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Meta information
78% 
Page quality
68% 
Page structure
29% 
Link structure
58% 
Server
0% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.89 s
File size
155.50 kB
Words
898
Media files
3
Number of links
115 internal / 46 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
USGS.gov | Science for a changing world
The domain is used in the page's title.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
We provide science about the natural hazards that threaten lives and livelihoods; the water, energy, minerals, and other natural resources we rely on; the health of our ecosystems and environment; and the impacts of climate and land-use change. Our scientists develop new methods and tools to supply timely, relevant, and useful information about the Earth and its processes.
The meta description is too long: 2316 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.usgs.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
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The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
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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
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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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descriptionWe provide science about the natural hazards that threaten lives and livelihoods; the water, energy, minerals, and other natural resources we rely on; the health of our ecosystems and environment; and the impacts of climate and land-use change. Our scientists develop new methods and tools to supply timely, relevant, and useful information about the Earth and its processes.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 898 words. That's ok.
13.7% 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.
5 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 23 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 78 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 416 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"the usgs monitors, analyzes, and predicts current and evolving earth-system interactions and delivers ..."
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

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...gs_tantalum/assets/img/us_flag_small.pngU.S. flag
/themes/custom/usgs_tantalum/usgs_logo.pngHome
/themes/custom/usgs_tantalum/usgs_logo.pngAgency logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Celebrating Earth Sciences
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 71 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Celebrating Earth Sciences
H1 USGS Scientific Research Results
H1 Real-time Data Information
H1 Science for a Changing World
H2 USGS Science is Supporting Efforts to Reduce Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise in Virginia
H2 Shape Your Future: Join the Mendenhall Research Fellowship Program
H2 USGS deploys wave sensors along Florida’s coast ahead of Hurricane Helene
H2 New USGS data-driven tools can aid restoration of mine lands across America
H2 USGS forecasts 44 percent of Florida’s west coast to experience inundation from Helene
H2 USGS supercomputers help assess volcanic hazards in support of community resilience
H2 Trash to Treasure: Could energy wastewaters be a viable source of lithium?
H3 Nearly all of Florida’s west coast projected to become eroded and overwashed
H3 High-performance computing enables scientists to tackle complex problems and deliver faster volcanic hazard information for real-world impacts.
H3 U.S. Geological Survey
H3 U.S. Department of the Interior
H3 Contact USGS
H4 Event Notifications
H4 Biology
H4 Climate
H4 Coasts
H4 Maps and Mapping
H4 Minerals
H4 Natural Hazards
H4 Planetary Science
H4 Water Resources
H4 Data
H4 Publications
H4 Web Tools
H4 Software
H4 Maps
H4 Map Releases
H4 Topographic (Topo) Maps
H4 Volcanic Maps
H4 All USGS Maps
H4 Videos and Imagery
H4 Audio
H4 Images
H4 Stereograms
H4 Videos
H4 Webcams
H4 All Multimedia
H4 Earthquakes
H4 Landsat
H4 National Water Dashboard
H4 Volcanoes
H4 Landslides
H4 Geomagnetism
H4 Harmful Algal Blooms
H4 Wildland Fire
H4 Mission Areas
H4 Programs
H4 Interior Regions
H4 Science Centers
H4 Observatories
H4 Laboratories
H4 Science Support Offices
H4 Locations
H4 Key Officials
H5 Kilauea
H5 Great Sitkin
H5 Magnitude 6.6
H5 Magnitude 4.15
H5 Magnitude 6.3
H5 Magnitude 3.96
H5 Magnitude 5.1
H5 Magnitude 5.2
H5 Magnitude 6.3 Duplicate text
H5 Magnitude 6.5
H5 Magnitude 4.69
H5 Magnitude 6.3 Duplicate text
H5 Magnitude 3.94
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 too many external links (46) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.usgs.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
/eeo-policy-statementUSGS’s commitment to equal employment opportunity, diversity and inclusion.
https://www.usgs.gov/IMG-ALT Home
A-TITLE Home
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ea...New window External Subdomain Latest Earthquakes
https://geochat.usgs.gov/New window External Subdomain Chat
A-TITLE Live WebChat
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ea...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Latest Earthquakes
https://chat.cslive.usgs.gov/New window External Subdomain Live WebChat
/news/featured-storiesFeatured Story
/news/featured-story/usgs-scie...Read story
/news/featured-storiesText duplicate Featured Story
/news/featured-story/shape-you...Text duplicate Read story
/news/news-releases/state-news...State News Release
/news/state-news-release/usgs-...Read release
/news/news-releases/national-n...National News Release
/news/national-news-release/ne...Read Release
/news/news-releases/state-news...Text duplicate State News Release
/news/state-news-release/usgs-...Text duplicate Read release
/news/featured-storiesText duplicate Featured Story
/news/featured-story/usgs-supe...Text duplicate Read story
/news/featured-storiesText duplicate Featured Story
/news/featured-story/trash-tre...Read Story
https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/han...External Subdomain Kilauea
https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/han...External Subdomain YELLOW - ADVISORY 2024-10-02 20:37:39 (UTC)
https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/han...External Subdomain Great Sitkin
https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/han...External Subdomain ORANGE - WATCH 2024-10-02 17:50:06 (UTC)
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ea...External Subdomain Magnitude 6.6
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ea...External Subdomain 154 km ESE of Neiafu, Tonga
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ea...External Subdomain Magnitude 4.15
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ea...External Subdomain 3 km of Aromas, CA
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ea...External Subdomain Magnitude 6.3
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ea...External Subdomain Mauritius - Reunion region
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ea...External Subdomain Magnitude 3.96
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ea...External Subdomain 12 km E of Saanichton, Canada
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ea...External Subdomain Magnitude 5.1
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ea...External Subdomain 2024 North of Tarzan, Texas Earthquake
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ea...External Subdomain Magnitude 5.2
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ea...External Subdomain 8 km N of Cașoca, Romania
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ea...External Subdomain Text duplicate Magnitude 6.3
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ea...External Subdomain 266 km NE of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ea...External Subdomain Magnitude 6.5
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ea...External Subdomain 272 km WNW of Port McNeill, Canada
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ea...External Subdomain Magnitude 4.69
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ea...External Subdomain 6 km N of Malibu, CA
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ea...External Subdomain Text duplicate Magnitude 6.3
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ea...External Subdomain 170 km SW of Lorengau, Papua New Guinea
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ea...External Subdomain Magnitude 3.94
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ea...External Subdomain 4 km SE of Ontario, CA
/science/science-explorerScience Explorer
/science/science-explorerView All Topics
/science/science-explorer/biologyBiology
/science/science-explorer/climateClimate
/science/science-explorer/coastsCoasts
/science/science-explorer/maps...Maps and Mapping
/science/science-explorer/mine...Minerals
/science/science-explorer/natu...Natural Hazards
/science/science-explorer/plan...Planetary Science
/mission-areas/water-resourcesWater Resources
https://www.usgs.gov/productsProducts
/products/dataData
/products/publicationsPublications
/products/web-toolsWeb Tools
/products/softwareSoftware
/products/maps/map-releasesMap Releases
https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topovie...External Subdomain Anchor Topographic (Topo) Maps
/products/maps/volcanic-mapsVolcanic Maps
/products/mapsAll USGS Maps
/products/multimedia-gallery/a...Audio
/products/multimedia-gallery/i...Images
/products/multimedia-gallery/s...Stereograms
/products/multimedia-gallery/v...Videos
/products/multimedia-gallery/w...Webcams
/products/multimedia-gallery/a...All Multimedia
https://www.usgs.gov/productsText duplicate Products
/products/data/real-time-dataAccess All
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ea...External Subdomain Earthquakes
/landsat-missionsLandsat
https://dashboard.waterdata.us...External Subdomain National Water Dashboard
https://www.usgs.gov/vhpVolcanoes
/programs/landslide-hazardsLandslides
https://www.usgs.gov/geomagnetismGeomagnetism
https://webapps.usgs.gov/rsqa/External Subdomain Harmful Algal Blooms
/special-topics/wildland-fire-...Wildland Fire
/about/organizationOur Organization
/science/mission-areasMission Areas
/science/programsPrograms
/science/interior-regionsInterior Regions
/science/science-centersScience Centers
/science/observatoriesObservatories
/science/laboratoriesLaboratories
/about/organization/science-su...Science Support Offices
/connect/locationsLocations
/about/key-officialsKey Officials
https://www.usgs.gov/scienceScience
/science/science-explorerText duplicate Science Explorer
/science/mission-areasText duplicate Mission Areas
/science/programsText duplicate Programs
/science/regionsRegions
/science/science-centersText duplicate Science Centers
/science/observatoriesText duplicate Observatories
/science/laboratoriesText duplicate Laboratories
https://www.usgs.gov/science/faqsFrequently Asked Questions
/educational-resourcesEducational Resources
/special-topicsSpecial Topics
https://www.usgs.gov/productsText duplicate Products
/products/dataText duplicate Data
/products/mapsMaps
/products/publicationsText duplicate Publications
/products/multimedia-galleryMultimedia Gallery
/products/web-toolsText duplicate Web Tools
/products/softwareText duplicate Software
/us-board-on-geographic-namesU.S. Board on Geographic Names
/programs/national-geospatial-...The National Map
/programs/usgs-libraryUSGS Library
https://store.usgs.gov/External Subdomain USGS Store
https://store.usgs.gov/recreat...External Subdomain Park Passes
https://www.usgs.gov/newsNews
/news/featured-storiesFeatured Stories
/news/news-releasesNews Releases
/news/science-snippetsScience Snippets
/news/technical-announcementsTechnical Announcements
/news/employees-in-the-newsEmployees in the News
/news/get-our-newsGet Our News
/news/media-contactsMedia Contacts
/news/im-a-reporterI'm a Reporter
https://www.usgs.gov/newslettersNewsletters
https://www.usgs.gov/connectConnect
/connect/headquartersHeadquarters
/connect/locationsText duplicate Locations
/connect/staff-profilesStaff Profiles
/connect/social-mediaSocial Media
/human-capitalCareers
https://answers.usgs.gov/External Subdomain Contact Us
https://www.usgs.gov/aboutAbout
/about/about-usAbout Us
/survey-manualSurvey Manual
/about/organizationOrganization
/about/key-officialsText duplicate Key Officials
/about/congressionalCongressional
https://www.usgs.gov/bpiBudget
/human-capitalCareers and Employees
/about/doing-businessDoing Business
/programs/emergency-managementEmergency Management
https://www.usgs.gov/legalLegal
/accessibilityAccessibility
https://www.usgs.gov/foiaFOIA
https://www.usgs.gov/legalSite Policies
https://www.doi.gov/privacyExternal Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://www.usgs.gov/sitemapSite Map
/doi-and-usgs-link-policies-applyDOI and USGS link policies apply
https://www.doi.gov/pmb/eeo/re...External Subdomain No FEAR Act
https://www.usa.gov/External Subdomain USA.gov
/legal/usgs-vulnerability-disc...Vulnerability Disclosure Policy
https://www.usgs.gov/Subdomain IMG-ALT Agency logo
https://www.usgs.gov/New window Subdomain U.S. Geological Survey
https://www.doi.gov/New window External Subdomain U.S. Department of the Interior
https://www.facebook.com/USGeo...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/USGSNew window External Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/user/usgsNew window External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.instagram.com/usgs/New window External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.usgs.gov/rss.xmlNew window RSS
https://answers.usgs.gov/External Subdomain answers.usgs.gov

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.usgs.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 0.89 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 43 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 78 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (156 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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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 47,298 referring domains.
This page has 2,281,870 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 29,547 different ip addresses.

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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?
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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.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/
# 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/
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USGS.gov | Science for a changing world
We provide science about the natural hazards that threaten lives and livelihoods; the water, energy, minerals, and other natural resources we rely on; the health of our ecosystems and environment; and the impacts of climate and land-use change. Our scientists develop new methods and tools to supply timely, relevant, and useful information about the Earth and its processes.

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Science82%Check
Earth Science76%Check
USGS72%Check
information59%Check
hazards59%Check
water59%Check
source59%Check
natural hazards58%Check
natural55%Check
resources55%Check
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