Compass.dnr.maryland.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
53% 
Page quality
38% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
87% 
Server
75% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.76 s
File size
44.10 kB
Words
256
Media files
49
Number of links
12 internal / 24 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home Page
The page title is too short. (108 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
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
Server location: United States of America
The language is not specified in the HTML markup.
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 name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportinitial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no, width=device-width

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 256 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 26 words is high.
22.7% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
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.
A viewport "initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no, width=device-width" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
33 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
...onsive/spriteImages/mobileHeaderLogo.pngNo alt attribute provided
...UI/Images/buttonPartialView/ULCorner.pngNo alt attribute provided
...UI/Images/buttonPartialView/URCorner.pngNo alt attribute provided
...UI/Images/buttonPartialView/LLCorner.pngNo alt attribute provided
...UI/Images/buttonPartialView/LRCorner.pngNo alt attribute provided
...UI/Images/buttonPartialView/ULCorner.pngNo alt attribute provided
...UI/Images/buttonPartialView/URCorner.pngNo alt attribute provided
...UI/Images/buttonPartialView/LLCorner.pngNo alt attribute provided
...UI/Images/buttonPartialView/LRCorner.pngNo alt attribute provided
/Content/responsive/slideshow/1.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/Content/responsive/slideshow/2.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/Content/responsive/slideshow/3.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/Content/responsive/slideshow/4.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/Content/responsive/slideshow/5.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/Content/responsive/slideshow/6.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...images/welcome_to_compasss_w453_h_46.pngNo alt attribute provided
/Content/responsive/images/SaltwaterA.pngNo alt attribute provided
/Content/responsive/images/VesselRenew.pngNo alt attribute provided
...UI/Images/buttonPartialView/ULCorner.pngNo alt attribute provided
...UI/Images/buttonPartialView/URCorner.pngNo alt attribute provided
...UI/Images/buttonPartialView/LLCorner.pngNo alt attribute provided
...UI/Images/buttonPartialView/LRCorner.pngNo alt attribute provided
...UI/Images/buttonPartialView/ULCorner.pngNo alt attribute provided
...UI/Images/buttonPartialView/URCorner.pngNo alt attribute provided
...UI/Images/buttonPartialView/LLCorner.pngNo alt attribute provided
...UI/Images/buttonPartialView/LRCorner.pngNo alt attribute provided
/Content/responsive/images/catHunting.pngNo alt attribute provided
/Content/responsive/images/catFishing.pngNo alt attribute provided
/Content/responsive/images/catBoating.pngNo alt attribute provided
/Content/responsive/images/catVehicle.pngNo alt attribute provided
/Content/responsive/images/AccessDNR.pngNo alt attribute provided
...s/clientFeedback/InformationIconDS60.pngNo alt attribute provided
/Content/CustomUI/Images/loading.gifNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Using COMPASS you can...
H2 Provide Feedback
H2 ✓Feedback sent!
H3 Hunting License Information
H3 Fishing License Information
H3 Vessel & Boating Information
H3 Off-Road Vehicle Information
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
2 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 24 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Home/Language?language=Spanis...versión en español
https://compass.dnr.maryland.gov/Login
/Help/HomeHelp
https://compass.dnr.maryland.gov/Anchor Login to COMPASS
/Registration/Express/SaltWate...No Text
/Vessels/VesselNologinRenewNo Text
/Security/Password/ResetPasswordForgot Password?
/Content/responsive/images/COM...New window Login help
/Security/Register?isNew=TrueEnroll Here
https://compass.dnr.maryland.gov/Anchor More Information
http://dnr.maryland.gov/Pages/...New window External Subdomain License Information & Fees
http://dnr.maryland.gov/Wildli...New window External Subdomain Game Management
http://dnr.maryland.gov/hunter...New window External Subdomain Hunting Guide & Regulations
http://dnr.maryland.gov/wildli...New window External Subdomain Wildlife & Heritage Service
http://dnr.maryland.gov/nrp/Pa...New window External Subdomain Hunter Education
http://dnr.maryland.gov/hunter...New window External Subdomain Black Bear Lottery
http://www.eregulations.com/ma...New window External Subdomain Public Hunting Areas
/Content/Downloads/MD_WHS_Grou...New window Group Furbearer Permit Master
http://dnr.maryland.gov/Pages/...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate License Information & Fees
http://www.eregulations.com/ma...New window External Subdomain Tidal/Non-Tidal Dividing Lines
http://dnr.maryland.gov/fisher...New window External Subdomain Fishing Regulations
http://dnr.maryland.gov/fisher...New window External Subdomain Fisheries Home Page
http://dnr.maryland.gov/Fisher...New window External Subdomain Maryland Fishing Report
http://www.eregulations.com/ma...New window External Subdomain Fishing Guide
https://maryland.maps.arcgis.c...New window External Subdomain Where to Fish
/Vessels/VesselNologinRenewNew window Renew Your Vessel Registration
http://dnr.maryland.gov/nrp/Pa...New window External Subdomain Boating Safety
http://dnr.maryland.gov/boatin...New window External Subdomain Registration & Title Requirements
http://dnr.maryland.gov/Pages/...New window External Subdomain Regional Service Center Locations
http://dnr.maryland.gov/Boatin...New window External Subdomain Boating Regulations
http://dnr.maryland.gov/Boatin...New window External Subdomain Boating Tips
http://dnr.maryland.gov/Boatin...New window External Subdomain Pumpouts/No Discharge Zones
http://dnr.maryland.gov/forest...New window External Subdomain Register Your ORV
http://dnr.maryland.gov/forest...New window External Subdomain ORV Trails at State Forests
http://dnr.maryland.gov/public...New window External Subdomain ORV Trails at State Parks
http://dnr.maryland.gov/pages/...New window External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://compass.dnr.maryland.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.76 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (44 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateFri, 10 Jan 2025 02:25:42 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
cache-controlprivate
request-contextappId=cid-v1:c1ac913e-f8f7-4916-a69f-5386393f7307
x-powered-byASP.NET
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
servercloudflare
cf-ray8ff937d0ccd52a5c-CDG
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 251 referring domains.
This page has 8,831 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 217 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
COMPASS56%Check
DNR52%Check
license47%Check
Page46%Check
Maryland46%Check
License Information45%Check
Feedback44%Check
information42%Check
fishing40%Check
hunting40%Check
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