Consumer.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
98% 
Page quality
54% 
Page structure
71% 
Link structure
82% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.28 s
File size
328.30 kB
Words
211
Media files
10
Number of links
44 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
consumer.gov | what to know and do
The domain is used in the page's title.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The official website of the Federal Trade Commission, protecting America’s consumers for over 100 years.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (652 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://consumer.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)
The specified alternate links have no errors.
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
descriptionThe official website of the Federal Trade Commission, protecting America’s consumers for over 100 years.
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
format-detectiontelephone=no
langen
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:site@FTC
twitter:descriptionThe official website of the Federal Trade Commission, protecting America’s consumers for over 100 years.
twitter:titleconsumer.gov
twitter:site:id187993109
twitter:creator@FTC
twitter:creator:id187993109
twitter:imagehttps://consumer.gov/sites/default/files/ftc_gov/images/ftc_social_share_default_en.jpg
og:site_nameconsumer.gov
og:urlhttps://consumer.gov/
og:titleconsumer.gov
og:descriptionThe official website of the Federal Trade Commission, protecting America’s consumers for over 100 years.
og:imagehttps://consumer.gov/sites/default/files/ftc_gov/images/ftc_social_share_default_en.jpg
og:image:urlhttps://consumer.gov/sites/default/files/ftc_gov/images/ftc_social_share_default_en.jpg
og:image:secure_urlhttps://consumer.gov/sites/default/files/ftc_gov/images/ftc_social_share_default_en.jpg
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 211 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
26.5% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
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=1.0" 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)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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
...c_uswds/uswds/dist/img/us_flag_small.pngU.S. flag
...ustom/ftc_uswds/uswds/dist/img/close.svgclose
/system/files/consumer_gov/icons/header.svgcollection of icons such as graduation cap, calculator, credit cards, cars and dollar signs
...m/files/consumer_gov/icons/yourmoney.svgGreen circle icon with dollar sign
/system/files/consumer_gov/icons/credit.svgGreen circle icon with speedometer
/system/files/consumer_gov/icons/debt.svgCircle icon with comment bubble and dollar sign
...sumer_gov/icons/collegecareerschools.svgCircle icon with graduate cap
/system/files/consumer_gov/icons/cars.svgcircle icon with car
...onsumer_gov/icons/scamsidentitytheft.svgcircle icon with triangle and exclamation point
...m/files/consumer_gov/icons/resources.svgicon of paper and pencil

Page structure

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

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 CG: Footer Top Right
H2 CG: Main Navigation
H2 CG: Footer Top Right Duplicate text
H2 Get the basics on how to make a budget, use credit, avoid scams, and more
H2 Learn about
H2 Are you a teacher or service provider?
H2 CG: Footer Top Left
H2 CG: Footer Top Right Duplicate text
H2 CG: Footer
H3 Your Money
H3 Credit
H3 Debt
H3 College & Career Schools
H3 Cars
H3 Scams & Identity Theft
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 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://consumer.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://consumer.gov/English
https://consumidor.gov/External Español - Spanish
/language/vietnameseTiếng Việt - Vietnamese
/language/chinese简体中文 - Chinese (Simplified)
/language/korean한국어 - Korean
https://consumer.gov/A-TITLE Home
https://consumer.gov/your-moneyYour Money
https://consumer.gov/creditCredit
https://consumer.gov/debtDebt
/college-career-schoolsCollege & Career Schools
https://consumer.gov/carsCars
/scams-identity-theftScams & Identity Theft
https://consumer.gov/resourcesTeacher Resources
https://consumer.gov/searchSearch
https://consumer.gov/Text duplicate English
https://consumidor.gov/External Text duplicate Español - Spanish
/language/vietnameseText duplicate Tiếng Việt - Vietnamese
/language/chineseText duplicate 简体中文 - Chinese (Simplified)
/language/koreanText duplicate 한국어 - Korean
https://consumer.gov/your-moneyText duplicate Your Money
https://consumer.gov/your-moneyIMG-ALT Green circle icon with dollar sign
https://consumer.gov/creditText duplicate Credit
https://consumer.gov/creditIMG-ALT Green circle icon with speedometer
https://consumer.gov/debtText duplicate Debt
https://consumer.gov/debtIMG-ALT Circle icon with comment bubble and dollar sign
/college-career-schoolsText duplicate College & Career Schools
/college-career-schoolsIMG-ALT Circle icon with graduate cap
https://consumer.gov/carsText duplicate Cars
https://consumer.gov/carsIMG-ALT circle icon with car
/scams-identity-theftText duplicate Scams & Identity Theft
/scams-identity-theftIMG-ALT circle icon with triangle and exclamation point
https://consumer.gov/Anchor Return to top
https://consumer.gov/resourcesGet resources
https://consumer.gov/resourcesText duplicate Teacher Resources
https://consumer.gov/your-moneyText duplicate Your Money
https://consumer.gov/creditText duplicate Credit
https://consumer.gov/debtText duplicate Debt
/college-career-schoolsText duplicate College & Career Schools
https://consumer.gov/carsText duplicate Cars
/scams-identity-theftText duplicate Scams & Identity Theft
https://consumer.gov/Text duplicate English
https://consumidor.gov/External Text duplicate Español - Spanish
/language/vietnameseText duplicate Tiếng Việt - Vietnamese
/language/chineseText duplicate 简体中文 - Chinese (Simplified)
/language/koreanText duplicate 한국어 - Korean
https://consumer.gov/Text duplicate A-TITLE Home
https://www.ftc.gov/site-infor...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://www.ftc.gov/External Subdomain FTC.gov

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://consumer.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.28 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (328 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
varyCookie
last-modifiedSat, 22 Mar 2025 13:59:28 GMT
etag"1742651968"
x-drupal-cache-tagsru8chei0yieR11
x-drupal-cache-tags-1ru8chei0yieD1
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x-drupal-cache-tags-4ru8chei0yieD1
x-drupal-cache-tags-5ru8chei0yieD1
x-drupal-cache-contextsru8chei0yieD1
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
x-cache-hits2
accept-rangesbytes
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
content-encodinggzip
cache-controlpublic, max-age=300
dateSat, 22 Mar 2025 13:59:53 GMT
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 5,886 referring domains.
This page has 117,035 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 3,927 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

#
# 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
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /misc/*.css$
Allow: /misc/*.css?
Allow: /misc/*.js$
Allow: /misc/*.js?
Allow: /misc/*.gif
Allow: /misc/*.jpg
Allow: /misc/*.jpeg
Allow: /misc/*.png
Allow: /modules/*.css$
Allow: /modules/*.css?
Allow: /modules/*.js$
Allow: /modules/*.js?
Allow: /modules/*.gif
Allow: /modules/*.jpg
Allow: /modules/*.jpeg
Allow: /modules/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /themes/*.css$
Allow: /themes/*.css?
Allow: /themes/*.js$
Allow: /themes/*.js?
Allow: /themes/*.gif
Allow: /themes/*.jpg
Allow: /themes/*.jpeg
Allow: /themes/*.png
# 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/

# For link-checking site crawlers.
Disallow: /es/node/*
Disallow: /*?combine=
Disallow: /*?*combine=*
Disallow: /*?items_per_page=
Disallow: /*?*items_per_page=*
Disallow: /*/comment/*
Disallow: /*/comment/reply/*
Disallow: /field-collection/*

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consumer.gov
consumer.gov | what to know and do
The official website of the Federal Trade Commission, protecting America’s consumers for over 100 years.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
gov59%Check
know46%Check
Credit46%Check
official46%Check
website46%Check
Official Website46%Check
protect46%Check
Scams44%Check
Footer43%Check
Top43%Check
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