Ncei.noaa.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
49% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
91% 
Server
54% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.19 s
File size
31.90 kB
Words
365
Media files
10
Number of links
52 internal / 13 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
The length of the page title is perfect. (489 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
NCEI offers
The meta description is too short. (73 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length) Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.ncei.noaa.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
descriptionNCEI offers
keywordsclimate,data,observations,weather,coasts,oceans,geophysics,satellites
robotsindex, follow
generatorNCEI
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:urlhttps://www.ncei.noaa.gov/node
charsetutf-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 365 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
30.4% 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.
8 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 10.82 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 20 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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 7 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
/libraries/uswds/img/us_flag_small.pngU.S. flag
/libraries/uswds/img/icon-dot-gov.svgDot gov
/libraries/uswds/img/icon-https.svgHttps
/themes/custom/ncei/logo.svgNational Centers for Environmental Information logoNational Centers for Environmental Information logo
.../custom/ncei/images/icons/src/search.svgClick to run NCEI search
...c/4.23.24 USDM 480x480.png?itok=mIUdBhQrA person in denim kneeling down to cut strawberries from a vine with shears.
.../AMOC web story teaser.png?itok=4wJ396X1Fair weather cumulus clouds reflecting off of a glassy smooth ocean.
.../field/image/Rachel480.jpg?itok=mjG8aMvjRachel Carson leaning against a tree at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service field office in Michigan.
...Climate Report 480x480.png?itok=teBVptoe Queensland Beaches in Australia with dark blue sandy water and mountains rising in the distance.
...tom/ncei/components/images/logo/logo.svgNational Centers for Environmental InformationNational Centers for Environmental Information logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
National Centers for Environmental Information
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 National Centers for Environmental Information
H2 Looking for Data?
H2 Recent Weather
H2 Featured News
H2 Archive
H2 Access
H2 Follow Us
H2 Contact Us
H3 U.S. Drought: Weekly Report for April 23, 2024
H3 Decades of Data on a Changing Atlantic Circulation
H3 Rachel Carson
H3 Assessing the Global Climate in March 2024
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 4 links with a trivial 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 13 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/IMG-ALT National Centers for Environmental Information logo
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/Home
/productsProducts
/servicesServices
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/accessAccess
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archiveArchive
/services/certificationData Certification
/maps-and-geospatial-productsMaps
/monitoringMonitoring
/online-storeOnline Store
/regionalRegional
/services/state-of-the-servicesState of the Services
/services/world-data-systemWorld Data System
/resourcesResources
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/alertsAlerts
https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/ab...External Subdomain Change Notices
/resources/educationEducation
/resources/metadataMetadata
/weather-climate-linksQuick Links
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/newsNews
/bams-state-of-climateBAMS
https://repository.library.noa...New window External Subdomain Publications
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contactContact
/about-usAbout
/about/locationsLocations
/about/our-impactSubdomain Our Impact
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/Anchor No Text
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/aboutAbout NCEI
/productsOur Products
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/accessAccess Data
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archiveArchive Data
https://www.weather.gov/forecastExternal Subdomain National Weather Service.
/news/us-drought-weekly-report...IMG-ALT A person in denim kneeling down to cut strawberries from a vine with shears.
/news/us-drought-weekly-report...U.S. Drought: Weekly Report for April 23, 2024
/news/us-drought-weekly-report...Trivial anchor text
Read More
/news/decades-data-changing-at...IMG-ALT Fair weather cumulus clouds reflecting off of a glassy smooth ocean.
/news/decades-data-changing-at...Decades of Data on a Changing Atlantic Circulation
/news/decades-data-changing-at...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/news/rachel-carsonIMG-ALT Rachel Carson leaning against a tree at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service field office in Michigan.
/news/rachel-carsonRachel Carson
/news/rachel-carsonText duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/news/global-climate-202403IMG-ALT Queensland Beaches in Australia with dark blue sandy water and mountains rising in the distance.
/news/global-climate-202403Assessing the Global Climate in March 2024
/news/global-climate-202403Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/newsView More News
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archiveHow to Archive
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/accessHow to Access
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/Anchor Return to top
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/IMG-ALT National Centers for Environmental Information
A-TITLE Home
https://www.facebook.com/NOAAN...External Subdomain @NOAANCEI
A-TITLE Link to @NOAANCEI Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/noaa...External Subdomain @NOAAData
A-TITLE Link to @NOAAData Instagram
https://twitter.com/NOAANCEIExternal Text duplicate @NOAANCEI
A-TITLE Link to @NOAANCEI Twitter
/news.xmlNews Feed
A-TITLE Link to subscribe to NCEI News Feed
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contactEmail by topic
A-TITLE Contact NCEI NOAA via email
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/sitemapSitemap
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/privacyPrivacy Policy
https://www.noaa.gov/informati...External Subdomain Freedom of Information Act
https://www.noaa.gov/organizat...External Subdomain Information Quality
/accessibilitySubdomain Accessibility
https://www.noaa.gov/disclaimerExternal Subdomain Disclaimer
https://docs.google.com/forms/...External Subdomain Take Our Survey
A-TITLE NCEI Website Survey
https://www.commerce.gov/External Subdomain Department of Commerce
https://www.noaa.gov/External Subdomain NOAA
http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/External Subdomain NESDIS

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.19 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.
This page loads 29 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 20 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (32 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSat, 18 May 2024 19:41:26 GMT
servernginx
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
cache-controlmax-age=300, public
varyCookie,Accept-Encoding
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheHIT
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
last-modifiedSat, 18 May 2024 13:06:53 GMT
etag"1716037613-gunzip-gzip"
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cacheMISS
x-request-idv-7f855db2-1517-11ef-9824-ff4f4ed824fd
x-ah-environment01live
age228
viavarnish
x-cacheHIT
x-cache-hits131
accept-rangesbytes
content-encodinggzip
access-control-allow-origin*
access-control-allow-headersX-Requested-With, Content-Type
content-length8051
connectionclose
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

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 15,852 referring domains.
This page has 1,608,324 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 8,911 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /data*
Disallow: /orders*

Allow: /data/oceans/coris/library*

#CRN
Disallow: /access/crn/*?
Disallow: /access/crn/ws/
Disallow: /access/crn/flex/
Disallow: /access/crn/error/
Disallow: /access/crn/new*
Disallow: /access/crn/xml*

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
NCEI72%Check
Environmental65%Check
National65%Check
Centers65%Check
National Centers65%Check
Environmental Information65%Check
information64%Check
gov54%Check
National Weather53%Check
Data43%Check
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