Challenge.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
66% 
Page quality
49% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.28 s
File size
24.30 kB
Words
173
Media files
12
Number of links
19 internal / 20 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Challenge.Gov
The page title is too short. (135 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
The domain is used in the page's title.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Challenge.Gov is the official GSA government website supporting prize challenges and prize competitions that are sponsored by the US federal government. Here federal agencies provide prize awards to public citizens and entities who solve problems and develop innovations.
The meta description is too long: 1701 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.challenge.gov/
There is a valid canonical link 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
HandheldFriendlyTrue
MobileOptimized320
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
descriptionChallenge.Gov is the official GSA government website supporting prize challenges and prize competitions that are sponsored by the US federal government. Here federal agencies provide prize awards to public citizens and entities who solve problems and develop innovations.
keywordsprize competitions, prize challenges, prize contests, public competitions, open challenges, open innovation, federal prize competitions, federal prize challenges, crowdsourcing
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@{site.twitter}
twitter:imagehttps://www.challenge.gov/assets/images/cards/challenge-gov.png
og:titleChallenge.Gov
og:descriptionChallenge.Gov is the official GSA government website supporting prize challenges and prize competitions that are sponsored by the US federal government. Here federal agencies provide prize awards to public citizens and entities who solve problems and develop innovations.
og:imagehttps://www.challenge.gov/assets/images/cards/challenge-gov.png
og:typearticle
og:url/
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 173 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
The average number of words per sentence of 6.75 words is low.
32.9% 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)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 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
/assets/uswds/img/us_flag_small.pngU.S. flag
/assets/uswds/img/icon-dot-gov.svgDot gov
/assets/uswds/img/icon-https.svgHttps
/assets/images/agency/challenge-logo.svgChallenge Gov wordmark.Challenge Gov wordmark
...s/agency/challenge-logo-white-orange.svgNo alt attribute provided
/assets/images/linkedin.pngLinkedIn
/assets/images/video-why-placeholder.pngChallenge.Gov Why Video
/assets/images/banners/orange-people.pngNo alt attribute provided
/assets/images/banners/blue-people.pngNo alt attribute provided
...s/agency/challenge-logo-white-orange.svgChallenge Gov wordmark in footerChallenge Gov wordmark
/assets/images/linkedin-blue.pngLinkedIn
...s/agency/challenge-logo-square-white.svgGSA Star Mark.GSA Star Mark

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Where competition delivers innovation for the public good.
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Where competition delivers innovation for the public good.
H2 Why should you participate in federal prize competitions?
H2 Find a Challenge
H2 Stay Informed!
H2 Are you a Public Innovator?
H2 Are you a Federal Innovation Manager?
H3 Browse through challenges and submit your ideas for a chance to win.
H3 Stay up to date on the latest Challenge.Gov news!
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 20 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.challenge.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.challenge.gov/IMG-ALT Challenge Gov wordmark.
A-TITLE Home
https://www.challenge.gov/Find a Challenge
A-TITLE Active challenges
https://www.challenge.gov/Resources
A-TITLE Resources for innovators and managers
https://www.challenge.gov/eventsEvents
A-TITLE Events for innovators and managers
https://www.challenge.gov/contactContact
A-TITLE Contact page with email and social links
https://portal.challenge.gov/s...External Subdomain Login
https://secure.login.gov/sign_...External Subdomain Create Account
https://www.challenge.gov/Text duplicate Find a Challenge
https://www.challenge.gov/eventsJoin an Event
https://public.govdelivery.com...External Subdomain Stay Informed
https://www.twitter.com/Challe...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.facebook.com/Chall...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/@chall...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain IMG-ALT LinkedIn
https://github.com/GSA/Challen...External No Text
https://public.govdelivery.com...External Subdomain No Text
/challenge-gov-why-video/Watch video
IMG-ALT Challenge.Gov Why Video
https://public.govdelivery.com...External Subdomain Subscribe
/resourcesInnovator Resources
/resources-managersManager Resources
https://www.challenge.gov/aboutAbout
https://www.challenge.gov/contactText duplicate Contact
https://www.challenge.gov/termsTerms of Use
/privacy-policyPrivacy Policy
/resourcesText duplicate Innovator Resources
/resources-managersAgency Resources
/?state=archivedArchived Challenges
https://www.challenge.gov/Active Challenges
https://www.gsa.gov/website-in...External Subdomain Anchor GSA Privacy Policy
https://www.gsa.gov/website-in...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://www.gsa.gov/reference/...External Subdomain FOIA
https://www.usa.gov/External Subdomain USA.gov
https://www.twitter.com/Challe...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.facebook.com/Chall...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/@chall...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT LinkedIn
https://github.com/GSA/Challen...External No Text
https://public.govdelivery.com...External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.challenge.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 (1.28 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 (24 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-length5787
dateTue, 15 Oct 2024 15:38:03 GMT
accept-rangesbytes
access-control-allow-methodsGET, HEAD
cache-controlmax-age=60
content-encodinggzip
last-modifiedFri, 27 Sep 2024 15:13:37 GMT
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; preload
x-amz-server-side-encryptionAES256
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-robots-tagall
x-serverCloud.gov Pages
x-vcap-request-id84bf23b7-0423-4254-50de-cb4ec2d06ecc
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
etag"8a2c1853427fce20beb674a26349b53a"
varyAccept-Encoding
x-cacheMiss from cloudfront
via1.1 da9618575b838f6c05697fe3f723a49e.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-popFRA60-P8
x-amz-cf-iducy0ptMA2GcTOtPaCiTFsnmGsraGTSNwufWgq2hM4VDc8AemM94dkg==
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,504 referring domains.
This page has 8,461 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,178 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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Challenge.Gov is the official GSA government website supporting prize challenges and prize competitions that are sponsored by the US federal government. Here federal agencies provide prize awards to public citizens and entities who solve problems and develop innovations.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
gov84%Check
Challenge83%Check
public66%Check
innovation66%Check
competition66%Check
Federal54%Check
Federal Government52%Check
official51%Check
site51%Check
prize50%Check
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