Privacy.ca.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
61% 
Page quality
45% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
87% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.80 s
File size
150.40 kB
Words
203
Media files
5
Number of links
34 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
privacy.ca.gov | A website brought to you by the California Privacy Protection Agency
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 759 pixels long. Optimize title
The domain is used in the page's title.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
State of California
The meta description is too short. (113 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length) Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://privacy.ca.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
AuthorState of California
DescriptionState of California
KeywordsCalifornia, government
HandheldFriendlyTrue
MobileOptimized320
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
robotsmax-image-preview:large
generatorCAWeb v.1.12.1
langen
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 203 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
36.9% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 12.67 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
Multiple viewport tags are given. There should only be one.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0" 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 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 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
.../2024/01/privacycagov-century-gothic.pngOn the left - Blue shield with yellow outline. On top of the shield, a light blue icon in the shape of California. On the right: privacy.ca.gov text; yellow dividing line, "A website by the California Privacy Protection Agency" text.
.../sites/357/2024/01/hero-shot_00000-1.pngNo alt attribute provided
...tes/357/2024/01/my-rights-under-CCPA.pngIcon of a yellow book with overlay of scales of justice in front in a blue circle.
...oads/sites/357/2024/01/protecting-PI.pngIcon of a two-tone blue shield with a dark blue border. In the center, a light blue circle with a yellow padlock.
...ites/357/2024/01/Info-for-businesses.pngIcon of a spiral notebook with yellow spirals and grey writing. On the right, there is an overlay of a blue magnifying glass with a lowercase i (for

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
I want to learn more about...
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 I want to learn more about...
H1 I have a different privacy concern related to:
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://privacy.ca.gov/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.ca.gov/External Subdomain CA.gov
A-TITLE CA.gov website
https://privacy.ca.gov/IMG-ALT On the left - Blue shield with yellow outline. On top of the shield, a light blue icon in the shape of California. On the right: privacy.ca.gov text; yellow ...
/california-privacy-rights/Subdomain California privacy rights
/california-privacy-rights/you...Subdomain Your right to privacy
/california-privacy-rights/rig...Subdomain Rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act
/california-privacy-rights/add...Subdomain Additional protections
/protect-your-personal-informa...Subdomain Protect your personal information
/protect-your-personal-informa...Subdomain What is personal information?
/protect-your-personal-informa...Subdomain How can personal information be used?
/protect-your-personal-informa...Subdomain How to protect your information
/submit-a-complaint/Subdomain Submit a complaint
/submit-a-complaint/ccpa-compl...Subdomain CCPA complaints
/submit-a-complaint/other-comp...Subdomain Other complaints
https://privacy.ca.gov/resources/Subdomain Resources
/resources/information-for-bus...Subdomain Business resources
/resources/data-broker-registry/Subdomain Data broker registry
https://privacy.ca.gov/about-us/Subdomain About
/about-us/about-the-cppa/Subdomain About the CPPA
/about-us/cppa-blog/Subdomain CPPA Blog
/about-us/join-our-mailing-lists/Subdomain Join our mailing lists
/about-us/about-the-cppa/Subdomain About us
/california-privacy-rights/rig...Subdomain IMG-ALT Icon of a yellow book with overlay of scales of justice in front in a blue circle.
A-TITLE Icon of a yellow book with overlay of scales of justice in front in a blue circle.
/protect-your-personal-informa...Subdomain IMG-ALT Icon of a two-tone blue shield with a dark blue border. In the center, a light blue circle with a yellow padlock.
A-TITLE Icon of a two-tone blue shield with a dark blue border. In the center, a light blue circle with a yellow padlock.
/business-resources/Subdomain IMG-ALT Icon of a spiral notebook with yellow spirals and grey writing. On the right, there is an overlay of a blue magnifying glass with a lowercase i (for
A-TITLE Icon of a spiral notebook with yellow spirals and grey writing. On the right, there is an overlay of a blue magnifying glass with a lowercase i (for
/california-privacy-rights/add...Subdomain Anchor Financial privacy
/california-privacy-rights/add...Subdomain Anchor Health privacy
/california-privacy-rights/add...Subdomain Anchor Children's privacy
/california-privacy-rights/add...Subdomain Anchor Civil rights violations
/california-privacy-rights/add...Subdomain Anchor Harassment
/california-privacy-rights/add...Subdomain Something else
https://www.ca.gov/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate A-TITLE CA.gov
/conditions-of-use/Subdomain Conditions of Use
/privacy-policy/Subdomain Privacy Policy
/accessibility/Subdomain Accessibility
/contact-us/Subdomain Contact Us
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE LinkedIn
https://twitter.com/CalPrivacyNew window External A-TITLE @CalPrivacy
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE YouTube

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://privacy.ca.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (1.80 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (150 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 07 Nov 2024 15:09:46 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-powered-byWP Engine
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self' *.ca.gov
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
link<https://privacy.ca.gov/>; rel=shortlink
x-cacheablebot
cache-controlmax-age=10800, must-revalidate
x-cacheHIT: 5
x-cache-groupbot
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
servercloudflare
cf-ray8dee3f089aebdca0-FRA
content-encodinggzip
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 117 referring domains.
This page has 166 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 99 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://privacy.ca.gov/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://privacy.ca.gov/sitemap.html

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
privacy65%Check
California privacy62%Check
gov61%Check
California58%Check
California Privacy Protection57%Check
California Privacy Protection Agency55%Check
privacy rights51%Check
California Consumer Privacy51%Check
Privacy Act50%Check
learn50%Check
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