Accgov.com - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
73% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
87% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.88 s
File size
130.20 kB
Words
916
Media files
25
Number of links
133 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Athens-Clarke County, GA - Official Website | Official Website
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (549 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
Home page
The meta description is too short. (72 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length) Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
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 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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keywordsHome page
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
This page contains 916 words. That's ok.
24.2% 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 13.73 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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The amount of tags is very high (52). We recommend using a maximum of 18 tags for this page.
The following tag is repeated too often: legislative review committee
Some tags are too long. With 78 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"tsplost 2018 project 16 prince avenue corridor improvements user group meeting"
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
2 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
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=35136No alt attribute provided
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=35145Facebook
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=35149No alt attribute provided
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=35151YouTube
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=41984Instagram-Social-Button
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=35147Social
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=35172Go to Site Search
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=110309RIVER FLOOD WATCH: North Oconee River at College Avenue Bridge & Other Riverside AreasRIVER FLOOD WATCH: North Oconee River at College Avenue Bridge & Other Riverside Areas
data:[...] Base64A to Z guide is available now at accgov.com/atozA to Z guide is available now at accgov.com/atoz
data:[...] Base64Starting, stopping or transferring water serviceStarting, stopping or transferring water service
data:[...] Base64City Hall dome in bright blue on a yellow background with a speech bubble saying accgov.com/surveysCity Hall dome in bright blue on a yellow background with a speech bubble saying accgov.com/surveys
data:[...] Base64Cartoon cassette tape with text saying ACCGov MixtapeCartoon cassette tape with text saying ACCGov Mixtape
data:[...] Base64Watch ACCGOV videos on demandWatch ACCGOV videos on demand
data:[...] Base64Mosquito Control informationMosquito Control information
data:[...] Base64landlord tenantlandlord tenant
data:[...] Base64View Mayor & Commission meeting agendas onlineView Mayor & Commission meeting agendas online
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=109900Mayor's Youth Council Applications 2025 NewsFlash Image
data:[...] Base64Mosquito Control Tips
data:[...] Base64Bob Cowell Appointed New ACCGov Manager as of July 28
data:[...] Base64July 2025 Stormwater Utility Fee Update
data:[...] Base64Public open houses on the Public Utilities 2025 Service Delivery Plan are postponed until the fall
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=35171View All News
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=35163Athens-Clarke County, GeorgiaAthens-Clarke County, Georgia
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=35141Share
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=35143Site Tools

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The H1 heading is empty
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 67 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 Empty heading
H3 How Can We Help?
H3 Upcoming Meetings (includes public meetings on other tabs)
H3 Calendar
H3 Upcoming Events Calendar
H3 Calendar Duplicate text
H3 Share
H3 Site Tools
H3 Contact Us
H3 Quick Links
H3 Using This Site
H4 10th-12th Grade Students Invited to Apply for Mayor's Youth Council by Aug. 17
H4 Tips for Reducing Mosquitoes & Avoiding Their Bites
H4 UPDATE: Bob Cowell Appointed New ACCGov Manager as of July 28
H4 Stormwater Fee Changes Starting July 1, 2025
H4 UPDATE: ACCGov Public Utilities Department Postponing Open Houses on 2025 Service Delivery Plan
H4 Wed, Aug 6
H4 Wed, Aug 6 Duplicate text
H4 Thu, Aug 7
H4 Thu, Aug 7 Duplicate text
H4 Thu, Aug 7 Duplicate text
H4 Mon, Aug 11
H4 Tue, Aug 12
H4 Wed, Aug 13
H4 Wed, Aug 13 Duplicate text
H4 Thu, Aug 14
H4 Mon, Aug 18
H4 Mon, Aug 18 Duplicate text
H4 Mon, Aug 18 Duplicate text
H4 Mon, Aug 18 Duplicate text
H4 Tue, Aug 19
H4 Tue, Aug 19 Duplicate text
H4 Wed, Aug 20
H4 Wed, Aug 20 Duplicate text
H4 Wed, Aug 20 Duplicate text
H4 Wed, Aug 20 Duplicate text
H4 Thu, Aug 21
H4 Thu, Aug 21 Duplicate text
H4 Tue, Aug 26
H4 Wed, Aug 27
H4 Wed, Aug 27 Duplicate text
H4 Thu, Aug 7 Duplicate text
H4 Wed, Aug 13 Duplicate text
H4 Wed, Aug 20 Duplicate text
H4 Wed, Aug 20 Duplicate text
H4 Wed, Sep 17
H4 Wed, Sep 17 Duplicate text
H4 Wed, Oct 15
H4 Wed, Oct 15 Duplicate text
H4 Wed, Nov 19
H4 Wed, Nov 19 Duplicate text
H4 Thu, Jun 5 - Sat, Aug 30
H4 Thu, Jun 5 - Sat, Aug 30 Duplicate text
H4 Thu, Jun 5 - Sat, Aug 30 Duplicate text
H4 Thu, Jun 5 - Sat, Aug 30 Duplicate text
H4 Thu, Jun 5 - Sat, Aug 30 Duplicate text
H4 Thu, Jun 5 - Sat, Aug 30 Duplicate text
H4 Thu, Jul 3 - Sun, Oct 12
H4 Thu, Jul 3 - Sat, Oct 11
H4 Fri, Jul 18 - Sat, Sep 27
H4 Sat, Aug 9
H4 Thu, Aug 7 Duplicate text
H4 Tue, Aug 12 Duplicate text
H4 Mon, Aug 18 Duplicate text
H4 Tue, Aug 19 Duplicate text
H4 Tue, Sep 2
H4 Tue, Sep 9
H4 Tue, Sep 16
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
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.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are 6 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.accgov.com/Anchor Skip to Main Content
/MyAccount/ProfileCreateCreate a Website Account
https://www.accgov.com/MyAccountWebsite Sign In
https://www.facebook.com/accgov/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Facebook
https://www.twitter.com/accgovNew window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/accgovNew window External Subdomain IMG-ALT YouTube
https://www.instagram.com/accgovNew window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Instagram-Social-Button
https://www.accgov.com/socialIMG-ALT Social
/27/About-UsAbout Us
/8/DepartmentsDepartments
/35/ServicesServices
/31/Get-InvolvedGet Involved
/Search/ResultsIMG-ALT Go to Site Search
https://www.accgov.com/weatherIMG-ALT RIVER FLOOD WATCH: North Oconee River at College Avenue Bridge & Other Riverside Areas
https://www.accgov.com/atozIMG-ALT A to Z guide is available now at accgov.com/atoz
/1212/Start-Transfer-Stop-ServiceIMG-ALT Starting, stopping or transferring water service
https://www.accgov.com/surveysIMG-ALT City Hall dome in bright blue on a yellow background with a speech bubble saying accgov.com/surveys
https://www.accgov.com/mixtapeIMG-ALT Cartoon cassette tape with text saying ACCGov Mixtape
https://www.accgov.com/videosIMG-ALT Watch ACCGOV videos on demand
https://www.accgov.com/mosquitoIMG-ALT Mosquito Control information
https://www.accgov.com/landlordIMG-ALT landlord tenant
/1688/AgendasIMG-ALT View Mayor & Commission meeting agendas online
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=6558IMG-ALT Mayor's Youth Council Applications 2025 NewsFlash Image
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=655810th-12th Grade Students Invited to Apply for Mayor's Youth Council by Aug. 17
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=6558Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=6553IMG-ALT Mosquito Control Tips
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=6553Tips for Reducing Mosquitoes & Avoiding Their Bites
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=6553Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=6541IMG-ALT Bob Cowell Appointed New ACCGov Manager as of July 28
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=6541UPDATE: Bob Cowell Appointed New ACCGov Manager as of July 28
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=6541Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=6539IMG-ALT July 2025 Stormwater Utility Fee Update
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=6539Stormwater Fee Changes Starting July 1, 2025
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=6539Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=6520IMG-ALT Public open houses on the Public Utilities 2025 Service Delivery Plan are postponed until the fall
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=6520UPDATE: ACCGov Public Utilities Department Postponing Open Houses on 2025 Service Delivery Plan
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=6520Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?CID=44IMG-ALT View All News
https://www.accgov.com/Anchor Public Meetings
https://www.accgov.com/Anchor Planning Meetings
https://www.accgov.com/Anchor Leisure Services Events
https://www.accgov.com/Anchor Mayor & Commission Meetings
https://www.accgov.com/Anchor Text duplicate Public Meetings
/calendar.aspx?CID=119,76,75,3...Upcoming Meetings (includes public meetings on other tabs)
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28504Pension Board Regular Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=20840JDA of ACCGov & City of Winterville: Regular Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28590Audit Committee Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28550Legislative Review Committee
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28720August Planning Commission
/Calendar.aspx?EID=27675SPLOST Site Selection Committee
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28232Mayor & Commission Work Session
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28851Deferred Compensation Regular Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=27962August Hearings Board Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=27842Board of Assessors Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28588Government Operations Committee
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28638Newton Bridge Road TAD Advisory Committee Meeting-August 18, 2025
/Calendar.aspx?EID=27159TSPLOST 2023 Oversight Committee Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=27809SPLOST 2020 Oversight Committee Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28847Qualifying for the Special Election
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28233Mayor & Commission Agenda Setting Session
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28848Text duplicate Qualifying for the Special Election
/Calendar.aspx?EID=27735Historic Preservation Commission Agenda Review
/Calendar.aspx?EID=27723Historic Preservation Commission Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=27931Solid Waste Advisory Commission (SWAC) monthly meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28849Text duplicate Qualifying for the Special Election
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28655East Downtown TAD Advisory Committee Meeting-August 21, 2025
/Calendar.aspx?EID=26765Airport Authority Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=27223TSPLOST 2018 Project 16 Prince Avenue Corridor Improvements User Group Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=27444Public Safety Civilian Oversight Board Meeting - CANCELED
/calendar.aspx?CID=119,76,75,3...View All
https://www.accgov.com/Anchor Text duplicate Planning Meetings
/calendar.aspx?CID=35,40,41,97,38Calendar
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28720Text duplicate August Planning Commission
/Calendar.aspx?EID=27962Text duplicate August Hearings Board Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=27735Text duplicate Historic Preservation Commission Agenda Review
/Calendar.aspx?EID=27723Text duplicate Historic Preservation Commission Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=27736Text duplicate Historic Preservation Commission Agenda Review
/Calendar.aspx?EID=27724Text duplicate Historic Preservation Commission Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=27737Text duplicate Historic Preservation Commission Agenda Review
/Calendar.aspx?EID=27725Text duplicate Historic Preservation Commission Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=27738Text duplicate Historic Preservation Commission Agenda Review
/Calendar.aspx?EID=27726Text duplicate Historic Preservation Commission Meeting
/calendar.aspx?CID=35,40,41,97,38Text duplicate View All
https://www.accgov.com/Anchor Text duplicate Leisure Services Events
/calendar.aspx?CID=27,29,31,28,30Upcoming Events Calendar
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28456Summer Series of Exhibitions: "Forging Connections: Metal Art Inspired by the Marine Carbon Cycle by Barbara Mann" at Lyndon House Arts Center
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28457Summer Series of Exhibitions: "Peach Fuzz by Victoria Dugger" Exhibition at Lyndon House Arts Center
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28458Summer Series of Exhibitions: "Pendulum by Jean Gray Mohs" Exhibition at Lyndon House Arts Center
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28459Summer Series of Exhibitions: "Water Meadows by Yanira Vissepó" Exhibition at Lyndon House Arts Center
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28460Summer Series of Exhibitions: "Thaw Line by Lindsey Kennedy and Josh Skinner" Exhibition at Lyndon House Arts Center
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28461Summer Series of Exhibitions: "Controlled Burn by Tom Schram" Exhibition at Lyndon House Arts Center
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28576"Habit An Exhibition by Chris Moss & Sue Fox" at Lyndon House Arts Center
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28577"ORISA! ORISHA! ORIXA! An Exhibition of Illustrations by Victor Mora, guest curated by Christopher Swain" at Lyndon House Arts Center
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28607"Playing Ball without a Ball" Exhibition at Lyndon House Arts Center
/Calendar.aspx?EID=27888"Athens Farmers Market" at Bishop Park
/calendar.aspx?CID=27,29,31,28,30Text duplicate View All
https://www.accgov.com/Anchor Text duplicate Mayor & Commission Meetings
/calendar.aspx?CID=32Text duplicate Calendar
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28550Text duplicate Legislative Review Committee
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28232Text duplicate Mayor & Commission Work Session
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28588Text duplicate Government Operations Committee
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28233Text duplicate Mayor & Commission Agenda Setting Session
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28246Mayor & Commission Regular Session
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28248Text duplicate Mayor & Commission Work Session
/Calendar.aspx?EID=28249Text duplicate Mayor & Commission Agenda Setting Session
/calendar.aspx?CID=32Text duplicate View All
/alertcenter.aspxAlerts
https://www.accgov.com/jobs.aspxJobs
/index.aspx?NID=232Payments
https://www.accgov.com/list.aspxNotify Me®
/index.aspx?NID=2838Report a Problem
/Layout/WidgetShare/ShareLink/...New window Text duplicate Facebook
/Layout/WidgetShare/ShareLink/...New window Twitter
/Layout/WidgetShare/ShareLink/...New window Pinterest
/Layout/WidgetShare/ShareLink/...New window Delicious
/Layout/WidgetShare/ShareLink/...New window Blogger
/Layout/WidgetShare/ShareLink/...New window LinkedIn
https://www.accgov.com/Home
https://www.accgov.com/MyAccountMy Account
https://www.accgov.com/Anchor Printer Friendly
https://www.accgov.com/EmailPageEmail Page
/directory.aspxContact Us
https://www.accgov.com/rss.aspxRSS
https://www.accgov.com/SiteMapSite Map
https://www.accgov.com/Anchor Translate Page
https://www.accgov.com/list.aspxNotifications
/DocumentCenterDocuments
/directory.aspxDepartment & Staff Contacts
/6510/MinutesMeeting Agendas & Minutes
A-TITLE Meeting Minutes
/3570/Boards-Authorities-and-C...Boards, Authorities, & Commissions
https://www.municode.com/libra...New window External Subdomain Code of Ordinances
A-TITLE Code of Ordinances
/DocumentCenter/Online Documents
A-TITLE Online Documents
https://www.accgov.com/videosVideos
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=75Using This Site
/index.aspx?NID=2676Employee Login
/site/copyrightCopyright Notices
https://www.accgov.com/SiteMapText duplicate Site Map
/Site/AccessibilityAccessibility
http://civicplus.com/referralExternal Government Websites by CivicPlus®

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.accgov.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
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 is very slow (1.88 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 (130 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,081 referring domains.
This page has 3,136 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 265 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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User-agent: Siteimprove
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Crawl-delay: 20
User-agent: Siteimprovebot-crawler
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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
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Site61%Check
Athens54%Check
ACCGov Manager53%Check
Site Selection51%Check
Athens-Clarke50%Check
County50%Check
Athens-Clarke County50%Check
public49%Check
Meeting47%Check

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