Snow.baltimorecity.gov - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
98% 
Page quality
70% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
82% 
External factors
93% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.78 s
File size
41.90 kB
Words
317
Media files
14
Number of links
23 internal / 18 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Baltimore City Snow Center
The length of the page title is perfect. (250 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The official website of Charm City, Baltimore, Maryland.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (343 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://snow.baltimorecity.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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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
viewportwidth=device-width
descriptionThe official website of Charm City, Baltimore, Maryland.
abstractCity of Baltimore, Maryland - Official Website
keywordsCity of Baltimore, Maryland, Official, Government, Website
generatorDrupal 7 (https://www.drupal.org)
langen
og:site_nameBaltimore City Snow Center
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://snow.baltimorecity.gov/
og:titleBaltimore City Snow Center
og:localityBaltimore
og:regionMaryland
og:localeen_US
ImageToolbarfalse
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 317 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
These Typos were found:
  • holliday => holiday
22.4% 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.
5 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 15.13 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
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)
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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Baltimore City Snow Center
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Baltimore City Snow Center
H2 Featured Services
H2 Storm Event Information
H2 Recent News
H2 Main Menu
H2 City of Baltimore
H2 Contact
H3 Snow Maps
H3 Emergency Phases
H3 Important Phone Numbers
H3 Housing reminds everyone to be shovel ready
H3 Code Blue Program
H3 DPW Winter Weather Tips
H4 Baltimore Mayor’s Office Midday Update on Winter Storm Management
H4 Baltimore Mayor’s Office: Update on Winter Storm Management
H4 Follow Dept. of Transportation
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
3 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 18 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://snow.baltimorecity.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
http://www.baltimorecity.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Baltimore City Snow Center logo
https://snow.baltimorecity.gov/Baltimore City Snow Center
A-TITLE Home
http://www.baltimorecity.gov/3...External Subdomain 311 Services
A-TITLE Request a City service, then monitor status
https://pay.baltimorecity.gov/External Subdomain Payments
A-TITLE Pay your water, parking tickets, and other bills online, by phone, by mail, or in person
http://mayor.baltimorecity.gov/External Subdomain Mayor's Office
A-TITLE Includes Cabinet, Mayoral Offices, Boards & Commissions, and Request Ceremonial Documents.
/newsNews
A-TITLE Press Releases from the Mayor's Office
https://www.baltimorecity.gov/...External Subdomain Directory
A-TITLE Lists 501(c)(3) organizations, Boards, City Offices, Commissions, Departments, Elected Offices, Mayoral Offices, and State Entities.
/eventsEvents
A-TITLE Upcoming Events
https://www.baltimorecity.gov/...External Subdomain Subscribe
A-TITLE Subscribe to our mailing list with GovDelivery
https://snow.baltimorecity.gov/Text duplicate Baltimore City Snow Center
A-TITLE Go to homepage
/city-snow-closuresSubdomain No Text
/city-snow-closuresSubdomain City Snow Closures
/school-closingSubdomain No Text
/school-closingSubdomain School Closures
/refillrequest-salt-boxSubdomain No Text
/refillrequest-salt-boxSubdomain Request/Refill a Salt Box
https://homeless.baltimorecity...External Subdomain No Text
https://homeless.baltimorecity...External Subdomain Winter Shelters
/node/11347Snow Maps
/node/11348Emergency Phases
/node/11349Important Phone Numbers
/node/11350Housing reminds everyone to be shovel ready
http://health.baltimorecity.go...External Subdomain Code Blue Program
https://publicworks.baltimorec...External Subdomain DPW Winter Weather Tips
/news/press-release-snow-cente...Baltimore Mayor’s Office Midday Update on Winter Storm Management
/news/press-release/2025-01-05...Baltimore Mayor’s Office: Update on Winter Storm Management
/city-snow-closuresSubdomain City Closures
/frequentlyaskedquestionsSubdomain FAQs
https://civilrights.baltimorec...External Subdomain FAQ for the Americans with Disabilities Act
/parkinganddrivingSubdomain Parking and Driving
/photo-galleryPhoto Gallery
https://transportation.baltimo...External Subdomain Salt Boxes
A-TITLE Information about Baltimore Salt Boxes
/snowmapsStorm Event Information
/terms-and-definitionsTerms and Definitions
https://www.facebook.com/balti...External Subdomain A-TITLE Facebook
https://twitter.com/BmoreCityDOTExternal A-TITLE Twitter
http://www.youtube.com/baltimo...External Subdomain A-TITLE YouTube
https://civilrights.baltimorec...External Subdomain Accessibility Statement
http://www.baltimorecity.gov/p...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
http://www.baltimorecity.gov/t...External Subdomain Terms of Use

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://snow.baltimorecity.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.78 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (42 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
etagW/"1736208628-0"
content-languageen
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
link<https://snow.baltimorecity.gov/>; rel="canonical",<https://snow.baltimorecity.gov/>; rel="shortlink"
cache-controlpublic, max-age=3600
last-modifiedTue, 07 Jan 2025 00:10:28 GMT
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
x-lagoonamazeeio-us2>ingress-nginx>balt01-f2-live:nginx>nginx-6647ff9797-8k6pp
content-encodinggzip
accept-rangesbytes
age0
dateTue, 07 Jan 2025 00:10:29 GMT
varyCookie,fastly-ssl, Accept-Encoding
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31557600
alt-svch3=":443";ma=86400,h3-29=":443";ma=86400,h3-27=":443";ma=86400
content-length12294
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is very well linked from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 31 referring domains.
This page has 56 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 31 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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: *
Crawl-delay: 10
# Directories
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
# 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/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/

# News
Disallow: /news/
Allow: /news/press-releases/
Allow: /news/public-notices/
Allow: /news/public-statements/

User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AspiegelBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MauiBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Exabot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /$
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

Search preview

snow.baltimorecity.gov
Baltimore City Snow Center
The official website of Charm City, Baltimore, Maryland.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Baltimore100%Check
City100%Check
Baltimore City100%Check
Baltimore City Snow96%Check
City Snow94%Check
Baltimore City Snow Center90%Check
Snow88%Check
Baltimore Mayor72%Check
Center70%Check
City Hall68%Check

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