Sba.gov - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
74% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
98% 
Server
82% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.77 s
File size
112.30 kB
Words
570
Media files
22
Number of links
80 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Small Business Administration
The length of the page title is perfect. (272 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
We support America's small businesses. The SBA connects entrepreneurs with lenders and funding to help them plan, start and grow their business.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (913 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.sba.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)
The specified alternate links have no errors.
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
descriptionWe support America's small businesses. The SBA connects entrepreneurs with lenders and funding to help them plan, start and grow their business.
google-site-verificationZli_zEgK3XdnsafTS3DT6KSqhuPIb9ID9HzIW6lHAkQ
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:titleHomepage
twitter:site@SBAgov
twitter:imagehttps://www.sba.gov/themes/custom/sba/dist/img/social/SBASEOImage.jpg
twitter:image:altSmall Business Administration logo
og:imagehttps://www.sba.gov/themes/custom/sba/dist/img/social/SBASEOImage.jpg
og:image:altSmall Business Administration logo
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
The average number of words per sentence of 7.5 words is low.
This page contains 570 words. That's ok.
25.1% 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.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
This page only loads 2 JavaScript files. That's good!
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 11 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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Need funding for your small business?
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Need funding for your small business?
H2 Primary Navigation
H2 Make a payment to SBA
H2 Sign into your SBA account
H2 Upcoming events
H2 SBA Celebrates Pride Month
H2 Browse business topics
H2 How we help small businesses
H2 Free business counseling
H2 SBA-guaranteed business loans
H2 Home & business disaster loans
H2 Federal government contracting
H2 Start and grow your business
H3 Plan your business
H3 Launch your business
H3 Manage your business
H3 Grow your business
H3 Footer navigation
H3 Sign up
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 10 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.sba.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.sba.gov/Subdomain IMG-ALT SBA Home
https://www.sba.gov/English
https://www.sba.gov/esEspañol
https://www.sba.gov/partnersFor Partners
/about-sba/sba-newsroomNewsroom
/about-sba/organization/contac...Contact us
/about-sba/information-other-l...Subdomain Other languages
/funding-programs/loansLearn about SBA loans
/funding-programs/loans/make-p...Make a payment
/about-sba/open-government/abo...Access accounts
https://www.sba.gov/eventsSubdomain Find upcoming events
/about-sba/organization/observ...Subdomain Resources for LGBTQ+ small businesses
/business-guide/plan-your-busi...Plan your business
IMG-ALT Plan Your Business icon
/business-guide/plan-your-busi...Market research and competitive analysis
/business-guide/plan-your-busi...Write your business plan
/business-guide/plan-your-busi...Calculate your startup costs
/business-guide/plan-your-busi...Establish business credit
/business-guide/plan-your-busi...Fund your business
/business-guide/plan-your-busi...Buy an existing business or franchise
/business-guide/launch-your-bu...Launch your business
IMG-ALT Launch Your Business icon
/business-guide/launch-your-bu...Pick your business location
/business-guide/launch-your-bu...Choose a business structure
/business-guide/launch-your-bu...Choose your business name
/business-guide/launch-your-bu...Register your business
/business-guide/launch-your-bu...Get federal and state tax ID numbers
/business-guide/launch-your-bu...Apply for licenses and permits
/business-guide/launch-your-bu...Open a business bank account
/business-guide/launch-your-bu...Get business insurance
/business-guide/manage-your-bu...Manage your business
IMG-ALT Manage Your Business icon
/business-guide/manage-your-bu...Manage your finances
/business-guide/manage-your-bu...Hire and manage employees
/business-guide/manage-your-bu...Pay taxes
/business-guide/manage-your-bu...Stay legally compliant
/business-guide/manage-your-bu...Buy assets and equipment
/business-guide/manage-your-bu...Marketing and sales
/business-guide/manage-your-bu...Strengthen your cybersecurity
/business-guide/manage-your-bu...Prepare for emergencies
/business-guide/manage-your-bu...Recover from disasters
/business-guide/manage-your-bu...Close or sell your business
/business-guide/manage-your-bu...Hire employees with disabilities
/business-guide/grow-your-busi...Grow your business
IMG-ALT Grow Your Business icon
/business-guide/grow-your-busi...Get more funding
/business-guide/grow-your-busi...Expand to new locations
/business-guide/grow-your-busi...Merge and acquire businesses
/business-guide/grow-your-busi...Become a federal contractor
/business-guide/grow-your-busi...Export products
/business-guide/grow-your-busi...Women-owned businesses
/business-guide/grow-your-busi...Native American-owned businesses
/business-guide/grow-your-busi...Veteran-owned businesses
/business-guide/grow-your-busi...Military spouse businesses
/business-guide/grow-your-busi...LGBTQ-owned businesses
/business-guide/grow-your-busi...Rural businesses
/business-guide/grow-your-busi...Minority-owned businesses
/local-assistanceFind counselors
/funding-programs/loansUse Lender Match
/funding-programs/disaster-ass...Apply for assistance
/federal-contractingSubdomain Find contracts
/business-guide/10-steps-start...Subdomain Start a business
/about-sba/organization/contac...Contact SBA
/about-sba/sba-locationsLocations
https://www.sba.gov/eventsUpcoming events
/about-sba/sba-newsroomText duplicate Newsroom
https://www.sba.gov/blogSBA blog
/about-sba/organization/sba-le...Leadership team
https://www.sba.gov/sitemapSite map
/about-sba/open-government/abo...Privacy policy
/about-sba/open-government/abo...Linking policy
/about-sba/open-government/inf...Plain language
/about-sba/open-government/abo...Accessibility
/about-sba/open-government/abo...Disclaimers
/about-sba/open-government/foiaFreedom of Information Act
/about-sba/open-government/abo...No Fear Act
https://data.sba.gov/External Subdomain Open data sources
/about-sba/open-government/sba...Policies and guidance
/about-sba/organization/perfor...Budget and performance
https://www.regulations.gov/External Subdomain Regulations.gov
/about-sba/oversight-advocacy/...Inspector General
https://advocacy.sba.gov/External Subdomain Advocacy
/about-sba/oversight-advocacy/...Hearings and appeals
/about-sba/oversight-advocacy/...Ombudsman
/funding-programs/loans/covid-...Fraud and identity theft
https://www.whitehouse.gov/External Subdomain WhiteHouse.gov
https://www.usa.gov/es/External Subdomain USA.gov
/about-sba/open-government/abo...Subdomain website privacy policy
https://facebook.com/SBAgovExternal IMG-ALT SBA-Facebook
https://twitter.com/sbagovExternal IMG-ALT SBA-X
https://youtube.com/user/sbaExternal IMG-ALT SBA-YouTube
https://linkedin.com/company/u...External IMG-ALT SBA-Linkedin
https://instagram.com/sbagovExternal IMG-ALT SBA-Instagram

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.sba.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 of 0.77 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 only loads 2 CSS files. That's ok.
This page only loads 2 JavaScript files. That's good!
The file size of the HTML document is fine (112 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
transfer-encodingchunked
connectionkeep-alive
dateThu, 27 Jun 2024 08:34:01 GMT
serverApache
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
cache-controlmax-age=1800, public
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheUNCACHEABLE
content-languageen
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modifiedThu, 27 Jun 2024 08:07:26 GMT
etagW/"1719475646"
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cacheHIT
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding,Cookie
x-cacheHit from cloudfront
via1.1 e37b7824685046c107e13d08c43993fc.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-popFRA56-P4
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age13043
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

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 69,327 referring domains.
This page has 6,505,195 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 37,125 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

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: *
# 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?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
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.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/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
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# 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
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed
# Do not index PDFs or other files
Disallow: /sites/default/files/*
Disallow: /sites/sbagov/files/*

Search preview

www.sba.gov
Small Business Administration
We support America's small businesses. The SBA connects entrepreneurs with lenders and funding to help them plan, start and grow their business.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
small84%Check
Business80%Check
Small Business80%Check
SBA70%Check
Small Businesses68%Check
Small Business Administration68%Check
Business Administration64%Check
Funding62%Check
LGBTQ small61%Check
Business Loans59%Check

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