Navcen.uscg.gov - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
71% 
Page quality
43% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
86% 
Server
31% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.06 s
File size
20.30 kB
Words
98
Media files
4
Number of links
39 internal / 1 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | Navigation Center
The length of the page title is perfect. (234 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://navcen.uscg.gov/home
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
GeneratorDrupal 9 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 98 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
10.2% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
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=1.0" 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)
1 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Home
H5 Nav Bar Menu - desktop
H5 Nav Bar Menu - mobile
H5 NAVCEN Main Menu - mobile
H5 Homepage Popular Menu
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 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 1 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://navcen.uscg.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.gocoastguard.com/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://navcen.uscg.gov/IMG-ALT Home
A-TITLE Home
/search/websiteNo Text
https://navcen.uscg.gov/Text duplicate Home
/search/websiteSearch
/navigation-rules-amalgamatedNav Rules
/broadcast-notice-to-marinersBNMs
/local-notices-to-mariners-by-...LNMs
/global-positioning-system-ove...GPS
/maritime-telecommunicationsComms
/maritime-safety-informationMSI
/automatic-identification-syst...AIS
/international-ice-patrolIce Patrol
https://navcen.uscg.gov/archivesArchives
https://navcen.uscg.gov/chartSpace Ops
https://navcen.uscg.gov/Text duplicate Home
/search/websiteText duplicate Search
/navigation-rules-amalgamatedText duplicate Nav Rules
/broadcast-notice-to-marinersText duplicate BNMs
/local-notices-to-mariners-by-...Text duplicate LNMs
/global-positioning-system-ove...Text duplicate GPS
/maritime-telecommunicationsText duplicate Comms
/maritime-safety-informationText duplicate MSI
/automatic-identification-syst...Text duplicate AIS
/international-ice-patrolText duplicate Ice Patrol
https://navcen.uscg.gov/archivesText duplicate Archives
https://navcen.uscg.gov/chartText duplicate Space Ops
https://navcen.uscg.gov/Text duplicate Home
/search/websiteText duplicate Search
https://navcen.uscg.gov/resourcesResources
/maritime-safety-informationMaritime Safety Information
/navigation-systems-and-servicesNav Systems and Services
https://navcen.uscg.gov/waterwaysWaterways
/report-a-problemContact Us/Report a Problem
/navcen-roleNAVCEN Guiding the Way: See Full Video...
/contact/contact-usCONTACT US / REPORT A PROBLEM
/news-and-noticesNEWS AND NOTICES
/maritime-safety-informationMARITIME SAFETY INFORMATION (MSI)
https://navcen.uscg.gov/site-mapSITE MAP
A-TITLE Site Map

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://navcen.uscg.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.06 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 (20 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlmust-revalidate, no-cache, private
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-languageen
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
link<https://navcen.uscg.gov/home>; rel="canonical"
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
permissions-policyinterest-cohort=()
x-generatorDrupal 9 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cacheHIT
dateTue, 20 Aug 2024 19:36:12 GMT
content-length20761
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 529 referring domains.
This page has 1,252 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 320 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

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
# 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

Search preview

navcen.uscg.gov
Home | Navigation Center

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Nav68%Check
NAVCEN52%Check
Navigation46%Check
Center46%Check
Navigation Center46%Check
Bar43%Check
mobile43%Check
Menu40%Check
Contact Us40%Check
Us Report40%Check

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