Data.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
70% 
Page structure
50% 
Link structure
88% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.03 s
File size
118.10 kB
Words
374
Media files
8
Number of links
14 internal / 31 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Data.gov Home - Data.gov
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (239 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
The home of the U.S. Government's open data
The length of the meta description is perfect. (287 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
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
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)
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
robotsindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1
HandheldFriendlyTrue
MobileOptimized320
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
descriptionThe home of the U.S. Government's open data
langen
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:site@usdatagov
twitter:titleData.gov Home
twitter:descriptionThe home of the U.S. Government's open data
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleData.gov Home - Data.gov
og:descriptionThe home of the U.S. Government's open data
og:site_nameData.gov
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 374 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
30.5% 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.
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 13.35 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=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The amount of tags is very high (8). We recommend using a maximum of 7 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
/assets/images/us_flag_small.VKjpzbKpq_.pngU.S.flag
...-4de8-8b32-da6919464e61/icon-dot-gov.svgGov Icon
...c4-4de8-8b32-da6919464e61/icon-https.svgHTTPS Icon
...9464e61/15-years-anniversary-graphic.jpgData Gov is 14yrs old!
...de8-8b32-da6919464e61/resources-logo.svgResources Logo
...4de8-8b32-da6919464e61/strategy-logo.svgStrategy Logo
...6e3-93c4-4de8-8b32-da6919464e61/logo.pngData.gov logo
...-4de8-8b32-da6919464e61/gsa_starmark.pngGSA logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The Home of the U.S. Government's Open Data
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 The Home of the U.S. Government's Open Data
H1 Mission
H1 Data.gov at 15
H4 311,290 datasets available
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
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 too many external links (31) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://data.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://data.gov/A-TITLE Home
https://catalog.data.gov/External Subdomain Data
https://data.gov/metricsMetrics
https://data.gov/open-govOpen Government
https://data.gov/contactContact
https://data.gov/user-guide/User Guide
https://data.gov/user-guide/Text duplicate User Guide
https://catalog.data.gov/datas...External Subdomain Most Viewed Datasets
https://catalog.data.gov/datas...External Subdomain Recently Added Datasets
https://catalog.data.gov/organ...External Subdomain Datasets by Organization
https://catalog.data.gov/datas...External Subdomain Geospatial
https://data.gov/about/About Us
https://digital.gov/resources/...New window External Open Data Policy
https://www.congress.gov/115/p...New window External Subdomain Open Government Data Act
https://data.gov/timeline/Explore the timeline
https://data.gov/user-guide/No Text
https://resources.data.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Resources Logo
https://resources.data.gov/cat...External Subdomain Data Management & Governance
https://resources.data.gov/cat...External Subdomain Data Tools
https://resources.data.gov/cat...External Subdomain Data Incubator
https://resources.data.gov/cat...External Subdomain Guidance
https://resources.data.gov/cat...External Subdomain Case Studies & Examples
https://resources.data.gov/cat...External Subdomain Skills Development
https://strategy.data.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Strategy Logo
https://strategy.data.gov/2021...External Subdomain 2021 Action Plan
https://strategy.data.gov/2020...External Subdomain 2020 Action Plan
https://strategy.data.gov/2021...External Subdomain 2021 Action Progress
https://strategy.data.gov/2020...External Subdomain 2020 Action Progress
https://data.gov/IMG-ALT Data.gov logo
https://data.gov/about/About
https://data.gov/open-gov/Text duplicate Open Government
https://data.gov/privacy-policy/Website Policies
https://www.performance.gov/External Subdomain PERFORMANCE.GOV
https://twitter.com/usdatagovExternal Twitter
https://github.com/GSA/data.govExternal Github
https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/o...External Subdomain Technology Transformation Services
https://www.gsa.gov/about-usExternal Subdomain About GSA
https://www.gsa.gov/website-in...External Subdomain Accessibility statement
https://www.gsa.gov/reference/...External Subdomain FOIA requests
https://www.gsa.gov/reference/...External Subdomain No FEAR Act data
https://www.gsaig.gov/External Subdomain Office of the Inspector General
https://www.gsa.gov/reference/...External Subdomain Performance reports
https://www.gsa.gov/website-in...External Subdomain Anchor Privacy policy
https://www.usa.gov/External Subdomain Visit USA.gov

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://data.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 0.03 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (118 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-length33620
accept-rangesbytes
access-control-allow-methodsGET, HEAD
content-encodinggzip
last-modifiedTue, 22 Apr 2025 05:01:33 GMT
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; preload
x-amz-server-side-encryptionAES256
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-robots-tagall
x-serverCloud.gov Pages
x-vcap-request-ide7a256c0-e550-4221-5438-29fc56d41a7f
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
dateTue, 22 Apr 2025 22:35:34 GMT
cache-controlmax-age=60
etag"60463a0650833bb34432e6e0fc3d1c4a"
varyAccept-Encoding
x-cacheHit from cloudfront
via1.1 a1098f0eeab192209962e3a9d76d0338.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-popFRA50-C1
x-amz-cf-idIXjz8bdYGhpVc2XtUH4QItYCnOsXlqzkp6Rpd-0Cefi4dShW35TB1Q==
age41
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 13,683 referring domains.
This page has 1,280,513 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 7,434 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Sitemap: https://data.gov/sitemap.xml

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Most important keywords

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Data91%Check
Open Data80%Check
Government open data76%Check
government66%Check
Open66%Check
Open Government66%Check
Data Management64%Check
Federal Government50%Check
Government Website50%Check
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