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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
78% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
46% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.98 s
File size
258.40 kB
Words
515
Media files
9
Number of links
117 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
National Cave Association | America's Best Show Caves
The length of the page title is perfect. (505 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Founded in 1965 by a small group of private show cave owners from across the United States, the National Caves Association has been encouraging the public to discover the underground wonders of America’s show caves for close to 50 years.
The meta description is too long: 1505 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://cavern.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
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
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descriptionFounded in 1965 by a small group of private show cave owners from across the United States, the National Caves Association has been encouraging the public to discover the underground wonders of America’s show caves for close to 50 years.
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article:modified_time2024-04-16T16:03:59+00:00
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleNational Cave Association | America's Best Show Caves
og:descriptionFounded in 1965 by a small group of private show cave owners from across the United States, the National Caves Association has been encouraging the public to discover the underground wonders of America’s show caves for close to 50 years.
og:urlhttps://cavern.com/
og:site_nameNational Caves Association
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 515 words. That's ok.
24.1% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
3 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 15.92 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 16 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 10 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
4 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
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Insecure Content		National Caves Association
/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/thumbnail-2.jpgruby falls
data:[...] Base64Greatest Show Meramec Caverns
data:[...] Base64walkway through the cave with water on sidesstark-24
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
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data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
America’s Best Show Caves
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 America’s Best Show Caves
H1 America Underground, Discover America’s Best Show Caves!
H2 Natural Stone Bridge & Caves Park
H2 Natural Bridge Caverns
H2 Meramec Caverns
H2 Luray Caverns
H2 Discover America Underground
H2 Cave of The Mounds, National Natural Landmark
H2 Lost Sea Adventure
H2 Crystal Cave, PA
H3 Order Copies of NCA Brochure
H4 Plan you vaCAVEtion today!
H4 WEST
H4 MIDWEST
H4 EAST
H4 OFFSHORE
H4 National Caves Association
H4 Contact Us
H4 Follow Us On Facebook
H4 Follow Us On X
H5 Learn More About Caves:
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 12 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://www.facebook.com/profi...External Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/bestshowcavesExternal X
https://cavern.com/member-login/Member Login
/news-cave-talks/News & Cave Talks
https://cavern.com/directory/Directory
https://cavern.com/convention/Convention
https://cavern.com/IMG-ALT National Caves Association
https://cavern.com/Home
https://cavern.com/all-showcaves/All Show Caves
/western-region/Western Region
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=AZArizona (1)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=CACalifornia (5)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=COColorado (2)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=NMNew Mexico (2)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=OROregon (2)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=UTUtah (1)
/midwestern-region/Midwestern Region
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=ARArkansas (4)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=INIndiana (6)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=IAIowa (2)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=MNMinnesota (2)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=MOMissouri (10)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=OKOklahoma (1)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=SDSouth Dakota (4)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=TXTexas (5)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=WIWisconsin (2)
/eastern-region/Eastern Region
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=ALAlabama (3)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=KYKentucky (6)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=NHNew Hampshire (2)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=NYNew York (3)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=OHOhio (4)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=PAPennsylvania (6)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=TNTennessee (8)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=VAVirginia (5)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=WVWest Virginia (1)
https://cavern.com/offshore/Offshore
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=BABarbados (1)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=BXBermuda (1)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=GCGrand Cayman (1)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=HIHawaii (1)
https://cavern.com/convention/Text duplicate Convention
/how-caves-form/How Caves Form
https://cavern.com/cave-types/Cave Types
https://cavern.com/creatures/Creatures
https://cavern.com/formations/Formations
/protecting-caves/Protecting Caves
/educational-material/Educational Material
/bluespring-caverns-in/Bluespring Caverns, IN
/caverns-of-sonora-tx/Caverns of Sonora, TX
/crystal-and-fantasy-caves-ber...Crystal and Fantasy Caves, Bermuda
/crystal-cave-pa/Crystal Cave, PA
/crystal-lake-cave-ia/Crystal Lake Cave, IA
/cumberland-caverns-tn/Cumberland Caverns, TN
/diamond-caverns-ky/Diamond Caverns, KY
/glenwood-caverns-co/Glenwood Caverns, CO
/hana-lava-tube-hi/Hana Lava Tube, HI
/inner-space-cavern-tx/Inner Space Cavern, TX
/lake-shasta-caverns-ca/Lake Shasta Caverns, CA
/lincoln-caverns-pa/Lincoln Caverns, PA
/longhorn-cavern/Longhorn Cavern
https://cavern.com/lost-sea-tn/Lost Sea, TN
/luray-caverns-va/Luray Caverns, VA
/marengo-cave-in/Marengo Cave, IN
/mark-twain-cave-mo/Mark Twain Cave, MO
/mercer-caverns-ca/Mercer Caverns, CA
/moaning-caverns-adventure-par...Moaning Caverns Adventure Park, CA
/natural-bridge-caverns-tx/Natural Bridge Caverns, TX
/natural-stone-bridge-caves-park/Natural Stone Bridge & Caves Park, NY
/ohio-caverns-oh/Ohio Caverns, OH
https://cavern.com/ruby-falls-tn/Ruby Falls, TN
/rushmore-cave-sd/Rushmore Cave, SD
/seneca-caverns/Seneca Caverns, OH
/squire-boone-caverns-in/Squire Boone Caverns, IN
/stark-caverns-mo/Stark Caverns, MO
/talking-rocks-cavern-mo/Talking Rocks Cavern, MO
https://cavern.com/about-the-nca/About the NCA
https://cavern.com/about-the-nca/Text duplicate About the NCA
/become-a-member/Become a Member
https://cavern.com/nca-partners/NCA Partners
https://americasbestshowcaves....New window External Subdomain Blog
/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/th...IMG-ALT ruby falls
A-TITLE thumbnail (2)
/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Gr...IMG-ALT Greatest Show Meramec Caverns
A-TITLE Greatest Show Meramec
/how-caves-form/Text duplicate How Caves Form
https://cavern.com/creatures/Text duplicate Creatures
https://cavern.com/cave-types/Text duplicate Cave Types
https://cavern.com/formations/Text duplicate Formations
https://mswinteractive.wufoo.c...External Subdomain online form
/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/20...DOWNLOAD BROCHURE
/western-region/WEST
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=AZARIZONA (1)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=CACALIFORNIA (5)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=COCOLORADO (2)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=NMNEW MEXICO (2)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=OROREGON (2)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=UTUTAH (1)
/midwestern-region/MIDWEST
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=ARARKANSAS (4)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=ININDIANA (6)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=IAIOWA (2)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=MNMINNESOTA (2)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=MOMISSOURI (10)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=OKOKLAHOMA (1)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=SDSOUTH DAKOTA (4)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=TXTEXAS (5)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=WIWISCONSIN (2)
/eastern-region/EAST
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=ALALABAMA (3)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=KYKENTUCKY (6)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=NHNEW HAMPSHIRE (2)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=NYNEW YORK (3)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=OHOHIO (4)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=PAPENNSYLVANIA (6)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=TNTENNESSEE (8)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=VAVIRGINIA (5)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=WVWEST VIRGINIA (1)
https://cavern.com/offshore/OFFSHORE
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=BABARBADOS (1)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=BXBERMUDA (1)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=GCGRAND CAYMAN (1)
https://cavern.com/state/?slug=HIHAWAII (1)
https://www.caveofthemounds.com/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://thelostsea.com/New window External No Text
https://crystalcavepa.com/New window External No Text
https://mswinteractive.wufoo.c...External Subdomain Text duplicate online form
https://www.facebook.com/profi...New window External Subdomain Follow
A-TITLE Follow on Facebook
https://twitter.com/bestshowcavesNew window External Text duplicate Follow
A-TITLE Follow on X
https://twitter.com/bestshowca...External Tweets by bestshowcaves
http://www.mswinteractivedesig...New window External Subdomain Website design and hosting by MSW Interactive Designs LLC. We put the web to work for you!

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://cavern.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (1.98 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.
This page loads 15 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 16 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (258 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateWed, 18 Dec 2024 01:47:47 GMT
serverApache
x-powered-byPHP/8.0.30
last-modifiedTue, 17 Dec 2024 22:27:01 GMT
cache-controlmax-age=0
expiresWed, 18 Dec 2024 01:47:47 GMT
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
transfer-encodingchunked
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 622 referring domains.
This page has 13,558 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 267 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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National Cave Association | America's Best Show Caves
Founded in 1965 by a small group of private show cave owners from across the United States, the National Caves Association has been encouraging the public to discover the underground wonders of America’s show caves for close to 50 years.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Cave91%Check
Show80%Check
show caves80%Check
Caves78%Check
America77%Check
Best Show Caves75%Check
National Caves72%Check
Caves Association72%Check
National Caves Association70%Check
Association America68%Check
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