Taxes.ca.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
51% 
Page structure
43% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
74% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.37 s
File size
28.50 kB
Words
285
Media files
3
Number of links
32 internal / 21 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
California Tax Service Center
The length of the page title is perfect. (263 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Partnership of tax agencies including Board of Equalization, California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, Employment Development Department, Franchise Tax Board, and Internal Revenue Service
The meta description is too long: 1268 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is 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)
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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
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
AuthorCalifornia Tax Service Center
DescriptionPartnership of tax agencies including Board of Equalization, California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, Employment Development Department, Franchise Tax Board, and Internal Revenue Service
KeywordsCalifornia, government, taxes
HandheldFriendlyTrue
MobileOptimized320
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 285 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
20.4% 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.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 21.67 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-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 6 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)
The HTTPS protocol for secure data transmission is not used.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
/images/Ca-Gov-Logo-Gold.svgNo alt attribute provided
/images/content/tax-website-logo.pngLink to taxes.gov homepage
...statetemplate/global/images/gov-seal.pngCalifornia for all logo

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 Income Tax
H2 Payroll Tax
H2 Sales and Use Tax
H2 Other Taxes and Fees
H2 News
H2 Related Links
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 21 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
http://taxes.ca.gov/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/01...External Subdomain Learn about emergency tax relief.
https://ca.gov/External CA.gov
http://taxes.ca.gov/index.htmlHome
http://taxes.ca.gov/IMG-ALT Link to taxes.gov homepage
http://taxes.ca.gov/Income_Tax/Income Tax
http://taxes.ca.gov/Payroll_Tax/Payroll Tax
/Sales_and_Use_Tax/Sales and Use Tax
/Other_Taxes_and_Fees/Other Taxes and Fees
http://taxes.ca.gov/Income_Tax/Text duplicate Income Tax
/Income_Tax/forms.htmlForms and Publications
/Income_Tax/fileonline.htmlFile Online
/Income_Tax/paymentoptions.htmlPayment Options
/Income_Tax/important_dates/Important Dates
/Income_Tax/creditsdeductions....Credits and Deductions
http://taxes.ca.gov/Income_Tax/More Income Tax Information
http://taxes.ca.gov/Payroll_Tax/Text duplicate Payroll Tax
https://www.labor.ca.gov/emplo...External Subdomain AB 5 Employment Status
/Payroll_Tax/forms.htmlText duplicate Forms and Publications
https://edd.ca.gov/payroll_tax...External Subdomain File and Pay Online
https://edd.ca.gov/payroll_tax...External Subdomain Reporting Requirements
/Payroll_Tax/postingreqbus.htmlPosting Requirements
https://edd.ca.gov/payroll_tax...External Subdomain Rates and Schedules
http://taxes.ca.gov/Payroll_Tax/More Payroll Tax Information
/Sales_and_Use_Tax/Text duplicate Sales and Use Tax
/Sales_and_Use_Tax/forms.htmlText duplicate Forms and Publications
https://onlineservices.cdtfa.c...External Subdomain Text duplicate File and Pay Online
/Sales_and_Use_Tax/SellersPerm...Get a Seller’s Permit
http://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/taxes-...External Subdomain California City and County - Sales and Use Tax Rates
/Sales_and_Use_Tax/More Sales and Use Tax Information
/Other_Taxes_and_Fees/Text duplicate Other Taxes and Fees
http://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/taxes-...External Subdomain Special Taxes and Fees
http://www.boe.ca.gov/proptaxe...External Subdomain Property Taxes
/Other_Taxes_and_Fees/Importan...CDTFA - Important Dates
/Small_Business_Assistance_Cen...Small Business Assistance Center
/Other_Taxes_and_Fees/Importan...Important Property Tax Dates (Board of Equalization)
https://edd.ca.gov/en/payroll_...External Subdomain Senate Bill 951
https://edd.ca.gov/en/payroll_...External Subdomain California Employer News and Updates
https://edd.ca.gov/en/payroll_...External Subdomain Payroll Tax News (ca.gov)
https://www.ftb.ca.gov/about-f...External Subdomain Newsroom | FTB.ca.gov
https://www.ftb.ca.gov/about-f...External Subdomain Tax News | FTB.ca.gov
https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/news/External Subdomain News (ca.gov)
/Seminars_and_Workshops/Seminars and Workshops
/Small_Business_Assistance_Cen...Text duplicate Small Business Assistance Center
http://taxes.ca.gov/cannabis.htmlCannabis Business Tax Information
https://www.gov.ca.gov/External Subdomain Visit His Website
http://taxes.ca.gov/Anchor Back to Top
/Contact_Us/index.htmlContact Us
https://www.ca.gov/Use/External Subdomain Conditions of Use
https://www.ca.gov/privacy-pol...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://www.ca.gov/Accessibility/External Subdomain Accessibility
https://registertovote.ca.gov/External Subdomain Register to Vote
/About_Us/disclaimer.htmlDisclaimer

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
The checked page does not redirect to another URL.
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 4 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.37 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (29 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
x-powered-byASP.NET
dateSat, 31 Aug 2024 15:15:22 GMT
content-length9729
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 179 referring domains.
This page has 339 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 155 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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taxes.ca.gov
California Tax Service Center
Partnership of tax agencies including Board of Equalization, California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, Employment Development Department, Franchise Tax Board, and Internal Revenue Service

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
tax79%Check
Tax Service67%Check
California Tax Service64%Check
California61%Check
tax agencies61%Check
California Tax Service Center59%Check
Service58%Check
Income Tax57%Check
Payroll Tax57%Check
Tax News57%Check
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