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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
98% 
Page quality
94% 
Page structure
45% 
Link structure
88% 
Server
89% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.61 s
File size
41.50 kB
Words
621
Media files
11
Number of links
28 internal / 28 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Mayor Brandon M. Scott
The length of the page title is perfect. (217 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The official website of Charm City, Baltimore, Maryland.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (341 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://mayor.baltimorecity.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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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
descriptionThe official website of Charm City, Baltimore, Maryland.
abstractCity of Baltimore, Maryland - Official Website
keywordsCity of Baltimore, Maryland, Official, Government, Website
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langen
og:site_nameMayor Brandon M. Scott
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://mayor.baltimorecity.gov/
og:titleMayor Brandon M. Scott
og:localityBaltimore
og:regionMaryland
og:localeen_US
ImageToolbarfalse
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
These Typos were found:
  • holliday => holiday
This page contains 621 words. That's ok.
26.4% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
9 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 20.1 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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The following tag is repeated too often: mayor brandon m. scott
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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
...s/all/themes/custom/flight_city/logo.pngMayor Brandon M. Scott logoMayor Brandon M. Scott Home
...ib/gtranslate/gtranslate-files/blank.pngEnglish
...ib/gtranslate/gtranslate-files/blank.pngArabic
...ib/gtranslate/gtranslate-files/blank.pngChinese (Simplified)
...ib/gtranslate/gtranslate-files/blank.pngChinese (Traditional)
...ib/gtranslate/gtranslate-files/blank.pngFrench
...ib/gtranslate/gtranslate-files/blank.pngKorean
...ib/gtranslate/gtranslate-files/blank.pngSpanish
/sites/default/files/mayor_headshot-275.pngHeadshot of Mayor Brandon M. Scott
/sites/default/files/actionplan_fpimg.pngImage of the tracker website, showing the top of the page from https://mayor.baltimorecity.gov/tracker
.../default/files/brandon_scott-footer2.pngCity Seal

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Mayor Brandon M. Scott
Too many H1 headings
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 Mayor Brandon M. Scott
H1 Mayor Brandon M. Scott Duplicate text
H2 Events
H2 Mayoral Offices
H2 City of Baltimore
H2 Contact
H4 Main Menu
Anchor text is an URL
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
2 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 too many external links (28) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://mayor.baltimorecity.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
http://www.baltimorecity.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Mayor Brandon M. Scott logo
https://mayor.baltimorecity.gov/Mayor Brandon M. Scott
A-TITLE Home
http://www.baltimorecity.gov/3...External Subdomain 311 Services
A-TITLE Request a City service, then monitor status
https://pay.baltimorecity.gov/External Subdomain Payments
A-TITLE Pay your water, parking tickets, and other bills online, by phone, by mail, or in person
http://mayor.baltimorecity.gov/Subdomain Mayor's Office
A-TITLE Includes Cabinet, Mayoral Offices, Boards & Commissions, and Request Ceremonial Documents.
/newsNews
A-TITLE Press Releases from the Mayor's Office
https://www.baltimorecity.gov/...External Subdomain Directory
A-TITLE Lists 501(c)(3) organizations, Boards, City Offices, Commissions, Departments, Elected Offices, Mayoral Offices, and State Entities.
/eventsEvents
A-TITLE Upcoming Events
https://www.baltimorecity.gov/...External Subdomain Subscribe
A-TITLE Subscribe to our mailing list with GovDelivery
https://mayor.baltimorecity.gov/Text duplicate Mayor Brandon M. Scott
A-TITLE Go to homepage
/trackerURL anchor text
IMG-ALT Image of the tracker website, showing the top of the page from https://mayor.baltimorecity.gov/tracker
https://scottfirsttermreport.org/New window External first term
https://twitter.com/MayorBMScottExternal No Text
https://www.facebook.com/Mayor...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/Mayo...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain No Text
/subscribe/MDBALT_25Subdomain No Text
/connectSubdomain No Text
/newsText duplicate News
/people-tiles/allSubdomain Cabinet
A-TITLE View the leadership of the City of Baltimore
/officesMayoral Offices
A-TITLE Mayoral Offices
/bcBoards & Commissions
http://photos.baltimorecity.go...External Subdomain Photos
A-TITLE Photos and video from recent Baltimore City events
/contact-mayorContact the Mayor
A-TITLE Contact the Mayor
/ceremonial-document-request-formSubdomain Request Ceremonial Documents
A-TITLE Request Ceremonial Documents
https://scottfirsttermreport.org/External First Term Accomplishments
/health-commissioner-search-co...Health Commissioner Search Committee
/mayors-hbcu-fellowship-initia...HBCU Fellowship Initiative
/state-of-city2025 State of the City
https://baltopi.shinyapps.io/P...External Subdomain Baltimore City Performance Plans
/trackerSubdomain Mayor's Action Plan Tracker
/behavioral-health-and-consent...Behavioral Health and the Consent Decree
/news/statements/2022-05-17-ma...Subdomain 2022 Annual State of Downtown Address
/current-contractsCurrent Contracts
https://civilrights.baltimorec...External Subdomain FAQ for the Americans with Disabilities Act (ACT)
/backgroundBackground
/city-contracting-basicsCity Contracting Basics
/regulationsRegulations
/frequently-asked-questions-1Frequently Asked Questions
/contact-us-4Contact Us
https://www.charmtvbaltimore.com/External Subdomain Mayor's Office of Cable and Communications (CharmTV)
https://www.bmorechildren.com/External Subdomain Mayor’s Office of Children and Family Success
/helpSubdomain Mayor’s Office of Correspondence and Constituent Services
https://mocj.baltimorecity.gov/External Subdomain Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement
https://emergency.baltimorecit...External Subdomain Mayor's Office of Emergency Management
https://www.oedworks.com/External Subdomain Mayor's Office of Employment Development
https://mogr.baltimorecity.gov/External Subdomain Mayor's Office of Government Relations
https://homeless.baltimorecity...External Subdomain Mayor's Office of Homeless Services
https://mima.baltimorecity.gov/External Subdomain Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs
https://lgbtq.baltimorecity.gov/External Subdomain Mayor's Office of LGBTQ Affairs
https://smba-d.baltimorecity.gov/External Subdomain Mayor’s Office of Small and Minority Business Advocacy & Development
https://moss-citistatsmart.bal...External Subdomain Mayor’s Office of Performance and Innovation
https://civilrights.baltimorec...External Subdomain Accessibility Statement
http://www.baltimorecity.gov/p...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
http://www.baltimorecity.gov/t...External Subdomain Terms of Use

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://mayor.baltimorecity.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 0.61 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 (42 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
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content-languageen
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
link<https://mayor.baltimorecity.gov/>; rel="canonical",<https://mayor.baltimorecity.gov/>; rel="shortlink"
cache-controlpublic, max-age=3600
last-modifiedSun, 27 Apr 2025 15:45:02 GMT
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
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accept-rangesbytes
age0
dateSun, 27 Apr 2025 15:45:03 GMT
varyCookie,fastly-ssl, Accept-Encoding
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content-length10607
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,912 referring domains.
This page has 5,103 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 976 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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: *
Crawl-delay: 10
# Directories
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips/
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /user/logout/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/

# News
Disallow: /news/
Allow: /news/press-releases/
Allow: /news/public-notices/
Allow: /news/public-statements/

User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
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User-agent: AspiegelBot
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User-agent: DotBot
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User-agent: MauiBot
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User-agent: Baiduspider
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User-agent: Exabot
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User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /$
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

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The official website of Charm City, Baltimore, Maryland.

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