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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
89% 
Page quality
54% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.33 s
File size
15.40 kB
Words
261
Media files
4
Number of links
39 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home / Boone, IA
The page title is too short. (159 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The official website of the City of Boone, Iowa
The length of the meta description is perfect. (281 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
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 XHTML 1.0 Transitional is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
robotsall, index,follow
descriptionThe official website of the City of Boone, Iowa
keywordsCity of Boone, Boone, City of Boone Iowa, Boone Iowa, Iowa, city, government, town council, boards, building department, public safety, parks, public works
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 261 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
22.6% of the text are stop words.
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 11.67 words is good.
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
/images/header/facebook.jpgFacebook
/images/header/youtube.jpgYouTube
/images/footer/city-logo.pngCity of Boone, Iowa
/images/footer/core-logo-w.pngCORE Business Technologies

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The City of Boone, Iowa
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 The City of Boone, Iowa
H2 Quality of life is not just a goal, but a reality in Boone. Come join us!
H2 Welcome to The City of Boone, Iowa
H2 Projects
H2 Programs
H3 Recent News
H3 Upcoming Events
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 6 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.boonegov.com/The City of Boone, Iowa
https://www.boonegov.com/Anchor Skip over navigation
https://www.facebook.com/boone...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Facebook
A-TITLE Boone Iowa on Facebook
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT YouTube
A-TITLE Boone Iowa on YouTube
http://forecast.weather.gov/Ma...New window External Subdomain Forecast
A-TITLE NOAA Forecast
https://www.boonegov.com/Home
/governmentYour Government
/category/index.php?categoryid=1About
/department/index.php?structur...Doing Business
/category/index.php?categoryid=2Why Boone?
/egov/apps/action/center.egov?...Contact
https://www.boonegov.com/howdoiHow Do I?
/egov/apps/services/index.egov...Online Payments
/egov/apps/services/index.egov...Agendas & Minutes
/egov/apps/services/index.egov...Licenses, Forms & Apps
/egov/apps/services/index.egov...City Code
/egov/apps/services/index.egov...Report a Concern
/egov/apps/services/index.egov...Parks
/egov/apps/services/index.egov...Utility Start, Stop, Transfer
/egov/apps/services/index.egov...Nixle
https://www.boonegov.com/enewsSign Up for eNotify
https://boonesump.com/External Boone Sump Pump Inspection Program
/topic/index.php?topicid=32&st...Subdomain Boone Downtown Grant
A-TITLE Link to PDF file
/topic/index.php?topicid=33Subdomain Jump Start Boone
A-TITLE Link to PDF file
http://www.homebaseiowa.gov/New window External Subdomain Home Base Iowa
A-TITLE Home Base Iowa
/topic/index.php?topicid=41&st...Subdomain Housing Incentive Program
A-TITLE Housing Incentive Program
/egov/documents/1668546737_433...Subdomain Revitalize Boone Downtown Business Grant
/egov/apps/document/center.ego...Subdomain Boone LMI Survey Notification
/egov/apps/document/center.ego...Subdomain SNOW ORDINANCE FEBRUARY 12TH
/egov/apps/document/center.ego...Subdomain Council Receives First Update from Main Street Boone Director
/egov/apps/document/center.ego...Subdomain Council Authorizes RISE Agreement with IDOT
/egov/apps/document/center.ego...Subdomain JANUARY 2025 NEWSLETTER
/egov/apps/document/center.ego...Subdomain More Recent News
/egov/apps/events/calendar.ego...Subdomain Public Safety Meeting
/egov/apps/locations/facilitie...Subdomain City Hall
/egov/apps/events/calendar.ego...Subdomain City Council Meeting
/egov/apps/events/calendar.ego...Subdomain Airport Commission Meeting
/egov/apps/locations/facilitie...Subdomain Airport
/egov/apps/events/calendar.ego...Subdomain View All Events
/departmentsDepartment Listing
https://www.corebt.com/Nofollow External Subdomain CORE Business Technologies
https://www.boonegov.com/City of Boone, Iowa
A-TITLE City of Boone, Iowa Homepage
https://www.boonegov.com/privacyPrivacy Policy
/accessibilityAccessibility Statement
https://www.boonegov.com/termsTerms of Use

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.boonegov.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.33 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (15 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 20 Feb 2025 02:34:37 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
access-control-allow-origin*
content-encodinggzip
servernginx
set-cookie105 Characters
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubdomains;
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 34 referring domains.
This page has 54 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 33 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /egov/help
Noindex: /egov/help
Disallow: /egov/imgs
Disallow: /egov/include
Noindex: /egov/include
Disallow: /egov/apps/events
Noindex: /egov/apps/events
Disallow: /include
Crawl-delay: 300


# This thing comes from a known spyware site, so shove off.
User-agent: FunWebProducts
Disallow: /

# Crawlers that are kind enough to obey, but which we'd rather not have
# unless they're feeding search engines.
User-agent: UbiCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: DOC
Disallow: /

User-agent: Zao
Disallow: /

# Some bots are known to be trouble, particularly those designed to copy
# entire sites. Please obey robots.txt.
User-agent: sitecheck.internetseer.com
Disallow: /

User-agent: Zealbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MSIECrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: SiteSnagger
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebStripper
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebCopier
Disallow: /

User-agent: Fetch
Disallow: /

User-agent: Offline Explorer
Disallow: /

User-agent: Teleport
Disallow: /

User-agent: TeleportPro
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebZIP
Disallow: /

User-agent: linko
Disallow: /

User-agent: HTTrack
Disallow: /

User-agent: Microsoft.URL.Control
Disallow: /

User-agent: Xenu
Disallow: /

User-agent: larbin
Disallow: /

User-agent: libwww
Disallow: /

User-agent: ZyBORG
Disallow: /

User-agent: Download Ninja
Disallow: /



# Doesn't follow robots.txt anyway, but...
User-agent: k2spider
Disallow: /


# Hits many times per second, not acceptable
# http://www.nameprotect.com/botinfo.html
User-agent: NPBot
Disallow: /

# A capture bot, downloads gazillions of pages with no public benefit
# http://www.webreaper.net/
User-agent: WebReaper
Disallow: /

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www.boonegov.com
Home / Boone, IA
The official website of the City of Boone, Iowa

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City70%Check
Iowa68%Check
Iowa City68%Check
Boone Downtown64%Check
City Council53%Check
City Hall53%Check
Site46%Check
just38%Check
Welcome38%Check
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