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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
70% 
Page quality
72% 
Page structure
97% 
Link structure
77% 
Server
79% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.58 s
File size
19.90 kB
Words
603
Media files
6
Number of links
48 internal / 23 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
FoodData Central
The page title is too short. (161 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
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)
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 603 words. That's ok.
27.2% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
9 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 11.93 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The following tag is repeated too often: source:
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
6 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
/img/flag-favicon-57.pngNo alt attribute provided
/img/icon-dot-gov.svgNo alt attribute provided
https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/img/icon-https.svgNo alt attribute provided
/img/usda-symbol.svgNo alt attribute provided
https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/img/close.svgNo alt attribute provided
/img/usda-symbol.svgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
FoodData Central
The H1 heading is too short (16 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 FoodData Central
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 5 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 23 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.usda.gov/External Subdomain U.S. Department of Agriculture
https://www.ars.usda.gov/External Subdomain Agricultural Research Service
https://www.ars.usda.gov/External Subdomain ARS Home
https://www.ars.usda.gov/about...External Subdomain About ARS
https://www.ars.usda.gov/conta...External Subdomain Contact ARS
/index.htmlHome
/fdc-app.htmlFood Search
/fdc-app.htmlComponent Search
/fdc-app.htmlFoundation Foods
/fdc-app.htmlSR Legacy Foods
/fdc-app.htmlSurvey Foods (FNDDS)
/fdc-app.htmlExperimental Foods
/fdc-app.htmlBranded Foods
/resources.htmlResource Directory
https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/faq.htmlFrequently Asked Questions
https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/log.htmlRelease History
/future-updates.htmlUpcoming Releases
/help.htmlQuick Guide
/data-documentation.htmlData Type Documentation
/download-datasets.htmlData Downloads
/api-guide.htmlAPI Guide
/api-key-signup.htmlGet an API Key
/about-us.htmlAbout Us
/contact.htmlContact FoodData Central
/fdc-app.htmlBrowse
/download-datasets.htmlDownloads
/Foundation_Foods_Documentatio...Trivial anchor text
Read More
/fdc-app.htmlText duplicate Browse
/download-datasets.htmlText duplicate Downloads
/data-documentation.htmlText duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/fdc-app.htmlText duplicate Browse
/download-datasets.htmlText duplicate Downloads
/data-documentation.htmlText duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/fdc-app.htmlText duplicate Browse
/Experimental_Foods_Documentat...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/fdc-app.htmlText duplicate Browse
/download-datasets.htmlText duplicate Downloads
/GBFPD_Documentation.htmlText duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/download-datasets.htmlText duplicate Data Downloads
https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/log.htmlInventory and Update Log
/about-us.htmlText duplicate About Us
https://creativecommons.org/pu...External CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/Anchor Return to Top
/index.htmlText duplicate Home
/fdc-app.htmlText duplicate Food Search
/fdc-app.htmlText duplicate Component Search
/data-documentation.htmlText duplicate Data Type Documentation
/download-datasets.htmlDownload Data
/api-guide.htmlText duplicate API Guide
/help.htmlHelp
https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/faq.htmlFAQ
/about-us.htmlText duplicate About Us
/contact.htmlText duplicate Contact FoodData Central
https://ask.usda.gov/s/External Subdomain AskUSDA
https://www.usda.gov/External Subdomain USDA.gov
https://www.ars.usda.gov/External Subdomain Text duplicate Agricultural Research Service
https://www.usda.gov/plain-wri...External Subdomain Plain Writing
https://www.dm.usda.gov/foia/External Subdomain FOIA
https://www.usda.gov/accessibi...External Subdomain Accessibility Statement
https://www.ocio.usda.gov/poli...External Subdomain Information Quality
https://www.usda.gov/privacy-p...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://www.usda.gov/non-discr...External Subdomain Non-Discrimination Statement
https://www.usa.gov/External Subdomain USA.gov
https://www.whitehouse.gov/External Subdomain WhiteHouse.gov
https://www.usda.gov/External Subdomain Text duplicate U.S. Department of Agriculture
https://www.ars.usda.gov/External Subdomain Text duplicate Agricultural Research Service
http://twitter.com/usda_arsNew window External ARS on Twitter
https://public.govdelivery.com...New window External Subdomain Email Lists
https://agresearchmag.ars.usda...New window External Subdomain AgResearch Magazine
https://www.ars.usda.gov/oc/po...New window External Subdomain ARS Podcasts

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.58 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.
This page loads 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 2 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (20 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 16 May 2024 21:35:46 GMT
content-typetext/html
transfer-encodingchunked
connectionkeep-alive
set-cookie94 Characters
servernginx/1.25.5
etagW/"20407-1715372869000"
last-modifiedFri, 10 May 2024 20:27:49 GMT
x-frame-optionssameorigin
content-encodinggzip
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

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 22,844 referring domains.
This page has 1,406,288 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 11,575 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 2088 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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FoodData62%Check
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