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Meta information
80% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
75% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.94 s
File size
25.90 kB
Words
309
Media files
1
Number of links
66 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
National Archives | Home
The length of the page title is perfect. (228 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
(Somewhat important)
There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
(Somewhat important)
The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
(Somewhat important)
No parameters were found in the URL.
No session ID was found in the URL.
The URL does not have too many subdirectories.
Charset encoding
(Somewhat important)
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
referrerno-referrer-when-downgrade
langen
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:urlhttps://www.archives.gov
twitter:titleNational Archives
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twitter:descriptionNational Archives and Records Administration
og:site_nameNational Archives
og:typearticle
og:urlhttps://www.archives.gov
og:titleNational Archives
og:descriptionNational Archives and Records Administration
og:imagehttps://www.archives.gov/sites/all/themes/nara/images/naralogo-og.png
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
No paragraphs were detected.
There are only 309 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
26.9% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
Additional markup
(Nice to have)
No additional page markup was found.
HTTPS
(Somewhat important)
This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
...l/themes/nara/images/nara-print-logo.jpgNational Archives Logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Inside the Vault Takes to the Skies to Discuss Masters of the Air
H2 Archives News
H2 Archives.gov
H2 Information For…
H2 Publications
H2 Orgs. & Offices
H2 About Us
H2 I Want To…
H2 Participate
H2 Resources
H2 Shop Online
H2 Connect With Us
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 7 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.archives.gov/Anchor Top
https://www.archives.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.archives.gov/The U.S. National Archives Home
/social-media/blogs.htmlBlogs
https://www.addtoany.com/shareExternal Subdomain Bookmark/Share
https://www.archives.gov/contactContact Us
https://www.archives.gov/researchResearch Our Records Explore our nation’s history through our documents, photos, and records.
https://www.archives.gov/veteransVeterans’ Service Records Request military records and learn about other services for yourself or a family member.
/educationEducator Resources Find primary sources, tools for teaching with documents, and student and educator programs.
/locationsVisit Us Plan a trip to the Museum, to one of the Presidential Libraries, or to conduct research.
/founding-docsAmerica’s Founding Documents The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
/news/articles/inside-the-vaul...Subdomain Inside the Vault Takes to the Skies to Discuss Masters of the Air
/news/topics/native-american-h...Subdomain Native American Heritage Month
/news/articles/inside-the-vaul...Subdomain Text duplicate Inside the Vault Takes to the Skies to Discuss Masters of the Air
/news/articles/battle-of-the-b...Subdomain National Archives Honors 80th Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge
https://www.archives.gov/news/More News…
/calendar/Upcoming Events…
/citizen-archivist/Citizen Archivists
/fed-employees/Federal Employees
/research/genealogy/Genealogists
/congress/Members of Congress
/preservation/Preservation
/records-mgmt/Records Managers
https://www.archives.gov/press/The Press
https://www.federalregister.go...External Subdomain Today's Federal Register
/publications/prologue/Prologue Magazine
/publications/email-newslettersSubscribe to Email Newsletters
/publications/All Publications
/legislative/Center for Legislative Archives
https://www.archives.gov/frc/Federal Records Center
/federal-registerOffice of the Federal Register
https://www.archives.gov/oig/Office of the Inspector General
/presidential-libraries/Presidential Libraries
/about/organization/Staff Directory
https://www.archives.gov/about/What is the National Archives?
/about/info/national-archives-...National Archives by the Numbers
/contracts/Doing Business with Us
/about/plans-reports/Plans and Reports
https://www.archives.gov/open/Open Government
/open/plain-writing/Our Plain Language Activities
/veterans/military-service-rec...Get My Military Record
/research/start/plan-visitPlan a Research Visit
https://visit.archives.gov/External Subdomain Visit the National Archives
/exhibits/View Online Exhibits
https://www.archives.gov/grants/Apply for a Grant
/presidential-records/Research Presidential Records
/calendar/Attend an Event
http://www.archivesfoundation....External Subdomain Donate to the Archives
https://www.archives.gov/careers/Work at the Archives
/careers/volunteering/Volunteer at the Archives
/global-pages/subject-index.htmlA-Z Index
/founding-docs/America's Founding Docs
https://www.archives.gov/contact/Text duplicate Contact Us
https://www.archives.gov/espanol/En Español
https://www.archives.gov/faqs/FAQs
https://www.archives.gov/forms/Forms
https://www.nationalarchivesst...External Subdomain Visit the National Archives Store
https://eservices.archives.gov...External Subdomain Buy Reproductions and Microfilm
/social-media/Subdomain Connect With Us
/social-media/facebookFacebook
/social-media/twitterX
/social-media/instagramInstagram
/social-media/tumblrTumblr
/social-media/youtubeYouTube
/social-media/blogsText duplicate Blogs
/social-media/flickrFlickr
https://www.archives.gov/contact/Text duplicate Contact Us
/global-pages/accessibility.htmlAccessibility
/global-pages/privacy.htmlPrivacy Policy
https://www.archives.gov/foia/Freedom of Information Act
/eeo/policy/complaint-activity...No FEAR Act
http://www.usa.gov/External Subdomain USA.gov
https://www.archives.gov/Anchor Text duplicate Top

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.archives.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.94 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (26 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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accept-rangesbytes
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 55,895 referring domains.
This page has 9,232,272 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 33,041 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
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# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10

Sitemap: https://www.archives.gov/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.archives.gov/files/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.archives.gov/research/native-americans/bia/photos/sitemap.xml

Disallow: /citizen-archivist/history-hub/hh-test
Disallow: /developer/artificial-intelligence-and-machine-learning-datasets
Disallow: /developer/1940-census
Disallow: /developer/national-archives-catalog-dataset

User-agent: usasearch
Crawl-delay: 2

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