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Overview of the SEO Check

Meta information

98%

Page quality

86%

Page structure

73%

Link structure

92%

Server

86%

External factors

100%

SEO Score

SEO Score Widget

Response time

1.17 s

File size

111.20 kB

Words

707

Media files

Number of links

50 internal / 16 external

Task list of SEO Improvements 3 Tasks

Improve the page response time.Very important!
Review and improve the H1 heading.Important!
Use good alternative descriptions (alt attributes) for your images.Tip!

Meta specifications 98% achieved

Title

(Critically important)

Metro | Nashville.gov

The page title is too short. (190 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title

There are no duplicate words in the title

Meta Title

Meta description

(Critically important)

Official website of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County.

The length of the meta description is perfect. (508 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://www.nashville.gov/

There is a valid canonical link specified.

Canonical Tag

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

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)

The domain is no subdomain.

The domain length is good.

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
msvalidate.01	7105749719B2B932F06D5A916461DA0A
google-site-verification	-YJL1gkjpqhtGRfFQCrEurKo7_wza5yR826gUd4KNvs
facebook-domain-verification	dnsbvwda2kvyz49dk5tucorl9evtsn
description	Official website of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County.
robots	index, follow
Generator	Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimized	width
HandheldFriendly	true
viewport	width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
lang	en
twitter:card	summary_large_image
twitter:site	@MetroNashville
fb:app_id	494886014626060
og:site_name	Nashville.gov
og:type	website
og:url	https://www.nashville.gov/
og:title	Nashville.gov
og:description	Official website of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County
og:image	https://www.nashville.gov/sites/default/files/2021-07/nashville-default-open-graph.png
og:image:type	image/jpg
og:image:width	1200
og:image:height	630
og:locale	en_US
charset	utf-8

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Page quality 86% achieved

Content

(Critically important)

This page contains 707 words. That's ok.

18.8% of the text are stop words.

The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.

5 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 19.14 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.

A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.

Mobile Optimization

Bold and strong tags

(Somewhat important)

The following tag is repeated too often: freddie o'connell

Strong and Bold Tags

Image SEO

(Somewhat important)

1 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
/themes/custom/nashville/logo.svg	Home
...lic/2023-11/mayor-th_0.jpg?itok=TRNtIi9f	Freddie O'Connell
...-11/vice-mayor-th-2023.jpg?itok=i0ypgN-y	Vice Mayor Angie Henderson
...mes/custom/nashville/images/new-wave.svg	No alt attribute provided
...lic/2023-11/mayor-th_0.jpg?itok=TRNtIi9f	Freddie O'Connell
...-11/vice-mayor-th-2023.jpg?itok=i0ypgN-y	Vice Mayor Angie Henderson
...e_career_expo_featured.jpg?itok=48U_i9VX	student standing at career expo table
...roundbreaking_featured.jpg?itok=GC8lkh8H	group of people walking down a street holding a banner
...the_boot_2024_featured.jpg?itok=tDFPeNy5	firefighters stand on a sidewalk holding signs promoting Fill the Boot
...HUD_check_presentation.jpg?itok=pn4hTQQv	Mayor's office staff and others at a check presentation
...homepage_card2_300_200.png?itok=thqqoPH9	Decorative
...-homepage-card-350x200.png?itok=Svr2L_0C	Historic Metro Courthouse
...-homepage-card-350x200.png?itok=xaoljBbm	decoration

Page structure 73% achieved

H1 heading

(Critically important)

Metro

The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.

The H1 heading is too short (5 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.

H1-H6 headings

Headings

(Important)

The heading structure is perfect.

H1-H6 headings

Heading structure

Heading level	Content
H1	Metro
H2	Most Popular Services
H2	Metro News
H2	Metro Events
H2	Mobile Apps
H2	Nashville.gov
H2	Quick Links
H2	Contact
H2	Connect
H3	NashvilleMaps
H3	Metro Government Enhances the Legislative Process
H3	Metro Nashville Network Video Stream

Link structure 92% achieved

Internal links

(Important)

Some internal link anchor texts are too long.

Some anchor texts are used more than once.

The number of internal links is ok.

All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.

Internal Linking

External links

(Nice to have)

There are 16 external links on this page.

External Links

Found links on this page

Link	Attributes	Anchor text
https://www.nashville.gov/	Anchor	Skip to main navigation
https://www.nashville.gov/		Nashville.gov Home IMG-ALT Home
https://www.nashville.gov/	Text duplicate	Nashville.gov Home
/services		Services
/departments/government		Government
/departments/human-resources/e...		Jobs
https://hub.nashville.gov/s/?l...	New window External Subdomain	Submit a hubNashville Request
https://www.nashville.gov/	Anchor	Translate
/translate	Text duplicate	Translate
https://hub.nashville.gov/s/?l...	New window External Subdomain	hubNashville A-TITLE Submit a Request on hubNashville
https://hub.nashville.gov/s/?l...	New window External Subdomain	Submit a hubNashville Service Request
/departments/mayor		Mayor Freddie O'Connell IMG-ALT Freddie O'Connell
/departments/council		Vice Mayor & Metro Council IMG-ALT Vice Mayor Angie Henderson
/departments/mayor	Text duplicate	Mayor Freddie O'Connell IMG-ALT Freddie O'Connell
/departments/council	Text duplicate	Vice Mayor & Metro Council IMG-ALT Vice Mayor Angie Henderson
/departments/metro		Metro
/departments/elections/service...		Find 2024 Election Information
https://mwsonline.nashville.go...	New window External Subdomain	Pay Water Bill Online
/departments/human-resources/e...	New window	Apply for Metro Job
/departments/health/animal-car...		Adopt an Animal from Animal Care and Control
https://www.nashville-mdha.org...	New window External Subdomain	Check Availability of Affordable Housing
/departments/county-clerk/moto...	New window	Title and Register Motor Vehicle
/departments/finance/procureme...	New window Subdomain	Do Business with Metro
/departments/county-clerk/marr...	New window	Apply for Marriage License
https://nashville-tn.mygovonli...	New window External Subdomain	Check Property Information and History
http://ebid.nashville.gov/	New window External Subdomain	Bid on Surplus Property
/departments/police/services/g...		Get Crash Report Online
/departments/water/waste-and-r...	New window	Get Trash and Recycling Services
/services		All Metro Services
https://experience.arcgis.com/...	External Subdomain	Visit NashView
/departments/schools/news/metr...		Metro Nashville Public Schools to Host College and Career Expo IMG-ALT student standing at career expo table
/departments/schools/news/napi...		Napier Elementary to Break Ground on Innovative Storybook Trail and Outdoor Learning Space IMG-ALT group of people walking down a street holding a banner
/departments/fire/news/nashvil...		Nashville Department Host Kick Off Event for Annual Fill the Boot Campaign for the Muscular Dystrophy Association IMG-ALT firefighters stand on a sidewalk holding signs promoting Fill the Boot
/departments/mayor/news/nashvi...		Nashville receives first-of-its-kind federal grant to remove obstacles to housing IMG-ALT Mayor's office staff and others at a check presentation
/newsroom		All Metro News
/departments/parks/events/obse...		11 Sep Observe Hummingbird Migration Banding Warner Park Nature Center \| 7:30 - 9:30 a.m.
/departments/parks/events/obse...		11 Sep Warner Park Nature Center 7:30 - 9:30 a.m. Observe Hummingbird Migration Banding
/departments/council/events/me...		11 Sep Metro Council 9/11 Remembrance Historic Metro Courthouse \| 7:45 a.m.
/departments/council/events/me...		11 Sep Historic Metro Courthouse 7:45 a.m. Metro Council 9/11 Remembrance
/departments/office-homeless-s...		11 Sep Continuum of Care Homelessness Planning Council Meeting, September 11, 2024 Howard Office Building \| 8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
/departments/office-homeless-s...		11 Sep Howard Office Building 8:30 - 10:00 a.m. Continuum of Care Homelessness Planning Council Meeting, September 11, 2024
/departments/assessor/boards/e...		11 Sep Equalization Board Meeting, September 11, 2024 Howard Office Building \| 8:30 a.m.
/departments/assessor/boards/e...		11 Sep Howard Office Building 8:30 a.m. Equalization Board Meeting, September 11, 2024
/departments/government/boards...		11 Sep Industrial Development Board Ad Hoc Committee Meeting, September 11, 2024 Historic Metro Courthouse \| 9:00 a.m.
/departments/government/boards...		11 Sep Historic Metro Courthouse 9:00 a.m. Industrial Development Board Ad Hoc Committee Meeting, September 11, 2024
/event-list		All Metro Events
/departments/government/maps		NashvilleMaps
/departments/council/news/metr...		Metro Government Enhances the Legislative Process
/departments/information-techn...		Metro Nashville Network Video Stream
https://hub.nashville.gov/	New window External Subdomain	submit a hubNashville request
/departments/government/mobile...		Get Apps
/departments/government/access...		Accessibility Statement
/departments/government/non-di...		Non-Discrimination
/departments/government/privac...		Privacy and Security
/departments/government/terms-...		Terms of Service
http://ebid.nashville.gov/	External Subdomain	eBid Nashville
/departments/elections		Voting and Elections
/departments/government/employees		Metro Employee Resources
/departments/human-resources/e...	Text duplicate	Jobs
https://hub.nashville.gov/	External Subdomain	Contact Metro Customer Service: 311
https://public.govdelivery.com...	External Subdomain	Agenda Subscriptions
/departments/government/social...		Social Media Center
https://www.facebook.com/Metro...	New window External Subdomain	Nashville.gov Facebook
https://x.com/metronashville	New window External	Nashville.gov X
https://www.instagram.com/metr...	New window External Subdomain	Nashville.gov Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/MetroN...	New window External Subdomain	Nashville.gov YouTube

Server configuration 86% achieved

HTTP redirects

(Critically important)

This page redirects to "https://www.nashville.gov/"

WWW Redirect

HTTP header

(Important)

No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.

This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.

HTTP headers

Performance

(Somewhat important)

The page response time is slow (1.17 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 (111 kB).

Page Speed

HTTP Response Header

Name	Value
date	Wed, 11 Sep 2024 16:40:30 GMT
content-type	text/html; charset=UTF-8
cache-control	max-age=604800, public
content-language	en
x-content-type-options	nosniff
x-frame-options	ALLOW-FROM https://nashville.granicus.com
expires	Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
vary	Cookie,Accept-Encoding
x-generator	Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
content-security-policy	frame-ancestors 'self' https://nashville.granicus.com; report-uri /report-csp-violation
x-xss-protection	1; mode=block
strict-transport-security	max-age=31536000
x-drupal-cache	MISS
last-modified	Wed, 11 Sep 2024 15:06:50 GMT
x-request-id	v-78b6d2d4-704f-11ef-8a76-b3ecb85bc741
x-ah-environment	prod
age	5619
via	varnish
x-cache	HIT
x-cache-hits	936
cf-cache-status	DYNAMIC
server	cloudflare
cf-ray	8c1919961aad9b82-FRA
content-encoding	gzip
statuscode	200
http_version	HTTP/2

External factors 100% achieved

Backlinks

(Critically important)

This page is referenced by wikipedia.

This website has excellent links from other websites.

This page has backlinks from 8,769 referring domains.

This page has 245,733 backlinks.

This page has backlinks from 5,598 different ip addresses.

Backlinks

Links from Wikipedia

You can find more links using Wikipedia search

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
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
Disallow: /googlea53c1e2396fe8704.html
# 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: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password/
Disallow: /index.php/user/register/
Disallow: /index.php/user/login/
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout/
Disallow: /admin/login
Disallow: /saml_error
Disallow: /ajax/nt-alerts
Disallow: /ajax/nt-alerts/*
Disallow: /proxy-request/*

# Slow down GovDelivery crawler rate
User-agent: GovDelivery Evolution PageWatcher
Crawl-delay: 1

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Metro | Nashville.gov

Official website of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County.

Most important keywords

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

Keyword	Result	Recheck
Metro	81%	Check
Metro Nashville	80%	Check
Nashville	79%	Check
gov	77%	Check
Nashville Davidson	64%	Check
Metro Government	64%	Check
Nashville Public	59%	Check
Metro News	58%	Check
Metro Council	58%	Check
Nashville Davidson County	58%	Check
Metro Events	58%	Check
Government	50%	Check
Metropolitan Government	48%	Check
website	47%	Check
Metropolitan	46%	Check
Davidson	46%	Check
County	46%	Check
Davidson County	46%	Check
Council	39%	Check
Service	38%	Check
Services	38%	Check
Events	38%	Check
Mayor	38%	Check
Check	38%	Check
Mobile Apps	38%	Check

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Nashville.gov - SEO Checker

Task list of SEO Improvements 3 Tasks

Meta specifications 98% achieved

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Page quality 86% achieved

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Media list

Page structure 73% achieved

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Heading structure

Link structure 92% achieved

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Found links on this page

Server configuration 86% achieved

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HTTP Response Header

External factors 100% achieved

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Links from Wikipedia

Robots.txt

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