Sites.ed.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
62% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
67% 
Server
1% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.46 s
File size
142.90 kB
Words
454
Media files
22
Number of links
71 internal / 14 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
The length of the page title is perfect. (436 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The U.S. Department of Education’s Individuals with Disabilities Education Act website brings together department and grantee IDEA information and resources. The IDEA makes available a free appropriate public education to and ensures special education and related services to eligible children with disabilities.
The meta description is too long: 1924 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://sites.ed.gov/idea/
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
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
descriptionThe U.S. Department of Education’s Individuals with Disabilities Education Act website brings together department and grantee IDEA information and resources. The IDEA makes available a free appropriate public education to and ensures special education and related services to eligible children with disabilities.
generatorWordPress 5.7.12
msapplication-TileImagehttps://sites.ed.gov/idea/files/cropped-ed-logo-270x270.jpg
article:modified_time2024-06-24T19:03:12+00:00
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:label1Est. reading time
twitter:data11 minute
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleIndividuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
og:descriptionThe U.S. Department of Education’s Individuals with Disabilities Education Act website brings together department and grantee IDEA information and resources. The IDEA makes available a free appropriate public education to and ensures special education and related services to eligible children with disabilities.
og:urlhttps://sites.ed.gov/idea/
og:site_nameIndividuals with Disabilities Education Act
og:imagehttps://sites.ed.gov/idea/files/idea-splash-image-4-min.png
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 454 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
25.8% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
6 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 12.07 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1" 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 9 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
18 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
data:[...] Base64U.S. flag
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
/idea/files/header-idea-2-compressed.pngIndividuals with Disabilities Education Act
/idea/files/header-idea-2-compressed.pngIndividuals with Disabilities Education Act
/idea/files/idea-splash-image-4-min.pngIndividuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Website header image. Pictures of various infants, toddlers, children and youth and their parents, teachers or service providers.
/idea/files/ed_logo-compressed.pngNo alt attribute provided
/idea/files/ed_logo-compressed.pngNo alt attribute provided
/idea/files/ed_logo-compressed.pngNo alt attribute provided
/idea/files/blog-icon-compressed.pngNo alt attribute provided
/idea/files/idea-icon-states-3.pngNo alt attribute provided
/idea/files/letter-icon-compressed.pngNo alt attribute provided
/idea/files/ed_logo-compressed.pngNo alt attribute provided
/idea/files/books-icon-compressed.pngNo alt attribute provided
/idea/files/ed_logo-compressed.pngNo alt attribute provided
/idea/files/ed_logo-compressed.pngNo alt attribute provided
/idea/files/ed_logo-compressed.pngNo alt attribute provided
/idea/files/blog-icon-compressed.pngNo alt attribute provided
/idea/files/idea-icon-states-3.pngNo alt attribute provided
/idea/files/letter-icon-compressed.pngNo alt attribute provided
/idea/files/ed_logo-compressed.pngNo alt attribute provided
/idea/files/books-icon-compressed.pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 IDEA Updates
H2 About IDEA
H2 Connect with Us
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 14 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://sites.ed.gov/idea/Anchor Skip to content
/idea/about-us-department-of-e...Subdomain U.S. Department of Education
/idea/contacts/Subdomain Contacts
https://sites.ed.gov/idea/Subdomain IMG-ALT Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
https://twitter.com/@ED_sped_r...New window External No Text
https://www.youtube.com/@OSERSNew window External Subdomain No Text
https://sites.ed.gov/idea/Subdomain Home
/idea/about-ideaSubdomain IDEA
/idea/about-us-department-of-e...Subdomain Department of Education
/idea/statuteregulations/Subdomain Statute/ Regulations
/idea/policy-letters-policy-su...Subdomain Policy Documents
https://sites.ed.gov/idea/data/Subdomain Data
/idea/spp-apr/Subdomain State Performance Plan/Annual Performance Report
/idea/state-monitoring-support/Subdomain State Monitoring/ Support
/idea/state-formula-grants/Subdomain State Formula Grants
/idea/discretionary-grants/Subdomain Discretionary Grants
/idea/parents-families/Subdomain Parents/ Families
/idea/educators-service-provid...Subdomain Educators/ Service Providers
/idea/grantees/Subdomain Resources for Grantees
/idea/topic-areas/Subdomain Topic Areas
/idea/resource-centers/Subdomain Resource Centers
/idea/acronyms/Subdomain Acronyms
/idea/language-support/Subdomain Language Support
/idea/contacts/Subdomain Text duplicate Contacts
/idea/search-wpsolr/?wpsolr_qSubdomain Search
/idea/category/newsupdates/IDEA Updates
/idea/social-media/Subdomain Social Media
/idea/newsletters/Subdomain Newsletters
https://sites.ed.gov/idea/Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
/osers/2018/04/idea-website-fe...New window Subdomain please let us know on our blog
/idea/osers-issues-2024-state-...Subdomain 2024 State Implementation of IDEA Determination Letters Issued
/idea/45th-annual-report-to-co...Subdomain ED Submits 45th Annual Report to Congress on Nation’s Progress Related to IDEA
/idea/osep-fast-facts-provides...Subdomain OSEP Fast Facts Provides Updated Look at Data on Children Identified With Autism
/idea/general-supervision-vide...Subdomain VIDEOS: OSEP Released Two Videos to Accompany General Supervision Guidance
/idea/dispelling-myths-associa...Subdomain New Guidance: Dispelling Myths Associated with Assistive Technology
/idea/idea-news-and-updates/Subdomain View past IDEA Updates
http://www2.ed.gov/index.htmlNew window External Subdomain Text duplicate U.S. Department of Education
A-TITLE Go to the U.S. Department of Education
http://www2.ed.gov/about/offic...New window External Subdomain Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)
A-TITLE Go to the ED Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)
http://www2.ed.gov/about/offic...New window External Subdomain Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)
A-TITLE Go to the ED Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)
https://sites.ed.gov/osersNew window Subdomain OSERS Blog
A-TITLE Go to OSERS Blog Site
https://sites.ed.gov/idea/states/New window Subdomain IDEA by State
A-TITLE IDEA by State
/idea/contacts/New window Subdomain Text duplicate Contacts
A-TITLE Go to IDEA Contacts
http://www2.ed.gov/policy/spec...New window External Subdomain IDEA State Contacts
A-TITLE Find your IDEA State Contacts
/idea/building-the-legacy-idea...New window Subdomain Building the Legacy: IDEA 2004
A-TITLE Go to the IDEA 2004 legacy site.
http://www2.ed.gov/index.htmlNew window External Subdomain Text duplicate U.S. Department of Education
A-TITLE Go to the U.S. Department of Education
http://www2.ed.gov/about/offic...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)
A-TITLE Go to the ED Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)
http://www2.ed.gov/about/offic...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)
A-TITLE Go to the ED Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)
https://sites.ed.gov/osersNew window Subdomain Text duplicate OSERS Blog
A-TITLE Go to OSERS Blog Site
https://sites.ed.gov/idea/states/New window Subdomain Text duplicate IDEA by State
A-TITLE IDEA by State
/idea/contacts/New window Subdomain Text duplicate Contacts
A-TITLE Go to IDEA Contacts
http://www2.ed.gov/policy/spec...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate IDEA State Contacts
A-TITLE Find your IDEA State Contacts
/idea/building-the-legacy-idea...New window Subdomain Text duplicate Building the Legacy: IDEA 2004
A-TITLE Go to the IDEA 2004 legacy site.
https://sites.ed.gov/idea/Subdomain Text duplicate Home
/idea/about-idea/Subdomain About IDEA
/idea/topic-areas/Subdomain Text duplicate Topic Areas
/idea/contacts/Subdomain Text duplicate Contacts
/idea/disclaimer-of-endorsement/Subdomain Disclaimer
/idea/accessibility-statement/Subdomain Accessibility
/idea/about-idea/Subdomain Text duplicate Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
https://twitter.com/@ED_sped_r...New window External No Text
https://www.youtube.com/@OSERSNew window External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/@ED_sped_r...New window External No Text
https://www.youtube.com/@OSERSNew window External Subdomain No Text
https://sites.ed.gov/idea/Subdomain Text duplicate Home
/idea/about-ideaSubdomain Text duplicate IDEA
/idea/about-us-department-of-e...Subdomain Text duplicate Department of Education
/idea/statuteregulations/Subdomain Text duplicate Statute/ Regulations
/idea/policy-letters-policy-su...Subdomain Text duplicate Policy Documents
https://sites.ed.gov/idea/data/Subdomain Text duplicate Data
/idea/spp-apr/Subdomain Text duplicate State Performance Plan/Annual Performance Report
/idea/state-monitoring-support/Subdomain Text duplicate State Monitoring/ Support
/idea/state-formula-grants/Subdomain Text duplicate State Formula Grants
/idea/discretionary-grants/Subdomain Text duplicate Discretionary Grants
/idea/parents-families/Subdomain Text duplicate Parents/ Families
/idea/educators-service-provid...Subdomain Text duplicate Educators/ Service Providers
/idea/grantees/Subdomain Text duplicate Resources for Grantees
/idea/topic-areas/Subdomain Text duplicate Topic Areas
/idea/resource-centers/Subdomain Text duplicate Resource Centers
/idea/acronyms/Subdomain Text duplicate Acronyms
/idea/language-support/Subdomain Text duplicate Language Support
/idea/contacts/Subdomain Text duplicate Contacts
/idea/search-wpsolr/?wpsolr_qSubdomain Text duplicate Search
/idea/category/newsupdates/Text duplicate IDEA Updates
/idea/social-media/Subdomain Text duplicate Social Media
/idea/newsletters/Subdomain Text duplicate Newsletters

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
The checked page does not redirect to another URL.
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.46 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 14 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (143 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 04 Jul 2024 22:11:27 GMT
serverApache
x-powered-byPHP/7.4.33
link<https://sites.ed.gov/idea/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/", <https://sites.ed.gov/idea/wp-json/wp/v2/pages/14134>; rel="alternate"; type="application/json", <https://sites.ed.gov/idea/>; rel=shortlink
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
cache-controlmax-age=600, private, must-revalidate, no-store
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self';
access-control-allow-origined.gov
access-control-allow-methodsGET, POST, OPTIONS, HEAD
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
x-varnish122849135 115763737
age21
via1.1 varnish (Varnish/6.0)
x-varnish-cacheHIT cached
accept-rangesbytes
content-length146327
connectionkeep-alive
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,140 referring domains.
This page has 29,246 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,547 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
#Disallow crawling from following agents
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Omgilibot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Omgili
Disallow: /
User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

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Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
The U.S. Department of Education’s Individuals with Disabilities Education Act website brings together department and grantee IDEA information and resources. The IDEA makes available a free appropriate public education to and ensures special education and related services to eligible children with disabilities.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
IDEA79%Check
IDEA information63%Check
IDEA Updates62%Check
site60%Check
Education59%Check
Disabilities59%Check
Individuals59%Check
Disabilities Education59%Check
Disabilities Education Act59%Check
IDEA State58%Check
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