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Meta information
59% 
Page quality
47% 
Page structure
78% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
54% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.63 s
File size
106.00 kB
Words
292
Media files
24
Number of links
42 internal / 28 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Gardening Solutions – Florida-Friendly gardening information from UF/IFAS
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 672 pixels long. Optimize title
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://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/
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)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
msapplication-TileColor#ffffff
theme-color#ffffff
robotsmax-image-preview:large
generatorWordPress 6.8.1
msapplication-TileImagehttps://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/cropped-IFAS512x512-270x270.png
langen-us
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
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.
23.6% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 23 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 64 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" 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)
5 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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/themes/ufl-main-uni/img/x.PNGclose search
...ent/uploads/2024/06/uf_ifas_white_gs.pngUF/IFAS Extension Gardening Solutions
.../themes/ufl-main-uni/img/search_icon.pngsearch
.../themes/ufl-main-uni/img/search_icon.pngsearch
...l-block/assets/images/ver_bar_thick.webpNo alt attribute provided
...fl-block/assets/images/ver_bar_thin.webpNo alt attribute provided
...fl-block/assets/images/feat-card-bg.webpNo alt attribute provided
...2/vegetable_gardening_student369x326.jpgCard Image
...fl-block/assets/images/feat-card-bg.webpNo alt attribute provided
...2025/02/blue_eyed_grass_macro260x326.jpgCard Image
...fl-block/assets/images/feat-card-bg.webpNo alt attribute provided
...ads/2025/04/pigeon_pea_flower360x326.jpgCard Image
...s/ufl-block/assets/images/thin-left.webphorizontal orange line
...ns/ufl-block/assets/images/largeBar.webphorizontal orange line
...block/assets/images/largeBar_bottom.webphorizontal orange line
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...s/ufl-block/assets/images/thin-left.webphorizontal orange line
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...block/assets/images/largeBar_bottom.webphorizontal orange line
...ns/ufl-block/assets/images/smallBar.webphorizontal orange line
...t/uploads/2024/06/clue_orange987x738.pngThe Center for Land Use Efficiency
...tent/uploads/2024/05/ffl_flag987x738.jpgFlorida-Friendly Landscaping™
...ads/2024/05/mgv_epcot_signage987x738.jpgFlorida Master Gardener Volunteers
/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/logo.svgThe University of Florida

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Gardening Solutions
The H1 heading is too short (19 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Gardening Solutions
H2 Summer Blooms
H2 What to Plant in April
H2 Our Other Programs
H4 Contact
H4 Our Programs
H4 UF/IFAS Extension
H4 Web Policy
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (28) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to main content
/Subdomain IMG-ALT UF/IFAS Extension Gardening Solutions
https://sfyl.ifas.ufl.edu/New window External Subdomain UF/IFAS Extension
https://www.ufl.edu/New window External Subdomain University of Florida
/infographics-collection/Subdomain Infographics Collection
https://sfyl.ifas.ufl.edu/find...External Subdomain Your local Extension office
https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/news/External Subdomain UF/IFAS News
/infographics-collection/hurri...Subdomain 2024 Hurricane Season Outlook
/plants/Subdomain Plants
/plants/edibles/Subdomain Edible Plants
/plants/ornamentals/Subdomain Ornamental Plants
/plants/houseplants/Subdomain Houseplants
/plants/trees-and-shrubs/Subdomain Trees and Shrubs
/care/Subdomain Care
/care/planting/Subdomain Planting
/care/pruning/Subdomain Pruning
/care/irrigation/Subdomain Irrigation
/care/fertilizer/Subdomain Fertilizer
/care/pests-and-diseases/Subdomain Pests and Diseases
/care/weather/Subdomain Weather
/care/weeds-and-invasive-plants/Subdomain Weeds and Invasive Plants
/care/tools-and-equipment/Subdomain Tools and Equipment
/care/florida-friendly/Subdomain Florida-Friendly Landscapes
/design/Subdomain Design
/design/types-of-gardens/Subdomain Types of Gardens
/design/outdoor-living/Subdomain Outdoor Living
/design/gardening-with-wildlife/Subdomain Gardening with Wildlife
/design/landscaping-for-specif...Subdomain Landscaping for Specific Sites
/lawns/Subdomain Lawns
/care/fertilizer/Subdomain Text duplicate Fertilizer
/care/irrigation/Subdomain Text duplicate Irrigation
/lawns/turf-types/Subdomain Turf Types
/lawns/maintenance-and-care/Subdomain Maintenance and Care
/lawns/problems-and-solutions/Subdomain Problems and Solutions
/about-gardening-solutions/abo...Subdomain About Us
/about-gardening-solutions/Subdomain About Gardening Solutions
/about-gardening-solutions/abo...Subdomain About CLUE
/plants/houseplants/florida-pe...Subdomain Florida Peperomia
/plants/edibles/Growing Florida Vegetables From avocados to Swiss chard, edible gardening is for everyone. Edible Gardening
IMG-ALT Card Image
/plants/ornamentals/native-pla...Native Plants Native plants are often a good bet for the Florida gardener. Read more about native plants
IMG-ALT Card Image
/plants/edibles/what-to-plant-...What to Plant An infographic listing Florida-Friendly vegetables to plant this month. The infographic and other resources
IMG-ALT Card Image
/plants/ornamentals/flowers-to...Flowers for May
/plants/edibles/vegetables/gin...Subdomain Plant ginger
https://clue.ifas.ufl.edu/New window External Subdomain The Center for Land Use Efficiency
IMG-ALT The Center for Land Use Efficiency
https://ffl.ifas.ufl.edu/New window External Subdomain Florida-Friendly Landscaping™
IMG-ALT Florida-Friendly Landscaping™
/mastergardener/New window Subdomain Florida Master Gardener Volunteers
IMG-ALT Florida Master Gardener Volunteers
https://forms.office.com/Pages...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Yes 😀
https://forms.office.com/Pages...New window Nofollow External Subdomain No ☹️
/Subdomain IMG-ALT The University of Florida
https://www.facebook.com/flori...New window External Subdomain Facebook Icon
https://x.com/floridamgsNew window External Twitter Icon
https://www.instagram.com/flor...New window External Subdomain Instagram Icon
https://www.youtube.com/@UFGAR...New window External Subdomain Youtube Icon
https://clue.ifas.ufl.edu/New window External Subdomain UF/IFAS Center for Land Use Efficiency
https://clue.ifas.ufl.edu/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate The Center for Land Use Efficiency
https://bmp.ifas.ufl.edu/External Subdomain Agricultural BMP Program
https://ffl.ifas.ufl.edu/New window External Subdomain Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ Program
/mastergardener/New window Subdomain The Florida Master Gardener Volunteer Program
https://sfyl.ifas.ufl.edu/agri...New window External Subdomain Agriculture
https://sfyl.ifas.ufl.edu/natu...New window External Subdomain Natural Resources
https://sfyl.ifas.ufl.edu/lawn...New window External Subdomain Lawn & Garden
https://sfyl.ifas.ufl.edu/fami...New window External Subdomain Family Resources
https://sfyl.ifas.ufl.edu/4-h-...New window External Subdomain 4-H Youth Development
https://accessibility.ufl.edu/New window External Subdomain Accessible UF
https://ics.ifas.ufl.edu/uf-if...New window External Subdomain IFAS EEO Statement
https://ics.ifas.ufl.edu/our-s...New window External Subdomain IFAS Web Policy
https://privacy.ufl.edu/privac...New window External Subdomain Privacy UF
https://policies.google.com/pr...New window External Subdomain Analytics (Google Privacy)
https://www.ufl.edu/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate University of Florida
https://sfyl.ifas.ufl.edu/New window External Subdomain IFAS Extension

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/"
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 0.63 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.
This page loads 36 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 64 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (106 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlno-cache
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-encodinggzip
last-modifiedSat, 03 May 2025 16:01:55 GMT
wpo-cache-statuscached
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self'
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
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strict-transport-securitymax-age=2592001; includeSubDomains
dateSun, 04 May 2025 14:31:15 GMT
connectionclose
content-length20635
set-cookie66 Characters
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 102 referring domains.
This page has 169 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 91 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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Solutions77%Check
Gardening Solutions77%Check
IFAS69%Check
UF IFAS68%Check
Gardening Solutions Florida-Friendly67%Check
Solutions Florida-Friendly gardening67%Check
Florida-Friendly gardening62%Check
gardening information61%Check
UF IFAS Center58%Check
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