Cityofbg.org - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
51% 
Page structure
37% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.17 s
File size
143.20 kB
Words
471
Media files
12
Number of links
82 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Battle Ground, WA - Official Website | Official Website
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (481 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
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(3, 53, 71)
descriptionEmpty
keywordsHome
langen
Content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 471 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 9.13 words is low.
18.3% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
4 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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The following tag is repeated too often: municipal court
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
2 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=11366Battle Ground Washington Homepage
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=11371Search
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=11394Flowing RiverFlowing River
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=12696No alt attribute provided
data:[...] Base64Kris Swanson - Interim City Manager
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
data:[...] Base64071124 Total Burn Ban Graphic
data:[...] Base64Create an Account
data:[...] Base64 Stay Connected
data:[...] Base64Report a Concern
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=11398 Stay Connected Stay Connected
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=11392City of Battle Ground Washington Homepage

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Popular Links
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (13 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Popular Links
H1 Latest News
H1 Spotlight & Calendar
H3 September 2024
H3 September 2024 Duplicate text
H3 Contact Us
H3 Social Media
H3 Site Links
H4 Battle Ground Police Welcome Rafferty the Comfort Dog
H4 It’s Official, Kris Swanson is Battle Ground’s New City Manager
H4 McCoy Awarded Advanced Certificate of Municipal Leadership
H4 Total Burn Ban within Battle Ground City Limits
H4 Create an Account
H4 Stay Connected!
H4 Report a Concern
H4 Thu, Sep 5
H4 Wed, Sep 11
H4 Thu, Sep 12
H4 Thu, Sep 12 Duplicate text
H4 Tue, Sep 17
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.
2 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 6 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.cityofbg.org/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.cityofbg.org/IMG-ALT Battle Ground Washington Homepage
/Search/ResultsIMG-ALT Search
/9/About-UsAbout Us
/891/City-GovernmentCity Government
/8/DepartmentsDepartments
/7/I-Want-ToI Want To...
/35/Open-GovernmentOpen Government
https://www.cityofbg.org/396Online Payment
/list.aspxNotify Me®
/471/Citizen-Action-RequestCitizens Action Request
/487/Career-OpportunitiesEmployment
http://www.codepublishing.com/...External Subdomain Municipal Codes
https://battlegroundwa-energov...External Subdomain Anchor Planning & Building Permits
/258/Battle-Ground-Community-C...Facility Rentals
/172/UtilitiesUtilities
/547/RecreationRecreation
https://cityofbg.org/BGUNew window Battle Ground University
/191/Municipal-CourtMunicipal Court
https://battlegroundpdwa.permi...New window External Subdomain Fingerprinting Services
/127/Public-Records-RequestsPublic Records
/agendacenterMeeting Minutes & Agendas
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=679No Text
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=679Battle Ground Police Welcome Rafferty the Comfort Dog
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=679Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=678IMG-ALT Kris Swanson - Interim City Manager
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=678It’s Official, Kris Swanson is Battle Ground’s New City Manager
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=678Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=677No Text
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=677McCoy Awarded Advanced Certificate of Municipal Leadership
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=677Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=675IMG-ALT 071124 Total Burn Ban Graphic
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=675Total Burn Ban within Battle Ground City Limits
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=675Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=670IMG-ALT Create an Account
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=670Text duplicate Create an Account
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=670Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=672IMG-ALT Stay Connected
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=672Stay Connected!
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=672Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=671IMG-ALT Report a Concern
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=671Text duplicate Report a Concern
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=671Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?CID=9,1View All News
https://www.cityofbg.org/connectNew window News - Stay Connected
IMG-ALT Stay Connected
https://www.cityofbg.org/Anchor 1 Stay Connected
https://www.cityofbg.org/Anchor Meetings
https://www.cityofbg.org/Anchor Events
https://www.cityofbg.org/Anchor Text duplicate Meetings
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...5
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...11
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...12
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...16
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...17
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...19
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...26
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...3
/Calendar.aspx?EID=6091Text duplicate Municipal Court
/Calendar.aspx?EID=6091Municipal CourtRead On
/Calendar.aspx?EID=6175Parks & Community Engagement Advisory Board Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=6175Parks & Community Engagement Advisory Board MeetingRead On
/Calendar.aspx?EID=6092Text duplicate Municipal Court
/Calendar.aspx?EID=6092Text duplicate Municipal CourtRead On
/calendar.aspx?CID=25,14,29&sh...Subdomain View Full Calendar
https://www.cityofbg.org/Anchor Text duplicate Events
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...Text duplicate 12
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...Text duplicate 17
/Calendar.aspx?EID=6183Blood Drive - Bloodworks Northwest
/Calendar.aspx?EID=6183Blood Drive - Bloodworks Northwest Read On
/Calendar.aspx?EID=6352PUBLIC MEETING: Old Town Sub-Area Plan
/Calendar.aspx?EID=6352PUBLIC MEETING: Old Town Sub-Area PlanRead On
/calendar.aspx?CID=25View All Events
https://www.cityofbg.org/IMG-ALT City of Battle Ground Washington Homepage
https://www.cityofbg.org/No Text
https://www.cityofbg.org/Email Us
https://www.cityofbg.org/facebookNew window Click to edit...
https://twitter.com/@CityofBGWANew window External Text duplicate Click to edit...
https://www.youtube.com/@cityo...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Click to edit...
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=114Site Links
https://www.cityofbg.org/Home
/directoryContact Us
/accessibilityAccessibility
https://www.cityofbg.org/sitemapSite Map
/site/copyrightCopyright Notices
/338/Website-PolicyWebsite Policy
/693/About-Google-TranslationAbout Google Translate & Disclaimer
/383/Staff-ConnectionStaff Connection
https://connect.civicplus.com/...External Subdomain CivicPlus®

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.cityofbg.org/"
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 (1.17 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 (143 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 *
dateFri, 06 Sep 2024 06:13:29 GMT
content-length40966
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 465 referring domains.
This page has 2,360 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 319 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

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KeywordResultRecheck
Battle56%Check
Ground56%Check
City56%Check
Battle Ground56%Check
Links54%Check
Battle Ground Police51%Check
Site50%Check
Popular50%Check
Official48%Check
City Council47%Check
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