Cityofboise.org - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
64% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
85% 
Link structure
87% 
Server
23% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.88 s
File size
26.20 kB
Words
434
Media files
8
Number of links
62 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
City of Boise
The page title is too short. (115 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
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, shrink-to-fit=no
msapplication-TileColor#6A6A6E
theme-color#6A6A6E
langen
twitter:imagehttps://www.cityofboise.org/media/3859/boise_skyline_from_foothills-shutterstock.jpg
og:imagehttps://www.cityofboise.org/media/3859/boise_skyline_from_foothills-shutterstock.jpg
og:titleCity of Boise
x-ua-compatibleie=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 434 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
23.3% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 19.5 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
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)
3 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
/assets/img/_layout/logo__city-of-boise.svgCity of Boise
...img/_layout/icon__department-circles.svgDepartments icon
...ycouncil-visionkit-2024-laurenmclean.pngBoise Mayor Lauren McLean
...es/citywide/defaultCardImage_350x250.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...es/citywide/defaultCardImage_350x250.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...es/citywide/defaultCardImage_350x250.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...img/_layout/logo__city-of-boise-seal.pngCity of Boise Logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
City of Boise
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.
There are 28 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 City of Boise
H2 Residents
H2 Visitors
H2 Business
H2 Government
H2 Popular Services
H2 News
H2 Events
H2 Message Sent Successfully!
H2 Message Failed To Send.
H3 Quick Links and Resources
H3 A New Zoning Code
H3 Now Hiring
H3 Utility Billing Services
H3 City of Boise and Former Office of Police Accountability Director Settle Lawsuit
H3 Notice of Date Change for the Boise Public Library Regular Board Meeting
H3 Cotton-top Tamarin Baby Born At Zoo Boise
H3 Plumbing, Mechanical & Fuel Gas Code Board Meeting
H3 Borah Pool Opening Day
H3 Fairmont Pool Opening Day
H3 Ivywild Pool Opening Day
H3 Be 'In the Know,'
H3 Send a Message to City of Boise
H4 City of Boise Duplicate text
H4 Phone
H4 TTY
H4 Hours
H4 Address
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 7 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.cityofboise.org/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.cityofboise.org/IMG-ALT City of Boise
/residents/Residents
/visitors/Visitors
/business/Business
/government/Government
/departments-programs/Departments Dept.
IMG-ALT Departments icon
https://www.cityofboise.org/Anchor Translate
https://www.cityofboise.org/Anchor Contact Us
/departments/human-resources/h...Jobs
/departments/finance-and-admin...Public Meetings
/departments/finance-and-admin...Parking Tickets
/departments/planning-and-deve...Development Tracker
https://www.idahocf.org/suppor...New window External Subdomain Supportive Housing Investment Fund
/departments/mayor/state-of-th...2024 State of the City
/departments/mayorMayor Lauren McLean
IMG-ALT Boise Mayor Lauren McLean
/residents/pay/Pay
/residents/trash-and-recycling/Trash and Recycling
/departments/finance-and-admin...Parking Services
/departments/community-engagem...E-Newsletter
/residents/See All
/visitors/recreation/Recreation
/visitors/parking-and-transpor...Parking and Transportation
/visitors/arts-and-culture/Arts and Culture
/visitors/tourism/Tourism
/visitors/Text duplicate See All
/business/permits/Permits
/business/building-and-planning/Building and Planning
/departments/finance-and-admin...Bids and Purchasing
/departments/finance-and-admin...Licensing
/business/Text duplicate See All
/departments/mayor/Mayor
/departments/city-council/City Council
/government/boards-and-commiss...Boards and Commissions
/government/report-an-issue-or...Report an Issue
/government/Text duplicate See All
/departments-programs/SEE ALL
/departments/parks-and-recreat...Parks and Recreation Parks and Recreation
/departments/public-works/curb...Curb It Curb It
/departments/planning-and-deve...Planning and Development Services Planning and Development Services
/departments/police/Police Police
/departments/planning-and-deve...Planning A New Zoning Code Boise's new zoning code is now in effect. Explore the new code, process and more.
/departments/human-resources/h...Hot Jobs + Cool People Now Hiring With jobs that range from A (airport operations) to Z (zookeepers) we may have the perfect job for you.
/departments/public-works/util...Utility Billing Services Utility Billing Services The City of Boise manages billing for residential and commercial properties for sewer, trash, recycling, co...
https://www.cityofboise.org/newsText duplicate SEE ALL
/news/mayor/2024/may/city-of-b...City of Boise and Former Office of Police Accountability Director Settle Lawsuit May 24, 2024
/news/library/2024/may/notice-...Notice of Date Change for the Boise Public Library Regular Board Meeting May 24, 2024
/news/parks-and-recreation/202...Cotton-top Tamarin Baby Born At Zoo Boise May 24, 2024
/eventsText duplicate SEE ALL
/events/pds/2024/may/plumbing-...Plumbing, Mechanical & Fuel Gas Code Board Meeting May 29, 2024 1:30 PM Boise City Hall Plumbing, Mechanical & Fuel Gas Code Board Meeting Read More
/events/parks/2024/may/borah-p...Borah Pool Opening Day May 31, 2024 1:00 PM Borah Pool Borah Pool Opening Day Read More
/events/parks/2024/may/fairmon...Fairmont Pool Opening Day May 31, 2024 1:00 PM Fairmont Pool Fairmont Pool Opening Day Read More
/events/parks/2024/may/ivywild...Ivywild Pool Opening Day May 31, 2024 1:00 PM Ivywild Pool Ivywild Pool Opening Day Read More
/residents/Text duplicate Residents
/visitors/Text duplicate Visitors
/business/Text duplicate Business
/government/Text duplicate Government
/departments-programs/Departments & Programs
/SiteDirectorySitemap
/terms-of-useTerms of Use
https://www.cityofboise.org/IMG-ALT City of Boise Logo
https://www.facebook.com/Boise...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/CityOfBoiseNew window External Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/city...New window External Subdomain Instagram
https://youtube.com/cityofboiseNew window External YouTube
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.cityofboise.org/Anchor Close
https://www.google.com/maps?da...New window External Subdomain Get Directions
https://www.cityofboise.org/Anchor Text duplicate Close

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.cityofboise.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.88 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (26 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-encodingdeflate
varyAccept-Encoding
x-html-minification-powered-byWebMarkupMin
dateWed, 29 May 2024 19:57:13 GMT
content-length6806
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 4,166 referring domains.
This page has 76,230 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,401 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 8080 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /city_clerk/

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
City81%Check
Boise81%Check
City Council60%Check
City Hall59%Check
Pool43%Check
Code43%Check
Opening43%Check
Day43%Check
Services43%Check
Message43%Check
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