Bristolri.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
61% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.87 s
File size
111.30 kB
Words
427
Media files
11
Number of links
61 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Bristol, RI | Official Website
The length of the page title is perfect. (244 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
category0Home
theme-colorrgb(10, 37, 73)
descriptionEmpty
keywordsHome,Bristol,New England,Rhode Island,Newport,Taylor Swift,Fourth of July,
langen
Content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 427 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
There are 2 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: Notice is hereby given that the Town Council of the Town of Bristol wi...
20.6% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
4 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 13.88 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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The following tag is repeated too often: memorial day - town offices closed
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
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=673Bristol RI Homepage Logo
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=68Search
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=938Mount Hope Farm daffodilsMount Hope Farm daffodils
data:[...] Base64Bristol Golf Park - Open for the 2025 SeasonBristol Golf Park - Open for the 2025 Season
data:[...] Base64Bristol Harbor and MarinaBristol Harbor and Marina
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=618Logo
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=1204public notice image
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=89Boardwalk
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=90Logo Placeholder
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=1204public notice image

Page structure

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

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H3 May 2025
H3 May 2025 Duplicate text
H3 Bristol Town Hall
H3 Get Connected
H3 Quick Links
H3 Site Links
H4 Welcome to spring!
H4 Bristol Golf Park - Open for the 2025 Season!
H4 Bristol Harbor ranked among country's best
H4 Mt. Hope Bridge
H4 Public Hearing: Proposed Zoning Ordinance Amendments
H4 Create an Account
H4 Stay connected!
H4 Mon, May 26
H4 Wed, May 28
H4 Wed, May 28 Duplicate text
H4 Mon, May 26 Duplicate text
H4 Wed, May 28 Duplicate text
H4 Wed, May 28 Duplicate text
H4 Public Hearing: Proposed Zoning Ordinance Amendments Duplicate text
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.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 10 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://bristolri.gov/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://bristolri.gov/IMG-ALT Bristol RI Homepage Logo
/Search/ResultsIMG-ALT Search
/27/GovernmentGovernment
/101/DepartmentsDepartments
https://bristolri.gov/35/BusinessBusiness
/298/ResidentsResidents
https://bristolri.gov/364/AboutAbout
https://bristolgolfpark.com/New window External Bristol Golf Park - Open for the 2025 Season!
IMG-ALT Bristol Golf Park - Open for the 2025 Season
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=66New window Bristol Harbor ranked among country's best Bristol Harbor and Marina
IMG-ALT Bristol Harbor and Marina
https://www.ritba.org/New window External Subdomain Mt. Hope Bridge Visit the RITBA website for news and information regarding the Mt. Hope Bridge
https://bristol-ri.municodemee...External Subdomain Agendas & Minutes
/427/Public-Concerns-and-Recor...Concerns & Requests
https://bristolri.gov/377/AlertsAlerts
/215/Online-PaymentsePayment
https://www.axisgis.com/bristo...External Subdomain GIS Map
https://bristolri.gov/364/AboutExplore
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=124IMG-ALT public notice image
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=124Public Hearing: Proposed Zoning Ordinance Amendments
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=124Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=14IMG-ALT Boardwalk
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=14Create an Account
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=14Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=13IMG-ALT Logo Placeholder
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=13Stay connected!
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=13Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?CID=1View All News
https://bristolri.gov/Anchor Meetings
https://bristolri.gov/Anchor Events
https://bristolri.gov/Anchor Text duplicate Meetings
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...26
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...28
/Calendar.aspx?EID=830Memorial Day - Town Offices Closed
/Calendar.aspx?EID=830Memorial Day - Town Offices ClosedRead on...
/Calendar.aspx?EID=852Town Council Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=852Town Council MeetingRead on...
/Calendar.aspx?EID=853Text duplicate Town Council Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=853Text duplicate Town Council MeetingRead on...
/calendar.aspx?CID=14,22View All Events
https://bristolri.gov/Anchor Text duplicate Events
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...Text duplicate 26
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...Text duplicate 28
/Calendar.aspx?EID=830Text duplicate Memorial Day - Town Offices Closed
/Calendar.aspx?EID=830Text duplicate Memorial Day - Town Offices ClosedRead on...
/Calendar.aspx?EID=852Text duplicate Town Council Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=852Text duplicate Town Council MeetingRead on...
/Calendar.aspx?EID=853Text duplicate Town Council Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=853Text duplicate Town Council MeetingRead on...
/calendar.aspx?CID=14,22Text duplicate View All Events
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=124Text duplicate IMG-ALT public notice image
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=124Text duplicate Public Hearing: Proposed Zoning Ordinance Amendments
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=124Text duplicate Read on...
/Directory.aspxDepartment Directory
https://www.facebook.com/mostp...External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.youtube.com/@towno...External Subdomain YouTube
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=15Quick Links
/321/Trash-Recycling-CollectionTrash Schedule
/190/Elected-OfficialsElected Officials
https://library.municode.com/r...External Subdomain Town Ordinances
/158/Community-DevelopmentCommunity Development
https://bristol-ri.municodemee...New window External Subdomain Municode - Agendas and Minutes
https://meetings.municode.com/New window External Subdomain Town Council Portal
/DocumentCenter/View/1168/APRA...APRA Policy
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=16Site Links
https://bristolri.gov/Home
https://bristolri.gov/sitemapSite Map
/directory.aspxContact Us
/accessibilityAccessibility
https://bristolri.gov/copyrightCopyright Notices
https://bristolri.gov/privacyPrivacy Policy
https://connect.civicplus.com/...External Subdomain CivicPlus®

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://bristolri.gov/"
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 of 0.87 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 (111 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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servercloudflare
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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 528 referring domains.
This page has 621 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 139 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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Disallow: /
User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /
User-agent: *
Disallow: /activedit
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /common/admin/
Disallow: /OJA
Disallow: /support
Disallow: /currenteventsview.asp
Disallow: /search.asp
Disallow: /currenteventsview.aspx
Disallow: /search.aspx
Disallow: /currentevents.aspx
Disallow: /Support
Disallow: /CurrentEventsView.asp
Disallow: /Search.asp
Disallow: /CurrentEventsView.aspx
Disallow: /Search.aspx
Disallow: /Search
Disallow: /CurrentEvents.aspx
Disallow: /Currentevents.aspx
Disallow: /map.aspx
Disallow: /map.asp
Disallow: /Map.aspx
Disallow: /Map.asp
Sitemap: /sitemap.xml
Disallow: /RSS.aspx
User-agent: Siteimprove
Crawl-delay: 20
User-agent: Siteimprovebot
Crawl-delay: 20
User-agent: Siteimprovebot-crawler
Crawl-delay: 20

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Bristol70%Check
Bristol Harbor57%Check
Site50%Check
website46%Check
bristolri46%Check
gov46%Check
Public44%Check
Town43%Check
Official Website43%Check
Hearing43%Check
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