Solardecathlon.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
75% 
Page quality
60% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
91% 
Server
0% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.64 s
File size
45.60 kB
Words
329
Media files
15
Number of links
15 internal / 18 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Solar Decathlon | Solar Decathlon
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (304 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
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.solardecathlon.gov/index
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
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
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 329 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
29.2% 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.
4 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 10.19 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 52 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 7 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
.../@uswds/uswds/dist/img/us_flag_small.pngNo alt attribute provided
/themes/custom/uswds_custom/logo_mobile.pngHome
/themes/custom/uswds_custom/logo.pngHome
...uswds/uswds/dist/img/usa-icons/close.svgclose
.../dist/img/usa-icons-bg/search--white.svgSearch
...062459493_e05e5fd6c0_k.jpg?itok=1aROvuBuThree people standing together
...4-10/sd-rotator-102424.jpg?itok=AK2TvUKNA group of three students talking to another person with his back to the camera.
...694111591_596f82e352_k.jpg?itok=vfYUJuAfGrand Winners Standing Together
data:[...] Base64Three people standing together
data:[...] Base64A group of three students talking to another person with his back to the camera.
data:[...] Base64Grand Winners Standing Together
.../files/assets/images/vv_home_feature.pngA Screenshot of the SD Virtual Village
...ault/files/assets/images/flickr_home.pngA Screenshot of the SD flicker album
/themes/custom/uswds_custom/logo_footer.pngAgency logo
Video URLWidthHeight
...mbed/videoseries?list=PLCC37B13B68FF5930

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Professionals – Become a Mentor or Technical Advisor for the 2025 Design Challenge!
H2 Current 2025 Design Challenge Teams — Request an Alumni Mentor by Oct. 29!
H2 DOE Announces The 2024 Design Challenge Winners!
H2 Latest News
H2 Footer
H4 Register for the Solar Decathlon 2025 Design Challenge by Oct. 23!
H4 Solar Decathlon Kickoff Webinar, Plus New Mentor Opportunities
H4 Design for a Better-Built World – Join the Solar Decathlon 2025 Design Challenge!
H5 October 02, 2024
H5 September 04, 2024
H5 July 17, 2024
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 3 links with a trivial 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.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.solardecathlon.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.solardecathlon.gov/U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Solar Decathlon
IMG-ALT Home
A-TITLE Home
/2025/design-challengeDesign Challenge
https://www.facebook.com/DOESo...External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/solar_deca...External No Text
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...External Subdomain No Text
https://instagram.com/doesolar...External No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/user/D...External Subdomain No Text
/news/news-newsletterNo Text
https://forms.office.com/pages...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Three people standing together
https://forms.office.com/pages...External Subdomain IMG-ALT A group of three students talking to another person with his back to the camera.
/2024/design/2024-design-chall...IMG-ALT Grand Winners Standing Together
/aboutJoin us
/virtual_village/IMG-ALT A Screenshot of the SD Virtual Village
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...External Subdomain IMG-ALT A Screenshot of the SD flicker album
/blogLatest News
/blog/archives/8394Register for the Solar Decathlon 2025 Design Challenge by Oct. 23!
/blog/archives/8394Trivial anchor text
More
/blog/archives/8392Solar Decathlon Kickoff Webinar, Plus New Mentor Opportunities
/blog/archives/8392Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
More
/blog/archives/6412Design for a Better-Built World – Join the Solar Decathlon 2025 Design Challenge!
/blog/archives/6412Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
More
http://www.energy.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Agency logo
https://www.solardecathlon.gov/Home
https://www.energy.gov/about-u...External Subdomain Web Policies
https://www.energy.gov/about-u...External Subdomain Privacy
https://www.energy.gov/diversi...External Subdomain No Fear Act
https://www.energy.gov/whistle...External Subdomain Whistleblower Protection
https://www.energy.gov/cio/dep...External Subdomain Information Quality
https://www.energy.gov/open-go...External Subdomain Open Gov
https://www.energy.gov/cio/off...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://doe.responsibledisclos...External Subdomain Vulnerability Disclosure Program

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.solardecathlon.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (1.64 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 30 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 52 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (46 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateTue, 29 Oct 2024 23:18:36 GMT
serverApache/2.4.57 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) OpenSSL/3.0.7
cache-controlmust-revalidate, no-cache, private
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cacheHIT
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
content-length46723
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,607 referring domains.
This page has 15,692 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,149 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

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Solar Decathlon | Solar Decathlon

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Solar66%Check
Decathlon66%Check
Solar Decathlon66%Check
Energy Solar Decathlon58%Check
Solar Decathlon 202558%Check
Solar Decathlon 2025 Design52%Check
Gov46%Check
Mentor43%Check
Oct43%Check
New43%Check
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