Maryland.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
73% 
Page structure
37% 
Link structure
68% 
Server
71% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.13 s
File size
69.80 kB
Words
668
Media files
11
Number of links
36 internal / 44 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Maryland.gov - Official Website of the State of Maryland
The length of the page title is perfect. (500 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
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: Canada
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
progidSharePoint.WebPartPage.Document
apple-mobile-web-app-capableyes
mobile-web-app-capableyes
apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-styleblack
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1
google-translate-customization9fd54c6a363f9f71-b5088eaa3df94aa1-g4224ef3d9bc33a80-10
google-site-verificationG6z1NyxovdR1tSqddsM0DvGBbrI6gy8CDe1qMX6YM7M
langen-us
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttp://www.maryland.gov/Pages/default.aspx
og:titledefault
og:imagehttps://www.maryland.gov/_layouts/MDGov_Master/images/MDGov_OpenGraph_Devices_Logo.jpg?v=3
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
ExpiresEmpty
Content-Typetext/html; charset=utf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
These Typos were found:
  • leutenant => lieutenant
This page contains 668 words. That's ok.
18.3% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
8 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 15 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This website does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This website loads 8 JavaScriptt files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-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 13 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
5 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
...images/logos/mdgov-logo-black.png?v=2019Maryland.gov
data:[...] Base64Voice Search Microphone
...wards/cdg-Exp-Award-Overall-2020-Web.pngCenter for Digital Government: Overall State Government Experience Award
/Pictures/governorLtGovernor-card-image.jpgNo alt attribute provided
https://www.maryland.gov/No alt attribute provided
https://www.maryland.gov/No alt attribute provided
https://www.maryland.gov/No alt attribute provided
data:[...] Base64Voice Search Microphone
.../images/agent-mary-land-icon-cropped.svgNo alt attribute provided
/publishingimages/gov/govLtGov-v3.pngMaryland Governor and Leutenant Governor
...ommon/nate/v3/img/changingMD-400x400.pngCustomer Service Promise

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Maryland.gov Home
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (17 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
There are 40 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 Maryland.gov Home
H1 Information
H2 Near Me
H2 My Clipboard
H2 Suggested Clips
H2 Main Navigation
H2 Country Lane
H2 Maryland Highlights
H2 Governor Larry Hogan / Lt. Governor Boyd K. Rutherford
H2 Maryland Strong: Roadmap to Recovery
H2 2021 Maryland Natural Resource Calendar
H2 Holiday Light Displays
H2 Popular Online Services
H2 News & Events
H2 Social Media
H2 Maryland Near Me
H2 Alerts and Notifications
H2 Search Results
H2 Web Pages
H2 Online Services
H2 Customer Service Promise
H2 Human Trafficking GET HELP
H3 Maryland Government Contact Information
H3 Real ID Information and Lookup Tool
H3 Real Property Database
H3 Business Entity Search, Certificate of Status & Document Order
H3 Business Forms & Applications - Assessments & Taxation
H3 2-1-1 | Health & Human Services Community Resources
H3 Latest News
H3 Open Meetings
H3 Public Events
H3 Trending Now
H3 Connect With Us
H3 State Social Channels
H3 Citizen Alerts
H3 Weather
H3 Traffic
H3 Flag Status
H3 Awards & Recognition
H3 eGovernment News
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
The amount of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (44) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Pages/default.aspxAnchor Skip Navigation
/pages/support.aspxGet Support
/pages/accessibility.aspxAccessibility Information
https://www.maryland.gov/IMG-ALT Maryland.gov
/pages/state_employees.aspxState Employees
/pages/nearme.aspxMy Maryland
/pages/nearme.aspxSee what's near me
/pages/my-maryland.aspxLearn More about My Maryland
/pages/my-maryland.aspxMy Maryland Help
http://commerce.maryland.gov/s...New window External Subdomain Start a Business in Maryland Add Suggestion
http://dnr.maryland.gov/boatin...New window External Subdomain Boat Registration Information Add Suggestion
http://www.baybridge.com/New window External Bay Bridge Information Add Suggestion
https://phpa.health.maryland.g...New window External Subdomain Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak Information Add Suggestion
https://egov.maryland.gov/busi...New window External Subdomain Business Filings and Registrations Add Suggestion
https://egov.maryland.gov/com/...New window External Subdomain Individual Income and Business Tax Payments Add Suggestion
https://egov.maryland.gov/com/...New window External Subdomain Business Sales & Use Tax Payments Add Suggestion
https://egov.maryland.gov/busi...New window External Subdomain Business Entity Search, Certificate of Status & Document Order Add Suggestion
/pages/contacts.aspxNew window Maryland Government Contact Information Add Suggestion
/pages/online_services.aspxOnline Services
/pages/jobs.aspxJobs
/pages/residents.aspxResidents
/pages/business.aspxBusiness
/pages/government.aspxGovernment
/pages/education.aspxEducation
/pages/visitors.aspxVisitors
https://phpa.health.maryland.g...External Subdomain Coronavirus
http://www.dllr.state.md.us/em...External Subdomain Unemployment
https://mva.maryland.gov/Pages...External Subdomain Real ID
http://dat.maryland.gov/realpr...External Subdomain Real Property Lookup
https://egov.maryland.gov/busi...External Subdomain Business Search
/Pages/default.aspxAnchor Background Media Information
https://www.govtech.com/cdg/go...External IMG-ALT Center for Digital Government: Overall State Government Experience Award
https://governor.maryland.gov/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://governor.maryland.gov/New window External Subdomain Governor Larry Hogan / Lt. Governor Boyd K. Rutherford
https://governor.maryland.gov/...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://governor.maryland.gov/...New window External Subdomain Maryland Strong: Roadmap to Recovery
https://www.shopdnr.com/2021Ca...New window External No Text
https://www.shopdnr.com/2021Ca...New window External 2021 Maryland Natural Resource Calendar
https://www.visitmaryland.org/...New window External No Text
https://www.visitmaryland.org/...New window External Holiday Light Displays
/pages/contacts.aspxNew window Maryland Government Contact Information
https://mva.maryland.gov/Pages...New window External Subdomain Real ID Information and Lookup Tool
http://dat.maryland.gov/realpr...New window External Subdomain Real Property Database
https://egov.maryland.gov/busi...New window External Subdomain Business Entity Search, Certificate of Status & Document Order
http://dat.maryland.gov/Pages/...New window External Subdomain Business Forms & Applications - Assessments & Taxation
http://www.211md.org/New window External 2-1-1 | Health & Human Services Community Resources
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Hogan Announces Launch of All-Hands-on-Deck COVID-19 Compliance and Enforcement Operation
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Hogan Honors Victims of Impaired Driving at Annual Maryland Remembers Ceremony
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Hogan Administration Announces $19 Million in Maryland Eviction Prevention Partnership Grants
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Maryland Reports New Daily High of 51,510 COVID-19 Tests, Smashing Previous Records
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Hogan Announces State of Maryland Surpasses 4 Million COVID-19 Tests
https://news.maryland.gov/New window External Subdomain More Maryland News...
https://www.facebook.com/state...External Facebook
A-TITLE Facebook
https://twitter.com/statemarylandExternal Twitter
A-TITLE Twitter
http://www.youtube.com/statema...External YouTube
A-TITLE YouTube
http://www.flickr.com/groups/m...External Flickr
A-TITLE Flickr
/pages/social_media.aspxSocial Media Directory
/pages/social_hub.aspxSocial Media Hub
/pages/agency_directory.aspxState Agency Directory
http://www.doit.state.md.us/ph...External Subdomain Employee Phone Directory
/pages/support.aspxMaryland.gov Customer Support
/pages/nearme.aspxDiscover what's near you Now
/Pages/citizen_alerts.aspxCitizen Alerts
http://chart.maryland.gov/Stor...External Subdomain Weather
http://chart.maryland.gov/trav...External Subdomain Traffic
https://sos.maryland.gov/Pages...External Subdomain Flag Status
/Pages/Awards.aspxAwards & Recognition
/Pages/News.aspxeGovernment News
/pages/search.aspx?type=web_pagesMore Pages
/pages/search.aspx?type=online...More Online Services
http://governor.maryland.gov/a...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Maryland Governor and Leutenant Governor
/pages/customerservice.aspxNew window IMG-ALT Customer Service Promise
/pages/customerservice.aspxNew window Take Our Survey
http://goccp.maryland.gov/vict...New window External Subdomain More Information on human trafficking in Maryland
/pages/about.aspxAbout
/pages/support.aspxContact Us
/pages/privacy_security.aspxNew window Privacy & Security
/pages/aup_linking.aspxNew window Acceptable Use & Linking
/pages/accessibility.aspxNew window Accessibility
https://www.doit.state.md.us/s...New window External Subdomain Survey

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This website redirects to "https://www.maryland.gov/Pages/default.aspx"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This website uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
This website loads 8 JavaScriptt files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A Content Delivery Network like Bootstrap CDN can save bandwith for Bootstrap front-end component library.
The page response time is excellent with 0.13 seconds.
This website only loads 2 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (70 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-length17995
connectionkeep-alive
cache-controlprivate, max-age=0
expiresTue, 17 Nov 2020 10:22:14 GMT
last-modifiedWed, 02 Dec 2020 10:22:14 GMT
serverMicrosoft-IIS/7.5
sprequestguid540ace5a-11e1-45f6-bbca-205fb909d4e2
x-sharepointhealthscore0
x-aspnet-version2.0.50727
set-cookie29 Characters
set-cookie75 Characters
x-powered-byASP.NET
x-ms-invokeapp1; RequireReadOnly
x-m01b
dateWed, 02 Dec 2020 10:22:14 GMT
access-control-allow-origin*
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
x-cacheHit from cloudfront
via1.1 80826ca6c4fd6005aeacf5a03c8d42e9.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-popAMS54-C1
x-amz-cf-idkfA1O1LVBb_a0gOV2hUdMGToEdFlmHH28U_9gO0jTF5XUkZYSLzINA==
age228
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

Blacklists
(Critically important)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
Shallalist classifies this website as Government. This classification is fine.
This website is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This website has backlinks from 446 referring domains.
This website has 37,014 backlinks.
This website has backlinks from 408 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
This website has social activity like shares, comments or likes on facebook.
Listed on Webwiki
(Nice to have)
This website is listed on Webwiki.

Links from Wikipedia

You can find more links using Wikipedia search

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

Facebook popularity

Shares / Likes / Comments
1,076

Only the data for the given URL is shown. We cannot determine the social actions for a linked fan page.

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Maryland.gov - Official Website of the State of Maryland

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Maryland75%Check
gov75%Check
State Maryland64%Check
in Maryland60%Check
State51%Check
Maryland Government Contact Information51%Check
Near Me50%Check
Site Search49%Check
Web48%Check
State Government48%Check
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