Fire.irs.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
62% 
Page quality
41% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
32% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.63 s
File size
6.60 kB
Words
231
Media files
1
Number of links
6 internal / 3 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
IRS FIRE Home
The page title is too short. (146 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the 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
Server location: United States of America
The language is not specified in the HTML markup.
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 XHTML 1.0 Transitional 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

No meta tags were found.

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 231 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
The average number of words per sentence of 9.42 words is low.
36.8% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
3 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 viewpoint tag is provided.
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page does not require any JavaScript files.
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)
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
https://fire.irs.gov/images/irslogo.gifInternal Revenue Service United States Department of the TreasuryInternal Revenue Service United States Department of the Treasury

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
FILING INFORMATION RETURNS ELECTRONICALLY
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 FILING INFORMATION RETURNS ELECTRONICALLY
H2 FIRE Production System
H2 User Options
H2 Contact Technical Services Operation (TSO)
H2 Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. EST
H2 866-455-7438 Toll-free
H2 304-263-8700 International
H2 304-579-4827 Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD)
H2 IMPORTANT, NEW REQUIREMENT! PLEASE READ!
H2 THIS U.S. GOVERNMENT SYSTEM IS FOR AUTHORIZED USE ONLY!
There are too few (6) internal links on this page.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 3 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://fire.irs.gov/Anchor Skip to Main Content
http://fire.irs.gov/Subdomain IMG-ALT Internal Revenue Service United States Department of the Treasury
https://fire.irs.gov/Logon.aspxLog On
/Register2.aspxCreate New Account
/LearnTheBasics.aspxLearn The Basics
/ForgotPassword.aspxForgot Password
https://www.irs.gov/e-file-pro...External Subdomain FIRE
https://fire.test.irs.gov/External Subdomain fire.test.IRS.gov
http://www.irs.gov/uac/IRS-Pri...External Subdomain IRS Privacy Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://fire.irs.gov/"
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 0.63 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 4 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page does not require any JavaScript files.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (7 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
set-cookie74 Characters
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
dateSat, 18 May 2024 00:58:48 GMT
connectionclose
content-length6735
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

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 545 referring domains.
This page has 92,093 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 165 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 51 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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IRS FIRE Home

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
FIRE62%Check
IRS FIRE60%Check
IRS59%Check
IR Application52%Check
information50%Check
FILING50%Check
RETURNS50%Check
ELECTRONICALLY50%Check
gov50%Check
System43%Check
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