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Overview of the SEO Check

Meta information

65%

Page quality

40%

Page structure

100%

Link structure

96%

Server

77%

External factors

100%

SEO Score

SEO Score Widget

Response time

0.90 s

File size

36.40 kB

Words

269

Media files

Number of links

21 internal / 20 external

Task list of SEO Improvements 4 Tasks

Add a meta description.Very important!
The H1 heading should suit better to the page content. (Words from the heading are rarely used in the text)Important!
Use good alternative descriptions (alt attributes) for your images.Important!
Improve the page response time.Tip!

Meta specifications 65% achieved

Title

(Critically important)

Tellus | Tellus

The page title is too short. (121 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title

There are word repetitions in the page title.

Meta Title

Meta description

(Critically important)

The meta description is missing.

Meta Description

Crawlability

(Critically important)

There are no problems in accessing the website.

Search Engine Crawlers

Canonical URL

(Important)

https://tellus.ars.usda.gov/

There is a valid canonical link specified.

Canonical Tag

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

Declaring language in HTML

Alternate/Hreflang Links

(Somewhat important)

There are no alternate links specified on this page.

Hreflang

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.

Meta Tags

Domain

(Somewhat important)

The domain is no subdomain.

The domain length is good.

The domain does not contain non-latin characters.

Domain for SEO

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.

SEO-friendly URLs

Charset encoding

(Somewhat important)

The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.

Character Encoding

Doctype

(Nice to have)

The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.

The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.

HTML Doctype

Favicon

(Nice to have)

The favicon is linked correctly.

Favicon

Meta tags

Name	Value
Generator	Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimized	width
HandheldFriendly	true
viewport	width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
lang	en
charset	utf-8

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Page quality 40% achieved

Content

(Critically important)

Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.

Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.

There are only 269 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.

24.2% of the text are stop words.

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.

The average number of words per sentence of 19 words is good.

Content is King

Frames

(Critically important)

This page does not use a frameset.

Frames and framesets

Mobile optimization

(Somewhat important)

No Apple touch icon is specified.

A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.

Mobile Optimization

Bold and strong tags

(Somewhat important)

The amount of tags is very high (12). We recommend using a maximum of 6 tags for this page.

Strong and Bold Tags

Image SEO

(Somewhat important)

4 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.

Image SEO

There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.

Social Sharing

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.

HTTPS

Media list

URL	Alt attribute	Title
...uswds/package/dist/img/us_flag_small.png	No alt attribute provided
/sites/tellus/files/images/USDA_logo.png	Home
...uswds/package/dist/img/close-white64.svg	close
...es/logo-tellus-white-transparent_9_0.png	No alt attribute provided
...edia/images/breadfruit.jpg?itok=0caftlxh	No alt attribute provided
...nsecurity_0.jpg?h=12401dc2&itok=ALKptZ36	Two Chinese boys eating a traditional meal.
...HempSeeds_0.jpg?h=5bc61107&itok=w-9WQYII	A person is pictured holding two handfuls of hemp seeds. Laboratory equipment is visible in the background.
...sLargeImage.jpg?h=b67631ae&itok=LMcFf1WW	Two people stand in a field of mature oats with a piece of machinery.
...opoatspouch.jpg?h=f6d9c7bc&itok=vomhkhfM	PopOatsPouch.jpg image
...1492/4164-1.jpg?h=12401dc2&itok=tkgyXrF6	Sliced and whole Minnie Finger limes displayed alongside a quarter.
...rusgreening.jpg?h=12401dc2&itok=VoMLWePo	Citrus fruit showing signs of citrus greening.
...images/logo-tellus-color-transparent.png	No alt attribute provided
...ts/img/logo-tellus-white-transparent.png	footer-logo

Page structure 100% achieved

H1 heading

(Critically important)

A Tasty, Versatile Fruit With Great Growth Potential

The H1 heading is perfect.

H1-H6 headings

Headings

(Important)

The heading structure is perfect.

H1-H6 headings

Heading structure

Heading level	Content
H1	A Tasty, Versatile Fruit With Great Growth Potential
H2	Latest Content
H2	Popular Content
H2	Subscribe
H3	Cultural Resilience: The Protective Role of Traditional Diets Against Food Insecurity
H3	Unlocking Hemp Seeds’ Nutritional Benefits
H3	Is A Bumper Crop Really Enough?
H3	Get Popping with Oats!
H3	Minnie Finger Lime Makes Its Debut
H3	Could Camels Be the Key to Fighting Citrus Greening Disease and Other Pathogens?
H3	Email
H3	Connect with ARS:

Link structure 96% achieved

Internal links

(Important)

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.

All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.

Internal Linking

External links

(Nice to have)

There are 20 external links on this page.

External Links

Found links on this page

Link	Attributes	Anchor text
https://tellus.ars.usda.gov/	Anchor	Skip to main content
https://tellus.ars.usda.gov/		Tellus
https://www.usda.gov/	External Subdomain	U.S. Department of Agriculture
https://tellus.ars.usda.gov/		Home
https://tellus.ars.usda.gov/about		About
/stories		Articles
https://www.ars.usda.gov/	External Subdomain	ARS Home
https://www.ars.usda.gov/oc/im...	External Subdomain	ARS Image Gallery
https://agresearchmag.ars.usda...	External Subdomain	AgResearch Magazine
/stories/articles/tasty-versat...		No Text
/stories/articles/tasty-versat...		A Tasty, Versatile Fruit With Great Growth Potential
/stories/		See All Content
/stories/articles/cultural-res...		IMG-ALT Two Chinese boys eating a traditional meal.
/stories/articles/cultural-res...		Cultural Resilience: The Protective Role of Traditional Diets Against Food Insecurity
/stories/articles/unlocking-he...		IMG-ALT A person is pictured holding two handfuls of hemp seeds. Laboratory equipment is visible in the background.
/stories/articles/unlocking-he...		Unlocking Hemp Seeds’ Nutritional Benefits
/stories/articles/bumper-crop-...		IMG-ALT Two people stand in a field of mature oats with a piece of machinery.
/stories/articles/bumper-crop-...		Is A Bumper Crop Really Enough?
/stories/	Text duplicate	See All Content
/stories/articles/get-popping-...		IMG-ALT PopOatsPouch.jpg image
/stories/articles/get-popping-...		Get Popping with Oats!
/stories/articles/minnie-finge...		IMG-ALT Sliced and whole Minnie Finger limes displayed alongside a quarter.
/stories/articles/minnie-finge...		Minnie Finger Lime Makes Its Debut
/stories/articles/could-camels...		IMG-ALT Citrus fruit showing signs of citrus greening.
/stories/articles/could-camels...		Could Camels Be the Key to Fighting Citrus Greening Disease and Other Pathogens?
https://www.ars.usda.gov/	External Subdomain Text duplicate	ARS Home
https://www.usda.gov/	External Subdomain	USDA.gov
https://aglab.ars.usda.gov/	External Subdomain	AgLab
https://www.ars.usda.gov/news-...	External Subdomain	ARS News Room
https://scientificdiscoveries....	External Subdomain	Scientific Discoveries
https://agresearchmag.ars.usda...	External Subdomain Text duplicate	AgResearch Magazine
https://www.ars.usda.gov/oc/fo...	External Subdomain	FOIA
https://www.usda.gov/accessibi...	External Subdomain	Accessibility Statement
https://www.usda.gov/privacy-p...	External Subdomain	Privacy Policy
https://www.usda.gov/plain-wri...	External Subdomain	Plain Writing
https://www.usda.gov/non-discr...	External Subdomain	Non-Discrimination Statement
https://www.whitehouse.gov/	External Subdomain	WhiteHouse.gov
https://twitter.com/usda_ars	External	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

Server configuration 77% achieved

HTTP redirects

(Critically important)

This page redirects to "https://tellus.ars.usda.gov/"

WWW Redirect

HTTP header

(Important)

No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.

This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.

HTTP headers

Performance

(Somewhat important)

The page response time of 0.90 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 (36 kB).

Page Speed

HTTP Response Header

Name	Value
date	Mon, 20 Jan 2025 15:30:35 GMT
content-type	text/html; charset=UTF-8
cache-control	max-age=31536000, public
content-language	en
x-content-type-options	nosniff
x-frame-options	SAMEORIGIN
expires	Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modified	Mon, 20 Jan 2025 15:20:06 GMT
etag	"1737386406-gzip"
vary	Cookie,Accept-Encoding
x-generator	Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cache	HIT
content-encoding	gzip
strict-transport-security	max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
x-azure-ref	20250120T153035Z-17889d89dbbf8hwghS1SNRyqps0000000f5g0000000053ha
x-cache	CONFIG_NOCACHE
statuscode	200
http_version	HTTP/2

External factors 100% achieved

Backlinks

(Critically important)

This website has excellent links from other websites.

This page has backlinks from 1,894 referring domains.

This page has 24,207 backlinks.

This page has backlinks from 557 different ip addresses.

Backlinks

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# 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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Tellus | Tellus

Most important keywords

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

Keyword	Result	Recheck
Tellus	59%	Check
ARS	55%	Check
Fruit	54%	Check
USDA	52%	Check
gov	51%	Check
Tasty	50%	Check
Versatile	50%	Check
Great	50%	Check
Growth	50%	Check
Potential	50%	Check
grow	50%	Check
content	44%	Check
Hemp	42%	Check
Seeds	42%	Check
citrus	42%	Check
oat	42%	Check
Oats	42%	Check
Greening	42%	Check
main content	41%	Check
Food	40%	Check
popular	40%	Check
Insecurity	40%	Check
Minnie	40%	Check
Finger	40%	Check
Lime	40%	Check

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Task list of SEO Improvements 4 Tasks

Meta specifications 65% achieved

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Page quality 40% achieved

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Media list

Page structure 100% achieved

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Heading structure

Link structure 96% achieved

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Found links on this page

Server configuration 77% achieved

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HTTP Response Header

External factors 100% achieved

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Links from Wikipedia

Robots.txt

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