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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
73% 
Page quality
55% 
Page structure
41% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
93% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.53 s
File size
32.80 kB
Words
260
Media files
14
Number of links
50 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home
The title contains the word Home! More content should be covered in the title.
The page title is too short. (52 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
The page title is only one word.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Welcome to Elections Ontario
The meta description is too short. (183 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length) 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)
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)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
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HandheldFriendlytrue
keywordsEmpty
descriptionWelcome to Elections Ontario
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dc.contributorElections Ontario
dc.titleHome
dc.subjectEmpty
dc.descriptionWelcome to Elections Ontario
dc.date.created2024-10-30
dc.date.issued2020-03-03
dc.date.modified2025-03-27
dc.formattext/html
dc.identifierhttp://www.elections.on.ca
dc.languageeng
dc.relation.hasTranslation/content/ngw/fr.html
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langen
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 260 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
21.2% of the text are stop words.
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 18 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" is provided.
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)
5 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)
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
/content/dam/NGW/eologo/logoapril5.pngHomeHome
...w/main/resources/img/icon-menu-white.pngToggle navigation
...sources/img/icon-minus-thicker-white.pngToggle navigation
...t/dam/NGW/sitecontent/2025/version 2.pngNo alt attribute provided
...t/dam/NGW/sitecontent/2025/version 2.pngNo alt attribute provided
...2024/RegisterToVote-Icon-RGB_Smaller.svgNo alt attribute provided
...tent/dam/NGW/structure/2022/VIS_Icon.svgNo alt attribute provided
...NGW/structure/test/Compliance_Banner.svgNo alt attribute provided
...nt/dam/NGW/fresh/icons/icon-facebook.pngFacebook
...t/dam/NGW/fresh/icons/instagram-icon.pngInstagram
...NGW/fresh/icons/X-logo-white_25x25px.pngTwitter
...nt/dam/NGW/fresh/icons/icon-linkedin.pngLinkedIn
...nt/dam/NGW/fresh/icons/youtube white.pngYouTube
...x25_Transparent_Bkg_White_Border_Rev.pngElections Ontario app

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Home
The H1 heading contains the words Home! Use important keywords instead.
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (4 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Home
H1 Questions about the federal election on April 28?
H1 Highlights
H2 Voter Registration
H2 Voter Information Service
H2 Political Financing & Party Information
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 12 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/en.htmlAnchor Skip to main content
https://www.elections.ca/home....External Subdomain Elections Canada.
/en/about-us/employment-centre...Jobs
/en/about-us.htmlAbout Us
/fr.htmlFrançais
/en.htmlIMG-ALT Home
/en/voting-in-ontario.htmlVoting
/en/voting-in-ontario/find-you...Voter Information Service
/en/voting-in-ontario/voting-i...Voting in provincial elections
/en/voting-in-ontario/id-to-vo...ID to vote in provincial elections
/en/voting-in-ontario/accessib...Accessible voting in provincial elections
/en/voting-in-ontario/the-regi...The register(s)
/en/voting-in-ontario/frequent...Frequently asked questions
/en/political-entities-in-onta...Candidates and Political Entities
/en/political-entities-in-onta...Information for Candidates
/en/political-entities-in-onta...Political Parties
/en/political-entities-in-onta...Constituency Associations
/en/political-entities-in-onta...Leadership Contestants
/en/political-entities-in-onta...Nomination Contestants
/en/political-entities-in-onta...Third Parties
/en/political-entities-in-onta...Political Entity Portal
/en/political-entities-in-onta...Access for Canvassers
/en/political-entities-in-onta...Rules for Political Advertising
/en/political-entities-in-onta...Important dates for Elections held from 2018 to Present
/en/political-financing0.htmlPolitical Financing
/en/political-financing0/finan...Financial Statements
/en/political-financing0/quart...Quarterly Allowances
/en/political-financing0/eligi...Eligible Contributors
/en/political-financing0/forms...Forms and Handbooks
/en/resource-centre.htmlResources
/en/resource-centre/elections-...Election Results
/en/resource-centre/electoral-...Electoral District Maps and Information
/en/resource-centre/learning-a...Learning about Elections
/en/resource-centre/misinforma...Misinformation and disinformation
/en/resource-centre/official-e...Official Election Advertising Products
/en/resource-centre/educationa...Educational Resources
/en/resource-centre/outreach.htmlOutreach
/en/resource-centre/reports-an...Reports and Publications
/en/resource-centre/policies.htmlPolicies
/en/resource-centre/legislatio...Legislation
/en/resource-centre/vote-by-ma...Vote by mail stats for the 2025 provincial general election
/en/media-centre.htmlMedia
/en/media-centre/media-release...Media Releases
/en/media-centre/assets.htmlAssets
/en/media-centre/media-rules-d...Rules for Media
https://www.elections.ca/External Subdomain elections.ca
A-TITLE Opens in the same tab
https://www.elections.ca/home....External Subdomain Go to Elections Canada
A-TITLE Go to Elections Canada
/en/resource-centre/elections-...Subdomain Anchor Official election results for the 2025 provincial general election are now available
https://vreg.registertovoteon....External Subdomain Get started
A-TITLE Get started
https://voterinformationservic...External Subdomain search by electoral district
https://finances.elections.on....External Subdomain Access Now
A-TITLE Access Now
/en/contact-us.htmlContact Us
https://www.facebook.com/Elect...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/elec...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Instagram
https://twitter.com/ElectionsONNew window External IMG-ALT Twitter
https://ca.linkedin.com/compan...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT LinkedIn
https://www.youtube.com/user/E...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT YouTube
https://my.elections.on.ca/en/...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Elections Ontario app
/en/voting-in-ontario/accessib...Accessibility
/en/terms-of-use.htmlTerms of Use
/en/sitemap.htmlSite Map
/en/privacy-statement.htmlPrivacy Statement

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.elections.on.ca/en.html"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.53 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (33 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
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expiresFri, 09 May 2025 08:20:20 GMT
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x-vhostngw-publish
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content-length7305
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 881 referring domains.
This page has 5,270 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 353 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-Agent: *
Disallow: 
Disallow: /en/voting-in-ontario/frequently-asked-questions/poll-officials.html
Disallow: /fr/voting-in-ontario/frequently-asked-questions/poll-officials.html
Sitemap: https://www.elections.on.ca/sitemap.xml

# Google supports the non-RFC 'Noindex:' directive.
# Google ignores global directives, so list any explicit exclusions 
# again under the Googlebot section.
#
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: 
Disallow: /en/voting-in-ontario/frequently-asked-questions/poll-officials.html
Disallow: /fr/voting-in-ontario/frequently-asked-questions/poll-officials.html
Sitemap: https://www.elections.on.ca/sitemap.xml

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