Joburg.org.za - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
71% 
Page quality
61% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
73% 
Server
6% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.21 s
File size
122.40 kB
Words
655
Media files
29
Number of links
60 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
City of Johannesburg
The page title is too short. (193 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize 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)
https://www.joburg.org.za/
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-za
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-za
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

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X-UA-CompatibleIE=10
Content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
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charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 655 words. That's ok.
16.2% 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.
8 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 16.33 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 13 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
20 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
/_layouts/15/images/spcommon.pngNo alt attribute provided
https://joburg.org.za/SiteAssets/1.pngNo alt attribute provided
...earchresultui-61174269.themedpng?ctag=41Search
https://joburg.org.za/SiteAssets/1.pngThe City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality is a metropolitan municipality that manages the local governance of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is divided into several branches and departments in order to expedite services for the city.
... News Images/June/Joburg stock photo.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...4 News Images/June/Orlando West Park.JPGNo alt attribute provided
...News Images/June/Giraffe celebration.jpgNo alt attribute provided
... Images/June/NetballTelkomWinner2024.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...Images/June/COJ_DRAFT-IDP-AND-BUDGET.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/_layouts/15/images/blank.gif?rev=40No alt attribute provided
/_layouts/15/images/blank.gif?rev=40No alt attribute provided
/_layouts/15/images/blank.gif?rev=40No alt attribute provided
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/_layouts/15/images/blank.gif?rev=40No alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
How PMDS is transforming Joburg's public service performance
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 How PMDS is transforming Joburg's public service performance
H1 Revitalised Orlando West Park court continues to thrill Sowetans
H1 Celebrating World Giraffe Day at Joburg Zoo
H1 Free State Crinums edge out Gauteng Jaguars in thrilling 2024 Telkom Netball League final
H1 Joburg men urged to consider circumcision for HIV prevention
H2 Content Editor
H3 Help & Support
H3 Other
H3 Stay Connected
H3 General Queries
Anchor text is an URL
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
5 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 5 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 10 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://joburg.org.za/IMG-ALT The City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality is a metropolitan municipality that manages the local governance of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is divi...
https://joburg.org.za/HomeCurrently selected
/about-the-cityAbout the City
/city-servicesCity Services
/work-in-joburgWork in Joburg
/play-in-joburgPlay in Joburg
/key-documentsKey Documents
https://joburg.org.za/media_Media
/Pages/A-Z.aspxA-Z
https://joburg.org.za/City of Johannesburg
https://www.facebook.com/Cityo...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.twitter.com/Cityof...New window External Subdomain Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/city...New window External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/user/g...New window External Subdomain YouTube
http://www.linkedin.com/compan...New window External Subdomain LinkedIn
/Pages/Weather-widget.aspxNew window Subdomain Weather
/Pages/E-Services.aspxE-Services
/Pages/campaigns.aspxCampaigns
/Pages/Priorities.aspxPriorities
/Pages/procurement.aspxProcurement
https://joburg.org.za/RecentCurrently selected
/Pages/Herman.aspxHerman
/Pages/A-Z.aspxText duplicate A-Z
/Pages/Privacy-Policy.aspxPrivacy Policy
/Pages/Terms-and-Conditions.aspxTerms and Conditions
/Pages/Notices.aspxNotices
/Pages/Feasibility-Study-for-....Feasibility Study for Alternative Waste Treatment
/Pages/Invite-for-NGOs-to-appl...Invite for NGOs to apply for pay per service
/Pages/Hometest.aspxHometest
/Pages/homepageUAT.aspxhomepageUAT
/Pages/TestTwitter.aspxTestTwitter
/Pages/TwitterTest.aspxTwitterTest
/Pages/Weather-widget.aspxWeather widget
/Pages/homepage.htmlWWW REDIRECT
/Pages/2024-25-IDP-Medium-Term...2024/25 Integrated Development Plan (IDP) Medium Term Budget, Draft Rates, Tariffs & Public Meetings
/media_/Newsroom/Pages/2024 Ne...Subdomain No Text
/media_/Newsroom/Pages/2024 Ne...Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Read More
/media_/Newsroom/Pages/2024 Ne...Subdomain No Text
/media_/Newsroom/Pages/2024 Ne...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/media_/Newsroom/Pages/2024 Ne...Subdomain No Text
/media_/Newsroom/Pages/2024 Ne...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/media_/Newsroom/Pages/2024 Ne...Subdomain No Text
/media_/Newsroom/Pages/2024 Ne...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/media_/Newsroom/Pages/2024 Ne...Subdomain No Text
/media_/Newsroom/Pages/2024 Ne...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://joburg.org.za/Anchor Previous
https://joburg.org.za/Anchor Next
/PublishingImages/e services12...www.joburg.org.za/PublishingImages/Tiles%20images/E%20SERVICE.png
https://www.e-joburg.org.za/External Subdomain /Joburg E-Joburg
/PublishingImages/vacancies3.png/PublishingImages/vacancies3.png
/work_/Pages/Work in Joburg/Va.../vacancies
/PublishingImages/notices6.pngESP
https://share.hsforms.com/18UO...External Subdomain Text duplicate ESP
/PublishingImages/procurement6.../PublishingImages/procurement6.png
/work_/Pages/Work in Joburg/Te.../procurement
/PublishingImages/public notic....
/services_/Pages/General-Valua...IDP & RATES POLICIES
/PublishingImages/Tiles images...URL anchor text
https://www.joburg.org.za/PublishingImages/Tiles%20images/CAMPAIGNSASA.png
/services_/Pages/Group-Finance...Rebates
/about_/Pages/About the City/P...Public access to information act
/Pages/A-Z.aspxText duplicate A-Z
/documents_/By-Laws/Pages/By-L...By-Laws
/Pages/2018 Notices/City Notic...Public notices
/documents_/Pages/Key Document...Key documents
/services_/Pages/default.aspxCity services
https://www.facebook.com/Cityo...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Facebook
https://www.twitter.com/Cityof...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Twitter
https://plus.google.com/113141...New window External Subdomain Google+
/Pages/Terms-and-Conditions.aspxTerms of use
/Pages/Privacy-Policy.aspx| Privacy Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://joburg.org.za/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (2.21 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.
This page loads 10 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (122 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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cache-controlprivate, max-age=0
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last-modifiedSat, 22 Jun 2024 02:56:55 GMT
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x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
sprequestduration329
spiislatency0
set-cookie111 Characters
x-powered-byASP.NET
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x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-ms-invokeapp1; RequireReadOnly
dateSat, 22 Jun 2024 02:56:55 GMT
content-length125327
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 4,306 referring domains.
This page has 39,303 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,779 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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City of Johannesburg

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Joburg68%Check
service52%Check
Public Service51%Check
Public50%Check
PMDS50%Check
performance50%Check
transforming50%Check
City48%Check
Johannesburg48%Check
org46%Check
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