Website review downes.ca
: Stephen's Web :
Generated on March 12 2026 10:42 AM
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The score is 41/100
SEO Content
Title
: Stephen's Web :
Length : 17
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Description
Stephen Downes: news, opinion and dialogue around learning technology, new media, open access, and related issues.
Length : 114
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Keywords
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Og Meta Properties
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Headings
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- [H1] Stephen Downes
- [H2] Stephen's Retirement FAQ
Images
We found 12 images on this web page.
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Text/HTML Ratio
Ratio : 6%
This page's ratio of text to HTML code is below 15 percent, this means that your website probably needs more text content.
Flash
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Iframe
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SEO Links
URL Rewrite
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Underscores in the URLs
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In-page links
We found a total of 91 links including 1 link(s) to files
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| About | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Now | External | Passing Juice |
| Vision Statement | Internal | Passing Juice |
| OLDaily | Internal | Passing Juice |
| keynote speaker | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Stephen Downes | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Stephen's Retirement FAQ | External | Passing Juice |
| Strategic AI: People First? | External | Passing Juice |
| Julian Stodd's Learning Blog | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| When AI remembers everything and organisations forget how to choose | External | Passing Juice |
| Funes the Memorious | External | Passing Juice |
| Doug Belshaw | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Open Thinkering | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Open Education: When Sharing Becomes Colonization | External | Passing Juice |
| Autonomy, Culture and the Voice of Silence | External | Passing Juice |
| Mpine Makoe, Darrion Letendre, Robert Lawson | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| How to Use AI as a Stand-In SME for Portfolio Samples | External | Passing Juice |
| Christy Tucker | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Experiencing eLearning | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| What's Your EGOT? | External | Passing Juice |
| Chris Kennedy | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| A lot of journalism folks are offering editing advice as Grammarly’s AI "experts" | External | Passing Juice |
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| Laura Hazard Owen | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Nieman Lab | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| OLDaily Email - Subscribe | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Leftish Blog | External | Passing Juice |
| MOOC.ca | External | Passing Juice |
| Stephen's Guide to the Logical Fallacies | External | Passing Juice |
| gRSShopper | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Let's Make Some Art Dammit | External | Passing Juice |
| Stephen.Downes@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca | Internal | Passing Juice |
| About Stephen Downes | Internal | Passing Juice |
| About Stephen's Web | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Privacy and Security Policy | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Archives | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| PLENK 2010 | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Change 11 - 2011 | External | Passing Juice |
| Education Futures - 2012 | External | Passing Juice |
| Learning Analytics - 2012 | External | Passing Juice |
| REL 2014 | External | Passing Juice |
| Personal Learning - 2015 | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Connectivism and Learning - 2016 | External | Passing Juice |
| E-Learning 3.0 MOOC - 2018 | External | Passing Juice |
| Ethics, Analytics - 2020 | External | Passing Juice |
| Mastodon | External | Passing Juice |
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| Amazon Wish List | External | Passing Juice |
| Huffington Post Blog | External | Passing Juice |
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SEO Keywords
Keywords Cloud
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Usability
Url
Domain : downes.ca
Length : 9
Favicon
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Printability
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Language
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Dublin Core
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Document
Doctype
HTML 5
Encoding
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W3C Validity
Errors : 0
Warnings : 0
Email Privacy
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Deprecated HTML
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| <s> | 7 |
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Mobile
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Optimization
XML Sitemap
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Robots.txt
https://downes.ca/robots.txt
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Analytics
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