Design.canada.ca - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
92% 
Page quality
66% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
68% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.26 s
File size
18.30 kB
Words
327
Media files
2
Number of links
7 internal / 45 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Canada.ca design - Canada.ca
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (280 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Canada.ca design holds the reusable styles, templates and patterns that make Government of Canada digital services more usable, consistent and trustworthy.
The meta description is too long: 1008 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://design.canada.ca/
There is a valid canonical link 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)
The alternate link to the page itself is missing.
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
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
descriptionThe Canada.ca design holds the reusable styles, templates and patterns that make Government of Canada digital services more usable, consistent and trustworthy.
dcterms.titleCanada.ca design
dcterms.descriptionThe Canada.ca design holds the reusable styles, templates and patterns that make Government of Canada digital services more usable, consistent and trustworthy.
authorEmployment and Social Development Canada
dcterms.creatorEmployment and Social Development Canada
dcterms.languageeng
dcterms.issued2021-05-03
dcterms.modified2024-08-26
generatorJekyll v4.3.2
google-site-verificationNt_CftRIypA9xVS7Znb2VkrsYbtIDuFWHryxSAC6OwM
yandex-verificationb8834a99b9021b0e
nameGovernment of Canada
areaServedCanada
position2
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 327 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 27.67 words is high.
27.8% of the text are stop words.
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
(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 usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 7 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
...s-dist/GCWeb/GCWeb/assets/sig-blk-en.svgGovernment of Canada
...mes-dist/GCWeb/GCWeb/assets/wmms-blk.svgSymbol of the Government of Canada

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Designing for Canada.ca
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Designing for Canada.ca
H2 Language selection
H2 Search
H2 Menu
H2 You are here:
H2 Find guidance
H2 Page details
H2 About this site
H3 Canada.ca Specifications
H3 Continuous improvement of web content
H3 Canada.ca blog
H3 Research summaries
H3 About Canada.ca
H3 Digital Transformation Office (DTO)
H3 Government of Canada
H3 Government of Canada Corporate
H4 Themes and topics
There are too few (7) internal links on this page.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (45) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://design.canada.ca/Anchor Skip to main content
https://design.canada.ca/Anchor Skip to About this site
https://conception.canada.ca/External Subdomain Français fr
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Jobs and the workplace
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Immigration and citizenship
https://travel.gc.ca/External Subdomain Travel and tourism
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Business and industry
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Benefits
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Health
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Taxes
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Environment and natural resources
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain National security and defence
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Culture, history and sport
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Policing, justice and emergencies
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Transport and infrastructure
https://www.international.gc.c...External Subdomain Canada and the world
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Money and finances
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Science and innovation
https://www.canada.ca/en.htmlExternal Subdomain Canada.ca
https://design.canada.ca/about/Subdomain About Canada.ca
/specifications.htmlCanada.ca Specifications
/continuous-improvement.htmlContinuous improvement of web content
https://blog.canada.ca/External Subdomain Canada.ca blog
/research-summaries/Research summaries
https://design.canada.ca/about/Text duplicate About Canada.ca
https://blog.canada.ca/contact-usExternal Subdomain Contact us
https://www.canada.ca/en/conta...External Subdomain All contacts
https://www.canada.ca/en/gover...External Subdomain Departments and agencies
https://www.canada.ca/en/gover...External Subdomain About government
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Jobs
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Text duplicate Immigration and citizenship
https://travel.gc.ca/External Subdomain Text duplicate Travel and tourism
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Business
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Text duplicate Benefits
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Text duplicate Health
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Text duplicate Taxes
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Text duplicate Environment and natural resources
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Text duplicate National security and defence
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Text duplicate Culture, history and sport
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Text duplicate Policing, justice and emergencies
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Text duplicate Transport and infrastructure
https://www.international.gc.c...External Subdomain Text duplicate Canada and the world
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Money and finance
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Text duplicate Science and innovation
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Indigenous peoples
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Veterans and military
https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...External Subdomain Youth
https://www.canada.ca/en/socia...External Subdomain Social media
https://www.canada.ca/en/mobil...External Subdomain Mobile applications
https://www.canada.ca/en/gover...External Subdomain Text duplicate About Canada.ca
https://www.canada.ca/en/trans...External Subdomain Terms and conditions
https://www.canada.ca/en/trans...External Subdomain Privacy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://design.canada.ca/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.26 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (18 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
serverGitHub.com
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
last-modifiedWed, 25 Sep 2024 15:56:31 GMT
access-control-allow-origin*
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31556952
etagW/"66f432af-4921"
expiresSat, 28 Sep 2024 17:44:48 GMT
cache-controlmax-age=600
content-encodinggzip
x-proxy-cacheMISS
x-github-request-idF3CA:17CD9A:1914069:19C5ECC:66F83E38
accept-rangesbytes
age0
dateSat, 28 Sep 2024 17:34:49 GMT
via1.1 varnish
x-served-bycache-fra-eddf8230046-FRA
x-cacheMISS
x-cache-hits0
x-timerS1727544889.921983,VS0,VE103
varyAccept-Encoding
x-fastly-request-id6a1540983581ef5d76fd5ecaa857dcd9901af451
content-length4908
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 34 referring domains.
This page has 1,453 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 34 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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The Canada.ca design holds the reusable styles, templates and patterns that make Government of Canada digital services more usable, consistent and trustworthy.

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design85%Check
Canada.ca design71%Check
design principles60%Check
Government56%Check
Designing50%Check
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