Foia.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
78% 
Page quality
71% 
Page structure
68% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
63% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.99 s
File size
22.80 kB
Words
488
Media files
7
Number of links
30 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
FOIA.gov - Freedom of Information Act
The domain is used in the page's 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)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
msapplication-TileColor#ffffff
msapplication-config/images/favicons/browserconfig.xml
theme-color#ffffff
dc.titleFOIA.gov (Freedom of Information Act) Home Page
dc.descriptionThe Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a law that gives you the right to access information from the federal government. It is often described as the law that keeps citizens in the know about their government.
dc.creatorFreedom of Information Act (FOIA)
dc.languageen-us
dc.date.created2011-03-14
google-site-verificationQIW7EjDuZWalxdPnKcqnVFnQ5loGJ6S6MJjqKXbqiJk
langen
cache-controlno-cache
pragmano-cache
x-ua-compatibleie=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 488 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
35.9% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
7 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 11.43 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 75 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"thank you for visiting foia.gov, the government’s central website for foia."
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
/assets/img/favicons/favicon-57.pngU.S. flag
/assets/img/icon-dot-gov.svgDot gov
/assets/img/icon-https.svgSSL
/images/doj-top-logo.jpgUnited States Department of Justice logo
https://www.foia.gov/img/foia-doj-logo.svgFoia.gov
https://www.foia.gov/assets/img/close.svgclose
/img/foia-doj-logo-light.svgFoia.gov

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
FOIA.gov
The H1 heading is too short (8 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 FOIA.gov
H2 The basic function of the Freedom of Information Act is to ensure informed citizens, vital to the functioning of a democratic society.
H2 Do research and determine if you need to make a FOIA request, then get ready.
H2 FOIA.gov Duplicate text
H2 Glossary
H3 Start your FOIA journey
H4 Do research before you request
H4 Identify the right agency
H4 What happens next
H6 Contact
There are 1 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 7 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.foia.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.foia.gov/FOIA.gov
IMG-ALT Foia.gov
A-TITLE Home
https://www.foia.gov/about.htmlWhat is FOIA?
https://www.foia.gov/how-to.htmlHow to make a FOIA request
https://www.foia.gov/faq.htmlFrequently asked questions
/foia-statute.htmlFreedom of Information Act Statute
/index-es.htmlFOIA en Español
https://www.foia.gov/search.htmlSearch government websites
https://www.foia.gov/Research
https://www.foia.gov/opengov.htmlAdditional government resources
https://www.foia.gov/wizard.htmlUse our search tool
/how-wizard-works.htmlHow it works
/agency-search.htmlCreate a request
https://www.foia.gov/reports.htmlOverview
https://www.foia.gov/data.htmlAnnual data
/quarterly.htmlQuarterly data
/chief-foia-officers-councilOverview and Meetings
/chief-foia-officers-council/c...Technology Committee
/chief-foia-officers-council/c...Committee On Cross-Agency Collaboration and Innovation
https://admin.foia.gov/user/loginExternal Subdomain Agency login
https://www.foia.gov/how-to.htmlLearn about the FOIA process
https://www.foia.gov/wizard.htmlUse our search tool to find public records or the correct agency
/agency-search.htmlStart a request with a specific agency
https://www.foia.gov/search.htmlsearch across the government
https://www.foia.gov/wizard.htmlour search tool
/agency-search.htmlTrivial anchor text
here
https://commons.wikimedia.org/...External Subdomain Hero image credit
https://www.foia.gov/faq.htmlFrequently Asked Questions
https://www.foia.gov/developer/Developer Resources
/developer/agency-api/Agency API Spec
/foia-contact-download.htmlFOIA Contact Download
/foia-dataset-download.htmlFOIA Dataset Download
https://www.justice.gov/access...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://www.justice.gov/doj/pr...External Subdomain Privacy policy
https://www.justice.gov/legalp...External Subdomain Policies & disclaimers
http://www.justice.gov/External Subdomain Justice.gov
http://www.usa.gov/External Subdomain USA.gov

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.foia.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 0.99 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 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 1 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (23 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
accept-rangesbytes
age231
cache-controlmax-age=300, public, must-revalidate
content-encodinggzip
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self' https://www.foia.gov
content-typetext/html
dateTue, 21 May 2024 14:49:41 GMT
etag"60eb907-5b5f-6127886b712a5-gzip"
last-modifiedWed, 28 Feb 2024 22:18:45 GMT
servernginx
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
varyAccept-Encoding
viavarnish
x-ah-environmentprod
x-cacheHIT
x-cache-hits28
x-request-idv-d0db154c-1780-11ef-98cf-b3798244c688
content-length6916
connectionClose
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 3,729 referring domains.
This page has 269,983 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,714 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
gov86%Check
FOIA83%Check
FOIA request63%Check
Act54%Check
Information Act54%Check
information50%Check
Freedom50%Check
request43%Check
Search43%Check
Research43%Check
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