Jobs.virginia.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
59% 
Page quality
80% 
Page structure
16% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
76% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.91 s
File size
94.70 kB
Words
800
Media files
7
Number of links
13 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home
The title contains the word Home! More content should be covered in the title.
The page title is too short. (52 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)
Welcome to Jobs.Virginia.Gov Join us for a career with purpose that is connected to a strong mission! Working for Virginia State Government means working with others who care about making a difference in our communities across the Commonwealth. It is about providing programs, creating infrastructure, and working with people to provide services and programs to Virginia’s citizens. It is about making Virginia the best – the best place for business, the best place to visit, and the best place to live!
The meta description is too long: 3081 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.jobs.virginia.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)
The specified alternate links have no errors.
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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og:titleHome
og:descriptionWelcome to Jobs.Virginia.Gov Join us for a career with purpose that is connected to a strong mission! Working for Virginia State Government means working with others who care about making a difference in our communities across the Commonwealth. It is about providing programs, creating infrastructure, and working with people to provide services and programs to Virginia’s citizens. It is about making Virginia the best – the best place for business, the best place to visit, and the best place to live!
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 800 words. That's ok.
26.9% of the text are stop words.
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 21.93 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 usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 16 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)
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
...d04c5/medium/jobslogo118s.png?1674096233No alt attribute provided
...60/large/downtownrichmond.jpg?1673148014Metropolis, City, Urban, Cityscape, Waterfront, High Rise, Office Building, Condo, Downtown, Scenery
...-acquisition/pageup/incentivegold128.pngNo alt attribute provided
...t-acquisition/pageup/increaseblue128.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ce/talent-acquisition/pageup/balance.pngNo alt attribute provided
...t-acquisition/pageup/virginiaoutline.pngNo alt attribute provided
...8b21af637e/thumb/jobsLogo.png?1673366254Commonwealth of VA Careers logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to Jobs.Virginia.Gov
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to Jobs.Virginia.Gov
H1 Begin your search now!
H1 Recently Posted Jobs
H1 Reasons to Choose a Career in Virginia State Government
H1 Additional Resources
H2 Join us for a career with purpose that is connected to a strong mission!
H2 Great Benefits
H2 Empty heading
H2 Career Opportunities
H2 Empty heading
H2 Work/Life Balance
H2 Empty heading
H2 Location
H2 Hiring Resources for Veterans
H2 Alternative Hiring Process
H2 Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness
H2 Additional Resources from Virginia Works
H3 Human Services Associate - Administrative
H3 Benefit Programs Specialist I
H3 Children's Services Act Coordinator
H3 Accounting Associate
H3 Systemwide Advisor for Employee Relations & Regulatory Compliance
H3 Systemwide Advisor for Talent Acquisition & Management
H5 The Commonwealth of Virginia is an Equal Opportunity Employer
H5 E-Verify
H5 Need Accommodations
H5 Need Help
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 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/homeNo Text
/jobs/searchSearch Job Postings
/veterans-hiring-resourcesVeterans Hiring Resources
/alternative-hiring-processAlternative Hiring Process
/internship-opportunitiesInternship Opportunities
https://secure.dc4.pageuppeopl...External Subdomain log in here
/applicant-frequently-asked-qu...Frequently Asked Questions
/jobs/human-services-associate...Human Services Associate - Administrative Suffolk Family Services
/jobs/benefit-programs-special...Benefit Programs Specialist I Pulaski County Administrative
/jobs/children-s-services-act-...Children's Services Act Coordinator Suffolk Administrative
/jobs/accounting-associate-suf...Accounting Associate Suffolk Administrative
/jobs/systemwide-advisor-for-e...Systemwide Advisor for Employee Relations & Regulatory Compliance Richmond HUMAN RES SVC & AA (System/Central Office)
/jobs/systemwide-advisor-for-t...Systemwide Advisor for Talent Acquisition & Management Richmond HUMAN RES SVC & AA (System/Central Office)
https://www.dhrm.virginia.gov/...External Subdomain excellent package of benefits
https://va-careers.career-page...External Subdomain Hiring Resources for Veterans
https://va-careers.career-page...External Subdomain Text duplicate Alternative Hiring Process
https://studentaid.gov/manage-...External Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness
https://virginiahasjobs.com/External Additional Resources from Virginia Works
/v1/candidate_detailsCandidate Details
https://www.virginia.gov/priva...New window External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://www.e-verify.gov/mye-v...External Subdomain E-Verify
https://www.e-verify.gov/mye-v...External Subdomain visit Self Check
https://www.virginia.gov/agenc...External Subdomain Anchor Need Accommodations
https://forms.office.com/g/tSh...External Subdomain this form

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.jobs.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 0.91 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 (95 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 70 referring domains.
This page has 262,877 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 65 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

# Commonwealth of VA Careers Robots Txt

User-agent: bedrockbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /v1/candidate_details
Disallow: /me/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /pages/*/blocks/

Crawl-delay: 5

Sitemap: https://www.jobs.virginia.gov/sitemap.xml

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Home
Welcome to Jobs.Virginia.Gov Join us for a career with purpose that is connected to a strong mission! Working for Virginia State Government means working with others who care about making a difference in our communities across the Commonwealth. It is about providing programs, creating infrastructure, and working with people to provide services and programs to Virginia’s citizens. It is about making Virginia the best – the best place for business, the best place to visit, and the best place to live!

Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

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Jobs79%Check
Gov75%Check
Job71%Check
Virginia State66%Check
making Virginia64%Check
Jobs Search63%Check
Welcome62%Check
Virginia State Government61%Check
Search Job57%Check
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