Employer.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
99% 
Page quality
88% 
Page structure
67% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
31% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.18 s
File size
25.80 kB
Words
501
Media files
5
Number of links
29 internal / 15 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Employer.gov
The page title is too short. (196 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
You may have questions about your role as an employer. This site provides answers to common questions about workers and business.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (836 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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
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
descriptionYou may have questions about your role as an employer. This site provides answers to common questions about workers and business.
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are 2 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: Understanding the minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, family an...
This page contains 501 words. That's ok.
29.3% 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.
7 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 13.82 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" is provided.
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)
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
/img/employer-logo.svgEmployer.gov logo
https://www.employer.gov/img/close.svgclose
/assets/img/down-arrow.svgSkip to Learn more about your rights
...aphics/hirevets-widget-400x93-2_blue.pngHIREVets.gov HIRE Vets Medallion Program - Recognizing employers who HIRE veterans
/img/employer-small-logo.svgEmployer.gov logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Resources for Employers
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Resources for Employers
H2 What employment topic do you have questions about?
H2 In need of workers?
H2 Contact Information
H2 About the site
H3 Pay and benefits
H3 Workplace safety and health
H3 Small businesses
H3 Required posters
H3 Federal contractor requirements
H3 Veteran and service member employment
H3 Workplace inclusion
H3 Union and protected concerted activity
H3 Pay and benefits Duplicate text
H3 Workplace safety and health Duplicate text
H3 Small businesses Duplicate text
H3 Required posters Duplicate text
H3 Federal contractor requirements Duplicate text
H3 Veteran and service member employment Duplicate text
H3 Workplace inclusion Duplicate text
H3 Union and protected concerted activity Duplicate text
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 15 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.employer.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.employer.gov/IMG-ALT Employer.gov logo
/EmploymentIssues/Pay-and-Bene...Pay and benefits
/EmploymentIssues/safety-and-h...Safety and health
/EmploymentIssues/Small-busine...Small business concerns
/EmploymentIssues/Workplace-in...Workplace inclusion
/EmploymentIssues/Federal-cont...Federal contractor requirements
/EmploymentIssues/Veteran-and-...Veteran and service member employment
/EmploymentIssues/Union-and-pr...Union and protected concerted activity
/employer-questions/Employment topics
/EmploymentIssues/required-pos...Required posters
https://www.employer.gov/about/About
https://www.employer.gov/Anchor IMG-ALT Skip to Learn more about your rights
/EmploymentIssues/Pay-and-Bene...Learn more about pay and benefits
/EmploymentIssues/safety-and-h...Learn more about workplace safety and health
/EmploymentIssues/Small-busine...Learn more about Small business rights and responsibilities
/EmploymentIssues/required-pos...Learn more about required posters
/EmploymentIssues/Federal-cont...Learn more about Federal contractor requirements
/EmploymentIssues/Veteran-and-...Learn more about veteran and service member employment
/EmploymentIssues/Workplace-in...Learn more about Workplace inclusion
/EmploymentIssues/Union-and-pr...Learn more about Union and protected concerted activity
/EmploymentIssues/Pay-and-Bene...Text duplicate Learn more about pay and benefits
/EmploymentIssues/safety-and-h...Text duplicate Learn more about workplace safety and health
/EmploymentIssues/Small-busine...Text duplicate Learn more about Small business rights and responsibilities
/EmploymentIssues/required-pos...Text duplicate Learn more about required posters
/EmploymentIssues/Federal-cont...Text duplicate Learn more about Federal contractor requirements
/EmploymentIssues/Veteran-and-...Text duplicate Learn more about veteran and service member employment
/EmploymentIssues/Workplace-in...Text duplicate Learn more about Workplace inclusion
/EmploymentIssues/Union-and-pr...Text duplicate Learn more about Union and protected concerted activity
https://www.careeronestop.org/External Subdomain CareerOneStop
https://www.hirevets.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT HIREVets.gov HIRE Vets Medallion Program - Recognizing employers who HIRE veterans
https://www.hirevets.gov/External Subdomain HIRE Vets Medallion Program
https://www.dol.gov/coronavirusExternal Subdomain DOL COVID-19 Resources
https://worker.gov/External Worker.gov
https://webapps.dol.gov/elawsExternal Subdomain elaws Advisors
https://www.dol.gov/general/foiaExternal Subdomain Freedom of Information Act
https://www.dol.gov/general/di...External Subdomain Disclaimer
https://www.dol.gov/general/pr...External Subdomain Privacy notice
https://www.dol.gov/general/ab...External Subdomain Accessibility Statement
https://www.facebook.com/depar...External Subdomain Facebook
A-TITLE Department of Labor Facebook
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain Linkedin
A-TITLE Department of Linkedin
https://twitter.com/USDOLExternal Twitter
A-TITLE Department of Labor Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/user/U...External Subdomain Youtube
A-TITLE Department of Labor Youtube
https://www.dol.gov/External Subdomain DOL.gov
A-TITLE Department of Labor Website

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.employer.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.18 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 (26 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate
content-typetext/html
set-cookie61 Characters
x-powered-byASP.NET
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
dateTue, 16 Apr 2024 09:18:30 GMT
content-length26460
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is rated as "Only for Adults".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 326 referring domains.
This page has 1,928 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 268 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 56 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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questions50%Check
workers50%Check
Resources50%Check
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