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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
0% 
Page quality
54% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
86% 
Server
85% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.71 s
File size
362.00 kB
Words
348
Media files
9
Number of links
69 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
We are the Nation's first line of defense - CIA
The length of the page title is perfect. (403 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
The rules specified in the robots.txt file do not allow the access for the bingbot respectively the MSN-Bot.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is 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)
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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
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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generatorGatsby 5.13.7
theme-color#663399
desciriptionCIA is the first line of defense for the United States. We collect and analyze intelligence to further national security and preempt threats.
langen
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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 348 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
31.6% 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.
4 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 12.82 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, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 73 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"we accomplish what others cannot accomplish and go where others cannot go"
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
4 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
[email protected]Agency Logo
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
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data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
We are the Nation's first line of defense
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 We are the Nation's first line of defense
H2 Our Agency
H2 Empty heading
H2 Our Legacy
H2 Our Stories
H2 The World Factbook
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 3 links with a trivial 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 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.cia.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.cia.gov/IMG-ALT Agency Logo
https://www.cia.gov/about/About
/about/director-of-cia/Leadership
/about/organization/Organization
/about/mission-vision/Mission & Vision
/partner-with-cia/Partner with CIA
https://www.cia.gov/tech/Technology
/about/organization/privacy-an...Privacy
https://www.cia.gov/careersCareer Opportunities
/careers/how-we-hire/Hiring Process
/careers/working-at-cia/benefits/Benefits
/careers/accommodations/Accommodations
/careers/language-opportunities/Language Opportunities
/careers/working-at-cia/veterans/Veterans
/careers/student-programs/Student Programs
https://www.cia.gov/legacy/Origin
/legacy/cia-history/History
/legacy/museum/Museum
/legacy/headquarters/Headquarters
/legacy/cia-history/cia-trailb...Trailblazers
/legacy/memorial-wall/fallen/In Memoriam
https://www.cia.gov/stories/News & Stories
/stories/press-releases-and-st...Press Releases & Statements
/stories/speeches-and-transcri...Speeches & Transcripts
/podcast/the-langley-filesThe Langley Files Podcast
https://www.cia.gov/resources/Resources
/resources/publications/Publications
/about/organization/prepublica...Prepublication Review
/resources/csi/Study of Intelligence
/the-world-factbook/World Factbook
/resources/reports/CIA Reports
/resources/cia-maps/CIA Maps
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/FOIA Reading Room
https://www.cia.gov/careers/Find your calling
https://www.cia.gov/about/learn about us
https://www.cia.gov/legacy/Discover Our Legacy
/stories/story/remembering-an-...Trivial anchor text
Read More
/stories/story/the-cia-and-pop...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/stories/story/ask-molly-count...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://www.cia.gov/stories/Explore All Stories
/the-world-factbookNew window Visit World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/about/About CIA
/about/director-of-cia/Text duplicate Leadership
/about/organization/Text duplicate Organization
/about/mission-vision/Mission and Vision
/legacy/museum/CIA Museum
https://www.cia.gov/careers/Text duplicate Career Opportunities
/careers/how-we-hire/Text duplicate Hiring Process
/careers/student-programs/Text duplicate Student Programs
/careers/working-at-cia/access...Text duplicate Accommodations
https://www.cia.gov/ehl/Subdomain MyLINK
/resources/csi/Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI)
/the-world-factbook/The World Factbook
/resources/world-leaders/World Leaders
/podcast/the-langley-filesThe Langley Files
https://www.cia.gov/spy-kids/Spy Kids
/partner-with-cia/Text duplicate Partner with CIA
/about/organization/prepublica...Text duplicate Prepublication Review
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/Subdomain Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
https://www.cia.gov/faqs/Frequently Asked Questions
/privacy_policy/Privacy Policy
https://www.instagram.com/ciaNew window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.facebook.com/Centr...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/ciaNew window External No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/ciaNew window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.flickr.com/ciagovNew window External Subdomain No Text
https://t.me/s/securelycontact...New window External No Text
https://www.cia.gov/searchSearch CIA.gov
https://www.cia.gov/site-policiesSite Policies
/about/organization/privacy-an...Text duplicate Privacy
/about/organization/equal-empl...No FEAR Act
/about/organization/equal-empl...ECA Notice
/about/organization/inspector-...Inspector General
https://www.usa.gov/External Subdomain USA.gov
https://www.cia.gov/sitemapSitemap

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.cia.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.71 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 (362 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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content-encodinggzip
dateSun, 11 May 2025 16:30:56 GMT
content-length56205
set-cookie84 Characters
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referrer-policysame-origin
x-frame-optionssameorigin
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
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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 5,228 referring domains.
This page has 140,751 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,638 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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Disallow: /readingroom/search/
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Crawl-delay: 10
Sitemap: https://www.cia.gov/sitemap/sitemap-0.xml
Sitemap: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/sitemap/sitemap-0.xml
Host: https://www.cia.gov

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