Merrittcontracting.com - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
96% 
Page quality
72% 
Page structure
66% 
Link structure
78% 
Server
84% 
External factors
39% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.74 s
File size
474.50 kB
Words
515
Media files
18
Number of links
51 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Merritt Contracting, Inc | Concrete & Excavation | Indiana
The length of the page title is perfect. (508 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Click here to learn why for over 30 years Merritt Contracting has been a premier provider of concrete and site development service in central Indiana.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (915 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.merrittcontracting.com/
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)
Language for link pointing to page itself inaccurate
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 name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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
descriptionClick here to learn why for over 30 years Merritt Contracting has been a premier provider of concrete and site development service in central Indiana.
ServicesExcavation, Concrete Curbs, Underground Utility Installation,Concrete Slabs, Structural Concrete, Central Indiana, Pre-Engineer Buildings
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twitter:descriptionClick here to learn why for over 30 years Merritt Contracting has been a premier provider of concrete and site development service in central Indiana.
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og:descriptionClick here to learn why for over 30 years Merritt Contracting has been a premier provider of concrete and site development service in central Indiana.
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og:typewebsite
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 515 words. That's ok.
31.5% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
8 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 18.11 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 10 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
4 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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
WELCOME MERRITT CONTRACTING, INC.
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
There are 27 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 WELCOME MERRITT CONTRACTING, INC.
H1 WE JUST GET IT DONE!
H2 Join our Team
H2 PREMIER CONCRETE AND SITE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
H2 1995
H2 600+
H2 $400M
H2 160
H2 WHAT WE DO
H2 OUR CONSTRUCTION SERVICES
H2 ABOUT MERRITT CONTRACTING
H3 WE BELIEVE IN OUR PEOPLE
H4 CONCRETE WORK
H4 EXCAVATION & SITE WORK
H4 UNDERGROUND UTILITIES
H4 PRE-ENGINEERED METAL
H5 HOW DOES AN EMPLOYEE STOCK OWNERSHIP PLAN (ESOP) BENEFIT ME?
H5 ADDRESS:
H5 CONNECT
H5 EMAIL
H6 YEAR ESTABLISHED
H6 NUMBER OF PROJECTS
H6 REVENUE
H6 TEAM MEMBERS
H6 900 South St Rd 39 Lebanon, IN 46052
H6 (765) 483-0947
H6 [email protected]
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 4 links with a trivial 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 8 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/services-4-1Join our Team
/services-4-1CAREERS
/general-5Login
/general-5User
/IMG-ALT Merritt Contracting, Inc
/ABOUT US
/leadershipLEADERSHIP
/servicesWHO WE WORK FOR
/core-valuesCORE VALUES
/EMPLOYEE-OWNED
/WHAT WE DO
/excavationEXCAVATION
/utilitiesUNDERGROUND UTILITIES
/concreteCONCRETE WORK
/pre-engineered-buildingsPRE-ENGINEERED BUILDINGS
/general-4SUBCONTRACTORS
https://merrittcontracting.sha...New window External Subdomain SDS SHEETS
https://merrittcontracting.sha...New window External Subdomain WKLY FUNDAMENTAL
/copy-of-weekly-fundamentalWEEKLY FUNDAMENTAL - ESPANOL
/weekly-fundamentalWEEKLY FUNDAMENTAL - ENGLISH
/contact-usCONTACT
/LOOK INSIDE
/LEARN MORE
/No Text
/No Text
/No Text
/No Text
/No Text
/No Text
/No Text
/No Text
/No Text
/concreteTrivial anchor text
READ MORE
/excavationText duplicate Trivial anchor text
READ MORE
/utilitiesText duplicate Trivial anchor text
READ MORE
/pre-engineered-buildingsText duplicate Trivial anchor text
READ MORE
https://mcontracting.bamboohr....New window External Subdomain SEE OPPORTUNITIES
/what-is-employee-ownedText duplicate LEARN MORE
/leadershipText duplicate LEADERSHIP
/Up
/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Merritt Contracting, Inc
/Text duplicate ABOUT US
/leadershipText duplicate LEADERSHIP
/servicesText duplicate WHO WE WORK FOR
/core-valuesText duplicate CORE VALUES
/Text duplicate EMPLOYEE-OWNED
/Text duplicate WHAT WE DO
/excavationText duplicate EXCAVATION
/utilitiesText duplicate UNDERGROUND UTILITIES
/concreteText duplicate CONCRETE WORK
/pre-engineered-buildingsText duplicate PRE-ENGINEERED BUILDINGS
/general-4Text duplicate SUBCONTRACTORS
https://merrittcontracting.sha...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate SDS SHEETS
https://merrittcontracting.sha...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate WKLY FUNDAMENTAL
/copy-of-weekly-fundamentalText duplicate WEEKLY FUNDAMENTAL - ESPANOL
/weekly-fundamentalText duplicate WEEKLY FUNDAMENTAL - ENGLISH
https://www.instagram.com/merr...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Instagram
https://www.facebook.com/Merri...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Facebook
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT LinkedIn

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.merrittcontracting.com/"
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 0.74 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 (475 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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set-cookie111 Characters
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serverPepyaka
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accept-rangesbytes
dateMon, 22 Jun 2026 14:28:40 GMT
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External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 13 referring domains.
This page only has 27 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 12 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: *?lightbox=

# Optimization for Google Ads Bot
User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Disallow: /_partials*
Disallow: /pro-gallery-webapp/v1/galleries/*

# Block PetalBot
User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

# Crawl delay for overly enthusiastic bots
User-agent: dotbot
Crawl-delay: 10
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Crawl-delay: 10

Sitemap: https://www.merrittcontracting.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.merrittcontracting.com/es_es-sitemap.xml

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Search preview

www.merrittcontracting.com
Merritt Contracting, Inc | Concrete & Excavation | Indiana
Click here to learn why for over 30 years Merritt Contracting has been a premier provider of concrete and site development service in central Indiana.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
MERRITT95%Check
CONTRACTING95%Check
MERRITT CONTRACTING95%Check
CONCRETE70%Check
INC68%Check
Concrete Excavation64%Check
SITE59%Check
Concrete Services59%Check
Site Development58%Check
EXCAVATION55%Check

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