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Meta information
80% 
Page quality
68% 
Page structure
62% 
Link structure
95% 
Server
81% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.79 s
File size
77.00 kB
Words
693
Media files
9
Number of links
46 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home Page | Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
The length of the page title is perfect. (464 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://www.pbgc.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)
The specified alternate links have no errors.
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
GeneratorDrupal 10 (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)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 693 words. That's ok.
26.6% 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.
12 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 11.06 words is good.
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 14 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
7 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.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
.../pbgc_theme/assets/img/us_flag_small.pngNo alt attribute provided
...es/custom/pbgc_theme/assets/img/logo.svgNo alt attribute provided
...-50th-anniversary-logo.png?itok=c4fO1TzXPBGC 50th anniversary logo
...ges/sfa-sidekick-image.png?itok=8COGWQxXNo alt attribute provided
...es/default/files/2021-08/handshake_0.svgNo alt attribute provided
.../default/files/2021-08/people-icon_0.svgNo alt attribute provided
...es/default/files/2021-08/bar-chart_2.svgNo alt attribute provided
.../pbgc_theme/assets/img/logo--cropped.svgNo alt attribute provided
...tom/pbgc_theme/assets/img/logo-white.svgLogo of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
FY 2023 Projections Report
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 FY 2023 Projections Report
H1 Welcome to PBGC!
H2 PBGC celebrates 50 years
H2 Special Financial Assistance Program
H2 New to PBGC
H2 Workers & Retirees
H2 Employers & Practitioners
H2 PBGC Approves SFA Application for Sanitation Union Local 813 Plan
H2 PBGC Approves SFA Application for Teamsters Local 469 Plan
H2 PBGC Approves SFA Application for IBEW Local 226 Fund
H2 Practitioner News
H2 What Are You Looking For?
H3 Press Release
H3 Press Release Duplicate text
H3 Press Release Duplicate text
H4 Sanitation Union Local 813 Plan Preserves Benefits Through Receipt of Special Financial Assistance
H4 Teamsters Local 469 Pension Plan Averts Insolvency and Reduction of Benefits Through Receipt of Special Financial Assistance
H4 IBEW Local 226 Fund Preserves Benefits Through Receipt of Special Financial Assistance
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 2 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 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.pbgc.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.pbgc.gov/Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation A U.S. Government Agency
A-TITLE Home
/workers-retireesWorkers & Retirees
https://www.pbgc.gov/mypbaMyPBA Login
/about/pg/contact/contactContact Us
https://www.pbgc.gov/glossaryGlossary
/about/policies/pg/pbgc-assist...Languages
https://www.pbgc.gov/English
https://www.pbgc.gov/esEspañol
https://www.pbgc.gov/esSpanish home page
https://www.pbgc.gov/espágina principal del sitio de español
/news/press/releases/pr24-022Learn More
/news/press/releases/pr24-028PBGC celebrates 50 years
/news/press/releases/pr24-028Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://www.pbgc.gov/arp-sfaSpecial Financial Assistance Program
https://www.pbgc.gov/arp-sfaText duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://www.pbgc.gov/new-to-pbgcNew to PBGC
/workers-retireesText duplicate Workers & Retirees
https://www.pbgc.gov/pracEmployers & Practitioners
/news/press/releases/pr24-032PBGC Approves SFA Application for Sanitation Union Local 813 Plan
/news/press/releases/pr24-031PBGC Approves SFA Application for Teamsters Local 469 Plan
/news/press/releases/pr24-030PBGC Approves SFA Application for IBEW Local 226 Fund
/prac/whatsnewFirst ERISA 4044 Yield Curve now Available
/prac/whatsnewSolicitation of Nominations for the PBGC Participant and Plan Sponsor Advocate
/prac/whatsnewUpdated Filing Instructions for 4010 and DB Missing Participants Program
https://service.govdelivery.co...External Subdomain Subscribe to Email Updates
https://www.pbgc.gov/mypbaLog In to MyPBA (For Workers & Retirees)
https://mypaa.pbgc.gov/External Subdomain Log In to My PAA (For Practitioners)
/about/factsheets/page/multi-f...Multiemployer Insurance Program Facts
/wr/benefits/annuity-or-lump-sumAnnuity or Lump Sum
/about/annual-reportsAnnual Reports
/prac/laws-and-regulation/fede...Federal Register Notices Open for Comment
/prac/laws-and-regulations.htmlLaws and Regulations
/open/index.htmlPBGC Data Sets
/prac/laws-and-regulations/red...Reducing Regulatory Burden
https://www.opm.gov/policy-dat...External Subdomain Federal Holidays
https://www.opm.gov/policy-dat...External Subdomain Text duplicate Federal Holidays
https://www.facebook.com/uspbgc/External Subdomain External link to PBGC's Facebook page
A-TITLE Follow PBGC on Facebook
https://twitter.com/uspbgcExternal External link to PBGC's X feed (formerly Twitter)
A-TITLE Follow PBGC on X (formerly Twitter)
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain External link to PBGC's LinkedIn
A-TITLE Follow PBGC on LinkedIn
https://www.pbgc.gov/a-zindexA-Z Index
/about/policies/pg/pbgc-web-si...Accessibility
A-TITLE Accessibility
/about/pg/footer/abaArchitectural Barriers Act
/about/policies/pg/customer-se...Customer Service
https://www.pbgc.gov/about/faqFAQs
/about/pg/footer/foiaFOIA
https://www.usa.gov/espanol/External Subdomain GobiernoUSA
/about/pg/footer/eeoNo FEAR / MD 715
https://oig.pbgc.gov/index.htmlExternal Subdomain Office of Inspector General
https://www.pbgc.gov/open/indexOpen Government
https://www.pbgc.gov/advocateParticipant and Plan Sponsor Advocate
/about/policies/pg/privacy-at-...Privacy @ PBGC
https://www.pbgc.gov/sitemapSite Map
/stay-informedStay Informed
/about/policies/pg/pbgc-web-si...Terms of Use
https://www.usa.gov/External Subdomain USA.gov
https://vote.gov/External Vote.gov
A-TITLE Vote.gov site

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.pbgc.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 0.79 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (77 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cacheHIT
x-request-idv-08a973ae-799e-11ef-82dd-d3f19343f1f5
x-ah-environmentprod
x-age0
accept-rangesbytes
x-akamai-transformed9 12400 0 pmb=mRUM,1
content-encodinggzip
cache-controlprivate, must-revalidate, max-age=60
expiresMon, 23 Sep 2024 11:25:33 GMT
dateMon, 23 Sep 2024 11:24:33 GMT
content-length14144
varyAccept-Encoding
server-timingcdn-cache; desc=HIT
acquia-debug-10
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000 ; includeSubDomains
acquia-debug-01
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 3,574 referring domains.
This page has 412,978 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,508 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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# robots.txt
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# 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: *
Crawl-delay: 10
Sitemap: https://www.pbgc.gov/sitemap.xml
# 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
Allow: /themes/*.css$
Allow: /themes/*.css?
Allow: /themes/*.js$
Allow: /themes/*.js?
Allow: /themes/*.gif
Allow: /themes/*.jpg
Allow: /themes/*.jpeg
Allow: /themes/*.png
Allow: /themes/*.svg
Allow: /modules/*.css$
Allow: /modules/*.css?
Allow: /modules/*.js$
Allow: /modules/*.js?
Allow: /modules/*.gif
Allow: /modules/*.jpg
Allow: /modules/*.jpeg
Allow: /modules/*.png
Allow: /modules/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /themes/
# Files
Disallow: /README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /update.php
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search-all
Disallow: /search-insured-plans
Disallow: /search-trusteed-plans
Disallow: /search-unclaimed-pensions
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-all
Disallow: /index.php/search-insured-plans
Disallow: /index.php/search-trusteed-plans
Disallow: /index.php/search-unclaimed-pensions
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout

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PBGC58%Check
Benefit56%Check
Pension Benefit55%Check
Pension Benefit Guaranty53%Check
Pension52%Check
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation52%Check
Projections50%Check
Report50%Check
Pension Plan49%Check
Guaranty48%Check
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