Pa.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
95% 
Page quality
66% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
98% 
Server
80% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.82 s
File size
90.50 kB
Words
355
Media files
6
Number of links
23 internal / 18 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
The length of the page title is perfect. (356 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
We're the home base of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Explore the services and resources offered by your government.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (774 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.pa.gov/en.html
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
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)
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
copapwp-page-titleWelcome to Pennsylvania
description<p>We're the home base of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Explore the services and resources offered by your government.</p>
copapwp-hero-description<p>We're the home base of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Explore the services and resources offered by your government.</p>
templatehomepage-template
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:titleHome
twitter:descriptionHome
twitter:imagehttps://www.pa.gov/content/dam/copapwp-pagov/en/pwpca/Hero Image.jpg
twitter:urlhttps://www.pa.gov
twitter:sitewebsite
og:titleHome
og:imagehttps://www.pa.gov/content/dam/copapwp-pagov/en/pwpca/Hero Image.jpg
og:urlhttps://www.pa.gov
og:typewebsite
og:descriptionHome
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 355 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
28.5% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
7 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 10.4 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
At least one 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 7 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)
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
...p-pagov/en/global/images/bannerimage.pngCommonwealth of Pennsylvania ; Home
...ages/CoPA Logo - Horizontal Lockup 1.svgCommonwealth of Pennsylvania | Home
...tepa/Hero Image?ts=1714677990087&dpr=offNatural landscape of Pennsylvania
...ges-565972687-1?ts=1708637001755&dpr=offMan sitting on couch on phone finding services
...- Feature Image?ts=1714678590327&dpr=offNo alt attribute provided
...ages/CoPA Logo - Horizontal Lockup 1.svgCommonwealth of Pennsylvania Home

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to Pennsylvania
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to Pennsylvania
H2 The .gov means it's official.
H2 Need help finding services?
H2 Featured Services
H2 Plan a trip to the Keystone State
H2 Top Services
H2 PA.GOV
H3 File a Pennsylvania Income Tax Return
H3 Renew Your Vehicle Registration
H3 Apply for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
H3 Find Grant Funding
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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://pa.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.pa.gov/Subdomain IMG-ALT Commonwealth of Pennsylvania | Home
https://pa.gov/services.htmlServices
https://pa.gov/agencies.htmlAgency Directory
https://pa.gov/governor.htmlThe Governor
https://pa.gov/ltgovernor.htmlLt. Governor
https://www.legis.state.pa.us/New window External Subdomain Legislation
http://www.pacourts.us/New window External Subdomain Courts
http://www.house.state.pa.us/New window External Subdomain State House
http://www.pasen.gov/New window External Subdomain State Senate
https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/New window External Subdomain Attorney General
http://www.paauditor.gov/New window External Subdomain Auditor General
http://www.patreasury.gov/New window External Subdomain Treasurer
https://visitpa.com/New window External Visit PA
https://pacast.com/New window External News
https://pa.gov/services.htmlService Listing
https://pa.gov/agencies.htmlText duplicate Agency Directory
/services/revenue/file-a-penns...File a Pennsylvania Income Tax Return
/services/dmv/renew-vehicle-re...Vehicle Registration Renewal
/services/dhs/apply-for-the-su...Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
https://pa.gov/grants.htmlGrant Search Tool
https://www.visitpa.com/regionsNew window External Subdomain Visit PA by Region
https://pa.gov/en.htmlIMG-ALT Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Home
https://www.facebook.com/Gover...New window External Subdomain Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Follow on Facebook
https://twitter.com/GovernorSh...New window External Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Follow on X
https://www.instagram.com/Gove...New window External Subdomain Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Follow on Instagram
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...New window External Subdomain Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Follow on Flickr
https://www.linkedin.com/in/re...New window External Subdomain Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Follow on LinkedIn
/services/vote/register-to-vot...Register to Vote
/agencies/dmv/find-a-location....Find a DMV
/agencies/health/programs/vita...Get a Birth Certificate
/services/dmva/subscribe-to-ve...Join the Veterans Registry
http://payback.pa.gov/Home/WhoNew window External Subdomain PAyback
/agencies/employment/open-jobs...Careers & Internships
http://pennwatch.pa.gov/Pages/...New window External Subdomain PennWatch
http://www.openrecords.pa.gov/...New window External Subdomain Right-to-Know Law
/accessibility-policy.htmlAccessibility
/privacy-policy.htmlPrivacy & Disclaimers
/translation-disclaimer.htmlTranslation Disclaimer
/security-policy.htmlSecurity
/social-media-policy-and-discl...Social Media Policy & Disclaimer

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://pa.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.82 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (91 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateTue, 08 Apr 2025 06:46:33 GMT
content-typetext/html;charset=utf-8
content-length16275
etag"16a06-6323e357cfeeb-gzip"
x-vhostpa.gov
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
content-encodinggzip
content-dispositioninline
cache-controlmax-age=300
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
expiresTue, 08 Apr 2025 06:51:33 GMT
last-modifiedTue, 08 Apr 2025 06:10:27 GMT
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
age0
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31557600
set-cookie63 Characters
x-served-bycache-fra-eddf8230152-FRA, cache-fra-eddf8230030-FRA
x-cacheCONFIG_NOCACHE
x-timerS1744094793.028578,VS0,VS0,VE515
varyAccept-Encoding
x-azure-ref20250408T064632Z-15ffd4d85545hlfjhC1DUSmguc0000000eng000000001hdu
accept-rangesbytes
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 53,572 referring domains.
This page has 11,383,168 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 28,264 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

# START YOAST BLOCK
# ---------------------------
User-agent: *
Disallow:

Sitemap: https://www.pa.gov/en.sitemap.xml
# ---------------------------
# END YOAST BLOCK

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Home | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
We're the home base of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Explore the services and resources offered by your government.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
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gov68%Check
Commonwealth59%Check
Pennsylvania Follow58%Check
Pennsylvania Personal58%Check
Services56%Check
Welcome50%Check
Service Listing47%Check
Government46%Check
base46%Check
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