Bownh.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
49% 
Page structure
47% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
59% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.54 s
File size
99.00 kB
Words
426
Media files
12
Number of links
74 internal / 4 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Bow, NH | Official Website
The length of the page title is perfect. (237 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
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)
No canonical link is 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)
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
category0Home
theme-colorrgb(26, 42, 85)
descriptionEmpty
keywordsHome
langen
Content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
There are only 426 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 8.87 words is low.
27.7% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
5 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.
This page loads 12 JavaScript 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)
The HTTPS protocol for secure data transmission is not used.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=6690Bow New Hampshire Homepage Logo
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=6721Search
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=3219Halloween
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=74802024 HHWD Flyer
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=5544vote-661888_1920
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=1415Original Boston Post Cane displayed in Selectmen&#39s Room (photo by Eric Anderson)
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=7455Assessing
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=7468I voted
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=6694Bow New Hampshire Homepage Logo
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=6712Facebook
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=6719YouTube
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=6714LinkedIn

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
News & Calendar
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (15 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 News & Calendar
H1 Popular Links
H3 September 2024
H3 Contact Us
H3 Quick Links
H3 Site Links
H4 Town Wide Halloween Trick or Treating Times
H4 Town of Bow and Dunbarton Household Hazardous Waste and Electronics Collection Day!
H4 Election Dates
H4 Boston Post Cane
H4 Town of Bow 2024 Revaluation
H4 Town of Bow State Primary Election Results
H4 Fri, Sep 20 - Wed, Oct 9
H4 Sat, Sep 28
H4 Mon, Sep 30
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.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 4 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
http://bownh.gov/Anchor Skip to Main Content
http://bownh.gov/IMG-ALT Bow New Hampshire Homepage Logo
http://bownh.gov/Search/ResultsIMG-ALT Search
http://bownh.gov/27/GovernmentGovernment
http://bownh.gov/31/Our-CommunityOur Community
/35/Doing-Business-in-BowDoing Business in Bow
http://bownh.gov/9/How-Do-IHow Do I...
https://pay.eb2gov.com/BowNHExternal Subdomain Online Payments
http://bownh.gov/AgendaCenterAgendas & Minutes
/568/Permits-ApplicationsPermitting
http://bownh.gov/741/ElectionsElections and Town Meeting
http://bownh.gov/list.aspxNotify Me®
http://bownh.gov/172/Tax-MapsGISGIS & Tax Maps
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=969IMG-ALT Halloween
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=969Town Wide Halloween Trick or Treating Times
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=969Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=968IMG-ALT 2024 HHWD Flyer
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=968Town of Bow and Dunbarton Household Hazardous Waste and Electronics Collection Day!
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=968Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=900IMG-ALT vote-661888_1920
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=900Election Dates
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=900Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=967IMG-ALT Original Boston Post Cane displayed in Selectmen&#39s Room (photo by Eric Anderson)
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=967Boston Post Cane
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=967Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=947IMG-ALT Assessing
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=947Town of Bow 2024 Revaluation
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=947Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=965IMG-ALT I voted
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=965Town of Bow State Primary Election Results
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=965Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?CID=20&sort=...View All News
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...20
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...21
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...22
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...23
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...24
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...25
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...26
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...27
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...28
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...29
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...30
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...1
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...2
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...3
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...4
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...5
/Calendar.aspx?EID=7572Heritage Commission Work Sessions
/Calendar.aspx?EID=7572Heritage Commission Work SessionsRead on...
/Calendar.aspx?EID=7565Bactoberfest presented by the Bow Atheletic Club
/Calendar.aspx?EID=7565Bactoberfest presented by the Bow Atheletic ClubRead on...
/Calendar.aspx?EID=7575CIP Committee Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=7575CIP Committee MeetingRead on...
/calendar.aspx?CID=27,28,14View All Events
https://bownh.gov/bids.aspxNew window Bids and Request for Proposals
/345/Boards-Committees-Commiss...Boards, Committees & Commissions
/216/Motor-VehiclesMotor Vehicles
http://bownh.gov/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Bow New Hampshire Homepage Logo
http://bownh.gov/facebookIMG-ALT Facebook
http://bownh.gov/youtubeIMG-ALT YouTube
http://bownh.gov/linkedinIMG-ALT LinkedIn
http://bownh.gov/directoryStaff Directory
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=48Quick Links
http://www.bowbakerfreelibrary...External Subdomain Baker Free Library
http://bownh.gov/257/SchoolsBow Schools
http://bownh.gov/Jobs.aspxEmployment Opportunities
http://bownh.gov/216Motor Vehicle Registration
/256/Parks-RecreationParks and Recreation
/FormCenter/Contact-Us-4/Conta...Send Us Comments
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=53Site Links
https://www.bownh.gov/sitemapSubdomain Site Map
http://bownh.gov/Mission
http://bownh.gov/AccessibilityAccessibility
http://bownh.gov/Privacy
http://bownh.gov/site/copyrightCopyright Notices
http://civicplus.com/referralExternal Powered by CivicPlus®
https://connect.civicplus.com/...External Subdomain CivicPlus®

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
The checked page does not redirect to another URL.
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.54 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 loads 5 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 12 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (99 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate, s-maxage=600,no-transform
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-encodinggzip
etag" "
varyAccept-Encoding
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
p3pCP="IDC DSP COR ADM DEVi TAIi PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi HIS OUR IND CNT"
set-cookie25 Characters
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self' https://*.granicus.com https://platform.civicplus.com https://account.civicplus.com https://analytics.civicplus.com; img-src * data: blob:; worker-src * data: blob: 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline'; script-src * about: 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval'; style-src * 'unsafe-inline'; media-src * blob:; font-src * data:; default-src *
dateSat, 28 Sep 2024 21:48:28 GMT
content-length28822
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 238 referring domains.
This page has 656 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 169 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

user-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /
User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /
User-agent: *
Disallow: /activedit
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /common/admin/
Disallow: /OJA
Disallow: /support
Disallow: /currenteventsview.asp
Disallow: /search.asp
Disallow: /currenteventsview.aspx
Disallow: /search.aspx
Disallow: /currentevents.aspx
Disallow: /Support
Disallow: /CurrentEventsView.asp
Disallow: /Search.asp
Disallow: /CurrentEventsView.aspx
Disallow: /Search.aspx
Disallow: /Search
Disallow: /CurrentEvents.aspx
Disallow: /Currentevents.aspx
Disallow: /map.aspx
Disallow: /map.asp
Disallow: /Map.aspx
Disallow: /Map.asp
Sitemap: /sitemap.xml
Disallow: /RSS.aspx
User-agent: Siteimprove
Crawl-delay: 20
User-agent: Siteimprovebot
Crawl-delay: 20
User-agent: Siteimprovebot-crawler
Crawl-delay: 20

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Bow72%Check
Bow Atheletic57%Check
New52%Check
Bow State Primary51%Check
News50%Check
Calendar50%Check
Site50%Check
Town43%Check
Election43%Check
Links43%Check
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