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Overview of the SEO Check

Meta information

79%

Page quality

79%

Page structure

70%

Link structure

77%

Server

100%

External factors

100%

SEO Score

SEO Score Widget

Response time

0.29 s

File size

57.20 kB

Words

1031

Media files

Number of links

50 internal / 21 external

Task list of SEO Improvements 4 Tasks

Add a meta description.Very important!
Remove unnecessary words like welcome messages from your H1 heading.Very important!
The H1 heading should suit better to the page content. (Words from the heading are rarely used in the text)Important!
Promote your page in social networks.Tip!

Meta specifications 79% achieved

Title

(Critically important)

Home | LA Business Portal

The length of the page title is perfect. (242 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)

There are no duplicate words in the title

Meta Title

Meta description

(Critically important)

The meta description is missing.

Meta Description

Crawlability

(Critically important)

There are no problems in accessing the website.

Search Engine Crawlers

Canonical URL

(Important)

https://business.lacity.gov/

There is a valid canonical link specified.

Canonical Tag

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

Declaring language in HTML

Alternate/Hreflang Links

(Somewhat important)

There are no alternate links specified on this page.

Hreflang

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.

Meta Tags

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.

Domain for SEO

Page URL

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No parameters were found in the URL.

No session ID was found in the URL.

The URL does not have too many subdirectories.

SEO-friendly URLs

Charset encoding

(Somewhat important)

The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.

Character Encoding

Doctype

(Nice to have)

The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.

The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.

HTML Doctype

Favicon

(Nice to have)

The favicon is linked correctly.

Favicon

Meta tags

Name	Value
Generator	Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimized	width
HandheldFriendly	true
viewport	width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
lang	en
x-ua-compatible	ie=edge
charset	utf-8

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Page quality 79% achieved

Content

(Critically important)

Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.

This page contains 1031 words. That's ok.

41% of the text are stop words.

The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.

23 paragraphs were found on this page.

No placeholders texts or images were found.

There are no duplicates on the site.

The average number of words per sentence of 17.15 words is good.

Content is King

Frames

(Critically important)

This page does not use a frameset.

Frames and framesets

Mobile optimization

(Somewhat important)

No Apple touch icon is specified.

A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.

Mobile Optimization

Bold and strong tags

(Somewhat important)

The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 21 tags for this page.

Strong and Bold Tags

Image SEO

(Somewhat important)

Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.

Image SEO

There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.

Social Sharing

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.

HTTPS

Media list

URL	Alt attribute	Title
...ph1606/files/LA_Business_Portal_logo.png	Home
...2020-11/home_hero.jpg.webp?itok=rY-gYxL5	Hero for LA Business Portal
...ation_top_panel_6.png.webp?itok=lMBLmSRn	Graphic with image of the LA Business Portal Website in a cell phone being held
...1606/files/2020-11/icon_pnl_bulb_2_4.png	Plan a Business
...ph1606/files/2020-11/icon_pnl_flag_2.png	Start a Business
...1606/files/2020-11/icon_pnl_manage_4.png	Manage a Business
...ph1606/files/2021-03/icon_pnl_grow_4.png	Icon of Bars Growing
...les/2023-01/LACitySeal_White_Outline.png	Los Angeles Mayor's Office
...06/files/2020-11/logo_office_finance.png	Office of Finance
...files/wph1606/files/2021-01/logo_ita.png	Information Technology Agency
...iles/2020-11/logo_economic_workforce.png	Economic & Workforce Development Department
...go_department_of_building_and_safety.png	Department of Building and Safety
...-11/logo_department_of_city_planning.png	Department of City Planning

Page structure 70% achieved

H1 heading

(Critically important)

Welcome to the LA Business Portal

The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.

H1-H6 headings

Headings

(Important)

The heading structure is perfect.

H1-H6 headings

Heading structure

Heading level	Content
H1	Welcome to the LA Business Portal
H2	Resources
H2	Build Your Capacity

Link structure 77% achieved

Internal links

(Important)

Some anchor texts are used more than once.

There are 8 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.

Internal Linking

External links

(Nice to have)

There are 21 external links on this page.

External Links

Found links on this page

Link	Attributes	Anchor text
https://business.lacity.gov/	Anchor	Skip to main content
https://business.lacity.gov/		IMG-ALT Home A-TITLE Home
https://business.lacity.gov/		LA Business Portal A-TITLE Home
https://business.lacity.gov/plan		Plan a Business
/plan-business/create-business...		Create a Business Plan
/plan-business/choose-business...		Choose a Business Structure
/plan-business/choose-location		Choose a Location
/plan-business/finance-your-bu...		Finance Your Business
/plan-business/permits-and-ada...		Permits and ADA Compliance
/plan-business/buy-existing-bu...		Buy an Existing Business
/plan-business/hire-employees		Hire Employees
/plan-business/business-resources		Business Resources
https://business.lacity.gov/start		Start a Business
/start-business/startup-guide		Startup Guide
/start/starter-kits		Starter-Kits
/start-business/register-your-...		Register Your Business
/manage		Manage a Business
/manage-business/key-dates-and...		Key Dates and Deadlines
/manage-business/business-prep...		Business Preparedness
/manage-business/manage-employees		Manage Employees
/manage-business/closing-your-...		Closing Your Business
https://business.lacity.gov/grow		Grow a Business
/grow-business/contract-city		Contract with the City
/grow-business/market-your-bus...		Market Your Business
/grow-business/open-another-lo...		Open Another Location
/grow-business/export-your-pro...		Export Your Products and Services
/resources		Resources
/incentive		Resources and Incentives
/resources/business-source-cen...		BusinessSource Centers
/resources/departments		Departments
/resources/mayors-office-commu...		Mayor's Office of Community Business
/resources/terms-and-definitions		Terms and Definitions
/resources/calendar		Calendar
https://business.lacity.org/re...	External Subdomain	Concierge Services
/search		Search
/start-business/startup-guide		TRY THE STARTUP GUIDE
/plan-business/create-business...		Trivial anchor text Go
/plan-business/choose-business...	Text duplicate	Trivial anchor text Go
/plan-business/choose-location	Text duplicate	Trivial anchor text Go
/start-business/register-your-...	Text duplicate	Trivial anchor text Go
/plan-business/finance-your-bu...	Text duplicate	Trivial anchor text Go
https://business.lacity.org/pl...	External Subdomain Text duplicate	Trivial anchor text Go
/manage-business/key-dates-and...	Text duplicate	Trivial anchor text Go
/grow-business/contract-city	Text duplicate	Trivial anchor text Go
/grow-business/open-another-lo...	Text duplicate	Trivial anchor text Go
https://www.lacyberlab.org/	New window External Subdomain Text duplicate	Trivial anchor text Go
/resources/resources-incentives	Text duplicate	Resources and Incentives
/resources/departments		City Departments
/resources/business-source-cen...	Text duplicate	BusinessSource Centers
https://bca.lacity.org/accessi...	New window External Subdomain	Learn how to get certified to work with the City!
https://business.lacity.gov/plan	Text duplicate	Plan a Business
https://business.lacity.gov/start	Text duplicate	Start a Business
/manage	Text duplicate	Manage a Business
https://business.lacity.gov/grow	Text duplicate	Grow a Business
https://twitter.com/LAEWDD	New window External	Follow On Twitter
https://twitter.com/LAEWDD	New window External	Twitter
https://twitter.com/LAEWDD	New window External	@LAEWDD
https://www.lamayor.org/	New window External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Los Angeles Mayor's Office
http://www.lamayor.org/	New window External Subdomain	Mayor's Office
http://finance.lacity.org/	New window External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Office of Finance
http://finance.lacity.org/	New window External Subdomain Text duplicate	Office of Finance
http://ita.lacity.org/	New window External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Information Technology Agency
http://ita.lacity.org/	New window External Subdomain Text duplicate	Information Technology Agency
http://ewddlacity.com/	New window External	IMG-ALT Economic & Workforce Development Department
http://ewddlacity.com/	New window External Text duplicate	Economic & Workforce Development Department
http://www.ladbs.org/	New window External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Department of Building and Safety
http://www.ladbs.org/	New window External Subdomain Text duplicate	Department of Building and Safety
http://planning.lacity.org/	New window External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Department of City Planning
http://planning.lacity.org/	New window External Subdomain Text duplicate	Department of City Planning
https://disclaimer.lacity.gov/...	New window External Subdomain	Disclaimer
https://disclaimer.lacity.gov/...	New window External Subdomain	Privacy Policy

Server configuration 100% achieved

HTTP redirects

(Critically important)

This page redirects to "https://business.lacity.gov/"

WWW Redirect

HTTP header

(Important)

No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.

This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.

HTTP headers

Performance

(Somewhat important)

The page response time is excellent with 0.29 seconds.

The file size of the HTML document is fine (57 kB).

Page Speed

HTTP Response Header

Name	Value
content-type	text/html; charset=UTF-8
x-drupal-dynamic-cache	MISS
content-language	en
x-content-type-options	nosniff
x-frame-options	SAMEORIGIN
x-generator	Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cache	HIT
vary	Accept-Encoding
x-request-id	v-c285ea66-0750-11ef-959d-7761c1070a8f
x-ah-environment	01live
x-age	0
accept-ranges	bytes
x-akamai-transformed	9 12530 0 pmb=mRUM,1
content-encoding	gzip
expires	Wed, 01 May 2024 00:21:31 GMT
cache-control	max-age=0, no-cache, no-store
pragma	no-cache
date	Wed, 01 May 2024 00:21:31 GMT
content-length	14498
server-timing	cdn-cache; desc=MISS
strict-transport-security	max-age=31536000 ; includeSubDomains ; preload
statuscode	200
http_version	HTTP/2

External factors 100% achieved

Blacklists

(Nice to have)

This website is not classified "for adult only".

Blacklist

Backlinks

(Critically important)

This website has excellent links from other websites.

This page has backlinks from 200 referring domains.

This page has 2,276 backlinks.

This page has backlinks from 157 different ip addresses.

Backlinks

Facebook popularity

(Somewhat important)

The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

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business.lacity.gov

Home | LA Business Portal

Most important keywords

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

Keyword	Result	Recheck
Business	82%	Check
Business Portal	76%	Check
Portal	70%	Check
Grow Business	60%	Check
Business Resources	60%	Check
Business Finance	60%	Check
Business Plan	60%	Check
Start Business	59%	Check
Business Community	58%	Check
Business Owners	58%	Check
City	54%	Check
grow your business	52%	Check
Welcome	50%	Check
City Departments	44%	Check
Build	42%	Check
Resources	38%	Check
Grow	38%	Check
Plan	38%	Check
Finance	38%	Check
Manage	38%	Check
Office	38%	Check
Department	38%	Check
building	38%	Check
information	36%	Check
Start	36%	Check

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Business.lacity.gov - SEO Checker

Task list of SEO Improvements 4 Tasks

Meta specifications 79% achieved

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Page quality 79% achieved

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Media list

Page structure 70% achieved

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Heading structure

Link structure 77% achieved

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Found links on this page

Server configuration 100% achieved

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HTTP Response Header

External factors 100% achieved

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