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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
60% 
Page quality
51% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
99% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.42 s
File size
43.90 kB
Words
434
Media files
12
Number of links
37 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The National Archives in Washington, DC | National Archives Museum
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 628 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
The museum wing of the National Archives, the National Archives Museum is the home of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights. Open daily 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Located at 701 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20408. Admission is always free.
The meta description is too long: 1701 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://visit.archives.gov/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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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descriptionThe museum wing of the National Archives, the National Archives Museum is the home of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights. Open daily 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Located at 701 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20408. Admission is always free.
referrersame-origin
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
There are only 434 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
29.3% 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 22.25 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 9 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
6 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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...onstitution.jpg?h=82c52741&itok=vdYx8wZIGroup of people looking at the Constitution
...s-of-rights.jpg?h=8c901d8c&itok=MfslbvTVVisitors standing in front of an exhibit wall
...ien-exhibit.jpg?h=6eb229a4&itok=bLEwFfslMan looking at pictures on display in exhibit
...-tint-image.jpg?h=1b83b26b&itok=jLCPTrUvRoad to Revolution promotion
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...stom/museum/images/nara-eagle-logo-2.svgNational ArchivesNational Archives site

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Visit the National Archives
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Visit the National Archives
H2 Featured Exhibits
H2 Charters of Freedom
H2 Records of Rights
H2 Power & Light: Russell Lee's Coal Survey
H2 Road to Revolution
H2 Bring Them Home, Uncle Sam
H2 Upcoming Events
H3 Experience our nation’s history through exhibitions, historical documents, immersive activities, and thought-provoking conversations.
H3 Families, Teachers, and Students
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
2 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.
There are 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://visit.archives.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://visit.archives.gov/searchNo Text
https://visit.archives.gov/A-TITLE Home - Visit the National Archives
/visit/about-national-archivesAbout the National Archives
/visit/location-parking-amenitiesLocation, Parking & Amenities
/visit/tips-guidelinesTips & Guidelines
/visit/tours-group-visitsTours & Group Visits
/visit/field-tripsField Trips
/visit/accessibilityAccessibility
/visit/ticketsTickets
/whats-on/founding-documentsFounding Documents
/whats-on/explore-exhibitsExplore Exhibits
/whats-on/eventsEvents
/learn-us/teachers-studentsTeachers & Students
/learn-us/learn-homeLearn at Home
/learn-us/discovery-centerDiscovery Center
https://visit.archives.gov/searchNo Text
/free-admissionFree Admission
https://www.google.com/maps/di...New window External Subdomain 701 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20408
/visit/ticketsText duplicate Free Admission
/whats/founding-documentsLearn more about the Founding Documents
https://visit.archives.gov/Anchor More to See and Do
/exhibitsView all exhibits
/whats-on/explore-exhibits/cha...Permanent Charters of Freedom Open daily, 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
IMG-ALT Group of people looking at the Constitution
/whats-on/explore-exhibits/rec...Permanent Records of Rights Open daily, 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
IMG-ALT Visitors standing in front of an exhibit wall
/whats-on/explore-exhibits/pow...Temporary Power & Light: Russell Lee's Coal Survey March 16, 2024 - December 07, 2025
IMG-ALT Man looking at pictures on display in exhibit
/whats-on/explore-exhibits/roa...Temporary Road to Revolution June 21, 2024 - August 06, 2026
IMG-ALT Road to Revolution promotion
/whats-on/explore-exhibits/bri...Featured Document Bring Them Home, Uncle Sam October 31, 2024 - December 04, 2024
IMG-ALT Sepia tone image of group of men standing on board a ship in military uniforms
/visit/about-national-archivesLearn more about the National Archives
/events/82281Native American Heritage Month Program: The American Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
/events/82351Inside the Vault: Holidays at the White House with Former White House Chefs
/events/82352"Awakening the Spirit of America" with Paul M. Sparrow
https://visit.archives.gov/eventsExplore Events
/learn-usExplore Resources
http://www.archives.gov/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT National Archives
https://www.google.com/maps/di...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate 701 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20408
/visit/about-national-archivesAbout
/visit/accessibilityText duplicate Accessibility
https://www.archives.gov/dc/ho...External Subdomain Host Your Event
https://www.nationalarchivesst...External Subdomain Shop
https://www.archives.gov/foiaExternal Subdomain FOIA
/visit/tips-guidelines/photogr...Photography Policy
https://www.archives.gov/globa...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
/contact-usContact Us
https://www.facebook.com/usnat...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/usna...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/usnatarchivesNew window External No Text
https://www.youtube.com/USNati...New window External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://visit.archives.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 of 0.42 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 (44 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 86 referring domains.
This page has 177 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 51 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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# 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
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The National Archives in Washington, DC | National Archives Museum
The museum wing of the National Archives, the National Archives Museum is the home of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights. Open daily 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Located at 701 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20408. Admission is always free.

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National Archives83%Check
National77%Check
National Archives Washington74%Check
Visit65%Check
National Archives Museum63%Check
Washington58%Check
Rights52%Check
DC 2040852%Check
Constitution50%Check
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