Ecowatch.noaa.gov - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
74% 
Page quality
59% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
88% 
Server
28% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.78 s
File size
45.00 kB
Words
343
Media files
7
Number of links
66 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | National Marine Ecosystem Status
The length of the page title is perfect. (379 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)
http://ecowatch.noaa.gov/
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

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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)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 343 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
27.1% 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.
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 14.17 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
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)
Some tags are too long. With 188 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"this website provides snapshots of major marine and great lakes ecosystem indicators, capturing the st..."
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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Assessing Our Marine and Great Lakes Ecosystems
The H1 heading is perfect.
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
H1 Assessing Our Marine and Great Lakes Ecosystems
H2 Main navigation
H2 About Indicators
H2 Explore the Indicators
H2 Main navigation Duplicate text
H2 NESDIS Footer Menu
H4 Explore by Region
H4 Explore by Theme
H4 Explore National Status
H5 time series
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 2 links with a trivial 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 5 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://ecowatch.noaa.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
http://ecowatch.noaa.gov/Subdomain IMG-ALT National Marine Ecosystem Status
A-TITLE National Marine Ecosystem Status
https://ecowatch.noaa.gov/homeHome
https://ecowatch.noaa.gov/aboutAbout
https://ecowatch.noaa.gov/aboutAbout this Website
/about/how-to-useHow to Use this Website
https://ecowatch.noaa.gov/regionsIndicators by Region
https://ecowatch.noaa.gov/regionsView All
/regions/alaskaAlaska
/regions/california-currentCalifornia Current
/regions/caribbeanCaribbean
/regions/great-lakesGreat Lakes
/regions/great-lakes/lake-ontarioLake Ontario
/regions/great-lakes/lake-erieLake Erie
/regions/great-lakes/lake-huronLake Huron
/regions/great-lakes/lake-mich...Lake Michigan
/regions/great-lakes/lake-supe...Lake Superior
/regions/gulf-of-mexicoGulf of Mexico
/regions/pacific-islandsHawai'i-Pacific Islands
/regions/northeastNortheast U.S.
/regions/southeastSoutheast U.S.
/thematicIndicators by Theme
/thematicText duplicate View All
/thematic/climate-indicesClimate
/thematic/sea-surface-temperatureSea Surface Temperature
/thematic/marine-heatwavesMarine Heatwaves
/thematic/sea-levelSea Level
/thematic/sea-ice-extentIce Extent
/thematic/upwellingUpwelling
/thematic/ocean-acidificationOcean Acidification
/thematic/chlorophyll-aChlorophyll-a
/thematic/zooplankton-biomassZooplankton Biomass
/thematic/coral-reefsCoral Reefs
/thematic/forage-fish-and-smal...Forage Fish
/thematic/seabirdsSeabirds
/thematic/overfished-stocksOverfished Stocks
/thematic/marine-species-distr...Marine Species Distribution
/thematic/threatened-and-endan...Marine Mammals
/thematic/ecosystem-overfishingEcosystem Overfishing
/thematic/coastal-populationCoastal Population
/thematic/coastal-tourismCoastal Tourism
/thematic/coastal-employmentCoastal Employment
/thematic/commercial-landingsCommercial Fishing
/thematic/recreational-fishingRecreational Fishing
/thematic/recreational-and-com...Fishing Engagement
/thematic/billion-dollar-disas...Billion-Dollar Disasters
/thematic/beach-closuresBeach Closures
/national-statusNational Status
/more-resourcesMore Resources
/highlightsIndicator Highlights
/more-resourcesOther Tools
https://ecowatch.noaa.gov/aboutTrivial anchor text
Read More
https://ecowatch.noaa.gov/aboutText duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://ecowatch.noaa.gov/regionsIMG-ALT Explore by Region icon
https://ecowatch.noaa.gov/regionsExplore
/thematicIMG-ALT marine mammal icon
/thematicText duplicate Explore
/national-statusIMG-ALT Report Card icon
/national-statusText duplicate Explore
https://ecowatch.noaa.gov/homeText duplicate Home
https://ecowatch.noaa.gov/aboutText duplicate About
https://ecowatch.noaa.gov/regionsText duplicate Indicators by Region
/thematicText duplicate Indicators by Theme
/national-statusText duplicate National Status
/more-resourcesText duplicate More Resources
/ecowatch.noaa.govecowatch.noaa.gov
http://www.commerce.gov/External Subdomain Department of Commerce
http://www.noaa.gov/disclaimer...External Subdomain Disclaimer
https://www.noaa.gov/foia-free...External Subdomain Freedom of Information Act
http://www.cio.noaa.gov/servic...External Subdomain Information Quality
http://www.noaa.gov/External Subdomain NOAA

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://ecowatch.noaa.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.78 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 (45 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateFri, 09 Aug 2024 00:35:38 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length46084
serverApache
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
cache-controlmax-age=300, public
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
content-languageen
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modifiedThu, 08 Aug 2024 18:17:43 GMT
etag"1723141063"
varyCookie
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cacheHIT
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 129 referring domains.
This page has 190 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 112 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Robots.txt

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# 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
# 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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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Marine70%Check
Ecosystem68%Check
National Marine Ecosystem65%Check
Marine Ecosystem Status65%Check
National Marine63%Check
National Marine Ecosystem Status63%Check
Status56%Check
National56%Check
National Status56%Check
Great55%Check

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