Broadbandusa.ntia.gov - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
74% 
Page quality
71% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
90% 
Server
89% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.64 s
File size
42.70 kB
Words
414
Media files
12
Number of links
42 internal / 19 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | BroadbandUSA
The length of the page title is perfect. (209 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)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://broadbandusa.ntia.gov/home
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)
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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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 414 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
24.2% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
7 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 14.7 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 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 About the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
H2 Check here to find more about your state/territory's BEAD progress, including Draft Plans/Proposals, Challenge Process, and Subgrantee Selection Portals
H2 BEAD Restructuring Policy Notice Released
H2 What is BroadbandUSA?
H2 Main navigation
H2 Funding Programs
H2 FAQs
H2 Latest News
H3 Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program
H3 Enabling Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Program
H3 Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program
H3 Broadband Infrastructure Program (BIP)
H3 Connecting Minority Communities (CMC) Program
H3 What is OICG?
H3 What is NTIA?
H3 Trump Administration Announces the Benefit of the Bargain BEAD Program that Removes Regulatory... more Trump Administration Announces the Benefit of the Bargain BEAD Program that Removes Regulatory...
H3 Contact Us
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 19 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://broadbandusa.ntia.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.ntia.gov/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT NTIA logo
https://broadbandusa.ntia.gov/BroadbandUSA
/contactContact Us
/aboutAbout BroadbandUSA
/about/frequently-asked-questionsFrequently Asked Questions
https://ntiacrmgrants.my.site....External Subdomain Subscribe for BroadbandUSA Updates
/technical-assistance-hubTechnical Assistance Hub
/resources/federalFederal
/resources/federal/state-terri...State, Territory & Local
/resources/tribal-nationsTribal Nations
/resources/federal/cohortsCohorts
/resources/data-and-mappingData & Mapping
/assistance/permittingPermitting
/federal-funding-accountabilit...FFATA
/funding-programsFunding Programs
/funding-programs/broadband-eq...Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program
/funding-programs/enabling-mid...Enabling Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure
/funding-programs/broadband-in...Broadband Infrastructure
/funding-programs/tribal-broad...Tribal Broadband Connectivity
/funding-programs/connecting-m...Connecting Minority Communities
/funding-programs/digital-equi...Native Entity Capacity & Planning Grant Program
/funding-programs/reportingReports and Documentation
/news/latest-newsNews
/events/latest-eventsUpcoming Events
/events/past-eventsPast Events
https://www.ntia.gov/page/abou...New window External Subdomain About the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
/public-resources-related-bead...New window Check here to find more about your state/territory's BEAD progress, including Draft Plans/Proposals, Challenge Process, and Subgrantee Selection Portals
/funding-programs/policies-wai...New window BEAD Restructuring Policy Notice Released
/aboutNew window What is BroadbandUSA?
/funding-programs/broadband-eq...Learn more
/funding-programs/enabling-mid...Text duplicate Learn more
/taxonomy/term/140Text duplicate Learn more
/taxonomy/term/142Text duplicate Learn more
/taxonomy/term/141Text duplicate Learn more
/about-us/frequently-asked-que...What is OICG?
/about-us/frequently-asked-que...Read more about What is OICG?
/about-us/frequently-asked-que...What is NTIA?
/about-us/frequently-asked-que...Read more about What is NTIA?
/news/latest-news/trump-admini...Trump Administration Announces the Benefit of the Bargain BEAD Program that Removes Regulatory... more
A-TITLE Trump Administration Announces the Benefit of the Bargain BEAD Program that Removes Regulatory Burdens, Lowers Costs and Expands Use of All Technologies
/news/latest-news/trump-admini...Trump Administration Announces the Benefit of the Bargain BEAD Program that Removes Regulatory Burdens, Lowers Costs and Expands Use of All Technologies
https://www.oig.doc.gov/Pages/...External Subdomain Anchor Report Fraud
https://broadbandusa.ntia.gov/IMG-ALT BroadbandUSA Logo
https://ntia.gov/External IMG-ALT NTIA Logo
https://commerce.gov/External IMG-ALT Department of Commerce Logo
https://www.facebook.com/ntiagovExternal Subdomain No Text
https://www.twitter.com/ntiagovExternal Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/ntiagovExternal Subdomain No Text
/rss.xmlNo Text
/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection[email protected]
/cdn-cgi/l/email-protectionText duplicate [email protected]
https://ntiacrmgrants.my.site....External Subdomain Subscribe to BroadbandUSA Updates
https://www.ntia.gov/External Subdomain National Telecommunications and Information Administration
https://www.commerce.gov/External Subdomain Commerce.gov
https://www.ntia.gov/page/ntia...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://www.ntia.gov/page/web-...External Subdomain Web Policies
https://www.ntia.gov/page/info...External Subdomain Information Quality
https://www.ntia.gov/page/free...External Subdomain FOIA
https://www.ntia.gov/page/abou...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://www.usa.gov/External Subdomain USA.gov
https://www.oig.doc.gov/Pages/...External Subdomain Anchor Text duplicate Report Fraud

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://broadbandusa.ntia.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 0.64 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 (43 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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cache-controlmax-age=3600, public
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
varyCookie,Accept-Encoding
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x-xss-protection1; mode=block
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expect-ctmax-age=86400
x-drupal-cacheHIT
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x-cacheHIT
x-cache-hits382
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
set-cookie274 Characters
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content-encodinggzip
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 916 referring domains.
This page has 3,674 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 684 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# 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
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

Search preview

broadbandusa.ntia.gov
Home | BroadbandUSA

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Broadband74%Check
BroadbandUSA68%Check
Broadband Infrastructure60%Check
NTIA58%Check
Broadband Equity58%Check
Broadband Infrastructure Program54%Check
Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure53%Check
Tribal Broadband Connectivity53%Check
Enabling Middle Mile Broadband50%Check
Administration47%Check

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