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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
87% 
Page structure
0% 
Link structure
75% 
Server
54% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.15 s
File size
63.70 kB
Words
669
Media files
18
Number of links
14 internal / 91 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Delaware.gov - Official Website of the State of Delaware
The length of the page title is perfect. (502 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The official website of the State of Delaware. Find information about state government, programs, and services. The First State is located in the Northeast U.S.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (974 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
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-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
descriptionThe official website of the State of Delaware. Find information about state government, programs, and services. The First State is located in the Northeast U.S.
authorThe State of Delaware
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google-site-verificationFYhBJf5l-LXJwmPZxTG7qbjjsOZhxCsowTB801qgJ4g
msapplication-TileColor#ffffff
msapplication-TileImage/img/ms-icon-144x144.png
theme-color#ffffff
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:descriptionThe official website of the State of Delaware. Find information about state government, programs, and services. The First State is located in the Northeast U.S.
twitter:imagehttps://delaware.gov/img/portal-twitter-image.png
twitter:titleDelaware.gov - Official Website of the State of Delaware
og:localeen_US
og:titleDelaware.gov - Official Website of the State of Delaware
og:descriptionThe official website of the State of Delaware. Find information about state government, programs, and services. The First State is located in the Northeast U.S.
og:urlhttps://delaware.gov/
og:site_namedelaware.gov - Official Website of the State of Delaware
og:imagehttps://delaware.gov/img/portal-fb-image.png
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 669 words. That's ok.
23.8% 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.
11 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 13.94 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 15 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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 13 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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
https://de.gov/img/spotlight-arts.pngmezzanine gallery
https://de.gov/img/spotlight-burningban.jpgopen burning ban
https://de.gov/img/spotlight-gasbill.jpghandtapping on calcu;lator
/img/video-highlight-news-screen.jpgImage of a man looking at news on an iPad.
/img/video-highlight-meetings-screen.jpgImage of reporters and other citizens attending a meeting.
/img/video-highlight-social-screen.jpgImage of teenagers looking at social media.
/img/opendata_logo_invserse-sm.pngOpen Data Logo
https://de.gov/img/elected-meyer.jpgDelaware's Governor Mayy Meyert
/img/elected-kyle-evans-gay.jpgDelaware's Governor Kyle Evans
https://de.gov/img/elected-jennings.jpgImage of Delaware's Attorney General Kathy Jennings
https://de.gov/img/elected-york.jpgImage of Delaware's Auditor of Accounts Lydias
https://de.gov/img/elected-navarro.jpgImage of Delaware's Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro
https://de.gov/img/elected-davis.jpgImage of Delaware's State Treasurer Colleen C. Davis
/img/clf4img/portal_footer_seal.pngState Seal of DelawareState Seal of Delaware
/img/clf4img/[email protected]Built by the Government Information Center (GIC)
Video URLWidthHeight
https://de.gov/video/video-news-720p.mp4
/video/video-meetings-720p.mp4
/video/video-social-media-720p.mp4

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to Delaware
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (19 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 45 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to Delaware
H1 Delaware's Government
H2 Featured Highlights
H2 Join Our Team
H2 Guides to Services
H2 Trending Topics
H2 Committed to Transparency
H2 This is Your Government
H2 Delaware.gov Feedback
H3 The Mezzanine Gallery Presents Shefon Taylor’s “The Fragment Holds More Than the Whole”
H3 Delaware’s Ozone Season and Open Burning Ban In Effect
H3 Cost of Living
H3 Work in State Government.
H3 School K-12
H3 Moving to Delaware
H3 Working & Training
H3 Driving & Transportation
H3 Voting in Delaware
H3 Safety & Emergencies
H3 Elections
H3 Department of Labor
H3 Division of Motor Vehicles
H3 Incorporation Services
H3 Professional Regulation
H3 Department of Education
H3 Branches of Delaware Government
H3 Executive
H3 Legislative
H3 Judicial
H3 Find My Legislator
H3 Statewide Elected Officials
H3 Governor Matt Meyer
H3 Lt. Governor Kyle Evans Gay
H3 Attorney General Kathy Jennings
H3 State Auditor Lydia York
H3 Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro
H3 State Treasurer Colleen C. Davis
H4 Search or browse available State Jobs in Delaware.
H4 Popular Topics:
H4 Latest News from news.delaware.gov
H4 Public Meetings from agencies and boards
H4 Subscribe updates on various platforms
H4 Latest News from news.delaware.gov Duplicate text
H4 Public Meetings from agencies and boards Duplicate text
H4 Subscribe updates on various platforms Duplicate text
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (91) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://de.gov/Delaware.gov Home Delaware.gov
https://de.gov/Anchor Skip to Content
https://de.gov/Anchor Skip to Footer
https://de.gov/state-directoryDirectory
https://news.delaware.gov/External Subdomain News
https://delaware.gov/guides/External Guides
https://delaware.gov/contactExternal Contact
https://de.gov/Anchor Welcome
https://de.gov/Anchor Featured
https://de.gov/Anchor State Jobs
https://de.gov/Anchor Text duplicate Guides
https://de.gov/Anchor Trending
https://de.gov/Anchor Open Data
https://de.gov/Anchor Government
https://app-na.readspeaker.com...External Subdomain Listen
A-TITLE Listen to this page using ReadSpeaker
https://education.delaware.gov...External Subdomain Find your school's website
https://dhr.delaware.gov/closi...New window External Subdomain OPEN
A-TITLE State Agencies
https://www.airnow.gov/state/?...New window External Subdomain Warnings
A-TITLE Air Quality
https://news.delaware.gov/flag...New window External Subdomain FULL STAFF
A-TITLE Flag Status
https://de.gov/Anchor Scroll down for more information
https://news.delaware.gov/2025...New window External Subdomain The Mezzanine Gallery Presents Shefon Taylor’s “The Fragment Holds More Than the Whole”
https://news.delaware.gov/2025...New window External Subdomain Learn More
https://news.delaware.gov/2025...New window External Subdomain Delaware’s Ozone Season and Open Burning Ban In Effect
https://news.delaware.gov/2025...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
https://publicadvocate.delawar...New window External Subdomain Cost of Living
https://publicadvocate.delawar...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
https://statejobs.delaware.gov/New window External Subdomain State Jobs in Delaware
https://dhr.delaware.gov/polic...New window External Subdomain Parental Leave
https://statejobs.delaware.gov...New window External Subdomain Benefits
https://statejobs.delaware.gov...New window External Subdomain Pension
https://delaware.gov/guides/sc...External School K-12
https://delaware.gov/guides/mo...External Moving to Delaware
https://delaware.gov/guides/wo...External Working & Training
https://delaware.gov/guides/dr...External Driving & Transportation
https://delaware.gov/guides/vo...External Voting in Delaware
https://delaware.gov/guides/sa...External Safety & Emergencies
https://alpha.delaware.gov/gui...External Subdomain View All
https://news.delaware.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Image of a man looking at news on an iPad.
https://news.delaware.gov/External Subdomain Latest News
https://publicmeetings.delawar...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Image of reporters and other citizens attending a meeting.
https://publicmeetings.delawar...External Subdomain Public Meetings
https://news.delaware.gov/subs...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Image of teenagers looking at social media.
https://news.delaware.gov/subs...External Subdomain Subscribe to Delaware.gov
https://elections.delaware.gov/New window External Subdomain Elections
https://dol.delaware.gov/New window External Subdomain Department of Labor
https://www.dmv.de.gov/New window External Subdomain Division of Motor Vehicles
https://corp.delaware.gov/New window External Subdomain Incorporation Services
https://dpr.delaware.gov/New window External Subdomain Professional Regulation
https://www.doe.k12.de.us/New window External Subdomain Department of Education
https://data.delaware.gov/New window External Subdomain Discover and explore
https://data.delaware.gov/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Open Data Logo
https://alpha.delaware.gov/gui...External Subdomain transparency resources
https://delaware.gov/topics/ag...External Executive An alphabetical listing of all State Agencies under the Executive Branch of Delaware government. View all
http://legis.delaware.gov/External Subdomain Legislative The Delaware General Assembly is comprised of 21 members of the Senate and 41 members of the House of Representatives. Visit legis.delaware.gov
https://courts.delaware.gov/External Subdomain Judicial Find a courthouse near you, pay a ticket, and do much more with the Judicial Branch. Visit courts.delaware.gov
https://governor.delaware.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Delaware's Governor Mayy Meyert
https://governor.delaware.gov/External Subdomain Visit Governor Meyer's Site
https://governor.delaware.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Delaware's Governor Kyle Evans
https://ltgov.delaware.gov/External Subdomain Visit Lt. Governor Evans' Site
https://attorneygeneral.delawa...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Image of Delaware's Attorney General Kathy Jennings
https://attorneygeneral.delawa...External Subdomain Visit Attorney General Kathy Jennings's Site
https://auditor.delaware.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Image of Delaware's Auditor of Accounts Lydias
https://auditor.delaware.gov/External Subdomain Visit State Auditor Lydia York's Site
https://insurance.delaware.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Image of Delaware's Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro
https://insurance.delaware.gov/External Subdomain Visit Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro's Site
https://treasurer.delaware.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Image of Delaware's State Treasurer Colleen C. Davis
https://treasurer.delaware.gov/External Subdomain Visit State Treasurer Colleen C. Davis's Site
https://de.gov/Anchor Give Feedback
https://governor.delaware.gov/External Subdomain Delaware's Governor
https://de.gov/state-directoryState Directory
https://delaware.gov/guides/yo...External Elected Officials
https://legis.delaware.gov/External Subdomain General Assembly
https://courts.delaware.gov/External Subdomain Delaware Courts
https://dhr.delaware.gov/talen...External Subdomain State Employees
https://delaware.gov/guides/mu...External Cities & Towns
http://delcode.delaware.gov/External Subdomain Delaware State Code
http://regulations.delaware.gov/External Subdomain State Regulations
https://phonedirectory.delawar...External Subdomain Phone Directory
https://delaware.gov/contact/External Contact Us
https://publicmeetings.delawar...External Subdomain Text duplicate Public Meetings
https://delaware.gov/guides/External Guides to Services
https://delaware.gov/freedom-o...External FOIA
https://delaware.gov/guides/tr...External Transparency
https://www.choosehealthde.com...External Subdomain Choose Health DE
https://delaware.gov/guides/ta...External Tax Center
https://revenue.delaware.gov/p...External Subdomain Personal Income Tax
https://delaware.gov/privacy-p...External Privacy Policy
https://news.delaware.gov/emer...External Subdomain Weather & Travel
https://corp.delaware.gov/External Subdomain Corporations
https://corp.delaware.gov/payt...External Subdomain Franchise Tax
https://tax.delaware.gov/External Subdomain Gross Receipts Tax
https://dorweb.revenue.delawar...External Subdomain Withholding Tax
https://delaware.gov/guides/su...External E-mail / Text Alerts
https://delaware.gov/guides/so...External Social Media
https://delaware.gov/using-rea...External Using Readspeaker
https://delaware.gov/responsib...External Responsible Disclosure
https://accessibility.dti.dela...External Subdomain Accessibility Statement
https://delaware.gov/accessibi...External Report an Accessibility Issue
https://www.facebook.com/delaw...New window External Subdomain Delaware.gov's Facebook page
https://twitter.com/delaware_gov/New window External Delaware.gov's Twitter feed
https://www.flickr.com/groups/...New window External Subdomain Photos from Flickr
https://www.youtube.com/user/D...New window External Subdomain Delaware.gov's Youtube Channel
https://www.instagram.com/dela...New window External Subdomain Photos from Instagram
https://gic.delaware.gov/External Subdomain GIC
https://delaware.gov/External Delaware.gov

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://de.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (2.15 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 9 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 15 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (64 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateFri, 09 May 2025 10:21:58 GMT
cache-controlmax-age=20
expiresFri, 09 May 2025 10:22:18 GMT
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
content-length14144
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
set-cookie21 Characters
connectionclose
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

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This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 108 referring domains.
This page has 539 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 91 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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Disallow:

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Disallow: /contact
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /pages
Disallow: /sso
Disallow: /courtsearch

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