Milton.delaware.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
36% 
Page structure
65% 
Link structure
88% 
Server
54% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.01 s
File size
45.80 kB
Words
386
Media files
10
Number of links
46 internal / 13 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Town of Milton - Sussex County Delaware
The length of the page title is perfect. (444 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://milton.delaware.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)
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)
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
apple-mobile-web-app-capableyes
domainmilton
published_at2015-02-05
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
generatorWordPress 6.7.2
msapplication-TileImagehttps://milton.delaware.gov/files/2020/11/cropped-milton-favicon-270x270.png
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleHome - Town of Milton - Sussex County Delaware
og:urlhttps://milton.delaware.gov/
og:site_nameTown of Milton
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 386 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 21 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 28 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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)
Some tags are too long. With 664 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"the tilney street water main replacement project will begin tomorrow, may 21, and is expected to take ..."
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
...s/GIC-Milton-Theme/img/header-txt-lg.pngMilton Delaware
.../2022/10/Newsletter-Snapshot-640x320.pngNo alt attribute providedNewsletter Snapshot
...es/2023/03/Coastal-Corridors-640x320.pngNo alt attribute providedCoastal Corridors
/files/2015/06/Mural-569x284.pngNo alt attribute providedMural
/files/2018/03/clickhere-227x113.jpgNo alt attribute provided
.../2015/04/Miltonlogo-1024x755-640x320.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...themes/GIC-Milton-Theme/img/meetings.jpgPeople in a meeting
...hemes/GIC-Milton-Theme/img/megaphone.jpgA close-up of hands holding a megaphone.
...ent/themes/GIC-Milton-Theme/img/news.jpgPeople reading the news on a couch in different mediums

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Milton
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (6 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Milton
H2 Delaware
H2 History of Milton
H2 Empty heading
H3 Menu
H3 Town Code
H3 Flag Status
H3 Smart 911
H3 Forms
H3 Events
H3 Code Red Alerts
H3 News & Notices
H3 Milton Duplicate text
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
3 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 1 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 13 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://milton.delaware.gov/Anchor Skip to Content
https://milton.delaware.gov/Anchor Skip to Footer
https://milton.delaware.gov/Subdomain No Text
/mayor-council/Subdomain Mayor & Town Council
/boards-commissions-and-commit...Subdomain Boards & Commissions
/past-meetings-minutes/Subdomain Past Meetings & Minutes
/town-charter/Subdomain Town Charter
/town-code/Subdomain Town Code
/comprehensive-plan-and-maps/Subdomain Comprehensive Plan and Maps
/ordinances/Subdomain Ordinances & Resolutions
/election-information/Subdomain Election Information
http://news.delaware.gov/flag-...External Subdomain Flag Status
https://miltondelaware.civicwe...External Subdomain Agendas & Meetings
/administrative-department/Subdomain Administrative Department
/parks-recreation/Subdomain Parks & Recreation
/police-department/Subdomain Police Department
/building-department/Subdomain Planning and Code Enforcement
/public-works-department/Subdomain Public Works Department
/2014/12/16/history-of-milton/History
/milton-demographics/Subdomain Milton Demographics
https://milton.delaware.gov/news/Subdomain News
/quarterly-newsletters-and-fly...Subdomain Newsletters and Flyers
/our-community/Subdomain Our Community
/outdoor-recreation/Subdomain Outdoor Recreation
/community/sea-level-rise-adap...Subdomain Sea Level Rise, Adaptation and Mitigation
/yard-waste-trash-pickup/Subdomain Yard Waste & Trash Pickup
/general-contact/Subdomain General Contact
/foia-request/Subdomain FOIA Request
/printable-forms/Subdomain Printable Forms
https://wipp.edmundsassoc.com/...External Subdomain Online Payment Portal
/files/2025/05/Town-Wide-Meter...New window Subdomain More Info
https://milton.delaware.gov/Subdomain Milton Delaware
IMG-ALT Milton Delaware
/quarterly-newsletters-and-fly...Subdomain No Text
https://www.deldot.gov/project...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...External Subdomain No Text
https://public.coderedweb.com/...External Subdomain No Text
/2014/04/17/choose-milton/Subdomain No Text
/2014/12/16/history-of-milton/Subdomain Trivial anchor text
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https://ecode360.com/MI2821New window External Text duplicate Town Code
https://news.delaware.gov/flag...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Flag Status
https://sussexcountyde.gov/sma...New window External Smart 911
/printable-forms/Forms
https://miltondelaware.civicwe...New window External Subdomain View Meetings & Agendas
/events/milton-farmers-and-art...Subdomain Milton Farmers and Artisan Market
A-TITLE Milton Farmers and Artisan Market
/events/milton-farmers-and-art...Subdomain Text duplicate Milton Farmers and Artisan Market
A-TITLE Milton Farmers and Artisan Market
/events/milton-farmers-and-art...Subdomain Text duplicate Milton Farmers and Artisan Market
A-TITLE Milton Farmers and Artisan Market
/events/sounds-of-summer-conce...Subdomain Sounds of Summer Concert in the Park
A-TITLE Sounds of Summer Concert in the Park
/events/View All
/2025/05/30/public-notice-town...Subdomain Public Notice: Town of Milton Water Meter Replacement Project
/2025/05/29/milton-police-depa...Subdomain Milton Police Department Launch Digital Crime Fighting Tool
/2025/05/23/review-and-submit-...Subdomain Review and Submit Comments on the Milton Active Transportation Plan
/2025/05/23/request-for-propos...Subdomain Request for Proposal: Elevated Water Storage Tank Maintenance
https://milton.delaware.gov/news/Text duplicate View All
https://www.google.com/maps/pl...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.google.com/maps/pl...New window External Subdomain 115 Federal Street Milton, DE 19968
/general-contact/No Text
/general-contact/Contact Form
/foia-request/FOIA Form
https://gic.delaware.gov/New window External Subdomain Government Information Center

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://milton.delaware.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 is slow (1.01 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
This page loads 19 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 28 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (46 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateFri, 06 Jun 2025 15:13:03 GMT
content-security-policyframe-ancestors delaware.gov *.delaware.gov de.gov *.de.gov delawaregrown.com;
link<https://milton.delaware.gov/>; rel=shortlink
cache-controlmax-age=20
expiresFri, 06 Jun 2025 15:13:23 GMT
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
content-length10616
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
set-cookie18 Characters
connectionclose
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 245 referring domains.
This page has 301 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 140 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Milton81%Check
Delaware64%Check
County Delaware56%Check
Town55%Check
Sussex County Delaware52%Check
new49%Check
Delaware Bay49%Check
Code47%Check
Sussex46%Check
County46%Check
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