Health.maryland.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
98% 
Page quality
31% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
38% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.42 s
File size
106.80 kB
Words
220
Media files
9
Number of links
22 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Maryland Department of Health Home
The length of the page title is perfect. (340 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
An official website of the State of Maryland.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (269 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://health.maryland.gov/Pages/Home.aspx
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
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 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
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
descriptionAn official website of the State of Maryland.
robotnoarchive
keywordsGoldfish
google-site-verificationgNmJxoRoA2KoIJPAgQHkiyVcGTHQZ78wuFttitKGlF8
langen-us
og:url/Pages/default.aspx
og:typewebsite
og:image/_layouts/15/MDH/img/logo.png
og:image:altAgency Logo
og:site_nameMaryland.gov Enterprise Agency Template
ExpiresEmpty
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 220 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
These Typos were found:
  • leutenant => lieutenant
The average number of words per sentence of 27 words is high.
29.5% 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 Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 17 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" 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)
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
/_layouts/15/MDH/img/favicon.ico?v=1&rev=43No alt attribute provided
/_layouts/15/images/spcommon.png?rev=43No alt attribute provided
/_layouts/15/MDH/img/logo.png?rev=43No alt attribute provided
...outs/15/images/searchresultui.png?rev=43Search
/_layouts/15/MDH/img/logo.pngGo To Home Page
/PublishingImages/home-bg.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/Image/mdhHomeTab2.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/PublishingImages/govLtGov.pngMaryland Governor and Leutenant Governor
/_layouts/15/MDH/img/changingMD-400x400.pngCustomer Service Promise

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Maryland Department of Health Maryland Department Of Health
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Maryland Department of Health Maryland Department Of Health
H1 Information
H2 ​COVID-19 Information​​
H2 Customer Service Promise
H2 Need to talk?
H2 Human Trafficking GET HELP
H3 Find Recent COVID-19 Information
H3 COVID-19 Data
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 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Pages/Home.aspxAnchor Skip to Content
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...New window External Subdomain Accessibility Information
https://health.maryland.gov/IMG-ALT Go To Home Page
A-TITLE Maryland Department of Health
https://health.maryland.gov/Maryland Department of Health
https://health.maryland.gov/Maryland Department Of Health
https://www.facebook.com/MDHea...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/MDHealthDeptNew window External No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/mdhe...New window External Subdomain No Text
http://www.youtube.com/@MDHeal...New window External Subdomain No Text
/Pages/Home.aspxText duplicate Maryland Department Of Health
/Pages/Home.aspxHomeCurrently selected
/Pages/programs.aspxNew window Programs
/Pages/boards.ASPXNew window Boards
/newsroomPress Releases
/Pages/facilities.ASPXNew window Facilities
/Pages/departments.ASPXNew window Health Departments
/Pages/contactus.aspxNew window Contact Us
https://health.maryland.gov/COVIDSubdomain COVID-19 Updates
/newsroom/Pages/default.aspxSubdomain MDH News and Updates
https://health.maryland.gov/COVIDRea​​d More​ >​
/covid/Pages/Maryland-COVID-19...View More >​
http://governor.maryland.gov/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Maryland Governor and Leutenant Governor
https://www.doit.state.md.us/s...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Customer Service Promise
https://www.doit.state.md.us/s...New window External Subdomain Take Our Survey
/bha/Pages/988md.aspxNew window Subdomain Learn more
https://goccp.maryland.gov/vic...New window External Subdomain More Information on human trafficking in Maryland
http://www.maryland.gov/New window External Subdomain Maryland.gov
/pages/contactus.aspxNew window Text duplicate Contact Us
/pages/privacy.aspxNew window Privacy & Security
/pages/access.aspxNew window Accessibility
/pages/terms.aspxNew window Terms of Use
/pages/about.aspxNew window About MDH

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://health.maryland.gov/Pages/Home.aspx"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.42 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.
This page loads 8 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 17 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (107 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate, max-age=0
x-via-nscopi1.0
transfer-encodingchunked
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
expiresThu, 26 Sep 2024 13:26:38 GMT
last-modifiedFri, 11 Oct 2024 13:26:38 GMT
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
x-sharepointhealthscore0
x-aspnet-version4.0.30319
sprequestguidf5de58a1-b8ab-5022-088c-3582d822530c
request-idf5de58a1-b8ab-5022-088c-3582d822530c
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
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sprequestduration117
spiislatency0
set-cookie111 Characters
x-powered-byASP.NET
microsoftsharepointteamservices16.0.0.10412
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-ms-invokeapp1; RequireReadOnly
dateFri, 11 Oct 2024 13:26:37 GMT
ntcoent-length107641
strict-transport-securitymax-age=157680000; preload
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 175 referring domains.
This page has 364 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 152 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow:/_vti_bin/
Disallow:/_layouts/
Disallow:/_catalogs/

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health.maryland.gov › Pages › Home.aspx
Maryland Department of Health Home
An official website of the State of Maryland.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Maryland83%Check
Maryland Department72%Check
Health69%Check
Department62%Check
Health and Safety62%Check
state46%Check
gov44%Check
COVID-1943%Check
Information43%Check
help43%Check
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