Blades.delaware.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
38% 
Page structure
61% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
54% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.78 s
File size
38.90 kB
Words
229
Media files
8
Number of links
48 internal / 4 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Town of Blades - Sussex County Delaware
The length of the page title is perfect. (454 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://blades.delaware.gov/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
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)
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
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
apple-mobile-web-app-capableyes
domainblades
published_at2014-07-03
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
generatorWordPress 6.4.3
msapplication-TileImagehttps://blades.delaware.gov/files/2020/11/cropped-blades-favicon-270x270.png
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleHome - Town of Blades - Sussex County Delaware
og:urlhttps://blades.delaware.gov/
og:site_nameTown of Blades
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 229 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
No paragraphs were detected.
13.5% 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)
This page loads 27 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-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 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
...Blades-Responsive-Theme/img/calendar.jpgImage of a Calendar
...Blades-Responsive-Theme/img/news-img.jpgImage a Newspaper
...Blades-Responsive-Theme/img/news-img.jpgImage a Newspaper
...03207087472247_7290548467824649133_n.jpghttps://blades.delaware.gov/files/2014/09/10606552_10203207087472247_7290548467824649133_n.jpg
...203207120913083_143036154094713274_n.jpghttps://blades.delaware.gov/files/2014/09/10302238_10203207120913083_143036154094713274_n.jpg
...03207127913258_7671273218869139419_n.jpghttps://blades.delaware.gov/files/2014/09/10530749_10203207127913258_7671273218869139419_n.jpg
...des-Responsive-Theme/img/blades_seal.pngTown of Blades Seal
...des-Responsive-Theme/img/blades_seal.pngTown of Blades Seal

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Blades
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (6 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Blades
H2 Delaware
H2 Town of Blades Hydrant Flushing week of April 15, 2024
H2 Empty heading
H3 Menu
H3 Town Charter
H3 Forms & Applications
H3 Tax & Utility Payments
H3 Past Meetings
H3 What's Happening in the Community
H3 Pictures Around Town
H3 Contact Us
H4 Meetings & Events
H4 News & Notices
H5 Blades Duplicate text
H6 Delaware Duplicate text
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 1 links with a trivial anchor text.
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 4 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://blades.delaware.gov/Anchor Skip to Content
https://blades.delaware.gov/Anchor Skip to Footer
http://blades.delaware.gov/Subdomain Home
/town-council/Subdomain Town Council
/administration/Subdomain Administration
/meeting-agendas-minutes/Subdomain Past Meeting Agendas & Minutes
/documents-forms/Subdomain Important Documents and Forms
/elections/Subdomain Elections
/resolutions/Subdomain Resolutions
/ordinances/Subdomain Ordinances
https://blades.delaware.gov/foia/Subdomain FOIA
/board-of-adjustments/Subdomain Board of Adjustments
/code-enforcement/Subdomain Code Enforcement
/parks-cemetery/Subdomain Parks & Cemetery
/planning-zoning/Subdomain Planning & Zoning
/streets-department/Subdomain Streets Department
/online-tax-utility-payments/Subdomain Online Tax & Utility Payments
/police-department/Subdomain Police Department
/water-maintenance-department/Subdomain Water & Maintenance Department
/100th-anniversary-homecoming-...Subdomain 100th Anniversary Homecoming Celebration
/history-a-town-called-blades-...Subdomain History: A Town Called Blades, Delaware
/photo-gallery/Subdomain Photo Gallery
/about-blades/Subdomain About Blades
/hardin-hall-park-pavilion-ren...Subdomain Hardin Hall & Park Pavilion Rentals
/events/Subdomain Events
https://blades.delaware.gov/news/Subdomain News
/bedconanticoke-river-marina/Subdomain BEDCO/Nanticoke River Marina
/marina-events/Subdomain Marina Events
/bedco-meeting-minutes/Subdomain BEDCO Meeting Minutes
/contact-us/Subdomain Contact Us
https://blades.delaware.gov/Subdomain Blades Delaware
http://charters.delaware.gov/b...New window External Subdomain Town Charter
/documents-forms/Forms & Applications
/online-tax-utility-payments/New window Tax & Utility Payments
/meeting-agendas-minutes/Past Meetings
/2024/04/15/town-of-blades-hyd...Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Read More
/events/planning-zoning-meetin...Subdomain Planning & Zoning Meeting
A-TITLE Planning & Zoning Meeting
/events/team-meeting-20/Subdomain Team Meeting
A-TITLE Team Meeting
/events/town-council-meeting-66/Subdomain Town Council Meeting
A-TITLE Town Council Meeting
/events/View More
/2024/04/15/town-of-blades-hyd...Subdomain Town of Blades Hydrant Flushing week of April 15, 2024
/2024/04/02/blades-municipal-e...Subdomain Blades Municipal Election Results
/2024/03/19/blades-municipal-e...Subdomain Blades Municipal Election – April 1, 2024, 2pm-6pm at the Town Hall Garage
/2024/02/13/help-initiative-pr...Subdomain HELP Initiative Program
/2024/02/08/blades-municipal-e...Subdomain Text duplicate Blades Municipal Election – April 1, 2024, 2pm-6pm at the Town Hall Garage
https://blades.delaware.gov/news/Text duplicate View More
/photo-gallery/Text duplicate View More
https://www.google.com/maps/pl...New window External Subdomain 20 West Fourth Street Blades, DE 19973
/contact-us/Contact Form
https://blades.delaware.gov/foia/FOIA Form
https://www.facebook.com/bladesdeNew window External Subdomain Like Us On Facebook!
http://gic.delaware.gov/New window External Subdomain Government Information Center

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://blades.delaware.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 0.78 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 16 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 27 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (39 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSun, 19 May 2024 15:11:03 GMT
content-security-policyframe-ancestors delaware.gov *.delaware.gov de.gov *.de.gov delawaregrown.com;
link<https://blades.delaware.gov/>; rel=shortlink
cache-controlmax-age=20
expiresSun, 19 May 2024 15:11:23 GMT
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
content-length8540
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
set-cookie194 Characters
connectionclose
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 211 referring domains.
This page has 248 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 102 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Blades81%Check
Delaware68%Check
Blades Hydrant61%Check
Blades Municipal59%Check
Town56%Check
Blades Municipal Election51%Check
Town Hall47%Check
Town Council47%Check
Meeting43%Check
Meetings43%Check
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