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87% 
Page quality
46% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
83% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.76 s
File size
50.80 kB
Words
395
Media files
7
Number of links
23 internal / 23 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Constitution Annotated | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
The length of the page title is perfect. (539 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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The Constitution Annotated provides a legal analysis and interpretation of the United States Constitution based on a comprehensive review of Supreme Court case law.
The meta description is too long: 1029 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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https://constitution.congress.gov/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
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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
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There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
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Domain
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This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
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No session ID was found in the URL.
The URL does not have too many subdirectories.
Charset encoding
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
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The favicon is linked correctly.

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Content
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Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 395 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 27.83 words is high.
31.1% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
4 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
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This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
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No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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3 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
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There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
Additional markup
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No additional page markup was found.
HTTPS
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This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

Media list

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/static/images/logo-copyright.svgCopyright.gov

Page structure

H1 heading
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The Constitution of the United States Explained
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
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The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 The Constitution of the United States Explained
H2 Read About the Constitution in Plain English
H2 FBI v. Fikre
H2 Lindke v. Freed
H2 Trump v. Anderson
H2 Featured Items
H3 Featured Issues
H3 U.S. Constitution at the Library of Congress
H3 Constitution Annotated Resources
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 23 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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/IMG-ALT Constitution Annotated
/browse/Browse Explanations
/constitution/U.S. Constitution
/resources/Resources
/about/constitution-annotated/About
/updates/Updates
/about/search-help/Search Help
/browse/Browse the Constitution Annotated
/browse/essay/artIII-S2-C1-8-6...Subdomain Voluntary Cessation Doctrine
/browse/essay/amdt1-7-2-4/ALDE...Subdomain Anchor Read about State Action Doctrine and Free Speech
/browse/essay/amdt14-S3-2/ALDE...Subdomain Enforcement of the Insurrection Clause
/browse/The Constitution of the United States Explained
/resources/additional-resources/Featured Issues
https://crsreports.congress.go...New window External Subdomain The First Amendment: Categories of Speech
https://crsreports.congress.go...New window External Subdomain The Twenty-Fifth Amendment and Presidential Inability, Part 1: Introduction
https://crsreports.congress.go...New window External Subdomain The Twenty-Fifth Amendment and Presidential Inability, Part 2: Federal Convention Debates
https://crsreports.congress.go...New window External Subdomain The Twenty-Fifth Amendment and Presidential Inability, Part 3: History of Presidential Succession
https://crsreports.congress.go...New window External Subdomain The Twenty-Fifth Amendment and Presidential Inability, Part 4: Early Congressional Action
https://crsreports.congress.go...New window External Subdomain The Twenty-Fifth Amendment and Presidential Inability, Part 5: Congressional Debates
https://crsreports.congress.go...New window External Subdomain The Twenty-Fifth Amendment and Presidential Inability, Part 6: Final Approval and Implementation
/static/files/constitutional-a...New window Subdomain Constitutional Authority Statements
/constitution/U.S. Constitution at the Library of Congress
https://guides.loc.gov/constit...New window External Subdomain Constitution of the United States: Primary Documents in American History
https://www.loc.gov/collection...New window External Subdomain Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774 to 1789
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/c...New window External Subdomain Creating the United States Constitution
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/c...New window External Subdomain Creating the Bill of Rights
https://www.loc.gov/collection...New window External Subdomain U.S. Reports Collection
https://guides.loc.gov/federal...New window External Subdomain The Federalist Papers
https://www.loc.gov/law/help/h...New window External Subdomain Legal Research Guides
https://crsreports.congress.gov/New window External Subdomain CRS Reports
/resources/Constitution Annotated Resources
/browse/essay/intro-1-1/ALDE_0...Methodology for the Constitution Annotated
/browse/essay/appx-1/ALDE_0000...Methodologies for the Tables
/resources/decisions-overruled/Table of Supreme Court Decisions Overruled by Subsequent Decisions
/resources/unconstitutional-laws/Table of Laws Held Unconstitutional in Whole or in Part by the Supreme Court
/resources/supreme-court-justi...Table of Supreme Court Justices
/resources/additional-resources/Beyond the Constitution Annotated: Table of Additional Resources
/resources/cases-cited/Table of Cases
https://guides.loc.gov/constit...New window External Subdomain Constitution Annotated Research Guide
https://www.congress.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Congress.gov
https://www.loc.gov/legalExternal Subdomain Legal
https://www.congress.gov/acces...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://www.loc.gov/legal/stan...External Subdomain External Link Disclaimer
http://www.usa.gov/New window External Subdomain USA.gov
http://www.loc.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Library of Congress
http://www.copyright.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Copyright.gov

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
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This page redirects to "https://constitution.congress.gov/"
HTTP header
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No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
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The page response time of 0.76 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 (51 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

Blacklists
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This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 14,162 referring domains.
This page has 163,542 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 7,823 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
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The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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