Ruralhome.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
95% 
Page quality
92% 
Page structure
26% 
Link structure
56% 
Server
87% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
7.95 s
File size
216.20 kB
Words
968
Media files
21
Number of links
75 internal / 20 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Housing Assistance Council
The length of the page title is perfect. (322 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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The Housing Assistance Council (HAC) is a national nonprofit that supports affordable housing efforts throughout rural America.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (784 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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https://ruralhome.org/home/
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
Language
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Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
Alternate/Hreflang Links
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There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
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The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
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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
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
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The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
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This page contains 968 words. That's ok.
25% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
10 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 16.93 words is good.
Frames
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This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
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The following tag is repeated too often: learn more
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
8 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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
RURAL AMERICANS
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (15 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 49 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 RURAL AMERICANS
H1 RURAL COMMUNITIES
H1 STRATEGIES and SOLUTIONS
H1 HOUSING ASSISTANCE COUNCIL
H1 BUILDING HOMES AND COMMUNITIES ACROSS RURAL AMERICA
H2 Housing Assistance Council
H2 HAC’s National Rural Housing Conference 2021
H2 RESEARCH AND INFORMATION
H2 TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
H2 LENDING
H2 RURAL POLICY
H2 The Latest From the Housing Assistance Council
H2 The Latest on Rural America
H3 HAC News: October 24, 2024
H3 HAC News: October 10, 2024
H3 HAC News: September 26, 2024
H3 HAC News: October 24, 2024 Duplicate text
H3 Hurricane Milton Disaster Response Guide
H3 Rural Recap – The Importance of Board Service
H3 HAC Supports Rural Provisions in Capital Magnet Fund Interim Rule
H3 RURAL AMERICANS Duplicate text
H3 many RURAL COMMUNITIES
H3 comprehensive and community-based STRATEGIES AND SOLUTIONS
H3 the HOUSING ASSISTANCE COUNCIL
H3 BUILDING HOMES AND COMMUNITIES ACROSS RURAL AMERICA Duplicate text
H3 HAC News: October 24, 2024 Duplicate text
H3 HAC News: October 10, 2024 Duplicate text
H3 Hurricane Milton Disaster Response Guide Duplicate text
H4 2025 National Rural Housing Conference
H4 Lending
H4 Training and Technical Assistance
H4 Research
H4 Policy
H4 GET THE HAC NEWS!
H4 50 Years for Rural America
H5 Read and Comment on HAC’s Application for PRICE Funding
H5 Should have access to quality homes, neighborhoods, and opportunities like anyone in the United States.
H5 many
H5 have been left behind because of global economics, disinvestment, exploitation, policy mismatches, or indifference. In 2021, rural Americans are more likely to:
H5 Empty heading
H5 live in poverty,
H5 have lower life expectancy,
H5 reside in a persistently poor region,
H5 live in substandard housing or inadequate housing
H5 Empty heading
H5 comprehensive and community-based
H5 are needed more than ever to advance equity and progress in rural America
H5 the
H5 helps build homes and communities across rural America with 50 years of experience providing:
H6 Building Homes and Communities in Rural America
H6 Celebrating 50 years, and shaping the vision for the next 50
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Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 6 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are 20 external links on this page.
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A-TITLE HAC News: October 10, 2024
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Read more
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/hac-news-september-26-2024/Text duplicate HAC News: September 26, 2024
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/hurricane-milton-disaster-res...Hurricane Milton Disaster Response Guide
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A-TITLE Forgot Password?

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HTTP redirects
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HTTP header
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Performance
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The page response time is very slow (7.95 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 (216 kB).

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External factors

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This page has 8,978 backlinks.
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Links from Wikipedia

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Home - Housing Assistance Council
The Housing Assistance Council (HAC) is a national nonprofit that supports affordable housing efforts throughout rural America.

Most important keywords

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

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HOUSING74%Check
Assistance74%Check
Council74%Check
Housing Assistance74%Check
Housing Assistance Council74%Check
Rural Housing73%Check
Rural America70%Check
America68%Check
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