Https.cio.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
97% 
Page quality
89% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
88% 
Server
93% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.53 s
File size
18.50 kB
Words
1654
Media files
3
Number of links
42 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The HTTPS-Only Standard - The HTTPS-Only Standard
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (502 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
Resources, best practices, and case studies for deploying HTTPS in the federal government.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (571 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://https.cio.gov/
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)
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, initial-scale=1
descriptionResources, best practices, and case studies for deploying HTTPS in the federal government.
langen-us
og:titleThe HTTPS-Only Standard - The HTTPS-Only Standard
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 1654 words. That's ok.
36.2% 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.
33 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.
The average number of words per sentence of 20.11 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)
Some tags are too long. With 81 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"“a policy to require secure connections across federal websites and web services”"
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
...vendor/uswds/img/favicons/favicon-57.pngU.S. flag
/assets/vendor/uswds/img/close.svgclose
/assets/vendor/uswds/img/close.svgclose

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The HTTPS-Only Standard
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 The HTTPS-Only Standard
H2 Goal
H2 Background
H2 What HTTPS Does
H2 What HTTPS Doesn’t Do
H2 Challenges and Considerations
H2 Cost Effective Implementation
H2 Guidelines
H2 Footnotes
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 10 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://https.cio.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://https.cio.gov/The HTTPS-Only Standard
A-TITLE The HTTPS-Only Standard
https://https.cio.gov/Home
https://https.cio.gov/everything/Why Everything?
https://https.cio.gov/guide/Compliance Guide
https://https.cio.gov/faq/Introduction to HTTPS
/certificates/Certificates
https://https.cio.gov/hsts/HTTP Strict Transport Security
https://https.cio.gov/apis/Migrating APIs
https://https.cio.gov/sni/Server Name Indication
/technical-guidelines/Technical Guidelines
/mixed-content/Mixed Content
https://https.cio.gov/resources/Resources
https://https.cio.gov/Text duplicate Home
https://https.cio.gov/everything/Text duplicate Why Everything?
https://https.cio.gov/guide/Text duplicate Compliance Guide
https://https.cio.gov/faq/Text duplicate Introduction to HTTPS
/certificates/Text duplicate Certificates
https://https.cio.gov/hsts/Text duplicate HTTP Strict Transport Security
https://https.cio.gov/apis/Text duplicate Migrating APIs
https://https.cio.gov/sni/Text duplicate Server Name Indication
/technical-guidelines/Text duplicate Technical Guidelines
/mixed-content/Text duplicate Mixed Content
https://https.cio.gov/resources/Text duplicate Resources
https://github.com/GSA/https/e...New window External Edit this page
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sit...External Subdomain M-15-13
https://https.cio.gov/Anchor [1]
https://https.cio.gov/faq/Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sit...External Subdomain M-05-04
A-TITLE Policies for Federal Agency Public Websites
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sit...External Subdomain M-08-23
A-TITLE Securing the Federal Government’s Domain Name System Infrastructure.
https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/do...External Subdomain standards
https://www.iab.org/2014/11/14...External Subdomain bodies
https://https.cio.gov/Anchor [2]
https://istlsfastyet.com/External latency
https://https.cio.gov/sni/Text duplicate Server Name Indication
/mixed-content/Text duplicate Mixed Content
https://https.cio.gov/apis/more gradual and hands-on migration strategy
/technical-guidelines/forward secrecy
https://https.cio.gov/Subdomain https.cio.gov
https://https.cio.gov/resources/public resources
https://https.cio.gov/hsts/Strict Transport Security
https://hstspreload.org/External “preload list”
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sit...External Subdomain “Securing the Federal Government’s Domain Name System Infrastructure”
https://https.cio.gov/Subdomain Text duplicate https.cio.gov
https://https.cio.gov/guide/all Federal agency domains or subdomains
https://https.cio.gov/Anchor [3]
https://https.cio.gov/Anchor [4]
https://pulse.cio.gov/External Subdomain pulse.cio.gov
https://https.cio.gov/Anchor ⬑ 1.
https://https.cio.gov/Anchor ⬑ 2.
https://https.cio.gov/Anchor ⬑ 3.
https://https.cio.gov/Anchor ⬑ 4.

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://https.cio.gov/"
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 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 (19 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-length6721
dateSun, 03 Nov 2024 16:17:39 GMT
accept-rangesbytes
access-control-allow-methodsGET, HEAD
cache-controlmax-age=60
content-encodinggzip
last-modifiedWed, 05 May 2021 14:16:59 GMT
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; preload
x-amz-server-side-encryptionAES256
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-robots-tagall
x-serverCloud.gov Pages
x-vcap-request-id54dc65c0-8fcd-401e-6064-5ba1fcf6e6d1
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
etag"3418d20de70388423b284375e98aed33"
varyAccept-Encoding
x-cacheMiss from cloudfront
via1.1 2146d75cb402f16f98928cb19acf5ff6.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-popFRA56-P8
x-amz-cf-idp_Kk_DZaXJqnJ-0xwLjvSo6qPAYycb5ZdAIaPyqMTNBxNFTWpnz4xg==
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 832 referring domains.
This page has 3,450 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 706 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
HTTPS94%Check
deploy HTTPS71%Check
HTTP connections68%Check
HTTPS connections68%Check
unencrypted HTTP66%Check
HTTPS-Only62%Check
Standard62%Check
HTTPS-Only Standard62%Check
HTTP Strict Transport Security54%Check
Privacy and Security53%Check
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