Freight.dot.gov - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
72% 
Page quality
36% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
23% 
External factors
60% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.88 s
File size
5.70 kB
Words
192
Media files
3
Number of links
7 internal / 26 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
U.S. Department of Transportation / Freight Transportation
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (523 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
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

NameValue
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 192 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
22.4% 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 23 words is good.
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.
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)
1 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
https://freight.dot.gov/images/us_dot.gifU.S. Department of Transportation
/images/freight_transportation.gifFreight Transportation
https://freight.dot.gov/images/spacer.gifNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Freight Transportation at the U.S. Department of Transportation
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Freight Transportation at the U.S. Department of Transportation
H2 Freight Resources
H2 USDOT Freight Web Sites
There are too few (7) 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 too many external links (26) on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.transportation.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT U.S. Department of Transportation
https://freight.dot.gov/IMG-ALT Freight Transportation
https://freight.dot.gov/No Text
https://www.transportation.gov/External Subdomain DOT Home
A-TITLE Department of Transportation Home Page
https://www.transportation.gov/External Subdomain DOT Agencies
https://www.transportation.gov...External Subdomain Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21)
/freight_nfac.cfmNational Freight Advisory Committee
/publicmeeting/Public Meetings
/doc/performancemeasurehandout...National Freight Policy Implementation - Exploring the Options for Freight Performance Measures Discussion Guide
/freight_bookshelf.cfmFreight Transportation Bookshelf
https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freig...External Subdomain Current News Compiled by the FHWA Freight Office
https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freig...External Subdomain National Freight Statistics and Maps
https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freig...External Subdomain Freight Information by State
https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freig...External Subdomain Freight Performance Measures
https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freig...External Subdomain Freight Analysis Framework
https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freig...External Subdomain National Freight Data Sources
https://freight.dot.gov/fmip/Freight Model Improvement Program (FMIP)
https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freig...External Subdomain Phone Numbers for Freight Information and Services at DOT
https://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/p...External Subdomain Bureau of Transportation Statistics
https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/External Subdomain Freight Management and Operations at the Federal Highway Administration
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/plann...External Subdomain Freight Planning at the Federal Highway Administration
https://www.fra.dot.gov/External Subdomain Federal Railroad Administration
https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/hazmatExternal Subdomain The Transportation of Hazardous Materials
https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/pipe...External Subdomain Pipeline Safety
https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/External Subdomain Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
https://www.marad.dot.gov/External Subdomain Maritime Administration
https://www.seaway.dot.gov/External Subdomain Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
https://www.stb.dot.gov/stb/in...External Subdomain Surface Transportation Board
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/exit....External Subdomain Microsoft Word Viewer
https://www.transportation.gov/External Subdomain Text duplicate DOT Home
https://www.transportation.gov...External Subdomain Web Policies & Notices
https://www.transportation.gov...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://www.transportation.gov...External Subdomain Privacy Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://freight.dot.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.88 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 (6 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate
content-typetext/html;charset=UTF-8
server
set-cookie97 Characters
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
x-powered-byASP.NET
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
dateThu, 22 Aug 2024 10:44:39 GMT
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 16 referring domains.
This page only has 19 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 14 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

# /robots.txt file for https://www.freight.dot.gov
# comments? mail [email protected], [email protected]

# rules for all robots
User-agent: *

# 1 second crawl delay (note - ignored by googlebot)
Crawl-delay: 1

# files/directories excluded from crawl
Disallow:

# exception files from excluded list above
# Allow:

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Freight80%Check
Freight Transportation75%Check
Transportation64%Check
Department63%Check
National Freight58%Check
Freight Management58%Check
Freight Information58%Check
Freight Performance58%Check
DOT52%Check
Freight Performance Measures50%Check

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