Taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
78% 
Page quality
85% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
75% 
Server
70% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.15 s
File size
172.20 kB
Words
1087
Media files
43
Number of links
117 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) - Taxpayer Advocate Service
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 634 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) is an independent organization within the IRS. We’re here to ensure that every taxpayer is treated fairly.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (876 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov/
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 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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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 1087 words. That's ok.
33.2% 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.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 22.63 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 22 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
28 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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
We’re your voice at the IRS
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 57 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 We’re your voice at the IRS
H2 How can we help?
H2 Did you get a notice from the IRS?
H2 Get help with a specific tax issue
H2 Get help with your taxes and tax disputes
H2 Tax Assistance
H2 Do you need financial help to file your taxes?
H2 Did you know there is a Taxpayer Bill of Rights?
H2 The Latest News & Information
H2 Empty heading
H2 Learn how the Taxpayer Advocate Service advocates for taxpayers
H2 We’re your advocate
H2 Our Mission
H3 Our Priorities
H4 Popular searches:
H4 Premium Tax Credit Change Estimator
H4 Events with your Local Taxpayer Advocate
H4 What to Know About Superseding Tax Returns and How It Could Benefit You
H4 TAS is Taking Steps to Better Serve Taxpayers
H4 Need for a Legislative Fix to Eliminate the Disaster Lookback Trap for Refund Cl...
H4 You Received a Collection Notice – Now What?
H4 National Taxpayer Advocate Erin M. Collins to receive prestigious award from the...
H4 TAS advocates to remove tens of thousands in tax liability based on a typo
H4 Simplifying the CAF Process
H4 TAS advocates for refunds as IRS misapplies the law
H5 We help taxpayers with problems they can’t resolve with the IRS
H5 We understand you and we’re here to help you
H5 We protect taxpayers rights
H5 We recommend changes to Congress to help prevent future problems
H5 Paying Taxes
H5 Filing returns
H5 Issues & errors
H5 Interacting with the IRS
H5 International
H5 Small Business
H5 Refunds
H5 Credits
H5 General
H5 Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) / Tax Counseling for the Elderly (TCE)
H5 ACA Assistance
H5 Problem Solving Days
H5 Empty heading
H5 Success Stories
H6 NTA Blog
H6 10/3/2024
H6 NTA Blog Duplicate text
H6 9/19/2024
H6 NTA Blog Duplicate text
H6 9/10/2024
H6 NTA Blog Duplicate text
H6 9/5/2024
H6 Tax News
H6 10/8/2024
H6 Success Stories Duplicate text
H6 10/8/2024 Duplicate text
H6 Tax Professionals
H6 9/11/2024
H6 Success Stories Duplicate text
H6 9/5/2024 Duplicate text
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 5 external links on this page.
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/reports/Subdomain Our Reports to Congress
/contact-us/Subdomain Contact Us
/get-help/taxpayer-rights/Text duplicate Taxpayer Bill of Rights
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/get-help/roadmap/Read more about your notice or letter
/get-help/paying-taxes/Paying Taxes
/get-help/issues-errors/Issues & errors
/get-help/general/General
/get-help/filing-returns/Filing returns
/get-help/interacting-with-the...Interacting with the IRS
/get-help/small-business/Small business
/get-help/refundsRefunds
/get-help/credits/Credits
/get-help/international/International
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/get-help/refunds/See what steps you can take to locate it
/get-help/paying-taxes/i-need-...I Need Help Resolving My Balance Due
/disaster-relief/Subdomain Tax guidance for taxpayers affected by disasters
/tax-professionals/News and Information for Tax Pros
/taxpayer-resources/Subdomain View all taxpayer resources
/taxpayer-resources/tax-tips/View Tax Tips
/can-tas-help-me-with-my-tax-i...Use the TAS qualifier tool
/about-us/low-income-taxpayer-...Learn more about LITC
/get-help/filing-returns/vita-...Get free tax assistance
/contact-us/upcoming-events/Subdomain Find a local event
/taxnews-information/Subdomain Text duplicate Tax News & Information
/taxnews-information/blogs-nta/View the Latest
/taxnews-information/most-rece...Tax Tips
/taxnews-information/most-rece...Tax News
/taxnews-information/most-rece...Success Stories
/taxnews-information/tax-pros/Information for Tax Pros
/taxnews-information/most-rece...Tax Pros Articles
/reports/Subdomain View all reports
/reports/2023-annual-report-to...View the latest report
/reports/View past reports
/reports/2025-objectives-repor...Text duplicate View the latest report
/reports/Text duplicate View past reports
/reports/2023-annual-report-to...View the latest Purple Book
/reports/View the past Purple Books
/arc-recommendations-tracker/Subdomain View Recommendations
/annual-report-to-congress-rep...View the Report Cards
/research-studies/See Research Studies
/about-us/congressional-testim...Congressional Testimony
/foia/Subdomain Learn More
/tas-operational-plan/Subdomain View the latest Operational Plan
/tas-operational-plan-archive/Subdomain View the past Operational Plans
/contact-us/Subdomain Contact us
/contact-us/submit-a-request-f...Submit a request for assistance
/can-tas-help-me-with-my-tax-i...Text duplicate Use the TAS qualifier tool
/contact-us/Find a local TAS office
/socialmedia/Subdomain Find out more
/submit-a-tax-reform/Submit a suggestion for the IRS
/home/systemic-advocacy-manage...Subdomain Submit an issue through our Systemic Advocacy Management System (SAMS)
/taxnews-information/Subdomain News
/get-help/Subdomain Text duplicate Get Help
/our-reports-to-congress/Subdomain Reports
/?s&filter=tax_termsSubdomain Tax Terms
/notices-from-the-irs/Subdomain Notices
/news/tax-tips/tas-tax-tip-imp...New window Subdomain No Text
/about-us/About us
/notices-from-the-irs/Browse all IRS notices
/notices/cp-504/Subdomain Notice CP504
/notices/notice-cp-12/Subdomain Notice CP12
/notices/notice-cp14/Subdomain Notice CP14
/get-help/roadmap/Subdomain Roadmap
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/get-help/general/Subdomain Text duplicate General
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/get-help/filing-returns/vita-...Text duplicate Learn more
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IMG-ALT icon
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/news/nta-blog/need-for-a-legi...Subdomain NTA Blog 9/10/2024 Need for a Legislative Fix to Eliminate the Disaster Lookback Trap for Refund Cl...
/news/nta-blog/you-received-a-...Subdomain NTA Blog 9/5/2024 You Received a Collection Notice – Now What?
/news/tax-news/national-taxpay...Subdomain Tax News 10/8/2024 National Taxpayer Advocate Erin M. Collins to receive prestigious award from the...
/news/success-stories/tas-advo...Subdomain Success Stories 10/8/2024 TAS advocates to remove tens of thousands in tax liability based on a typo
/news/tax-pros/simplifying-the...Subdomain Tax Professionals 9/11/2024 Simplifying the CAF Process
/news/success-stories/tas-advo...Subdomain Success Stories 9/5/2024 TAS advocates for refunds as IRS misapplies the law
/news-category/nta-blog/NTA Blog Stay up to date with the latest blogs from the National Taxpayer Advocate. Read more
/news-category/tax-tips/Tax Tips Read the latest Tax Tips to help you stay informed. Read more
/news-category/success-stories/Success Stories Quick Action by the Taxpayer Advocate Service means confidence in your taxes. Read more
/news-category/tax-news/Tax News Keep informed with our Tax News articles and stay up to date with the latest changes in taxes. Read more
/news-category/success-stories/Subdomain View All Success Stories
/contact-us/Contact an advocate
/get-help/taxpayer-rights/Your Taxpayer Rights
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/about-us/Who we are
/about-us/our-leadership/Our Leadership
IMG-ALT footer icon
/reports/Reports to Congress
IMG-ALT footer icon
/news-category/success-stories/Success stories
IMG-ALT footer icon
/about-us/careers/Careers
IMG-ALT footer icon
/about-us/Text duplicate About us
/contact-us/Text duplicate Contact us
/about-us/careers/Text duplicate Careers
/contact-us/subscribe-to-tas/Subscribe
/get-help/taxpayer-rights/Taxpayer Rights
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/Accessibility/Subdomain Accessibility
https://www.facebook.com/YourV...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.twitter.com/yourvo...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/TASNTANew window External Subdomain No Text
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.15 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 (172 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 4,804 referring domains.
This page has 387,284 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 3,198 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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Home - Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) - Taxpayer Advocate Service
The Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) is an independent organization within the IRS. We’re here to ensure that every taxpayer is treated fairly.

Most important keywords

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

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Taxpayer79%Check
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