Dot.state.mn.us - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
53% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
76% 
Server
10% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.50 s
File size
20.00 kB
Words
257
Media files
3
Number of links
58 internal / 27 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Minnesota Department of Transportation - MnDOT
The length of the page title is perfect. (450 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Minnesota Department of Transportation road and travel information, construction projects, regional offices, bid letting, future highway plans, hot topics, jobs, library, map sales, news, public meetings, research and related links.
The meta description is too long: 1390 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
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)
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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
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-verificationsCSEaJVqTtVMcrz7E90cHW67s22Ba9l38kuPDp0gqqc
revisit-after1 day
descriptionMinnesota Department of Transportation road and travel information, construction projects, regional offices, bid letting, future highway plans, hot topics, jobs, library, map sales, news, public meetings, research and related links.
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
HandheldFriendlytrue
msapplication-config/browserconfig.xml
theme-color#003660
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@mndot
twitter:imagehttps://www.dot.state.mn.us/images/16templates/template/DOT-Logo-Facebook-Medium-V1.png
og:fb:app_id2962457693857133
og:imagehttps://www.dot.state.mn.us/images/16templates/template/DOT-Logo-Facebook-Medium-V1.png
og:typewebsite
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 257 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
13.6% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 16 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 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)
The HTTPS protocol for secure data transmission is not used.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
...plates/template/DOT-Logo-RGB-Reverse.pngMinnesota Department of Transportation
.../interactive/local-offices/map_blank.pngDistrict Offices
/ezpassmn/images/logo-purple.pngE-ZPass

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Minnesota Department of Transportation
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Minnesota Department of Transportation
H2 Local information
H2 Connect with us
H2 Traveler information
H2 Take action
H2 More at MnDOT
H2 MnDOT Statewide Plans
H2 Transportation Performance
H3 Get involved
H3 Report an issue
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
8 links don't have an 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 too many external links (27) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
http://dot.state.mn.us/Anchor Skip to Content
/index.htmlSubdomain IMG-ALT Minnesota Department of Transportation
https://www.511mn.org/External Subdomain 511 Travel Info
/information/talk.htmlSubdomain General Contacts
https://atoz.dot.state.mn.us/a...External Subdomain MnDOT A to Z
https://mn.gov/dot/search/External Search
/cvo/index.htmlSubdomain Trucks, Buses, Limos, STS
/transit/Subdomain Transit
/cars.htmlSubdomain Cars
/aboutrail/Subdomain Rail
https://www.dot.state.mn.us/aero/Subdomain Aeronautics
/ofrw/waterways/index.htmlSubdomain Waterways
/bike/index.htmlSubdomain Bikes
/peds/index.htmlSubdomain Pedestrians
https://atoz.dot.state.mn.us/a...External Subdomain Topics A-Z
https://www.511mn.org/?utm_sou...External Subdomain 511mn.org
/business.htmlDoing Business
/careers/index.htmlJobs
/safety/index.htmlSafety
https://mn.gov/dot/search/External Search MnDOT.gov
/information/talk.htmlContact MnDOT
/maintenance/district.htmlCity Listing
https://public.govdelivery.com...External Subdomain Email updates
https://www.facebook.com/mndotExternal Subdomain Facebook
https://www.youtube.com/c/mndo...External Subdomain YouTube
https://twitter.com/mndotExternal X (formerly Twitter)
/socialmedia/index.htmlMnDOT's Social Hub
https://www.511mn.org/?utm_sou...New window External Subdomain 511 statewide travel and road condition information
/construction/index.html2024 construction season
/roadwork/index.htmlConstruction projects, plans and studies
/news/index.htmlNews releases
/roadwork/index.htmlText duplicate Construction projects, plans and studies
https://talk.dot.state.mn.us/New window External Subdomain Public and stakeholder participation opportunities
https://www.facebook.com/mndot...External Subdomain Upcoming Facebook events
/information/potholes/reportin...Report a pothole, roadside issue or graffiti
https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/m...External Subdomain Report unsafe driving
/trafficeng/signals/index.htmlReport a traffic signal issue
/ada/contacts.htmlReport an Americans with Disabilities Act compliance issue
/reportwrongdoing/index.htmlReport wrongdoing or questionable activity
/ezpassmn/index.htmlLearn more about and sign up for E-ZPass
IMG-ALT E-ZPass
http://dot.state.mn.us/abcrampsABC Ramps
/adopt/index.htmlAdopt a highway
/careers/index.htmlApply for a job
https://mn.gov/elicense/External Licenses
/maps/index.htmlMaps
https://www.newsline.dot.state...External Subdomain Newsline: Employee Newsletter
/ombudsman/index.htmlOmbudsman
/restareas/index.htmlRest areas
/cvo/oversize/index.htmlTruck permits
https://www.minnesotatzd.org/External Subdomain Toward Zero Deaths
https://minnesotago.org/External Minnesota GO
https://minnesotago.org/draft-...External Multimodal Transportation Plan
https://minnesotago.org/draft-...External 20-year State Highway Investment Plan
/planning/program/stip.htmlState Transportation Improvement Program
/aero/planning/sasp.htmlAviation System Plan
/bike/statewide-bicycle-system...Bicycle System Plan
https://www.minnesotawalks.org/External Subdomain Minnesota Walks
/maintenance/hsop/Highway Systems Operations Plan
/planning/railplan/index.htmlRail Plan
/planning/freightplan/index.htmlStatewide Freight System Plan
/transit/plans-reports.htmlTransit Plan
/ada/transitionplan.htmlADA Transition Plan
https://performance.minnesotag...External Subdomain Performance Measures Dashboard
https://atoz.dot.state.mn.us/a...External Subdomain A to Z
/sitemap.htmlSubdomain Sitemap
https://mn.gov/dot/search/External Text duplicate Search MnDOT.gov
/information/talk.htmlSubdomain Text duplicate Contact MnDOT
https://www.511mn.org/External Subdomain 511 Traveler Service
/news/index.htmlSubdomain News Releases
/careers/index.htmlSubdomain Careers/Jobs
/business.htmlSubdomain Text duplicate Doing Business
/ada/index.htmlSubdomain ADA and Accessibility
/information/disclaimer.htmlSubdomain Disclaimer and Legal
/about/index.htmlSubdomain About MnDOT
https://mn.gov/portal/External State of Minnesota
https://mn.gov/governor/External Governor's Site
/employee-resources.htmlSubdomain Employee Resources
/d7/index.htmlNo Text
/metro/index.htmlNo Text
/d8/index.htmlNo Text
/d1/index.htmlNo Text
/d4/index.htmlNo Text
/d2/index.htmlNo Text
/d3/index.htmlNo Text
/d6/index.htmlNo Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
The checked page does not redirect to another URL.
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 of 0.50 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.
This page loads 8 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (20 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 19 Sep 2024 12:41:03 GMT
serverApache
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
accept-rangesbytes
transfer-encodingchunked
content-typetext/html
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 503 referring domains.
This page has 467,951 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 383 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /Admin/ # This is for server Adminstrative pages.

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Minnesota Department of Transportation - MnDOT
Minnesota Department of Transportation road and travel information, construction projects, regional offices, bid letting, future highway plans, hot topics, jobs, library, map sales, news, public meetings, research and related links.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Transportation79%Check
Minnesota75%Check
Department75%Check
Minnesota Department75%Check
Transportation Plan66%Check
information54%Check
Travel Information54%Check
MnDOT53%Check
State52%Check
Plan50%Check
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