Ny.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
87% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
71% 
Server
84% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.48 s
File size
51.60 kB
Words
554
Media files
0
Number of links
25 internal / 54 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The Official Website of New York State
The length of the page title is perfect. (348 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The official website of the State of New York. Find information about state government agencies and learn more about our programs and services.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (898 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.ny.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)
The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
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
descriptionThe official website of the State of New York. Find information about state government agencies and learn more about our programs and services.
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:titleThe Official Website of New York State
twitter:descriptionThe official website of the State of New York. Find information about state government agencies and learn more about our programs and services.
twitter:urlhttps://www.ny.gov/
twitter:imagehttps://www.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/NYGovFacebookMeta01LightGray_2024.png
twitter:image:altAn image of the outline of New York state with the text New York State
og:site_nameThe Official Website of New York State
og:urlhttps://www.ny.gov/
og:titleThe Official Website of New York State
og:descriptionThe official website of the State of New York. Find information about state government agencies and learn more about our programs and services.
og:imagehttps://www.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/NYGovFacebookMeta01LightGray_2024.png
og:image:urlhttps://www.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/NYGovFacebookMeta01LightGray_2024.png
og:image:secure_urlhttps://www.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/NYGovFacebookMeta01LightGray_2024.png
og:image:typeimage/png
og:image:altAn image of the outline of New York state with the text New York State
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 554 words. That's ok.
22.9% 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.
6 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 18.56 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 7 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 11 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

No media files were found.

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 Updated Vaccines to Protect Families and Communities
H2 Popular Services
H2 Featured
H2 Plan
H2 New York State
H2 Stay
H2 Connect With Us
H3 Programs
H3 Get Offline, Get Outside!
H3 FY 2025 New York State Budget
H3 Help for Addiction & Problem Gambling
H3 Ahead
H3 Government
H3 Governor
H3 Comptroller
H3 Attorney General
H3 Judicial
H3 Legislature
H3 Informed
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 too many external links (54) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.ny.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.ny.gov/Subdomain New York State Home
A-TITLE New York State Home
https://www.ny.gov/servicesServices
https://www.ny.gov/programsPrograms
https://governor.ny.gov/newsExternal Subdomain News
https://www.ny.gov/agenciesGovernment
https://www.governor.ny.gov/ne...External Subdomain Press Release
https://www.vaccines.gov/en/External Subdomain Find Vaccines Near You
/services/register-voteSubdomain Register to Vote
/services/apply-snapApply for SNAP
https://www.hesc.ny.gov/fafsar...External Subdomain Apply for College Financial Aid
/services/get-new-york-mobile-idSubdomain Get a New York Mobile ID
https://www.governor.ny.gov/pr...External Subdomain Get Offline, Get Outside!
https://www.governor.ny.gov/pr...External Subdomain Text duplicate Get Offline, Get Outside!
https://www.governor.ny.gov/pr...External Subdomain FY 2025 New York State Budget
https://www.governor.ny.gov/pr...External Subdomain Text duplicate FY 2025 New York State Budget
https://oasas.ny.gov/hopelineExternal Subdomain Help for Addiction & Problem Gambling
https://oasas.ny.gov/hopelineExternal Subdomain Text duplicate Help for Addiction & Problem Gambling
https://www.iloveny.com/blog/p...External Subdomain September Events
https://www.iloveny.com/blog/p...External Subdomain Plan Your Fall Adventure
https://www.iloveny.com/blog/p...External Subdomain Best Places to See Fall Foliage
https://www.governor.ny.gov/External Subdomain Redundant image link for visual enhancement only
https://www.governor.ny.gov/External Subdomain Kathy Hochul
https://twitter.com/govkathyho...External Kathy Hochul on X
https://www.facebook.com/govka...External Subdomain Kathy Hochul on facebook
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...External Subdomain Kathy Hochul on flickr
https://www.instagram.com/govk...External Subdomain Kathy Hochul on instagram
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain Kathy Hochul on youtube
https://www.osc.state.ny.us/External Subdomain Text duplicate Redundant image link for visual enhancement only
https://www.osc.state.ny.us/External Subdomain Thomas P. DiNapoli
https://twitter.com/nyscomptro...External Thomas P. DiNapoli on X
https://www.facebook.com/nysco...External Subdomain Thomas P. DiNapoli on facebook
https://www.instagram.com/nys....External Subdomain Thomas P. DiNapoli on instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain Thomas P. DiNapoli on linkedin
https://www.youtube.com/user/C...External Subdomain Thomas P. DiNapoli on youtube
https://ag.ny.gov/External Subdomain Text duplicate Redundant image link for visual enhancement only
https://ag.ny.gov/External Subdomain Letitia James
https://twitter.com/newyorksta...External Letitia James on X
https://www.facebook.com/newyo...External Subdomain Letitia James on facebook
http://instagram.com/newyorkst...External Letitia James on instagram
https://www.youtube.com/newyor...External Subdomain Letitia James on youtube
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain Letitia James on linkedin
https://www.nycourts.gov/ctapps/New window External Subdomain Court of Appeals
http://www.nycourts.gov/New window External Subdomain NY State Unified Court System
https://www.nysenate.gov/New window External Subdomain NY State Senate
https://nyassembly.gov/New window External NY State Assembly
/new-york-state-congressional-...New window NY State Congressional Delegation
https://www.ny.gov/mobileappsDownload NY State Apps
https://www.ny.gov/agenciesFollow State Agencies
https://twitter.com/nygovExternal X
https://www.instagram.com/nygov/External Subdomain instagram
https://www.ny.gov/Anchor Scroll back to the top of the page
https://www.ny.gov/Subdomain Text duplicate New York State Home
A-TITLE New York State Home
https://www.ny.gov/accessibilityAccessibility
https://www.ny.gov/agenciesAgencies
https://www.ny.gov/mobileappsApp Directory
https://www.ny.gov/countiesCounties
/website-disclaimerDisclaimer
https://www.ny.gov/eventsEvents
https://ogs.ny.gov/office-lang...External Subdomain Language Access
https://www.ny.gov/privacy-policyPrivacy Policy
https://www.ny.gov/programsText duplicate Programs
https://www.ny.gov/servicesText duplicate Services
/web-translation-servicesSubdomain Translation Services
/web-translation-servicesSubdomain Text duplicate Translation Services
https://ny.gov/homepageEnglish
https://es.ny.gov/homepageExternal Subdomain Español
https://zh.ny.gov/homepageExternal Subdomain 中文
https://zh-traditional.ny.gov/...External Subdomain 繁體中文
https://ru.ny.gov/homepageExternal Subdomain Русский
https://yi.ny.gov/homepageExternal Subdomain יידיש
https://bn.ny.gov/homepageExternal Subdomain বাংলা
https://ko.ny.gov/homepageExternal Subdomain 한국어
https://ht.ny.gov/homepageExternal Subdomain Kreyòl Ayisyen
https://it.ny.gov/homepageExternal Subdomain Italiano
https://ar.ny.gov/homepageExternal Subdomain العربية
https://pl.ny.gov/homepageExternal Subdomain Polski
https://fr.ny.gov/homepageExternal Subdomain Français
https://ur.ny.gov/homepageExternal Subdomain اردو

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.ny.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 of 0.48 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 4 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (52 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 05 Sep 2024 21:06:43 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
transfer-encodingchunked
connectionkeep-alive
cache-controlmax-age=300, public, s-maxage=86400, stale-if-error=86400, stale-while-revalidate=60
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
varyCookie,Accept-Encoding,Origin
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-xss-protection1
strict-transport-securitymax-age=1000
referrer-policyno-referrer
last-modifiedThu, 05 Sep 2024 17:14:41 GMT
x-request-idv-56f9cbe6-6baa-11ef-a920-e7679e7f7bad
x-ah-environmentprod
viavarnish
x-cacheHIT
x-cache-hits1
cf-cache-statusHIT
set-cookie251 Characters
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self'; upgrade-insecure-requests
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
servercloudflare
cf-ray8be92f4faecad380-FRA
content-encodinggzip
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 11,128 referring domains.
This page has 699,855 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 6,868 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

#
# 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.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/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
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# 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: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed
# Sitemap
Sitemap: https://www.ny.gov/sitemap.xml

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www.ny.gov
The Official Website of New York State
The official website of the State of New York. Find information about state government agencies and learn more about our programs and services.

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State66%Check
New66%Check
York66%Check
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New York State66%Check
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