Bristolva.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
45% 
Link structure
43% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.19 s
File size
121.80 kB
Words
264
Media files
19
Number of links
41 internal / 15 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Bristol, VA - Official Website | Official Website
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (406 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
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-color#383838
descriptionEmpty
keywordsHome
facebook-domain-verificationrz6iskgx6miiv6ku1pum2a578pecyc
langen
Content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 264 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
18.6% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 13 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 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
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=3642Bristol, VA
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=3635Home page
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=3646Facebook
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=3654Twitter
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=3647Instagram
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=3657YouTube
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=3643Go to Site Search
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=3773stateline copystateline copy
data:[...] Base64Bristol Public LibraryBristol Public Library
data:[...] Base64The BirthPlace of Country Music MuseumThe BirthPlace of Country Music Museum
data:[...] Base64Cumberland CampusCumberland Campus
data:[...] Base64Historic State StreetHistoric State Street
data:[...] Base64Downtown Bristol in the fallDowntown Bristol in the fall
data:[...] Base64Sugar Hollow Sugar Hollow
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=3851landfill closed copy
data:[...] Base64property assessments copy
data:[...] Base64Comp Plan Meeting 4.11.2024
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=3645City of Bristol Virginia

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
BRISTOL NEWS
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (12 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 BRISTOL NEWS
H1 POPULAR LINKS
H1 UPCOMING EVENTS
H3 Calendar
H3 April 2024
H3 Contact Us
H3 Quick Links
H3 Site Links
H3 Loading
H4 Landfill News and Updates
H4 Property Reassessments
H4 Bristol Forward
H4 Tue, Apr 23
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 15 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.bristolva.org/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.bristolva.org/IMG-ALT Home page
/27/DepartmentsDepartments
/8/GovernmentGovernment
/31/BusinessBusiness
/35/VisitorsVisitors
/9/I-Want-ToI Want To...
https://www.facebook.com/Cityo...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Facebook
https://twitter.com/CityofBris...External IMG-ALT Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/city...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/@cityo...External Subdomain IMG-ALT YouTube
/Search/ResultsIMG-ALT Go to Site Search
https://bristol-library.org/New window External The Bristol Public Library
IMG-ALT Bristol Public Library
https://birthplaceofcountrymus...New window External The Birthplace of Country Music Museum
IMG-ALT The BirthPlace of Country Music Museum
https://eservices.bristolva.or...External Subdomain Online Payments
/607/Agenda-CenterMeetings & Agendas
/225/ElectionsElection Information
/270/Report-a-Concern---City-H...City Helpdesk
/533/BVTVBVTV
https://bristolva.interactiveg...External Subdomain GIS
/civicalerts.aspxView All News
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=303New window IMG-ALT landfill closed copy
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=303New window Landfill News and Updates
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=303New window Additional Info...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=310IMG-ALT property assessments copy
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=310Property Reassessments
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=310Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=308IMG-ALT Comp Plan Meeting 4.11.2024
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=308Bristol Forward
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=308Test The Vision
/133/Fire-DepartmentSubdomain Bristol Virginia Fire Department
/155/Police-DepartmentSubdomain Bristol Virginia Police Department
/147/Parks-RecreationNew window Subdomain Parks & Recreation/Sugar Hollow Park
/jobs.aspxSubdomain Employment Opportunities
/545/City-Treasurers-OfficeNew window Subdomain Treasurer's Office
/543/Circuit-Court-Clerks-OfficeNew window Subdomain Circuit Court Clerk's Office
/calendar.aspx?CID=22,29,33,32...Calendar
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...23
/Calendar.aspx?EID=1135City Council Meeting
/calendar.aspx?CID=22,29,33,32...View All Events
/directory.aspxEmail Us
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=26,73,27Quick Links
https://www.elections.virginia...New window External Subdomain Virginia Department of Elections
http://www.fvap.gov/New window External Subdomain Federal Voting Assistance Program
https://www.restore.virginia.gov/External Subdomain Restoration Of Rights Information
http://va-bristol2.civicplus.c...External Subdomain Staff Directory
http://va-bristol2.civicplus.c...External Subdomain Employment
https://eservices.bristolva.or...New window External Subdomain Real Estate and Personal Property Tax Records
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=74Site Links
https://www.bristolva.org/Home
https://www.bristolva.org/sitemapSite Map
/directoryContact Us
/accessibilityAccessibility
/site/copyrightCopyright Notices
https://www.bristolva.org/privacyPrivacy Policy
https://connect.civicplus.com/...External Subdomain CivicPlus®

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.bristolva.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.19 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 (122 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate, s-maxage=600,no-transform
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-encodinggzip
etag" "
varyAccept-Encoding
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
p3pCP="IDC DSP COR ADM DEVi TAIi PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi HIS OUR IND CNT"
set-cookie25 Characters
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self' https://*.granicus.com https://platform.civicplus.com https://account.civicplus.com https://analytics.civicplus.com; img-src * data: blob:; worker-src * data: blob: 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline'; script-src * about: 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval'; style-src * 'unsafe-inline'; media-src * blob:; font-src * data:; default-src *
strict-transport-securitymax-age=300
dateThu, 11 Apr 2024 21:25:41 GMT
content-length36025
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

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 552 referring domains.
This page has 1,643 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 366 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: Baiduspider
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

Search preview

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Bristol81%Check
Bristol City63%Check
Downtown Bristol61%Check
Bristol Virginia60%Check
NEWS54%Check
Site52%Check
LINKS43%Check
City41%Check
meet41%Check
Meeting41%Check

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