Townofblackmountain.org - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
40% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.24 s
File size
127.50 kB
Words
413
Media files
14
Number of links
59 internal / 13 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Black Mountain, NC | Official Website
The length of the page title is perfect. (335 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
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 name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
category0Home
theme-colorrgb(44, 94, 46)
descriptionEmpty
keywordsHome
langen
Content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 413 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
18.2% of the text are stop words.
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 11.55 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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=4065Black Mountain NC Homepage
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=4068Search
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=5174Private Property Debris ROW Removal Program SliderPrivate Property Debris ROW Removal Program Slider
data:[...] Base64Helene Recovery and Resources SliderHelene Recovery and Resources Slider
data:[...] Base64Property Damage Form Slider Property Damage Form Slider
data:[...] Base64Hazard Mitigation Grant URL SliderHazard Mitigation Grant URL Slider
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=5177Christmas Tree and Brush Pickup Request for Website
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=4704Monthly Newsletter Generic 250x250
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=5191Floodplain Regs Public Info Workshop 1-21-25 250x250px
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=5098NC_OSFM_Logo
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=4082Black Mountain NC Homepage
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=4084Instagram
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=4083Facebook
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=4085YouTube

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Popular Resources
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (17 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Popular Resources
H1 Latest News
H1 Upcoming Events
H3 Quick Links
H3 January 2025
H4 January 2025 Town Newsletter
H4 Floodplain Regulations Public Information Workshop- 1/21/25 @ 6pm
H4 Town Launches Private Property Debris Removal & Demolition Program - Apply at Black Mtn. Library
H4 State of NC Fire Marshal Releases Statement Regarding Recent Misinformation on Temp. Housing
H4 Wed, Jan. 15
H4 Wed, Jan. 15 Duplicate text
H4 Wed, Jan. 15 Duplicate text
H4 Thu, Jan. 16
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 13 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to Main Content
/MyAccount/ProfileCreateCreate a Website Account
/MyAccountWebsite Sign In
/IMG-ALT Black Mountain NC Homepage
/Search/ResultsIMG-ALT Search
/27/GovernmentGovernment
/101/ServicesServices
/31/ResidentsResidents
/2386/VisitorsVisitors
/35/BusinessBusiness
/9/How-Do-IHow Do I...
https://www.buncombecounty.org...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Private Property Debris ROW Removal Program Slider
https://www.blackmountainrecov...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Helene Recovery and Resources Slider
https://survey123.arcgis.com/s...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Property Damage Form Slider
https://www.buncombecounty.org...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Hazard Mitigation Grant URL Slider
/Anchor 1 Private Property Debris ROW Removal Program Slider
/Anchor 2 Helene Recovery and Resources Slider
/Anchor 3 Property Damage Form Slider
/Anchor 4 Hazard Mitigation Grant URL Slider
/FormCenter/Public-Services-5/...New window Subdomain IMG-ALT Christmas Tree and Brush Pickup Request for Website
https://blackmountainnc.portal...New window External Subdomain Meeting Agendas & Minutes
/180/Sanitation-ServicesSanitation
/list.aspxNotify Me®
/169/Human-ResourcesEmployment
/2830/Permits-and-InspectionsNew window Permitting & Inspections
https://www.municipalonlinepay...External Subdomain Online Bill Pay
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=32,122,54Quick Links
/FormCenter/Public-Services-5/...New window Subdomain Request Pickup for Leaves, Brush, White Goods
/172/CodeREDSubdomain CodeRED Notification System
/149/Board-of-AldermenTown Council Meetings
/2386/VisitorsSubdomain Video Tour of Black Mountain!
https://townofblackmountainnc....New window External Subdomain Public Record Requests
/2860/Lead-and-Copper-Line-Rep...Subdomain EPA Lead & Copper Rule
/Archive.aspx?AMID=40&Type=RecentNew window Five Year Capital Improvement Plan (PDF)
https://www.cognitoforms.com/T...New window External Subdomain Town Water Account Service Application
https://www.cognitoforms.com/T...New window External Subdomain Change of Water Billing Mailing Address
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=543New window IMG-ALT Monthly Newsletter Generic 250x250
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=543New window January 2025 Town Newsletter
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=543New window Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=541IMG-ALT Floodplain Regs Public Info Workshop 1-21-25 250x250px
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=541Floodplain Regulations Public Information Workshop- 1/21/25 @ 6pm
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=541Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=538Town Launches Private Property Debris Removal & Demolition Program - Apply at Black Mtn. Library
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=538Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=535New window IMG-ALT NC_OSFM_Logo
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=535New window State of NC Fire Marshal Releases Statement Regarding Recent Misinformation on Temp. Housing
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=535New window Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?CID=1View More News
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...15
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...16
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...21
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...27
/213/Alcoholic-Beverage-Contro...New window Subdomain ABC Board Meeting
/213/Alcoholic-Beverage-Contro...New window Subdomain ABC Board MeetingRead On
/Calendar.aspx?EID=1528Historic Preservation Commission
/Calendar.aspx?EID=1528Historic Preservation Commission Read On
/Calendar.aspx?EID=1928Historic Preservation Commission Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=1928Historic Preservation Commission MeetingRead On
/Calendar.aspx?EID=1371Board of Adjustment
/Calendar.aspx?EID=1371Board of Adjustment Read On
/calendar.aspx?CID=26,32,28,14...View More Events
/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Black Mountain NC Homepage
/Home
/directory.aspxContact Us
/2433/Employee-IntranetEmployee Intranet
/AccessibilityAccessibility
/sitemapSite Map
/site/copyrightCopyright Notices
https://connect.civicplus.com/...External Subdomain CivicPlus®
https://www.instagram.com/town...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Instagram
https://www.facebook.com/peopl...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Facebook
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain IMG-ALT YouTube

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.townofblackmountain.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.24 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 (128 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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cache-controlprivate, s-maxage=600,no-transform
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-encodinggzip
etag" "
varyAccept-Encoding
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
p3pCP="IDC DSP COR ADM DEVi TAIi PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi HIS OUR IND CNT"
set-cookie25 Characters
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self' https://*.granicus.com https://platform.civicplus.com https://account.civicplus.com https://analytics.civicplus.com; img-src * data: blob:; worker-src * data: blob: 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline'; script-src * about: 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval'; style-src * 'unsafe-inline'; media-src * blob:; font-src * data:; default-src *
dateWed, 15 Jan 2025 11:21:01 GMT
content-length36720
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 732 referring domains.
This page has 1,996 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 368 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

user-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /
User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /
User-agent: *
Disallow: /activedit
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /common/admin/
Disallow: /OJA
Disallow: /support
Disallow: /currenteventsview.asp
Disallow: /search.asp
Disallow: /currenteventsview.aspx
Disallow: /search.aspx
Disallow: /currentevents.aspx
Disallow: /Support
Disallow: /CurrentEventsView.asp
Disallow: /Search.asp
Disallow: /CurrentEventsView.aspx
Disallow: /Search.aspx
Disallow: /Search
Disallow: /CurrentEvents.aspx
Disallow: /Currentevents.aspx
Disallow: /map.aspx
Disallow: /map.asp
Disallow: /Map.aspx
Disallow: /Map.asp
Sitemap: /sitemap.xml
Disallow: /RSS.aspx
User-agent: Siteimprove
Crawl-delay: 20
User-agent: Siteimprovebot
Crawl-delay: 20
User-agent: Siteimprovebot-crawler
Crawl-delay: 20

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Black63%Check
Black Mountain61%Check
Town54%Check
Resources54%Check
Popular50%Check
Website48%Check
form46%Check
Town Hall46%Check
Town Council46%Check
News44%Check
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