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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
47% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
54% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.99 s
File size
355.20 kB
Words
351
Media files
5
Number of links
39 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Central Intelligence Agency - CIA
The length of the page title is perfect. (299 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
CIA is the first line of defense for the United States. We collect and analyze intelligence to further national security and preempt threats.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (831 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
The rules specified in the robots.txt file do not allow the access for the bingbot respectively the MSN-Bot.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is 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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 351 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
32.8% 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.
5 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 12.92 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, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 74 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"we accomplish what others cannot accomplish and go where others cannot go."
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 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
...lor-ef913bb05745207f1ad71ee488cb2259.png75th Anniversary Logo
data:[...] Base64A woman with medium-light skin and long dark hair.
data:[...] Base64The About glyph
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
data:[...] Base64Image of the world overlaid with red section lines.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
We are the Nation's first line of defense.
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 We are the Nation's first line of defense.
H2 Our Agency
H2 Our Legacy
H2 Our Stories
H2 The World Factbook
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 3 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 7 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.cia.gov/index.htmlAnchor Skip to main content
https://www.cia.gov/Central Intelligence Agency Central Intelligence Agency
IMG-ALT 75th Anniversary Logo
https://www.cia.gov/careersCareers
https://www.cia.gov/Home
https://www.cia.gov/careers/Text duplicate Careers
https://www.cia.gov/about/About
https://www.cia.gov/legacy/Legacy
https://www.cia.gov/stories/News & Stories
https://www.cia.gov/resources/Resources
https://www.cia.gov/careers/Find Your Calling
https://www.cia.gov/about/Learn About Us
https://www.cia.gov/legacy/Discover Our Legacy
/stories/story/origins-of-fore...Trivial anchor text
Read More
/stories/story/ask-molly-trave...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/stories/story/cia-celebrates-...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://www.cia.gov/stories/Explore All Stories
/the-world-factbookVisit World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/about/About CIA
/about/organization/Organization
/about/director-of-cia/Director of the CIA
/legacy/museum/CIA Museum
https://www.cia.gov/stories/Text duplicate News & Stories
/careers/working-at-cia/Working at CIA
/careers/how-we-hire/How We Hire
/careers/student-programs/Student Programs
https://www.cia.gov/careers/jobs/Browse CIA Jobs
https://www.cia.gov/ehl/New window My Application
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/New window Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
/resources/csi/Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI)
/the-world-factbook/The World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/spy-kids/Spy Kids
/about/organization/equal-empl...Accommodations
https://www.instagram.com/ciaNew window External InstagramInstagram
https://www.facebook.com/Centr...New window External FacebookFacebook
https://twitter.com/ciaNew window External TwitterTwitter
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External LinkedInLinkedIn
https://www.youtube.com/ciaNew window External YoutubeYouTube
https://www.flickr.com/ciagovNew window External FlickrFlickr
https://www.cia.gov/searchSearch CIA.gov
https://www.cia.gov/site-policiesSite Policies
https://www.cia.gov/privacyPrivacy
/about/organization/equal-empl...No FEAR Act
/about/organization/equal-empl...ECA Notice
/about/organization/inspector-...Inspector General
https://www.usa.gov/External USA.gov
https://www.cia.gov/sitemapSitemap

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.cia.gov/index.html"
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 of 0.99 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
This page loads 16 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page does not require any CSS files.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (355 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
dateWed, 06 Jul 2022 22:00:02 GMT
transfer-encodingchunked
connectionkeep-alive
connectionTransfer-Encoding
set-cookie84 Characters
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 2,426 referring domains.
This page has 610,578 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,006 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 64310 shares, comments and likes on Facebook.
Listed on Webwiki
(Nice to have)
This website is listed on Webwiki.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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User-agent: *
Disallow: /js/
Disallow: /preview/
Disallow: /*.js$
Disallow: /*.js.map$
Disallow: /*.json$
Sitemap: https://www.cia.gov/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/sitemap.xml
Host: https://www.cia.gov

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line63%Check
Nation62%Check
defense62%Check
Intelligence62%Check
first62%Check
first line62%Check
We collect57%Check
Intelligence Agency56%Check
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