Constitution.congress.gov - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
87% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
98% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.08 s
File size
51.00 kB
Words
413
Media files
7
Number of links
23 internal / 23 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
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Constitution Annotated | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
The length of the page title is perfect. (537 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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The Constitution Annotated provides a legal analysis and interpretation of the United States Constitution based on a comprehensive review of Supreme Court case law.
The meta description is too long: 1027 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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https://constitution.congress.gov/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
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Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en
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The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
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The URL does not have too many subdirectories.
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
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Page quality

Content
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Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 413 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
32.2% 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 23.57 words is good.
Frames
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This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
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No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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3 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
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Additional markup
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HTTPS
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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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/static/images/logo-congress.svgCongress.gov
/static/images/logo-loc.svgLibrary of Congress
/static/images/logo-copyright.svgCopyright.gov

Page structure

H1 heading
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The Constitution of the United States Explained
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
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The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 The Constitution of the United States Explained
H2 Read About the Constitution in Plain English
H2 Bost v. Illinois Board of Elections
H2 Case v. Montana
H2 Podcast: Framing of the Constitution
H2 Featured Items
H3 Featured Issues
H3 U.S. Constitution at the Library of Congress
H3 Constitution Annotated Resources
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 23 external links on this page.
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/resources/Resources
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/updates/Updates
/about/search-help/Search Help
/browse/Browse the Constitution Annotated
/browse/essay/intro.9-4-2/ALDE...Subdomain Read Full Case Summary Here
/browse/essay/intro.9-4-5/ALDE...Subdomain Text duplicate Read Full Case Summary Here
/browse/essay/intro.10-2-2/ALD...Subdomain Listen Here
/browse/The Constitution of the United States Explained
/resources/additional-resources/Featured Issues
https://crsreports.congress.go...New window External Subdomain Senate Procedures to Confirm Nominees
https://crsreports.congress.go...New window External Subdomain The Exceptions Clause and Congressional Control over Supreme Court Jurisdiction
https://crsreports.congress.go...New window External Subdomain Supreme Court Rules That There Is No Constitutional Right to Having an Alien Spouse Admitted to the United States
https://www.crs.gov/reports/pd...New window External Subdomain Speech or Debate Clause Protections for Informal Member Oversight and Investigations
https://www.crs.gov/reports/pd...New window External Subdomain Understanding the Speech or Debate Clause
https://crsreports.congress.go...New window External Subdomain Religious Discrimination at School: Application of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
https://crsreports.congress.go...New window External Subdomain Constitutional Challenges to the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program
/static/files/constitutional-a...New window Subdomain Constitutional Authority Statements
/constitution/U.S. Constitution at the Library of Congress
https://guides.loc.gov/constit...New window External Subdomain Constitution of the United States: Primary Documents in American History
https://www.loc.gov/collection...New window External Subdomain Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774 to 1789
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/c...New window External Subdomain Creating the United States Constitution
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/c...New window External Subdomain Creating the Bill of Rights
https://www.loc.gov/collection...New window External Subdomain U.S. Reports Collection
https://guides.loc.gov/federal...New window External Subdomain The Federalist Papers
https://www.loc.gov/law/help/h...New window External Subdomain Legal Research Guides
https://crsreports.congress.gov/New window External Subdomain CRS Reports
/resources/Constitution Annotated Resources
/static/files/Literal_Print_of...New window Subdomain U.S. Constitution Literal Print (PDF)
/static/files/GPO-CONAN-2024-S...New window Subdomain Constitution Annotated 2024 Supplement (PDF)
https://guides.loc.gov/constit...New window External Subdomain Constitution Annotated Research Guide
/browse/essay/intro-1-1/ALDE_0...Methodology for the Constitution Annotated
/resources/decisions-overruled/Table of Supreme Court Decisions Overruled by Subsequent Decisions
/resources/unconstitutional-laws/Table of Laws Held Unconstitutional in Whole or in Part by the Supreme Court
/resources/supreme-court-justi...Table of Supreme Court Justices
/resources/additional-resources/Beyond the Constitution Annotated: Table of Additional Resources
https://www.congress.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Congress.gov
https://www.loc.gov/legalExternal Subdomain Legal
https://www.congress.gov/acces...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://www.loc.gov/legal/stan...External Subdomain External Link Disclaimer
http://www.usa.gov/New window External Subdomain USA.gov
http://www.loc.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Library of Congress
http://www.copyright.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Copyright.gov

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
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This page redirects to "https://constitution.congress.gov/"
HTTP header
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The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.08 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (51 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 444 referring domains.
This page has 1,688 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 259 different ip addresses.

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Constitution Annotated | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
The Constitution Annotated provides a legal analysis and interpretation of the United States Constitution based on a comprehensive review of Supreme Court case law.

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