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Meta information
65% 
Page quality
94% 
Page structure
78% 
Link structure
55% 
Server
96% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.47 s
File size
40.90 kB
Words
534
Media files
14
Number of links
87 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | FEC
The page title is too short. (112 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Find what you need to know about the federal campaign finance process. Explore legal resources, campaign finance data, help for candidates and committees, and more.
The meta description is too long: 1045 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.fec.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
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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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MobileOptimized320
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 8.2 words is low.
This page contains 534 words. That's ok.
27.2% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
4 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.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=5" 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 11 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
/static/img/us_flag_small.pngUS flag signifying that this is a United States Federal Government website
/static/img/icon-dot-gov.svgDot gov
/static/img/icon-https.svgSSL
https://www.fec.gov/static/img/seal.svgFEC logo
/static/img/map-chart-icon.svgicon representing Presidential candidate map
.../i-complex--regreport--gray-lightest.svgicon representing help for candidates and committees
.../img/i-complex--legal--gray-lightest.svgicon representing legal resources search
.../cms-content/images/Cooksey.original.pngHeadshot of Sean J. Cooksey
...headshot--weintraub_GmIreiA.original.pngHeadshot of Ellen L. Weintraub
...-content/images/Broussard_S.original.pngHeadshot of Shana M. Broussard
...ms-content/images/Dickerson.original.pngHeadshot of Allen Dickerson
...s-content/images/Lindenbaum.original.pngHeadshot of Dara Lindenbaum
...nt/images/headshot--trainor.original.pngHeadshot of James E. "Trey" Trainor III
/static/img/seal--inverse.svgSeal of the Federal Election Commission | United States of America

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Commissioners
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (13 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Commissioners
H2 Your web browser is not supported
H2 Menu
H2 Protecting the integrity of the campaign finance process
H2 Presidential candidate map
H2 Help for candidates and committees
H2 Research legal resources
H2 News and announcements
H2 Events and deadlines
H2 Who is raising and spending the most
H2 Glossary
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.fec.gov/Anchor skip navigation
https://www.fec.gov/Federal Election Commission | United States of America
A-TITLE Home
https://www.fec.gov/calendar/Calendar
https://www.fec.gov/Home
https://www.fec.gov/data/Campaign finance data
https://www.fec.gov/data/All data
/data/browse-data/?tab=raisingRaising
/data/browse-data/?tab=spendingSpending
/data/browse-data/?tab=loans-d...Loans and debts
/data/browse-data/?tab=filingsFilings and reports
/data/browse-data/?tab=candidatesCandidates
/data/browse-data/?tab=committeesCommittees
/data/browse-data/?tab=bulk-dataBulk data
/data/browse-data/?tab=statisticsCampaign finance statistics
/data/elections/Find elections. Search by state or ZIP code
/data/receipts/individual-cont...Look up contributions from specific individuals
/help-candidates-and-committees/Help for candidates and committees
/help-candidates-and-committees/All compliance resources
/help-candidates-and-committee...Guides
/help-candidates-and-committee...Forms
/help-candidates-and-committee...Dates and deadlines
/help-candidates-and-committee...Trainings
/help-candidates-and-committee...Learn about electronic filing
/help-candidates-and-committee...Find and contact your committee's analyst
/legal-resources/Legal resources
/legal-resources/All legal resources
/data/legal/advisory-opinions/Advisory opinions
/legal-resources/enforcement/Enforcement
/data/legal/statutes/Statutes
/legal-resources/legislation/Legislation
/legal-resources/regulations/Regulations
/legal-resources/court-cases/Court cases
/legal-resources/policy-other-...Policy and other guidance
/legal-resources/Search across legal resources
/legal-resources/policy-and-ot...Search guidance documents
https://www.fec.gov/about/About
https://www.fec.gov/about/All about the FEC
https://www.fec.gov/updates/News and announcements
https://www.fec.gov/meetings/Commission meetings
/about/mission-and-history/Mission and history
/about/leadership-and-structure/Leadership and structure
/about/reports-about-fec/Reports about the FEC
/about/careers/Careers
https://www.fec.gov/about/Working with the FEC
https://www.fec.gov/contact/Contact
/introduction-campaign-finance/Introduction to campaign finance and elections
https://www.fec.gov/Text duplicate Federal Election Commission | United States of America
A-TITLE Home
https://www.fec.gov/about/More about the FEC
/legal-resources/regulations/p...Subdomain Learn more about the rulemaking and comment now
/data/candidates/president/pre...IMG-ALT icon representing Presidential candidate map
/data/candidates/president/pre...Presidential candidate map
/help-candidates-and-committees/IMG-ALT icon representing help for candidates and committees
/help-candidates-and-committees/Text duplicate Help for candidates and committees
/legal-resources/IMG-ALT icon representing legal resources search
/legal-resources/Research legal resources
https://www.fec.gov/updates/All news
/updates/commission-certifies-...Commission certifies additional federal matching funds for Mike Pence and Jill Stein
/updates/2024-cybersecurity-ti...Cybersecurity tips for campaigns
/updates/fec-makes-public-draf...FEC makes public draft documents regarding artificial intelligence in campaign ads
/updates/week-of-september-2-6...Week of September 2 - 6, 2024
https://www.fec.gov/calendar/Full calendar
https://www.fec.gov/meetings/All meetings
/calendar/?calendar_category_i...All filing deadlines
/calendar/?calendar_category_i...All outreach
/calendar/?calendar_category_i...All legal events
/introduction-campaign-finance...Understand ways to support federal candidates
/introduction-campaign-finance...Learn more about using the FEC's campaign finance data
/introduction-campaign-finance...Find election results and voting information
/data/raising-bythenumbers/Browse top raising candidates
/about/leadership-and-structur...Sean J. Cooksey
/about/leadership-and-structur...Ellen L. Weintraub
/about/leadership-and-structur...Shana M. Broussard
/about/leadership-and-structur...Allen Dickerson
/about/leadership-and-structur...Dara Lindenbaum
/about/leadership-and-structur...James E. "Trey" Trainor III
https://www.fec.gov/about/Text duplicate About
/about/careers/Text duplicate Careers
https://www.fec.gov/press/Press
https://www.fec.gov/contact/Text duplicate Contact
/about/privacy-and-security-po...Privacy and security policy
/about/plain-language/Plain language
/accessibility-statement/Accessibility statement
/about/reports-about-fec/strat...Strategy, budget and performance
/about/no-fear-act/No FEAR Act
https://www.fec.gov/open/Open government
https://www.fbi.gov/protectedv...External Subdomain Protected Voices
https://www.usa.gov/External Subdomain USA.gov
/office-inspector-general/Inspector General
/freedom-information-act/FOIA
https://api.open.fec.gov/External Subdomain OpenFEC API
https://github.com/fecgov/fecExternal GitHub repository
https://github.com/fecgov/FEC/...External Release notes
https://fecgov.statuspage.io/External Subdomain FEC.gov status
https://x.com/fecExternal The FEC's Twitter page
https://www.youtube.com/user/F...External Subdomain The FEC's YouTube page
https://public.govdelivery.com...New window External Subdomain Sign up for FECMail

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.fec.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.47 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 (41 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

Blacklists
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This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 18,410 referring domains.
This page has 744,281 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 11,296 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

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