Cotton.senate.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
70% 
Page quality
40% 
Page structure
69% 
Link structure
78% 
Server
92% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.20 s
File size
61.00 kB
Words
254
Media files
16
Number of links
49 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | Senator Tom Cotton
The length of the page title is perfect. (248 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
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)
https://www.cotton.senate.gov/
There is more than one canonical link on this page.
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, initial-scale=1.0
page-titleHome
google-site-verificationpv4CBQ9zSlHM3SpPSKTboWn3pQG58gUeQls_3f8_rjM
apple-mobile-web-app-titleTom Cotton
application-nameTom Cotton
msapplication-TileColor#00ad6b
theme-color#00ad6b
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:titleHome | U.S. Senator Cotton of Arkansas
twitter:imagehttps://www.cotton.senate.gov/assets/images/sharelogo.png
twitter:descriptionThe Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas
og:urlhttps://www.cotton.senate.gov/
og:imagehttps://www.cotton.senate.gov/assets/images/sharelogo.png
og:titleHome | U.S. Senator Cotton of Arkansas
og:descriptionThe Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 254 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 29 words is high.
10.2% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
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)
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
12 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
/assets/images/logo.svgPrimary Logo
/assets/images/logo.svgSenator Tom Cotton Logo
/assets/images/hero-logo.svgHome Logo
/imo/media/image/constituentServices.svgNo alt attribute provided
...dia/image/constituent-services-hover.svgNo alt attribute provided
/imo/media/image/casework.svgNo alt attribute provided
/imo/media/image/casework-hover.svgNo alt attribute provided
.../image/TomCotton_ServicesIcons_Tours.svgNo alt attribute provided
/imo/media/image/tour-requests-hover.svgNo alt attribute provided
.../image/TomCotton_ServicesIcons_Flags.svgNo alt attribute provided
/imo/media/image/flag-requests-hover.svgNo alt attribute provided
.../TomCotton_ServicesIcons_Internships.svgNo alt attribute provided
/imo/media/image/internships-hover.svgNo alt attribute provided
.../TomCotton_ServicesIcons_AcademyNoms.svgNo alt attribute provided
...edia/image/academy-nominations-hover.svgNo alt attribute provided
/assets/images/4stars.pngArkansas stars

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Help for Arkansans
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (18 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Help for Arkansans
H1 Latest Press
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.cotton.senate.gov/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.cotton.senate.gov/IMG-ALT Primary Logo
/aboutSubdomain About Tom
/helpSubdomain Help for Arkansans
/help/caseworkSubdomain Casework
/help/tour-requestsSubdomain Tour Requests
/help/flag-requestsSubdomain Flag Requests
/help/internshipsSubdomain Internships
/help/academy-nominationsSubdomain Academy Nominations
/help/grantsSubdomain Grants
/newsSubdomain News
/news/press-releasesSubdomain Press Releases
/news/op-edsSubdomain Op-Eds
/news/speechesSubdomain Speeches
/news/videosSubdomain Videos
/contactSubdomain Contact
/contact/contact-tomSubdomain Contact Tom
https://www.facebook.com/Senat...New window External Subdomain Senator Cotton Facebook
https://twitter.com/SenTomCottonNew window External Senator Cotton Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain Senator Cotton Youtube
https://www.cotton.senate.gov/IMG-ALT Senator Tom Cotton Logo
/contactEMAIL TOM
/helpConstituent Services
/help/caseworkText duplicate Casework
/help/tour-requestsText duplicate Tour Requests
/help/flag-requestsText duplicate Flag Requests
/help/internshipsText duplicate Internships
/help/academy-nominationsText duplicate Academy Nominations
/news/press-releases/cotton-ba...Subdomain March 05, 2025 Cotton, Banks: States Should Fight True Child Abuse, Not Punish Parents for Rejecting Sex Changes for Minors
/news/press-releases/cotton-sc...Subdomain February 28, 2025 Cotton, Scott, Hill, and Colleagues to Uyeda: Review Approach to Consolidated Audit Trail
/news/press-releases/cotton-sl...Subdomain February 27, 2025 Cotton, Slotkin, Colleagues Reintroduce Legislation to Address Cybersecurity Threats to American Agriculture
/news/press-releasesSee More Press
https://goo.gl/maps/9vJFoUVLTm...External Get Directions
https://goo.gl/maps/Bta2QYRWEr...External Text duplicate Get Directions
https://goo.gl/maps/UgeMY4sPX8...External Text duplicate Get Directions
https://goo.gl/maps/9japKv76a3...External Text duplicate Get Directions
https://goo.gl/maps/QCJDwN1gV9...External Text duplicate Get Directions
/aboutSubdomain Text duplicate About Tom
/helpSubdomain Text duplicate Help for Arkansans
/newsSubdomain Text duplicate News
/contactSubdomain Text duplicate Contact
/privacy-policySubdomain Privacy Policy
https://www.facebook.com/Senat...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Senator Cotton Facebook
https://twitter.com/SenTomCottonNew window External Text duplicate Senator Cotton Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Senator Cotton Youtube
/aboutSubdomain Text duplicate About Tom
/helpSubdomain Text duplicate Help for Arkansans
/help/caseworkSubdomain Text duplicate Casework
/help/tour-requestsSubdomain Text duplicate Tour Requests
/help/flag-requestsSubdomain Text duplicate Flag Requests
/help/internshipsSubdomain Text duplicate Internships
/help/academy-nominationsSubdomain Text duplicate Academy Nominations
/help/grantsSubdomain Text duplicate Grants
/newsSubdomain Text duplicate News
/news/press-releasesSubdomain Text duplicate Press Releases
/news/op-edsSubdomain Text duplicate Op-Eds
/news/speechesSubdomain Text duplicate Speeches
/news/videosSubdomain Text duplicate Videos
/contactSubdomain Text duplicate Contact
/contact/contact-tomSubdomain Text duplicate Contact Tom

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.cotton.senate.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)
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.20 seconds.
This page only loads 3 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (61 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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serverApache
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
access-control-allow-origin*
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
etagW/"f3d0-NHG3R1Tw7spC5HMkgm/8erNp9CE"
content-encodinggzip
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
content-security-policydefault-src * data: 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline';
x-content-security-policydefault-src * data: 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline';
x-webkit-cspdefault-src * data: 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline';
content-length15158
dateTue, 11 Mar 2025 07:45:39 GMT
connectionkeep-alive
varyAccept-Encoding
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 3,420 referring domains.
This page has 16,202 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,512 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
Cotton61%Check
Senator Cotton55%Check
Help50%Check
Arkansans50%Check
Senator48%Check
Senate48%Check
Press38%Check
Latest38%Check
Requests36%Check
Press Releases36%Check
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