share | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Tracks | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Users | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Groups | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Sign up for SoundCloud | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Log in | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| the tour | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| mobile apps | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Create Original Sounds | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Share With The World | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| hundreds of apps | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Connect With People | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Check out the latest featured cities in our Community Series, SoundCloud Local! | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
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| Our Blog | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Learn More | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Try It Free | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Tracks | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Sign up for free | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Groups | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
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| Widgets & Badges | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Meetups | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Mobile | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Feature Overview | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Buy a Gift | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Go Pro | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| About SoundCloud | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Blog | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Jobs | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Sound | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Press | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Take The Tour | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| SoundCloud 101 | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Help | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Support | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Get Started | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Documentation | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Backstage Blog | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| API Blog | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Your Apps | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| App Gallery | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Labs | External Links | Passing Juice |
| Community Guidelines | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Terms of Use | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Privacy Policy | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Copyright Information | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Imprint | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| customize your player | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| plugin | External Links | Passing Juice |
| Sign in with Google | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Terms Of Use | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Sign up | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Forgot password? | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Oh, I remember it! | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Cancel | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
SEO Keywords
Google™ Ranking
| Keywords | Rank | Trend | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| sound cloud | 1 | 0.990.990.990.990.820.820.670.550.550.550.990.82 |
http://soundcloud.com/ |
| soundcloud | 1 | 0.990.990.990.820.820.820.670.550.550.550.820.67 |
http://soundcloud.com/ |
| soundcloud.com | 1 | 0.990.990.990.990.820.820.670.550.550.670.990.82 |
http://soundcloud.com/ |
| childish gambino | 2 | 0.370.370.450.300.370.450.550.550.990.820.820.82 |
http://soundcloud.com/childi.. |
| ytcracker | 4 | 0.370.370.450.550.550.670.820.990.820.990.990.99 |
http://soundcloud.com/ytcrac.. |
| skrillex | 6 | 0.450.450.550.550.550.550.670.670.670.670.820.99 |
http://soundcloud.com/skrillex |
| frank ocean | 7 | 0.370.370.300.250.200.300.550.300.990.140.090.11 |
http://soundcloud.com/frank-.. |
| lana del rey | 10 | 0.670.670.820.820.990.990.820.550.670.550.450.82 |
http://soundcloud.com/lana-d.. |
| drake | 11 | 0.670.670.450.450.450.670.670.670.820.990.820.82 |
http://soundcloud.com/octobe.. |
| cnn | 15 | 0.820.820.820.990.990.990.820.820.820.670.820.67 |
http://soundcloud.com/cnn |
Your website ranks highest with these keywords.
This data is provided by SEMRush™.
Competitors in Google™
This is an estimation of the websites who are ranking above yours in the organic search results in Google™. You can consider that these websites are your online competitors since they are ranking high with the same keywords as yours.
We recommend that you visit these websites and conduct an in-depth analysis of them in order to understand why they are ranking high. This will help you learn about your market and your keywords.
This data is provided by SEMRush™.
SEO Authority
PageRank
PageRank: 8
Your website's PageRank is impressive.
PageRank™ (commonly called PR) is a link analysis algorithm used by Google™ to assess the popularity/authority of a website. The PageRank goes from 0 to 10. New websites start at PR0 and authority websites, like Twitter.com, have a PR10.
Websites with a high PageRank™ are crawled more frequently and their outgoing links have more passing juice.
Indexed Pages
This is the number of pages on your website that are indexed by Google™.
The more pages that search engines index, the better, as this offers more opportunity for your website to be found.
A low number (relative to the total number of pages/URLs on your website) probably indicates that your internal link architecture needs improvement and is preventing search engines from crawling all of the pages on your website. You might want to create/check your site's XML sitemap and submit it to Google™. You must also build backlinks to your site's inside pages to help Google™ bots crawl and index your web pages.
Check Google™ Webmaster Tools under Health and Index Status, to keep track of the status of your site's indexed pages.
Domain 1st Registered
7 years 10 Month 1 Days ago
Your domain is old enough to encourage search engines to give it a higher rank.
Domain age matters to a certain extent and newer domains generally struggle to get indexed and rank high in search results for their first few months (depending on other associated ranking factors).
Domain Expiration
4 Year(s) 0 Month(s) 25 Day(s)
Do you know that you can register your domain for up to 10 years? By doing so, you will show the world that you are serious about your business.
Popular Pages
This lists your website's popular pages.
SEO Backlinks
DMOZ
Yes
Your website is listed in DMOZ, a multilingual open content directory constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors.
Make sure your company's title and description are up-to-date because search engines take DMOZ listings into account.
Usability
URL
http://soundcloud.com
Length: 10 character(s)
Keep your URLs short and avoid long domain names when possible.
A descriptive URL is better recognized by search engines. A user should be able to look at the address bar and make an accurate guess about the content of the page before reaching it (e.g., http://www.mysite.com/en/products).
Keep in mind that URLs are also an important part of a comprehensive SEO strategy. Use clean URLs to make your site more "crawlable" by Google™.
Resource: Search for a good domain name. If no good names are available, consider a second hand domain. To prevent brand theft, you might consider trademarking your domain name.
Favicon
Yes
Great, your website has a favicon. Make sure this favicon is consistent with your brand.
Resource: Check out this amazing idea for improving the user experience with a special favicon.
404 Error Page
Great, your website has a custom 404 error page.
Take advantage of the opportunity to provide a beautiful 404 Error Page for your visitors.
Printability
We could not find a Print-Friendly CSS
This is a special CSS style sheet which ensures that unnecessary interface designs and images are left out when printing pages from your site, saving the user a lot of ink.
It is just another way to provide a rich user-experience.
If you do not have a print style sheet yet, set one up.
Conversion Forms
Great, we found a Conversion Form on this page.
There are different types of conversions, such as: getting the email address of your visitors, requesting your visitors to fill in a form or closing an online sale. Converting visitors into prospects/clients is probably the most important target for your website. So, it is important that you optimize your website to boost conversions.
Page Size
21.9 Kb (World Wide Web average is 600 Kb)
Two of the main reasons for an increase in page size are images and JavaScript files.
Page size affects the speed of your website; try to keep your page size below the global average.
Tip: Use images with a small size and optimize their download with gzip.
Load Time
0.31 second(s) (70.18 Kb/s)
Your website is fast. Well done.
Site speed is becoming an important factor for ranking high in Google™ search results and enriching the user experience.
Resources: Check out Google™'s developer tutorialsfor tipson how to to make your website run faster.
Monitor your server and receive SMS alerts when your website is down with a web monitoring service.
Language
Declared: Missing
Detected: en
You have not specified the language. Use the META Language Attribute to declare the intended language of your website.
Tips for multilingual websites:
- Define the language of the content in each page's HTML code.
- Specify the language code in the URL as well (e.g., "mywebsite.com/fr/mycontent.html").
Microformats
We found 0 type(s) of Microformat
This page does not take advantage of Microformats.
A microformat is a technical semantic markup that can be used to better structure the data submitted to search engines.
Thanks to microformats, Google™ regularly improves its presentation of search results.
Dublin Core
Missing
This page does not take advantage of Dublin Core.
Dublin Core is a set of standard metadata elements used to describe the contents of a website. It can help with some internal search engines and it does not bloat your code.
Security
Server IP
178.249.136.150
Server location: BERLIN
Your server's IP address has little impact on your SEO. Nevertheless, try to host your website on a server which is geographically close to your visitors. Search engines take the geolocation of a server into account as well as the server speed.
Use DNSstuff for comprehensive reports on your server.
Spam Block
Your IP is not Blacklisted in the Spammer Directory.
It is important that your SEO efforts are not tarnished by spammy activities. Take care to avoid forum and blog spam and use best practices when sharing your content.
In addition, if you send email campaigns or transactional emails, use professional email software to keep your IP clean and improve the deliverability of your emails.
Safe Browsing
Yes
Domain Availability
| Domains (TLD) | Status | Expiration |
|---|---|---|
| soundcloud.net | Domain Not Available | 2 Year(s) 0 Month(s) 25 Day(s) |
| soundcloud.org | Domain Not Available | 2 Year(s) 0 Month(s) 2 Day(s) |
| soundcloud.info | Domain Not Available | 2 Year(s) 5 Month(s) 27 Day(s) |
| soundcloud.biz | Domain Not Available | 2 Year(s) 5 Month(s) 26 Day(s) |
| soundcloud.eu | Domain Not Available | - |
Register the various extensions of your domain to protect your brand from cybersquatters.
Typo Availability
| Domains (Typo) | Status | Expiration |
|---|---|---|
| aoundcloud.com | Domain Not Available | - |
| siundcloud.com | Domain Not Available | - |
| soyndcloud.com | Domain Available | Available. Book it now! |
| soubdcloud.com | Domain Not Available | - |
| sounrcloud.com | Domain Available | Available. Book it now! |
| soundcllud.com | Domain Available | Available. Book it now! |
| soundcloyd.com | Domain Not Available | - |
Register the various typos of your domain to protect your brand from cybersquatters.
Email Privacy
Good, no email address has been found in plain text.
Malicious bots scrape the web in search of email addresses and plain text email addresses are more likely to be spammed.
Directory Browsing
No
Great! Your server prevents visitors from browsing your directory by accessing it directly, this is excellent from a security standpoint.
Server Signature
No
Good, your server signature is off. This is excellent from a security standpoint.
Technologies
Google™ Analytics
Yes
Web analytics let you measure visitor activity on your website. You should have at least one analytics tool installed. It is also good to install one extra tool to have a confirmation of the results.
Analytics Tools: Google™ Analytics, Quantcast™, SiteCatalyst™, Piwik™, chartbeat™, Clicky™, ClickTale™, etc.
Technologies
Nginx Web server
Varnish Cache tool
Get to know the technologies used for your website. Some codes might slow down your website. Ask your webmaster to take a look at this.
W3C Validity
Invalid: 7 Errors, 2 Warning(s)
Use valid markup that contains no errors. Syntax errors can make your page difficult for search engines to index.
To fix the detected errors, run the W3C validation service.
W3C is a consortium that sets web standards.
Encoding
UTF-8
Great, language/character encoding is specified.
Specifying language/character encoding can prevent problems with the rendering of special characters.
Speed Tips
Congratulations! Your website's speed is fully optimized.
Perfect, your server is using a caching method to speed up page display.
Perfect, your website doesn't use nested tables.
Too bad, your website is using inline styles.
Perfect, your website has few CSS files.
Perfect, your website has few JavaScript files.
Perfect, your website takes advantage of gzip.
Website speed has a huge effect on SEO. Speed-up your website so search engines will reward you by sending more visitors.
Also, conversion rates are far higher for websites that load faster than their slower competitors.









