Designsystem.digital.gov - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
70% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
90% 
Server
96% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.48 s
File size
43.10 kB
Words
528
Media files
16
Number of links
131 internal / 19 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
USWDS: The United States Web Design System | U.S. Web Design System (USWDS)
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 773 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
USWDS makes it easier to build accessible, mobile-friendly government websites.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (504 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://designsystem.digital.gov/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Germany
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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HandheldFriendlyTrue
MobileOptimized320
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
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twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@USWDS
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og:titleUSWDS: The United States Web Design System
og:localeen_US
og:descriptionUSWDS makes it easier to build accessible, mobile-friendly government websites.
og:urlhttps://designsystem.digital.gov/
og:site_nameU.S. Web Design System (USWDS)
og:imagehttps://designsystem.digital.gov/img/uswds-logo/lg-black.png
og:typewebsite
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
The average number of words per sentence of 8.11 words is low.
This page contains 528 words. That's ok.
21% 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.
3 paragraphs were found on this page.
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)
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 11 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
13 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
/assets/img/us_flag_small.pngNo alt attribute provided
/assets/img/icon-dot-gov.svgNo alt attribute provided
/assets/img/icon-https.svgNo alt attribute provided
/assets/img/usa-icons/close.svgClose
/assets/img/usa-icons-bg/search--white.svgSearch
/img/home/ui-component.svgNo alt attribute provided
/img/home/page-templates.svgNo alt attribute provided
/img/home/design-tokens.svgNo alt attribute provided
/img/home/utilities.svgNo alt attribute provided
/img/webp/home/showcase/nih.webpNo alt attribute provided
/img/webp/home/showcase/va-healthcare.webpNo alt attribute provided
/img/webp/home/showcase/nasa.webpNo alt attribute provided
/img/webp/home/showcase/pubmed.webpNo alt attribute provided
/img/webp/home/showcase/vote.webpNo alt attribute provided
/img/webp/home/showcase/seedfund.webpNo alt attribute provided
/img/gsa-logo.svgGSA Logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
A design system for the federal government.
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 A design system for the federal government.
H2 Components
H2 Patterns
H2 Design tokens
H2 Utilities
H2 Sites built with USWDS
H2 Become part of the community
H3 Have an idea or an issue?
H3 Engage with the community
H3 Subscribe to our newsletter
H3 Get support
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 19 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://designsystem.digital.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://designsystem.digital.gov/USWDS U.S. Web Design System (USWDS)
A-TITLE U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) Home
/how-to-use-uswds/How to use USWDS
/documentation/getting-started...Getting started for developers
/documentation/getting-started...Getting started for designers
/documentation/developers/Documentation
/documentation/settings/Settings
/maturity-model/USWDS maturity model
/documentation/accessibility/Accessibility
/performance/Performance guidelines
/documentation/code-guidelines/Code guidelines
/documentation/migration/Migrating to USWDS 3.0
/documentation/migration-v2/Migrating to USWDS 2.0
/documentation/implementations/Implementations
/documentation/showcase/Showcase
/documentation/sample-contract...Sample contract language for 21st Century IDEA
/website-standards/Website standards
/design-principles/Design principles
/components/Components
/components/accordion/Accordion
/components/alert/Alert
/components/banner/Banner
/components/breadcrumb/Breadcrumb
/components/button/Button
/components/button-group/Button group
/components/card/Card
/components/character-count/Character count
/components/checkbox/Checkbox
/components/collection/Collection
/components/combo-box/Combo box
/components/data-visualizations/Data visualizations
/components/date-picker/Date picker
/components/date-range-picker/Date range picker
/components/file-input/File input
/components/footer/Footer
/components/form/Form
/utilities/layout-grid/Grid
/components/header/Header
/components/icon/Icon
/components/icon-list/Icon list
/components/identifier/Identifier
/components/in-page-navigation/In-page navigation
/components/input-mask/Input mask
/components/input-prefix-suffix/Input prefix/suffix
/components/language-selector/Language selector
/components/link/Link
/components/list/List
/components/memorable-date/Memorable date
/components/modal/Modal
/components/pagination/Pagination
/components/process-list/Process list
/components/prose/Prose
/components/radio-buttons/Radio buttons
/components/range-slider/Range slider
/components/search/Search
/components/select/Select
/components/side-navigation/Side navigation
/components/site-alert/Site alert
/components/step-indicator/Step indicator
/components/summary-box/Summary box
/components/table/Table
/components/tag/Tag
/components/text-input/Text input
/components/time-picker/Time picker
/components/tooltip/Tooltip
/components/typography/Typography
/components/validation/Validation
/patterns/Patterns
/patterns/intro/Introducing patterns
/patterns/create-a-user-profile/Create a user profile
/patterns/complete-a-complex-f...Complete a complex form
/patterns/select-a-language/Select a language
/design-tokens/Design tokens
/design-tokens/color/Color
/design-tokens/typesetting/Typesetting
/design-tokens/flex/Flex
/design-tokens/opacity/Opacity
/design-tokens/order/Order
/design-tokens/shadow/Shadow
/design-tokens/spacing-units/Spacing units
/design-tokens/z-index/Z-index
/utilities/Utilities
/utilities/layout-grid/Layout grid
/utilities/color/Text duplicate Color
/utilities/height-and-width/Height and width
/utilities/margin-and-padding/Margin and padding
/utilities/border/Border
/utilities/outline/Outline
/utilities/font-size-and-family/Font size and family
/utilities/text-styles/Text styles
/utilities/paragraph-styles/Paragraph styles
/utilities/display/Display
/utilities/flex/Text duplicate Flex
/utilities/shadow/Text duplicate Shadow
/utilities/float/Float
/utilities/clearfix/Clearfix
/utilities/list-reset/List reset
/templates/Templates
/templates/404-page/404 page
/templates/documentation-page/Documentation page
/templates/landing-page/Landing page
/templates/authentication-pages/Authentication pages
/templates/form-templates/Form templates
/about/About
/about/key-benefits/Key benefits
/about/product-values/Product values
/about/contribute/Contribute
/about/community/Community
/about/whats-new/What’s new
/about/monthly-calls/Monthly calls
/about/product-roadmap/Product roadmap
/about/research/Research
/about/security/Security
/about/website-policies-notices/Website policies and notices
/how-to-use-uswds/Text duplicate How to use USWDS
/design-principles/Text duplicate Design principles
/components/Text duplicate Components
/patterns/Text duplicate Patterns
/design-tokens/Text duplicate Design tokens
/utilities/Text duplicate Utilities
/templates/Text duplicate Templates
/about/Text duplicate About
/website-standards/Read website standards
/download/Download v3.13.0
https://github.com/uswds/uswdsExternal View on GitHub
/whats-new/updates/2022/04/28/...Introducing USWDS 3.0
/documentation/migration/Text duplicate Migrating to USWDS 3.0
/components/Browse components
/patterns/Explore pattern guidance
/design-tokens/View design tokens
/utilities/Build with utilities
https://www.nihlibrary.nih.gov/External Subdomain National Institutes of Health Library
https://www.va.gov/External Subdomain U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/External Subdomain NASA Glenn Research Center
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/l...External Subdomain PubMed Labs | U.S. National Library of Medicine
https://vote.gov/External vote.gov
https://seedfund.nsf.gov/External Subdomain America’s Seed Fund
https://github.com/uswds/uswds...External Reach out in GitHub
/about/community/Subdomain Find a channel that works for you
https://public.govdelivery.com...External Subdomain Sign up for USWDS updates
https://v1.designsystem.digita...External Subdomain Visit v1.designsystem.digital.gov
https://gsa.gov/External General Services Administration
https://www.gsa.gov/about-usExternal Subdomain About GSA
https://www.gsa.gov/website-in...External Subdomain Accessibility statement
https://www.gsa.gov/reference/...External Subdomain FOIA requests
https://www.gsa.gov/reference/...External Subdomain No FEAR Act data
https://www.gsaig.gov/External Subdomain Office of the Inspector General
https://www.gsa.gov/reference/...External Subdomain Performance reports
https://www.gsa.gov/website-in...External Subdomain Privacy policy
https://www.usa.gov/External Subdomain Visit USA.gov

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://designsystem.digital.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 0.48 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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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,004 referring domains.
This page has 6,996 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 783 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Search preview

designsystem.digital.gov
USWDS: The United States Web Design System | U.S. Web Design System...
USWDS makes it easier to build accessible, mobile-friendly government websites.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
gov80%Check
Design79%Check
Design System78%Check
Web Design73%Check
Web Design System73%Check
System72%Check
States Web Design System67%Check
USWDS62%Check
government62%Check
Design tokens61%Check

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