Illinois.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
41% 
Page structure
66% 
Link structure
87% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
4.81 s
File size
46.80 kB
Words
166
Media files
19
Number of links
37 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Illinois
The page title is too short. (57 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
The page title is only one word.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Find places to go, things to see. Search through all the different services offered by the various Illinois agencies.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (688 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.illinois.gov/
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

NameValue
descriptionFind places to go, things to see. Search through all the different services offered by the various Illinois agencies.
templateIllinois Home Page
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
langen
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:urlhttps://www.illinois.gov/en.html
twitter:titleIllinois
twitter:descriptionFind places to go, things to see. Search through all the different services offered by the various Illinois agencies.
og:urlhttps://www.illinois.gov/en.html
og:typeillinois-home-page
og:titleIllinois
og:descriptionFind places to go, things to see. Search through all the different services offered by the various Illinois agencies.
og:localeen
Last-Modified14-02-2024 05:04:35
X-UA-Compatibleie=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 166 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
18.1% of the text are stop words.
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.
The average number of words per sentence of 14.33 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 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
...b/illinois/images/logos/illinois_gov.pngIllinois.gov
...op-2x?ts=1626825447224&$TeaserComponent$No alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to Illinois.gov!
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to Illinois.gov!
H2 Stay Informed
H2 Recent News
H2 Popular Services
H2 Popular Agencies
H2 Footer
H3 Find Road Conditions
H3 Certify Weekly Unemployment Benefits
H3 Professional License Look-up
H3 State Government Jobs
H3 Renew a Driver's License
H3 Locate Registered Sex Offenders
H3 Stay Informed Duplicate text
H3 Helpful Links
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 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.illinois.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.illinois.gov/IMG-ALT Illinois.gov
/government.htmlGovernment
/business.htmlBusiness
/employment.htmlEmployment
/education.htmlEducation
/residents.htmlResidents
/visiting.htmlVisiting
/about/live-video.htmlView Live Video
/about/live-audio.htmlListen to Live Audio
/search-results.html?q&content...Subdomain View More News
/about/communications-opt-in.htmlGet Email Updates
/search-results.html?contentTy...Search Services
/services/service.road-conditi...IDOT Find Road Conditions
/services/service.certify-unem...IDES Certify Weekly Unemployment Benefits
/services/service.professional...IDFPR Professional License Look-up
/services/service.state-jobs.htmlCMS State Government Jobs
/services/service.renew-driver...SOS Renew a Driver's License
/services/service.sex-offender...ISP Locate Registered Sex Offenders
/services/all-services.htmlBrowse All Services
/search-results.html?contentTy...Search Agencies
/agencies/agency.cms.htmlIMG-ALT Central Management Services, Department of
/agencies/agency.ides.htmlIMG-ALT Employment Security, Department of
/agencies/agency.sos.htmlIMG-ALT Secretary of State, Office of the
/agencies/agency.idfpr.htmlIMG-ALT Financial and Professional Regulation, Department of
/agencies/agency.idph.htmlIMG-ALT Public Health, Department of
/agencies/agency.srs.htmlIMG-ALT State Retirement Systems
/agencies/agency.oag.htmlIMG-ALT Auditor General
/agencies/agency.gov.htmlIMG-ALT Governor, Office of the
https://ready.illinois.gov/New window External Subdomain Emergencies and Disasters
/about/flag-honors.htmlFlag Honors
https://www.gettingaroundillin...New window External Subdomain Traveler Information & Road Conditions
/about/communications-opt-in.htmlText duplicate Get Email Updates
/about/kids-privacy.htmlKids Privacy
/about/contact-us.htmlContact Us
/about/foia-contacts.htmlFOIA Contacts
https://cms.illinois.gov/agenc...New window External Subdomain State Press Contacts
https://techready.uillinois.edu/New window External Subdomain Tech Ready Illinois
/about/fun-facts.htmlFun Facts
https://www.facebook.com/GovPr...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/GovPritzkerNew window External No Text
https://www.instagram.com/GovP...New window External Subdomain No Text
http://www.dhs.state.il.us/pag...New window External Subdomain Web Accessibility
http://www.missingkids.com/New window External Subdomain Missing & Exploited Children
http://www.amberillinois.org/New window External Subdomain Amber Alerts
/about/privacy.htmlNew window Subdomain Illinois Privacy Info
https://gov.illinois.gov/New window External Subdomain Governor JB Pritzker
A-TITLE Governor JB Pritzker
https://www.illinois.gov/New window Subdomain State of Illinois
A-TITLE State of Illinois

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.illinois.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 is very slow (4.81 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (47 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html;charset=utf-8
serverApache
x-dispatcherdispatcher1usgovwest1
x-vhostpublish illinois
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
last-modifiedThu, 02 May 2024 06:26:54 GMT
accept-rangesbytes
content-encodinggzip
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
content-length9122
expiresThu, 02 May 2024 06:27:19 GMT
cache-controlmax-age=0, no-cache, no-store
pragmano-cache
dateThu, 02 May 2024 06:27:19 GMT
varyAccept-Encoding
set-cookie178 Characters
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000 ; includeSubDomains
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

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 10,597 referring domains.
This page has 1,323,926 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 5,784 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

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Illinois89%Check
gov70%Check
Illinois State64%Check
services54%Check
Find52%Check
agencies50%Check
Services offered50%Check
Welcome50%Check
different services50%Check
Find Places49%Check
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