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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
97% 
Page quality
40% 
Page structure
91% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.07 s
File size
143.20 kB
Words
189
Media files
10
Number of links
42 internal / 18 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
National League of Cities - A Century of Strengthening Cities
The length of the page title is perfect. (541 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Join us in Washington, DC, for the Congressional City Conference, March 10-12, 2025, and position your city to advocate with the new Administration.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (921 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.nlc.org/
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 189 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
No paragraphs were detected.
10.6% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
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)
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)
10 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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

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...omepage-CitiesSpeak_Clarence-podcast.pngNo alt attribute provided
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The H1 heading is empty
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Empty heading
H2 Follow Us
H2 Explore Emerging Energy Resources
H2 FAQs: Meeting the ARPA SLFRF Reporting Deadline
H2 Accelerating America’s Housing Comeback with DC Mayor Muriel Bowser
H2 Women in Municipal Government (WIMG) Summer Conference: May 28-30, 2025, San Antonio, TX
H2 Building a Strong Economy Together: Conversations from Congressional City Conference
H2 Follow Us Duplicate text
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
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 18 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.nlc.org/Anchor Skip to Content
https://www.nlc.org/Subdomain No Text
https://www.nlc.org/about/Subdomain About
https://nlc100.org/External 100th Anniversary
https://www.nlc.org/membership/Subdomain Membership
https://risc.nlc.org/External Subdomain RISC
https://www.nlcmutual.com/New window External Subdomain Mutual Insurance
https://www.nlc.org/auth/login/Subdomain Login
/membership/join/Subdomain Join
https://www.nlc.org/advocacy/Subdomain Advocacy Center
/advocacy/federal-advocacy-com...Subdomain Federal Advocacy Committees
/news-insights/Subdomain News & Insights
https://www.nlc.org/citiesspeak/Subdomain CitiesSpeak Blog
/news-insights/citiesspeak-pod...Subdomain CitiesSpeak Podcast
/3-things-to-know-a-monthly-vi...Subdomain 3 Things to Know: A Monthly Video Series
/news-insights/newsletters/Subdomain Newsletters
https://www.nlc.org/press-room/Subdomain Press Room
/resources-training/Subdomain Resources & Training
/resources-training/resource-l...Subdomain Resource Library
/resources/type/case-study/Subdomain Case Studies
/resources-training/nlc-univer...Subdomain NLC University
https://nlc.connectedcommunity...External Subdomain Online Discussion Groups
/conferences-meetings/Subdomain Conferences & Meetings
https://ccc.nlc.org/External Subdomain Congressional City Conference
https://citysummit.nlc.org/External Subdomain City Summit
/conferences-meetings/summer-e...Subdomain Summer Gatherings
https://www.nlc.org/events/Subdomain Upcoming Events
/current-initiatives/Subdomain Initiatives
https://www.nlc.org/initiatives/Subdomain Available Opportunities
/initiatives/current/Current Initiatives
/initiatives/past/Past Initiatives
/about/programs/Subdomain NLC Programs
https://twitter.com/leagueofci...External No Text
https://www.facebook.com/Natio...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/leag...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/c/nati...External Subdomain No Text
/resources-training/resource-l...Subdomain No Text
/resource/emerging-energy-reso...Subdomain Read the Five-Part Fact Sheet Series for City Leaders
/article/2025/04/08/faqs-meeti...Subdomain Read the CitiesSpeak Article
/resource/citiesspeak-podcast-...Subdomain Listen to the Latest CitiesSpeak Podcast
/events/women-in-municipal-gov...Subdomain Learn More and Register
/resource/building-a-strong-ec...Subdomain Panel Recordings Available Exclusively for Members
https://www.nlc.org/Subdomain No Text
https://www.nlc.org/auth/login/Subdomain Text duplicate Login
/membership/join/Subdomain Join NLC
https://www.nlc.org/contact-nlc/Subdomain Contact NLC
/about/jobs-at-nlc/Subdomain Jobs at NLC
/news-insights/newsletters/Subdomain Text duplicate Newsletters
http://jobsonline.nlc.org/External Subdomain Career Center
https://www.nlc.org/press-room/Subdomain Text duplicate Press Room
/about/partnerships/Subdomain Partnerships
/about/programs/Text duplicate NLC Programs
https://www.nlcmutual.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Mutual Insurance
https://twitter.com/leagueofci...External No Text
https://www.facebook.com/Natio...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/leag...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/c/nati...External Subdomain No Text
/about/privacy/Subdomain Privacy Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.nlc.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
A Content Delivery Network like Google Hosted Libraries can save bandwidth for the JQuery files.
The page response time is excellent with 0.07 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (143 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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cache-controlpublic, max-age=604800
content-encodinggzip
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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 759 referring domains.
This page has 2,737 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 597 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: https://www.nlc.org/sitemap.xml

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National League of Cities - A Century of Strengthening Cities
Join us in Washington, DC, for the Congressional City Conference, March 10-12, 2025, and position your city to advocate with the new Administration.

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City Conference54%Check
Congressional City Conference53%Check
City50%Check
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NLC48%Check
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