Firststeps.delaware.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
33% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
61% 
Server
54% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.72 s
File size
53.10 kB
Words
458
Media files
14
Number of links
49 internal / 47 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Business First Steps - State of Delaware - Index of State of Delaware Business Licenses and Registrations
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 958 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
Index of State of Delaware Business Licenses and Registrations
The length of the meta description is perfect. (395 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://firststeps.delaware.gov/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
domainfirststeps
published_atEmpty
msapplication-TileColor#ffffff
msapplication-TileImagehttps://firststeps.delaware.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/169/2020/11/cropped-firststeps-favicon-96x96-1-270x270.png
theme-color#ffffff
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
descriptionIndex of State of Delaware Business Licenses and Registrations
generatorWordPress 6.4.3
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleBusiness First Steps - State of Delaware
og:descriptionIndex of State of Delaware Business Licenses and Registrations
og:urlhttps://firststeps.delaware.gov/
og:site_nameBusiness First Steps - State of Delaware
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
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 458 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
These Typos were found:
  • offical => official
The average number of words per sentence of 9.22 words is low.
23.6% 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.
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)
This page loads 18 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The amount of tags is very high (25). We recommend using a maximum of 9 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
...eme/img/clf4img/[email protected]The Delaware.gov logo
.../img/clf4img/[email protected]Delaware.gov - The Offical Website of the First State
...osgic_FIRSTSTEPS_theme/img/fs_people.pngImage of Business First Steps People
...mg/clf4img/[email protected]Delaware 'D' logo
...clf4img/[email protected]Delaware.gov logo
...RSTSTEPS_theme/img/firststeps_header.jpgDelaware Business First Steps
...IRSTSTEPS_theme/img/[email protected]Harness Your Great Idea
...IRSTSTEPS_theme/img/[email protected]Write Your Business Plan
...TSTEPS_theme/img/[email protected]Get Your License
...IRSTSTEPS_theme/img/[email protected]Open Your Business
...IRSTSTEPS_theme/img/firststeps_world.jpgBusiness World
...osgic_FIRSTSTEPS_theme/img/fs_people.pngBusiness First Steps
...theme/img/clf4img/portal_footer_seal.pngState Seal of Delaware
...mg/clf4img/[email protected]Built by the Government Information Center (GIC)

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Business First Steps
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Business First Steps
H1 Delaware's Government
H2 Steps to Opening a Business
H2 Harness Your Great Idea
H2 Write Your Business Plan
H2 Get Your License
H2 Open Your Business
H2 About First Steps
H2 Other Helpful Searches:
H2 Search for Professions & Industries
H2 Popular Searches:
H2 Search Results
H2 Popular Topics:
H2 County, City & Town Licensing and Permits
H2 First Steps Feedback
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 too many external links (47) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://firststeps.delaware.gov/Anchor Skip to Content
https://firststeps.delaware.gov/Anchor Skip to Navigation
https://delaware.gov/External IMG-ALT The Delaware.gov logo
https://delaware.gov/External IMG-ALT Delaware.gov - The Offical Website of the First State
https://delaware.gov/topics/ag...New window External Agencies
https://news.delaware.gov/New window External Subdomain News
https://delaware.gov/topicsNew window External Topics
https://delaware.gov/help/dego...New window External Contact
/announcements/New window Subdomain Learn More
https://firststeps.delaware.gov/IMG-ALT Image of Business First Steps People
/harness-great-idea/Subdomain Harness Your Great Idea
/write-your-business-plan/Subdomain Write Your Business Plan
/get-your-license/Subdomain Get Your License
/open-your-business/Subdomain Open Your Business
/announcements/Subdomain Announcements
/topics/Agriculture
/local/Subdomain City / Town Licensing
/topics/Environmental
/topics/Health
/topics/Professions
/topics/Subdomain View All Topics
/about/Subdomain About
https://delaware.gov/External IMG-ALT Delaware 'D' logo
https://app-na.readspeaker.com...Nofollow External Subdomain Listen
A-TITLE Listen to this page using ReadSpeaker webReader
/harness-great-idea/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Harness Your Great Idea
/harness-great-idea/Text duplicate Harness Your Great Idea
/write-your-business-plan/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Write Your Business Plan
/write-your-business-plan/Text duplicate Write Your Business Plan
/get-your-license/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Get Your License
/get-your-license/Text duplicate Get Your License
/open-your-business/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Open Your Business
/open-your-business/Text duplicate Open Your Business
/about/Learn more about Business First Steps.
https://data.delaware.gov/Lice...New window External Subdomain Licensed Businesses by Name on the Open Data Portal
https://icis.corp.delaware.gov...New window External Subdomain Legal Entities Registered with the Division of Corporations
/local/the town and city page
/topics/View all listings here.
/topics/Construction
A-TITLE Construction
/topics/Automobile
A-TITLE automobile
/topics/Employers
A-TITLE employers
/topics/Food
A-TITLE food
/topics/Text duplicate Professions
A-TITLE professions
/topics/Special Events/Sporting Events
A-TITLE Special/Sporting Events
/topics/Text duplicate View All Topics
A-TITLE All Topics
/local/get a business license in your local Delaware town or city.
https://firststeps.delaware.gov/Anchor Give Feedback
https://firststeps.delaware.gov/IMG-ALT Business First Steps
https://firststeps.delaware.gov/First Steps Home
/about/Subdomain About First Steps
/topics/Subdomain View All Listings
/local/Subdomain County, City & Towns
/harness-great-idea/Subdomain Text duplicate Harness Your Great Idea
/write-your-business-plan/Subdomain Text duplicate Write Your Business Plan
/get-your-license/Subdomain Text duplicate Get Your License
/open-your-business/Subdomain Text duplicate Open Your Business
/topics/Text duplicate Agriculture
/topics/Text duplicate Health
/topics/Text duplicate Professions
http://delaware.gov/help/foia_...External FOIA
https://governor.delaware.gov/External Subdomain Delaware's Governor
https://de.gov/state-directoryExternal State Directory
https://delaware.gov/guides/yo...External Elected Officials
https://legis.delaware.gov/External Subdomain General Assembly
https://courts.delaware.gov/External Subdomain Delaware Courts
https://dhr.delaware.gov/talen...External Subdomain State Employees
https://delaware.gov/guides/mu...External Cities & Towns
http://delcode.delaware.gov/External Subdomain Delaware State Code
http://regulations.delaware.gov/External Subdomain State Regulations
https://firststeps.delaware.gov/Subdomain Text duplicate Business First Steps
https://delaware.gov/phonedire...External Phone Directory
https://delaware.gov/locations...External Locations Directory
https://publicmeetings.delawar...External Subdomain Public Meetings
https://elections.delaware.gov/External Subdomain Voting & Elections
https://delaware.gov/guides/tr...External Transparency
https://www.choosehealthde.com...External Subdomain Choose Health DE
https://delaware.gov/guides/ta...External Tax Center
https://revenue.delaware.gov/o...External Subdomain Personal Income Tax
https://delaware.gov/privacy-p...External Privacy Policy
https://news.delaware.gov/emer...External Subdomain Weather & Travel
https://delaware.gov/contact/External Contact Us
https://corp.delaware.gov/External Subdomain Corporations
https://corp.delaware.gov/payt...External Subdomain Franchise Tax
https://tax.delaware.gov/External Subdomain Gross Receipts Tax
https://dorweb.revenue.delawar...External Subdomain Withholding Tax
https://delaware.gov/guides/External Guides to Services
https://delaware.gov/help/External Help Center
https://delaware.gov/guides/mo...External Mobile Apps
https://delaware.gov/guides/su...External E-mail / Text Alerts
https://delaware.gov/guides/so...External Social Media
https://www.facebook.com/delaw...New window External Subdomain Facebook Page
https://twitter.com/delaware_gov/New window External Twitter Feed
https://www.flickr.com/groups/...New window External Subdomain Flickr Feed
https://www.youtube.com/user/D...New window External Subdomain Youtube Account
https://www.instagram.com/dela...New window External Subdomain Instagram Photos
http://gic.delaware.gov/External Subdomain Government Information Center
http://delaware.gov/External Delaware.gov

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://firststeps.delaware.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 0.72 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 11 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 18 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (53 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateMon, 23 Sep 2024 08:07:49 GMT
cache-controlmax-age=20
expiresMon, 23 Sep 2024 08:08:09 GMT
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
content-length11634
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
set-cookie18 Characters
connectionclose
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 206 referring domains.
This page has 270,874 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 170 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin

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Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
business84%Check
Business First82%Check
Delaware Business82%Check
Business First Steps82%Check
STEPS81%Check
First81%Check
First Steps81%Check
business license78%Check
Delaware76%Check
Delaware Business Licenses74%Check
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