Edd.ca.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
71% 
Page structure
63% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
24% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.07 s
File size
41.60 kB
Words
506
Media files
4
Number of links
56 internal / 19 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Employment Development Department | California
The length of the page title is perfect. (447 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
EDD offers support for job seekers, claims, employers, and more. Access resources for unemployment, disability, paid family leave, and managing your business.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (992 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
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0
AuthorEmployment Development Department
keywordsEDD website, Employment Development Department, unemployment insurance,
descriptionEDD offers support for job seekers, claims, employers, and more. Access resources for unemployment, disability, paid family leave, and managing your business.
HandheldFriendlyTrue
MobileOptimized320
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
There are 2 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: When you turn to us, we have a program or resource that can help. From...
This page contains 506 words. That's ok.
23.1% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
4 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 17.25 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
Multiple viewport tags are given. There should only be one.
This page loads 11 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 10 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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/new-cagov-logo-white.svgCA.gov logo
/siteassets/images/simple-icon.svgEDD Employment Development Department State of California Home
...2e68b22d60419ee5720/edd-logo-2-color.svgEDD Employment Development Department State of California Home
...ages/edd-homepage-curved-banner-blue.jpgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
We are Your EDD
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (15 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 We are Your EDD
H1 We are Your EDD Duplicate text
H2 Jobs
H2 Claims
H2 Employers
H2 Unemployment Benefits Data
H2 Current Unemployment Statistics
H2 Your Job Source
H2 Your Data Source
H2 Featured Links
H2 Office Locator
H2 Leaving the EDD Website
H2 Language Resources
H3 Resources
H3 State Programs
H3 Leadership
H3 Translation
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://edd.ca.gov/Anchor Skip to Main Content
/link/ed2a191e1eb14ccd9142b71d...Learn more
https://ca.gov/External CA.gov
IMG-ALT CA.gov logo
https://edd.ca.gov/enHome
https://myedd.edd.ca.gov/s/External Subdomain Benefits Login
/en/about_edd/employer_service...Employer Login
https://edd.ca.gov/enIMG-ALT EDD Employment Development Department State of California Home
https://edd.ca.gov/enText duplicate IMG-ALT EDD Employment Development Department State of California Home
https://myedd.edd.ca.gov/s/External Subdomain Text duplicate Benefits Login
/en/about_edd/employer_service...Text duplicate Employer Login
https://edd.ca.gov/en/jobs/Jobs
https://edd.ca.gov/en/claims/Claims
https://edd.ca.gov/en/employers/Employers
https://edd.ca.gov/en/newsroom/Newsroom
https://edd.ca.gov/en/jobs/Text duplicate Jobs
https://edd.ca.gov/en/claims/Text duplicate Claims
https://edd.ca.gov/en/employers/Text duplicate Employers
/en/about_edd/disaster_related...Disaster-Related Services
/en/unemployment/Disaster_Unem...Disaster Unemployment Assistance
/en/payroll_taxes/federal-unem...Federal Unemployment Tax Act
/en/unemployment/unemployment-...Unemployment Benefits for Federal Workers
/en/newsroom/facts-and-stats/d...View Data Dashboards
/en/jobs_and_training/services...Strengthening California’s Veteran Workforce
https://www.caljobs.ca.gov/vos...External Subdomain CalJOBSSM
/en/about_edd/edd_open_data_po...EDD Open Data Portal
/en/about_edd/eddnext/EDDNext: Improving Your Experience
/en/about_edd/additional_resou...Essential Needs
/en/about_edd/fraud/Help Fight Fraud
/en/about_edd/public_records_r...Public Records Request
/en/about_edd/disaster_related...Text duplicate Disaster-Related Services
https://calosba.ca.gov/External Subdomain California Office of the Small Business Advocate
/en/about_edd/quick_statistics...Quick Statistics
/en/payroll_taxes/federal-unem...Text duplicate Federal Unemployment Tax Act
/en/about_edd/proposed_regulat...Proposed Regulations
/en/Office_Locator/Find an Office
https://askedd.edd.ca.gov/External Subdomain Ask EDD
https://edd.ca.gov/Anchor Skip to Virtual Chat
/link/9e22f02ed0a64987856d66cc...Online Services
https://forms.edd.ca.gov/formsExternal Subdomain Forms and Publications
https://www.labormarketinfo.ed...External Subdomain Labor Market Information
/link/66b6fe0cbe6b4d81a331dfca...Información general en español
/link/748afaabed0b48749991e44f...Language Resources
https://www.vaccinateall58.com/External Subdomain Vaccinate ALL 58
https://caleitc4me.org/External Earned Income Tax Credit
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/covid19External Subdomain COVID-19 Public Health Updates
https://www.getcalfresh.org/?s...External Subdomain CalFresh Food Assistance
https://gov.ca.gov/External Subdomain Governor
https://www.labor.ca.gov/about...External Subdomain LWDA Secretary
/link/76e954f5a7a948dc9dc7a4d9...View Disclaimer
https://edd.ca.gov/Anchor Back to Top
https://edd.ca.gov/en/about_edd/About EDD
/en/about_edd/contact_edd/Contact EDD
/en/about_edd/conditions_of_use/Conditions of Use
/en/about_edd/privacy_policy/Privacy Policy
/en/about_edd/accessibility/Accessibility
https://www.facebook.com/calif...External Subdomain facebook
https://twitter.com/CA_EDDExternal twitter
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain linkedin
https://www.instagram.com/ca_edd/External Subdomain instagram
https://youtube.com/user/Calif...External youtube
https://edd.ca.gov/arabic/منابع اللغة (Arabic)
https://edd.ca.gov/armenian/լեզվական ռեսուրսները (Armenian)
https://edd.ca.gov/farsi/منابع زبان (Farsi)
https://edd.ca.gov/hindi/भाषा संसाधन (Hindi)
https://edd.ca.gov/japanese/言語ソース (Japanese)
https://edd.ca.gov/korean/언어 자료 (Korean)
https://edd.ca.gov/mon-khmer/ធនធានភាសា (Mon-Khmer [Cambodian])
https://edd.ca.gov/punjabi/ਭਾਸ਼ਾ ਸਰੋਤ (Punjabi)
https://edd.ca.gov/russian/Языковые ресурсы (Russian)
/simplified-chinese/语言资源 (Simplified Chinese)
https://edd.ca.gov/spanish/Recursos en otros idiomas (Spanish)
https://edd.ca.gov/tagalog/Mga Resource ng Wika (Tagalog)
https://edd.ca.gov/thai/แหล่งข้อมูลด้านภาษา (Thai)
/traditional-chinese/語言資源 (Traditional Chinese)
https://edd.ca.gov/vietnamese/Nguồn Hỗ Trợ Ngôn Ngữ (Vietnamese)

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://edd.ca.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 4 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.07 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (42 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-length42581
connectionkeep-alive
dateSun, 16 Mar 2025 00:17:39 GMT
cache-controlpublic, no-cache="Set-Cookie"
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
x-aspnetmvc-version5.2
x-aspnet-version4.0.30319
x-powered-byASP.NET
x-cacheHit from cloudfront
via1.1 980059f199bdd603b925d049efedf130.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-popFRA56-C1
x-amz-cf-idaMfWbQFCYbZOtpcDYmpCwcOKRv7qiFBVImNGgzul8Gz3ydeH4LvLdw==
age153
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 6,004 referring domains.
This page has 549,854 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 3,942 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

# This document prevents compliant search engines from indexing, retrieving and displaying all pages.  This file is for test servers only.  Production uses a differnt robots.txt file.


User-agent: *
Allow: /
Allow: *.pdf
Allow: /siteassets/files/
Disallow: /EPiServer/
Disallow: /en/uibdg/
Disallow: /es/uibdg/
Sitemap: https://edd.ca.gov/sitemap.xml

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edd.ca.gov
Employment Development Department | California
EDD offers support for job seekers, claims, employers, and more. Access resources for unemployment, disability, paid family leave, and managing your business.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
EDD81%Check
employment68%Check
unemployment54%Check
job54%Check
Resources54%Check
job seekers52%Check
Claims50%Check
Employers50%Check
gov50%Check
unemployment benefits48%Check
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