Otda.ny.gov - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
77% 
Page quality
41% 
Page structure
74% 
Link structure
71% 
Server
21% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.72 s
File size
17.80 kB
Words
234
Media files
3
Number of links
8 internal / 0 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance
The length of the page title is perfect. (403 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Programs that Help Low-income New Yorkers Make Ends Meet. The New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance supervises support programs for families and individuals.
The meta description is too long: 1157 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is 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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
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
DescriptionPrograms that Help Low-income New Yorkers Make Ends Meet. The New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance supervises support programs for families and individuals.
Keywordsfood stamps,SNAP,HEAP,assistance,temporary,public,child support,fair hearings,otda
authorNew York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1
apple-mobile-web-app-capableno
apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-styleblack
google-site-verificationM0c2NA7YWzPNPQe8L68newF-zantwC2RRSHXluYduqs
langen
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:urlhttp://otda.ny.gov/default.asp
twitter:titleOffice of Temporary and Disability Assistance
twitter:image:srchttp://otda.ny.gov/ui/images/people-min.jpg
twitter:descriptionPrograms that Help Low-income New Yorkers Make Ends Meet. The New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance supervises support programs for families and individuals.
og:site_nameNew York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance
og:typearticle
og:urlhttp://otda.ny.gov/default.asp
og:titleOffice of Temporary and Disability Assistance
og:descriptionPrograms that Help Low-income New Yorkers Make Ends Meet. The New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance supervises support programs for families and individuals.
og:imagehttp://otda.ny.gov/ui/images/people-min.jpg
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 234 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
34.6% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
5 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 17.45 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, minimum-scale=1" 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)
2 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
/ui/images/summer-ebt.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/ui/images/fair-hearings.jpgFair Hearings
https://otda.ny.gov/ui/images/snap.jpgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Warning
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (7 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Warning
H2 Protect Your Benefits Freeze Your EBT Card
H2 Featured
H3 Summer EBT
H3 Fair Hearings
H3 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
There are too few (8) 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 no external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/accessibility.aspView a list of supported browsers.
/workingfamilies/EBT-scam-aler...Learn More About Freezing your EBT Card.
/programs/summer-ebt/Summer EBT
/programs/summer-ebt/Learn more about the Summer EBT Program
https://otda.ny.gov/hearings/Fair Hearings
/hearings/request/Request a Fair Hearing
/programs/snap/Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
/programs/snap/Learn more about the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://otda.ny.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 0.72 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 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 1 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (18 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate
content-typetext/html
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
set-cookie53 Characters
x-powered-byASP.NET
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge
access-control-allow-originhttps://www.search.its.ny.gov
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-oneagent-js-injectiontrue
x-ruxit-js-agenttrue
server-timingdtSInfo;desc="0", dtRpid;desc="-400855825"
dateTue, 20 May 2025 01:39:58 GMT
connectionclose
content-length18232
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 261 referring domains.
This page has 2,225 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 240 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

# OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS

User-agent: *
Disallow: /fair%20hearing%20images/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /social/
Disallow: /employee-info/
Disallow: /time/
Disallow: /news/jobs/attachments/
Disallow: /news/reports/
Disallow: /news/hero/
Disallow: /contracts/forms/
Disallow: /legal/part-902-hotel-motel-regs.pdf
Disallow: /Migrant-Relocation-Assistance/
Disallow: /MRAP/
Disallow: /waiver-request-summer-ebt.asp

User-agent: nys-crawler
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /social/
Disallow: /employee-info/
Disallow: /time/
Disallow: /news/jobs/attachments/
Disallow: /news/reports/
Disallow: /news/hero/
Disallow: /contracts/forms/
Disallow: /waiver-request-summer-ebt.asp

User-agent: nys-qa-crawler
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /social/
Disallow: /employee-info/
Disallow: /time/
Disallow: /news/jobs/attachments/
Disallow: /news/reports/
Disallow: /news/hero/
Disallow: /contracts/forms/
Disallow: /waiver-request-summer-ebt.asp

User-agent: nys-elastic-crawler
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /social/
Disallow: /employee-info/
Disallow: /time/
Disallow: /news/jobs/attachments/
Disallow: /news/reports/
Disallow: /news/hero/
Disallow: /contracts/forms/
Disallow: /waiver-request-summer-ebt.asp

User-agent: nys-elastic-crawler Elastic Cloud (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud/current/ec-get-help.html; 37e0a42d3d1642719c01f9fa7fabcdd7)
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /social/
Disallow: /employee-info/
Disallow: /time/
Disallow: /news/jobs/attachments/
Disallow: /news/reports/
Disallow: /news/hero/
Disallow: /contracts/forms/
Disallow: /waiver-request-summer-ebt.asp

Search preview

otda.ny.gov
Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance
Programs that Help Low-income New Yorkers Make Ends Meet. The New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance supervises support programs for families and individuals.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Assistance61%Check
Disability Assistance60%Check
Office58%Check
Temporary58%Check
Disability58%Check
Assistance Program55%Check
Program50%Check
Warning50%Check
Nutrition Assistance Program49%Check
families46%Check

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