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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
78% 
Page quality
66% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
71% 
Server
54% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.48 s
File size
1,242.80 kB
Words
688
Media files
13
Number of links
64 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Visit Lancaster County, PA | Discover Lancaster
The length of the page title is perfect. (425 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Plan your Lancaster County, PA trip! Discover things to do, places to stay, Amish Country attractions, & deals. Your official guide to an unforgettable Lancaster PA getaway.
The meta description is too long: 1047 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.discoverlancaster.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
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 name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

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mobile-web-app-capableyes
theme-color#FFFFF
keywordscountry, things, places, stay, hotels, weekend, getaway, discounts, visitor, guide, amish, dutch, lancaster, attractions
descriptionPlan your Lancaster County, PA trip! Discover things to do, places to stay, Amish Country attractions, & deals. Your official guide to an unforgettable Lancaster PA getaway.
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robotsall
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:creator@
twitter:titleVisit Lancaster County, PA | Discover Lancaster
twitter:descriptionPlan your Lancaster County, PA trip! Discover things to do, places to stay, Amish Country attractions, & deals. Your official guide to an unforgettable Lancaster PA getaway.
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twitter:image:height418
twitter:image:altVisit Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
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og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://www.discoverlancaster.com/
og:titleVisit Lancaster County, PA | Discover Lancaster
og:descriptionPlan your Lancaster County, PA trip! Discover things to do, places to stay, Amish Country attractions, & deals. Your official guide to an unforgettable Lancaster PA getaway.
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og:image:width1200
og:image:height630
og:image:altVisit Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
og:see_alsohttps://www.facebook.com/discoverlanc/
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 688 words. That's ok.
29.1% 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.
14 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 16.13 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
The file size of the HTML document is very large (1242.8 kB).
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 amount of tags is very high (19). We recommend using a maximum of 14 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
10 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)
This page uses Google authorship information without an image.
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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data:[...] Base64Herd of cows grazing in a Lancaster County field.
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data:[...] Base64Multicolored fireworks explode in the evening sky over Lancaster, PA
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/svg/logo.svg?1No alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Visit Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Visit Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
H2 Summer Time Fun
H2 Trip to Lancaster, PA
H2 Recommended For You
H2 Learn More About Lancaster
H2 Visitor Guide
H2 Email Newsletter
H2 Get more of Lancaster, PA
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
6 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to content
/Subdomain No Text
/saved-items/0 Saved
/places-to-stay/Subdomain Stay
/things-to-do/Subdomain Play
/where-to-eat/Subdomain Eat
/events/Subdomain Events
/plan-your-trip/experience-pas...Subdomain Ice Cream Trail
/blog/lancaster-things-to-do-i...Subdomain So Much To Do!
/places-to-stay/Subdomain overnight stay
/amish/Subdomain timeless Amish traditions
/meetings/venues/hotels/Subdomain hotel
/places-to-stay/bed-breakfasts/Subdomain cozy B&B
/plan-your-trip/visitor-guide/Subdomain Get 2025 Visitors Guide
/?eb=trueNew window Subdomain custom planning tool
/things-to-do/Subdomain things to do
/places-to-stay/Subdomain places to stay
/where-to-eat/Subdomain where to eat
/plan-your-trip/visitor-guide/Subdomain free Visitors Guide
/about/social-media/Subdomain social media
/plan-your-trip/coupons-discou...Subdomain deals and discounts
/blog/couples-trip-to-lancaste...Subdomain romantic getaway
/things-to-do/family-fun/Subdomain family vacation
/plan-your-trip/email/Subdomain enewsletter
/plan-your-trip/experience-pas...Subdomain Experience Passes
/plan-your-trip/visitor-center/Subdomain Visitors Center
/plan-your-trip/Subdomain planning your trip
/plan-your-trip/experience-pas...Subdomain Join Ice Cream Trail
https://fultonsteamboatinn.com...New window External Plan Your Unique Lancaster Getaway Welcome to the Fulton Steamboat Inn! Enjoy nautical or Victorian rooms, an adults-only SunDeck, and 19th-century charm for...
IMG-ALT Adirondack chairs at the pond outside of the Fulton Steamboat Inn in Lancaster, PA
https://amishexperience.com/?u...New window External Guided Tours. Immersive Experiences. Authentic Exploration. Visit Lancaster’s Amish community through a VIP (Visit-in-Person) Tour, or taste a traditional Am...
IMG-ALT Herd of cows grazing in a Lancaster County field.
https://hersheyfarm.com/?utm_s...New window External Stay. Dine. Explore. Hershey Farm Resort offers all-you-can-eat dining, unique shoppes, Café 23, scenic trails, and a cozy hotel near Sight & Sound! Learn More
/blog/lancaster-things-to-do-i...Subdomain Things to do this July in Lancaster, PA Embark on a road trip to Lancaster County, PA! There is a wide range of activities and attractions to enjoy during yo...
IMG-ALT Multicolored fireworks explode in the evening sky over Lancaster, PA
/plan-your-trip/experience-pas...Subdomain No Text
/plan-your-trip/experience-pas...Subdomain Lancaster County Ice Cream Trail
/plan-your-trip/experience-pas...Subdomain Details
/plan-your-trip/experience-pas...Subdomain No Text
/plan-your-trip/experience-pas...Subdomain Lancaster County Town Scavenger Hunts
/plan-your-trip/experience-pas...Subdomain Text duplicate Details
/blog/dutch-wonderland/Subdomain No Text
/blog/dutch-wonderland/Subdomain A Guide to Dutch Wonderland
/blog/dutch-wonderland/Subdomain Text duplicate Details
/blog/strasburg-rail-road/Subdomain No Text
/blog/strasburg-rail-road/Subdomain Insider’s Guide to the Strasburg Rail Road
/blog/strasburg-rail-road/Subdomain Text duplicate Details
/blog/kitchen-kettle-village/Subdomain No Text
/blog/kitchen-kettle-village/Subdomain Essential Guide to Kitchen Kettle Village
/blog/kitchen-kettle-village/Subdomain Text duplicate Details
/blog/Subdomain No Text
/blog/Subdomain Discover Lancaster Blogs
/blog/top-things-to-do-this-su...Subdomain things to do this summer
/blog/all-you-can-eat-buffets-...Subdomain all-you-eat buffets
/blog/where-to-ride-a-horse-bu...Subdomain where to ride a horse & buggy
/blog/Subdomain learn more
/amish/Subdomain Learn More
/events/Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
/places-to-stay/Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
/things-to-do/Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
https://instagram.com/discover...New window External @discover_lancaster
/plan-your-trip/visitor-guide/Subdomain order guide
/plan-your-trip/email/Subdomain sign up
/Subdomain No Text
/about/Subdomain About Us
/partners/Subdomain Partners
/press-room/Subdomain Press Room
/blog/Subdomain Blog
/advocacy/Subdomain Tourism Advocacy
https://www.facebook.com/disco...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://instagram.com/discover...New window External No Text
https://www.youtube.com/golanc...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.pinterest.com/disc...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.tiktok.com/@discov...New window External Subdomain No Text
/privacy-policy/Subdomain Privacy Policy
/plan-your-trip/email/Subdomain Sign Up Today

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.discoverlancaster.com/"
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 (1.48 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 very large (1,243 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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accept-rangesbytes
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 778 referring domains.
This page has 6,038 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 329 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

# robots.txt for https://www.discoverlancaster.com/

sitemap: https://www.discoverlancaster.com/sitemaps-1-sitemap.xml

# live - don't allow web crawlers to index cpresources/ or vendor/

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cpresources/
Disallow: /vendor/
Disallow: /directories/
Disallow: /.env

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Plan your Lancaster County, PA trip! Discover things to do, places to stay, Amish Country attractions, & deals. Your official guide to an unforgettable Lancaster PA getaway.

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Lancaster PA84%Check
Lancaster County83%Check
Discover Lancaster82%Check
Visit Lancaster82%Check
Visit Lancaster County79%Check
Discover74%Check
Visit70%Check
Lancaster Pennsylvania70%Check
PA trip66%Check
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