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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
58% 
Page quality
63% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
82% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.61 s
File size
26.90 kB
Words
526
Media files
22
Number of links
77 internal / 20 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Department of Social Services | Department of Social Services, Australian Government
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 778 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
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)
The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width
dcterms.titleDepartment of Social Services
dcterms.date2023-02-24T11:07:41+11:00
dcterms.languageen-AU
langen
og:titleDepartment of Social Services
og:updated_time2023-02-24T11:07:41+11:00
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 36.8 words is high.
This page contains 526 words. That's ok.
23% 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.
7 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.
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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 11 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
7 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
/sites/all/themes/dss_2014/logo.pngDepartment of Social Services, Australian Government
...ic/images/news/cover_6.jpg?itok=MJem2OxHNational Disability Research Partnership logo
...ews/untitled-design-61.jpg?itok=KPBqG15qDecorative image of a family of 3 people, man, woman and a young girl
...sletter-banner-01_copy.png?itok=nEVjvCZyimage of text "Resources for family safety and relationships are now available in 20 Languages
...s/disability0131lowres.jpg?itok=c5qqAalA
...images/news/picture1_3.jpg?itok=DNk_U__Xdecorative
...ges/news/kb-4640-x-400.jpg?itok=CmHCfoEiHave your say on draft lists of NDIS supports
.../files/images/promo_serviceproviders.gifDSS Grants Service Directory
...es/default/files/images/promo_engage.gifengage.dss.gov.au
...6/blended-payment-cover-tile-150x150.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ntent/uploads/2023/12/ic-new-150x150.pngNo alt attribute provided
...gram-consultation-page-image-150x150.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ent/uploads/2024/07/ncs-logo-150x150.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...nt/uploads/2024/07/ndis-list-150x150.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...t/uploads/2024/08/tile-image-150x150.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...rsfacebooksquare1200x1200px2-150x150.pngNo alt attribute provided
...efault/files/images/greyzone_respect.jpgReducing violence against women
...es/default/files/images/greyzone_fro.jpgFamily Relationships Online
.../default/files/images/greyzone_idpwd.jpgInternational Day of People with Disability
...es/default/files/images/greyzone_ica.jpgIntercountry Adoption
...es/default/files/images/greyzone_nrs.jpgNational Redress Scheme
...ages/interpreter_symbol_text_cropped.pngInterpreter icon

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Department of Social Services
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Department of Social Services
H2 News
H2 Open Grants
H2 Current Consultations
H3 New Chair of National Disability Research Partnership to lead inclusive disability research
H3 The Parents and Carers Reference Group
H3 Family safety information now available on the MyAus app
H3 Have your say on Australia’s Disability Strategy
H3 New specialist disability employment program – Release of draft Request for Tender
H3 Have your say on draft lists of NDIS supports
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 20 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.dss.gov.au/Anchor Skip to navigation
https://www.dss.gov.au/Anchor Skip to main content
https://survey.websurveycreato...New window External Subdomain Tell us what you think
https://www.dss.gov.au/IMG-ALT Department of Social Services, Australian Government
/about-the-departmentAbout the Department
/our-responsibilitiesOur Responsibilities
/communities-and-vulnerable-pe...Communities and Vulnerable People
/disability-and-carersDisability and Carers
A-TITLE 4752
/families-and-childrenFamilies and Children
/housing-supportHousing Support
/mental-healthMental Health
https://www.dss.gov.au/seniorsSeniors
/our-responsibilities/ending-g...Ending gender-based violence
/review-of-australias-welfare-...Social Security
/node/35136/Working Age
https://www.dss.gov.au/grantsGrants
/careers/vacancies/Pages/defau...Careers
/contact-dssContact
https://www.dss.gov.au/Home
/about-the-departmentText duplicate About the Department
/our-responsibilitiesText duplicate Our Responsibilities
/families-and-childrenText duplicate Families and Children
/housing-supportText duplicate Housing Support
https://www.dss.gov.au/seniorsText duplicate Seniors
/communities-and-vulnerable-pe...Text duplicate Communities and Vulnerable People
/disability-and-carersText duplicate Disability and Carers
https://www.dss.gov.au/grantsText duplicate Grants
/careers/vacancies/Pages/defau...Text duplicate Careers
https://www.dss.gov.au/ministersMinisters
http://www.youtube.com/c/DssGovAuExternal Subdomain Youtube
https://www.dss.gov.au/rss.xmlRSS
https://app-oc.readspeaker.com...Nofollow External Subdomain Listen
/about-the-department/news/69746New Chair of National Disability Research Partnership to lead inclusive disability research
/about-the-department/news/69746Continue reading New Chair of National Disability Research Partnership to lead inclusive disability research
/about-the-department/news/69696The Parents and Carers Reference Group
/about-the-department/news/69696Continue reading The Parents and Carers Reference Group
/about-the-department/news/69671Family safety information now available on the MyAus app
/about-the-department/news/69671Continue reading Family safety information now available on the MyAus app
/about-the-department/news/69276Have your say on Australia’s Disability Strategy
/about-the-department/news/69276Continue reading Have your say on Australia’s Disability Strategy
/about-the-department/news/69661New specialist disability employment program – Release of draft Request for Tender
/about-the-department/news/69661Continue reading New specialist disability employment program – Release of draft Request for Tender
/about-the-department/news/69566Have your say on draft lists of NDIS supports
/about-the-department/news/69566Continue reading Have your say on draft lists of NDIS supports
/about-the-department/newsView all news
http://serviceproviders.dss.go...External Subdomain IMG-ALT DSS Grants Service Directory
http://serviceproviders.dss.go...External Subdomain Search the DSS Grants Service Directory
https://www.communitygrants.go...External Subdomain Community Grants Hub website
https://engage.dss.gov.au/External Subdomain IMG-ALT engage.dss.gov.au
https://engage.dss.gov.au/blen...External Subdomain Working together to trial blended payments
https://engage.dss.gov.au/inco...External Subdomain Future of Income Management
https://engage.dss.gov.au/a-ne...External Subdomain A new specialist disability employment program – Consultation
https://engage.dss.gov.au/nati...External Subdomain National Carer Strategy
https://engage.dss.gov.au/cons...External Subdomain Consultation on draft lists of NDIS supports
https://engage.dss.gov.au/ads-...External Subdomain Review of Australia’s Disability Strategy (ADS)
https://engage.dss.gov.au/pcrg/External Subdomain Parents and Carers Reference Group Expression of Interest
https://www.respect.gov.au/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Reducing violence against women
http://www.familyrelationships...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Family Relationships Online
http://www.idpwd.com.au/External Subdomain IMG-ALT International Day of People with Disability
http://www.intercountryadoptio...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Intercountry Adoption
https://www.nationalredress.go...External Subdomain IMG-ALT National Redress Scheme
/about-the-departmentText duplicate About the Department
/about-the-department/labour-m...Labour Market and Related Payments Monthly Profile publication
/about-the-department/bushfire...Bushfire information and support
/our-responsibilitiesText duplicate Our Responsibilities
/communities-and-vulnerable-pe...Text duplicate Communities and Vulnerable People
/disability-and-carersText duplicate Disability and Carers
A-TITLE 4752
/families-and-childrenText duplicate Families and Children
/housing-supportText duplicate Housing Support
/mental-healthText duplicate Mental Health
https://www.dss.gov.au/seniorsText duplicate Seniors
/our-responsibilities/ending-g...Text duplicate Ending gender-based violence
/review-of-australias-welfare-...Text duplicate Social Security
/node/35136/Text duplicate Working Age
https://www.dss.gov.au/grantsText duplicate Grants
/careers/vacancies/Pages/defau...Text duplicate Careers
/careers/working-with-usWorking with us
/careers/applying-with-usApplying with us
/careers/diverse-and-inclusive...Diverse and inclusive workforce
/careers/graduate-development-...Graduate Development Program
/careers/ability-apprenticeshi...Ability Apprenticeship Program
/contact-dssText duplicate Contact
/contact/contact-the-departmentContact the Department
/contact/feedback-compliments-...DSS Feedback and Complaints
/contact/reporting-suspected-f...Reporting Suspected Fraud
/contact/national-relay-serviceNational Relay Service
/contact/freedom-of-informationFreedom of Information
/contact/media-enquiriesMedia Enquiries
/contact/requesting-dss-dataRequesting DSS Data
https://www.tisnational.gov.au/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Interpreter icon
https://www.dss.gov.au/copyrightCopyright
https://www.dss.gov.au/disclaimerDisclaimer
/privacy-policyPrivacy
/accessibilityAccessibility
/how-to-use-the-listen-functio...Readspeaker
/social-mediaSocial Media
/vulnerability-disclosure-policyVulnerability Disclosure Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.dss.gov.au/"
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 very slow (2.61 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 (27 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
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content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-length7088
x-drupal-cacheMISS
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
cache-controlpublic, max-age=172800
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
varyCookie,Accept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
etag"1724129370-1"
last-modifiedTue, 20 Aug 2024 04:49:30 GMT
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x-ah-environmentprod
age48048
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x-cacheHIT
x-cache-hits9334
accept-rangesbytes
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 5,403 referring domains.
This page has 668,563 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 3,247 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /misc/*.css$
Allow: /misc/*.css?
Allow: /misc/*.js$
Allow: /misc/*.js?
Allow: /misc/*.gif
Allow: /misc/*.jpg
Allow: /misc/*.jpeg
Allow: /misc/*.png
Allow: /modules/*.css$
Allow: /modules/*.css?
Allow: /modules/*.js$
Allow: /modules/*.js?
Allow: /modules/*.gif
Allow: /modules/*.jpg
Allow: /modules/*.jpeg
Allow: /modules/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /themes/*.css$
Allow: /themes/*.css?
Allow: /themes/*.js$
Allow: /themes/*.js?
Allow: /themes/*.gif
Allow: /themes/*.jpg
Allow: /themes/*.jpeg
Allow: /themes/*.png
# Directories
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips/
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /user/logout/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/

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Department63%Check
Social63%Check
Services63%Check
Social Services63%Check
Australia51%Check
DSS50%Check
Social Media49%Check
Social Security49%Check
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