Ottawa.ca - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
66% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
52% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
56% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.80 s
File size
89.80 kB
Words
450
Media files
3
Number of links
41 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
City of Ottawa
The page title is too short. (129 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)
https://ottawa.ca/en
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
(Somewhat important)
The specified alternate links have no errors.
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)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
dcterms.titleottawa.ca
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 450 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
22.7% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 12.2 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 12 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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 9 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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
/themes/custom/ottca_theme/logo.svgHome
...eb banner_0.jpg?h=0f671edb&itok=ROyokqOVImage de l'hôtel de ville d'Ottawa en arrière-plan avec quatre cercles au premier plan représentant un autobus d'OC Transpo, des bacs de recyclage sur un trottoir, des tours d'habitation et une rue du marché By.
...2/fire-on_2.png?h=46bfd753&itok=aZcngHaFOpen air fires permitted

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
ottawa.ca
The H1 heading is too short (9 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 33 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 ottawa.ca
H2 Parking, roads, and travel
H2 Recreation and parks
H2 Jobs with the City
H2 Garbage and recycling
H2 Planning, development and construction
H2 City Hall
H2 3-1-1
H2 Living in Ottawa
H2 Family and social services
H2 Health and public safety
H2 Business
H2 Arts, heritage and events
H2 What's new
H2 Newsroom
H2 ANCHOR for mental health and substance use supports in Centretown
H2 Citywide Sports has men and women’s hockey leagues this season
H2 One day partial O-Train Line 1 closure August 25 to accommodate Stage 2 construction
H2 Get ready to register for fall recreation and culture programs
H2 Have your say on Draft Budget 2025
H2 Everything you need to know about #OttCity’s on-street parking rate changes
H2 New QR code scam on parking machines
H2 City Hall Duplicate text
H2 Mayor's corner
H2 Mayor and City Councillors
H2 Committees and Boards
H2 Agendas, minutes and videos
H3 August 27, 2024
H5 Contact us
H5 About us
H5 Follow us
H5 Report or Request
H5 Web experience survey
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.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://ottawa.ca/enIMG-ALT Home
A-TITLE Home
https://ottawa.ca/enCity of Ottawa
A-TITLE Home
https://ottawa.ca/en/ottawacaEnglish
https://ottawa.ca/fr/ottawacaFrançais
/en/city-hall/city-news/newsro...Draft budget
https://ottawa.ca/en/node/3000166Open air fires are permitted with a burn permit
IMG-ALT Open air fires permitted
/en/parking-roads-and-travelParking, roads, and travel
/en/recreation-and-parksRecreation and parks
https://ottawa.ca/en/jobs-cityJobs with the City
/en/garbage-and-recyclingGarbage and recycling
/en/planning-development-and-c...Planning, development and construction
https://ottawa.ca/en/city-hallCity Hall
https://ottawa.ca/en/3-1-13-1-1
/en/living-ottawaLiving in Ottawa
/en/family-and-social-servicesFamily and social services
/en/health-and-public-safetyHealth and public safety
https://ottawa.ca/en/businessBusiness
/en/arts-heritage-and-eventsArts, heritage and events
https://ottawa.ca/en/newsroomNewsroom
/en/city-hall/city-news/newsro...ANCHOR for mental health and substance use supports in Centretown
/en/city-hall/city-news/newsro...Citywide Sports has men and women’s hockey leagues this season
/en/city-hall/city-news/newsro...One day partial O-Train Line 1 closure August 25 to accommodate Stage 2 construction
/en/city-hall/city-news/newsro...Get ready to register for fall recreation and culture programs
/en/city-hall/city-news/newsro...Have your say on Draft Budget 2025
/en/city-hall/city-news/newsro...Everything you need to know about #OttCity’s on-street parking rate changes
/en/city-hall/city-news/newsro...New QR code scam on parking machines
/en/mayors-cornerMayor's corner
/en/mayor-and-city-councillorsMayor and City Councillors
/en/city-hall/council-committe...Committees and Boards
/en/city-hall/council-committe...Agendas, minutes and videos
https://ottawa.ca/en/3-1-13-1-1 online
/en/client-servicesClient Service Centre
/en/terms-use/accessibilityAccessibility
/en/terms-use/disclaimerDisclaimer
/en/terms-use/privacyPrivacy
/en/city-hall/city-news/protocolsProtocols
https://www.facebook.com/cityo...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/city...New window External Subdomain Instagram
https://twitter.com/ottawacityNew window External X Platform
https://www.youtube.com/user/c...New window External Subdomain YouTube
https://forms.ottawa.ca/en/for...New window External Subdomain eSubscriptions
/en/3-1-1/report-or-request/pa...Parking
/en/3-1-1/report-or-request/ga...Garbage collection
/en/3-1-1/report-or-request/ro...Road maintenance
/en/3-1-1/report-or-request/pr...Property damage
/en/form/feedbackProblem with the website
https://ottawacityux.optimalwo...New window External Subdomain Yes

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://ottawa.ca/en"
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 of 0.80 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.
This page loads 5 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 12 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (90 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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servernginx
dateTue, 27 Aug 2024 10:48:32 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
connectionkeep-alive
cache-controlmax-age=2764800, public
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsALLOW-FROM https://myservice.ottawa.ca
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modifiedTue, 27 Aug 2024 10:45:04 GMT
etag"1724755504"
varyCookie,Accept-Encoding
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cacheHIT
access-control-allow-origin*
content-encodinggzip
x-request-idv-767ea00e-6461-11ef-b5e8-bfd6dd93944a
x-ah-environmentprod
age189
viavarnish
x-cacheHIT
x-cache-hits25
accept-rangesbytes
set-cookie159 Characters
x-cdnImperva
transfer-encodingchunked
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statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
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 827 referring domains.
This page has 94,563 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 689 different ip addresses.

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: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# 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/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

Search preview

ottawa.ca
City of Ottawa

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Ottawa73%Check
City Ottawa64%Check
Living Ottawa57%Check
know Ottawa57%Check
City54%Check
City Hall48%Check
get44%Check
Parking43%Check
mayor43%Check
new43%Check

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