Sites.ed.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
77% 
Page quality
44% 
Page structure
45% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
0% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.15 s
File size
26.30 kB
Words
107
Media files
2
Number of links
13 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
EDBlogs | U.S. Department of Education
The length of the page title is perfect. (364 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://sites.ed.gov/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
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
(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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width
robotsmax-image-preview:large
generatorWordPress 5.7.11
site-upED-sites-lbQy7EtkCI6A
langen-us
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 107 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
25.2% 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.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 21 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width" is provided.
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)
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...ntent/themes/educated/img/ed-gov-hat.pngEDBlogs U.S. Department of Education
...ed.gov/sites/default/files/ed-icon.gifED.gov logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
EDBlogs
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (7 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 EDBlogs
H1 Sites Hosted on EDBlogs:
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 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://sites.ed.gov/Anchor Skip to content
https://sites.ed.gov/Subdomain IMG-ALT EDBlogs U.S. Department of Education
A-TITLE EDBlogs
https://sites.ed.gov/Subdomain EDBlogs
A-TITLE EDBlogs
https://sites.ed.gov/Subdomain Home
https://sites.ed.gov/cfbnp/Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
A-TITLE Center for Faith and Opportunity Initiatives
/international/International Affairs Office
A-TITLE International Affairs Office
https://sites.ed.gov/octae/Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education
A-TITLE Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education
https://sites.ed.gov/osers/Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
A-TITLE Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
https://sites.ed.gov/ous/Office of the Under Secretary
A-TITLE Office of the Under Secretary
https://sites.ed.gov/whiaiane/White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Native Americans and Strengthening Tribal Colleges and Unive...
A-TITLE White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education
/whblackeducation/White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans
A-TITLE White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans
/hispanic-initiativeWhite House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Hispanics
A-TITLE White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics
https://sites.ed.gov/whhbcu/White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities
A-TITLE White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities
https://www.ed.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT ED.gov logo
https://www.ed.gov/notices/eng...External Subdomain Notice of Language Assistance: English
https://www.ed.gov/notices/esp...External Subdomain español
https://www.ed.gov/notices/chi...External Subdomain 中文: 繁體版
https://www.ed.gov/notices/vie...External Subdomain Việt-ngữ
https://www.ed.gov/notices/kor...External Subdomain 한국어
https://www.ed.gov/notices/tag...External Subdomain Tagalog
https://www.ed.gov/notices/rus...External Subdomain Русский

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://sites.ed.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.15 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 10 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 21 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (26 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateWed, 10 Apr 2024 10:14:57 GMT
serverApache
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
varyHost
x-powered-byPHP/7.3.20
link<https://sites.ed.gov/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
cache-controlmax-age=600, private, must-revalidate, no-store
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self';
access-control-allow-origined.gov
access-control-allow-methodsGET, POST, OPTIONS, HEAD
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
x-varnish179962672 177551598
age457
via1.1 varnish (Varnish/6.0)
x-varnish-cacheHIT cached
accept-rangesbytes
content-length26982
connectionkeep-alive
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 8,723 referring domains.
This page has 222,954 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 5,159 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
#Disallow crawling from following agents
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Omgilibot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Omgili
Disallow: /
User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: https://sites.ed.gov/wp-sitemap.xml

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
EDBlogs68%Check
Sites52%Check
Education48%Check
Department48%Check
Special Education41%Check
Adult Education41%Check
Hosted38%Check
content36%Check
Office34%Check
Economic34%Check
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