Montpelier-vt.org - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
58% 
Page structure
20% 
Link structure
30% 
Server
87% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.77 s
File size
109.00 kB
Words
311
Media files
19
Number of links
53 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Montpelier, VT | Official Website
The length of the page title is perfect. (288 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
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#293b13
descriptionEmpty
keywordsHome
langen
Content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 311 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
27.7% 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.
3 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 11.67 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)
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=8602Home page
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=8622Search
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=10589Online Payments border image
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=8688Financial Transparency Center
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=10701UPDATED 4-4-24 ZenCity Banner portal image
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=10377Join the City Council Meeting Opens in new window
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=10984SCHOOL STREET PROJECT Tile
data:[...] Base64Press Release
data:[...] Base64City Plan 2024 Title Tile
data:[...] Base64Weather Updates
data:[...] Base64Spot the Storm Drain!
data:[...] Base64FY25 City Budget Book tile
data:[...] Base64notify me for newsflash
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=8620Home page
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=8616Facebook
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=8617Instagram
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=8618Twitter
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=8619YouTube

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to the City of Montpelier
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to the City of Montpelier
H1 POPULAR LINKS
H1 Latest News
H4 School Street Project
H4 PRESS CONFERENCE LIVE STREAM
H4 Explore and Contribute to the City Plan
H4 Weather Updates
H4 Spot the Storm Drain
H4 Explore the FY25 City Budget
H4 Stay Connected!
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 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.montpelier-vt.org/Anchor Skip to Main Content
/MyAccount/ProfileCreateCreate a Website Account
/MyAccountWebsite Sign In
https://www.montpelier-vt.org/IMG-ALT Home page
/Search/ResultsIMG-ALT Search
/27/DepartmentsDepartments
/154/Boards-CommissionsBoards & Commissions
/101/ServicesServices
/31/CommunityCommunity
http://www.montpelieralive.com/External Subdomain Downtown
/9/How-Do-IHow Do I...
https://www.officialpayments.c...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Online Payments border image
https://cleargov.com/vermont/w...New window External IMG-ALT Financial Transparency Center
https://montpelier-vt.civilspa...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT UPDATED 4-4-24 ZenCity Banner portal image
/129/Agendas-MinutesAgendas & Minutes
/Jobs.aspxJobs
/258/City-Council-MayorCity Council
/162/City-ClerkCity Clerk
/167/Public-WorksPublic Works
/220/Police-DepartmentPolice
https://vtmontpelierweb.myvscl...New window External Subdomain Program Registration
/176/Finance-DepartmentAnnual Budget & Audit Report
/164/Online-PaymentsOnline Payments
/838/Montpelier-RecreationRecreation
/1407/Flood-Disaster-Recovery-...Subdomain Flood Disaster Recovery Assistance
/Archive.aspx?AMID=41City Manager's Weekly Report
/833/Zoning-Subdivision-Regula...Subdomain Zoning & Flood Plain Regulations
/formcenter/boards-commissions...Board & Committee Application
/list.aspxNotify Me
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=551New window IMG-ALT SCHOOL STREET PROJECT Tile
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=551New window School Street Project
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=551New window Read on...
https://www.orcamedia.net/show...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Press Release
https://www.orcamedia.net/show...New window External Subdomain PRESS CONFERENCE LIVE STREAM
https://www.orcamedia.net/show...New window External Subdomain Additional Info...
/1478/City-Plan-2024New window Subdomain IMG-ALT City Plan 2024 Title Tile
/1478/City-Plan-2024New window Subdomain Explore and Contribute to the City Plan
/1478/City-Plan-2024New window Subdomain Text duplicate Additional Info...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=562IMG-ALT Weather Updates
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=562Text duplicate Weather Updates
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=562Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=561IMG-ALT Spot the Storm Drain!
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=561Spot the Storm Drain
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=561Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=542IMG-ALT FY25 City Budget Book tile
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=542Explore the FY25 City Budget
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=542Text duplicate Additional Info...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=442IMG-ALT notify me for newsflash
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=442Stay Connected!
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=442Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?CID=30See More Stories
https://www.montpelier-vt.org/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Home page
/list.aspxText duplicate Notify Me
/directoryContact Us
/164/Online-PaymentsText duplicate Online Payments
/accessibilityAccessibility
/site/copyrightCopyright Notices
https://www.civicplus.com/External Subdomain Government Websites by CivicPlus®
/facebookIMG-ALT Facebook
/instagramIMG-ALT Instagram
/twitterIMG-ALT Twitter
/youtubeIMG-ALT YouTube

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.montpelier-vt.org/"
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 very slow (1.77 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 (109 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 *
dateWed, 18 Sep 2024 00:13:21 GMT
content-length31899
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 981 referring domains.
This page has 9,955 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 701 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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Disallow: /activedit
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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

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Montpelier, VT | Official Website

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Montpelier73%Check
City Montpelier66%Check
City56%Check
City Plan50%Check
Welcome50%Check
City Budget50%Check
City Council48%Check
new City Plan47%Check
Website46%Check
official46%Check
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