Dmv.utah.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
56% 
Page quality
74% 
Page structure
49% 
Link structure
91% 
Server
82% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.59 s
File size
159.30 kB
Words
393
Media files
1
Number of links
25 internal / 30 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
DMV
The page title is too short. (43 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
The page title is only one word.
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://dmv.utah.gov/
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)
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

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viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
robotsmax-image-preview:large
langen-us
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 393 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
23.2% of the text are stop words.
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 18.8 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 amount of tags is very high (11). We recommend using a maximum of 8 tags for this page.
Some tags are too long. With 118 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"appointments available at the ogden, farmington, taylorsville, south valley (draper), provo, and hurri..."
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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
/wp-content/uploads/ustc-seal.pngUtah State Tax Commission Seal

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
DMV
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (3 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
There are 36 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 DMV
H2 How can we help you?
H2 About DMV Services
H3 Renew your registration
H3 UPP Title Transfer E-Service
H3 Make an appointment
H3 Find an On the Spot Location
H3 Order a new or custom license plate
H3 Report a sold vehicle
H3 Estimate Fees
H3 License plate order status
H3 Change your vehicle address
H3 Replace yearly decal/sticker
H3 Contact us
H3 Buying a car
H3 Moved from out of state
H3 Get a disabled parking permit
H3 Insufficient evidence of ownership
H3 Impound release
H3 Do I need a VIN inspection?
H3 Visiting Utah with a recreational vehicle or boat
H3 Swapping plates between your vehicles
H3 Driver License Division - Dept. of Public Safety
H3 Register and Renew
H3 Plates
H3 Titles
H3 Other Services
H3 Easy Ways to Renew Your Registration
H3 In-Person Appointments
H3 Save Time!
H3 Recent Changes
H3 DMV Office Locations
H3 Driver License Question
H4 Renew Online
H4 Renew at a Service Center
H4 Automatic Renewals
1 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (30) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/dmv-services/Online Services
https://mvp.tax.utah.gov/?link...New window External Subdomain Make an Appointment
https://www.udot.utah.gov/conn...New window External Subdomain LEARN MORE
https://secure.utah.gov/rex/in...New window External Subdomain Renew your registration
/titles-overview/upp/UPP Title Transfer E-Service
https://mvp.tax.utah.gov/?link...New window External Subdomain Make an appointment
https://secure.utah.gov/rex/he...New window External Subdomain Find an On the Spot Location
https://mvp.tax.utah.gov/?Link...New window External Subdomain Order a new or custom license plate
https://mvp.tax.utah.gov/?Link...New window External Subdomain Report a sold vehicle
https://mvp.tax.utah.gov/?Link...New window External Subdomain Estimate Fees
https://mvp.tax.utah.gov/?link...New window External Subdomain License plate order status
https://mvp.tax.utah.gov/?link...New window External Subdomain Change your vehicle address
https://mvp.tax.utah.gov/?link...New window External Subdomain Replace yearly decal/sticker
https://dmv.utah.gov/contact-dmv/Contact us
/other-services-overview/buyin...Buying a car
/titles-overview/moved-from-ou...Moved from out of state
/plates/disabled/Get a disabled parking permit
/titles/transfer-without-titleInsufficient evidence of ownership
/other-services-overview/impou...Impound release
/register/inspectionsDo I need a VIN inspection?
/vehicles/boats-watercraftVisiting Utah with a recreational vehicle or boat
/plates/tansfer-plate/Swapping plates between your vehicles
https://dld.utah.gov/New window External Subdomain Driver License Division - Dept. of Public Safety
/register-renew/registerRegister and Renew
https://dmv.utah.gov/platesPlates
/titles-overviewTitles
/other-services-overviewOther Services
https://secure.utah.gov/rex/in...New window External Subdomain Renew Vehicle
https://secure.utah.gov/rex/he...New window External Subdomain On the SPOT Renewal
https://mvp.tax.utah.gov/?Link...New window External Subdomain Automatic Renewal
https://mvp.tax.utah.gov/?link...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Make an Appointment
/wp-content/uploads/license-pl...Major License Plate Changes
https://dmv.utah.gov/officesSubdomain No Text
/contact/office-locations/Subdomain Office Closures
/contact/office-locations/New window Find an Office
https://dld.utah.gov/New window External Subdomain Driver License Division
https://www.facebook.com/UtahS...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Facebook
https://twitter.com/UtahStateTaxNew window External A-TITLE Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/reel...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Instagram
https://govops.utah.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Utah State Tax Commission Seal
/contact/office-locationsOffice Locations
https://tax.utah.gov/External Subdomain Main Tax Commission Site
https://propertytax.utah.gov/External Subdomain Property Tax
https://incometax.utah.gov/External Subdomain Income Tax
https://dmv.utah.gov/Subdomain Motor Vehicle Division (DMV)
https://mved.utah.gov/External Subdomain Motor Vehicle Enforcement Division
https://mvp.tax.utah.gov/_/External Subdomain Utah Motor Vehicle Portal (MVP)
https://tap.tax.utah.gov/TaxEx...External Subdomain Taxpayer Access Point (TAP)
https://dmv.utah.gov/contact-dmv/Subdomain DMV Contact
/contact-dmv/office-locations/Subdomain DMV Office Locations
https://dmv.utah.gov/forms/Subdomain Forms and Publications
https://tax.utah.gov/econstats/mvExternal Subdomain Motor Vehicle Statistics
https://tax.utah.gov/commissio...External Subdomain Tax Commission Appeals
/other-services-overview/privacy/Subdomain Privacy of Records
https://tax.utah.gov/info/privacyExternal Subdomain Privacy Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://dmv.utah.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.59 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 (159 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateMon, 30 Jun 2025 16:53:57 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-powered-byWP Engine
expiresThu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
pragmano-cache
link<https://dmv.utah.gov/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
x-cacheableSHORT
cache-controlmax-age=600, must-revalidate
x-cacheHIT: 20
x-cache-groupnormal
x-orig-cache-controlno-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
servercloudflare
cf-ray957f2ec81aa17029-CDG
content-encodingbr
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 361 referring domains.
This page has 1,291 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 269 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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DMV84%Check
DMV Office Locations58%Check
Utah54%Check
Renew47%Check
registration47%Check
Appointment47%Check
Location47%Check
Service47%Check
Utah State47%Check
Vehicle43%Check
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