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Meta information
100% 
Page quality
79% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
48% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.36 s
File size
141.80 kB
Words
620
Media files
23
Number of links
101 internal / 32 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Governing: State and local government news and analysis
The length of the page title is perfect. (522 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Get the latest news coverage about policy and management in state and local government.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (559 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.governing.com/
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
(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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
This page contains 620 words. That's ok.
29.5% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
5 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 18.11 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 9 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, 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 12 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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Internet Explorer 11 is not supported
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 too many external links (32) on this page.

Found links on this page

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/transportationSubdomain Transportation
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/workforceSubdomain Workforce
https://www.governing.com/quoteSubdomain Government Quotes
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/podcastsSubdomain Text duplicate Podcasts
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/authors/Carl-Smith.htmlSubdomain Carl Smith
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https://www.governing.com/financeSubdomain Text duplicate Finance
/finance/californias-budget-de...Subdomain California’s Budget Deficit Will Force Difficult Cuts. Cutting Back on Prisons Should Be the Easiest.
https://www.governing.com/tnsSubdomain TNS
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/workforce/the-myth-that-publi...Subdomain The Myth That Public Workers Don’t Care About Pensions
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/transportation/why-some-citie...Subdomain Why Some Cities Want to Combine Transit Agencies
/authors/jared-breySubdomain Jared Brey
/politicsSubdomain Text duplicate Politics
/politics/millionaires-vie-for...Subdomain Millionaires Vie for Election Seats in Tuesday Primaries
https://www.governing.com/tnsSubdomain Text duplicate TNS
/workforceSubdomain Text duplicate Workforce
/workforce/is-a-four-day-work-...Subdomain Is a Four-Day Work Week Realistic?
https://www.governing.com/tnsSubdomain Text duplicate TNS
/infrastructureSubdomain Text duplicate Infrastructure
/infrastructure/louisianas-rur...Subdomain Louisiana’s Rural Water Problems Persist Despite Federal Aid
https://www.governing.com/tnsSubdomain Text duplicate TNS
/transportationSubdomain Text duplicate Transportation
/transportation/going-faster-o...Subdomain Going Faster on North Texas Toll Roads Will Cost You
https://www.governing.com/tnsSubdomain Text duplicate TNS
/news/headlinesSubdomain MORE NEWS
/tag/environmental-justiceSubdomain Environmental Policy
/tag/renewable-energySubdomain Renewable Energy
/tag/criminal-justiceSubdomain Criminal Justice
/tag/public-healthSubdomain Public Health
/tag/k-12Subdomain K-12
https://www.governing.com/topicsSubdomain MORE TOPICS
/urban/new-orleans-has-achieve...Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Outreach Worker.jpg
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/news/headlinesSubdomain More Stories
/management-and-administrationSubdomain Management and Administration
/management-and-administration...Subdomain As Costs Increase, Is Higher Education Worth the Price?
https://www.governing.com/tnsSubdomain Text duplicate TNS
https://www.governing.com/policySubdomain Text duplicate Policy
/policy/alabama-may-require-ki...Subdomain Alabama May Require Kids to Take a Test to Start School
https://www.governing.com/tnsSubdomain Text duplicate TNS
https://www.governing.com/newsSubdomain MORE STORIES
/authors/Donald-F-Kettl.htmlSubdomain IMG-ALT GOV_don-kettl-2
/authors/Donald-F-Kettl.htmlSubdomain Donald F. Kettl
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/authors/Girard-Miller.htmlSubdomain IMG-ALT Girard Miller BW
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/authors/Jabari-Simama.htmlSubdomain IMG-ALT Jabari_Simama_BW.jpg
/authors/Jabari-Simama.htmlSubdomain Jabari Simama
/management-and-administration...Subdomain As Campuses Roil in Protest, Where Are Their Presidents?
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https://www.governing.com/quoteSubdomain Who Said That
/quote/wisconsin-supreme-court...Subdomain “What if we made a mistake? Are we now supposed to just perpetuate that mistake into the future?”
/quote/wisconsin-supreme-court...Subdomain See More Quotes
https://www.governing.com/quoteSubdomain Text duplicate See More Quotes
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https://www.govtech.com/amazon...External Subdomain Does Amazon Connect Modernize the Customer Experience?
https://newsletters.governing....New window External Subdomain SUBSCRIBE
https://www.governing.com/Text duplicate IMG-ALT governing-rev-2024.svg
https://papers.governing.com/?...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Papers
https://webinars.governing.com...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Webinars
/podcast/?promo_code=footerNew window Text duplicate Podcasts
/sponsored?promo_code=footerNew window Subdomain Sponsored Articles
/about/?promo_code=footerNew window About
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.governing.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 9 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.36 seconds.
This page only loads 1 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (142 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 18,005 referring domains.
This page has 269,240 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 10,781 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
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The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

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