Treasurydirect.gov - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
81% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
63% 
Server
24% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.70 s
File size
46.00 kB
Words
1255
Media files
11
Number of links
130 internal / 16 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home — TreasuryDirect
The length of the page title is perfect. (218 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)
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 1255 words. That's ok.
21% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
8 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 10.15 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 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 86 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"allows eligible people to prepare and file their tax return online, for free, directly"
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

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
About TreasuryDirect
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 About TreasuryDirect
H1 Login
H2 Savings Bonds
H2 Today’s Rates
H2 Processing Times
H2 Special Announcements for TreasuryDirect account holders:
H2 Latest News
H2 Help Center Guides
H2 Gift a Savings Bond
H3 November 2024
H3 October 2024
H3 September 2024
H3 August 2024
H3 Savings Bonds Help
H3 Securities & Auctions
H3 Logging In
H3 Connect With Us
H3 Legal Information
H3 Related Sites
H4 We're Here to Help
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 16 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://treasurydirect.gov/Anchor Skip Navigation
https://www.treasury.gov/New window Nofollow External Subdomain U.S. Department of the Treasury
https://treasurydirect.gov/IMG-ALT TreasuryDirect Home
https://treasurydirect.gov/Text duplicate IMG-ALT TreasuryDirect Home
/log-in/Log In
https://treasurydirect.gov/No Text
/savings-bonds/About U.S. Savings Bonds
/savings-bonds/buy-a-bond/Buy a Bond
/savings-bonds/gift-a-bond/Gift a Savings Bond
/savings-bonds/cashing-a-bond/Cash In a Bond
/savings-bonds/savings-bond-ca...Savings Bond Value Calculator
/savings-bonds/manage-bonds/Manage Bonds
/savings-bonds/forms/Forms for Savings Bonds
/savings-bonds/treasury-hunt/Treasury Hunt
/marketable-securities/About Treasury Marketable Securities
/marketable-securities/treasur...Treasury Bills
/marketable-securities/treasur...Treasury Bonds
/marketable-securities/treasur...Treasury Notes
/marketable-securities/tips/TIPS
/marketable-securities/floatin...Floating Rate Notes (FRNs)
/marketable-securities/strips/STRIPS
/marketable-securities/forms/Forms for Treasury Marketable Securities
/savings-bonds/treasury-hunt/Text duplicate Treasury Hunt
/auctions/About Auctions
/auctions/how-auctions-work/How Auctions Work (Participating)
/auctions/when-auctions-happen/When Auctions Happen (Schedules)
/auctions/announcements-data-r...Announcements, Data & Results
/auctions/announcements-data-r...Buyback Announcements and Results
/auctions/upcoming/Upcoming Auctions
/auctions/results/Recent Auction Results
/auctions/auction-query/Auction Search (Query)
/auctions/announcements-data-r...Auction Press Releases
/laws-and-regulations/auction-...Auction Regulations (UOC)
/laws-and-regulations/About Laws and Regulations
/laws-and-regulations/auction-...Text duplicate Auction Regulations (UOC)
/laws-and-regulations/collater...Collateral Programs
/laws-and-regulations/trades/Commercial Book-Entry Regulations (TRADES)
/laws-and-regulations/fraud/Frauds, Phonies, & Scams
/laws-and-regulations/gsa/Government Securities Act (GSA) Regulations
/laws-and-regulations/gsa/lpr-...Large Position Reporting (LPR)
/laws-and-regulations/buyback-...Redemption Ops (Buyback) Rules
/laws-and-regulations/marketab...Treasury Marketable Securities Regulations
/laws-and-regulations/savings-...Savings Bond Regulations
/laws-and-regulations/treasury...TreasuryDirect Regulations
/research-center/Research Center
/government/For Government Users
/government/federal-investment...Federal Investments Program
/government/slgs/SLGS & SLGSafe
/government/security-liquidati...Security Liquidation & Proceeds
/government/federal-borrowings...Federal Borrowings Program
/government/treasury-managed-a...Treasury Managed Accounts
/government/funds-management-p...Funds Management Program Reports
/government/historical-debt-ou...History of the Debt
/government/public-debt-reports/Public Debt Reports
/government/interest-rates-and...Interest Rates and Prices
/mailing-lists/Mailing Lists
https://treasurydirect.gov/news/News
https://treasurydirect.gov/about/About
https://treasurydirect.gov/forms/Forms
/help-center/Help Center
/contact-us/Contact Us
https://treasurydirect.gov/about/More About TreasuryDirect
/log-in/Text duplicate Log In
/log-in/Login Help
/RS/UN-AccountCreate.doNew window Open a New Account
https://fedinvest.fiscal.treas...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT FedInvest logo
https://slgsafe.fiscal.treasur...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT SLGSafe logo
https://directfile.irs.gov/?ut...New window External Subdomain directfile.irs.gov
https://directfile.irs.gov/?ut...New window External Subdomain No Text
/savings-bonds/buy-a-bond/Buy or Gift a Savings Bond
/savings-bonds/cashing-a-bond/Cash In a Savings Bond
/savings-bonds/savings-bond-ca...Find the Value of My Bond
/savings-bonds/treasury-hunt/Search for Treasury Securities
/savings-bonds/manage-bonds/Manage Savings Bonds
/savings-bonds/ee-bonds/Series EE Savings Bonds
/savings-bonds/i-bonds/Series I Savings Bonds
/savings-bonds/More About Savings Bonds
/marketable-securities/treasur...30-Year Bonds
/marketable-securities/treasur...10-Year Notes
/auctions/resultsSee All Auction Results
/marketable-securities/More About Treasury Marketable Securities
https://treasurydirect.gov/1099/information
https://fiscaldata.treasury.go...New window Nofollow External Subdomain savings bond explainer page
/news/2024/release-11-15-disas...Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners of the Crow Tribe of Montana Affected by Severe Storm and Straight-line Winds; One-year minimum holding period waived
/news/2024/release-11-08-disas...Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners of the Seminole Tribe in Florida Affected by Hurricane Milton; One-year minimum holding period waived
/news/2024/release-11-06-disas...Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in New Mexico Affected by Severe Storm and Flooding; One-year minimum holding period waived
/news/2024/release-11-06-disas...Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Affected by Severe Storm, Straight-line Winds, and Flooding; One-year minimum hold...
/news/2024/release-11-06-strips/The Fiscal Service Announces Activity for Securities in the STRIPS Program for October 2024
/news/2024/release-11-01-rates/Fiscal Service Announces New Savings Bonds Rates, Series I to Earn 3.11%, Series EE to Earn 2.60%
/news/2024/release-10-30-disas...Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Arizona Affected by Havasupai Tribe Flooding; One-year minimum holding period waived
/news/2024/release-10-18-disas...Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Alaska Affected by Flooding; One-year minimum holding period waived
/news/2024/release-10-17-disas...Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Florida Affected by Hurricane Milton; One-year minimum holding period waived
/news/2024/release-10-09-disas...Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in San Carlos Affected by San Carlos Apache Tribe Watch Fire; One-year minimum holding period waived
/news/2024/release-10-07a-disa...Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Virginia Affected by Tropical Storm Helene; One-year minimum holding period waived
/news/2024/release-10-07b-disa...Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Tennessee Affected by Tropical Storm Helene; One-year minimum holding period waived
/news/2024/release-10-04-strips/Fiscal Service Announces Activity for Securities in the STRIPS Program for September 2024
/news/2024/release-10-03d-disa...Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Georgia Affected by Hurricane Helene; One-year minimum holding period waived
/news/2024/release-10-03b-disa...Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Florida Affected by Hurricane Helene; One-year minimum holding period waived
/news/2024/release-10-03c-disa...Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in South Carolina Affected by Hurricane Helene; One-year minimum holding period waived
/news/2024/release-10-03a-disa...Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in North Carolina Affected by Tropical Storm Helene; One-year minimum holding period waived
/news/2024/release-09-27-disas...Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Vermont Affected by Severe Storm, Flooding, Landslides and Mudslides; One-year minimum holding period waived
/news/2024/release-09-26-disas...Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Yakama Reservation Affected by Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation Wildfires; One-year minimum hol...
/news/2024/release-09-28-disas...Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Georgia Affected by Tropical Storm Debby; One-year minimum holding period waived
/news/2024/release-09-25-disas...Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Connecticut Affected by Severe Storm, Flooding, Landslides and Mudslides; One-year minimum holding period waived
/news/2024/release-09-25-disas...Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Illinois Affected by Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-line Winds, and Flooding; One-year minimum holding period...
/news/2024/release-09-18-disas...Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Louisiana Affected by Hurricane Francine; One-year minimum holding period waived
/news/2024/release-09-16-disas...Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Pennsylvania Affected by Tropical Storm Debby; One-year minimum holding period waived
/news/2024/release-09-06-strips/Fiscal Service Announces Activity for Securities in the STRIPS Program for August 2024
/news/2024/release-08-23-disas...Text duplicate Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Vermont Affected by Severe Storm, Flooding, Landslides and Mudslides; One-year minimum holding period waived
/news/2024/release-08-21-disas...Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in South Dakota Affected by Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, and Flooding; One-year minimum holding period waived
/news/2024/release-08-15-disas...Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Florida Affected by Hurricane Debby; One-year minimum holding period waived
/news/2024/release-08-05-strips/Fiscal Service Announces Activity for Securities in the STRIPS Program for July 2024
/news/2024/release-08-02-disas...Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Minnesota Affected by Severe Storms and Flooding; One-year minimum holding period waived
https://treasurydirect.gov/news/See All News
/savings-bonds/cashing-a-bond/Redeeming a Paper Savings Bond
/savings-bonds/manage-bonds/ch...Change of Ownership
/savings-bonds/manage-bonds/lo...Lost, Stolen, or Destroyed Bonds
/savings-bonds/See More
/auctions/how-auctions-work/Participate in an Auction
/auctions/how-auctions-work/Types of Bids
/auctions/auction-query/Searching by CUSIP Number
/auctions/Text duplicate See More
/indiv/help/treasurydirect-hel...Forgot My Password
/indiv/help/treasurydirect-hel...Forgot My Account Number
/indiv/help/treasurydirect-hel...Help with One-time Passcodes
/indiv/help/treasurydirect-help/Text duplicate See More
/savings-bonds/gift-a-bond/Text duplicate Gift a Savings Bond
/contact-us/Text duplicate Contact Us
https://treasurydirect.gov/Text duplicate IMG-ALT TreasuryDirect Home
https://twitter.com/treasurydi...New window Nofollow External X (formerly Twitter)
https://www.facebook.com/fisca...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.youtube.com/Treasu...New window Nofollow External Subdomain YouTube
https://treasurydirect.gov/rss/RSS Feeds
/legal-information/foia/Freedom of Information Act
/legal-information/privacy/Privacy
/legal-information/terms/Terms & Conditions
/legal-information/data-quality/Data Quality
/legal-information/developers/For Web Developers
/legal-information/accessibility/Accessibility
https://www.treasury.gov/New window External Subdomain treasury.gov
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/New window External Subdomain fiscaldata.treasury.gov
https://www.usaspending.gov/New window External Subdomain USAspending.gov
https://fiscal.treasury.gov/New window External Subdomain Bureau of the Fiscal Service
https://www.usa.gov/New window External Subdomain USA.gov
https://www.data.gov/New window External Subdomain Data.gov
https://www.regulations.gov/New window External Subdomain Regulations.gov

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://treasurydirect.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 0.70 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 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 1 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (46 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

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This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 16,394 referring domains.
This page has 1,719,760 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 7,648 different ip addresses.

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Most important keywords

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Treasury81%Check
TreasuryDirect81%Check
TreasuryDirect account61%Check
Treasury Marketable59%Check
gov52%Check
Treasury Marketable Securities52%Check
Bond44%Check
Bonds43%Check
Savings43%Check
Savings Bonds43%Check

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