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83% 
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75% 
Link structure
85% 
Server
91% 
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78.30 kB
Words
1027
Media files
15
Number of links
127 internal / 13 external

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Home
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The page title is too short. (55 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
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The official website for the U.S. Army Center of Military History
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Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
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This page contains 1027 words. That's ok.
29.1% of the text are stop words.
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Media list

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...43/logo.png?ver=TTw_PcuuaZ0a6x2r3dVQrg==Home Logo: U.S. Army Center of Military HistoryU.S. Army Center of Military History
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Heading structure

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H2 New Publication Releases
H2 New Podcast Releases
H3 Valley Forge to Monmouth, 1778
H3 The Canadian Campaign, 1775-1776
H3 Opening Shots in the Colonies, 1775-1776
H5 Web Policy | Information Quality | Plain Writing | Privacy Program | No FEAR Act | FOIA | Open GOV | Strategic Plan | USA.gov
H5 Empty heading
Anchor text is an URL
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
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 13 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://history.army.mil/Anchor Skip to main content (Press Enter).
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/Army-Museum-Enterprise/No Text
/Army-Museum-Enterprise/Find-a...IMG-ALT Button links to the National Museum of the United States Army Landing Page
/Publications/Army-History-and...IMG-ALT Button links to the US Army History & Heritage Podcast Landing Page
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/Publications/Publications-Cat...Valley Forge to Monmouth, 1778
/Publications/Publications-Cat...IMG-ALT Book Cover: The Canadian Campaign
/Publications/Publications-Cat...The Canadian Campaign, 1775-1776
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/Army-Museum-Enterprise/Find-a...Text duplicate Find an Army Museum
/Army-Museum-Enterprise/Guidan...Curator Resources
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/Research/Research-by-Conflict...Research by Conflict and Time Period
/Research/Series-and-Collections/CMH Series and Collections
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/About-CMH/Functional-Communit...FC-61 Career Program
/About-CMH/Security-and-Privac...Security and Privacy
https://www.rmda.army.mil/foia...External Subdomain FOIA
https://osc.gov/External Office of Special Counsel
https://dodcio.defense.gov/DoD...New window External Subdomain Web Policy
https://www.defense.gov/Resour...New window External Subdomain Information Quality
https://www.esd.whs.mil/DD/pla...New window External Subdomain Plain Writing
https://dpcld.defense.gov/Priv...New window External Subdomain Privacy Program
https://www.army.mil/article/2...New window External Subdomain No FEAR Act
https://www.rmda.army.mil/foia...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate FOIA
https://open.defense.gov/New window External Subdomain Open GOV
https://dam.defense.gov/Public...New window External Subdomain Strategic Plan
https://www.usa.gov/New window External Subdomain USA.gov
https://www.web.dma.mil/New window External Subdomain Hosted by Defense Media Activity - WEB.mil
https://www.veteranscrisisline...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Veterans Crisis Line number. Dial 988 then Press 1

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This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
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The page response time is excellent with 0.06 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (78 kB).

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