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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
74% 
Page quality
68% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
86% 
Server
99% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.41 s
File size
30.40 kB
Words
339
Media files
5
Number of links
43 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | Department of Corrections
The length of the page title is perfect. (305 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://doc.vermont.gov/home
The specified canonical link points to a different 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
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 339 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
23.6% 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.
3 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 15.8 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)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on this page.
The amount of tags is very high (8). We recommend using a maximum of 7 tags for this page.
The following tag is repeated too often: i
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
...mplate/assets/img/vermont-logo-white.pngVermont State Logo
..._template/assets/img/usa-icons/close.svgclose
...ssets/img/usa-icons-bg/search--white.svgSearch
...ssets/img/usa-icons-bg/search--white.svgSearch
...rrect/files/inline-images/My project.pngVermont Department of Corrections Logo. Contains blue seal that states 'State of Vermont Department of Corrections'

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Welcome to the Vermont Department of Corrections Website
H2 Our Vision:
H2 Contact Information
H3 Please access the Constituent Services and Question Portal below for assistance and relevant information about your loved one in Mississippi.
H4 Empty heading
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 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://doc.vermont.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://doc.vermont.gov/Anchor Text duplicate A-TITLE Skip to main content
https://vermont.gov/External An Official Vermont Government Website
https://doc.vermont.gov/Department of Corrections
A-TITLE Home
https://doc.vermont.gov/Home
https://doc.vermont.gov/about-usAbout Us
/roadmap-2030-mission-focused-...Strategic Plan
/content/press-releasesPublic Information and Media
/content/research-and-dataResearch & Data
/correctional-facilitiesCorrectional Facilities
/content/financial-budgetingFinancial & Budgeting
/information-inmate-families-a...Constituent Services
/accessibility-resourcesDeaf, Hard of Hearing and Deaf/Blind Resources
/offender-servicesOffender Services
/policies-directives-and-rulesPolicies, Directives, and Rules
/prison-rape-elimination-act-preaPrison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)
/probation-and-parole-officesProbation and Parole Offices
/content/services-victimsServices for Victims
https://doc.vermont.gov/vanVermont Automated Notification (VAN) Service
https://doc.vermont.gov/PRINPrison Research and Innovation Network (PRIN)
/womens-facility-replacement-p...Women's Facility Replacement Project
https://doc.vermont.gov/Text duplicate Home
https://doc.vermont.gov/about-usText duplicate About Us
/roadmap-2030-mission-focused-...Text duplicate Strategic Plan
/content/press-releasesText duplicate Public Information and Media
/content/research-and-dataText duplicate Research & Data
/correctional-facilitiesText duplicate Correctional Facilities
/content/financial-budgetingText duplicate Financial & Budgeting
/information-inmate-families-a...Text duplicate Constituent Services
/accessibility-resourcesText duplicate Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Deaf/Blind Resources
/offender-servicesText duplicate Offender Services
/policies-directives-and-rulesText duplicate Policies, Directives, and Rules
/prison-rape-elimination-act-preaText duplicate Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)
/probation-and-parole-officesText duplicate Probation and Parole Offices
/content/services-victimsText duplicate Services for Victims
https://doc.vermont.gov/vanText duplicate Vermont Automated Notification (VAN) Service
https://doc.vermont.gov/PRINText duplicate Prison Research and Innovation Network (PRIN)
/womens-facility-replacement-p...Text duplicate Women's Facility Replacement Project
/information-inmate-families-a...Constituent Services Page
/information-inmate-families-a...Constituent Services and Question Portal
/content/careers-correctionsCareers in Corrections
/content/vermont-doc-emergency...Emergency Notification System
https://omsweb.public-safety-c...External Subdomain Offender Locator
/content/reports-and-dataReports and Data
/content/current-rfpsCurrent RFPs Click here to view all RFPs
https://aoa.vermont.gov/statew...External Subdomain View the statewide public record requests database
https://sos.vermont.gov/media/...New window External Subdomain View the DOC Specific Record Schedule
https://sos.vermont.gov/media/...New window External Subdomain View the AHS Specific Record Schedule
https://www.vermont.gov/policiesNew window External Subdomain Policies
A-TITLE This link is external and will open in a new window
https://www.vermont.gov/polici...New window External Subdomain Accessibility Policy
A-TITLE This link is external and will open in a new window
https://www.vermont.gov/polici...New window External Subdomain Privacy Policy
A-TITLE This link is external and will open in a new window
https://vt.accessgov.com/feedb...New window External Subdomain Feedback Survey
A-TITLE This link is external and will open in a new window

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://doc.vermont.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 of 0.41 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 (30 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length6723
servernginx
dateThu, 03 Apr 2025 11:23:41 GMT
accept-rangesbytes
cache-controlmax-age=2764800, public
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
varyCookie,Accept-Encoding
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cacheMISS
last-modifiedThu, 03 Apr 2025 10:17:09 GMT
etag"1743675429-gzip"
content-encodinggzip
x-request-idv-cd437738-1074-11f0-8d5e-2fc8b1dcd352
x-ah-environmentprod
viavarnish, 1.1 71b147cd3102755b55ba8b6fd34e3f4a.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-cache-hits38
x-cacheMiss from cloudfront
x-amz-cf-popFRA6-C1
x-amz-cf-id4o3hb05970GxCywJAKEIY0m5d19Ak17ThIhzKAQDAyrpHFa2c97CAw==
age3992
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 174 referring domains.
This page has 343 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 121 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: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
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: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/

# Files
Disallow: /README.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# 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
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
Disallow: /calendar/*
Disallow: /*/calendar/*
Disallow: /calendar-field_event_date/*
Disallow: /*/calendar-field_event_date/*
Disallow: /calendar_field_event_date/*
Disallow: /*/calendar_field_event_date/*
Disallow: /calendar-field_date/*
Disallow: /*/calendar-field_date/*
Disallow: /documents/*
Disallow: /*/documents/*
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

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Corrections52%Check
Department52%Check
DOC46%Check
gov46%Check
Information43%Check
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Services38%Check
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