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Meta information
79% 
Page quality
72% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.88 s
File size
37.40 kB
Words
405
Media files
5
Number of links
77 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Virginia Dept. of Elections: Home
The length of the page title is perfect. (297 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Department of Elections envisions an electoral process that is trustworthy and accountable at all levels and engages Virginia’s diverse citizenry in the most fundamental right - the right to vote.
The meta description is too long: 1200 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is 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)
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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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 405 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
There are 2 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: The Department of Elections promotes and supports accurate, fair, open...
22% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
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.
The average number of words per sentence of 20.5 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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 8 tags for this page.
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
/media/site-assets/img/elect-web-logo.webpVirginia department of Eletions Logo
...mg/bullets-and-arrows/speedy-arrow-2.svgarrow-pointer-icon
...s/img/background-photos/votebuttons.webpVote Buttons
...te-assets/img/empty-voting-booths-2.webpPicture of polling place with no people
...ets/img/illustrations/vavoters-badge.svgVirginia is for Voters logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
September 9, 2025 Special Election
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 September 9, 2025 Special Election
H1 September 9, 2025 Special Election Duplicate text
H1 Virginia Counts on Poll Workers
H2 The Elections Process
H2 Campaign Finance
H2 Campaign Finance Duplicate text
H2 Our Mission
H2 Our Mission Duplicate text
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 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to main content
A-TITLE skip to main content
/Subdomain Home
IMG-ALT Virginia department of Eletions Logo
/index.htmlText duplicate Home
/registration/Registration
/registration/how-to-register/How to Register
/registration/view-your-info/View Your Info
/registration/election-voter-faq/Election and Voter FAQ
/registration/voterid/Do I need an ID to vote?
/registration/voter-forms/Voter Forms
/registration/college-student-...College Student Info
/registration/registration-dri...Registration Drive Training
/registration/designated-state...State-designated Voter Registration
/registration/same-day-voter-r...Same Day Voter Registration
/casting-a-ballot/Casting a Ballot
/casting-a-ballot/calendars-sc...Upcoming Elections
/casting-a-ballot/calendars-sc...Calendars & Schedules
/casting-a-ballot/candidate-list/Candidates & Referendums
/casting-a-ballot/in-person-vo...Voting on Election Day
/casting-a-ballot/early-absentee/Absentee and Early Voting
/casting-a-ballot/military-ove...Military & Overseas
/casting-a-ballot/accessible-v...Accessible Voting
/casting-a-ballot/early-voting...Early Voting Office Locations
/voter-ed/Voter Education & Outreach
/casting-a-ballot/voter-rights/Voter Rights
/casting-a-ballot/redistricting/Redistricting
/casting-a-ballot/ranked-choic...Ranked Choice Voting
/casting-a-ballot/about-specia...About Special Elections
/resultsreports/Results/Reports
/resultsreports/registration-s...Registration Statistics & Polling Places
/resultsreports/registrationtu...Registration/Turnout Reports
/resultsreports/election-results/Election Results
/resultsreports/post-election-...Post-Election Reporting
/resultsreports/maintenance-re...Voter Registration List Maintenance
/resultsreports/election-secur...Election Security
/candidatepac-info/Candidate/PAC Info
/candidatepac-info/becoming-a-...Becoming a Candidate
/candidatepac-info/candidate-b...Candidate Bulletins
/candidatepac-info/candidate-f...Candidate Forms
/candidatepac-info/campaign-fi...Campaign Finance
/candidatepac-info/reporting/Campaign Finance Reports
/candidatepac-info/campaign-fi...Campaign Finance Disclosure Forms
/candidatepac-info/regulation-...Campaign Finance Laws and Policies
/candidatepac-info/campaign-fi...Campaign Finance Filing
/candidatepac-info/candidate-c...Campaign Filing Schedule
/appeals/Penalty Appeals
/candidatepac-info/political-c...Political Committees
/candidatepac-info/client-serv...Client Services
/election-law/Election Law
/election-law/referenda/Referenda
/election-law/place-issue-on-b...Place Issue on Ballot
/election-law/education-materi...Election Education Materials
/about.htmlAbout Us
/contact-us/Contact Us
/contact-us/media-resources/Media Resources
/board/Board of Elections
/officer-of-elections/Officer of Elections/Poll Worker
https://vote.elections.virgini...External Subdomain Register to Vote/Update Registration
/casting-a-ballot/calendars-sc...Upcoming Election Info
/voter-pocket-guide/Virginia Voter Pocket Guide
/casting-a-ballot/absentee-vot...Absentee Voting
/formswarehouse/campaign-finance/Campaign FInance
/registration/registration-dri...Voter Registration Drive Training
/casting-a-ballot/upcoming-ele...Text duplicate Upcoming Election Info
/casting-a-ballot/about-specia...Text duplicate About Special Elections
/casting-a-ballot/upcoming-ele...Text duplicate Upcoming Election Info
/casting-a-ballot/about-specia...Text duplicate About Special Elections
https://apps.elections.virgini...External Subdomain Apply Today
https://whosmy.virginiageneral...New window External Subdomain online tool
A-TITLE Who is my legislator
/elect-backgrounders/what-elec...Before You Vote
/elect-backgrounders/what-elec...When You Vote
/elect-backgrounders/what-elec...After You Vote
/candidatepac-info/campaign-fi...Find out more
/candidatepac-info/campaign-fi...Text duplicate Find out more
/about.htmlLearn More
/about.htmlText duplicate Learn More
/about.htmlText duplicate About Us
/contact-us/Text duplicate Contact Us
/freedom-of-information-act/Freedom of Information Act
/contact-us/media-resources/Media / Press Resources
https://www.facebook.com/Virgi...External Subdomain Facebook
A-TITLE Department of Elections' Facebook
https://twitter.com/vaELECTExternal Twitter
A-TITLE Department of Elections' Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/user/S...External Subdomain YouTube
A-TITLE Department of Elections' YouTube
https://www.instagram.com/va_e...External Subdomain Instagram
A-TITLE Department of Elections' Instagram
/privacy-policy/Privacy Policy
https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/New window External Subdomain WCAG 2.0 Level AA
A-TITLE WCAG 2.0

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.elections.virginia.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 0.88 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 (37 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 636 referring domains.
This page has 8,841 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 455 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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Disallow: /FOIA/
Disallow: /beta-home/
Disallow: /registration/voting-systems/
Disallow: *.json
Disallow: *.csv
Disallow: *.xls
Disallow: *.xlsx
Disallow: /cfr-footer/
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Virginia Dept. of Elections: Home
The Department of Elections envisions an electoral process that is trustworthy and accountable at all levels and engages Virginia’s diverse citizenry in the most fundamental right - the right to vote.

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