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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
58% 
Page structure
74% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.18 s
File size
277.60 kB
Words
350
Media files
6
Number of links
46 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - City of Sonoma
The length of the page title is perfect. (212 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Sonoma is a historic city with a population of 11,000, located in the heart of the renowned Sonoma Valley wine region. The five-member City Council acts as the legislative arm of City government. City Hall is located in the center of the historic town square, also known as The Plaza.
The meta description is too long: 1733 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.sonomacity.org/
There is a valid canonical link 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)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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descriptionSonoma is a historic city with a population of 11,000, located in the heart of the renowned Sonoma Valley wine region. The five-member City Council acts as the legislative arm of City government. City Hall is located in the center of the historic town square, also known as The Plaza.
theme-color#61141c
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article:modified_time2024-04-29T18:59:45+00:00
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleHome - City of Sonoma
og:descriptionSonoma is a historic city with a population of 11,000, located in the heart of the renowned Sonoma Valley wine region. The five-member City Council acts as the legislative arm of City government. City Hall is located in the center of the historic town square, also known as The Plaza.
og:urlhttps://www.sonomacity.org/
og:site_nameCity of Sonoma
og:imagehttps://storage.googleapis.com/proudcity/sonomaca/uploads/2016/02/Sonoma_City_Hall_2016-e1624579395724.jpg
og:image:width857
og:image:height630
og:image:typeimage/jpeg
x-ua-compatibleie=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 350 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 34 words is high.
20.3% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "initial-scale=1.0, width=device-width" 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)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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
...ty_Seal_transparent_background-64x64.pngHomeHome
...ty_Seal_transparent_background-64x64.pngHomeHome
...016/02/Sonoma_City_Hall_2016-300x221.jpgSonoma City Hall
...dcity/sonomaca/2024/04/AMI-2-500x250.pngPhoto of an advanced water meter.
...3/05/Saturday-Harvest-Market-500x250.pngPhoto of colorful flowers and fresh vegetables in bowls and baskets.
...oud-core/assets/images/logo-white-1x.pngProudCity

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Sonoma
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (6 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Sonoma
H2 Action toolbar
H2 Primary menu links
H2 City News
H2 Upcoming Events
H2 Upcoming Meetings
H2 Frequently Requested
H2 Let's Stay Connected
H2 Contact
H2 Subscribe
H2 Connect
H3 79% of Sonoma’s Water Meters Replaced in AMI Project Milestone
H3 Sonoma City Council to Hold General Plan Study Session October 14th
H3 Reminder: Valley Cemetery Workday on September 21st from 9 AM to 12 Noon
H3 Saturday Harvest Market at Sonoma Garden Park
H3 2024 Valley of the Moon Vintage Festival on the Sonoma Plaza
H3 Music In Place Sunday Summer Concerts Series
H3 Cultural and Fine Arts Commission Meeting
H3 Design Review and Historic Preservation Commission Meeting
H3 Special City Council – General Plan Study Session
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 12 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.sonomacity.org/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.sonomacity.org/Anchor Skip to navigation
/sitemapSite map
https://www.sonomacity.org/Subdomain IMG-ALT Home
A-TITLE Home
https://www.sonomacity.org/Subdomain City of Sonoma
A-TITLE Home
/communityCommunity
/governmentGovernment
/businessesBusinesses
/calendarCalendar
/visitorsVisitors
/contactContact
https://www.sonomacity.org/newsNews
https://www.sonomacity.org/Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Home
A-TITLE Home
https://www.sonomacity.org/Subdomain Text duplicate City of Sonoma
A-TITLE Home
https://sonomacity.civicweb.ne...External Subdomain Meetings & Agendas (CivicWeb Portal)
/online-payment-water-bills/Subdomain Pay Your Water Bill Online
/current-job-recruitments/Subdomain Current Job Recruitments
https://sonomaca.viewpointclou...External Subdomain Online Permits & Applications
/79-of-sonomas-water-meters-re...Subdomain IMG-ALT Photo of an advanced water meter.
/79-of-sonomas-water-meters-re...Subdomain 79% of Sonoma’s Water Meters Replaced in AMI Project Milestone
/79-of-sonomas-water-meters-re...Subdomain Continued
/general-plan-study-session-oc...Subdomain Sonoma City Council to Hold General Plan Study Session October 14th
/reminder-valley-cemetery-work...Subdomain Reminder: Valley Cemetery Workday on September 21st from 9 AM to 12 Noon
https://www.sonomacity.org/NewsMore news
/event/saturday-harvest-market...Subdomain IMG-ALT Photo of colorful flowers and fresh vegetables in bowls and baskets.
/event/saturday-harvest-market...Subdomain Saturday Harvest Market at Sonoma Garden Park
/event/saturday-harvest-market...Subdomain Text duplicate Continued
/event/2023-valley-of-the-moon...Subdomain 2024 Valley of the Moon Vintage Festival on the Sonoma Plaza
/event/music-in-place-sunday-s...Subdomain Music In Place Sunday Summer Concerts Series
/calendarSubdomain More events
/event/cultural-and-fine-arts-...Subdomain Cultural and Fine Arts Commission Meeting
/event/cultural-and-fine-arts-...Subdomain Text duplicate Continued
/event/design-review-and-histo...Subdomain Design Review and Historic Preservation Commission Meeting
/event/special-city-council-ge...Subdomain Special City Council – General Plan Study Session
/calendarSubdomain More meetings
https://www.sonomastuesdaynigh...External Subdomain Tuesday Night Market
/departments/recreation/Subdomain Parks and Recreation Directory
/business-licenses/Subdomain Business Licenses
https://sonomacity.civicweb.ne...External Subdomain Municipal Code
/departments/emergency-prep/Subdomain Emergency Preparedness
/documents/water-turn-on-off-f...Subdomain Start/Stop Water Service
/development-projects/Subdomain Development Projects
/infrastructure-projects/Subdomain Infrastructure Projects
https://www.sonomacity.org/Anchor skip decoration
/subscribe/New window Subdomain Subscribe to our E-Newsletter
https://sonomacity.civicweb.ne...New window External Subdomain Sign up for Agenda Updates
https://www.facebook.com/CityO...New window External Subdomain Follow us on Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/sono...New window External Subdomain Follow us on Instagram
https://nextdoor.com/agency-de...External Find us on Nextdoor
https://www.facebook.com/share...New window External Subdomain Facebook
A-TITLE Share on Facebook
https://twitter.com/share?url=...External Twitter
A-TITLE Share on Twitter
/contactDirectory
/feedbackFeedback
/accessibility-statementAccessibility
/sitemapSitemap
/subscribeSubscribe to more lists >
https://facebook.com/CityOfSonomaNew window External Text duplicate Facebook
A-TITLE Facebook
https://proudcity.com/External IMG-ALT ProudCity

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.sonomacity.org/"
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 slow (1.18 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 (278 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 26 Sep 2024 22:44:02 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length61615
varyX-Forwarded-Proto,Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
last-modifiedThu, 26 Sep 2024 22:05:27 GMT
accept-rangesbytes
cache-controlmax-age=0
expiresThu, 26 Sep 2024 22:44:02 GMT
content-encodinggzip
strict-transport-securitymax-age=15724800; includeSubDomains
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 1,023 referring domains.
This page has 6,089 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 701 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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Home - City of Sonoma
Sonoma is a historic city with a population of 11,000, located in the heart of the renowned Sonoma Valley wine region. The five-member City Council acts as the legislative arm of City government. City Hall is located in the center of the historic town square, also known as The Plaza.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Sonoma97%Check
City Sonoma92%Check
City86%Check
Sonoma Valley76%Check
City Council70%Check
City News64%Check
Sonoma Garden Park59%Check
Valley54%Check
City Hall52%Check
Historic50%Check
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