Lacity.gov - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
43% 
Link structure
98% 
Server
89% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.63 s
File size
45.10 kB
Words
219
Media files
5
Number of links
24 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | City of Los Angeles
The length of the page title is perfect. (243 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The official website of the City of Los Angeles. Find popular City services and information useful to residents, businesses, and visitors
The length of the meta description is perfect. (819 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://lacity.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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 219 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
20.5% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
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, shrink-to-fit=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 6 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

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 City Information & Services
H2 Trending News
H2 City of Los Angeles
H2 Quick Links
H2 Connect With Us
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 11 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://lacity.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://recovery.lacity.gov/New window External Subdomain Wildfire Recovery
A-TITLE Wildfire Recovery
https://lacity.gov/myla311City Services
A-TITLE Request popular City services from MyLA311
https://lacity.gov/directoryCity Directory
A-TITLE The City of LA's contact directory
https://lacity.gov/IMG-ALT Home
A-TITLE Home
https://lacity.gov/residentsRESIDENTS
https://lacity.gov/businessBUSINESS
https://lacity.gov/visitorsVISITORS
https://lacity.gov/jobsJOBS
https://lacity.gov/governmentGOVERNMENT
https://lacity.gov/searchSEARCH
A-TITLE Search
https://recovery.lacity.gov/New window External Subdomain Visit recovery.lacity.gov for Wildfire Recovery Resources
https://recovery.lacity.gov/New window External Subdomain Wildfire Recovery Resources
https://lacity.gov/myla311Request City Services
https://lacity.gov/directoryText duplicate City Directory
/neighborhoodinfoNeighborhood Info
https://clerk.lacity.gov/calendarNew window External Subdomain Meetings & Agendas
/highlights/coping-extreme-hea...Coping with Extreme Heat in Los Angeles
/highlights/la-sponsoring-toil...L.A Sponsoring Toiletries Drive for the Unhoused
/highlights/request-city-servi...Request City Services & Report Problems to MyLA311
https://lacity.gov/highlightsSee More
/submit-feedbackSubmit Feedback
https://forms.gle/zaBSVa2Q7n6W...External Submit Feedback About LACity.gov
https://lacity.gov/residentsSupport for Residents
https://lacity.gov/businessTools for Business
https://lacity.gov/visitorsTips for Visitors
https://lacity.gov/jobsSearch for Jobs
https://lacity.gov/governmentMeet Your Government
https://twitter.com/lacityExternal twitter.com/lacity
https://facebook.com/CityofLos...External facebook.com/cityoflosangeles
https://instagram.com/CityofLo...External instagram.com/cityoflosangeles
https://www.youtube.com/@Cityo...External Subdomain youtube.com/@CityofLosAngelesGov
https://disclaimer.lacity.gov/...New window External Subdomain Disclaimer
https://disclaimer.lacity.gov/...New window External Subdomain Privacy Policy
/public-records-requestRecords Request

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://lacity.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.63 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 (45 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 3,950 referring domains.
This page has 1,523,025 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,829 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
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Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
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Disallow: /admin/
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lacity.gov
Home | City of Los Angeles
The official website of the City of Los Angeles. Find popular City services and information useful to residents, businesses, and visitors

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
City81%Check
City Services67%Check
Popular City65%Check
Angeles62%Check
Popular City services60%Check
City Council59%Check
City Directory59%Check
Request City59%Check
Request City Services56%Check
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