Opensecrets.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
70% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
81% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.05 s
File size
184.00 kB
Words
857
Media files
4
Number of links
77 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
OpenSecrets
The page title is too short. (119 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
The page title is only one word.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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OpenSecrets is the nation's premier research and government transparency group tracking money in politics and its effect on elections and policy.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (896 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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https://www.opensecrets.org/
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
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There are no alternate links specified on this page.
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.
Domain
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The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
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.
Charset encoding
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
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The favicon is linked correctly.

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Page quality

Content
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Placeholders texts or images were found.
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This page contains 857 words. That's ok.
27.2% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
11 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
The average number of words per sentence of 16.5 words is good.
Frames
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This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
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A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 17 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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4 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
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There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
Additional markup
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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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Page structure

H1 heading
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The H1 heading is empty
Headings
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Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

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H2 $1 a year
H2 Billionaire Timothy Mellon has poured $165 million into 2024 elections
H2 Record-breaking federal lobbying tops $2.2 billion in first half of 2024
H2 Electric vehicle policy drives up federal lobbying spending in first half of 2024
H2 Read more original journalism from OpenSecrets News
H2 Newsletter: Count Cash & Make Change
H2 Learning Center
H2 We follow the money. You make it possible.
H2 Count Cash & Make Change
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
7 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 9 external links on this page.
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https://www.opensecrets.org/Anchor Skip to Navigation
https://www.opensecrets.org/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.opensecrets.org/Anchor Skip to Footer
https://action.opensecrets.org...External Subdomain Donate Now
https://www.opensecrets.org/Open Secrets following the money in politics
/action-centerAct Now
https://action.opensecrets.org...External Subdomain Donate
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/presidential-administrationsPresidential Administrations
/personal-financesPersonal Finances
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/elections-overviewElections Overview
/presidential-electionsPresidential Elections
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/federal-lobbyingLobbying Overview
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/research-toolsResearch Tools
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/news/2024/09/ev-electric-vehi...Subdomain Electric vehicle policy drives up federal lobbying spending in first half of 2024
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/news/reports/layers-of-lobbyingLayers of Lobbying
/news/reports/capitalizing-on-...How U.S. arm sales fuel the humanitarian crisis in Yemen
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/about/policyPrivacy Policy
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
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This page redirects to "https://www.opensecrets.org/"
HTTP header
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The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.05 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 (184 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

Blacklists
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This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 26,927 referring domains.
This page has 2,095,370 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 17,840 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
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The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

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