Beta.novascotia.ca - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
98% 
Page quality
41% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
14% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.83 s
File size
11.60 kB
Words
208
Media files
3
Number of links
21 internal / 17 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Government of Nova Scotia
The length of the page title is perfect. (250 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Novascotia.ca is the official website for the province of Nova Scotia. It is the one place to find all government services and information.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (825 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://beta.novascotia.ca/
There is a valid canonical link 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)
The specified alternate links have no errors.
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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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

NameValue
descriptionNovascotia.ca is the official website for the province of Nova Scotia. It is the one place to find all government services and information.
dcterms.titleGovernment of Nova Scotia - Government of Nova Scotia
dcterms.creatorCommunications Nova Scotia
dcterms.descriptionNovascotia.ca is the official website for the province of Nova Scotia. It is the one place to find all government services and information.
dcterms.publisherCommunications Nova Scotia
dcterms.date2018-05-14
GeneratorDrupal 9 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
twitter:site@nsgov
fb:app_id649896138527670
og:site_nameGovernment of Nova Scotia
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://beta.novascotia.ca/
og:titleGovernment of Nova Scotia
og:descriptionNovascotia.ca is the official website for the province of Nova Scotia. It is the one place to find all government services and information.
og:imagehttps://beta.novascotia.ca/sites/default/files/default_images/default-og-nsgov.png
og:image:altNova Scotia Flag
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 208 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
24% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 10.5 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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)
1 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
/themes/ignition/img/nsvip-en.svgProvince of Nova Scotia
.../default/files/2022-07/abstract-bg-2.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...fault/files/premier-houston-homepage.jpgPremier Tim Houston

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Government of Nova Scotia
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Government of Nova Scotia
H2 Most requested
H2 Topics
H2 What government is doing
H2 Government overview
H3 Business, non-profit and self-employed
H3 Births, deaths, marriage and identity
H3 Housing, property and community
H3 Law, justice and safety
H3 Money, tax and benefits
H3 Industry and economy
H3 How government works
H3 Education, training and skills
H3 More information
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 17 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://beta.novascotia.ca/Anchor Skip to main content
https://beta.novascotia.ca/IMG-ALT Province of Nova Scotia
/programs-and-servicesPrograms and services
https://beta.novascotia.ca/topicsTopics
/governmentGovernment
https://novascotia.ca/news/External News
A-TITLE News releases
/contact-usContact us
/documents/budget-documents-20...Subdomain Budget documents 2024-2025
https://novascotia.ca/privacy-...External Privacy breach alerts and information
https://novascotia.ca/coronavi...External Novel coronavirus (COVID-19)
https://novascotia.ca/postal-s...External Postal service disruption
/programs-and-services/registr...Registry of Joint Stock Companies
/programs-and-services/residen...Residential Tenancies Program
/topic/business-non-profit-and...Business, non-profit and self-employed
/topic/births-deaths-marriage-...Births, deaths, marriage and identity
/topic/housing-property-and-co...Housing, property and community
/topic/law-justice-and-safetyLaw, justice and safety
/topic/money-tax-and-benefitsMoney, tax and benefits
/topic/industry-and-economyIndustry and economy
/topic/how-government-worksHow government works
/topic/education-training-and-...Education, training and skills
https://novascotia.ca/governmentExternal visit the old website
https://premier.novascotia.ca/External Subdomain Premier Tim Houston
/governmentDepartments
https://novascotia.ca/newsExternal Text duplicate News
https://novascotia.ca/budget/External Budget
https://nslegislature.ca/External Legislature
https://jobs.novascotia.ca/External Subdomain Jobs
https://novascotia.ca/just/reg...External Regulations
https://nslegislature.ca/legis...External Nova Scotia Statutes
https://data.novascotia.ca/External Subdomain Open Data
https://procurement-portal.nov...External Subdomain Procurement
https://www.x.com/nsgovExternal Subdomain X (formerly Twitter)
https://www.youtube.com/nsgovExternal Subdomain YouTube
https://www.facebook.com/nsgovExternal Subdomain Facebook
/privacyPrivacy
https://beta.novascotia.ca/termsTerms
/copyrightCrown copyright © Government of Nova Scotia

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://beta.novascotia.ca/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.83 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.
This page loads 5 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (12 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateTue, 10 Dec 2024 08:01:58 GMT
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
cache-controlmax-age=180, public
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge
content-languageen
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modifiedMon, 09 Dec 2024 22:00:02 GMT
etag"1733781602"
varyCookie
x-drupal-cacheHIT
content-security-policydefault-src 'self'; connect-src 'self' novascotia.ca news.novascotia.ca news-feeds.novascotia.ca notices.novascotia.ca https://*.google-analytics.com https://*.analytics.google.com https://*.googletagmanager.com; font-src https://novascotia.ca/clf/fonts/; frame-src 'self' https:; img-src 'self' https://*.google-analytics.com https://*.googletagmanager.com https:; media-src 'self' https:; object-src 'self'; script-src 'self' novascotia.ca https://*.googletagmanager.com www.google-analytics.com; style-src 'self' novascotia.ca; frame-ancestors 'self' novascotia.ca;
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
set-cookie83 Characters
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31557600; includeSubDomains
connectionclose
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.0

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,409 referring domains.
This page has 136,872 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,182 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

# robots.txt -- http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *

# Directories
Disallow: /profiles/

# Files
Disallow: /web.config

# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/
Disallow: /filter/
Disallow: /node/
Disallow: /fr/node/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /taxonomy/
Disallow: /fr/taxonomy/
Disallow: /user/

# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/

# Site
Disallow: /id/
Disallow: /content-group/
Disallow: /page-not-found
Disallow: /was-content-helpful
Disallow: /request-different-format
Disallow: /halifax-convention-centre
Disallow: /innovacorp
Disallow: /nova-scotia-business-inc
Disallow: /develop-nova-scotia
Disallow: /tourism-nova-scotia
Disallow: /events-east-group
Disallow: /find-job-government-nova-scotia

# Allow is not part of the robots.txt standard, but the main search engines support it
# Wildcards are not a part of the standard either, and are not consistently supported
Allow: /core/*.css
Allow: /core/*.js
Disallow: /core/*

Search preview

beta.novascotia.ca
Government of Nova Scotia
Novascotia.ca is the official website for the province of Nova Scotia. It is the one place to find all government services and information.

Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

KeywordResultRecheck
Nova87%Check
Scotia87%Check
Nova Scotia87%Check
Government77%Check
government finances58%Check
information50%Check
services46%Check
Find46%Check
website46%Check
Postal Service40%Check

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