Roads.dot.ca.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
73% 
Page quality
49% 
Page structure
97% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
20% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.06 s
File size
6.80 kB
Words
53
Media files
1
Number of links
2 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Division of Traffic Operations - Road Information - California Highway Information
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 726 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Department of Transportation
The meta description is too short. (182 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length) 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 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, Caltrans
DescriptionDepartment of Transportation
KeywordsCalifornia, government, Caltrans, DOT, Department of Transportation, Roads, roads, Bridges, bridges, Transportation, transportation, Roadwork, roadwork, workzones, road construction, Amtrak, QuickMap, Roadside Rest Areas, roadside rest areas, MileMarker, Transportation Permits, Encroachment Permits, Truck Access, Traffic Operations, Advertised Highway Projects, Plans, Traffic Cameras, Planned Lane Closures, Bicycle Transportation, Bicycle Program, California Photos
HandheldFriendlyTrue
MobileOptimized320
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 53 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
20.8% of the text are stop words.
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 14 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 8 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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)
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
https://dot.ca.gov/images/caltranslogo.pngCaltrans Logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Road Information
The H1 heading is too short (16 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Road Information
H2 Check Current Highway Conditions
This page seems to be an entry page, because only very few links were found.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://roads.dot.ca.gov/Anchor Skip to Main Content
http://dot.ca.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Caltrans Logo
http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/d...New window External Subdomain National Weather Service
https://dot.ca.gov/programs/pu...New window External Subdomain Caltrans Social Media
https://quickmap.dot.ca.gov/New window External Subdomain QuickMap Real-time Travel Information
/roadscell.phpMobile
http://dot.ca.gov/use.htmlExternal Subdomain Conditions of Use
http://dot.ca.gov/privacy.htmlExternal Subdomain Privacy Policy
http://dot.ca.gov/accessibilit...External Subdomain Accessibility
http://dot.ca.gov/contactus.htmlExternal Subdomain Contact Us

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://roads.dot.ca.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.06 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.
This page loads 8 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 3 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (7 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 23 May 2024 19:41:48 GMT
content-length6937
connectionclose
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 3,193 referring domains.
This page has 457,311 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 883 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Road73%Check
Road Information68%Check
Information62%Check
Highway Information56%Check
California Highway Information52%Check
Highway49%Check
Travel Information48%Check
California45%Check
Current Highway43%Check
Highway Conditions43%Check
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