Cityofdubuque.org - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
46% 
Page structure
38% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.33 s
File size
148.70 kB
Words
301
Media files
16
Number of links
65 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Dubuque, IA - Official Website | Official Website
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (426 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(26, 41, 84)
descriptionEmpty
keywordsHome
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=10
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.
No paragraphs were detected.
There are only 301 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
15.3% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
No placeholders texts or images were found.
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: city council meeting
Some tags are too long. With 83 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"city council work session: greater dubuque development corporation quarterly update"
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=56419Home Page
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=56423Search
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=57149Brad M. Cavanaugh
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=57151Ric Jones - 2024
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=57150David T. Resnick
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=57153Susan R. Farber
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=57154Laura Roussell
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=57155Danny C. Sprank - 2024
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=57156Katy A. Wethal - 2024
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=56429Dubuque Iowa logo
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=56430Facebook
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=56434X
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=56431Instagram
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=56435YouTube
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=56433Nextdoor
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=56432Linkedin

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Common Requests
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (15 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 Common Requests
H1 News & Events
H1 City Council
H1 Brad M. Cavanagh
H1 Ric W. Jones
H1 David T. Resnick
H1 Susan R. Farber
H1 Laura J. Roussell
H1 Danny C. Sprank
H1 Katy A. Wethal
H3 City Updates
H3 Contact Us
H3 Quick Links
H3 Using This Site
H4 Dubuque Residents Encouraged to Participate in National Walk, Bike, and Roll to School Day
H4 Dubuque Mayor Brad Cavanagh Receives Certified Elected Municipal Official Designation
H4 City of Dubuque Transitioning to New City Council Meeting Agenda Management Software
H4 Murdock Named Multicultural Family Center Director
H4 Mon, Oct 7
H4 Mon, Oct 7 Duplicate text
H4 Mon, Oct 21
H4 Mon, Oct 21 Duplicate text
H4 Mon, Nov 4
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.cityofdubuque.org/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.cityofdubuque.org/IMG-ALT Home Page
/27/GovernmentGovernment
/8/ResidentsResidents
/35/Doing-BusinessDoing Business
https://www.traveldubuque.com/New window External Subdomain Visit
/list.aspxGet Notified
https://dubuqueia.mycusthelp.c...External Subdomain Report a Concern
/directoryContact Us
/Search/ResultsIMG-ALT Search
https://www.municipalonlinepay...External Subdomain Pay Utility Bill
/bids.aspxView Bids / RFPs
/3170/Housing-ProgramsHousing Programs
/1133/Miller-Riverview-Park-Ca...Miller Riverview Campground
/573/Eagle-Point-ParkEagle Point Park
https://www.governmentjobs.com...External Subdomain Apply for a City Job
/274/TransitThe Jule
/471/Recreation-DivisionRecreation Programs
/235/Curbside-CollectionTrash & Recycling
/566/City-DepartmentsCity Departments
https://egov.cityofdubuque.org...External Subdomain Pay Parking Ticket
https://dubuqueia.mycusthelp.c...External Subdomain Text duplicate Report a Concern
/439/Leisure-ServicesParks & Recreation Explore the city of Dubuque
/2913/Get-InvolvedGet Involved Join your community
/list.aspxStay Connected Stay up to date with us
/2982/Join-Our-TeamSubdomain Join Our Team Come work with us
/list.aspx?PRVMSG=172&sort=dateSubdomain City Updates
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=6245Dubuque Residents Encouraged to Participate in National Walk, Bike, and Roll to School Day
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=6245Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=6241Dubuque Mayor Brad Cavanagh Receives Certified Elected Municipal Official Designation
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=6241Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=6239City of Dubuque Transitioning to New City Council Meeting Agenda Management Software
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=6239Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=6240Murdock Named Multicultural Family Center Director
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=6240Text duplicate Read on...
/list.aspx?PRVMSG=172&sort=dateSubdomain View All Updates
/Calendar.aspx?EID=6698City Council Work Session: Smart Parking & Mobility Management Plan
/Calendar.aspx?EID=6583City Council Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=6704City Council Work Session: Greater Dubuque Development Corporation Quarterly Update
/Calendar.aspx?EID=6594Text duplicate City Council Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=6584Text duplicate City Council Meeting
/calendar.aspx?CID=49,22,32,42...View All Events
/68/Agendas-MinutesAgendas & Minutes
/197/City-Council-MeetingsMeetings
/213/Contact-the-CouncilText duplicate Contact Us
/67/WelcomeIMG-ALT Brad M. Cavanaugh
/176/Council-Member-Ric-JonesIMG-ALT Ric Jones - 2024
/178/Council-Member-David-ResnickIMG-ALT David T. Resnick
/185/Council-Member-Susan-FarberIMG-ALT Susan R. Farber
/2310/Council-Member-Laura-Rou...IMG-ALT Laura Roussell
/2614/Council-Member-Danny-SprankIMG-ALT Danny C. Sprank - 2024
/3041/Council-Member-Katy-WethalIMG-ALT Katy A. Wethal - 2024
https://www.cityofdubuque.org/IMG-ALT Dubuque Iowa logo
/facebookIMG-ALT Facebook
/twitterIMG-ALT X
/instagramIMG-ALT Instagram
/youtubeIMG-ALT YouTube
/nextdoorIMG-ALT Nextdoor
/linkedinIMG-ALT Linkedin
/directoryDirectory & Hours
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=87Quick Links
/68/Agendas-MinutesAgendas and Minutes
/bids.aspxBids & RFPs
https://codelibrary.amlegal.co...New window External Subdomain Code of Ordinances
/1078/Public-DocumentsPublic Documents
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=88Using This Site
https://www.cityofdubuque.org/Home
/sitemap.aspxSite Map
/accessibilityAccessibility
/site/copyrightCopyright Notices
/429/Website-Privacy-PolicyPrivacy Policy
/index.aspx?nid=427Website Linking Policy
https://connect.civicplus.com/...External Subdomain CivicPlus®

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.cityofdubuque.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 (1.33 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 (149 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, 05 Oct 2024 11:47:05 GMT
content-length37863
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 1,486 referring domains.
This page has 8,825 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,000 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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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
Dubuque72%Check
City59%Check
City Council53%Check
City Council Meeting51%Check
Site50%Check
Common50%Check
Requests50%Check
Official48%Check
Official Website48%Check
Brad44%Check
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