Tellus.ars.usda.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
65% 
Page quality
40% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.14 s
File size
35.70 kB
Words
260
Media files
13
Number of links
21 internal / 20 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Tellus | Tellus
The page title is too short. (121 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page 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://tellus.ars.usda.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)
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)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 260 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
23.8% of the text are stop words.
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 17 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, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The amount of tags is very high (12). We recommend using a maximum of 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
4 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/package/dist/img/us_flag_small.pngNo alt attribute provided
/sites/tellus/files/images/USDA_logo.pngHome
...uswds/package/dist/img/close-white64.svgclose
...es/logo-tellus-white-transparent_9_0.pngNo alt attribute provided
...es/Zebra chip, d2395-1.jpg?itok=atOoGN6VThree light brown-skinned potatoes are shown with cross-sectional removed slices revealing a mottled, diseased interior in each.
...llusfeature.jpg?h=b67631ae&itok=TsqhcM5aNo alt attribute provided
...ngerScanner.jpg?h=456e7b29&itok=1vEFx5nqAn adult's hand guides an infant's finger on a round clear scanner eye. The tip of the infant's finger appears orange due to the scanner light.
...sWeightUSDA.jpg?h=12401dc2&itok=8tz55ZeeA baby in a high chair looks unhappily at some food that is being offered by a nearby adult holding a bowl and spoon.
...rengthemail.jpg?h=695cbe24&itok=mepOpxMYElderlyStrength.jpg image
...igrastellus.jpg?h=285ea2de&itok=zwFk7eM_MardiGrasTellus.jpg image
...761/popcorn.jpg?h=a7e6d17b&itok=q2BHCqmyGraphic of popcorn in a red and white bag.
...images/logo-tellus-color-transparent.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ts/img/logo-tellus-white-transparent.pngfooter-logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Bad Actors in the ‘Zebra Chip’ Fight are Stacking the Deck
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Bad Actors in the ‘Zebra Chip’ Fight are Stacking the Deck
H2 Latest Content
H2 Popular Content
H2 Subscribe
H3 From Obesity to Strong Bones: Essential Tips for Healthy Kids
H3 Here’s Lookin’ at You, Kid
H3 A Baby's Early Personality May Predict its Weight at One Year Old
H3 A Healthy Gut Can Increase Muscle Strength in the Elderly
H3 New Research Re-envisions Worldwide Staple
H3 Popcorn: A Healthy, Whole Grain Snack
H3 Email
H3 Connect with ARS:
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 20 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://tellus.ars.usda.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://tellus.ars.usda.gov/Tellus
https://www.usda.gov/External Subdomain U.S. Department of Agriculture
https://tellus.ars.usda.gov/Home
https://tellus.ars.usda.gov/aboutAbout
/storiesArticles
https://www.ars.usda.gov/External Subdomain ARS Home
https://www.ars.usda.gov/oc/im...External Subdomain ARS Image Gallery
https://agresearchmag.ars.usda...External Subdomain AgResearch Magazine
/stories/articles/bad-actors-z...IMG-ALT Three light brown-skinned potatoes are shown with cross-sectional removed slices revealing a mottled, diseased interior in each.
/stories/articles/bad-actors-z...Bad Actors in the ‘Zebra Chip’ Fight are Stacking the Deck
/stories/See All Content
/stories/articles/obesity-stro...No Text
/stories/articles/obesity-stro...From Obesity to Strong Bones: Essential Tips for Healthy Kids
/stories/articles/heres-lookin...IMG-ALT An adult's hand guides an infant's finger on a round clear scanner eye. The tip of the infant's finger appears orange due to the scanner light.
/stories/articles/heres-lookin...Here’s Lookin’ at You, Kid
/stories/articles/babys-early-...IMG-ALT A baby in a high chair looks unhappily at some food that is being offered by a nearby adult holding a bowl and spoon.
/stories/articles/babys-early-...A Baby's Early Personality May Predict its Weight at One Year Old
/stories/Text duplicate See All Content
/stories/articles/a-healthy-gu...IMG-ALT ElderlyStrength.jpg image
/stories/articles/a-healthy-gu...A Healthy Gut Can Increase Muscle Strength in the Elderly
/stories/articles/new-research...IMG-ALT MardiGrasTellus.jpg image
/stories/articles/new-research...New Research Re-envisions Worldwide Staple
/stories/articles/popcorn-a-he...IMG-ALT Graphic of popcorn in a red and white bag.
/stories/articles/popcorn-a-he...Popcorn: A Healthy, Whole Grain Snack
https://www.ars.usda.gov/External Subdomain Text duplicate ARS Home
https://www.usda.gov/External Subdomain USDA.gov
https://aglab.ars.usda.gov/External Subdomain AgLab
https://www.ars.usda.gov/news-...External Subdomain ARS News Room
https://scientificdiscoveries....External Subdomain Scientific Discoveries
https://agresearchmag.ars.usda...External Subdomain Text duplicate AgResearch Magazine
https://www.ars.usda.gov/oc/fo...External Subdomain FOIA
https://www.usda.gov/accessibi...External Subdomain Accessibility Statement
https://www.usda.gov/privacy-p...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://www.usda.gov/plain-wri...External Subdomain Plain Writing
https://www.usda.gov/non-discr...External Subdomain Non-Discrimination Statement
https://www.whitehouse.gov/External Subdomain WhiteHouse.gov
https://twitter.com/usda_arsExternal Twitter
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain Linkedin
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.facebook.com/Agric...External Subdomain Facebook

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://tellus.ars.usda.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 is slow (1.14 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (36 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 19 Sep 2024 23:48:21 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
cache-controlmax-age=31536000, public
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modifiedMon, 16 Sep 2024 14:38:20 GMT
etag"1726497500-gzip"
varyCookie,Accept-Encoding
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cacheHIT
content-encodinggzip
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
x-azure-ref20240919T234821Z-17f9975cbb84p5fqskqba2y1ys0000000ug0000000000q81
x-fd-int-roxy-purgeid790867
x-cacheTCP_HIT
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

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 1,010 referring domains.
This page has 21,098 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 636 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

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Tellus | Tellus

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Tellus61%Check
ARS56%Check
Zebra52%Check
Chip52%Check
USDA52%Check
gov51%Check
Bad50%Check
Actors50%Check
Fight50%Check
Stacking50%Check
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