Choosecambridge.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.13 s
File size
96.50 kB
Words
247
Media files
17
Number of links
71 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Cambridge, MD | Official Website
The length of the page title is perfect. (299 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-color#306180
descriptionEmpty
keywordsHome
langen
Content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 247 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
17% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 20 words is good.
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 6 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
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=29Click to Home
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=34Share
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=36Site Tools
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=32Go to Site Search
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=2495Election background
data:[...] Base64City of Cambridge Services
data:[...] Base64Sidewalk Improvement Program
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=2516Cambridge Flood Mitigation Public Meeting
data:[...] Base64Office Hours
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=2264Permits base
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=2262Police base
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=2261Agenda base
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=2265Jobs base
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=2260Water Bill base
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=38Cambridge SealCambridge Seal
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=39Facebook
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=41Instagram

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Click to Home
The H1 heading is too short (13 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 Click to Home
H3 Share
H3 Site Tools
H3 Calendar
H3 August 2024
H3 Quick Links
H3 FAQs
H3 Site Links
H4 2024 Election Candidates Finalized
H4 The City has a new online service portal!! Check it out!!!
H4 Sidewalk Improvement Program
H4 Flood Mitigation Community Meeting
H4 New Utility Billing Hours
H4 Sat, Aug. 17
H4 Mon, Aug. 26
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 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.choosecambridge.com/Anchor Skip to Main Content
/MyAccount/ProfileCreateCreate a Website Account
/MyAccountWebsite Sign In
/27/Your-GovernmentYour Government
/35/Doing-BusinessDoing Business
/31/Our-CommunityOur Community
/101/City-ServicesCity Services
/9/How-Do-IHow Do I...
https://www.choosecambridge.com/IMG-ALT Click to Home
/Layout/WidgetShare/ShareLink/...New window Facebook
/Layout/WidgetShare/ShareLink/...New window Twitter
/Layout/WidgetShare/ShareLink/...New window Pinterest
/Layout/WidgetShare/ShareLink/...New window Delicious
/Layout/WidgetShare/ShareLink/...New window Blogger
/Layout/WidgetShare/ShareLink/...New window LinkedIn
https://www.choosecambridge.com/Home
/MyAccountMy Account
https://www.choosecambridge.com/Anchor Printer Friendly
/EmailPageEmail Page
/directory.aspxContact Us
/rss.aspxRSS
/SiteMapSite Map
https://www.choosecambridge.com/Anchor Translate Page
/list.aspxNotifications
/DocumentCenterDocuments
/Search/ResultsIMG-ALT Go to Site Search
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=278IMG-ALT Election background
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2782024 Election Candidates Finalized
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=278Read on...
https://cicambridgemd.portal.o...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT City of Cambridge Services
https://cicambridgemd.portal.o...New window External Subdomain The City has a new online service portal!! Check it out!!!
https://cicambridgemd.portal.o...New window External Subdomain Additional Info...
/DocumentCenter/View/2462/Side...New window Subdomain IMG-ALT Sidewalk Improvement Program
/DocumentCenter/View/2462/Side...New window Subdomain Text duplicate Sidewalk Improvement Program
/DocumentCenter/View/2462/Side...New window Subdomain Text duplicate Additional Info...
/DocumentCenter/View/2517/Camb...New window Subdomain IMG-ALT Cambridge Flood Mitigation Public Meeting
/DocumentCenter/View/2517/Camb...New window Subdomain Flood Mitigation Community Meeting
/DocumentCenter/View/2517/Camb...New window Subdomain Text duplicate Additional Info...
/ImageRepository/Document?docu...New window Subdomain IMG-ALT Office Hours
/ImageRepository/Document?docu...New window Subdomain New Utility Billing Hours
/ImageRepository/Document?docu...New window Subdomain Text duplicate Additional Info...
/150/Forms-Permits-OrdinancesNew window Subdomain IMG-ALT Permits base
/159/Police-DepartmentNew window Subdomain IMG-ALT Police base
/AgendaCenterNew window Subdomain IMG-ALT Agenda base
/Jobs.aspxNew window Subdomain IMG-ALT Jobs base
https://wipp.edmundsassoc.com/...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Water Bill base
/calendar.aspx?CID=34,31,30,32...Calendar
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...17
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...26
/Calendar.aspx?EID=337Groove City Culture Fest
/Calendar.aspx?EID=258City Council Meeting
/calendar.aspx?CID=34,31,30,32...View All
/agendacenterMeetings & Agendas
https://cicambridgemd.portal.o...New window External Subdomain Citizen Requests & Feedback
http://md-cambridge.civicplus....New window External Subdomain City Maps
/jobs.aspxJobs
/list.aspxNotify Me®
/directory.aspxText duplicate Contact Us
/facebookText duplicate IMG-ALT Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/city...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Instagram
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=11Quick Links
/150/Forms-Permits-OrdinancesForms, Permits & Ordinances
/242/Interactive-Maps-DirectionsInteractive Maps & Directions
/178/City-StatisticsCity Statistics
/171/Chesapeake-LivingChesapeake Living
/248/Marina-ParksMarina & Parks
/Faq.aspx?TID=15FAQs
/Faq.aspx?QID=62How do I contact a department to express a concern?
/Faq.aspx?QID=63How do I apply to a job?
/Faq.aspx?QID=64How do I receive email and text message notifications?
/Faq.aspx?QID=65How to I ask a question or suggest a correction about the new website?
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=12Site Links
https://www.choosecambridge.com/Text duplicate Home
/sitemapText duplicate Site Map
/directory.aspxText duplicate Contact Us
/AccessibilityAccessibility
/site/copyrightCopyright Notices
/374/3119/Statement-of-Non-Dis...New window Subdomain Statement of Non-Discrimination
http://www.civicplus.com/External Subdomain CivicPlus®

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.choosecambridge.com/"
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 is slow (1.13 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (97 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 *
dateThu, 15 Aug 2024 18:54:49 GMT
content-length27639
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 381 referring domains.
This page has 1,590 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 267 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
Cambridge61%Check
Site56%Check
Site Search48%Check
Website46%Check
City45%Check
Meeting45%Check
new43%Check
Links43%Check
City Council42%Check
Election40%Check
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