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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
93% 
Link structure
98% 
Server
89% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.43 s
File size
27.60 kB
Words
287
Media files
10
Number of links
31 internal / 19 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
California State Portal | CA.gov
The length of the page title is perfect. (280 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
CA.gov is the official website for the State of California. You can find and access California services, resources, and more.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (748 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.ca.gov/
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 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

NameValue
AuthorState of California
DescriptionCA.gov is the official website for the State of California. You can find and access California services, resources, and more.
KeywordsCalifornia, government,
robotsindex, follow
HandheldFriendlyTrue
MobileOptimized320
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0
titleCalifornia State Portal | CA.gov
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:titleCalifornia State Portal | CA.gov
twitter:descriptionCA.gov is the official website for the State of California. You can find and access California services, resources, and more.
twitter:imagehttps://cdn.cdt.ca.gov/cdt/CAgovPortal/images/cagov-social-image.jpg
twitter:urlhttps://www.ca.gov/
og:localeen_US
og:site_nameCalifornia State Portal
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://www.ca.gov/
og:titleCalifornia State Portal | CA.gov
og:descriptionCA.gov is the official website for the State of California. You can find and access California services, resources, and more.
og:imagehttps://cdn.cdt.ca.gov/cdt/CAgovPortal/images/cagov-social-image.jpg
og:image:altCA.gov logo over a scenic photo of a California beach
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-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.
No paragraphs were detected.
There are only 287 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
23% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 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
/images/CAgov-logo.svg?v7F3ACA.gov official logo
/images/CAgov-logo.svg?v7F3ACA.gov official logo
https://www.ca.gov/images/main-banner.svgA California beach at sunset showing rock formations on the sand.
https://www.ca.gov/images/highlight-1.webpA light skinned white man and woman look at photography displays at an exhibit at the SF MOMA.
https://www.ca.gov/images/highlight-2.webpWaves flow out from an enclave surrounded by rock formations at Julia Pfeiffer Beach in the daytime.
https://www.ca.gov/images/highlight-3.webpA green tent surrounded by redwood trees is pitched at a campsite in Big Basin Redwoods State Park.
/images/ca-for-all-logo.webpCalifornia for All logo
/images/ca-state-seal.webpThe great seal of the state of California
https://www.ca.gov/images/ca-gov-seal.webpThe Governor of Californiia seal
/images/cagov-logo-flag-gradient.svg?v7F3ACA.gov icon

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Find government services and information
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
There are 28 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 Find government services and information
H2 2025 Early January Los Angeles County Fires
H2 Popular services
H2 Popular topics
H2 California highlights
H2 California by the numbers
H2 In the spotlight
H3 Food stamps
H3 Traffic tickets
H3 Business permits
H3 Birth certificates
H3 Medi-Cal
H3 Lottery numbers
H3 Personal records
H3 Businesses
H3 DMV/Auto
H3 Jobs and unemployment
H3 Social services
H3 Housing and real estate
H3 Places to visit
H3 State parks
H3 Camping reservations
H3 Governor Newsom proclaims Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week 2025
H3 Governor Newsom announces appointments 5.6.25
H3 Governor Newsom recognizes fallen California Highway Patrol officers
H3 Gavin Newsom
H3 Eleni Kounalakis
H3 Governor’s cabinet
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.ca.gov/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.ca.gov/IMG-ALT CA.gov official logo
https://www.ca.gov/Text duplicate IMG-ALT CA.gov official logo
https://www.ca.gov/services/Services
https://www.ca.gov/departments/Departments
/about-california/About California
https://www.ca.gov/support/Get help
https://www.ca.gov/LAfires/Resources for impacted Californians
/departments/178/services/60/Food stamps
/departments/193/services/15/Traffic tickets
/departments/287/services/25/Business permits
/departments/176/services/52/Birth certificates
/departments/217/services/37/Medi-Cal
/departments/155/services/42/Lottery numbers
/topics/personal-records/Personal records
/topics/businesses/Businesses
/topics/dmv-auto/DMV/Auto
https://www.ca.gov/topics/jobs/Jobs and unemployment
/topics/assistance/Social services
/topics/housing/Housing and real estate
https://www.ca.gov/topics/View all topics
https://www.visitcalifornia.co...External Subdomain Places to visit
https://www.parks.ca.gov/Find-...External Subdomain State parks
https://www.reservecalifornia....External Subdomain Camping reservations
/about-california/Learn more about California
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/05...External Subdomain Governor Newsom proclaims Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week 2025
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/05...External Subdomain Governor Newsom announces appointments 5.6.25
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/05...External Subdomain Governor Newsom recognizes fallen California Highway Patrol officers
https://www.gov.ca.gov/newsroom/External Subdomain View all news
https://www.gov.ca.gov/External Subdomain Visit the Governor’s website
https://ltg.ca.gov/External Subdomain Visit the Lt. Governor’s website
https://www.gov.ca.gov/about/c...External Subdomain Visit the Governor’s cabinet website
/about/about-this-website/About this website
https://calcareers.ca.gov/External Subdomain State careers
https://data.ca.gov/External Subdomain California data
https://www.sco.ca.gov/ppsd_cp...External Subdomain State directory
/support/technical-help/Technical help
https://www.ca.gov/contact/Contact
https://registertovote.ca.gov/External Subdomain Register to vote
https://saveourwater.com/External Save our water
https://www.caiso.com/informed...External Subdomain Flex alert
https://www.chp.ca.gov/Pages/A...External Subdomain Amber alert
https://calalerts.org/External Cal alerts
https://myhazards.caloes.ca.gov/External Subdomain My hazards
/website-accessibility-certifi...Website Accessibility Certification
https://www.ca.gov/Subdomain IMG-ALT CA.gov icon
/legal/conditions-of-use/Conditions of use
/legal/privacy-policy/Privacy policy
/legal/accessibility/Accessibility
https://www.ca.gov/about/sitemap/Sitemap

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.ca.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.43 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (28 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateFri, 09 May 2025 03:09:34 GMT
content-typetext/html
content-length6700
cache-controlpublic, max-age=1800
content-encodinggzip
etag"0aeb3b7dbfdb1:0"
last-modifiedWed, 07 May 2025 18:24:12 GMT
varyAccept-Encoding
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
x-powered-byASP.NET
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self' *.ca.gov
x-azure-ref20250509T030933Z-17bb495c6c8pj6mghC1DUS600n00000001c000000000av1f
x-cacheCONFIG_NOCACHE
accept-rangesbytes
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,137 referring domains.
This page has 95,694 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,531 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /ads.txt$
Disallow: /app-ads.txt$
Disallow: /.well-known/assetlinks.json$

Sitemap: https://www.ca.gov/sitemaps/sitemapindex.xml

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California State Portal | CA.gov
CA.gov is the official website for the State of California. You can find and access California services, resources, and more.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
State70%Check
California68%Check
California State68%Check
Services66%Check
Find62%Check
gov58%Check
State Parks55%Check
California State Portal52%Check
government50%Check
information50%Check
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