Medicare.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
90% 
Page quality
70% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
87% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.33 s
File size
92.50 kB
Words
367
Media files
7
Number of links
32 internal / 15 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Welcome to Medicare | Medicare
The title contains the word Welcome to! More content should be covered in the title.
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
The official U.S. government website for Medicare, a health insurance program for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (876 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.medicare.gov/
There is a valid canonical link 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)
The specified alternate links have no errors.
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
descriptionThe official U.S. government website for Medicare, a health insurance program for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities.
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MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
facebook-domain-verification6zxqugdpztg4yhttuszvkhpsffgzxg
langen
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:descriptionThe official U.S. government website for Medicare, a health insurance program for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities.
twitter:site@MedicareGov
twitter:titleWelcome to Medicare
twitter:urlhttps://www.medicare.gov/
twitter:imagehttps://www.medicare.gov/themes/custom/medicare_evo/dist/images/medicare-logo-675x675.png
twitter:image:altMedicare.gov logo
twitter:image:height675
twitter:image:width675
og:site_nameMedicare
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://www.medicare.gov/
og:titleWelcome to Medicare
og:descriptionThe official U.S. government website for Medicare, a health insurance program for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities.
og:imagehttps://www.medicare.gov/themes/custom/medicare_evo/dist/images/medicare-logo-1200x630.png
og:image:typeimage/jpeg
og:image:width1200
og:image:height630
og:image:altMedicare.gov logo
og:localeen_US
og:locale:alternatees_US
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 367 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
24.8% 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.
The average number of words per sentence of 15.6 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
At least one 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 7 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
2 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
..._evo/dist/images/medicare-logo-green.svgMedicare.gov
...rePortraits-3 (1).png.webp?itok=wp6YNSugNo alt attribute provided
...nitiative Picture.jpg.webp?itok=9m3pom_HNo alt attribute provided
...lic/Go digital 24.jpg.webp?itok=laveYPc0group of 4 seniors smiling looking at PC and tablet
...leveland-emailguy.png.webp?itok=b-Rgz01tBearded man using tablet
...leveland-emailguy.png.webp?itok=b-Rgz01tBearded man using tablet
Video URLWidthHeight
...s?autoplay=0&start=0&rel=0&enablejsapi=1854480

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to Medicare
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
The H1 heading is too short (19 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to Medicare
H2 Log in or create an account
H2 Find health & drug plans
H2 Find care providers
H2 Talk to someone
H2 It’s Open Enrollment - now to December 7
H2 $2,000 cap on out-of-pocket costs for drugs covered by your Medicare plan
H2 Don’t wait for important Medicare information
H2 Recent court decisions about nondiscrimination
H2 Get important news & updates
H2 Site Menu
H2 Take Action
H2 CMS & HHS Websites
H2 Helpful Links
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 15 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.medicare.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
/about-us/prescription-drug-lawSubdomain Learn how the prescription drug law impacts Medicare
/plan-compare/?Subdomain Anchor Find Plans
/basics/get-started-with-medicareGet Started with Medicare Get Started
/account/loginSubdomain Log in/Create Account
/plan-compare/?Subdomain Anchor Find Plans Now
/care-compare/Subdomain Find Providers Near Me
/talk-to-someoneGet Help
/plan-compare/?Subdomain Anchor Text duplicate Find Plans
/drug-coverage-part-d/costs-fo...Learn About the Cap
/go-digitalGo Digital
/about-us/accessibility-nondis...Subdomain Anchor Learn More
/privacy-policydata privacy policy
/health-drug-plansHealth & drug plans
https://www.medicare.gov/basicsMedicare basics
/providers-servicesProviders & services
https://www.medicare.gov/coverageWhat Medicare covers
/drug-coverage-part-dDrug coverage (Part D)
A-TITLE Drug coverage (Part D)
https://www.medicare.gov/sitemapSite map
A-TITLE Site map
/plan-compare/Subdomain Find health & drug plans
A-TITLE Find health & drug plans
/care-compare/Find care providers
A-TITLE Find care providers
/medical-equipment-suppliers/Find medical equipment & suppliers
A-TITLE Find medical equipment & suppliers
/medigap-supplemental-insuranc...Find a Medicare Supplement Insurance (Medigap) policy
A-TITLE Find a Medicare Supplement Insurance (Medigap) policy
/publicationsFind publications
A-TITLE Find publications
/about-us/other-languagesGet Medicare information in other languages
A-TITLE Get information in other languages
/talk-to-someoneTalk to someone
A-TITLE Talk to someone
https://public.govdelivery.com...External Subdomain Manage your email preferences
https://www.healthcare.gov/External Subdomain HealthCare.gov
A-TITLE HealthCare.gov
https://www.insurekidsnow.gov/External Subdomain InsureKidsNow.gov
A-TITLE InsureKidsNow.gov
https://medicaid.gov/External Medicaid.gov
A-TITLE Medicaid.gov
https://www.cms.gov/External Subdomain CMS.gov
A-TITLE CMS.gov
https://www.hhs.gov/External Subdomain HHS.gov
A-TITLE HHS.gov
https://www.usa.gov/External Subdomain USA.gov
A-TITLE USA.gov
https://www.cms.gov/about-cms/...External Subdomain FOIA
A-TITLE Freedom of Information Act
https://www.cms.gov/about-cms/...External Subdomain No Fear Act
A-TITLE No Fear Act
https://oig.hhs.gov/External Subdomain Inspector General
A-TITLE Inspector General
https://www.medicare.gov/archiveSubdomain Archive
A-TITLE Archive
https://www.cms.gov/data-resea...External Subdomain Downloadable databases
A-TITLE Downloadable databases
https://www.facebook.com/medicareNew window External Subdomain Find Medicare.gov on facebook (link opens in a new tab)
https://www.twitter.com/Medica...New window External Subdomain Follow Medicare.gov on X (link opens in a new tab)
https://www.youtube.com/user/C...New window External Subdomain Find Medicare.gov on YouTube (link opens in a new tab)
https://www.medicare.gov/about-usAbout Medicare
/about-us/accessibility-nondis...Nondiscrimination / Accessibility
/privacy-policyPrivacy Policy
https://www.cms.gov/about-cms/...External Subdomain Linking Policy
/about-us/using-this-siteUsing this site
/about-us/plain-writingPlain Writing

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.medicare.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 is excellent with 0.33 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (93 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
set-cookie108 Characters
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000 ; includeSubDomains ; preload
varyAccept-Encoding
x-age3674
x-cache-hits706
x-ah-environmentprod
x-request-idv-36da0eb0-8aaa-11ef-b4bc-c783106fa4d0
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
etag"1728964914"
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
content-languageen
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content-encodinggzip
dateTue, 22 Oct 2024 17:49:16 GMT
content-length28698
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 41,881 referring domains.
This page has 6,526,425 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 21,768 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /node/
Disallow: /es/node/
Disallow: /app-static-content/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /medicare-search/
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /user/logout/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/node/
Disallow: /index.php/es/node/
Disallow: /index.php/app-static-content/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/medicare-search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password/
Disallow: /index.php/user/register/
Disallow: /index.php/user/login/
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout/

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www.medicare.gov
Welcome to Medicare | Medicare
The official U.S. government website for Medicare, a health insurance program for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Medicare93%Check
Medicare information67%Check
Medicare Supplement65%Check
Welcome62%Check
gov59%Check
Get Medicare information58%Check
Site56%Check
health50%Check
website50%Check
Government Website48%Check
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