Store.usgs.gov - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
74% 
Page quality
61% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
13% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.00 s
File size
138.10 kB
Words
1461
Media files
23
Number of links
67 internal / 19 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Front Page | USGS Store
The length of the page title is perfect. (229 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://store.usgs.gov/node/358
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)
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
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org); Commerce 2
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
There are 2 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: I have a medically-determined permanent disability that limits one or ...
This page contains 1461 words. That's ok.
28.7% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
21 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 14.37 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 5 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 amount of tags is very high (41). We recommend using a maximum of 29 tags for this page.
The following tag is repeated too often: (select one)
Some tags are too long. With 117 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"provides free access to federal lands for u.s. fourth grade students and up to three adults accompanyi..."
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
2 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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
National Forest Visitor Maps and National Forest Atlases
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 National Forest Visitor Maps and National Forest Atlases
H2 NOW AVAILABLE
H2 Map Locator and Downloader
H2 Every Kid Outdoors
H2 Earth As Art Series 6
H2 First time ordering an America the Beautiful - National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass on the USGS Store? Try our Pass Wizard!
H2 America The Beautiful - National Parks and Federal Recreation Lands Passes
H2 Senior Lifetime Pass $80
H2 2024 Annual Pass $80
H2 Other Passes
H2 Participating Agencies
H2 Find a Map
H2 Map Tools
H2 Find a Map Duplicate text
H2 Need Help?
H2 Maps and Publications
H3 America the Beautiful: The National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Passes
H3 Based on your selection, we recommend the following pass:
H3 Based on your selection(s), you are eligible for the following passes:
H3 Senior Annual & Senior Lifetime Pass
H3 Access Pass
H3 Military Passes
H3 Annual Pass
H3 U.S. Department of the Interior
H3 Contact USGS
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 19 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://store.usgs.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://store.usgs.gov/USGS Store
A-TITLE USGS Store
https://store.usgs.gov/userMy Account
https://store.usgs.gov/cartcart contains:
https://store.usgs.gov/user/loginSign In
/user/registerCreate Account
/MilitaryPassMilitary Passes
/map-locatorMap Locator
/recreational-passesMore Information
/filter-products?categories=[3...View Products
https://store.usgs.gov/Anchor Determine Which Pass Is For You
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvi...New window External Subdomain Pass Issuance List
/forest-passNorthwest Forest Pass
IMG-ALT Northwest Forest Pass
https://www.nps.gov/index.htmExternal Subdomain National Park Service
https://www.fs.usda.gov/External Subdomain US Forest Service
https://www.fws.gov/External Subdomain US Fish and Wildlife Service
https://www.blm.gov/External Subdomain Bureau of Land Management
https://www.usbr.gov/External Subdomain Bureau of Reclamation
http://www.usace.army.mil/External Subdomain US Army Corps of Engineers
/senior-annualSenior Annual Pass
IMG-ALT Senior Annual Pass
/lifetime-senior-passSenior Lifetime Pass
IMG-ALT Senior Lifetime Pass
/access-passAccess Pass
IMG-ALT Access Pass
/MilitaryPassText duplicate Military Passes
IMG-ALT Military Pass
https://store.usgs.gov/passAnnual Pass
IMG-ALT Annual Pass
/usgs/cart/519537/addNofollow Add to cart
/lifetime-senior-passLearn More
/usgs/cart/206946/addNofollow Text duplicate Add to cart
https://store.usgs.gov/passText duplicate Learn More
/pass-wizardText duplicate Learn More
https://www.nps.gov/index.htmExternal Subdomain Text duplicate National Park Service
A-TITLE National Park Service
https://www.blm.gov/External Subdomain Text duplicate Bureau of Land Management
A-TITLE Bureau of Land Management
https://www.fws.gov/External Subdomain Fish and Wildlife Services
A-TITLE Fish and Wildlife Services
https://www.fs.usda.gov/External Subdomain USDA Forest Service
A-TITLE USDA Forest Service
https://www.usbr.gov/External Subdomain Text duplicate Bureau of Reclamation
A-TITLE Bureau of Reclamation
https://www.usace.army.mil/External Subdomain U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
A-TITLE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
/map-locatorFind Maps By Location
https://store.usgs.gov/Anchor Find Maps by Purpose
/map-locatorUse the Map Locator Tool
/filter-products?map_filters=[...Climate
/filter-products?categories=[1...Historical Maps
/filter-products?categories=[1...Landsat State Maps
/filter-products?categories=[2...World Maps
https://store.usgs.gov/fsmapsForest Service Visitor Maps
/filter-products?type=US+Topo&...Topo Maps
/filter-products?categories=[2...National Park Maps
/filter-products?scale=1%3A24%...Scaled Maps
https://store.usgs.gov/fsmapsExplore
/recreational-passesRecreational Passes
/2024-annual-pass2024 Annual Pass
/senior-annualText duplicate Senior Annual Pass
/lifetime-senior-passText duplicate Senior Lifetime Pass
/access-passText duplicate Access Pass
/MilitaryPassText duplicate Military Passes
/forest-passNW Forest Pass
https://store.usgs.gov/mapsMaps
/filter-productsSubdomain All Products
/filter-products?type=US+Topo&...Subdomain US Topo
/filter-products?categories=[1...7.5 & 15 Minute Topographic Maps
/filter-products?categories=[1...30 x 60 Minute Topographic Maps
/filter-products?categories=[1...1 x 2 Degree Topographic Maps
https://store.usgs.gov/fsmapsU.S. Forest Service Maps
/filter-products?categories=[2...National Parks
/filter-products?categories=[3...Geologic Maps
/filter-products?categories=[2...Planets and Moons
/filter-products?categories=[1...Other Maps
/filter-products?categories=[25]NGA/Foreign Maps
/educational-productsEducational Products
/books-reports-publicationsBooks, Reports & Publications
/filter-products?categories=[4...Topography & Elevation
/filter-products?categories=[3...Water
/filter-products?categories=[3...Geology
/filter-products?categories=[4...Natural Hazards
/filter-products?categories=[3...International & World
/filter-products?categories=[3...Earth-As-Art
/filter-products?categories=[4...Culture, History & Geography
/map-locatorText duplicate Map Locator
/pass-wizardPass Wizard
/OrderIssuesOrder Issues
https://www.usgs.gov/legalExternal Subdomain Legal
/frequent-questionsFrequently Asked Questions
https://www.doi.gov/External Subdomain U.S. Department of the Interior
IMG-ALT Agency logo
https://www.facebook.com/USGeo...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/usgs/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Instagram
https://twitter.com/USGSExternal IMG-ALT Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/user/usgsExternal Subdomain IMG-ALT YouTube
https://store.usgs.gov/rss.xmlIMG-ALT RSS

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://store.usgs.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 1.00 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.
This page loads 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 2 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (138 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 12 Sep 2024 11:47:20 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
transfer-encodingchunked
connectionkeep-alive
set-cookie178 Characters
cache-controlmax-age=86400, public
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
varyCookie,Accept-Encoding
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-commerce-core2
x-drupal-cacheHIT
last-modifiedTue, 10 Sep 2024 13:11:05 GMT
etag"1725973865"
x-ingressNGINX
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 4,778 referring domains.
This page has 171,656 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 3,194 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

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: *
# 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

Search preview

store.usgs.gov
Front Page | USGS Store

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
USGS68%Check
USGS Store67%Check
Store63%Check
or older62%Check
or permanent62%Check
Map61%Check
National Forest60%Check
maps59%Check
National59%Check
age or older59%Check

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