Lincolnri.gov - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
25% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.38 s
File size
116.90 kB
Words
498
Media files
11
Number of links
70 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Lincoln, RI | Official Website
The length of the page title is perfect. (254 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Welcome to Lincoln!
The meta description is too short. (127 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length) Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is 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
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
category0Home
theme-color#0e1d33
descriptionWelcome to Lincoln!
keywordsHome
langen
Content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
There are only 498 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
There are 6 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate 1: With the MyAccount feature, you can customize your viewing experience,...
  • Duplicate 2: Subscribe to Notify Me to receive updates and information about commun...
  • Duplicate 3: Stay in touch with us by following us on Twitter, becoming our friend ...
28.3% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
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.
The average number of words per sentence of 12.73 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 10 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=66Home Page
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=75Search
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=1699LiveEditHoverControl.pngLiveEditHoverControl.png
data:[...] Base64Waterfall
data:[...] Base64School
data:[...] Base64Football Field
data:[...] Base64Waterfall
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=77Lincoln Logo
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=48 Facebook
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=50 Twitter

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
News & Events
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (13 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 News & Events
H1 Featured Spotlights
H3 Alerts
H3 December 2024
H3 December 2024 Duplicate text
H3 Contact Us
H3 Quick Links
H3 Helpful Links
H4 Sewer Bill Increase
H4 Want a different way to promote your business?
H4 Create an Account
H4 Stay connected!
H4 Keep in Touch
H4 Mon, Dec. 23
H4 Wed, Dec. 25
H4 Thu, Dec. 26
H4 Tue, Dec. 31
H4 Want a different way to promote your business? Duplicate text
H4 Create an Account Duplicate text
H4 Stay connected! Duplicate text
H4 Keep in Touch Duplicate text
H4 Website Personalization Now Available!
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 7 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.lincolnri.gov/Anchor Skip to Main Content
/MyAccount/ProfileCreateCreate a Website Account
/MyAccountWebsite Sign In
https://www.lincolnri.gov/IMG-ALT Home Page
/27/GovernmentGovernment
/101/ServicesServices
/31/CommunityCommunity
/9/How-Do-IHow Do I...
/Search/ResultsIMG-ALT Search
https://www.axisgis.com/lincol...External Subdomain Online Mapping (GIS)
https://tax.vgsi.com/etax/linc...External Subdomain Online Tax Payments
https://lincolnri.civicclerk.c...External Subdomain Agendas, Minutes & Streaming of Meetings
/Jobs.aspxEmployment
/157/DepartmentsSubdomain Departments
/FormCenterDocuments & Forms
/AlertCenter.aspx?CID=16Alerts
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=83Sewer Bill Increase
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=83Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=22Want a different way to promote your business?
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=22Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=14Create an Account
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=14Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=13Stay connected!
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=13Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=12Keep in Touch
/CivicAlerts.aspx?CID=35,51,29...View All News
https://www.lincolnri.gov/Anchor Meetings
https://www.lincolnri.gov/Anchor Events
https://www.lincolnri.gov/Anchor Text duplicate Meetings
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...23
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...25
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...26
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...31
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...1
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...2
/Calendar.aspx?EID=1093Probate Court
/Calendar.aspx?EID=1146Planning Board
/Calendar.aspx?EID=1250Lincoln Housing Authority
/Calendar.aspx?EID=1302Library Board of Trustees
/calendar.aspx?CID=35View All Events
https://www.lincolnri.gov/Anchor Text duplicate Events
/calendar.aspx?CID=34Text duplicate View All Events
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=22Text duplicate Want a different way to promote your business?
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=22Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=14IMG-ALT Waterfall
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=14Text duplicate Create an Account
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=14Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=13IMG-ALT School
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=13Text duplicate Stay connected!
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=13Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=12IMG-ALT Football Field
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=12Text duplicate Keep in Touch
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=10Text duplicate IMG-ALT Waterfall
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=10Website Personalization Now Available!
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=10Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?CID=1,15,10,...View All Spotlights
https://www.lincolnri.gov/Anchor Facebook
https://www.lincolnri.gov/Anchor Twitter
https://www.lincolnri.gov/Anchor Text duplicate Facebook
https://www.lincolnri.gov/Anchor Text duplicate Twitter
https://twitter.com/LincRIEM?r...External Tweets by LincRIEM
https://www.facebook.com/linco...External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Facebook
https://twitter.com/LincRIEMExternal Text duplicate IMG-ALT Twitter
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=15Quick Links
/159/CourtsCourts
/176/LibrariesLibraries
/199/Senior-CenterSenior Center
/163/CodeRED-ProgramCodeRED Program
/198/School-DepartmentSchool Department
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=16Helpful Links
https://www.lincolnri.gov/Home
https://www.lincolnri.gov/sitemapSite Map
/directory.aspxContact Us
/accessibilityAccessibility
/copyrightCopyright Notices
https://www.lincolnri.gov/privacyPrivacy Policy
https://connect.civicplus.com/...External Subdomain CivicPlus®

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.lincolnri.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.38 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 (117 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate, s-maxage=600,no-transform
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-encodinggzip
etag" "
varyAccept-Encoding
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
p3pCP="IDC DSP COR ADM DEVi TAIi PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi HIS OUR IND CNT"
set-cookie25 Characters
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self' https://*.granicus.com https://platform.civicplus.com https://account.civicplus.com https://analytics.civicplus.com; img-src * data: blob:; worker-src * data: blob: 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline'; script-src * about: 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval'; style-src * 'unsafe-inline'; media-src * blob:; font-src * data:; default-src *
dateFri, 20 Dec 2024 11:03:39 GMT
content-length34506
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 341 referring domains.
This page has 1,802 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 172 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

user-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /
User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /
User-agent: *
Disallow: /activedit
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /common/admin/
Disallow: /OJA
Disallow: /support
Disallow: /currenteventsview.asp
Disallow: /search.asp
Disallow: /currenteventsview.aspx
Disallow: /search.aspx
Disallow: /currentevents.aspx
Disallow: /Support
Disallow: /CurrentEventsView.asp
Disallow: /Search.asp
Disallow: /CurrentEventsView.aspx
Disallow: /Search.aspx
Disallow: /Search
Disallow: /CurrentEvents.aspx
Disallow: /Currentevents.aspx
Disallow: /map.aspx
Disallow: /map.asp
Disallow: /Map.aspx
Disallow: /Map.asp
Sitemap: /sitemap.xml
Disallow: /RSS.aspx
User-agent: Siteimprove
Crawl-delay: 20
User-agent: Siteimprovebot
Crawl-delay: 20
User-agent: Siteimprovebot-crawler
Crawl-delay: 20

Search preview

www.lincolnri.gov
Lincoln, RI | Official Website
Welcome to Lincoln!

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Lincoln76%Check
Website50%Check
Events50%Check
News50%Check
RI 0286548%Check
Stay43%Check
Create43%Check
Account43%Check
way43%Check
promote43%Check

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