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Meta information
58% 
Page quality
64% 
Page structure
73% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.29 s
File size
74.90 kB
Words
366
Media files
6
Number of links
25 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Legislative News, Studies and Analysis | National Conference of State Legislatures
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 742 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The National Conference of State Legislatures, created by state legislators and legislative staff in 1975, serves America’s 50 states, commonwealths, territories and the District of Columbia. Every state legislator and staffer is a member of the organization and has complete access to the latest in bipartisan policy research, training resources and technical assistance tailored specifically to their needs.
The meta description is too long: 2460 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
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
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

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descriptionThe National Conference of State Legislatures, created by state legislators and legislative staff in 1975, serves America’s 50 states, commonwealths, territories and the District of Columbia. Every state legislator and staffer is a member of the organization and has complete access to the latest in bipartisan policy research, training resources and technical assistance tailored specifically to their needs.
keywordsState Policy Research,Legislative Analysis,State Policy Development,Evidence-Based Policymaking,Legislative Research Resources,Case Studies in Legislation,Nonpartisan Policy Analysis,State Legislatures Research,State Policy Recommendations,Legislative news,Legislative studies,Legislative analysis,legislative training, Resources and Tools for Legislators, Resources and Tools for Legislative Staff
robotsINDEX, FOLLOW
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen-us
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
There are only 366 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
31.1% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
9 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 25 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=1.0" is provided.
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)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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
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...o/v1718162223/website/NCSL-Building2.jpgcont.ImageTitle
...-2024-lisa-williams-building-balance.jpgcont.ImageTitle
...fault/skins/ncsl/img/logo-ncsl_white.svgNCSL Logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
What's New
The H1 heading is too short (10 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 What's New
H2 The Laboratories of Democracy
H3 Resources and Tools for Legislators and Staff
H3 Contact Us
H4 Artificial Intelligence 2024 Legislation
H4 Peril in the Pipes: Protecting the Public From Lead Exposure
H4 NCSL Turns 50
H4 Surviving Burnout: 5 Lessons for Women in the Workforce
H4 Iowa’s J.D. Scholten Pitching Bills and Strikes
H4 New Trends in Political Campaigning
H6 Denver
H6 Washington, D.C.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 6 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.ncsl.org/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.ncsl.org/Subdomain IMG-ALT National Conference of State Legislatures
A-TITLE National Conference of State Legislatures
https://www.ncsl.org/foundationSubdomain Foundation
/about-us/careersSubdomain Careers
/user-profile-redirect/user-re...Nofollow Subdomain Register
A-TITLE Register
/login?returnurl=/Nofollow Subdomain Login
https://www.ncsl.org/our-workSubdomain Resources
https://www.ncsl.org/newsSubdomain News
https://www.ncsl.org/eventsSubdomain Events
https://www.ncsl.org/about-usSubdomain About Us
/resources/details/legislative...Subdomain Legislative Staff Professional Development and Training Seminars
A-TITLE Legislative Staff Professional Development and Training Seminars
/resources/map-monday-when-its...Subdomain Map Monday: When It’s Too Darn Hot
A-TITLE Map Monday: When It’s Too Darn Hot
/scope-of-practice-policySubdomain Scope of Practice Policy
A-TITLE Scope of Practice Policy
/technology-and-communication/...Subdomain Artificial Intelligence 2024 Legislation
A-TITLE Artificial Intelligence 2024 Legislation
/environment-and-natural-resou...Subdomain Peril in the Pipes: Protecting the Public From Lead Exposure
A-TITLE Peril in the Pipes: Protecting the Public From Lead Exposure
https://ncsl-podcasts.simpleca...External Subdomain NCSL Turns 50
A-TITLE NCSL Turns 50
/state-legislatures-news/detai...Subdomain Surviving Burnout: 5 Lessons for Women in the Workforce
A-TITLE Surviving Burnout: 5 Lessons for Women in the Workforce
/state-legislatures-news/detai...Subdomain Iowa’s J.D. Scholten Pitching Bills and Strikes
A-TITLE Iowa’s J.D. Scholten Pitching Bills and Strikes
/state-legislatures-news/detai...Subdomain New Trends in Political Campaigning
A-TITLE New Trends in Political Campaigning
/about-state-legislatures/stat...Demographics
/about-state-legislatures/stat...Partisan Composition
/about-state-legislatures/2024...Legislative Session Calendar
https://www.facebook.com/NCSLorgNew window External Subdomain NCSL on Facebook
https://twitter.com/NCSLorgExternal NCSL on Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/user/N...External Subdomain NCSL on Youtube
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain NCSL on LinkedIn
https://www.instagram.com/ncsl...External Subdomain NCSL on Instagram
https://www.ncsl.org/terms-of-useNofollow Subdomain Terms of Use
/privacy-policyNofollow Subdomain Privacy Statement
https://www.ncsl.org/advertiseAdvertise With NCSL
https://www.ncsl.org/Anchor A-TITLE Return to Top of Page

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.ncsl.org/"
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 very slow (2.29 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (75 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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pragmano-cache
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content-encodinggzip
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varyAccept-Encoding
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge
set-cookie36 Characters
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x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
strict-transport-securitymax-age=315360000; includeSubDomains; preload
dateTue, 10 Sep 2024 13:18:07 GMT
content-length21884
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 40,508 referring domains.
This page has 2,476,050 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 23,800 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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Sitemap: https://www.ncsl.org/sitemap.aspx

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Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /App_GlobalResources/
Disallow: /bin/
Disallow: /Components/
Disallow: /contest/
Disallow: /controls/
Disallow: /HttpModules/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /statefed/
Disallow: /public/
Disallow: /Install/
Disallow: /Providers/
Disallow: /template/
Disallow: /ffis/

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The National Conference of State Legislatures, created by state legislators and legislative staff in 1975, serves America’s 50 states, commonwealths, territories and the District of Columbia. Every state legislator and staffer is a member of the organization and has complete access to the latest in bipartisan policy research, training resources and technical assistance tailored specifically to their needs.

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