Constitution.congress.gov - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
87% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
80% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.81 s
File size
52.20 kB
Words
487
Media files
7
Number of links
24 internal / 23 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Constitution Annotated | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
The length of the page title is perfect. (539 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Constitution Annotated provides a legal analysis and interpretation of the United States Constitution based on a comprehensive review of Supreme Court case law.
The meta description is too long: 1029 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://constitution.congress.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
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There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
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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
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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
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
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The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 487 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
32.6% 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.
5 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 16.33 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, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 10 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 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

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/static/images/logo-congress.svgCongress.gov
/static/images/logo-loc.svgLibrary of Congress
/static/images/logo-copyright.svgCopyright.gov

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The Constitution of the United States Explained
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 The Constitution of the United States Explained
H2 Read About the Constitution in Plain English
H2 Introducing the "Our Constitution" podcast!
H2 Trump v. United States
H2 Loper Bright v. Raimondo
H2 Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton
H2 Featured Items
H3 Featured Issues
H3 U.S. Constitution at the Library of Congress
H3 Constitution Annotated Resources
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 23 external links on this page.
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/IMG-ALT Constitution Annotated
/browse/Browse Explanations
/constitution/U.S. Constitution
/resources/Resources
/about/constitution-annotated/About
/updates/Updates
/about/search-help/Search Help
/browse/Browse the Constitution Annotated
/browse/essay/intro.9-3-1/ALDE...Subdomain Read About the Our Constitution Podcast
/browse/essay/intro.9-2-12/ALD...Subdomain Trump v. United States Case Summary
/browse/essay/intro.9-2-26/ALD...Subdomain Loper Bright v. Raimondo Case Summary
/browse/essay/intro.9-2-16/ALD...Subdomain NetChoice Case Summary
/browse/The Constitution of the United States Explained
/resources/additional-resources/Featured Issues
https://crsreports.congress.go...New window External Subdomain Senate Procedures to Confirm Nominees
https://crsreports.congress.go...New window External Subdomain Congressional Court Watcher: Federal Appellate Decisions in Recent Years Applying Chevron Deference
https://crsreports.congress.go...New window External Subdomain The Army Clause, Part 1: Overview and Historical Background
https://crsreports.congress.go...New window External Subdomain The Eighth Amendment and Homelessness: Supreme Court Upholds Camping Ordinances in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson
https://crsreports.congress.go...New window External Subdomain Congressional Court Watcher: Recent Appellate Decisions of Interest to Lawmakers (July 1–July 7, 2024)
https://crsreports.congress.go...New window External Subdomain Presidential Immunity from Criminal Prosecution in Trump v. United States
https://crsreports.congress.go...New window External Subdomain Supreme Court Overrules Chevron Framework
/static/files/constitutional-a...New window Subdomain Constitutional Authority Statements
/constitution/U.S. Constitution at the Library of Congress
https://guides.loc.gov/constit...New window External Subdomain Constitution of the United States: Primary Documents in American History
https://www.loc.gov/collection...New window External Subdomain Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774 to 1789
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/c...New window External Subdomain Creating the United States Constitution
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/c...New window External Subdomain Creating the Bill of Rights
https://www.loc.gov/collection...New window External Subdomain U.S. Reports Collection
https://guides.loc.gov/federal...New window External Subdomain The Federalist Papers
https://www.loc.gov/law/help/h...New window External Subdomain Legal Research Guides
https://crsreports.congress.gov/New window External Subdomain CRS Reports
/resources/Constitution Annotated Resources
/browse/essay/intro-1-1/ALDE_0...Methodology for the Constitution Annotated
/browse/essay/appx-1/ALDE_0000...Methodologies for the Tables
/resources/decisions-overruled/Table of Supreme Court Decisions Overruled by Subsequent Decisions
/resources/unconstitutional-laws/Table of Laws Held Unconstitutional in Whole or in Part by the Supreme Court
/resources/supreme-court-justi...Table of Supreme Court Justices
/resources/additional-resources/Beyond the Constitution Annotated: Table of Additional Resources
/resources/cases-cited/Table of Cases
https://guides.loc.gov/constit...New window External Subdomain Constitution Annotated Research Guide
https://www.congress.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Congress.gov
https://www.loc.gov/legalExternal Subdomain Legal
https://www.congress.gov/acces...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://www.loc.gov/legal/stan...External Subdomain External Link Disclaimer
http://www.usa.gov/New window External Subdomain USA.gov
http://www.loc.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Library of Congress
http://www.copyright.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Copyright.gov

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://constitution.congress.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 0.81 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 (52 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 13,607 referring domains.
This page has 500,103 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 7,950 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

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Constitution Annotated | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
The Constitution Annotated provides a legal analysis and interpretation of the United States Constitution based on a comprehensive review of Supreme Court case law.

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