News.maryland.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
51% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
72% 
Server
0% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.91 s
File size
42.00 kB
Words
334
Media files
3
Number of links
7 internal / 43 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The title of the page is empty or not set.
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://news.maryland.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
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
robotsmax-image-preview:large
langen
og:urlEmpty
og:typewebsite
og:descriptionEmpty
og:image/wp-content/themes/MDTheme_eGov_news/egov/dist/img/logo.png
og:image:altEmpty
og:site_nameEmpty
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
No paragraphs were detected.
There are only 334 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
18% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
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)
This page loads 12 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
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)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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
...MDTheme_eGov_news/egov/dist/img/logo.pngGo To Home Page
/wp-includes/images/rss.pngRSS
/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/MDlogo.pngMaryland Flag Logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Maryland State Agency News
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Maryland State Agency News
H2 Main Navigation
H2 Section Menu
H2 Latest News RSS
There are too few (7) internal links on this page.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (43) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://news.maryland.gov/Anchor Skip to Content
https://www.maryland.gov/pages...New window External Subdomain Accessibility Information
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...External Subdomain RESIDENTS
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...External Subdomain BUSINESS
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...External Subdomain GOVERNMENT
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...External Subdomain JOBS
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...External Subdomain EDUCATION
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...External Subdomain VISITORS
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...External Subdomain ONLINE SERVICES
https://www.facebook.com/state...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Facebook
https://twitter.com/StateMarylandNew window External A-TITLE Twitter
https://news.maryland.gov/Anchor Section Menu
http://news.maryland.gov/Subdomain News Home
/mda/category/mda-newsroom/Subdomain Agriculture
https://news.maryland.gov/mde/Subdomain Environment
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor’s Office
https://news.maryland.gov/dnr/Subdomain Natural Resources
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...External Subdomain State Parks
http://news.maryland.gov/mspSubdomain State Police
https://www.mdot.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Transportation
https://www.visitmaryland.org/...External Subdomain Visiting Maryland
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...External Subdomain Central Maryland
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...External Subdomain Eastern Maryland
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...External Subdomain Southern Maryland
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...External Subdomain Western Maryland
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain IMG-ALT RSS
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Latest News
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Wes Moore Statement on Shooting at Joppatowne High School
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Announces Appointments to Baltimore City Circuit Court
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Announces Appointment of Cleveland L. Horton II as Executive Director of the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Appoints New Maryland Port Commissioners
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Joins State and Federal Leaders to Announce Maryland Adding IRS Direct File System For 2025 Filing Season
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Kicks Off First Labor Relations Roundtable with Local Union Leaders
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Announces Appointments to the Maryland State Board of Education
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Wes Moore Statement on His Military Record
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Announces $20 Million in Grants for Education Programs, First Awards Under Maryland Partnership for Proven Programs with Arnold Ventures
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Announces Maryland Cannabis Administration Director Will Tilburg to Step Down in December
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Announces Second Round of Build Our Future Grants to Make Maryland More Competitive
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Announces Low-Interest Federal Financial Assistance for Farmers Affected by Drought
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Announces $23 Million in Federal Funding to Expand Registered Apprenticeships and Workforce Development in Maryland
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain What People Are Saying About Governor Moore’s Keynote Address at the 2024 Maryland Association of Counties Summer Conference
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Attends 2024 Maryland Association of Counties Summer Conference
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Delivers Keynote Address at the 2024 Maryland Association of Counties Summer Conference
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Announces Investments to Enhance Energy Efficiency and Reduce Operating Expenses in Public Schools
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Announces Record-Breaking Passenger Traffic at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Announces $7.3 Million in EARN Workforce Grants To Supercharge High-Demand Industries and Make Maryland More Competitive
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Announces $9.2 Million Renewable Energy Workforce Development Program for Maryland Higher Education Institutions
https://www.maryland.gov/pages...New window External Subdomain Contact Us
https://www.facebook.com/state...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate A-TITLE Facebook
https://twitter.com/StateMarylandNew window External Text duplicate A-TITLE Twitter

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://news.maryland.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.91 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 7 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 12 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (42 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSun, 08 Sep 2024 22:18:36 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length43047
x-via-nscopi1.0
connectionkeep-alive
cache-controlmax-age=3, must-revalidate
varyAccept-Encoding, Cookie
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
x-powered-byPHP/8.2.20
set-cookie135 Characters
strict-transport-securitymax-age=157680000; includeSubDomains; preload
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 4,110 referring domains.
This page has 31,014 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,658 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: https://news.maryland.gov/wp-sitemap.xml

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Maryland70%Check
Maryland State62%Check
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