medicare.gov | Website SEO Review

Response time

0.59 s

File size

86.40 kB

Words

338

Media files

7

Number of links

27 internal / 16 external

Meta specifications 90% achieved

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 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)

Meta Description

Crawlability

(Critically important)

There are no problems in accessing the website.

Search Engine Crawlers

Canonical URL

(Important)

https://www.medicare.gov/

There is a valid canonical link specified.

Canonical Tag

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

Declaring language in HTML

Alternate/Hreflang Links

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The specified alternate links have no errors.

Hreflang

Other meta tags

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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.

There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.

Meta Tags

Domain

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The domain is no subdomain.

The domain length is good.

The domain does not contain non-latin characters.

Domain for SEO

Page URL

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No parameters were found in the URL.

No session ID was found in the URL.

The URL does not have too many subdirectories.

SEO-friendly URLs

Charset encoding

(Somewhat important)

The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.

Character Encoding

Doctype

(Nice to have)

The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.

The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.

HTML Doctype

Favicon

(Nice to have)

The favicon is linked correctly.

Favicon

Meta tags

Name	Value
description	The official U.S. government website for Medicare, a health insurance program for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities.
google	jtnyspgTt8MtNgCLyPGvyHztLyv2dsxLRgBXSw5Jui8
Generator	Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimized	width
HandheldFriendly	true
viewport	width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
facebook-domain-verification	6zxqugdpztg4yhttuszvkhpsffgzxg
lang	en
twitter:card	summary
twitter:description	The 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:title	Welcome to Medicare
twitter:url	https://www.medicare.gov/
twitter:image	https://www.medicare.gov/themes/custom/medicare_evo/dist/images/medicare-logo-675x675.png
twitter:image:alt	Medicare.gov logo
twitter:image:height	675
twitter:image:width	675
og:site_name	Medicare
og:type	website
og:url	https://www.medicare.gov/
og:title	Welcome to Medicare
og:description	The official U.S. government website for Medicare, a health insurance program for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities.
og:image	https://www.medicare.gov/themes/custom/medicare_evo/dist/images/medicare-logo-1200x630.png
og:image:type	image/jpeg
og:image:width	1200
og:image:height	630
og:image:alt	Medicare.gov logo
og:locale	en_US
og:locale:alternate	es_US
charset	utf-8

Page quality 71% achieved

Content

(Critically important)

There are only 338 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.

24.6% of the text are stop words.

The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.

4 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 15.67 words is good.

Content is King

Frames

(Critically important)

This page does not use a frameset.

Frames and framesets

Mobile optimization

(Somewhat important)

A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.

At least one Apple touch icon is specified.

Mobile Optimization

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.

Strong and Bold Tags

Image SEO

(Somewhat important)

2 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.

Image SEO

There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.

Social Sharing

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.

HTTPS

Media list

URL	Alt attribute	Title
..._evo/dist/images/medicare-logo-green.svg	Medicare.gov
...e_318/public/hero.png.webp?itok=wXWs_yBq	No alt attribute provided
...public/Initiative.jpg.webp?itok=5qGVXCph	No alt attribute provided
...nitiative-closeup.jpg.webp?itok=2T_jt2md	closeup of Caucasian woman's hands adding pills to pillbox
...ublic/Initiative1.jpg.webp?itok=62163hrM	group therapy discussion
...leveland-emailguy.png.webp?itok=b-Rgz01t	Bearded man using tablet
...leveland-emailguy.png.webp?itok=b-Rgz01t	Bearded man using tablet

Page structure 70% achieved

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.

H1-H6 headings

Headings

(Important)

The heading structure is perfect.

H1-H6 headings

Heading structure

Heading level	Content
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	Get free personalized health insurance counseling
H2	Get help with prescription drug costs
H2	Looking for information about mental health?
H2	Get important news & updates
H2	Site Menu
H2	Take Action
H2	CMS & HHS Websites
H2	Helpful Links

Link structure 96% achieved

Internal links

(Important)

Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.

The number of internal links is ok.

Every linktext is unique.

None of the anchor texts is too long.

Internal Linking

External links

(Nice to have)

There are 16 external links on this page.

External Links

Found links on this page

Link	Attributes	Anchor text
https://www.medicare.gov/	Anchor	Skip to main content
/about-us/prescription-drug-law	Subdomain	Learn how the prescription drug law impacts Medicare
/basics/get-started-with-medicare		Get Started with Medicare Get Started
/account/login	Subdomain	Log in/Create Account
/plan-compare/?	Subdomain Anchor	Find Plans Now
/care-compare/	Subdomain	Find Providers Near Me
/talk-to-someone		Get Help
https://www.shiphelp.org/	External Subdomain	Find Your Local SHIP
/basics/costs/help/drug-costs		Learn About Extra Help
/coverage/mental-health-substa...		Discover Services & Resources
/privacy-policy		data privacy policy
/what-medicare-covers		What Medicare covers A-TITLE What Medicare covers
/drug-coverage-part-d		Drug coverage (Part D) A-TITLE Drug coverage (Part D)
/claims-appeals		Claims & appeals A-TITLE Claims & appeals
/manage-your-health		Manage your health A-TITLE Manage your health
https://www.medicare.gov/sitemap		Site 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
/publications		Find publications A-TITLE Find publications
/talk-to-someone		Talk 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/archive	Subdomain	Archive A-TITLE Archive
https://www.cms.gov/data-resea...	External Subdomain	Downloadable databases A-TITLE Downloadable databases
https://www.facebook.com/medicare	New 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-us		About Medicare
/about-us/accessibility-nondis...		Nondiscrimination / Accessibility
/privacy-policy		Privacy Policy
https://www.cms.gov/about-cms/...	External Subdomain	Linking Policy
/about-us/using-this-site		Using this site
/about-us/plain-writing		Plain Writing

Server configuration 90% achieved

HTTP redirects

(Critically important)

This page redirects to "https://www.medicare.gov/"

WWW Redirect

HTTP header

(Important)

No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.

This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.

HTTP headers

Performance

(Somewhat important)

The page response time of 0.59 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 (86 kB).

Page Speed

HTTP Response Header

Name	Value
content-type	text/html; charset=UTF-8
set-cookie	108 Characters
x-drupal-dynamic-cache	MISS
x-frame-options	SAMEORIGIN
strict-transport-security	max-age=31536000 ; includeSubDomains ; preload
vary	Accept-Encoding
x-age	1189
x-cache-hits	1415
x-ah-environment	prod
x-request-id	v-2c6f4cda-3364-11ef-b5e7-c3c2d02af7e3
x-generator	Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
etag	"1719369080"
expires	Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
x-content-type-options	nosniff
content-language	en
x-akamai-transformed	9l 88272 0 pmb=mTOE,1
content-encoding	gzip
date	Wed, 26 Jun 2024 03:30:59 GMT
content-length	27480
statuscode	200
http_version	HTTP/2

External factors 100% achieved

Blacklists

(Nice to have)

This website is not classified "for adult only".

Blacklist

Backlinks

(Critically important)

This page is referenced by wikipedia.

This website has excellent links from other websites.

This page has backlinks from 42,620 referring domains.

This page has 6,655,634 backlinks.

This page has backlinks from 21,786 different ip addresses.

Backlinks

Facebook popularity

(Somewhat important)

The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

You can find more links using Wikipedia search

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.

Keyword	Result	Recheck
Medicare	89%	Check
Welcome	62%	Check
Medicare Supplement	61%	Check
Medicare covers	61%	Check
gov	59%	Check
Site	56%	Check
health	54%	Check
Health Insurance	54%	Check
website	50%	Check
Government Website	48%	Check
Mental Health	48%	Check
Health Drug	48%	Check
people	46%	Check
Insurance Program	45%	Check
Insurance Plans	44%	Check
Find	43%	Check
Get	43%	Check
drug	43%	Check
Help	43%	Check
Get Help	43%	Check
Prescription Drug	42%	Check
Get Free	42%	Check
Find providers	42%	Check
drug costs	42%	Check
Log	40%	Check

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Task list of SEO Improvements 5 Tasks

Meta specifications 90% achieved

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Page quality 71% achieved

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Media list

Page structure 70% achieved

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Heading structure

Link structure 96% achieved

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Found links on this page

Server configuration 90% achieved

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HTTP Response Header

External factors 100% achieved

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