Grants.ca.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
55% 
Page structure
43% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
20% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.95 s
File size
87.70 kB
Words
403
Media files
12
Number of links
40 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - California Grants Portal
The length of the page title is perfect. (284 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
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)
https://www.grants.ca.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)
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
apple-mobile-web-app-titleCA Grants Web Portal
application-nameCA Grants Web Portal
msapplication-TileColor#d47500
theme-color#ffffff
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
article:publisherhttps://www.facebook.com/CAStateLibrary/
article:modified_time2022-09-08T22:55:43+00:00
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@castatelibrary
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleHome - California Grants Portal
og:descriptionThe California Grants Portal (a project by the California State Library) is your one destination to find all grants and loans offered on a competitive or first-come basis by California state agencies. By The Numbers
og:urlhttps://www.grants.ca.gov/
og:site_nameCalifornia Grants Portal
og:imagehttps://grants.ca.gov/uploads/2020/07/[email protected]
og:image:width1600
og:image:height1600
og:image:typeimage/png
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 403 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 29.67 words is high.
22.3% 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.
3 paragraphs were found on this page.
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" 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 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
9 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
/uploads/2020/04/people1-1024x683.jpgCrowd of individuals attending an event in the California State Library building.
/uploads/2022/08/[email protected]California State Library
/uploads/2020/04/environment.pngNo alt attribute provided
...07/Disadvantaged_Communities-Hands-1.pngNo alt attribute provided
/uploads/2020/04/school.pngNo alt attribute provided
/uploads/2020/04/heart-hands.pngNo alt attribute provided
/uploads/2020/04/housing.pngNo alt attribute provided
/uploads/2020/04/parks.pngNo alt attribute provided
/uploads/2020/04/construction.pngNo alt attribute provided
/uploads/2020/04/agriculture.pngNo alt attribute provided
...tsportal/dist/svg/csl-icon-education.svgNo alt attribute provided
...antsportal/dist/svg/csl-logo-reverse.svgCalifornia Grants Portal Logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Home
The H1 heading contains the words Home! Use important keywords instead.
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (4 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Home
H2 Find your opportunity
H2 Search by Category
H2 Find grants relevant to you
H2 Recently Posted
H2 By The Numbers
H3 Water Desalination Grant Program Continuous Application Process Group 6 (CAP6)
H3 The Recreational Trails Program (RTP) – R24
H3 Workforce Accelerator Fund 13
H3 Dam Safety and Climate Resilience Local Assistance Program
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
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.
There are 7 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.grants.ca.gov/Anchor Skip to Content
https://www.grants.ca.gov/Subdomain California Grants Portal
https://www.grants.ca.gov/?sFind Grants
/about-this-site/Subdomain Overview
/statistics-dashboard/Subdomain Statistics Dashboard
/legislative-annual-reports/Subdomain Annual Reports
https://www.grants.ca.gov/faq/Subdomain FAQ
/glossary/Subdomain Glossary
/for-state-agencies/Subdomain Grant Data Submission
/dashboardAgency Login
/subscribe-to-updates/Subdomain Subscribe
https://www.grants.ca.gov/news/Subdomain News
/contact-us/Subdomain Contact
https://www.grants.ca.gov/?sSubdomain Show Me Everything
https://www.library.ca.gov/New window External Subdomain California State Library
https://www.grants.ca.gov/faq/Subdomain View FAQs
/glossary/Subdomain Text duplicate Glossary
https://www.grants.ca.gov/?sSubdomain More categories in find grants
/?s&grant_categories_search[]=...Subdomain Environment & Water
/?s&grant_categories_search[]=...Subdomain Disadvantaged Communities
/?s&grant_categories_search[]=...Subdomain Education
/?s&grant_categories_search[]=...Subdomain Health & Human Services
/?s&grant_categories_search[]=...Subdomain Housing, Community and Economic Development
/?s&grant_categories_search[]=...Subdomain Parks & Recreation
/?s&grant_categories_search[]=...Subdomain Employment, Labor & Training
/?s&grant_categories_search[]=...Subdomain Agriculture
/?s&applicant_type_search[]=bu...Subdomain Business
/?s&applicant_type_search[]=in...Subdomain Individual
/?s&applicant_type_search[]=no...Subdomain Nonprofit
/?s&applicant_type_search[]=ot...Subdomain Other Legal Entity
/?s&applicant_type_search[]=pu...Subdomain Public Agency
/?s&applicant_type_search[]=tr...Subdomain Tribal Government
https://www.grants.ca.gov/?sSubdomain See more recently added Grants
/grants/water-desalination-gra...Subdomain Environment & Water Department of Water Resources Water Desalination Grant Program Continuous Application Process Group 6 (CAP6) 2 days ago More Details abou...
/grants/the-recreational-trail...Subdomain Education Department of Parks and Recreation The Recreational Trails Program (RTP) – R24 3 days ago More Details about The Recreational Trails Program (RTP) ...
/grants/workforce-accelerator-...Subdomain Disadvantaged Communities Workforce Development Board Workforce Accelerator Fund 13 4 days ago More Details about Workforce Accelerator Fund 13
/grants/dam-safety-and-climate...Subdomain Disadvantaged Communities Department of Water Resources Dam Safety and Climate Resilience Local Assistance Program 5 days ago More Details about Dam Safety a...
/statistics-dashboard/Subdomain See More Stats
https://www.library.ca.gov/External Subdomain Text duplicate California Grants Portal
IMG-ALT California Grants Portal Logo
/privacy-policy/Subdomain Privacy Policy
/use-policy/Subdomain Use Policy
https://data.ca.gov/dataset/ca...New window External Subdomain Data
https://www.library.ca.gov/Con...New window External Subdomain Accessibility Certificate
/subscribe-to-updates/Subdomain Subscribe to Updates
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain Follow us on LinkedIn
https://x.com/CAGrantsPortalNew window External Follow us on X (Twitter)
https://www.youtube.com/user/C...New window External Subdomain Follow us on YouTube

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.grants.ca.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.95 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 (88 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
dateFri, 20 Sep 2024 08:45:34 GMT
servernginx
last-modifiedFri, 20 Sep 2024 08:43:09 GMT
cache-controlmax-age=0, s-maxage=155, must-revalidate
x-btcache-servedYes
x-btcacheHIT
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
link<https://www.grants.ca.gov/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
x-elasticpress-querytrue
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
x-tenup-cacheEXPIRED
varyCookie
x-cacheMiss from cloudfront
via1.1 6b8ac2d6d64dc42007741d312e2d73aa.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-popFRA50-C1
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statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

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 651 referring domains.
This page has 21,625 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 519 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

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User-agent: *
Disallow:

Sitemap: https://www.grants.ca.gov/sitemap_index.xml
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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Grant70%Check
Grants65%Check
Grants Portal58%Check
Grant Program56%Check
California Grants56%Check
Find Grants55%Check
Grant Category55%Check
California Grants Portal54%Check
Grant Opportunities53%Check
Portal50%Check
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