Mapquest.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
54% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
98% 
Server
74% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.60 s
File size
209.50 kB
Words
95
Media files
9
Number of links
29 internal / 16 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Official MapQuest - Maps, Driving Directions, Live Traffic
The length of the page title is perfect. (506 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Official MapQuest website, find driving directions, maps, live traffic updates and road conditions. Find nearby businesses, restaurants and hotels. Explore!
The length of the meta description is perfect. (944 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.mapquest.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Germany
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
next-size-adjustEmpty
descriptionOfficial MapQuest website, find driving directions, maps, live traffic updates and road conditions. Find nearby businesses, restaurants and hotels. Explore!
robotsindex, follow
google-adsense-accountsites-9053884276298326
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:titleOfficial MapQuest - Maps, Driving Directions, Live Traffic
twitter:descriptionOfficial MapQuest website, find driving directions, maps, live traffic updates and road conditions. Find nearby businesses, restaurants and hotels. Explore!
twitter:imagehttps://static.mqcdn.com/yogi-cdn/yogi/graphics/mq-logo-full.svg
twitter:image:altMapQuest - Maps, Driving Directions, Live Traffic
og:titleOfficial MapQuest - Maps, Driving Directions, Live Traffic
og:descriptionOfficial MapQuest website, find driving directions, maps, live traffic updates and road conditions. Find nearby businesses, restaurants and hotels. Explore!
og:imagehttps://static.mqcdn.com/yogi-cdn/yogi/graphics/mq-logo-full.svg
og:image:altMapQuest - Maps, Driving Directions, Live Traffic
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 95 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
No paragraphs were detected.
22.1% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
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 6 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
/_next/static/media/hotel.aab090e3.svgHotels
/_next/static/media/food.95d23220.svgFood
/_next/static/media/shopping.e482af69.svgShopping
/_next/static/media/coffee.e53c5caf.svgCoffee
/_next/static/media/groceries.9bd01708.svgGrocery
/_next/static/media/gas.bf9ad8a1.svgGas
.../static/media/google-badge.315ec102.webpAndroid app Google Play
...t/static/media/apple-badge.cb9bdb68.webpDownload on the App Store
.../static/media/amazon-badge.0c038046.webpDownload on the Amazon Appstore

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
H2 Looking for directions?
H2 Looking for directions? Duplicate text
H6 Explore top cities in the United States
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 16 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.mapquest.com/A-TITLE MapQuest
/search/HotelsNofollow Hotels
IMG-ALT Hotels
/search/RestaurantsNofollow Food
IMG-ALT Food
/search/ShoppingNofollow Shopping
IMG-ALT Shopping
/search/CoffeeNofollow Coffee
IMG-ALT Coffee
/search/GroceriesNofollow Grocery
IMG-ALT Grocery
/search/GasNofollow Gas
IMG-ALT Gas
/directionsNofollow MapQuest it!
/directionsNofollow Text duplicate MapQuest it!
/us/united-states-282934758United States
/us/new-york/new-york-ny-28204...New York
/us/illinois/chicago-il-282039507Chicago
/us/california/los-angeles-ca-...Los Angeles
/us/washington/seattle-wa-2820...Seattle
/us/florida/miami-fl-282040379Miami
/us/pennsylvania/philadelphia-...Philadelphia
/us/texas/dallas-tx-282040340Dallas
/us/texas/houston-tx-282040105Houston
/us/georgia/atlanta-ga-282041693Atlanta
/us/tennessee/nashville-tn-379...Nashville
/us/arizona/phoenix-az-282039682Phoenix
/us/texas/san-antonio-tx-49291...San Antonio
/us/california/san-diego-ca-28...San Diego
/us/california/san-jose-ca-282...San Jose
https://www.mapquest.com/Text duplicate A-TITLE MapQuest
/directionsGet directions
https://www.mapquest.com/travelNew window Subdomain MapQuest Travel
/routeplannerRoute Planner
/us/washington/seattle-wa-2820...Nofollow Print your map
https://help.mapquest.com/hc/r...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Get help
https://search.mapquest.com/New window External Subdomain Search the web
https://help.mapquest.com/hc/e...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Send feedback
https://hello.mapquest.com/mob...New window External Subdomain mobile apps.
https://play.google.com/store/...New window Nofollow External Subdomain IMG-ALT Android app Google Play
https://apps.apple.com/app/map...New window Nofollow External Subdomain IMG-ALT Download on the App Store
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004...New window Nofollow External Subdomain IMG-ALT Download on the Amazon Appstore
http://business.mapquest.com/?...New window External Subdomain Enterprise solutions
https://listings.mapquest.com/...New window External Subdomain Claim your business
https://developer.mapquest.com...New window External Subdomain Developer resources
https://hello.mapquest.com/car...New window External Subdomain Jobs
https://system1.com/partnerNew window External Advertise with us
https://hello.mapquest.com/ter...New window External Subdomain Terms of use
https://hello.mapquest.com/pri...New window External Subdomain Privacy policy
https://hello.mapquest.com/att...New window External Subdomain Data and licenses
https://system1.com/advertisersNew window External About our ads

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.mapquest.com/"
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 0.60 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 (210 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
dateSat, 26 Jul 2025 08:04:41 GMT
serverApache/2.4.65 (Unix) OpenSSL/3.5.1
x-middleware-rewrite/mapquest/
link</_next/static/media/4f05ba3a6752a328-s.p.woff2>; rel=preload; as="font"; crossorigin=""; type="font/woff2", </_next/static/css/d177c451d1933352.css>; rel=preload; as="style", </_next/static/css/1125542a9b66face.css>; rel=preload; as="style", </_next/static/css/4ab7db3cce1a1fe3.css>; rel=preload; as="style", </_next/static/css/c62a0a23f76968d8.css>; rel=preload; as="style", </_next/static/css/d70dfe0b91424e03.css>; rel=preload; as="style"
x-powered-byNext.js
cache-controlno-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
content-encodinggzip
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
varyAccept-Encoding
via1.1 9ec406dc5379d974fc3d9f41dd497bf0.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-experiment-activename=bento,variant=a
x-origin-cache-controlprivate, no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate
set-cookie79 Characters
x-cacheMiss from cloudfront
x-amz-cf-popFRA60-P7
x-amz-cf-id0hC4ios8DEwx0CAqSXz3eR7lpIauOq8595zcYSLwvbQ350sEmaT3cw==
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 3,280 referring domains.
This page has 4,744,238 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,553 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Sitemap: https://www.mapquest.com/sitemap.xml
Disallow: /account/*
Disallow: /search/*
Disallow: /timeout
Disallow: /my-maps/*
Disallow: /*MQAB=*
Disallow: /*o3ijf=*

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www.mapquest.com
Official MapQuest - Maps, Driving Directions, Live Traffic
Official MapQuest website, find driving directions, maps, live traffic updates and road conditions. Find nearby businesses, restaurants and hotels. Explore!

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
MapQuest69%Check
directions65%Check
get directions51%Check
Explore50%Check
Hotels48%Check
web48%Check
driving directions46%Check
Official MapQuest46%Check
business46%Check
Looking43%Check
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