Virginia.org - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
77% 
Page quality
78% 
Page structure
34% 
Link structure
68% 
Server
38% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.22 s
File size
242.10 kB
Words
536
Media files
33
Number of links
83 internal / 30 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)
Discover the perfect vacation spot: Come Visit Virginia! Sparkling waters of the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean gently lap against miles of sandy beaches. The blue-hued morning mist hugs the Blue Ridge and Allegheny mountains. A new day begins in Virginia, a day promising all the fun and excitement of hiking the Appalachian Trail; the heritage of visiting eight presidential homes and more Civil War battlefields than any other state; and the big thrills of riding the world's fastest coast
The meta description is too long: 3042 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

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descriptionDiscover the perfect vacation spot: Come Visit Virginia! Sparkling waters of the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean gently lap against miles of sandy beaches. The blue-hued morning mist hugs the Blue Ridge and Allegheny mountains. A new day begins in Virginia, a day promising all the fun and excitement of hiking the Appalachian Trail; the heritage of visiting eight presidential homes and more Civil War battlefields than any other state; and the big thrills of riding the world's fastest coast
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og:titleVisit Virginia | Virginia is for Lovers
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og:descriptionDiscover the perfect vacation spot: Come Visit Virginia! Sparkling waters of the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean gently lap against miles of sandy beaches. The blue-hued morning mist hugs the Blue Ridge and Allegheny mountains. A new day begins in Virginia, a day promising all the fun and excitement of hiking the Appalachian Trail; the heritage of visiting eight presidential homes and more Civil War battlefields than any other state; and the big thrills of riding the world's fastest coast
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 29 words is high.
This page contains 536 words. That's ok.
34.3% 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.
11 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
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.
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 11 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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...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
...628be694-2a3e-45b8-938e-8e590fe1166c.jpgVirginia Beach Boardwalk
...es/public/assets/shared/scroll-mouse.svgscroll-icon
...b799588c-edc6-4c61-9d16-61930c858030.jpgFamily at the beach
...5607a293-3e26-4012-b407-a83d97213f41.jpgRichmond Skyline
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...0830288f-76fa-4713-a893-3780278b6086.jpgFamily walking through Colonial Williamsburg
...71a9c45c-382a-44ab-893c-5b9395949ff3.jpgNational Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
...d453f510-49e5-4982-ab70-97c66799e22b.jpgoutdoors-kayak_s
...03b423ab-6908-4bd0-8bfa-1c9ce9a12e6c.jpgChristmas Illuminations at Mount Vernon
...6d02967d-b7de-498b-b42d-a1b0a9365fb5.jpgA trio of female friends smiles and taps their beer cans together
...851bf221-8a1e-48d2-966f-3866f3f7831b.jpgFloydfest
...4481994a-1e52-4426-9373-71faa5f446da.jpgCape Charles LOVEwork
...2803698f-30af-4cfa-8126-104dda141166.jpga Virginia road straddled by an autumn forest stretches into the distance
...398d19ac-acde-4f76-a519-9f6f109ee0f6.jpgOyster Plate
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...d79d2d82-5def-45f1-a230-e7f62ad5ba6f.jpgSmall Bites
...e6913a0f-31e5-4a7a-869f-188af28b3c3d.jpgConcerts by Canoe
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (7 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 36 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 Welcome
H2 Summer In Virginia
H2 to virginia
H2 Places To Visit
H2 Things To Do
H2 Virginia Events
H2 LOVEworks Find The LOVE
H2 Wanderlove Virginia Road Trips
H2 Food & Drink Eat And Drink What You Love In Virginia
H2 History & Heritage Virginia Is An American History Icon
H2 More To Love
H3 Virginia Beaches
H3 Cities & Towns
H3 Roadtrips
H3 Family Fun
H3 Attractions
H3 Outdoors
H3 July 4th
H3 Food & Drink Events
H3 Concerts & Live Music
H3 The Foodie WanderLove Guide: 15+ Road Trips for Virginia’s Culinary Lovers
H3 13 Unique Live Music Venues in Virginia
H3 Your 2021 Guide to Virginia's PRIDE Festivals & Events
H3 16 Amazing Camping Spots
H3 6 Road Trip Ideas for a Waterfront Wanderlove Vacation
H3 30+ Freshwater Swimming Holes
H4 Get a free
H4 visitors guide
H4 subscribe to our
H4 enewsletter
H4 #loveva
H4 Get a free Duplicate text
H4 travel guide
H4 subscribe to our Duplicate text
H4 enewsletter Duplicate text
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 too many external links (30) 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
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/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
/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
/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
/group-travel/Group Travel
/plan-your-trip/international-...International Visitors
https://www.virginia.org/maps/Maps
/accessible-travel/Accessible Travel
https://www.thevastore.com/?_g...External Store
https://blog.virginia.org/External Subdomain 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
/group-travel/Text duplicate Group Travel
/plan-your-trip/international-...Text duplicate International Visitors
https://www.virginia.org/maps/Text duplicate Maps
/accessible-travel/Text duplicate Accessible Travel
https://www.thevastore.com/?_g...External Text duplicate Store
https://blog.virginia.org/External Subdomain Text duplicate Blog
/plan-your-trip/virginia-trave...Get a free visitors guide
IMG-ALT vguide
/plan-your-trip/e-mail-sign-up/subscribe to 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
/things-to-do/water-activities...experience Virginia's beaches
/places-to-visit/Text duplicate Places To Visit
/places-to-visit/View More
/things-to-do/water-activities...IMG-ALT Family at the beach
/things-to-do/water-activities...Virginia Beaches
/places-to-visit/cities-and-to...IMG-ALT Richmond Skyline
/places-to-visit/cities-and-to...Cities & Towns
/wanderlove/IMG-ALT travel-tips-car-roatrip_s
/wanderlove/Roadtrips
/things-to-do/Text duplicate Things To Do
/things-to-do/Text duplicate View More
/things-to-do/things-to-do-wit...IMG-ALT Family walking through Colonial Williamsburg
/things-to-do/things-to-do-wit...Family Fun
/things-to-do/attractions/IMG-ALT National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
/things-to-do/attractions/Attractions
/things-to-do/outdoors/IMG-ALT outdoors-kayak_s
/things-to-do/outdoors/Outdoors
https://www.virginia.org/events/Virginia Events
https://www.virginia.org/events/Text duplicate View More
/events/national-holiday-and-o...IMG-ALT Christmas Illuminations at Mount Vernon
/events/national-holiday-and-o...July 4th
/events/food-and-drink-events/IMG-ALT A trio of female friends smiles and taps their beer cans together
/events/food-and-drink-events/Food & Drink Events
/events/concerts-and-live-music/IMG-ALT Floydfest
/events/concerts-and-live-music/Concerts & Live Music
https://www.virginia.org/love/IMG-ALT Cape Charles LOVEwork
https://www.virginia.org/love/LOVEworks Find The LOVE
https://www.virginia.org/love/Learn More
/wanderlove/IMG-ALT a Virginia road straddled by an autumn forest stretches into the distance
/wanderlove/Wanderlove Virginia Road Trips
/wanderlove/Text duplicate Learn More
/things-to-do/food-and-drink/IMG-ALT Oyster Plate
/things-to-do/food-and-drink/Food & Drink Eat And Drink What You Love In Virginia
/things-to-do/food-and-drink/Text duplicate Learn More
/things-to-do/history-and-heri...IMG-ALT Child at Jamestown Settlement ship
/things-to-do/history-and-heri...History & Heritage Virginia Is An American History Icon
/things-to-do/history-and-heri...Text duplicate Learn More
https://blog.virginia.org/2021...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Small Bites
https://blog.virginia.org/2021...New window External Subdomain The Foodie WanderLove Guide: 15+ Road Trips for Virginia’s Culinary Lovers
https://blog.virginia.org/2021...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Concerts by Canoe
https://blog.virginia.org/2021...New window External Subdomain 13 Unique Live Music Venues in Virginia
https://blog.virginia.org/2021...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT CN17101009V_059-1024x683
https://blog.virginia.org/2021...New window External Subdomain Your 2021 Guide to Virginia's PRIDE Festivals & Events
https://blog.virginia.org/2016...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT New River Camping
https://blog.virginia.org/2016...New window External Subdomain 16 Amazing Camping Spots
https://blog.virginia.org/2021...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT CB20030903P_007
https://blog.virginia.org/2021...New window External Subdomain 6 Road Trip Ideas for a Waterfront Wanderlove Vacation
https://blog.virginia.org/2014...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Swimming Holes
https://blog.virginia.org/2014...New window External Subdomain 30+ Freshwater Swimming Holes
/plan-your-trip/virginia-trave...Get a free travel guide
IMG-ALT vguide
/plan-your-trip/e-mail-sign-up/Text duplicate 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.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.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
http://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)
This page loads 32 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.22 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (242 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

Blacklists
(Critically important)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
Shallalist classifies this website as Recreation/travel. This classification is fine.
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 10,686 referring domains.
This page has 2,851,585 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 7,142 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
This page 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

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

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

Facebook popularity

Shares / Likes / Comments
8,435

Only the data for the given URL is shown. We cannot determine the social actions for a linked fan page.

Similar sites

Search preview

www.virginia.org
Visit Virginia | Virginia is for Lovers
Discover the perfect vacation spot: Come Visit Virginia! Sparkling waters of the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean gently lap against miles of sandy beaches. The blue-hued morning mist hugs the Blue Ridge and Allegheny mountains. A new day begins in Virginia, a day promising all the fun and excitement of hiking the Appalachian Trail; the heritage of visiting eight presidential homes and more Civil War battlefields than any other state; and the big thrills of riding the world's fastest coast

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Virginia81%Check
Visit Virginia76%Check
Visit70%Check
Virginia Beach68%Check
Virginia Travel63%Check
love61%Check
water51%Check
vacation50%Check
Heritage50%Check
Lovers50%Check
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