Vote.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
45% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.02 s
File size
55.70 kB
Words
424
Media files
7
Number of links
20 internal / 15 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Register to vote in your state | Vote.gov
The length of the page title is perfect. (354 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (826 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://vote.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
(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

NameValue
descriptionFind the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:descriptionFind the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.
twitter:site@votegov
twitter:titleRegister to vote in your state | Vote.gov
twitter:imagehttps://vote.gov/themes/custom/votegov/img/votegov-social.jpg
og:site_nameVote.gov
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://vote.gov/
og:titleRegister to vote in your state | Vote.gov
og:descriptionFind the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.
og:imagehttps://vote.gov/themes/custom/votegov/img/votegov-social.jpg
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 424 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 6.14 words is low.
34.4% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The amount of tags is very high (10). We recommend using a maximum of 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 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
...otegov/dist/assets/img/us_flag_small.pngU.S. flag
...votegov/dist/assets/img/icon-dot-gov.svgNo alt attribute provided
...m/votegov/dist/assets/img/icon-https.svgNo alt attribute provided
...a/image/2024-07/Home-3.jpg?itok=ISnLTH5SNo alt attribute provided
/themes/custom/votegov/img/usagov-logo.svgUSA.gov logo
/themes/custom/votegov/img/eac-logo.webpU.S. Election Assistance Commission logo which indicates a partnership with vote.gov
/themes/custom/votegov/img/gsa-logo.svgGSA logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Register to vote or update your registration
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Register to vote or update your registration
H2 Find answers to common questions about registering and voting
H2 Know your voting rights
H2 Learn more about U.S. elections
H2 Sign up to get email from USAGov about government benefits and services.
H3 Voting as a college student
H3 Voting as a new U.S. citizen
H3 Voting with a disability
H3 Voting while unhoused
H3 Voting after a felony conviction
H3 Preparing to vote: age 18 and under
H3 Voting as a military service member
H3 Voting as a U.S. citizen from outside the U.S.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 15 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://vote.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://vote.gov/A-TITLE Vote.gov
https://vote.gov/registerRegister to vote
/your-vote-is-safeYour vote is safe
https://vote.gov/registerSelect your state or territory to begin
https://vote.gov/guide-to-votingMail-in and absentee voting
https://vote.gov/guide-to-votingEarly voting
https://vote.gov/guide-to-votingVoter ID requirements
https://vote.gov/registerChanging your address
https://vote.gov/registerChanging your name
https://vote.gov/registerChanging your political party
/guide-to-voting/college-studentVoting as a college student You may have the option to register in your hometown or college town.
A-TITLE Voting as a college student
/guide-to-voting/new-united-st...Voting as a new U.S. citizen Find out what you need to know about voting and participating in American elections.
A-TITLE Voting as a new U.S. citizen
/guide-to-voting/disabilityVoting with a disability Know your rights and voting accommodations protected by law.
A-TITLE Voting with a disability
/guide-to-voting/unhousedVoting while unhoused You don’t need a home address to register and vote.
A-TITLE Voting while unhoused
/guide-to-voting/after-felony-...Voting after a felony conviction Your eligibility to vote after a conviction can be different from state to state.
A-TITLE Voting after a felony conviction
/guide-to-voting/preparing-age...Preparing to vote: age 18 and under Take steps now so you are ready to vote when you turn 18.
A-TITLE Preparing to vote: age 18 and under
https://www.fvap.gov/military-...New window External Subdomain Voting as a military service member Learn more from the Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP).
A-TITLE Voting
https://www.fvap.gov/citizen-v...New window External Subdomain Voting as a U.S. citizen from outside the U.S. Learn more from the Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP).
A-TITLE Voting
https://www.usa.gov/state-loca...External Subdomain State and local elections
https://www.usa.gov/presidenti...External Subdomain Presidential election process
https://www.usa.gov/primaries-...External Subdomain Primaries and caucuses
https://www.usa.gov/midterm-el...External Subdomain Congressional and midterm elections
https://www.usa.gov/electoral-...External Subdomain Electoral college
https://www.usa.gov/election-r...External Subdomain Election results
https://www.usa.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT USA.gov logo
https://www.eac.gov/New window External Subdomain U.S. ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION
IMG-ALT U.S. Election Assistance Commission logo which indicates a partnership with vote.gov
https://www.gsa.gov/External Subdomain General Services Administration
https://vote.gov/about-usAbout vote.gov
https://vote.gov/accessibilityAccessibility
https://www.gsa.gov/reference/...External Subdomain FOIA requests
https://www.gsa.gov/reference/...External Subdomain Privacy policy
https://vote.gov/sitemapSitemap
https://www.usa.gov/External Subdomain Visit USA.gov
https://touchpoints.app.cloud....New window External Subdomain How can we improve vote.gov?
A-TITLE External link opens in new window

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://vote.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.02 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (56 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
dateFri, 04 Oct 2024 02:22:08 GMT
cache-controlmax-age=900
last-modifiedFri, 04 Oct 2024 00:55:07 GMT
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-vcap-request-idec62dafd-05e0-4836-7d31-f5d17bbedad2
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-frame-optionsDENY
content-encodinggzip
etagW/"6f0aff563d78d0e49a7889e22426fa05"
varyAccept-Encoding
x-cacheHit from cloudfront
via1.1 e3824a4cc698f190d3fa6fe687f1a600.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-popFRA56-P9
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age320
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 4,385 referring domains.
This page has 977,069 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,754 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10

# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://vote.gov/sitemap.xml

# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /*.css$
Allow: /*.js$
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /modules/*.css$
Allow: /modules/*.css?
Allow: /modules/*.js$
Allow: /modules/*.js?
Allow: /modules/*.gif
Allow: /modules/*.jpg
Allow: /modules/*.jpeg
Allow: /modules/*.png
Allow: /themes/*.css$
Allow: /themes/*.css?
Allow: /themes/*.js$
Allow: /themes/*.js?
Allow: /themes/*.gif
Allow: /themes/*.jpg
Allow: /themes/*.jpeg
Allow: /themes/*.png
Allow: /themes/*.svg
Allow: /themes/*.webp

# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /themes/

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Register66%Check
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Voting as52%Check
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