Agriculture.sc.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
100% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
47% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.88 s
File size
53.00 kB
Words
601
Media files
8
Number of links
76 internal / 17 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
South Carolina Department of Agriculture
The length of the page title is perfect. (367 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://agriculture.sc.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)
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

NameValue
descriptionEmpty
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
article:publisherhttps://www.facebook.com/SCDAgriculture
article:modified_time2025-03-28T14:44:07+00:00
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@SCDAgriculture
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleHome — South Carolina Department of Agriculture
og:urlhttps://agriculture.sc.gov/
og:site_nameSouth Carolina Department of Agriculture
og:imagehttps://agriculture.sc.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/home-bg.jpg
og:image:width2500
og:image:height1859
og:image:typeimage/jpeg
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 601 words. That's ok.
24.5% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
9 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 20.09 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 12 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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
...me-master/img/banner-logos/scda-dk-1.svgSC DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE Logo Dark
...me-master/img/banner-logos/scda-lt-1.svgSC DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE Logo Light
...eme-master/img/banner-logos/csc-dk-1.svgCERTIFIED SC Logo Dark
...eme-master/img/banner-logos/csc-lt-1.svgCERTIFIED SC Logo Light
...me-master/img/banner-logos/fotm-dk-1.svgFRESH ON THE MENU Logo Dark
...me-master/img/banner-logos/fotm-lt-1.svgFRESH ON THE MENU Logo Light
...hemes/cntheme-master/img/footer-seal.svgSCDA Seal
...-master/img/ie8-footer-seal-fallback.pngSCDA Seal

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Emergency Planning and Disaster Response
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Emergency Planning and Disaster Response
H1 Food Safety Transfer
H1 South Carolina Agricultural Tax Exemption (SCATE)
H1 Chef Ambassadors
H1 Our Mission
H1 Meet the Commissioner
H1 FAQ
H2 Certified SC Grown
H2 Where to Buy Local
H2 Fresh on the Menu
H2 Market Bulletin
H2 Retail Food Safety
H2 Livestock Review: August 15, 2025
H2 Wholesale Food Safety
H2 SCATE Card
H2 Calendar of Events
H2 Fruit & Vegetable Review: August 15, 2025
H2 Market News
H2 Drought Monitor
H2 Socialize
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.
6 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 17 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://agriculture.sc.gov/Subdomain SC DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE
IMG-ALT SC DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE Logo Dark
https://certifiedsc.com/External CERTIFIED SC
IMG-ALT CERTIFIED SC Logo Dark
https://freshonthemenu.com/External FRESH ON THE MENU
IMG-ALT FRESH ON THE MENU Logo Dark
https://agriculture.sc.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://agriculture.sc.gov/IMG-ALT SCDA Seal
/about/contact/No Text
/meet-the-commissioner/Meet the Commissioner
https://agriculture.sc.gov/about/About
/about/contact/Contact
/divisions/Divisions
/divisions/agency-operations/Agency Operations
/divisions/consumer-protection/Consumer Protection
/divisions/external-affairs-ec...External Affairs & Economic Development
/divisions/legal/Legal
/resources/Resources
/resources/agriculture-organiz...Agricultural Organizations
/resources/earmarked-appropria...Earmarked Appropriations
/resources/emergency-planning-...Emergency Planning and Disaster Response
/resources/forms/Forms
/resources/getting-started-wit...Getting Started with Fruit and Vegetable Farming
/divisions/agency-operations/g...Grants
/resources/newsletter/SCDA Email Newsletter
https://agriculture.sc.gov/news/News
/calendar-of-events/Calendar of Events
/category/market-bulletin/Market Bulletin
/divisions/consumer-protection...Market News
/category/uncategorized/Miscellaneous
/category/newsletter/Newsletter
/category/press-releases/Press Releases
/category/recalls/Recalls
/category/commissioner-radio/Southern Farm Network Radio Address
/magazine/Grown In SC
https://agriculture.sc.gov/faq/FAQ
/resources/emergency-planning-...Text duplicate Emergency Planning and Disaster Response
/dhectransfer/Food Safety Transfer
https://agriculture.sc.gov/scate/South Carolina Agricultural Tax Exemption (SCATE)
https://freshonthemenu.com/che...New window External Chef Ambassadors
https://agriculture.sc.gov/about/Our Mission
/meet-the-commissioner/Text duplicate Meet the Commissioner
https://agriculture.sc.gov/faq/Text duplicate FAQ
/divisions/external-affairs-ec...Agritourism
/divisions/agency-operations/s...State Farmers Markets
/divisions/external-affairs-ec...Farm to School
/divisions/agency-operations/g...Text duplicate Grants
https://certifiedsc.com/New window External Certified SC Grown
/where-to-buy-local/Where to Buy Local
http://freshonthemenu.com/New window External Fresh on the Menu
/news/market-bulletin/Subdomain Text duplicate Market Bulletin
/news/market-bulletin/Subdomain No Text
/divisions/consumer-protection...Retail Food Safety
/divisions/consumer-protection...No Text
/livestock-review-august-15-2025/Subdomain Livestock Review: August 15, 2025
https://agriculture.sc.gov/news/Subdomain View All News
/divisions/consumer-protection...Wholesale Food Safety
/divisions/consumer-protection...No Text
https://agriculture.sc.gov/scate/SCATE Card
https://agriculture.sc.gov/scate/No Text
/calendar-of-eventsText duplicate Calendar of Events
/?post_type=event&p=303515Subdomain Free Children’s Program at the L....
/?post_type=event&p=303516Subdomain Text duplicate Free Children’s Program at the L....
/?post_type=event&p=303517Subdomain Text duplicate Free Children’s Program at the L....
/?post_type=event&p=303518Subdomain Text duplicate Free Children’s Program at the L....
/?post_type=event&p=303636Subdomain South Carolina Green Industry Ass...
/?post_type=event&p=303699Subdomain Richland Creek Antique Fall Festi...
/calendar-of-events/Subdomain View All Events
/fruit-vegetable-review-august...Subdomain Fruit & Vegetable Review: August 15, 2025
https://agriculture.sc.gov/news/Subdomain Text duplicate View All News
/divisions/consumer-protection...Text duplicate Market News
/divisions/consumer-protection...No Text
https://go.unl.edu/cmor_droughtNew window External Subdomain Drought Monitor
https://go.unl.edu/cmor_droughtNew window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.facebook.com/SCDAg...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/sc.a...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.facebook.com/Certi...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/cert...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.facebook.com/Fresh...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/fres...New window External Subdomain No Text
/meet-the-commissioner/Text duplicate Meet the Commissioner
https://agriculture.sc.gov/about/Text duplicate About
/divisions/Text duplicate Divisions
/resources/Text duplicate Resources
https://agriculture.sc.gov/news/Text duplicate News
/magazine/Text duplicate Grown In SC
https://agriculture.sc.gov/faq/Text duplicate FAQ
/about/contact/Text duplicate Contact
https://www.governmentjobs.com...External Subdomain Careers
/market-bulletin/Text duplicate Market Bulletin
/divisions/external-affairs-ec...Marketing Info
/divisions/consumer-protection/Consumer Safety
/resources/forms/Text duplicate Forms
https://sc.gov/privacy-securit...External Privacy & Security
https://sc.gov/terms-conditionsExternal Acceptable Use

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://agriculture.sc.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 0.88 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.
A Content Delivery Network like Bootstrap CDN can save bandwidth for Bootstrap front-end component library.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (53 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSat, 16 Aug 2025 22:21:25 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-encodingbr
varyAccept-Encoding
expiresThu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
last-modifiedFri, 28 Mar 2025 10:44:07 GMT
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pragmano-cache
x-pingbackhttps://agriculture.sc.gov/xmlrpc.php
x-cacheableYES:15552000.000
cache-controlmax-age=15552000, must-revalidate
x-cacheHIT: 5077
x-cache-groupnormal
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
set-cookie284 Characters
servercloudflare
cf-ray970453171e676f6c-CDG
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statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 282 referring domains.
This page has 682 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 174 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

# Default robots file version:2
User-agent: *
Disallow: /calendar/action*
Disallow: /events/action*
Allow: /*.css
Allow: /*.js
Disallow: /*?
Crawl-delay: 3

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
AGRICULTURE60%Check
SC Department53%Check
CERTIFIED SC51%Check
South50%Check
Carolina50%Check
South Carolina50%Check
Emergency50%Check
Planning50%Check
Disaster50%Check
Response50%Check
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