Planthardiness.ars.usda.gov - SEO Checker

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Meta information
52% 
Page quality
56% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
90% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.45 s
File size
36.10 kB
Words
445
Media files
19
Number of links
11 internal / 31 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map | USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 668 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page 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://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/home
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 name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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

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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)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 445 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
31.5% 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 15.21 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
This page only loads 2 JavaScript files. That's good!
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)
7 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
...stom/drupal-base-theme/images/amflag.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...egend_300_0.png?h=8bf64f20&itok=LcTp6cRkThe legend of the plant hardiness zone map
...cover crops.jpg?h=f2fcf546&itok=vxiDuR3tCrops growing in a field
...-1070995006.jpg?h=0d27ee61&itok=x1A9HOieA person studying seedlings growing in a field
...ivate/Erin4.png?h=d1cb525d&itok=OEIwv5MKGardening tips
...with seed_1.jpg?h=8f7a62cf&itok=8QcskyWaCorn kernels in petri dishes infected with aflatoxin spores
...otter world.jpg?h=def3cf70&itok=mv4eE8gsPlant samples growing in an incubator
...monitor app.jpg?h=6e648d6c&itok=UVymmci4Farmers standing in a corn field studying data on a mobile device
...soil health.jpg?h=622e47c9&itok=hpSdlurZA petri dish full of soil being sampled by a researcher
...nt genetics.png?h=ffed8f21&itok=-clyHyYaNo alt attribute provided
...ting plants.png?h=ffed8f21&itok=gVfv5IxSNo alt attribute provided
... production.png?h=ffed8f21&itok=vqa3FjQ-No alt attribute provided
...nt diseases.png?h=ffed8f21&itok=iIAUiElTNo alt attribute provided
... management.png?h=ffed8f21&itok=sRP2DxUfNo alt attribute provided
...images/usna.png?h=ffed8f21&itok=XvYzAjBPNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
H2 User account menu
H2 Main navigation
H2 Description
H2 Tips For Growers
H2 Videos: Innovative ARS Research For a Growing World
H2 Read More About ARS Plant Research
H2 Did You Know This About Our Innovative Plant Research?
H2 Questions?
H2 Social Media
H2 Government Links
H3 How to Use the Maps
H3 Weed Your Garden
H3 Soil Health
H3 Gardening Tips
H3 Protecting Plants May Start with Seed
H3 Growing Plants in a Hotter World
H3 Soil Monitor App
H3 Analyzing Soil Health
H3 Sign up for ARS News updates
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 too many external links (31) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to main content
/USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
A-TITLE Home
https://www.usda.gov/External Subdomain U.S. Department of Agriculture
/user/loginLog in
/Home
/pages/how-to-use-the-mapsHow to Use the Maps
/pages/map-downloadsMap Downloads
/pages/map-creationMap Creation
https://experience.arcgis.com/...External Subdomain No Text
/pages/how-to-use-the-mapsHow to Use The Maps
/pages/map-downloadsText duplicate Map Downloads
/pages/map-creationText duplicate Map Creation
/pages/how-to-use-the-mapsLearn More
https://youtu.be/R52-Fbs75PEExternal Watch Video
https://youtu.be/PO-k053ZCIcExternal Text duplicate Watch Video
https://youtu.be/55M3mEduvZQExternal Text duplicate Watch Video
https://tellus.ars.usda.gov/st...External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
https://www.ars.usda.gov/oc/do...External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
https://scientificdiscoveries....External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
https://scientificdiscoveries....External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
https://www.ars.usda.gov/crop-...External Subdomain Plant Genetics
https://www.ars.usda.gov/crop-...External Subdomain Protecting Plants
https://www.ars.usda.gov/crop-...External Subdomain Plant Production
https://www.ars.usda.gov/crop-...External Subdomain Plant Diseases
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/s...External Subdomain Pest Management
https://www.usna.usda.gov/External Subdomain U.S. National Arboretum
http://twitter.com/usda_arsExternal Twitter
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.facebook.com/Agric...External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.ars.usda.gov/External Subdomain ARS Home
https://www.usda.gov/oascr/civ...External Subdomain Civil Rights Statements
https://www.usda.gov/non-discr...External Subdomain Non-Discrimination Statement
https://www.usda.gov/External Subdomain USDA.gov
https://www.ars.usda.gov/resea...External Subdomain FOIA
https://www.ars.usda.gov/docs/...External Subdomain Information Quality
https://www.usda.gov/plain-wri...External Subdomain Plain Writing
https://www.usda.gov/accessibi...External Subdomain Accessibility Statement
https://www.usa.gov/External Subdomain USA.gov
https://www.usda.gov/policies-...External Subdomain Policies and Links
https://www.usda.gov/privacy-p...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://www.whitehouse.gov/External Subdomain WhiteHouse.gov

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.45 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.
This page only loads 2 CSS files. That's ok.
This page only loads 2 JavaScript files. That's good!
The file size of the HTML document is fine (36 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSat, 29 Jun 2024 00:55:59 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length9537
connectionkeep-alive
serverApache/2.4.59 (Ubuntu)
cache-controlmust-revalidate, no-cache, private
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheHIT
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cacheHIT
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

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 9,424 referring domains.
This page has 734,221 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 4,499 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 11270 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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# robots.txt
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# 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.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/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

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