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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
68% 
Page structure
67% 
Link structure
87% 
Server
70% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.85 s
File size
108.80 kB
Words
453
Media files
27
Number of links
60 internal / 16 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Marine Corps Association
The length of the page title is perfect. (300 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
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://www.mca-marines.org/
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)
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

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twitter:description 
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twitter:label1Written by
twitter:data1Ambershay Cooper
twitter:label2Time to read
twitter:data2Less than a minute
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og:description 
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 453 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
27.2% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
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.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 22.56 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" 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 9 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
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...ds/ClosingTheGapWebBanner-519-scaled.jpgimage
...ads/ScoutSnipersWebBanner-519-scaled.jpgimage
...carousel-image_podcast_2.jpg-scaled.jpegimage
.../MCA-Website-Banner-Update-2025-copy.jpgimage
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...ontent/themes/mca/images/about-arrow.pngimage
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...ontent/themes/mca/images/about-arrow.pngimage
/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/about-img03.pngimage
...ontent/themes/mca/images/about-arrow.pngimage
...ontent/uploads/0625-GZ-Cover-223x300.pngMarine Corps Gazette
...ntent/uploads/0625-LNK-Cover-217x300.pngLeatherneck – Magazine of the Marines
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...tent/themes/mca/images/facebook-icon.pngsocial-icon
/wp-content/themes/mca/images/instagram.pngsocial-icon
/wp-content/themes/mca/images/linkedin.pngsocial-icon
/wp-content/themes/mca/images/twitter.pngsocial-icon
/wp-content/themes/mca/images/youtube.pngsocial-icon

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Closing the Gap
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (15 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Closing the Gap
H1 Gone But Not Forgotten
H1 Scuttlebutt Ep 194
H1 2025 Commandant's Professional Reading List
H2 About MCA image
H2 Join Your Professional Association image
H2 Supporting Today’s Marines image
H2 Current Magazines
H2 Resources for Marines
H3 2025 MCA Information Awards Dinner
H3 2025 MCA Ammo Tech Awards Dinner
H3 2025 MCA M&RA Awards Dinner
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
3 links don't have an anchor text.
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.mca-marines.org/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.mca-marines.org/Subdomain IMG-ALT logo
https://my.mca-marines.org/ser...External Subdomain Login
https://my.mca-marines.org/nc_...New window External Subdomain Join
https://igfn.us/f/4o32/nNew window External Donate
https://www.usaa.com/inet/wc/a...External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT logo
https://www.mca-marines.org/Subdomain Home
/about-us-marine-corps-associa...Subdomain About Us
/mca-leadership-2/Subdomain Leadership
/board-of-directors/Subdomain Board of Directors
/board-of-governors/Subdomain Board of Governors
/professional-development/Subdomain Professional Development
/battle-study-packages/Subdomain Battle Study Packages
/professional-development/tdg-...Subdomain TDG Collection Index
/article-collections/Subdomain Article Collections
/scuttlebutt/Subdomain MCA Scuttlebutt
/behind-the-camouflage/Subdomain Spouse & Family
/behind-the-camouflage/Subdomain Behind the Camouflage
/btc-podcast/Subdomain Behind the Camouflage Podcast
/spouse-summits/Subdomain Spouse Summits
/btc-chronicles/Subdomain Chronicles
/btc-spouse-community-awards/Subdomain Spouse & Community Awards
/spousefamily-resources/Subdomain Resources
/career-resources/Subdomain Career Resources
/legacy/Subdomain The Legacy
/there-i-was-book-reviews/Subdomain “There I was…” Book Reviews
/legacy-article-collections/Subdomain Legacy Collections
/scuttlebutt/Subdomain Text duplicate MCA Scuttlebutt
/modern-day-marine-2/Subdomain Modern Day Marine
/premium-membership/Subdomain Membership
/premium-membership/Subdomain Premium Membership
/associate-membership/Subdomain Associate Membership
/become-a-member/marine-corps-...Subdomain Active/Reserve Marine
/complimentary-military-spouse...Subdomain Spouse Membership
https://www.mca-marines.org/faqs/Subdomain FAQs
/magazines/Subdomain Magazines
/magazines/leatherneck/Subdomain Leatherneck – Magazine of the Marines
/magazines/marine-corps-gazette/Subdomain Marine Corps Gazette
https://archive.mca-marines.org/External Subdomain Leatherneck and Gazette Archive
/scuttlebutt/Subdomain Text duplicate MCA Scuttlebutt
/events/Subdomain Events
/foundation/Subdomain Foundation
/advertising/Subdomain Advertising
https://www.marineshop.net/External Subdomain The MARINE Shop
/gazette/integrated-casualty-e...New window Subdomain Learn More
/leatherneck/gone-but-not-forg...New window Subdomain Read Now
/podcast/194-a-conversation-wi...New window Subdomain Listen Now
/2025-commandants-professional...New window Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
/about-us-marine-corps-associa...Subdomain IMG-ALT image
/about-us-marine-corps-associa...Subdomain No Text
/become-a-member/Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT image
/become-a-member/Subdomain No Text
/foundation/Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT image
/foundation/Subdomain No Text
https://my.mca-marines.org/ser...External Subdomain Click to Read
https://my.mca-marines.org/ser...External Subdomain Text duplicate Click to Read
/magazines/marine-corps-gazette/Subdomain Learn More: Gazette
/magazines/leatherneck/Subdomain Learn More: Leatherneck
/events/Subdomain Anchor View All
IMG-ALT image
/event/2025-mca-information-aw...Subdomain Learn more
https://my.mca-marines.org/NC_...New window External Subdomain Register
/event/2025-mca-ammo-tech-awar...Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more
https://my.mca-marines.org/NC_...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Register
/event/2025-mca-mra-awards-din...Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more
https://my.mca-marines.org/NC_...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Register
/resource/transitioning-marines/Subdomain Transitioning Marines
IMG-ALT icon
/resource/ceremonies/Subdomain Ceremonies
IMG-ALT icon
https://www.mca-marines.org/Subdomain IMG-ALT footer-logo
/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection[email protected]
/mca-privacy-policy/Subdomain Privacy Policy
/terms-of-use/New window Subdomain Terms of Use
https://www.facebook.com/marin...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT social-icon
https://www.instagram.com/mca_...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT social-icon
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT social-icon
https://twitter.com/MCA_MarinesNew window External Text duplicate IMG-ALT social-icon
http://www.youtube.com/user/Ma...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT social-icon

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.mca-marines.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
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 0.85 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 (109 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 71 referring domains.
This page has 109 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 54 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Crawl-delay: 10

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Marine70%Check
Marine Corps60%Check
Marines58%Check
Marine Corps Association57%Check
MCA56%Check
MARINE Shop53%Check
Closing52%Check
Gap52%Check
Marine Corps Gazette52%Check
Marine Corps Association Foundation52%Check
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