Discoverlancaster.com - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
57% 
Page quality
87% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
63% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.14 s
File size
142.70 kB
Words
869
Media files
14
Number of links
145 internal / 26 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Discover Lancaster | Pennsylvania Dutch Country | Amish Attractions, Shopping, Dining
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 783 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Discover Lancaster is the official online travel resource for Pennsylvania Dutch Country. Experience authentic Lancaster County Amish attractions, shopping, dining, and lodging. You'll find all you need to know about Lancaster here.
The meta description is too long: 1420 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.discoverlancaster.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
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 name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

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og:descriptionDiscover Lancaster is the official online travel resource for Pennsylvania Dutch Country. Experience authentic Lancaster County Amish attractions, shopping, dining, and lodging. You'll find all you need to know about Lancaster here.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 869 words. That's ok.
31.8% 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.
10 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 15.93 words is good.
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=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 17 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
8 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
Additional markup
(Nice to have)
This page uses Google authorship information without an image.
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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
EXPERIENCE LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 EXPERIENCE LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
H2 Fall Fun!
H2 Things to do in September
H2 Sweet & Salty Trail
H2 Create the Perfect Vacation
H2 Explore More in Lancaster
H2 Follow us!
H3 Festivals & Fairs >
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
5 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (26) on this page.
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/privacy-policy/Subdomain Privacy Policy
/terms/Subdomain Terms of Use
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https://www.youtube.com/golanc...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate YouTube
https://instagram.com/discover...New window External Text duplicate Instagram
https://www.pinterest.com/disc...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Pinterest
https://www.tiktok.com/@discov...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate TikTok
/things-to-do/Subdomain Text duplicate Things To Do
/things-to-do/Subdomain Text duplicate Things To Do
/things-to-do/covered-bridges/Subdomain Covered Bridges
/things-to-do/family-fun/Subdomain Family Fun
/things-to-do/free/Subdomain Free Things to Do
/things-to-do/outdoor/Subdomain Outdoor Adventure
/things-to-do/rainy-day/Subdomain Rainy Day Things to Do
/things-to-do/shopping/Subdomain Shopping
/things-to-do/tours/Subdomain Tours
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/things-to-do/arts-culture/Subdomain Arts & Culture
/things-to-do/theaters/Subdomain Theaters & Performing Arts
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/events/Subdomain Text duplicate Events
/events/Subdomain Text duplicate Events
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/amish/education-work/Subdomain Amish Education & Work
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/places-to-stay/bed-breakfasts/Subdomain Bed & Breakfasts and Inns
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https://www.youtube.com/golanc...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate YouTube
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https://www.pinterest.com/disc...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Pinterest
https://www.tiktok.com/@discov...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate TikTok

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.discoverlancaster.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.14 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 (143 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 3,107 referring domains.
This page has 73,866 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,978 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

# robots.txt for https://www.discoverlancaster.com/

Sitemap: https://www.discoverlancaster.com/sitemap.xml

# live - don't allow web crawlers to index cpresources/ or vendor/

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cpresources/
Disallow: /vendor/
Disallow: /.env
Disallow: /directories/

# Specific rules for GPTBot
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Search preview

www.discoverlancaster.com
Discover Lancaster | Pennsylvania Dutch Country | Amish Attractions...
Discover Lancaster is the official online travel resource for Pennsylvania Dutch Country. Experience authentic Lancaster County Amish attractions, shopping, dining, and lodging. You'll find all you need to know about Lancaster here.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
LANCASTER93%Check
Discover Lancaster85%Check
Lancaster Pennsylvania85%Check
Lancaster County80%Check
PENNSYLVANIA75%Check
Discover73%Check
Explore Lancaster67%Check
Pennsylvania Dutch66%Check
Pennsylvania Dutch Country63%Check
EXPERIENCE62%Check

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