Ops.fhwa.dot.gov - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
68% 
Page quality
63% 
Page structure
60% 
Link structure
58% 
Server
31% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.26 s
File size
17.40 kB
Words
435
Media files
12
Number of links
33 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
FHWA Operations
The page title is too short. (163 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
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
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en
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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype HTML 4.01 Transitional 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

NameValue
langen
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 435 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
26.2% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
6 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 19.71 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No viewpoint tag is provided.
No 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 9 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 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
/images/ops_images/dotfhwa2.gifDepartment of Transportation: Federal Highway Administration
/images/ops_images/fhwahome.gifFHWA Home
/images/ops_images/feedback.gifFeedback
/images/ops_images/ops-red-banner.gifOffice of Operations
/images/ops_images/header-5pics.jpgphotos of traffic merging onto congested highway, congestion in snowstorm, variable message sign, cargo, variable speed limit sign in a work zone, and a freeway at night
/images/ops_images/21century.gif21st century operations using 21st century technologies
/images/ops_images/ops-curve.gifNo alt attribute provided
/images/ops_images/readmore.gifread more what's new
https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/images/bil.jpgBipartisan Infrastructure Bill
https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/images/fastact.jpgNational Operations Center for Excellence (NOCoE)
/images/nocoelogo.gifNational Operations Center for Excellence (NOCoE)
/images/ops_images/fhwatag.gifFHWA

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Home Page
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (9 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Home Page
H1 Empty heading
H2 Current News
H2 What is FHWA Doing to Support 21st Century Operations Using 21st Century Technologies?
H2 Improving Transportation Operations and Reliability by Enhancing Agency Capabilities
Anchor text is an URL
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
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.
There are 7 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/Anchor Skip to Content
https://highways.dot.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT FHWA Home
A-TITLE Go to FHWA Home
/contactus.htmIMG-ALT Feedback
/index.aspIMG-ALT Office of Operations
/index.aspHome
A-TITLE OPS Home Link
/aboutus/aboutus.htmAbout Us
A-TITLE About Us Link
/program_areas/programareas.htmPrograms
A-TITLE Programs Link
/publications/publications.htmPublications
A-TITLE Publications Link
/resources/index.htmResources
A-TITLE Resources Link
/contactus.htmContact Us
A-TITLE Contact Us Link
/siteindex.htmA-Z Subject Index
/resources/news/news.aspCurrent News
/resources/news/news_detail.as...New NHI TSMO Web-Based Training - TSMO 101
/resources/news/news_detail.as...New NHI TSMO Web-Based Training - Understanding and Applying the CMM to Advance TSMO Programs
/resources/news/news_detail.as...New NHI TSMO Web-Based Training - TSMO Benefit-Cost Analysis
/resources/news/news_detail.as...Role of Operations in Complete Streets: Primer
/resources/news/news_detail.as...New Systems Engineering for ITS website
/resources/news/news_detail.as...2023 Urban Congestion Trends Report
/resources/news/news_detail.as...Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives Phase I and II Independent Evaluation: Crosscutting Report
/resources/news/news_detail.as...Traffic Signal Program Handbook
/resources/news/news_detail.as...Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives Phase II Evaluation: Mileage-Based User Fee Pilot by the Eastern Transportation Coalition
/resources/news/news_detail.as...Operations Performance Management Primer: From Performance Measures to Performance Management
/resources/news/news.aspIMG-ALT read more what's new
/aboutus/one_pagers/opstory.htmWhat is FHWA Doing to Support 21st Century Operations Using 21st Century Technologies?
/program_areas/reduce-non-cong...Reducing Non-Recurring Congestion
/program_areas/reduce-recur-co...Reducing Recurring Congestion
/program_areas/improving-ops.htmImproving Day-to-Day Operations
/program_areas/creating_founda...Creating a Foundation for 21st Century Operations
/program_areas/improving-freig...Improving Global Connectivity by Enhancing Freight Management and Operations
/program_areas/mobility_securi...Improving Mobility and Security through Better Emergency Management
/tsmoframeworktool/index.htmURL anchor text
https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/tsmoframeworktool/index.htm
/bipartisan-infrastructure-law...Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bipar...External Subdomain FHWA BIL site
/fastact/index.htmFixing America's Surface Transportation Act or "FAST Act"
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/fastact/External Subdomain FHWA site
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/exit....External Subdomain transportationops.org
A-TITLE Link to National Operations Center for Excellence Web Site
https://www.transportation.gov/External Subdomain US DOT Home
A-TITLE US DOT Home
https://highways.dot.gov/External Subdomain Text duplicate FHWA Home
A-TITLE FHWA Home
/index.aspOperations Home
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/priva...External Subdomain Privacy Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.26 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 (17 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate,private
content-typetext/html
server
set-cookie61 Characters
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
x-powered-byASP.NET
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
dateThu, 26 Dec 2024 17:54:19 GMT
content-length17868
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 7,704 referring domains.
This page has 281,920 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 3,656 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

# /robots.txt file for https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov
# comments? mail [email protected], [email protected]

# rules for all robots
User-agent: *

# 1 second crawl delay (note - ignored by googlebot)
Crawl-delay: 1

# files/directories excluded from crawl
Disallow: /freight/index.cfm/*

# exception files from excluded list above
# Allow:

Search preview

ops.fhwa.dot.gov
FHWA Operations

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
FHWA65%Check
FHWA Operations62%Check
Operations56%Check
Page50%Check
dot48%Check
Operations Center48%Check
21st Century Operations48%Check
operations programs47%Check
BIL42%Check
Century42%Check

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