Bjs.ojp.gov - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
95% 
Page quality
76% 
Page structure
89% 
Link structure
87% 
Server
88% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.66 s
File size
72.70 kB
Words
487
Media files
19
Number of links
62 internal / 27 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | Bureau of Justice Statistics
The length of the page title is perfect. (311 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is the United States' primary source for criminal justice statistics that cover a wide range of topics.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (837 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://bjs.ojp.gov/%3Cfront%3E
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Canada
The following language is defined by HTML: en
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
The specified alternate links have no errors.
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
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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
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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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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 487 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
24% 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.
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 16 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 10 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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Bureau of Justice Statistics
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 28 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

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H1 Bureau of Justice Statistics
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H2 Probation Dashboard
H2 Announcements
H2 BJS Facebook
H2 Secondary Footer link menu
H3 Note!
H3 New Releases
H3 BJS Statement on the Release of Unredacted Mortality in Correctional Institutions (MCI) Data
H3 BJS Releases its 2025 Publications Calendar
H3 BJS staff at the American Society of Criminology Conference, November 12-16, 2024
H3 Corrections Statistical Analysis Tool (CSAT) - Prisoners
H3 New Unit Chief of the Statistical Methods Unit, Melissa Cidade
H3 Learn about BJS Programs
H3 Learn about Funding
H3 Access Resources
H3 Browse all Topics
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H4 Homicide Victimization in the United States, 2023
H4 Firearm-Involved Homicide of Children Age 11 or Younger, 2014–2023
H4 Data by Topic
H4 Open Funding Opportunities
H4 Data Analysis Tools
H4 Learn about BJS Research
H4 About BJS
H4 Data Integrity
H4 Partners
H4 Resources
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 2 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 too many external links (27) on this page.
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https://twitter.com/intent/twe...New window External X
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https://www.linkedin.com/share...New window External Subdomain LinkedIn
A-TITLE Share on LinkedIn
https://reddit.com/submit?url=...New window External Reddit
A-TITLE Share on Reddit
https://pinterest.com/pin/crea...New window External Pinterest
A-TITLE Share on Pinterest
/cdn-cgi/l/email-protectionEmail
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https://bjs.ojp.gov/aboutLearn more about BJS
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/probation-dashboardSubdomain Probation Dashboard
/probation-dashboardSubdomain IMG-ALT Probation Dashboard image - Laptop with icons surrounding it.
https://bjs.ojp.gov/featuredView Archived Featured Content
A-TITLE View Archived Featured Content
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https://bjs.ojp.gov/data/topicSubdomain Data by Topic
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https://bjs.ojp.gov/programsLearn about BJS Programs
https://bjs.ojp.gov/programsText duplicate Learn about BJS Programs
https://bjs.ojp.gov/fundingLearn about Funding
https://bjs.ojp.gov/fundingText duplicate Learn about Funding
https://bjs.ojp.gov/resourcesAccess Resources
https://bjs.ojp.gov/resourcesText duplicate Access Resources
https://bjs.ojp.gov/topicsBrowse all Topics
https://bjs.ojp.gov/topicsText duplicate Browse all Topics
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https://www.fbi.gov/External Subdomain Federal Bureau of Investigation
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https://bjs.ojp.gov/glossaryGlossary
https://bjs.ojp.gov/related-linksRelated Links
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https://twitter.com/BJSgovExternal Text duplicate X
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https://bjs.ojp.gov/Subdomain IMG-ALT Bureau of Justice Statistics Logo
https://nij.ojp.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT National Institute of Justice Logo
https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Logo
https://ovc.ojp.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Office for Victims of Crime Logo
https://smart.ojp.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking Logo
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https://www.justice.gov/open/p...External Subdomain Plain Language
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://bjs.ojp.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 0.66 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 (73 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 9,588 referring domains.
This page has 248,376 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 5,074 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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# you save bandwidth and server resources.
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# 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
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# 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
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Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
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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.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: /node/*
Disallow: /glossary/*
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
Disallow: /topics/program/*
Disallow: /topics/practice/*
# 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/
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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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Disallow: /nomination/*
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Sitemap: https://bjs.ojp.gov/sitemap.xml

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The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is the United States' primary source for criminal justice statistics that cover a wide range of topics.

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