Comptroller.baltimorecity.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
98% 
Page quality
58% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
98% 
Server
85% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.72 s
File size
39.30 kB
Words
400
Media files
15
Number of links
26 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Baltimore City Comptroller
The length of the page title is perfect. (237 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The official website of Charm City, Baltimore, Maryland.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (343 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://comptroller.baltimorecity.gov/
There is a valid canonical link 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
descriptionThe official website of Charm City, Baltimore, Maryland.
abstractCity of Baltimore, Maryland - Official Website
keywordsCity of Baltimore, Maryland, Official, Government, Website
generatorDrupal 7 (https://www.drupal.org)
langen
og:site_nameBaltimore City Comptroller
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://comptroller.baltimorecity.gov/
og:titleBaltimore City Comptroller
og:localityBaltimore
og:regionMaryland
og:localeen_US
ImageToolbarfalse
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 400 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 28.67 words is high.
31.5% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
7 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.
A viewport "width=device-width" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on this page.
The amount of tags is very high (16). We recommend using a maximum of 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
...s/all/themes/custom/flight_city/logo.pngBaltimore City Comptroller logoBaltimore City Comptroller Home
...ib/gtranslate/gtranslate-files/blank.pngEnglish
...ib/gtranslate/gtranslate-files/blank.pngArabic
...ib/gtranslate/gtranslate-files/blank.pngChinese (Simplified)
...ib/gtranslate/gtranslate-files/blank.pngChinese (Traditional)
...ib/gtranslate/gtranslate-files/blank.pngFrench
...ib/gtranslate/gtranslate-files/blank.pngKorean
...ib/gtranslate/gtranslate-files/blank.pngSpanish
...sites/default/files/seal_gold-leaves.pngCity Seal
...es/default/files/Comptroller-color_0.pngOffice of the Comptroller LogoOffice of the Comptroller Logo
/modules/file/icons/application-pdf.pngPDF iconapplication/pdf
/modules/file/icons/application-pdf.pngPDF iconapplication/pdf
...sites/default/files/seal_gold-leaves.pngCity Seal
/sites/default/files/logo-reddit.pngReddit logo
/sites/default/files/logo-threads.pngThreads logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Baltimore City Comptroller
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Baltimore City Comptroller
H2 Office of the Comptroller Logo
H2 Office of the Comptroller
H2 Main Menu
H2 Contact
H3 Related Documents
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 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to main content
http://www.baltimorecity.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Baltimore City Comptroller logo
/Baltimore City Comptroller
A-TITLE Home
http://www.baltimorecity.gov/3...External Subdomain 311 Services
A-TITLE Request a City service, then monitor status
https://pay.baltimorecity.gov/External Subdomain Payments
A-TITLE Pay your water, parking tickets, and other bills online, by phone, by mail, or in person
http://mayor.baltimorecity.gov/External Subdomain Mayor's Office
A-TITLE Includes Cabinet, Mayoral Offices, Boards & Commissions, and Request Ceremonial Documents.
/newsNews
A-TITLE Press Releases from the Mayor's Office
https://www.baltimorecity.gov/...External Subdomain Directory
A-TITLE Lists 501(c)(3) organizations, Boards, City Offices, Commissions, Departments, Elected Offices, Mayoral Offices, and State Entities.
/eventsEvents
A-TITLE Upcoming Events
https://www.baltimorecity.gov/...External Subdomain Subscribe
A-TITLE Subscribe to our mailing list with GovDelivery
/Text duplicate Baltimore City Comptroller
A-TITLE Go to homepage
/sites/default/files/comptroll...Subdomain January 19 Transition Report
A-TITLE Comptroller Bill Henry's Transition Report.pdf
/sites/default/files/comptroll...Subdomain FY23 OTC Supplementary Budget Report
A-TITLE FY23 OTC Supplementary Budget Report.pdf
/comptrollerComptroller's Office
A-TITLE Comptroller's Office
/comptroller-reportsSubdomain Reports
/promising-pilots-look-how-bal...Promising PILOTs: A look at How Baltimore & Other Cities Manage Tax Gaps with Non-Profit Institutions
/boegttfGun Trace Task Force (GTTF) Settlement Tracker
/comptroller-bill-henryComptroller Bill Henry
A-TITLE Comptroller Bill Henry
/executive-staffExecutive Staff
/boeBoard of Estimates
A-TITLE Board of Estimates
/apDepartment of Accounts Payable
/ap/opencheckbook2Open Checkbook 2.0
A-TITLE Open Checkbook Spending Explorer
/auditsDepartment of Audits
A-TITLE Department of Audits
/municipal-post-officeMunicipal Post Office
A-TITLE Municipal Post Office
/telecomDepartment of Telecommunications
A-TITLE Telecommunications
/realestateDepartment of Real Estate
A-TITLE Department of Real Estate
/contact-us-quick-formsCeremonial Documents
A-TITLE Contact Us -- General Information
/comptroller-fellowsComptroller Fellows
/ct/press-releasesNewsroom
/node/22486In the News
/newsroom/media-inquiriesMedia Inquiries
/contact-us-16Subdomain Contact Us
A-TITLE Contact Us
https://www.facebook.com/compt...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/bill...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain A-TITLE YouTube
https://www.reddit.com/user/bi...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Reddit logo
https://www.threads.net/@billf...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Threads logo

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://comptroller.baltimorecity.gov/"
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 0.72 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 (39 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
etagW/"1738727512-0"
content-languageen
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
link<https://comptroller.baltimorecity.gov/>; rel="canonical",<https://comptroller.baltimorecity.gov/>; rel="shortlink"
cache-controlpublic, max-age=3600
last-modifiedWed, 05 Feb 2025 03:51:52 GMT
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
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content-encodinggzip
accept-rangesbytes
age0
dateWed, 05 Feb 2025 03:51:53 GMT
varyCookie,fastly-ssl, Accept-Encoding
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31557600
alt-svch3=":443";ma=86400,h3-29=":443";ma=86400,h3-27=":443";ma=86400
content-length11836
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 271 referring domains.
This page has 523 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 163 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
# Directories
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips/
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /user/logout/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/

# News
Disallow: /news/
Allow: /news/press-releases/
Allow: /news/public-notices/
Allow: /news/public-statements/

User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12Bot
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User-agent: PetalBot
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User-agent: AspiegelBot
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User-agent: DotBot
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User-agent: MauiBot
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User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Exabot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /$
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

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The official website of Charm City, Baltimore, Maryland.

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