Birminghamal.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
43% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
62% 
Server
92% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.56 s
File size
173.40 kB
Words
333
Media files
9
Number of links
61 internal / 38 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The Official Website for the City of Birmingham, Alabama
The length of the page title is perfect. (510 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)
https://www.birminghamal.gov/
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)
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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generatorWordPress 6.7.1
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 333 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
21.6% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
4 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 16.5 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 7 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
5 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
...gham-forward/style/images/logo-print.pngBirmingham Forward
...12/24-newyear-holiday-greetingsslide.pngNo alt attribute provided
...tent/uploads/2024/12/publicWorks-new.pngNo alt attribute provided
...tent/uploads/2024/12/newyears-banner.pngNo alt attribute provided
...s/2024/08/Recycle-Banner-Aug.-13-1-1.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/woodfin.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ngham-forward/style/images/logo-2018.pngPutting People First
...-forward/style/images/ada-logo-white.pngADA Compliance

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Birmingham, Alabama: Putting People First
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Birmingham, Alabama: Putting People First
H1 What Do You Need To Do Today?
H2 Tax and License
H2 From The Newsroom
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 3 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (38) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
http://www.birminghamalcitycou...External Subdomain Birmingham City Council
https://www.facebook.com/pages...External Subdomain Facebook
http://twitter.com/cityofbhamalExternal Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain YouTube
https://instagram.com/cityofbi...External Instagram
https://www.birminghamal.gov/Subdomain Birmingham, Alabama: Putting People First
/city-directory/arlington-house/Subdomain Arlington House
A-TITLE Arlington House
https://www.artsbma.org/External Birmingham Museum of Art
A-TITLE Birmingham Museum of Art
/city-directory/boutwell-audit...Subdomain Boutwell Auditorium
A-TITLE Boutwell Auditorium
/community-development/Subdomain Community Development
A-TITLE Community Development
http://oed.birminghamal.gov/External Subdomain Economic Development
A-TITLE Economic Development
/about/eservices/Subdomain eServices
A-TITLE eServices
http://fire.birminghamal.gov/External Subdomain Fire Department
A-TITLE Fire Department
/parks-and-recreation/legion-f...Subdomain Legion Field
A-TITLE Legion Field
/municipal-court/Subdomain Municipal Courts
A-TITLE Municipal Courts
https://www.birminghamnslm.org/External Subdomain Negro Southern League Museum
A-TITLE Negro Southern League Museum
/parks-and-recreation/Subdomain Parks and Recreation
A-TITLE Parks and Recreation
http://police.birminghamal.gov/External Subdomain Police Department
A-TITLE Police Department
http://slossfurnaces.com/External Sloss Furnaces
A-TITLE Sloss Furnaces
http://www.bhamyouthfirst.org/External Subdomain Youth Services
A-TITLE Youth Services
https://www.birminghamal.gov/Subdomain Home
/about/Subdomain About
/about/mayors-office/Subdomain Mayor’s Office
http://www.birminghamalcitycou...External Subdomain City Council
/work/employment-opportunitiesSubdomain Careers
/eventsCalendar
/city-directory/Subdomain City Directory
/about/eservices/Subdomain Text duplicate eServices
/live/Subdomain Live
https://www.birminghamal.org/g...External Subdomain Birmingham City Guide
https://www.bhamcityschools.org/External Subdomain Education
http://fire.birminghamal.gov/External Subdomain Text duplicate Fire Department
/city-directory/planning-engin...Subdomain Floodplain Management
/city-directory/keep-birmingha...Subdomain Keep Birmingham Beautiful
http://www.bplonline.org/External Subdomain Library System
http://police.birminghamal.gov/External Subdomain Text duplicate Police Department
http://www.bjcta.org/External Subdomain Public Transportation
http://www.railroadpark.org/External Subdomain Railroad Park
http://311.birminghamal.gov/De...External Subdomain Report a Problem
/stormwatermanagementSubdomain Storm Water Management
/?page_id=3595Subdomain Utilities
/work/Subdomain Work
/work/bidding-opportunities/Subdomain Bidding Opportunities
/work/building-codes/Subdomain Building Codes
/work/building-permits-permit-...Subdomain Building Permits
/work/employment-opportunitiesSubdomain Employment Opportunities
/work/equipment-management/Subdomain Equipment Management
/about/city-directory/planning...Subdomain Online Mapping
/about/eservices/online-ticket...Subdomain Pay Parking Ticket
https://birminghamal.hdlgov.com/External Subdomain Taxes and eFiling
/techhire/Subdomain Tech Hire Birmingham
/play/Subdomain Play
/play/arts-museums/Subdomain Arts & Museums
https://www.birminghamal.org/r...External Subdomain Family Reunions
/parks-and-recreation/Subdomain Text duplicate Parks and Recreation
http://birminghamal.org/External Tourist Attractions
http://www.birmingham365.org/External Subdomain Fun Links
/newsroom/Subdomain News
https://www.birminghamal.gov/311Subdomain 311
http://data.birminghamal.gov/New window External Subdomain Open Data
/contact/Subdomain Contact
/city-directory/Subdomain Text duplicate City Directory
https://www.birminghamalcityco...External Subdomain Text duplicate City Council
/bulktrashNew window Subdomain Learn More
https://www.jcdh.org/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
/recycleNew window Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
https://birminghamal.hdlgov.com/New window External Subdomain Business License Online Filing & Application
https://birminghamal.hdlgov.com/New window External Subdomain Online Tax Filing System
/about/city-directory/finance/...New window Subdomain Info for New Businesses
https://birminghamal.hdlgov.com/New window External Subdomain Application for Tax Certificate and Related Documents
/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Al...New window Subdomain Alcoholic Beverage Licenses
/pFgnPNew window Subdomain Tax and License Administration
/about/mayors-office/Subdomain No Text
/newsroom/Subdomain View All News
/newsroom/Subdomain Read All News
/2024/12/19/the-city-of-birmin...Subdomain The City of Birmingham announces the implementation of ePermit Hub’s...
/2024/12/19/the-city-of-birmin...Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Read More
/2024/12/19/city-partnered-war...Subdomain City-partnered warming station will open on Friday and Saturday nights
/2024/12/19/city-partnered-war...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/2024/12/18/department-of-publ...Subdomain Department of Public Works to Launch New Neighborhood-based Garbage Pickup...
/2024/12/18/department-of-publ...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://twitter.com/cityofbhamalExternal Tweets by cityofbhamal
https://www.birminghamal.gov/Subdomain Text duplicate Home
/about/Subdomain Text duplicate About
/live/Subdomain Text duplicate Live
http://www.birminghamalcitycou...External Subdomain Text duplicate City Council
/work/Subdomain Text duplicate Work
/city-directory/Subdomain Text duplicate City Directory
/play/Subdomain Text duplicate Play
/contact/Subdomain Text duplicate Contact
https://www.birminghamal.gov/Subdomain IMG-ALT Putting People First
https://www.facebook.com/pages...External Subdomain Text duplicate Facebook
http://twitter.com/cityofbhamalExternal Text duplicate Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain Text duplicate YouTube
https://instagram.com/cityofbi...External Text duplicate Instagram
/birmingham-ada/Subdomain IMG-ALT ADA Compliance
/terms-of-useSubdomain Terms Of Use
/privacy-statementSubdomain Privacy Statement
http://www.kinetic.com/New window External Subdomain Developed By Kinetic

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.birminghamal.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 0.56 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 (173 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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last-modifiedSun, 22 Dec 2024 09:48:06 GMT
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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,594 referring domains.
This page has 61,640 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,596 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: * 
Crawl-Delay: 3600

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Birmingham76%Check
Birmingham Alabama67%Check
Alabama61%Check
Birmingham City60%Check
AL City60%Check
Hire Birmingham54%Check
Putting52%Check
People52%Check
First52%Check
City46%Check
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