Cityofithaca.org - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
56% 
Page structure
29% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
55% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.73 s
File size
120.80 kB
Words
764
Media files
15
Number of links
91 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Ithaca, NY - Official Website | Official Website
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (409 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
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)
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
category0Home
theme-color#006581
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
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
These Typos were found:
  • committe => committee
The average number of words per sentence of 9.31 words is low.
This page contains 764 words. That's ok.
27.7% 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.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 14 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)
Some tags are too long. With 75 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"special joint committee for ithaca area waste water treatment plant meeting"
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)
The HTTPS protocol for secure data transmission is not used.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=11341Home Page
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=11283Search
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=11300Help Center LinesHelp Center Lines
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=11302City News LinesCity News Lines
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=17326City Historian Wanted
data:[...] Base64Road Closed Sign
data:[...] Base64Lane Closed Ahead
data:[...] Base64CityOfIthacaSeal_Navy-200px
data:[...] Base64thumbnail_CARE Logo
data:[...] Base64shutterstock_2520528671(1)
data:[...] Base64Move Ithaca_Logo_060524-1_Page_1
data:[...] Base64photo of 309 college ave
data:[...] Base64Electrician
data:[...] Base64CityOfIthacaSeal_Navy-200px
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=11301Calendar Header LinesCalendar Header Lines

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
FEMA Flood Risk Information
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 27 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 FEMA Flood Risk Information
H1 Ice Jam Emergency Outfall Information
H3 Ithaca Help Center
H3 City News
H3 Upcoming Meetings & Events
H3 November 2024
H3 November 2024 Duplicate text
H3 Contact Us
H3 Social Media
H3 Popular Links
H3 Site Links
H4 The City of Ithaca Seeks Community Volunteer to Serve as City Historian
H4 Asphalt Repairs to 500 Block of N Cayuga St
H4 Albany St Water Main Replacement
H4 Dominick Recckio Appointed as Deputy City Manager
H4 Tompkins County Whole Health Celebrates One-Year Anniversary of the C.A.R.E. Team
H4 Community Justice Center and Ithaca Police Department Invite Community to Friendsgiving Event
H4 City of Ithaca to Host Two Virtual Public Workshops for the ‘Move Ithaca' Plan
H4 Prime Collegetown Parcel Available for Sale
H4 City of Ithaca Electrical Licensing Exam
H4 Ownership Interest for North Cayuga Street Bridge
H4 Wed, Nov 13
H4 Wed, Nov 13 Duplicate text
H4 Wed, Nov 13 Duplicate text
H4 Wed, Nov 13 Duplicate text
H4 Fri, Nov 15
H4 Mon, Nov 18
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.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 6 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
http://cityofithaca.org/Anchor Skip to Main Content
/MyAccount/ProfileCreateCreate a Website Account
http://cityofithaca.org/MyAccountWebsite Sign In
http://cityofithaca.org/IMG-ALT Home Page
/27/GovernmentGovernment
/31/CommunityCommunity
/101/ServicesServices
/9/How-Do-IHow Do I...
/Search/ResultsIMG-ALT Search
/agendacenterAgendas & Minutes
/requesttracker.aspxReport a Concern
http://cityofithaca.org/617/Emergency Notifications
/410/Make-a-Payment-/-View-BillsMake A Payment/ View Bills
/335/Maps-DemographicsGIS Maps
/705/Parking-InformationParking
https://ithaca-portal.mycivils...External Subdomain Employment Opportunities
https://apps.vertigisstudio.co...External Subdomain Resident Services Tool
/764/FEMA-Flood-Risk-InformationNew window Subdomain FEMA Flood Risk Information
/768/Ice-Jam-Emergency-Outfall...New window Subdomain Ice
/768/Ice-Jam-Emergency-Outfall...New window Subdomain No Text
/768/Ice-Jam-Emergency-Outfall...New window Subdomain Jam
/768/Ice-Jam-Emergency-Outfall...New window Subdomain Emergency Outfall Information
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1169IMG-ALT City Historian Wanted
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1169The City of Ithaca Seeks Community Volunteer to Serve as City Historian
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1169Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1168IMG-ALT Road Closed Sign
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1168Asphalt Repairs to 500 Block of N Cayuga St
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1168Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1167IMG-ALT Lane Closed Ahead
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1167Albany St Water Main Replacement
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1167Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1165IMG-ALT CityOfIthacaSeal_Navy-200px
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1165Dominick Recckio Appointed as Deputy City Manager
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1165Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1162IMG-ALT thumbnail_CARE Logo
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1162Tompkins County Whole Health Celebrates One-Year Anniversary of the C.A.R.E. Team
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1162Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1161IMG-ALT shutterstock_2520528671(1)
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1161Community Justice Center and Ithaca Police Department Invite Community to Friendsgiving Event
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1161Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1159IMG-ALT Move Ithaca_Logo_060524-1_Page_1
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1159City of Ithaca to Host Two Virtual Public Workshops for the ‘Move Ithaca' Plan
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1159Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1155IMG-ALT photo of 309 college ave
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1155Prime Collegetown Parcel Available for Sale
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1155Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1152IMG-ALT Electrician
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1152City of Ithaca Electrical Licensing Exam
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1152Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1149Text duplicate IMG-ALT CityOfIthacaSeal_Navy-200px
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1149Ownership Interest for North Cayuga Street Bridge
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1149Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?CID=1,5View All News
http://cityofithaca.org/Anchor Meetings
http://cityofithaca.org/Anchor Events
http://cityofithaca.org/Anchor Text duplicate Meetings
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...13
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...15
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...18
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...19
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...20
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...22
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...26
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...27
/Calendar.aspx?EID=5891Civil Service Commission Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=5891Civil Service Commission MeetingRead on...
/Calendar.aspx?EID=5049Special Joint Committee for Ithaca Area Waste Water Treatment Plant Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=5049Special Joint Committee for Ithaca Area Waste Water Treatment Plant MeetingRead on...
/Calendar.aspx?EID=5688Common Council Committe of the Whole- Special Topic Work Session
/Calendar.aspx?EID=5688Common Council Committe of the Whole- Special Topic Work SessionRead on...
/Calendar.aspx?EID=5880Budget Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=5880Budget MeetingRead on...
/Calendar.aspx?EID=5889IURA Governance Committee Mtg. (in-person)
/Calendar.aspx?EID=5889IURA Governance Committee Mtg. (in-person)Read on...
/Calendar.aspx?EID=5882Sustainability & Climate Justice Commission Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=5882Sustainability & Climate Justice Commission MeetingRead on...
/calendar.aspx?CID=14View All Dates
http://cityofithaca.org/Anchor Text duplicate Events
/calendar.aspx?CID=27Text duplicate View All Dates
/directory.aspxContact Us
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=113Social Media
http://cityofithaca.org/facebookFacebook
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain YouTube
http://cityofithaca.org/twitterTwitter
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=114Popular Links
/656/Emergency-PreparednessEmergency Preparedness
/578/ParkingText duplicate Parking
/516/Stewart-ParkStewart Park
https://tompkinscountyny.gov/External Tompkins County
/508/Planning-Building-Zoning-...Zoning
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=115Site Links
http://cityofithaca.org/Home
http://cityofithaca.org/sitemapSite Map
/accessibilityAccessibility
http://cityofithaca.org/copyrightCopyright Notices
https://outlook.office.com/New window External Subdomain Employee Email
https://connect.civicplus.com/...External Subdomain CivicPlus®

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
The checked page does not redirect to another URL.
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 0.73 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 5 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 14 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (121 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate, s-maxage=600,no-transform
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-encodinggzip
etag" "
varyAccept-Encoding
serverCivicPlus
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 *
dateWed, 13 Nov 2024 03:28:53 GMT
content-length35165
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,204 referring domains.
This page has 6,388 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 815 different ip addresses.

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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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Ithaca72%Check
City58%Check
Move Ithaca58%Check
Information54%Check
City News52%Check
as City Historian51%Check
Ithaca Police Department51%Check
Site50%Check
Ithaca Area Waste Water49%Check
Ithaca Electrical Licensing Exam48%Check
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