Burlingtonvt.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.04 s
File size
102.90 kB
Words
290
Media files
6
Number of links
77 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Burlington, VT | Official Website
The length of the page title is perfect. (283 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(0, 73, 131)
descriptionEmpty
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
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 290 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 43 words is high.
16.9% of the text are stop words.
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.
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=72Burlington Vermont Home Page
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=74Search
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=86Burlington Vermont Home Page
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=48 Facebook
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=65X
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=49 Instagram

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Latest News & Events
The H1 heading is perfect.
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
H1 Latest News & Events
H3 January 2025
H3 January 2025 Duplicate text
H3 Contact Us
H3 Helpful Links
H3 Site Links
H4 Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak Announces City Will Open Emergency Cold Weather Shelter Next Week, in Par
H4 Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak's Response to the Governor’s State of the State Address
H4 Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak Announces Theresa Vezina as Mayor’s Special Assistant on Overdose Prev
H4 Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak Announces Christian Berry, M. Ed. to Serve As Interim Director of the O
H4 Wed, Jan. 1 - Fri, Jan. 31
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 6 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.burlingtonvt.gov/Anchor Skip to Main Content
/MyAccount/ProfileCreateCreate a Website Account
/MyAccountWebsite Sign In
https://www.burlingtonvt.gov/IMG-ALT Burlington Vermont Home Page
/Search/ResultsIMG-ALT Search
/27/GovernmentGovernment
/101/DepartmentsDepartments
/31/ResidentsResidents
/9/How-Do-IHow Do I...
https://burlingtonvt.portal.ci...External Subdomain Agendas
/903/Career-OpportunitiesSubdomain Jobs
/314/Parking-in-BurlingtonParking
/415/PayPayments
/986/ElectionsElections
/862/Report-a-ConcernSee, Click, Fix
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=3688Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak Announces City Will Open Emergency Cold Weather Shelter Next Week, in Par
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=3688Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=3684Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak's Response to the Governor’s State of the State Address
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=3684Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=3668Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak Announces Theresa Vezina as Mayor’s Special Assistant on Overdose Prev
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=3668Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=3667Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak Announces Christian Berry, M. Ed. to Serve As Interim Director of the O
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=3667Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?CID=1View All News
https://www.burlingtonvt.gov/Anchor Meetings
https://www.burlingtonvt.gov/Anchor Events
https://www.burlingtonvt.gov/Anchor Text duplicate Meetings
/calendar.aspx?CID=25View All Events
https://www.burlingtonvt.gov/Anchor Text duplicate Events
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...1
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...2
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...3
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...4
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...5
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...6
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...7
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...8
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...9
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...10
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...11
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...12
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...13
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...14
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...15
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...16
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...17
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...18
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...19
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...20
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...21
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...22
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...23
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...24
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...25
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...26
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...27
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...28
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...29
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...30
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...31
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...Text duplicate 1
/Calendar.aspx?EID=1296Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
/Calendar.aspx?EID=1296Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention MonthRead on...
/calendar.aspx?CID=23,30,14,26,27Text duplicate View All Events
https://www.burlingtonvt.gov/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Burlington Vermont Home Page
https://www.facebook.com/BTVParksExternal Subdomain IMG-ALT Facebook
https://twitter.com/btvparksExternal IMG-ALT X
https://instagram.com/btvparks/External IMG-ALT Instagram
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=15Helpful Links
/412/Public-Boards-Commissions...Boards & Commissions
/413/City-CouncilCity Council
/FAQ.aspxFAQs
/845/Public-RecordsOpen Data
https://seeclickfix.com/burlin...External Report an Issue
/909/Consulting-Agreement-Docu...Consulting Agreement Documents & Forms
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=16Site Links
https://www.burlingtonvt.gov/Home
/sitemapSite Map
/FormCenter/Residents-9/Contac...Contact Us
/accessibilityAccessibility
/privacyPrivacy Policy
/424/Website-Terms-of-UseWebsite Terms of Use
https://connect.civicplus.com/...External Subdomain CivicPlus®

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.burlingtonvt.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 is slow (1.04 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 (103 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate, s-maxage=600,no-transform
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-encodinggzip
etag" "
varyAccept-Encoding
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 *
dateSat, 01 Feb 2025 04:44:05 GMT
content-length29495
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 3,214 referring domains.
This page has 66,064 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,280 different ip addresses.

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

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www.burlingtonvt.gov
Burlington, VT | Official Website

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Burlington59%Check
Events50%Check
News50%Check
Site50%Check
Latest News50%Check
Website46%Check
Announces43%Check
City43%Check
January43%Check
Links43%Check
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