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Meta information
79% 
Page quality
61% 
Page structure
41% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
0% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.61 s
File size
63.40 kB
Words
406
Media files
10
Number of links
29 internal / 28 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Homepage - North Carolina State Climate Office
The length of the page title is perfect. (432 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Glassmine Falls in Buncombe County on October 13, 2022. (Photo by Corey Davis) From The Mountains To The Outer Banks The North Carolina State Climate Office serves as the primary scientific extension resource for weather and climate science for the state of North Carolina. The office achieves its mission through climate science monitoring, education, extension,
The meta description is too long: 2282 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://climate.ncsu.edu/
There is a valid canonical link 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)
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

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descriptionGlassmine Falls in Buncombe County on October 13, 2022. (Photo by Corey Davis) From The Mountains To The Outer Banks The North Carolina State Climate Office serves as the primary scientific extension resource for weather and climate science for the state of North Carolina. The office achieves its mission through climate science monitoring, education, extension,
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generatorSite Kit by Google 1.138.0
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langen-us
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:site@ncsco
twitter:titleHomepage - North Carolina State Climate Office
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og:site_nameNorth Carolina State Climate Office - A Public Service Center
og:typewebsite
og:titleHomepage - North Carolina State Climate Office
og:descriptionGlassmine Falls in Buncombe County on October 13, 2022. (Photo by Corey Davis) From The Mountains To The Outer Banks The North Carolina State Climate Office serves as the primary scientific extension resource for weather and climate science for the state of North Carolina. The office achieves its mission through climate science monitoring, education, extension,
og:urlhttps://climate.ncsu.edu/
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 406 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
24.9% 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.
10 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 24.78 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 34 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-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 8 tags for this page.
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
.../2022/12/fall_color_BRP_2022-300x225.jpgA photo of colorful leaves along the Blue Ridge Parkway
...2020/08/ECONet_PLYM-edited-1-300x225.jpgWeather Station
...nt/uploads/2020/08/education-300x225.jpgField Trip
...2020/08/econet_mtns-edited-4-300x226.jpgECONet Station
...20/08/poco_sm_station-edited-300x225.jpgResearch Station
.../2024/10/US17_Brunswick_PTC8-150x150.jpgA photo of flooding along Highway 17 in Brunswick County after PTC8
...09/Morganton_flooding_Helene-150x150.jpgAn aerial photo of flooding in Silver Creek after Helene
...8_satellite_2024-09-16_1510Z-150x150.jpgA satellite image of Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight on Monday, September 16 over the Carolinas
...Dorian_LongPoint_basin_flood-150x150.jpgA photo of flooding in Long Point Basin after Dorian
...ontent/uploads/2020/02/arsco-300x111.pngAASC Recognized State Climate Office

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Homepage
The H1 heading contains the words Homepage! Use important keywords instead.
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (8 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Homepage
H1 From The Mountains To The Outer Banks
H2 ECONet
H2 Education
H2 Data + Products
H2 Research
H2 NC Climate Blog
H2 North Carolina State Climate Office
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 too many external links (28) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://climate.ncsu.edu/Anchor Skip to content
https://climate.ncsu.edu/Subdomain North Carolina State Climate Office
https://sciences.ncsu.edu/New window External Subdomain College of Sciences
https://climate.ncsu.edu/office/Subdomain About
https://climate.ncsu.edu/people/Subdomain People
https://econet.climate.ncsu.edu/External Subdomain ECONet
https://econet.climate.ncsu.edu/External Subdomain Current Conditions
https://econet.climate.ncsu.ed...External Subdomain Text duplicate About
https://econet.climate.ncsu.ed...External Subdomain History
https://econet.climate.ncsu.ed...External Subdomain ECONet Station Map
https://econet.climate.ncsu.ed...External Subdomain Research
https://econet.climate.ncsu.ed...External Subdomain Products
https://econet.climate.ncsu.ed...External Subdomain ECONet Station Viewer
https://climate.ncsu.edu/learn/Subdomain Education
https://climate.ncsu.edu/learn/Subdomain Education Homepage
/learn/about-our-climate/Subdomain About Our Climate
/learn/weather-events/Subdomain Weather in NC
/learn/climate-change/Subdomain Climate Change in NC
/learn/activities/Subdomain Classroom Activities
/learn/events-and-recordings/Subdomain Events and Recordings
https://products.climate.ncsu....External Subdomain Data + Products
https://products.climate.ncsu....External Subdomain Data Access
https://products.climate.ncsu....External Subdomain Weather
https://products.climate.ncsu....External Subdomain Climate
https://products.climate.ncsu....External Subdomain Agriculture
/research/Subdomain Text duplicate Research
/climateblog/Subdomain Climate Blog
https://climate.ncsu.edu/c3he/Subdomain C3HE
https://econet.climate.ncsu.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Weather Station
https://econet.climate.ncsu.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate ECONet
https://climate.ncsu.edu/learnIMG-ALT Field Trip
https://climate.ncsu.edu/learnText duplicate Education
https://products.climate.ncsu....External Subdomain IMG-ALT ECONet Station
https://products.climate.ncsu....External Subdomain Text duplicate Data + Products
/climate.ncsu.edu/research/IMG-ALT Research Station
/research/Subdomain Text duplicate Research
/climateblogNC Climate Blog
/blog/2024/10/reflecting-on-a-...Subdomain IMG-ALT A photo of flooding along Highway 17 in Brunswick County after PTC8
/blog/2024/10/reflecting-on-a-...Subdomain Reflecting on a Record-Setting, Storm-Soaked September
/blog/2024/09/rapid-reaction-h...Subdomain IMG-ALT An aerial photo of flooding in Silver Creek after Helene
/blog/2024/09/rapid-reaction-h...Subdomain Rapid Reaction: Historic Flooding Follows Helene in Western NC
/blog/2024/09/rapid-reaction-u...Subdomain IMG-ALT A satellite image of Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight on Monday, September 16 over the Carolinas
/blog/2024/09/rapid-reaction-u...Subdomain Rapid Reaction: Unnamed Storm Unleashes Torrential Rain in Eastern NC
/blog/2024/09/five-years-ago-d...Subdomain IMG-ALT A photo of flooding in Long Point Basin after Dorian
/blog/2024/09/five-years-ago-d...Subdomain Five Years Ago, Dorian Tested Our Post-Florence Preparedness
/climateblog/Subdomain Older Posts…
https://twitter.com/ncscoExternal Twitter: @NCSCO
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.instagram.com/nc_e...External Subdomain Instagram: nc_econet
https://soundcloud.com/user-81...External SoundCloud
https://stateclimate.org/External IMG-ALT AASC Recognized State Climate Office
https://www.ncsu.edu/External Subdomain NC State University
http://accessibility.ncsu.edu/External Subdomain Accessibility
http://www.ncsu.edu/privacy/External Subdomain Privacy
http://policies.ncsu.edu/External Subdomain University Policies
/wp-login.phpSubdomain Log in
https://www.ncsu.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate NC State University

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://climate.ncsu.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (1.61 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 13 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 34 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (63 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateFri, 25 Oct 2024 02:16:33 GMT
serverApache
link<https://climate.ncsu.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/", <https://climate.ncsu.edu/wp-json/wp/v2/pages/1012>; rel="alternate"; title="JSON"; type="application/json", <https://climate.ncsu.edu/>; rel=shortlink
transfer-encodingchunked
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,916 referring domains.
This page has 398,398 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,242 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: https://climate.ncsu.edu/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://climate.ncsu.edu/sitemap.rss

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Homepage - North Carolina State Climate Office
Glassmine Falls in Buncombe County on October 13, 2022. (Photo by Corey Davis) From The Mountains To The Outer Banks The North Carolina State Climate Office serves as the primary scientific extension resource for weather and climate science for the state of North Carolina. The office achieves its mission through climate science monitoring, education, extension,

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