Ci.buffalo.mn.us - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
47% 
Page structure
38% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.30 s
File size
111.40 kB
Words
488
Media files
11
Number of links
52 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Buffalo, MN | Official Website
The length of the page title is perfect. (263 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
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
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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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
category0Home
theme-color#14597b
descriptionEmpty
keywordsHome
langen
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
There are only 488 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
These Typos were found:
  • thru => through
There are 4 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate 1: City of Buffalo Municipal Utilities is beginning a new era of service....
  • Duplicate 2: The City of Buffalo invites residents to celebrate Night to Unite 2024...
25.8% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
10 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 12.1 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on this page.
Some tags are too long. With 108 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"212 central avenue monday - friday buffalo, mn 55313 8:00 am - 4:30 pm phone: 763-682-1181email city o..."
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=94Home Page
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=98Search
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=97City of Buffalo Minnesota
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=3615Spotlight - AMI
data:[...] Base642023 Concerts - Spotlight
data:[...] Base642024 Spotlight
data:[...] Base64Lawns to Legunes Bee Logo - 2024
data:[...] Base64Hwy 25 - Updated Spotlight
data:[...] Base64State of the City Video Spotlight
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=87Buffalo, City of Buffalo Minnesota
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=3226Social Media Icons - WebsiteSocial Media Icons - Website

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Spotlights
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (10 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Spotlights
H1 News & Upcoming Events
H2 Stay Connected With Buffalo
H2 Stay Up To Date
H3 Latest News
H3 Calendar
H3 June 2024
H3 Contact Us
H3 City Center Hours 212 Central Avenue Monday - Friday Buffalo, MN 55313 8:00 am - 4:30 pm Phone: 763-682-1181Email City Offices
H3 Helpful Links
H3 Stay Connected
H4 Advanced Metering Infrastructure
H4 Concerts in the Park
H4 Night to Unite - Neighborhood Block Parties
H4 Lawns to Legumes Grant Assistance
H4 Phase 2 of Hwy 25 S Construction: April 1 thru mid-June
H4 Buffalo State of the City 2024 Presentation
H4 Advanced Metering Infrastructure Duplicate text
H4 Night to Unite - Neighborhood Block Parties Duplicate text
H4 Sump Pump Installation - Rules and Regulations!
H4 Wright County Assessor's Schedule
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 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.ci.buffalo.mn.us/Anchor Skip to Main Content
/MyAccount/ProfileCreateCreate a Website Account
/MyAccountWebsite Sign In
https://www.ci.buffalo.mn.us/IMG-ALT Home Page
https://www.ci.buffalo.mn.us/Back to Home
/31/CommunityCommunity
/101/DepartmentsDepartments
/27/GovernmentGovernment
/9/How-Do-IHow Do I...
/Search/ResultsIMG-ALT Search
https://www.invoicecloud.com/b...External Subdomain Pay My Bill
/list.aspxNotify Me®
/616/Permits-LicensesPermits & Licenses
/AgendaCenterAgendas & Minutes
https://www.governmentjobs.com...External Subdomain Employment
/504/Report-a-Problem-or-ConcernSubdomain Report a Problem
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=282IMG-ALT Spotlight - AMI
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=282Advanced Metering Infrastructure
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=282Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=293IMG-ALT 2023 Concerts - Spotlight
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=293Concerts in the Park
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=293Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=298IMG-ALT 2024 Spotlight
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=298Night to Unite - Neighborhood Block Parties
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=298Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=296IMG-ALT Lawns to Legunes Bee Logo - 2024
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=296Lawns to Legumes Grant Assistance
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=296Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=286IMG-ALT Hwy 25 - Updated Spotlight
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=286Phase 2 of Hwy 25 S Construction: April 1 thru mid-June
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=286Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=291IMG-ALT State of the City Video Spotlight
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=291Buffalo State of the City 2024 Presentation
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=291Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?CID=11View All Spotlights
/CivicAlerts.aspx?CID=1Latest News
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=282Text duplicate Advanced Metering Infrastructure
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=282Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=298Text duplicate Night to Unite - Neighborhood Block Parties
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=298Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=297Sump Pump Installation - Rules and Regulations!
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=297Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=295Wright County Assessor's Schedule
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=295Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?CID=1View All News
/calendar.aspx?CID=14,29Calendar
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...03
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...04
/calendar.aspx?CID=14,29View All Events
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=15Helpful Links
https://beacon.schneidercorp.c...External Subdomain Beacon - Interactive Mapping
https://library.municode.com/m...External Subdomain City Code
/242/City-CouncilCity Council
https://www.gopherstateonecall...External Subdomain Gopher State One Call
/285/Recycling-CenterRecycling
https://buffalo.viebit.com/ind...External Subdomain Streaming Video
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=22Stay Connected
https://www.facebook.com/Buffa...External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/city...External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain Linkedin
/twitterX (formerly Twitter)
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain Youtube
https://connect.civicplus.com/...External Subdomain CivicPlus®

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.ci.buffalo.mn.us/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.30 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 (111 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate, s-maxage=600,no-transform
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-encodinggzip
etag" "
varyAccept-Encoding
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
p3pCP="IDC DSP COR ADM DEVi TAIi PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi HIS OUR IND CNT"
set-cookie25 Characters
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self' https://*.granicus.com https://platform.civicplus.com https://account.civicplus.com https://analytics.civicplus.com; img-src * data: blob:; worker-src * data: blob: 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline'; script-src * about: 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval'; style-src * 'unsafe-inline'; media-src * blob:; font-src * data:; default-src *
dateSun, 30 Jun 2024 07:24:57 GMT
content-length32154
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 338 referring domains.
This page has 2,654 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 246 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

user-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /
User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /
User-agent: *
Disallow: /activedit
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /common/admin/
Disallow: /OJA
Disallow: /support
Disallow: /currenteventsview.asp
Disallow: /search.asp
Disallow: /currenteventsview.aspx
Disallow: /search.aspx
Disallow: /currentevents.aspx
Disallow: /Support
Disallow: /CurrentEventsView.asp
Disallow: /Search.asp
Disallow: /CurrentEventsView.aspx
Disallow: /Search.aspx
Disallow: /Search
Disallow: /CurrentEvents.aspx
Disallow: /Currentevents.aspx
Disallow: /map.aspx
Disallow: /map.asp
Disallow: /Map.aspx
Disallow: /Map.asp
Sitemap: /sitemap.xml
Disallow: /RSS.aspx
User-agent: Siteimprove
Crawl-delay: 20
User-agent: Siteimprovebot
Crawl-delay: 20
User-agent: Siteimprovebot-crawler
Crawl-delay: 20

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www.ci.buffalo.mn.us
Buffalo, MN | Official Website

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Buffalo72%Check
Spotlights52%Check
Website50%Check
City49%Check
Stay43%Check
News43%Check
Connected43%Check
Advanced43%Check
Metering43%Check
Infrastructure43%Check
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