Dcr.virginia.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
98% 
Page quality
68% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
22% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.40 s
File size
21.10 kB
Words
393
Media files
19
Number of links
50 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Department of Conservation and Recreation
The length of the page title is perfect. (395 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
The length of the meta description is perfect. (351 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
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
Language defined in meta tags: 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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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
google-site-verificationY7qHDBOPMJh4IT3aBlg8Sfl73mGnDGoA_6vw_2EI3vs
resource-typedocument
languageen
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
descriptionThe Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
keywordsThe Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Conservation, Recreation
langen
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
distributionGlobal

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 393 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
28.8% 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.
8 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 18.53 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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 8 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
/image/dcrlogo50.pngDepartment of Conservation and RecreationDepartment of Conservation and Recreation
/image/dcr-header.svgDCR Logo
/image/main-navigation.pngMobile Menu
/image/facebook-light.pngFacebookFacebook
/image/twitter-light.pngTwitterTwitter
/image/youtube-light.pngYouTubeYouTube
/image/instagram-light.pngInstagramInstagram
/image/linkedin-light.pngLinkedInLinkedIn
/image/slider-vlcf-25.jpgCelebrating 25 years of the Virginia Land Conservation Foundation
/image/slider-nativeplantfinder.jpgNative Plant Finder
/image/slider-letsgo.jpgLet's Go Adventures
/image/sliderDCR-VACs2.jpgVirginia Agricultural Cost Share program
/image/slider-back.pngLast Slide
/image/slider-next.pngNext Slide
/data/dcr-insights/title-image.jpgAn Image
/image/info-grafk-wip.pngwatershed implementation planning
/image/dcr-logo-footer.pngVirginia Department of Conservation and RecreationVirginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
/image/eva-logo.pngeVA Transparency Reports
/image/agency-expendltures.pngView the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation's expenditures.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Featured
H2 INSIGHTS
H3 Resilient Virginia Revolving Loan Fund
H3 Job opportunities
H3 VLCF projects map
H3 Preserving the trestles of New River Trail State Park
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 1 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.dcr.virginia.gov/IMG-ALT DCR Logo
https://www.facebook.com/Virgi...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Facebook
https://twitter.com/VirginiaDCRExternal IMG-ALT Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/user/D...External Subdomain IMG-ALT YouTube
https://www.instagram.com/dcrv...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain IMG-ALT LinkedIn
/aboutusAbout DCR
/state-parks/State Parks
/natural-heritage/Natural Heritage
/soil-and-water/Soil and Water Conservation
/recreational-planning/Recreation Planning
/dam-safety-and-floodplains/Dam Safety and Floodplains
/land-conservation/Land Conservation
/aboutusText duplicate About DCR
https://www.dcr.virginia.gov/jobsJobs
/internshipsInternships
/document/2023-Seasonal-Wage-E...Seasonal Wage Employment Handbook
/newstuffWhat's New
/conservevirginiaConserveVirginia
/boardsBoards
/public-safety-law-enforcement/Public Safety and Law Enforcement
/laws-and-regulations/Laws and Regulations
/grants-fundingGrant and Funding Resources
/environmental-education/Environmental Education
/pr-relzNews Releases
/media-centerMedia Center
/calendarCalendar, Events
/pub-listPublications and Reports
/formsForms
/sitemapSite Map
/contactsContact Us
https://www.dcr.virginia.gov/Subdomain Home
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/s...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Celebrating 25 years of the Virginia Land Conservation Foundation
/natural-heritage/native-plant...IMG-ALT Native Plant Finder
/state-parks/lets-go-adventure...IMG-ALT Let's Go Adventures
/soil-and-water/costshar2IMG-ALT Virginia Agricultural Cost Share program
/newstuff.phpFeatured
/dam-safety-and-floodplains/rvrfLearn More
https://www.dcr.virginia.gov/jobsText duplicate Learn More
/land-conservation/vlcf-grant-...Text duplicate Learn More
/insights/preserving-the-trest...Preserving the trestles of New River Trail State Park
/insights/preserving-the-trest...Trivial anchor text
READ MORE
/insights/View all insights
https://www.deq.virginia.gov/o...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT watershed implementation planning
https://www.dcr.virginia.gov/IMG-ALT Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
https://www.dcr.virginia.gov/Text duplicate Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
https://logi.cgieva.com/Public...External Subdomain IMG-ALT eVA Transparency Reports
http://datapoint.apa.virginia....External Subdomain IMG-ALT View the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation's expenditures.
/contactsText duplicate Contact Us
/media-centerText duplicate Media Center
/privacyPrivacy Policy
/document/ADA-Grievance-Proced...ADA Notice
/privacyFOIA
https://www.dcr.virginia.gov/jobsText duplicate Jobs
/document/dcrcode.pdfCode of Ethics (PDF)
/document/dcrorgchart.pdfDCR Organizational Chart (PDF)
/document/dcr-strat-plan.pdfStrategic Plan (PDF)
/document/dcr-exec-report.pdfExecutive Progress Report (PDF)
/public-safety-law-enforcement/Public Safety & Law Enforcement

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.dcr.virginia.gov/"
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 is slow (1.40 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.
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 3 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (21 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateWed, 05 Jun 2024 10:52:01 GMT
serverApache
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
strict-transport-securitymax-age=63072000; includeSubDomains; preload
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
access-control-allow-origin*
pragmano-cache
expires0
transfer-encodingchunked
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

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 6,818 referring domains.
This page has 412,654 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 3,603 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: *
Disallow: /other/
Disallow: /natural-heritage/natural-communities-new/
Disallow: /dam-safety-and-floodplains/data/flood-story/


# Sitemap files
Sitemap: https://www.dcr.virginia.gov/sitemap.xml

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Conservation66%Check
Virginia65%Check
Conservation Recreation63%Check
Virginia Department63%Check
Department61%Check
Recreation60%Check
Land conservation51%Check
Water Conservation51%Check
Conservation Foundation51%Check
DCR50%Check
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