Dof.ca.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
41% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
98% 
Server
87% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.66 s
File size
175.30 kB
Words
160
Media files
4
Number of links
22 internal / 19 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Department of Finance | State of California
The length of the page title is perfect. (383 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
State of California
The meta description is too short. (113 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length) Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://dof.ca.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)
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
AuthorState of California
DescriptionState of California
KeywordsCalifornia, government
HandheldFriendlyTrue
MobileOptimized320
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
google-site-verification001779225245372747843:fgyqdi63ctw
robotsmax-image-preview:large
generatorCAWeb v.1.12.1
langen
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 160 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
19.4% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
Multiple viewport tags are given. There should only be one.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-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)
2 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
.../themes/CAWeb/src/images/system/logo.svgCA.gov website
...oads/sites/352/2024/05/template-logo.pngDOF logo
...oads/sites/352/2021/10/governor-seal.pngNo alt attribute provided
.../352/About_Us/Joe-Stephenshaw-circle.pngNo alt attribute provided

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.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 California Budget
H2 Trailer Bill Language
H2 Budget Change Proposals & Finance Letters
H2 Legislative Analyses
H2 COVID-19 Information
H2 Our mission is to serve as the Governor’s chief fiscal policy advisor and to promote long-term economic sustainability and responsible resource allocation.
H2 Statewide Campaigns
H2 Alerts
H2 About Finance
H2 Related Sites
H3 Gavin Newsom
H3 Joe Stephenshaw
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 19 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://dof.ca.gov/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.ca.gov/External Subdomain CA.gov
IMG-ALT CA.gov website
A-TITLE CA.gov website
https://dof.ca.gov/Home
A-TITLE Home
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain Share via LinkedIn
A-TITLE Share via LinkedIn
https://twitter.com/HDatFinanceExternal Share via Twitter
A-TITLE Share via Twitter
https://dof.ca.gov/IMG-ALT DOF logo
https://dof.ca.gov/budget/Subdomain Budget
https://dof.ca.gov/accounting/Subdomain Accounting
https://dof.ca.gov/forecasting/Subdomain Forecasting
https://dof.ca.gov/reports/Subdomain Reports
https://dof.ca.gov/programs/Subdomain Programs
/about-us/careers/Subdomain Careers
https://dof.ca.gov/whats-new/Subdomain What’s New
https://dof.ca.gov/quick-links/Subdomain Quick Links
https://ebudget.ca.gov/External Subdomain California Budget
https://trailerbill.dof.ca.gov...External Subdomain Trailer Bill Language
https://bcp.dof.ca.gov/viewBcp...External Subdomain Budget Change Proposals & Finance Letters
https://leganalysis.dof.ca.gov/External Subdomain Legislative Analyses
/budget/covid-19-information/Subdomain COVID-19 Information
https://www.gov.ca.gov/External Subdomain Governor’s Website
/about-us/joe-stephenshaw/Subdomain Director’s Biography
https://registertovote.ca.gov/External Subdomain Register to Vote
https://www.saveourwater.com/External Subdomain Save Our Water
https://www.flexalert.org/External Subdomain Flex Alert
https://www.chp.ca.gov/Pages/A...External Subdomain Amber Alert
https://calalerts.org/External Cal Alerts
https://myhazards.caloes.ca.gov/External Subdomain My Hazards
https://dof.ca.gov/about-us/Subdomain About Us
/wp-content/uploads/sites/352/...Subdomain Chart of Responsibilities
https://www.google.com/maps/@3...External Subdomain Headquarters – Map
https://spwb.ca.gov/External Subdomain State Public Works Board
https://bondaccountability.ca....External Subdomain Bond Accountability
https://dof.ca.gov/Anchor Back to Top
https://dof.ca.gov/site-map/Subdomain Site Map
https://dof.ca.gov/accessibility/Subdomain Accessibility
/conditions-of-use/Subdomain Conditions of Use
https://dof.ca.gov/about-us/Subdomain Text duplicate About Us
/privacy-policy/Subdomain Privacy Policy
/department-mailing-lists/Subdomain Mailing Lists
https://twitter.com/HDatFinanceExternal X
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain LinkedIn

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://dof.ca.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (1.66 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (175 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateTue, 12 Nov 2024 10:22:57 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-powered-byWP Engine
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self' *.ca.gov
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
link<https://dof.ca.gov/>; rel=shortlink
x-cacheablebot
cache-controlmax-age=10800, must-revalidate
x-cacheHIT: 10
x-cache-groupbot
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
servercloudflare
cf-ray8e15cdc07d873a49-FRA
content-encodinggzip
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
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 3,765 referring domains.
This page has 11,964 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,172 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: https://dof.ca.gov/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://dof.ca.gov/sitemap.html

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Department of Finance | State of California
State of California

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Cal66%Check
State62%Check
California61%Check
Finance54%Check
gov54%Check
Department46%Check
Budget43%Check
Site42%Check
Governor40%Check
Joe40%Check
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