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Meta information
56% 
Page quality
71% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
68% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.06 s
File size
124.60 kB
Words
645
Media files
7
Number of links
92 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Appalachian Regional Commission - Investing in Appalachia's economic future.
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 708 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.arc.gov/
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
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)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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og:descriptionAppalachian Regional Commission The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) is an economic development partnership entity of the federal government and 13 state governments focusing on 423 counties across the Appalachian Region. ARC’s mission is to innovate, partner, and invest to build community capacity and strengthen economic growth in Appalachia. Research and Resources In The Region
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 28.33 words is high.
This page contains 645 words. That's ok.
22.6% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
7 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.
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 13 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
7 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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Appalachian Regional Commission
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Appalachian Regional Commission
H1 Investing in Appalachia’s economic future.
H1 Appalachian Regional Commission Duplicate text
H2 Appalachian Regional Commission Duplicate text
H2 A Region of Great Opportunity
H2 Research and Resources
H2 Appalachia Envisioned
H2 Available Opportunities
H2 J-1 Visa Waiver Program
H2 In The Region
H2 This Week
H2 Latest News
H2 Upcoming Events
H2 Get ARC News and Updates
H2 Get ARC News and Updates Duplicate text
H3 Area Development Program
H3 READY Grants to Grow
H3 ARC Awards $3.5 Million for Hurricane Helene Business Recovery Fund in North Carolina
H3 ARC Awards $33.5 Million to Accelerate Economic Growth Across 13 Appalachian States; Project Funding Supports Disaster Recovery, Cybersecurity Job Training and Industry Expansion
H3 ARC Announces Appalachian Leadership Institute Class of 2024-2025
H3 ARC Accepting Applications for Summer Study Programs in Entrepreneurship and STEM for Region’s Middle and High School Students
H3 Appalachian Regional Truck Parking Study Webinar
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://arc.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://arc.gov/Appalachian Regional Commission
A-TITLE Home
/about-the-appalachian-region/Subdomain Appalachian Region
/the-chartbook/Subdomain Data Overview of the Appalachian Region
/appalachian-states/Appalachian States
/appalachian-counties-served-b...Subdomain Appalachian Counties Served by ARC
/classifying-economic-distress...Subdomain County Economic Status and Distressed Areas in Appalachia
/tribal-communities-in-the-app...Tribal Communities in the Appalachian Region
/map/congressional-districts-i...Subdomain Congressional Districts in Appalachia
/map/local-development-districts/Subdomain Local Development Districts in Appalachia
/investment-priorities/Subdomain Investment Priorities
/investment-priority/building-...Subdomain Building Businesses
/investment-priority/building-...Subdomain Workforce Ecosystems
/addressing-substance-abuse-in...Addressing Substance Use Disorder
/investment-priority/building-...Subdomain Community Infrastructure
/transportation-in-appalachia/Transportation in Appalachia
/investment-priority/building-...Subdomain Regional Culture and Tourism
/investment-priority/building-...Subdomain Community Leaders and Capacity
https://arc.gov/ready/READY Appalachia
/investments-in-action/Investments in Action
/grants-and-opportunities/Grants and Opportunities
https://arc.gov/about-arc-grants/About ARC Grants
/match-requirements-for-arc-gr...Match Requirements for ARC Grants
/grants-and-opportunities/Subdomain Anchor Funding Opportunities
/grants-and-opportunities/area...Subdomain Area Development Program
/grants-and-opportunities/arise/Subdomain ARISE Initiative
/grants-and-opportunities/sud/Subdomain INSPIRE Initiative
/grants-and-opportunities/power/POWER Initiative
/workforce-opportunity-for-rur...Subdomain WORC Initiative
/ready/grants-to-grow/Subdomain READY Grants to GrowOpen
/grants-and-opportunities/Subdomain Anchor Capacity Building Opportunities
/academies-and-institutes/Academies and Institutes
https://arc.gov/ready/Text duplicate READY Appalachia
/grants-and-opportunities/Subdomain Anchor Additional Opportunities
/access-to-capital-program/Access to Capital Program
https://arc.gov/energyhub/Appalachian Regional Energy Hub Initiative
/j-1-visa-waivers/Subdomain J-1 Visa Waiver Program
/local-access-road-program/Local Access Road Program
/contract-opportunities/Subdomain Contract Opportunities
/applicant-resources/Subdomain Applicant Resources
/grantee-resources/Subdomain Grantee Resources
/approved-arc-projects/Approved ARC Projects
/research-and-data/Research and Data
/research-evaluations-maps-dat...Subdomain Research Reports
/research-evaluations-maps-dat...Subdomain Evaluations
/research-evaluations-maps-dat...Subdomain Maps
/research/DataReports.aspSubdomain Data Report Tool
/fact-sheets-and-infographics/Fact Sheets and Infographics
/academies-and-institutes/Text duplicate Academies and Institutes
https://www.arc.gov/acriSubdomain Appalachian Collegiate Research Initiative
/academies-and-institutes/aea/Appalachian Entrepreneurship Academy
https://www.arc.gov/leadership/Subdomain Appalachian Leadership Institute
/academies-and-institutes/stem/Appalachian STEM Academy
/about-the-appalachian-regiona...Subdomain About ARC
/arcs-history-and-work-in-appa...History and Work
/arcs-structure-and-leadership/Subdomain Structure and Leadership
https://arc.gov/staff/ARC Offices & Staff
https://arc.gov/state-partners/State Partners
/local-development-districts/Local Development Districts
/office-of-inspector-general/Office of Inspector General
/budget-performance-and-policy/Budget, Performance, and Policy
https://arc.gov/newsroom/Newsroom
https://arc.gov/careers-at-arc/Careers at ARC
https://arc.gov/elevate/Internships at ARC
https://arc.gov/?sSearch
https://arc.gov/events/Events
https://www.arc.gov/newsroom/Subdomain Text duplicate Newsroom
/newsletter-signup/Subdomain Get ARC Updates
/office-of-inspector-general/Subdomain Inspector General
http://www.facebook.com/gov.ARCExternal Subdomain Facebook
http://www.twitter.com/ARCgovExternal Subdomain Twitter
http://www.youtube.com/user/ap...External Subdomain Youtube
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain LinkedIn
/news/arc-accepting-applicatio...Subdomain No Text
/about-the-appalachian-region/Subdomain Learn More about Appalachia
/strategicplan/Subdomain Learn More
/grants-and-opportunities/area...Area Development Program ARC’s Area Development program empowers Appalachian communities to work with their state governments to design impactful projects th...
/ready/grants-to-grow/READY Grants to Grow READY Grants to Grow is a $9 million funding opportunity that will award grants of up to $500,000 to organizations seeking to build indi...
/j-1-visa-waivers/Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
https://mailchi.mp/arc.gov/arc...External Trivial anchor text
Read More
/news/arc-awards-3-5-million-f...ARC Awards $3.5 Million for Hurricane Helene Business Recovery Fund in North Carolina
/news/arc-awards-33-5-million-...ARC Awards $33.5 Million to Accelerate Economic Growth Across 13 Appalachian States; Project Funding Supports Disaster Recovery, Cybersecurity Job Training a...
/news/arc-announces-appalachia...ARC Announces Appalachian Leadership Institute Class of 2024-2025
/news/arc-accepting-applicatio...ARC Accepting Applications for Summer Study Programs in Entrepreneurship and STEM for Region’s Middle and High School Students
https://arc.gov/newsroom/See All News
/event/appalachian-regional-tr...Appalachian Regional Truck Parking Study Webinar
https://arc.gov/events/Explore All Events
/newsletter-signup/Subdomain Sign Up Here
https://arc.gov/Text duplicate Appalachian Regional Commission
A-TITLE Home
/about-arc-grants/Subdomain Text duplicate About ARC Grants
/grants-and-opportunities/Subdomain Text duplicate Grants and Opportunities
https://arc.gov/newsroom/Text duplicate Newsroom
/contract-opportunities/Text duplicate Contract Opportunities
https://arc.gov/contact-arc/Contact ARC
https://arc.gov/careers-at-arc/Careers
https://arc.gov/newsletter-signupText duplicate Sign Up Here
/arc-web-and-privacy-policy/Subdomain Web and Privacy Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://arc.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 0.06 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (125 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

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This page has 207,694 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,071 different ip addresses.

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