Sec.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
68% 
Page quality
71% 
Page structure
43% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.18 s
File size
217.80 kB
Words
474
Media files
10
Number of links
50 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
SEC.gov | Home
The page title is too short. (150 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
The domain is used in the page's title.
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.sec.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
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
originDrupal
msapplication-TileColor#2f64b2
theme-color#2f64b2
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 474 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
25.7% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
7 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 12.43 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" 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 9 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
...m/uswds_sec/assets/img/us_flag_small.pngU.S. flag
...om/uswds_sec/assets/img/icon-dot-gov.svgDot gov
...stom/uswds_sec/assets/img/icon-https.svgHttps
...uswds_sec/dist/img/logos/sec-logo-1x.pngU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
...c/dist/img/logos/sec-logo-sec.gov-1x.pngU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
...uswds_sec/dist/img/logos/sec-logo-1x.pngU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
...filer-homepage-graphic.jpg?itok=HwgUiOoYEDGAR Filer homepage graphic
...s/sec-logo-investor-1x.png?itok=D8Qe5r5PInvestor.gov
...sec/dist/img/logos/sec-logo-white-1x.pngU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
...sec/dist/img/logos/sec-logo-white-1x.pngU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Home
The H1 heading contains the words Home! Use important keywords instead.
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (4 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Home
H2 Quick Links
H2 EDGAR Next Transition Begins March 24
H2 Latest News
H2 Upcoming Events
H2 SEC Rulemaking
H3 SEC Extends Compliance Dates for Amendments to Investment Company Names Rule
H3 SEC Charges Investment Adviser and Two Officers for Misuse of Fund and Portfolio Company Assets
H3 Investment Company Institute (ICI) Investment Management Conference
H3 How We Got Here and How We Get Out – Defining Security Status
H3 Stay connected. Sign up for email updates.
H4 About the SEC
H4 Transparency
H4 Websites
H4 Site Information
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.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 6 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.sec.gov/Anchor Skip to search field
https://www.sec.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.sec.gov/SEC homepage
IMG-ALT U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
https://www.sec.gov/IMG-ALT U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
/submit-tip-or-complaintSubmit a Tip or Complaint
https://www.sec.gov/newsroomNewsroom
/resources-investorsInvestors
/resources-small-businessesSmall Businesses
/enforcement-litigation/whistl...Whistleblowers
https://www.sec.gov/newsroomText duplicate Newsroom
/resources-investorsText duplicate Investors
/resources-small-businessesText duplicate Small Businesses
/enforcement-litigation/whistl...Text duplicate Whistleblowers
https://www.sec.gov/aboutAbout the SEC
/rules-regulations/rulemaking-...Check Rulemaking Activity
https://www.sec.gov/edgar/search/Subdomain Search EDGAR
/about/crypto-task-forceCrypto Task Force
/about/commission-votesView Commission Votes
/newsroom/whats-new?type=news,...Read Enforcement News
/submit-filingsSubmit your Filings
https://www.investor.gov/intro...External Subdomain Check Investment Professionals
/submit-tip-or-complaint/tips-...Enviar un Dato - Recursos en Español
/submit-filings/improving-edga...CONTINUE READING
https://www.sec.gov/newsroomView All Latest News
/newsroom/press-releases/2025-54SEC Extends Compliance Dates for Amendments to Investment Company Names Rule
/newsroom/press-releases/2025-53SEC Charges Investment Adviser and Two Officers for Misuse of Fund and Portfolio Company Assets
/newsroom/meetings-eventsView All Upcoming Events
/newsroom/meetings-events/inve...Investment Company Institute (ICI) Investment Management Conference
/newsroom/meetings-events/how-...How We Got Here and How We Get Out – Defining Security Status
/rules-regulations/how-submit-...Submit a Comment
https://www.investor.gov/External Subdomain Visit Investor.gov
https://www.sec.gov/Text duplicate SEC homepage
IMG-ALT U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
/about/budget-performanceBudget & Performance
/about/careers-securities-exch...Careers
/about/commission-votesCommission Votes
/about/contact-secContact
/about/divisions-offices/offic...Contracts
/about/accessibility-disabilit...Accessibility & Disability
https://www.sec.gov/aiArtificial Intelligence
https://www.sec.gov/foia-servicesFOIA
/office-inspector-generalInspector General
/about/divisions-offices/offic...No FEAR Act & EEO Data
https://www.sec.gov/ombudsOmbuds
/files/ocoo01-excess-pers-prop...SEC Excess Personal Property Guidance
https://www.investor.gov/External Subdomain Investor.gov
/about/related-sitesRelated Sites
https://www.usa.gov/External Subdomain USA.gov
/about/plain-writing-initiativePlain Writing
/about/privacy-informationPrivacy & Security
https://www.sec.gov/sitemapSite Map
/opa/socialmediaX
/opa/socialmediaFacebook
/newsroom/social-mediaInstagram
https://www.sec.gov/about/secrssRSS
https://www.youtube.com/user/S...External Subdomain YouTube
https://public.govdelivery.com...External Subdomain Email Updates

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.sec.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.18 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (218 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length74188
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheHIT
content-languageen
last-modifiedSun, 16 Mar 2025 06:05:51 GMT
etag"1742105151"
access-control-allow-origin*
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self'
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-drupal-cacheMISS
content-encodinggzip
x-request-idv-b6f49dd2-022c-11f0-9d25-43ccae00c2ba
x-ah-environmentprod
x-cache-hits3
x-age22
accept-rangesbytes
cache-controlpublic, max-age=18
expiresSun, 16 Mar 2025 23:57:07 GMT
dateSun, 16 Mar 2025 23:56:49 GMT
varyAccept-Encoding
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000 ; includeSubDomains ; preload
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 96,082 referring domains.
This page has 77,561,703 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 53,017 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# 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: *
# 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
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# 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/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

#SEC
Allow: /Archives/edgar/data
Disallow: /Archives/bin
Disallow: /Archives/etc
Disallow: /Archives/usr
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /bin
Disallow: /Archives/edgar/vprr/XXXX
Disallow: /Archives/edgar/vprr/vprr_removal
Disallow: /Archives/edgar/vprr/bin
Disallow: /nb
Disallow: /video/live
Disallow: /Archives/edgar/data/1473971/000109181814000042/ex101002.gif
Disallow: /node
Disallow: /spotlight/equity-market-structure-advisory-committee.shtml

Sitemap: https://www.sec.gov/sec-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sec.gov/sitemap/sitemap-index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.investor.gov/sitemap.xml

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gov66%Check
Site47%Check
Investment43%Check
websites43%Check
Investor43%Check
Company43%Check
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Investment Company43%Check
formation43%Check
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