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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
50% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
77% 
Server
59% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.93 s
File size
63.10 kB
Words
485
Media files
10
Number of links
58 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Illinois General Assembly - Home Page
The length of the page title is perfect. (348 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Welcome to the official government website of the Illinois General Assembly
The length of the meta description is perfect. (465 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://ilga.gov/
There is a valid canonical link 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)
The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
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=1.0
descriptionWelcome to the official government website of the Illinois General Assembly
contactNameLegislative Information System
contactOrganizationLIS Staff Services
contactStreetAddress1705 Stratton Office Building
contactCitySpringfield
contactZipcode62706
contactNetworkAddress[email protected]
contactPhoneNumber217-782-3944
contactFaxNumber217-524-6059
originatorJurisdictionState Of Illinois
originatorOfficeIllinois General Assembly
originatorDepartmentLegislative Information System
originatorDivisionWeb Staff
ClassificationGovernment--State Government--Illinois General Assembly
keywordsIllinois General Assembly, legislation, public acts, Springfield, Illinois state government, Illinois State Legislators, government, official, House Bills, Senate Bills, Amendments
robotsindex, follow
authorLegislative Information System
DC.titleOfficial Government Website of the Illinois General Assembly
DC.creatorLegislative Information System
DC.subjectIllinois General Assembly, legislation, public acts, Springfield, Illinois state government, Illinois State Legislators, government, official
DC.descriptionOfficial government website of the Illinois General Assembly
DC.publisherLegislative Information System
DC.date2024-06-14
DC.languageen
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:titleOfficial Government Website of the Illinois General Assembly
twitter:descriptionOfficial government website of the Illinois General Assembly
twitter:imagehttps://cdn.ilga.gov/assets/img/site/open_graph.png
og:titleOfficial government website of the Illinois General Assembly
og:descriptionWelcome to the Official government website of the Illinois General Assembly
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://ilga.gov
og:imagehttps://cdn.ilga.gov/assets/img/site/open_graph.png
content-typetext/html;charset=UTF-8
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
There are only 485 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
17.9% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
5 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 12.8 words is good.
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 10 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
9 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
...oglelogo/1x/googlelogo_color_42x16dp.pngGoogle Translate
...ga.gov/assets/img/site/white_capitol.pngNo alt attribute provided
....gov/assets/img/site/lis_vec_whitex2.pngNo alt attribute provided
...gov/assets/img/site/amber-alert-logo.pngNo alt attribute providedIllinois AMBER Alert
....ilga.gov/assets/img/site/NCMEC-logo.pngNo alt attribute providedNational Center for Missing and Exploited Children
...ga.gov/assets/img/site/white_capitol.pngNo alt attribute provided
....gov/assets/img/site/lis_vec_whitex2.pngNo alt attribute provided
...gov/assets/img/site/amber-alert-logo.pngNo alt attribute providedIllinois AMBER Alert
....ilga.gov/assets/img/site/NCMEC-logo.pngNo alt attribute providedNational Center for Missing and Exploited Children
...ga.gov/assets/img/site/white_capitol.pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H3 Senate
H3 House
H3 Legislation & Laws
H3 Reports & Inquiry
H3 Common Reports
H3 Find My Legislator
H3 Additional Resources
H4 Floor Proceedings
H4 Floor Proceedings Duplicate text
H4 Quick Links
H5 Select Language
H5 ILGA.gov Virtual Assistant
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.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://translate.google.com/New window External Subdomain Translate
IMG-ALT Google Translate
https://ilga.gov/ILGA.GOV
https://ilga.gov/LegislationLEGISLATION & LAWS
https://ilga.gov/LegislationBills & Resolutions
/Legislation/PublicActsPublic Acts
/Legislation/ILCS/ChaptersIllinois Compiled Statutes
https://lrb.ilga.gov/Commissio...New window External Subdomain Illinois Constitution
/Search?q&base=LegisSearch Legislation
/Legislation/GlossaryGlossary
https://ilga.gov/GuideGuide
https://ilga.gov/ReportsReports & Inquiry
https://ilga.gov/ReportsLegislative Reports
/Reports/SpecialReportsSpecial Reports
https://ilga.gov/ftp/New window FTP Site
/members/FindMyLegislatorLegislator Lookup
https://ilga.gov/directoryCapitol Complex Phone Numbers
http://www.cyberdriveillinois....New window External Subdomain Illinois Register
/agencies/JCAR/AdminCodeAdministrative Rules
https://ilga.gov/Senate/MembersSenate
https://ilga.gov/Senate/MembersMembers
https://ilga.gov/Senate/SchedulesSchedules
/Senate/CommitteesCommittees
/Uploads/Testimony/Senate/Remo...New window Request for Remote Testimony
https://ilga.gov/Senate/JournalsJournals
/Senate/TranscriptsTranscripts
https://ilga.gov/Senate/RulesRules
/Senate/AudioVideoAudio/Video
/Documents/senate/FOIA.pdfNew window FOIA Information
/EmploymentOpportunitiesSenate Employment Opportunities
/Documents/senate/SenateMediaG...New window Media Guidelines
https://ilga.gov/House/MembersHouse
https://ilga.gov/House/MembersText duplicate Members
https://ilga.gov/House/SchedulesText duplicate Schedules
https://ilga.gov/House/CommitteesText duplicate Committees
/Uploads/Testimony/House/Remot...New window Submit testimony for House Committees
https://ilga.gov/House/JournalsText duplicate Journals
/House/TranscriptsText duplicate Transcripts
https://ilga.gov/House/RulesText duplicate Rules
https://ilga.gov/House/AudioVideoText duplicate Audio/Video
/Documents/house/FOIA.pdfNew window Text duplicate FOIA Information
/EmploymentOpportunitiesHouse Employment Opportunities
https://ilga.gov/Account/LoginLog In
https://ilga.gov/LegislationText duplicate Bills & Resolutions
/Legislation/PublicActsText duplicate Public Acts
/Legislation/ILCS/ChaptersText duplicate Illinois Compiled Statutes
/Documents/commission/lrb/conm...Text duplicate Illinois Constitution
/Search?base=Legis&showadvance...Advanced Search
/members/FindMyLegislatorNo Text
/members/FindMyLegislatorFind My Legislator
https://ilga.gov/agenciesLegislative Support Services
/EmploymentOpportunitiesEmployment Opportunities
/agencies/LEC/LegislativeEmplo...Ethics and Harassment & Discrimination Prevention Training for Legislative Branch
/agencies/DiscriminationHarass...Harassment & Discrimination Reporting Information
https://lig.ilga.gov/New window External Subdomain Legislative Inspector General
http://www.amberillinois.com/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.missingkids.org/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://ilga.gov/Text duplicate ILGA.GOV
https://ilga.gov/AccessibilityADA
https://ilga.gov/DisclaimersDisclaimers
https://ilga.gov/FAQFAQ
http://www.amberillinois.com/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.missingkids.org/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://ilga.gov/Text duplicate ILGA.GOV
https://ilga.gov/AccessibilityText duplicate ADA
https://ilga.gov/DisclaimersText duplicate Disclaimers
https://ilga.gov/FAQText duplicate FAQ

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://ilga.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
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 0.93 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.
A Content Delivery Network like Google Hosted Libraries can save bandwidth for the JQuery files.
A Content Delivery Network like Bootstrap CDN can save bandwidth for Bootstrap front-end component library.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (63 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlno-cache, no-store
pragmano-cache
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
strict-transport-securitymax-age=2592000
set-cookie226 Characters
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-elapsed37.4792
x-powered-byASP.NET
dateSat, 14 Mar 2026 14:53:55 GMT
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 276 referring domains.
This page has 1,497 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 134 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

# robots.txt for ILGA.gov v1.00

# Block known bad bots
User-agent: MJ12bot
User-agent: AhrefsBot
User-agent: SemrushBot
User-agent: DotBot
User-agent: Yandex
User-agent: Baiduspider
User-agent: Sogou
User-agent: SiteExplorer
Disallow: /

# Block sensitive or irrelevant paths for all bots
User-agent: *
Disallow: /account
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /api

# Allow Googlebot to load assets
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /*.css$
Allow: /*.js$

# Crawl-delay to reduce load
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10

# Sitemap location
Sitemap: https://ilga.gov/sitemap.xml

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