Plainlanguage.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
77% 
Page quality
58% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.26 s
File size
20.30 kB
Words
411
Media files
4
Number of links
54 internal / 14 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home
The title contains the word Home! More content should be covered in the title.
The page title is too short. (55 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
(Critically important)
Plain language makes it easier for the public to read, understand, and use government communications.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (640 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
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-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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
descriptionPlain language makes it easier for the public to read, understand, and use government communications.
imagehttps://plainlanguage.gov/assets/img/twitter_profile.png
google-site-verificationF3dlMYIP_EE5aoYppl8sWTdIN9-2Sgl6cAY0yFSpKy0
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:titleplainlanguage.gov | Home
twitter:imagehttps://plainlanguage.gov/assets/img/twitter_profile.png
twitter:descriptionPlain language makes it easier for the public to read, understand, and use government communications.
og:titleplainlanguage.gov | Home
og:descriptionPlain language makes it easier for the public to read, understand, and use government communications.
og:imagehttps://plainlanguage.gov/assets/img/twitter_profile.png
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 411 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
29% 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 18.67 words is good.
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=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 8 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
/assets/uswds/img/favicons/favicon-57.pngU.S. flag
/assets/img/logo.svgLogo
/assets/uswds/img/close.svgclose
/assets/img/icons/gsa-logo.pngGSA

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Plain language makes it easier for the public to read, understand, and use government communications.
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Plain language makes it easier for the public to read, understand, and use government communications.
H2 Events
H2 About us
H3 Law and requirements
H3 Plain language guidelines
H3 Training
H3 Examples
H3 Join the Plain Language Community
H4 2022 Federal Plain Language Summit
H4 Contact us
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 14 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.plainlanguage.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.plainlanguage.gov/plainlanguage.gov
IMG-ALT Logo
A-TITLE Home
https://www.plainlanguage.gov/Home
/law/Overview
/law/agency-programs/Agency programs and contacts
/law/page-template/Plain writing page template
/law/Law and requirements
/guidelines/Text duplicate Overview
/guidelines/audience/Write for your audience
/guidelines/organize/Organize the information
/guidelines/words/Choose your words carefully
/guidelines/concise/Be concise
/guidelines/conversational/Keep it conversational
/guidelines/design/Design for reading
/guidelines/web/Follow web standards
/guidelines/test/Test your assumptions
/guidelines/Plain language guidelines
/examples/Text duplicate Overview
/examples/before-and-after/Before and after
/examples/awards/Award winners
/examples/brochures/Reports and brochures
/examples/handbooks/Handbooks and manuals
/examples/notices/Letters and notices
/examples/regulations/Regulations
/examples/Examples
/training/Text duplicate Overview
/training/videos/Videos
/training/online-training/Online training
/training/create-your-own-class/Create your own class
/training/tips-for-trainers/Tips for starting a plain language program
/training/Training
/resources/Text duplicate Overview
/resources/groups/Groups and organizations
/resources/checklists/Checklists and handouts
/resources/guides/Style guides
/resources/books/Books
/resources/articles/Articles
/resources/reference/Writing and reference tools
/resources/content-types/Content types
/resources/humor/Humor
/resources/quotes/Quotes
/resources/Resources
/about/Text duplicate Overview
/about/definitions/What is plain language?
/about/benefits/Why use plain language?
/about/history/History and timeline
/about/get-involved/Get involved
/about/About
/about/definitions/Learn more
/law/Law and requirements Learn about the Plain Writing Act, policy memos, and executive orders that require agencies to use plain language.
/guidelines/Plain language guidelines Official writing guidelines for understanding your audience, being clear and concise, and testing your content.
/training/Training Request in-person training for your federal agency, or use our videos and materials to create your own class.
/examples/Examples See plain language in action in a variety of regulations, legal documents, handbooks, and publications.
https://digital.gov/event/2022...External 2022 Federal Plain Language Summit
https://www.digitalgov.gov/com...External Subdomain Join the community
https://github.com/GSA/plainla...External GitHub
https://www.facebook.com/plain...External Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/govplainlang/External Twitter
https://www.gsa.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT GSA
https://www.gsa.gov/External Subdomain U.S. General Services Administration
https://www.gsa.gov/about-usExternal Subdomain About GSA
https://www.gsa.gov/website-in...External Subdomain Accessibility statement
https://www.gsa.gov/reference/...External Subdomain FOIA requests
https://www.gsa.gov/reference/...External Subdomain No FEAR Act data
https://www.gsaig.gov/External Subdomain Office of the Inspector General
https://www.gsa.gov/reference/...External Subdomain Performance reports
/privacy/Subdomain Privacy policy
https://www.usa.gov/External Subdomain Visit USA.gov

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.plainlanguage.gov/"
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 is excellent with 0.26 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (20 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-length4370
dateWed, 12 Jun 2024 17:47:42 GMT
accept-rangesbytes
access-control-allow-methodsGET, HEAD
cache-controlmax-age=60
content-encodinggzip
last-modifiedFri, 24 May 2024 00:09:37 GMT
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; preload
x-amz-server-side-encryptionAES256
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-robots-tagall
x-serverCloud.gov Pages
x-vcap-request-id43fbc0ec-ba32-491f-485c-a9d5a9f846b2
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
etag"03cc0ace391161aa762e966d32e37cc7"
varyAccept-Encoding
x-cacheMiss from cloudfront
via1.1 8c1c3a8ed856f5c19ce3b4158bff94a8.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-popFRA56-P12
x-amz-cf-idsBUKkSlWLvIIADODGFciYgMKS5wVE1SYruvumgTiONF6mVy6bAA-AQ==
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 3,263 referring domains.
This page has 38,228 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,101 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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