Toronto.ca - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
66% 
Page quality
51% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
58% 
Server
45% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.28 s
File size
40.60 kB
Words
172
Media files
10
Number of links
41 internal / 0 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
City of Toronto
The page title is too short. (130 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The official website for the City of Toronto. Toronto is Canada's largest city, the fourth largest in North America, and home to a diverse population of more than three million people.
The meta description is too long: 1095 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.toronto.ca/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-ca
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-ca
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

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DC.descriptionThe official website for the City of Toronto. Toronto is Canada's largest city, the fourth largest in North America, and home to a diverse population of more than three million people.
DC.Date.Modified2025-04-22T16:21:53-04:00
DC.Date.Created2017-02-09T14:00:55-05:00
DC.Languageen-CA
DC.RightsCopyright: City of Toronto
DC.PublisherCity of Toronto
DC.Formattext/html
DC.CoverageToronto, Ontario, Canada
DC.Identifier52
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twitter:descriptionThe official website for the City of Toronto. Toronto is Canada's largest city, the fourth largest in North America, and home to a diverse population of more than three million people.
twitter:imagehttps://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/themes/cot/img/share_toronto_twitter.jpg
twitter:urlhttps://www.toronto.ca/
og:urlhttps://www.toronto.ca/
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og:site_nameCity of Toronto
og:titleCity of Toronto
og:descriptionThe official website for the City of Toronto. Toronto is Canada's largest city, the fourth largest in North America, and home to a diverse population of more than three million people.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 172 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
20.3% 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 21 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, user-scalable=yes" 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)
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
/wp-content/themes/cot/img/logo-print.svgCity of Toronto
/wp-content/themes/cot/img/logo.svgCity of Toronto homepage
/wp-content/themes/cot/img/icon-search.svgSearch
...woods-scaled-e1741380758821-1500x700.jpgToronto skyline, walking dog by woman in Trinity Bellwoods park
...ve-Local-Home-Page-Feature-350x250-1.jpgA Love Local sign on a Toronto street with a Canadian flag and street art in the background.
...4a1-Homepage-Golf-Opener-Item350x250.pngThree people holding golf clubs and standing on a grassy golf range in the address position before they take their swing.
...024-Homepage-Featured-Item-350x250-1.jpgA group of people with litter bags on a grassy lawn, cleaning up Crawford Jones Park for the annual spring cleanup at the City.
...aw-Featured-Whats-New-Tile-350x250-1.jpgView of downtown Toronto skyline looking over trees towards the CN Tower. The sky is pink at sunset.
/resources/311_widgets/img/311.svg311
...ent/themes/cot/img/back-to-top-arrow.pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
City of Toronto homepage
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 City of Toronto homepage
H2 Home Carousel
H2 What's New
H2 Services
H3 Responding to U.S. Tariffs
H3 Affordable Golf
H3 Clean Toronto Together
H3 Survey & Public Session
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
3 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
There are no external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.toronto.ca/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.toronto.ca/Subdomain IMG-ALT City of Toronto homepage
/globalnav/header/Subdomain No Text
/explore-enjoy/parks-recreatio...Subdomain Spring Recreation Programs
/services-payments/recycling-o...Subdomain Waste Wizard
/home/311-toronto-at-your-serv...Subdomain Make the Right Call
/explore-enjoy/parks-recreatio...Subdomain Fitness
/community-people/health-welln...Subdomain Respiratory Viruses
/community-people/health-welln...Subdomain COVID-19 Vaccines
/community-people/health-welln...Subdomain Mental Health
/community-people/health-welln...Subdomain Child Vaccinations
/services-payments/streets-par...Subdomain Road Restrictions Map
/services-payments/streets-par...Subdomain Cycling
/?page_id=39801&preview_id=39801Subdomain Parking Violations
/services-payments/streets-par...Subdomain Parking Permits
/services-payments/streets-par...Subdomain Self-Guided Tours
/services-payments/streets-par...Subdomain Potholes
/community-people/animals-pets...Subdomain Pet Licensing
/services-payments/building-co...Subdomain Building Permits
/business-economy/industry-sec...Subdomain Event Permits
/business-economy/new-business...Subdomain Business Regulations, Licences & Permits
/services-payments/building-co...Subdomain Remove a Tree
/city-government/council/offic...Subdomain Office of the Mayor
/city-government/council/membe...Subdomain Members of Council
/home/311-toronto-at-your-serv...Subdomain 311
/city-government/public-notice...Subdomain Public Notices
/city-government/data-research...Subdomain Open Data
/community-people/get-involved...Subdomain Toronto For All
/services-payments/recycling-o...Subdomain Waste Collection Schedule
/services-payments/property-ta...Subdomain Vacant Home Tax
/services-payments/recycling-o...Subdomain Recycling, Garbage & Organics
/services-payments/property-ta...Subdomain Property Tax
/services-payments/property-ta...Subdomain Utility Bills
/community-people/housing-shel...Subdomain Tenant Rights
/business-economy/business-ope...Subdomain Responding to U.S. Tariffs Learn about the City’s action plan and Love Local.
IMG-ALT A Love Local sign on a Toronto street with a Canadian flag and street art in the background.
/explore-enjoy/parks-recreatio...Subdomain Affordable Golf Explore golf programs and tee times for all ages.
IMG-ALT Three people holding golf clubs and standing on a grassy golf range in the address position before they take their swing.
/explore-enjoy/festivals-event...Subdomain Clean Toronto Together Join the City's annual spring cleanup from April 25 to 27.
IMG-ALT A group of people with litter bags on a grassy lawn, cleaning up Crawford Jones Park for the annual spring cleanup at the City.
/community-people/get-involved...Subdomain Survey & Public Session Have your say on a proposed new bylaw for demonstrations near certain locations, including schools, places of worship and community s...
IMG-ALT View of downtown Toronto skyline looking over trees towards the CN Tower. The sky is pink at sunset.
/globalnav/footer/?fb=trueSubdomain No Text
https://www.toronto.ca/Anchor Back to Top
/globalnav/iwantto/Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.toronto.ca/"
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 is excellent with 0.28 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (41 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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serverCloudFront
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
dateWed, 23 Apr 2025 19:33:28 GMT
link<https://www.toronto.ca/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/", <https://www.toronto.ca/wp-json/wp/v2/pages/52>; rel="alternate"; type="application/json", <https://www.toronto.ca/>; rel=shortlink
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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 22,330 referring domains.
This page has 2,886,611 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 11,966 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: readme.html
Disallow: license.txt
Disallow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

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City of Toronto
The official website for the City of Toronto. Toronto is Canada's largest city, the fourth largest in North America, and home to a diverse population of more than three million people.

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