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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
77% 
Page quality
65% 
Page structure
47% 
Link structure
68% 
Server
38% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.45 s
File size
269.20 kB
Words
404
Media files
34
Number of links
106 internal / 19 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Visit Virginia | Virginia is for Lovers
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (311 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
Visit Virginia’s official tourism website for travel info and vacation planning. Explore our cities and towns, find fun things to do, and discover unique places to stay. Order our free travel guide and sign up for our newsletters for regular trip inspo.
The meta description is too long: 1482 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.virginia.org/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
descriptionVisit Virginia’s official tourism website for travel info and vacation planning. Explore our cities and towns, find fun things to do, and discover unique places to stay. Order our free travel guide and sign up for our newsletters for regular trip inspo.
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og:descriptionWhy is Virginia for Lovers? Plan a trip and find out. Visit Virginia’s official tourism website for travel info and vacation planning - explore our cities and towns, find fun things to do, and discover unique places to stay.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 404 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
29% 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.
3 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 11.11 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 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-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
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.../public/assets/shared/nav/close-icon.svgmenu icon
...blic/assets/shared/nav/menu-icon-red.svgmenu icon
...ic/assets/shared/nav/menu-icon-white.svgmenu icon
...9848cc29-9cac-4c97-9acb-a53cad537141.jpgvguide
...9e1b07bc-cff1-4de0-b79a-c4b80a09f04b.jpgenews
...ic/assets/shared/nav/menu-icon-white.svgmenu icon
...c/assets/shared/logos/vg-icon-sticky.svgVirginia Tourism Corporation
...ssets/shared/logos/email-solid-white.svgnewsletter icon
...94551549-a938-4a5b-bf82-e6386ec41a63.jpgLewis Ginter Botanical Garden
...5607a293-3e26-4012-b407-a83d97213f41.jpgRichmond Skyline
...a8c9d541-e7d9-4873-830e-ead96b36d609.jpgCape Charles
...caa96001-5e55-4974-a604-2eba6c267b14.jpgOld Town Alexandria Waterfront
...34390b68-7d92-4ce5-8d6d-1e248aa969b1.jpgNorfolk Botanical Garden
...77312615-051f-44c8-a306-d9c872aaab61.jpgYorktown Market Days
...1d0bc219-c12d-4c59-8a94-0a779a920cf6.jpgHurkamp Park LOVEwork
...f8134a2f-8bb7-4239-9194-403f5487c95c.jpgHarborfest
...1dae6db0-4447-4c74-b34b-c055a48918fd.jpgDinner In The Field
...a41f3ac3-8493-4fcd-8551-a2bdb749fc82.jpgRooster Walk
...a438a0d4-a0e9-48aa-9f3f-228928ce9045.jpgWelcome to Virginia
...72d47edb-cc67-44fd-8481-742d1f0de71f.jpgBreaks Interstate Parl
...3f747726-f34c-4759-af34-80d0d7db6413.jpgPleasure House Oysters
...80d9ba84-9233-4200-87a3-c85c86a0213c.jpgNational Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
...8a488868-b8d5-4203-9ba7-bcad8ccf4733.jpgTashira Halyard Garcon
...f127ea0f-990c-44e7-abda-43a2cccebbd9.jpgFloydFest
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...public/assets/shared/logos/vifl-logo.svgVirginia Tourism Corporation
...ublic/assets/shared/made-by-sv-white.svgMade by Simpleview

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Virginia
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (8 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 34 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 Virginia
H2 Spring in Virginia
H2 is for...
H2 Places To Visit
H2 Things To Do
H2 Virginia Events
H2 &nbsp
H2 Outdoors For the trail trekkers, wave splashers, and scenic overlookers.
H2 Food & Drink For the app sharers, oyster slurpers, and wine sippers.
H2 Family Fun For the families that sit poolside, camp outside, and museum inside.
H2 Heart & Soul Meet the Black creators, trendsetters, and artists shaping the culture of VA
H2 Music Enjoy Virginia's Music Scene
H2 WanderLove Is your WanderLove calling?
H2 LOVEworks Find The LOVE
H3 Cities & Towns
H3 Small Towns
H3 Trendy Neighborhood Guides
H3 Parks and Gardens
H3 Farmers Markets
H3 Spring Break
H3 Spring Festivals
H3 Food & Drink Events
H3 Concerts & Live Music
H3 Subscribe to Our Newsletter!
H4 Get a free
H4 visitors guide
H4 Sign up for our
H4 Enewsletter
H4 #loveva
H4 Get a free Duplicate text
H4 travel guide
H4 subscribe to our
H4 enewsletter
H4 #loveva Duplicate text
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 19 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.virginia.org/Anchor Skip navigation
https://www.virginia.org/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.virginia.org/IMG-ALT Virginia Tourism Corporation
/places-to-visit/Places To Visit
/things-to-do/Things To Do
https://www.virginia.org/events/Events
/places-to-stay/Places To Stay
/plan-your-trip/Plan Your Trip
https://www.virginia.org/deals/Deals
https://www.virginia.org/blog/Blog
/places-to-visit/Text duplicate Places To Visit
/things-to-do/Text duplicate Things To Do
https://www.virginia.org/events/Text duplicate Events
/places-to-stay/Text duplicate Places To Stay
/plan-your-trip/Text duplicate Plan Your Trip
https://www.virginia.org/deals/Text duplicate Deals
https://www.virginia.org/blog/Text duplicate Blog
/plan-your-trip/e-mail-sign-up/Enews Sign Up
IMG-ALT Virginia Tourism Corporation
/plan-your-trip/virginia-trave...Visitors Guide
IMG-ALT Virginia Tourism Corporation
/places-to-visit/Text duplicate Places To Visit
/things-to-do/Text duplicate Things To Do
https://www.virginia.org/events/Text duplicate Events
/places-to-stay/Text duplicate Places To Stay
/plan-your-trip/Text duplicate Plan Your Trip
https://www.virginia.org/deals/Text duplicate Deals
https://www.virginia.org/blog/Text duplicate Blog
/group-travel/Group Travel
/plan-your-trip/international-...International Visitors
https://www.thevastore.com/?_g...External Store
https://www.virginia.org/maps/Maps
/accessible-travel/Accessible Travel
/blog/homeText duplicate Blog
/places-to-visit/Text duplicate Places To Visit
/things-to-do/Text duplicate Things To Do
https://www.virginia.org/events/Text duplicate Events
/places-to-stay/Text duplicate Places To Stay
/plan-your-trip/Text duplicate Plan Your Trip
https://www.virginia.org/deals/Text duplicate Deals
https://www.virginia.org/blog/Text duplicate Blog
/group-travel/Text duplicate Group Travel
/plan-your-trip/international-...Text duplicate International Visitors
https://www.thevastore.com/?_g...External Text duplicate Store
https://www.virginia.org/maps/Text duplicate Maps
/accessible-travel/Text duplicate Accessible Travel
/blog/homeText duplicate Blog
/plan-your-trip/virginia-trave...Get a free visitors guide
IMG-ALT vguide
/plan-your-trip/e-mail-sign-up/Sign up for our Enewsletter
IMG-ALT enews
https://www.youtube.com/user/V...New window External A-TITLE Visit our Youtube page
https://www.pinterest.com/visi...New window External A-TITLE Visit our Pinterest page
https://twitter.com/visitvirginiaNew window External A-TITLE Visit our Twitter page
https://instagram.com/visitvir...New window External A-TITLE Visit our Instagram page
https://www.facebook.com/Virgi...New window External A-TITLE Visit our Facebook page
/plan-your-trip/virginia-trave...Text duplicate Visitors Guide
IMG-ALT Virginia Tourism Corporation
/plan-your-trip/e-mail-sign-up/Text duplicate Enews Sign Up
IMG-ALT newsletter icon
/plan-your-trip/seasons-and-cl...IMG-ALT Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
/plan-your-trip/seasons-and-cl...Spring in Virginia
/plan-your-trip/seasons-and-cl...spring break
/things-to-do/romance/romantic retreats
/things-to-do/outdoors/parks-a...gardens
/things-to-do/outdoors/hiking/...bucket list hikes
/things-to-do/food-and-drink/w...vineyards
/places-to-visit/Text duplicate Places To Visit
/places-to-visit/View More
/places-to-visit/cities-and-to...IMG-ALT Richmond Skyline
/places-to-visit/cities-and-to...Cities & Towns
/places-to-visit/cities-and-to...IMG-ALT Cape Charles
/places-to-visit/cities-and-to...Small Towns
/places-to-visit/cities-and-to...IMG-ALT Old Town Alexandria Waterfront
/places-to-visit/cities-and-to...Trendy Neighborhood Guides
/things-to-do/Text duplicate Things To Do
/things-to-do/Text duplicate View More
/things-to-do/outdoors/parks-a...IMG-ALT Norfolk Botanical Garden
/things-to-do/outdoors/parks-a...Parks and Gardens
/things-to-do/food-and-drink/f...IMG-ALT Yorktown Market Days
/things-to-do/food-and-drink/f...Farmers Markets
/plan-your-trip/seasons-and-cl...IMG-ALT Hurkamp Park LOVEwork
/plan-your-trip/seasons-and-cl...Spring Break
https://www.virginia.org/events/Virginia Events
https://www.virginia.org/events/Text duplicate View More
/events/festivals-and-fairs/sp...IMG-ALT Harborfest
/events/festivals-and-fairs/sp...Spring Festivals
/events/food-and-drink-events/IMG-ALT Dinner In The Field
/events/food-and-drink-events/Food & Drink Events
/events/concerts-and-live-music/IMG-ALT Rooster Walk
/events/concerts-and-live-music/Concerts & Live Music
https://www.youtube.com/embed/...External IMG-ALT Welcome to Virginia
/things-to-do/outdoors/IMG-ALT Breaks Interstate Parl
/things-to-do/outdoors/Outdoors For the trail trekkers, wave splashers, and scenic overlookers.
/things-to-do/outdoors/Learn More
/things-to-do/food-and-drink/IMG-ALT Pleasure House Oysters
/things-to-do/food-and-drink/Food & Drink For the app sharers, oyster slurpers, and wine sippers.
/things-to-do/food-and-drink/Text duplicate Learn More
/things-to-do/things-to-do-wit...IMG-ALT National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
/things-to-do/things-to-do-wit...Family Fun For the families that sit poolside, camp outside, and museum inside.
/things-to-do/things-to-do-wit...Text duplicate Learn More
/plan-your-trip/black-travel/h...IMG-ALT Tashira Halyard Garcon
/plan-your-trip/black-travel/h...Heart & Soul Meet the Black creators, trendsetters, and artists shaping the culture of VA
/plan-your-trip/black-travel/h...Text duplicate Learn More
/things-to-do/arts-and-enterta...IMG-ALT FloydFest
/things-to-do/arts-and-enterta...Music Enjoy Virginia's Music Scene
/things-to-do/arts-and-enterta...Text duplicate Learn More
/wanderlove/IMG-ALT Skyline Drive
/wanderlove/WanderLove Is your WanderLove calling?
/wanderlove/Text duplicate Learn More
https://www.virginia.org/love/IMG-ALT Cape Charles LOVEwork
https://www.virginia.org/love/LOVEworks Find The LOVE
https://www.virginia.org/love/Text duplicate Learn More
/plan-your-trip/virginia-trave...Get a free travel guide
IMG-ALT vguide
/plan-your-trip/e-mail-sign-up/subscribe to our enewsletter
IMG-ALT enews
https://www.virginia.org/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Virginia Tourism Corporation
https://www.vatc.org/External Industry
A-TITLE Industry
https://pressroom.virginia.org/External Subdomain Media
A-TITLE Media
https://www.vatc.org/External About Us
A-TITLE About Us
https://www.thevastore.com/External VA Store
A-TITLE VA Store
https://www.virginia.org/contact/Contact
A-TITLE Contact
https://www.virginia.org/sitemap/Sitemap
A-TITLE Sitemap
/privacy-policy/Privacy Policy
A-TITLE Privacy Policy
https://www.vatc.org/marketing...External Manage Listings
A-TITLE Manage Listings
https://www.youtube.com/user/V...New window External Text duplicate A-TITLE Visit our Youtube page
https://www.pinterest.com/visi...New window External Text duplicate A-TITLE Visit our Pinterest page
https://twitter.com/visitvirginiaNew window External Text duplicate A-TITLE Visit our Twitter page
https://instagram.com/visitvir...New window External Text duplicate A-TITLE Visit our Instagram page
https://www.facebook.com/Virgi...New window External Text duplicate A-TITLE Visit our Facebook page
https://www.simpleviewinc.com/...New window External IMG-ALT Made by Simpleview
/privacy-policyText duplicate Privacy Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.virginia.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.45 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 31 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (269 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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last-modifiedThu, 21 Mar 2024 18:18:41 GMT
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strict-transport-securitymax-age=86400;
varyAccept-Encoding
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x-powered-bySimpleview CMS
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External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 8,618 referring domains.
This page has 3,152,362 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 5,120 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

Sitemap: https://www.virginia.org/sitemap.xml

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www.virginia.org
Visit Virginia | Virginia is for Lovers
Visit Virginia’s official tourism website for travel info and vacation planning. Explore our cities and towns, find fun things to do, and discover unique places to stay. Order our free travel guide and sign up for our newsletters for regular trip inspo.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Virginia93%Check
visit Virginia81%Check
Virginia Travel73%Check
Visit70%Check
Guide58%Check
love56%Check
town56%Check
Travel Guide55%Check
Towns54%Check
free54%Check
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