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Overview of the SEO Check

Meta information

98%

Page quality

65%

Page structure

55%

Link structure

63%

Server

38%

External factors

100%

SEO Score

SEO Score Widget

Response time

0.94 s

File size

85.80 kB

Words

643

Media files

Number of links

48 internal / 44 external

Task list of SEO Improvements 9 Tasks

Remove the empty bold and strong tags from this page.Very important!
Only use 1 H1 Heading in your text.Very important!
Try to reduce the number of used CSS files.Very important!
Try to reduce the number of used JavaScript files.Very important!
The H1 heading should suit better to the page content. (Words from the heading are rarely used in the text)Important!
Use good alternative descriptions (alt attributes) for your images.Important!
Reduce the number of external links.Tip!
Improve the page response time.Tip!
Promote your page in social networks.Tip!

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Meta specifications 98% achieved

Title

(Critically important)

Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration

The length of the page title is perfect. (343 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)

There are no duplicate words in the title

Meta Title

Meta description

(Critically important)

An official website of the State of Maryland.

The length of the meta description is perfect. (269 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)

Meta Description

Crawlability

(Critically important)

There are no problems in accessing the website.

Search Engine Crawlers

Canonical URL

(Important)

https://mva.maryland.gov/Pages/default.aspx

There is a valid canonical link specified.

Canonical Tag

Language

(Somewhat important)

Language detected in text: en

Language defined in HTML: en-us

Server location: United States of America

The following language is defined by HTML: en-us

Declaring language in HTML

Alternate/Hreflang Links

(Somewhat important)

There are no alternate links specified on this page.

Hreflang

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.

Meta Tags

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.

Domain for SEO

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.

SEO-friendly URLs

Charset encoding

(Somewhat important)

The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.

Character Encoding

Doctype

(Nice to have)

The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.

The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.

HTML Doctype

Favicon

(Nice to have)

The favicon is linked correctly.

Favicon

Meta tags

Name	Value
viewport	width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
description	An official website of the State of Maryland.
robot	noarchive
google-site-verification	gNmJxoRoA2KoIJPAgQHkiyVcGTHQZ78wuFttitKGlF8
lang	en-us
og:url	/Pages/default.aspx
og:type	website
og:image	/Style Library/egov/img/logo.png
og:image:alt	MVA Logo
og:site_name	MVA
Expires	Empty
Content-Type	text/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality 65% achieved

Content

(Critically important)

Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.

These Typos were found:

leutenant => lieutenant

This page contains 643 words. That's ok.

26.1% 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.

14 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 16.57 words is good.

Content is King

Frames

(Critically important)

This page does not use a frameset.

Frames and framesets

Mobile optimization

(Somewhat important)

No Apple touch icon is specified.

This page loads 16 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.

A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.

Mobile Optimization

Bold and strong tags

(Somewhat important)

Empty bold or strong tags were found on this page.

Some tags are too long. With 169 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"mva offices and vehicle emission testing stations will be closed on wednesday, june 19 in observance o..."

Strong and Bold Tags

Image SEO

(Somewhat important)

4 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.

Image SEO

There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.

Social Sharing

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.

HTTPS

Media list

URL	Alt attribute	Title
...ntTookit/egov/img/favicon.ico?v=1&rev=43	No alt attribute provided
/Style%20Library/egov/img/logo.png	Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) - Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA) Logo
/PublishingImages/startheretest2.png	How Can MVA Help You? Click Here To Start.	How Can MVA Help You? Click Here To Start.
...Images/icon-homepage-createmyaccount.png	Create My Account	Create My Account
.../icon-homepage-makeanappointment-cj2.png	Make an Appointment	Make An Appointment
...shingImages/icon-homepage-realid-cj2.png	Real ID	Real ID Information
...ngImages/icon-homepage-emissions-cj2.png	Emissions Testing	Emissions Testing
...es/icon-homepage-myMVAonlinea-z-2023.png	myMVA Online Services A-Z	Visit Our eServices Store
...con-homepage-customerproctection-cj2.png	Customer Protection	Customer Protection
...lishingImages/viewcorrespondence3-cj.png	View Your MVA Correspondence	View Correspondance
...hingImages/product-tracking2-cj-2023.png	MVA Product Tracking	Track My Product
...ishingImages/findemissionsduedate-cj.png	Find Your Emissions Due Date	Find Emissions Due Date
/PublishingImages/renewlicenseandid-cj.png	Renew Your Licence Or Identification Card	Renew License/ID
/PublishingImages/returntag-cj.png	How to Return License Plates (Tags) to MDOT MVA	Return Tags
/PublishingImages/renewregistration-cj.png	Renew Your Registration	Renew Registration
/Pictures/Fast%20Track%20(1).png	No alt attribute provided
/Pictures/Samsung%20Wallet_MD_Webbanner.png	Maryland Mobile ID in Samsung Wallet
/Pictures/MDmobileID_webbanner-01.png	Have you added Maryland Mobile ID to your mobile wallet?
...Key Bridge Resources Web Rotator (2).png	Key Bridge Commuting Resources
/Pictures/MD-disparity-study800x300.png	Do You Run A Business In Maryland?
...ures/disabilityplacards_webbanner-01.png	Disability Parking
/Pictures/MDOT%201200x630-01.png	No alt attribute provided
/Pictures/BeTheDriver_Imp_800x300.png	No alt attribute provided
/Pictures/evcredit_banner-01.png	Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Program*
/Pictures/Electronic-Advance-Directives.png	Electronic Advance Directives
/PublishingImages/EOM/EOM_MAY_2024.png	MVA Employee Of The Month	MVA Employee Of The Month
...nor.maryland.gov/images/governor_agy.jpg	Maryland Governor and Leutenant Governor
...tToolKit/egov/img/changingMD-400x400.png	Customer Service Promise

Page structure 55% achieved

H1 heading

(Critically important)

Maryland Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Administration

Too many H1 headings

H1-H6 headings

Headings

(Important)

There are 30 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Some headings do not have any content.

H1-H6 headings

Heading structure

Heading level	Content
H1	Maryland Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Administration
H1	Empty heading
H2	How Can MVA Help You? Click Here To Start.
H2	Section1-1
H2	I WANT TO...
H2	Section1
H2	Image Grid
H2	Latest News
H2	Empty heading
H2	Empty heading
H2	More from mdot Mva
H2	Section3
H2	EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHT
H2	Section5
H2	Human Trafficking GET HELP
H2	Customer Service Promise
H2	Help Stop Fraud in State Government
H2	Our Social Media Channels
H3	View Your MVA Correspondence MVA Product Tracking
H3	How to Return License Plates (Tags) to MDOT MVA Renew Your Registration
H3	Maryland Mobile ID in Samsung Wallet
H3	Have you added Maryland Mobile ID to your mobile wallet?
H3	Key Bridge Commuting Resources
H3	Do You Run A Business In Maryland?
H3	Disability Parking
H3	Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Program*
H3	Electronic Advance Directives
H3	How Can We Help You?
H3	One-Stop Government Shopping
H3	Premier Customer Service
H3	Join Our Team
H3	Keeping Marylanders Safe
H3	Innovation & Technology

Link structure 63% achieved

Internal links

(Important)

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.

Internal Linking

External links

(Nice to have)

There are too many external links (44) on this page.

External Links

Found links on this page

Link	Attributes	Anchor text
https://mymva.maryland.gov/TAP...	External Subdomain	Click here for services anytime with myMVA online services!
/Pages/default.aspx	Anchor	Skip to Content
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...	New window External Subdomain	Accessibility Information
/Pages/default.aspx		Home
/locations/Pages/default.aspx		Locations
/drivers/Pages/default.aspx		Drivers
/vehicles/Pages/default.aspx		Vehicles
/businesses/Pages/default.aspx		Businesses
/safety/Pages/default.aspx		Safety
https://mymva.maryland.gov/TAP...	External Subdomain	Online Services
https://mva.maryland.gov/		IMG-ALT Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) - Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA) Logo
https://mva.maryland.gov/		Maryland Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Administration
https://www.facebook.com/Maryl...	New window External Subdomain	A-TITLE Facebook
https://twitter.com/MD_MVA/	New window External	A-TITLE Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/md_mva/	New window External Subdomain	A-TITLE Instagram
https://www.threads.net/@md_mva	New window External Subdomain	A-TITLE Threads
https://www.youtube.com/user/M...	New window External Subdomain	A-TITLE YouTube
/online-services/Pages/How-Can...		IMG-ALT How Can MVA Help You? Click Here To Start.
https://mymva.maryland.gov/TAP...	External Subdomain
https://mymva.maryland.gov/go/...	External Subdomain Text duplicate	IMG-ALT Create My Account
https://mymva.maryland.gov/go/...	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Make an Appointment
/Pages/realid.aspx		IMG-ALT Real ID
https://securetransactions.mva...	External Subdomain Text duplicate
/vehicles/Pages/veip.aspx		IMG-ALT Emissions Testing
https://mymva.maryland.gov/TAP...	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT myMVA Online Services A-Z
/about-mva/Pages/Premier-Custo...	Text duplicate	IMG-ALT Customer Protection
/locations/Pages/default.aspx	Text duplicate
https://mymva.maryland.gov/TAP...	New window External Subdomain	IMG-ALT View Your MVA Correspondence
/online-services/Pages/product...	New window	IMG-ALT MVA Product Tracking
https://mymva.maryland.gov/TAP...	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Find Your Emissions Due Date
https://mymva.maryland.gov/go/...	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Renew Your Licence Or Identification Card
/Pages/license-plate-return.aspx		IMG-ALT How to Return License Plates (Tags) to MDOT MVA
https://mymva.maryland.gov/go/...	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Renew Your Registration
/safety/Pages/motorcycle/fast-...	New window Subdomain	Get your Class M License FAST! Click to learn more.
/Pages/MDMobileID_SamsungWalle...	New window Subdomain	Maryland Mobile ID in Samsung Wallet Learn More IMG-ALT Maryland Mobile ID in Samsung Wallet
/Pages/mdMobileID.aspx	New window Subdomain	Have you added Maryland Mobile ID to your mobile wallet? Click here to learn more and get started. IMG-ALT Have you added Maryland Mobile ID to your mobile wallet?
https://mdot.maryland.gov/tso/...	New window External Subdomain	Key Bridge Commuting Resources Learn More... IMG-ALT Key Bridge Commuting Resources
https://stateofmddisparitystud...	New window External	Do You Run A Business In Maryland? Learn More... IMG-ALT Do You Run A Business In Maryland?
https://mymva.maryland.gov/TAP...	New window External Subdomain	Disability Parking Learn More... IMG-ALT Disability Parking
https://www.mdot.maryland.gov/...	New window External Subdomain	Learn More...
https://zerodeathsmd.gov/?utm_...	New window External	Be the Driver Who Saves Lives
/vehicles/Pages/27300-71T.aspx	New window Subdomain	Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Program* Learn More... IMG-ALT Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Program*
https://mhcc.maryland.gov/mhcc...	New window External Subdomain	Electronic Advance Directives Learn More IMG-ALT Electronic Advance Directives
/Pages/default.aspx	Anchor	Previous
/Pages/default.aspx	Anchor	Next
/Pages/NewsDetails2.aspx?NR=20...		MDOT MVA Offices & VEIP Stations to Close for the Juneteenth Holiday
/Pages/NewsDetails2.aspx?NR=20...		MDOT MVA, Maryland Department of Veterans Affairs Open Veterans Service Office in Cecil County
/Pages/NewsDetails2.aspx?NR=20...		26 Law Enforcement Officers Graduate from University of Maryland’s DUI Institute
/Pages/mva-newsroom.aspx		Visit Our Newsroom
/online-services/Pages/How-Can...		How Can We Help You?
/online-services/Pages/One-Sto...		One-Stop Government Shopping
/online-services/Pages/Premier...		Premier Customer Service
https://www.mdot.maryland.gov/...	External Subdomain	Join Our Team
/safety/Pages/default.aspx		Keeping Marylanders Safe
/online-services/Pages/Innovat...		Innovation & Technology
/Pages/default.aspx	Anchor	EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHT
https://governor.maryland.gov/...	New window External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Maryland Governor and Leutenant Governor A-TITLE Maryland Governor and Leutenant Governor
https://goccp.maryland.gov/vic...	New window External Subdomain	More Information on human trafficking in Maryland
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...	New window External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Customer Service Promise
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...	New window External Subdomain	Take Our Survey
https://www.ola.state.md.us/fr...	New window External Subdomain	More Information
/Pages/geninfo/public-informat...		Public Information Act
/Pages/geninfo/privacy.aspx		Privacy and Security Statement
/Pages/geninfo/copyright.aspx		Copyright Statement
/Pages/geninfo/content-state.aspx		Content Accuracy Statement
https://www.maryland.gov/pages...	New window External Subdomain	More Online Services
/Pages/Frequently-Asked-Questi...		Frequently Asked Questions
/about-mva/Pages/employment.aspx		Employment
/Pages/motor-voter.aspx		Motor Voter
/Pages/mva-newsroom.aspx		Press Releases
/Pages/accessibility.aspx		Accessibility
/businesses/Pages/forms.aspx		Forms
/about-mva/Pages/Premier-Custo...		Customer Protection
https://mymva.maryland.gov/TAP...	External Subdomain	CONTACT US
/about-mva/Pages/info/infoMVA....		INFO
/Pages/about-mva.aspx		ABOUT
/locations/Pages/mvabranchesan...		MVA Branch Locations
/locations/Pages/mvabranchesan...		MVA VEIP Locations
/Documents/MVA-Mail-Stops.pdf	Subdomain	MVA Mailing Address Locations
https://plus.google.com/	New window External Subdomain	Google Plus
https://www.youtube.com/	New window External Subdomain Text duplicate	YouTube
https://www.flickr.com/	New window External Subdomain	Flickr
https://www.pinterest.com/	New window External Subdomain	Pinterest
https://www.snapchat.com/	New window External Subdomain	Snapchat
https://www.linkedin.com/	New window External Subdomain	LinkedIn
https://www.blogger.com/	New window External Subdomain	Blogger
https://del.icio.us/	New window External Subdomain	Delicious
https://issuu.com/	New window External	Issuu
https://slack.com/	New window External	Slack
https://www.reddit.com/	New window External Subdomain	Reddit
https://soundcloud.com/	New window External	SoundCloud
https://public.govdelivery.com/	New window External Subdomain	GovDelivery

Server configuration 38% achieved

HTTP redirects

(Critically important)

This page redirects to "https://mva.maryland.gov/Pages/default.aspx"

WWW Redirect

HTTP header

(Important)

The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.

The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)

This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.

HTTP headers

Performance

(Somewhat important)

The page response time of 0.94 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.

This page loads 8 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.

This page loads 16 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.

The file size of the HTML document is fine (86 kB).

Page Speed

HTTP Response Header

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x-via-nscopi	1.0
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content-type	text/html; charset=utf-8
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last-modified	Mon, 17 Jun 2024 03:56:24 GMT
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x-frame-options	SAMEORIGIN
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set-cookie	135 Characters
strict-transport-security	max-age=157680000; preload
content-encoding	gzip
statuscode	200
http_version	HTTP/1.1

External factors 100% achieved

Blacklists

(Nice to have)

This website is not classified "for adult only".

Blacklist

Backlinks

(Critically important)

This page is referenced by wikipedia.

This website has excellent links from other websites.

This page has backlinks from 229 referring domains.

This page has 1,498 backlinks.

This page has backlinks from 200 different ip addresses.

Backlinks

Facebook popularity

(Somewhat important)

The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

You can find more links using Wikipedia search

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow:/_vti_bin/
Disallow:/_layouts/
Disallow:/_catalogs/

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Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration

An official website of the State of Maryland.

Most important keywords

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

Keyword	Result	Recheck
Maryland	87%	Check
Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration	73%	Check
Vehicle	72%	Check
Maryland Department	71%	Check
Motor Vehicle	69%	Check
Vehicle Administration	69%	Check
Motor Vehicle Administration	68%	Check
Administration	63%	Check
Maryland Mobile ID	60%	Check
MVA	59%	Check
Electric Vehicle	58%	Check
New	53%	Check
MDOT MVA	53%	Check
Department	52%	Check
Transportation	52%	Check
Help	51%	Check
state	50%	Check
MVA Offices	50%	Check
Customer	48%	Check
State Government	48%	Check
Customer Service	47%	Check
MDOT	46%	Check
Mobile	46%	Check
Wallet	46%	Check
Premier Customer Service	46%	Check

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Mva.maryland.gov - SEO Checker

Task list of SEO Improvements 9 Tasks

Meta specifications 98% achieved

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Page quality 65% achieved

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Page structure 55% achieved

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Heading structure

Link structure 63% achieved

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Found links on this page

Server configuration 38% achieved

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HTTP Response Header

External factors 100% achieved

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