Michigan.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
92% 
Page quality
61% 
Page structure
98% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
46% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.15 s
File size
48.20 kB
Words
464
Media files
18
Number of links
58 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
SOM - State of Michigan
The length of the page title is perfect. (221 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
State of Michigan - State of Michigan
The length of the meta description is perfect. (230 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.michigan.gov/som/
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Germany
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
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msvalidate.01A63AF9FBDDAB9CF08C839AEEECBE497D
DESCRIPTIONState of Michigan - State of Michigan
KEYWORDSState of Michigan
langen
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 464 words on this page. Good pages should have about 1,000 words of useful content.
22% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
7 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 19.33 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This website does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This website loads 24 JavaScriptt files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-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 9 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
.../som/final_logo_migov_white_526452_7.pngState of Michigan
/images/som/mobileSOM_346956_7_398113_7.pngSOM - State of Michigan
...om/Coronavirus_Disease_2019_683495_7.JPGCoronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
..._representing_employment-01_628553_7.pngIcon representing talent
...s/som/iStock_000051682054v2_525028_7.jpgJob Seeker - female applicant shaking hands with new managerJob Seeker - female applicant shaking hands with new manager
/images/som/kayak1_519803_7.jpgKayakers on the shore at sunset.Kayakers on the shore at sunset.
/images/som/puremichiganlogo_596390_7.pngPure Michigan
...itmer/Gov_Page_-_GovWhitmer_641584_7.jpgGovernor Gretchen WhitmerGovernor Gretchen Whitmer
...ges/som/MIGOV_Assets_MIPage_598677_7.pngMiPage - Making Michigan MobileMiPage - Making Michigan Mobile
/images/dtmb/Android_434686_7.pngDownload from the Google Play Store
/images/dtmb/iTunes_434685_7.pngDownload from the Itunes Store
...ge_Home_iPhone_598676_7-web_657298_7.pngmobile device displaying MiPage application screens
/images/mipage/iconAppMiDrive_444986_7.pngMiDrive iconMiDrive icon
.../iconAppBranchOfficeLocator_470399_7.pngBranch Office Locator iconBranch Office Locator icon
...page/iconAppMyHealthButton2_470420_7.pngMyHealthButton iconMyHealthButton icon
...es/som/somFooterLogoBOW2015_491229_7.pngMichigan.gov
.../som/final_logo_migov_white_526452_7.pngState of Michigan

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
State of Michigan
The H1 heading is too short (17 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 State of Michigan
H2 BOW 2016 Tabs
H2 Featured Links
H2 Online Services
H2 FEATURED
H2 ONLINE SERVICES
H2 Find a Job
H2 Featured Job Postings
H2 Map and Plan
H2 VISITING MICHIGAN
H2 The Governor
H2 Governor's photo
H2 Governor Gretchen Whitmer
H2 Mobile Michigan
H2 MiPage
H2 Animated Image
H2 links
H2 Michigan.gov logo
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
The amount of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links don't have dynamic parameters.
There are 10 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.michigan.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.michigan.gov/Anchor MENU
https://www.michigan.gov/somIMG-ALT State of Michigan
https://www.michigan.gov/somNo Text
https://www.michigan.gov/Anchor No Text
/departmentsState Departments
A-TITLE State Departments
https://www.michigan.gov/servicesOnline Services
A-TITLE Online Services
/socialmediaSocial Media
A-TITLE Social Media
https://www.michigan.gov/somhelpHelp Center
A-TITLE Help Center
/departmentsText duplicate State Departments
A-TITLE State Departments
https://www.michigan.gov/servicesText duplicate Online Services
A-TITLE Online Services
/socialmediaText duplicate Social Media
A-TITLE Social Media
https://www.michigan.gov/somhelpText duplicate Help Center
A-TITLE Help Center
https://www.michigan.gov/Anchor Search
A-TITLE Search Mi.gov
https://www.michigan.gov/som/IMG-ALT SOM - State of Michigan
/som/0,4669,7-192-29943---,00....BUSINESS
A-TITLE BUSINESS
/som/0,4669,7-192-29939---,00....EDUCATION
A-TITLE EDUCATION
/som/0,4669,7-192-29942---,00....HEALTH
A-TITLE HEALTH
/som/0,4669,7-192-29701---,00....GOVERNMENT
A-TITLE GOVERNMENT
/som/0,4669,7-192-29941---,00....SAFETY
A-TITLE SAFETY
https://www.michigan.gov/Anchor No Text
/s.editLinkEdit Category: {{s.name}}
A-TITLE Edit Category: {{s.name}}
/{{i.editLink}}Edit Content item: {{i.title}}
A-TITLE Edit Category: {{i.title}}
/{{i.url}}{{i.title}}
/{{c.editLink}}{{blank}} Edit {{c.title}} - content item
A-TITLE Edit {{c.title}} - content item
/{{c.url}}A-TITLE {{c.title}}
/{{c.url}}{{nada}} {{c.title}} {{c.title}}
IMG-ALT Click to goto {{c.title}}
A-TITLE {{c.title}}
/CoronavirusIMG-ALT Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
/CoronavirusMichigan Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Response
A-TITLE Michigan Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Response
/flaghonorsHalf-staff Flag Alerts
A-TITLE Half-staff Flag Alerts
/msp/0,4643,7-123-72297_60152_...Mid-Michigan Flooding Response
A-TITLE Mid-Michigan Flooding Response
https://www.michigan.gov/opioidsFighting Michigan's Opioid Epidemic
A-TITLE Fighting Michigan's Opioid Epidemic
/pfasresponse/New window Michigan PFAS Action Response
A-TITLE Michigan PFAS Action Response
https://www.michigan.gov/realidNew window REAL ID-Compliant Driver's License or State ID
A-TITLE REAL ID-Compliant Driver's License or State ID
https://mvic.sos.state.mi.us/External Register to Vote
A-TITLE Register to Vote
/taxes/0,4676,7-238-43513_7546...Where's My Income Tax Refund?
A-TITLE Where's My Income Tax Refund?
/statelicensesearchState License Search
A-TITLE State License Search
http://www.mitalent.org/New window External Business Jobs and Workforce
A-TITLE Pure Michigan Talent Connect... Find jobs! Post jobs!
https://unclaimedproperty.mich...External Subdomain Unclaimed Property Search
A-TITLE Find unclaimed money or property that may be yours!
/sos/0,1607,7-127-1640_14837-3...SOS Branch Office Locator
A-TITLE The Secretary of State Branch Office Locator is a handy tool designed to help you find information on office locations, fax numbers and service hours. It wil...
/som/0,4669,7-192-29929---,00....All Services
A-TITLE All Services ONLINE SERVICES
https://www.mitalent.org/External Find Your Next Opportunity At MiTalent.org
A-TITLE Pure Michigan Talent Connect is your launch pad for new jobs, careers and talent. It is a tool connecting Michigan’s job seekers and employers, and serves as...
http://www.michigan.org/New window External IMG-ALT Kayakers on the shore at sunset.
http://www.michigan.org/New window External IMG-ALT Pure Michigan
A-TITLE Plan your trip - including events, deals & packages, road trips, featured destinations and more - at michigan.org.
/som/0,4669,7-192-75791-513245...Leelanau State Park - Rock the Light Virtual 5K Run/Walk
A-TITLE Participate in this fun virtual 5K run/walk that will benefit the Friends of Leelanau State Park as they raise funds for park improvements.
/som/0,4669,7-192-75791-539777...Highland Recreation Area - Oct. 31, Volunteer Stewardship Workday
A-TITLE Join ongoing efforts to restore this area to an open grassland. Volunteers will be piling brush, stacking firewood and cutting invasive shrubs such as autumn...
/som/0,4669,7-192-75791-539774...Algonac State Park - Nov. 1, Volunteer Stewardship Workday
A-TITLE Join us as we cut invasive shrubs to keep them from shading out native plants in this beautiful prairie remnant.
/som/0,4669,7-192-48489---,00....More Events
A-TITLE More Events VISITING MICHIGAN
https://www.michigan.gov/whitmerIMG-ALT Governor Gretchen Whitmer
/whitmer/0,9309,7-387-90498_90...FULL BIO
https://www.michigan.gov/mipageIMG-ALT MiPage - Making Michigan Mobile
https://www.michigan.gov/mipageMiPage
A-TITLE MIPage is a free application that connects you to Michigan services and events. Whether you need to make an appointment at the Secretary of State, find that ...
https://play.google.com/store/...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Download from the Google Play Store
https://itunes.apple.com/us/ap...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Download from the Itunes Store
https://www.michigan.gov/midriveIMG-ALT MiDrive icon
https://www.michigan.gov/midriveMiDrive
A-TITLE A traffic, construction, and lane closure information resource center for driving Michigan roads.
https://services2.sos.state.mi...External IMG-ALT Branch Office Locator icon
https://services2.sos.state.mi...External Branch Office Locator
A-TITLE The Secretary of State Branch Office Locator will help you find office locations, fax numbers, service hours and more.
/som/0,4669,7-192-76803-354784...IMG-ALT MyHealthButton icon
/som/0,4669,7-192-76803-354784...myHealth Button
A-TITLE The mobile myHealthButton application is a one stop shop for your Michigan Medicaid, Children's Special Health Care Services and MIChild coverage information.
https://www.michigan.gov/somIMG-ALT Michigan.gov
/som/0,4669,7-192-39925---,00....Foreign Languages
/disabilityresourcesDisability Resources
https://www.michigan.gov/Michigan.gov Home
https://www.michigan.gov/adaformADA
/minewswireMichigan News
/som/0,4669,7-192--281460--,00...Policies
https://www.michigan.gov/somText duplicate IMG-ALT State of Michigan

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This website redirects to "https://www.michigan.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This website uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
This website loads 5 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This website loads 24 JavaScriptt files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.15 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (48 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
serverOracle-iPlanet-Web-Server/7.0
strict-transport-securitymax-age=86400
content-typetext/html
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
content-length11763
cache-controlpublic, max-age=1801
dateMon, 26 Oct 2020 07:23:25 GMT
connectionkeep-alive
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

Blacklists
(Critically important)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
Shallalist classifies this website as Government. This classification is fine.
This website is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This website has backlinks from 63,203 referring domains.
This website has 17,595,102 backlinks.
This website has backlinks from 37,826 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
This website has social activity like shares, comments or likes on facebook.
Listed on Webwiki
(Nice to have)
This website is listed on Webwiki.

Links from Wikipedia

You can find more links using Wikipedia search

Robots.txt

# robots.txt for https://www.michigan.gov
# SOM - WEX IBM Watson Explorer: VSE/1.0 (thompsonj@michigan.gov)
User-agent: VSE
Allow: /emichigan
Disallow: /rss/
Disallow: /podcast/
Crawl-delay: 5

# Yahoo!
User-agent: Slurp 
Disallow: /emichigan/
Disallow: /minewswire/
Disallow: /rss/
Disallow: /podcast/
Crawl-delay: 5

# MSN
User-agent: msnbot
Disallow: /emichigan/
Disallow: /minewswire/
Disallow: /rss/
Disallow: /podcast/
Crawl-delay: 1

# BingBot
User-agent: bingbot
Disallow: /emichigan/
Disallow: /minewswire/
Disallow: /rss/
Disallow: /podcast/
Crawl-delay: 1

# 80legs Crawler
User-agent: 008
Disallow: /

# Yandex
User-agent: Yandex
disallow: /

# discoveryengine.com
User-agent: discobot
Disallow: / 

# Ahrefs.com
user-agent: AhrefsBot
disallow: / 

# kalooga.com
User-agent: kalooga 
Disallow: /

# blekko.com
User-agent: Blekkobot
Disallow: / 

# changedetection.com
User-agent: ChangeDetection
Disallow: /

# paper.li
User-agent: PaperLiBot
Disallow: /

# Google
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /emichigan/
Disallow: /minewswire/
Disallow: /rss/
Disallow: /podcast/
Crawl-delay: 5

User-agent: *
Disallow: /emichigan/
Disallow: /minewswire/
Disallow: /rss/
Disallow: /podcast/
Crawl-delay: 5

Facebook popularity

Shares / Likes / Comments
35,828

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Most important keywords

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

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Michigan State86%Check
State75%Check
Michigan News66%Check
gov60%Check
State Park55%Check
Pure Michigan Talent Connect52%Check
Governor46%Check
Job46%Check
Find Job44%Check
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