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Meta information
80% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
90% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.06 s
File size
71.90 kB
Words
292
Media files
0
Number of links
31 internal / 22 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home • Council of the District of Columbia
The length of the page title is perfect. (375 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://dccouncil.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

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charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 292 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 53 words is high.
26.7% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
Multiple viewport tags are given. There should only be one.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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 6 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.

Media list

No media files were found.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Residents of the District of Columbia, the D.C. Council is here to serve you.
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Residents of the District of Columbia, the D.C. Council is here to serve you.
H2 Council Updates
H2 Featured
H2 While Awaiting Belated Budget Submission, Council Passes Emergency Rental Assistance Program Reforms
H3 How to Watch Our May 13 Meeting
H3 While Awaiting Belated Budget Submission, Council Passes Emergency Rental Assistance Program Reforms Duplicate text
H3 How to Watch Our May 6 Meetings
H3 Legislative Requests for May 6, 2025 Legislative Meeting
H3 Budget Oversight: Fiscal Year 2026
H3 Performance Oversight: 2025
H3 Find your Councilmember
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
2 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 1 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 22 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/about-the-federal-tax-counterWhat is this?
A-TITLE What is the DC Federal Tax Counter?
https://dccouncil.gov/subscribe/Get Updates
http://dccouncil.us/dc-council...External RSS
/press-center/Press Center
https://www.facebook.com/counc...New window External Subdomain facebook
https://twitter.com/councilofdcNew window External twitter
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain youtube
https://dccouncil.gov/Council of the District of Columbia
A-TITLE Council of the District of Columbia
https://dccouncil.gov/hearings/Hearings
https://lims.dccouncil.gov/hea...External Subdomain Calendar
http://dccouncil.us/legislation/External Legislation & Laws
/the-council/The Council
https://dccouncil.gov/searchNo Text
https://www.google.com/maps/pl...New window External Subdomain The John Wilson Building 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
https://lims.dccouncil.gov/hea...External Subdomain See all Events
http://dccouncil.us/how-to-tes...External Learn about Testifying
http://lims.dccouncil.us/External Subdomain Find legislation on LIMS
/how-to-watch-our-may-13-meeting/How to Watch Our May 13 Meeting
/while-awaiting-belated-budget...While Awaiting Belated Budget Submission, Council Passes Emergency Rental Assistance Program Reforms
/how-to-watch-our-may-6-meetings/How to Watch Our May 6 Meetings
/legislative-requests-for-may-...Legislative Requests for May 6, 2025 Legislative Meeting
/council-updatesSee all
/while-awaiting-belated-budget...Trivial anchor text
Read More
/budget-oversight-2026/No Text
/budget-oversight-2026/Learn More
https://dccouncil.us/performan...External No Text
https://dccouncil.us/performan...External Text duplicate Learn More
/2024-2025-performance-oversig...Text duplicate Learn More
https://dccouncil.gov/DC Council seal
/about-the-council/About the Council
/open-government/Open Government
https://gcc02.safelinks.protec...External Subdomain Register to Vote
/council-updatesCouncil Updates
/jobs-solicitations21/Jobs
/council-directory/Council Directory
/privacy-policy/Privacy Policy
/commemorative-dc-flag-program/Commemorative D.C. Flag Program
https://dccouncil.gov/ethics/Ethics
/visit-the-wilson-building/Visit the Wilson Building
https://dccouncil.gov/eventsArchive Calendar
https://www.facebook.com/counc...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate facebook
https://twitter.com/councilofdcNew window External Text duplicate twitter
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate youtube
https://dccouncil.gov/hearings/Text duplicate Hearings
https://lims.dccouncil.gov/hea...External Subdomain Text duplicate Calendar
http://dccouncil.us/legislation/External Text duplicate Legislation & Laws
/the-council/Text duplicate The Council
https://dccouncil.gov/subscribe/Text duplicate Get Updates
http://dccouncil.us/dc-council...External Text duplicate RSS
/press-center/Text duplicate Press Center
https://www.facebook.com/counc...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate facebook
https://twitter.com/councilofdcNew window External Text duplicate twitter
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate youtube

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://dccouncil.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 is slow (1.06 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 (72 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 766 referring domains.
This page has 13,029 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 369 different ip addresses.

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KeywordResultRecheck
Council79%Check
District66%Check
Columbia65%Check
Residents50%Check
serve50%Check
Budget43%Check
Oversight43%Check
Submission43%Check
Watch43%Check
Meeting43%Check
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