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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
76% 
Page quality
81% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
98% 
Server
18% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.99 s
File size
15.20 kB
Words
570
Media files
13
Number of links
34 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) - FHWA
The length of the page title is perfect. (546 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)
No canonical link is 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)
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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype HTML 4.01 Transitional is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
langen
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 26.12 words is high.
This page contains 570 words. That's ok.
31.2% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
7 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.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No viewpoint tag is provided.
No Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 86 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"interim approval for the optional use of residential driveway temporary signal (ia-23)"
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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
/images/dotfhwa.gifU.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration
/images/fhwahome.gifFHWA Home
/images/feedback.gifFeedback
/images/empty_cell.gifempty cell
/images/com-top-bar.jpgManual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) arrows logo
/images/esubscribe.pngeSubscribe - Receive regular email updates
/images/burg_line.gifburgundy line
/images/green_line.gifGreen Line
/images/home_bar.gifSite Map
/images/mutcd_11_cover.pngPDF version of MUTCD 11
/images/empty_cell.gifEmpty Cell
/images/fhwatag.gifFHWA

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways
H2 What's New
H2 Current Edition of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways
H3 Connect with MUTCD
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 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/Anchor IMG-ALT Skip to Content
https://highways.dot.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration
https://highways.dot.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT FHWA Home
https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/conta...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Feedback
/esubscribe.htmIMG-ALT eSubscribe - Receive regular email updates
A-TITLE eSubscribe - Receive regular email updates
/index.htmMUTCD Home
A-TITLE MUTCD Home
/sitemap.htmSite Map
A-TITLE Site Map
/kno-knowledge.htmKnowledge
A-TITLE Knowledge
/kno-overview.htmOverview
A-TITLE Overview
/kno-history.htmEvolution of the MUTCD
A-TITLE Evolution of the MUTCD
/kno-users.htmWho Uses the MUTCD
A-TITLE Who Uses the MUTCD
/kno_11th_Edition.htmMUTCD Current Edition
A-TITLE MUTCD Current Edition
/kno-colorspec.htmColor Specifications
A-TITLE Color Specifications
/kno_amend.htmAmendment Process
A-TITLE Amendment Process
/condexper.htmExperimentations
A-TITLE Experimentations
/kno-shs_2024.htmStandard Highway Signs (SHS) Publication
A-TITLE Standard Highway Signs (SHS) Publication
/kno-faq.htmFAQs
A-TITLE Frequently Asked Questions
/res-resources.htmResources
A-TITLE Resources
/team.htmMUTCD Team
A-TITLE MUTCD Team
/res-23cfr655.htm23 CFR 655
A-TITLE 23 Code of Federal Regulations 655
/orsearch.aspOfficial Rulings
A-TITLE Official Rulings
/res-interim_approvals.htmInterim Approvals
A-TITLE Interim Approvals
/resources/interpretations/ind...Interpretations Issued by FHWA
A-TITLE Interpretations Issued by FHWA
/resources/state_info/index.htmState MUTCDs & TCD Info
A-TITLE State MUTCDs & Traffic Control Devices Information
/res-outside.htmRelated Links
A-TITLE Related Links
/res-notices.htmFederal Register
A-TITLE Federal Register
/res-policy.htmPolicy Statements
A-TITLE Policy Statements
/previous_editions.htmPrevious Editions of the MUTCD
A-TITLE Previous Editions of the MUTCD
/ser-pubs.htmPublications
A-TITLE Publications
/kno-shs_2024.htmStandard Highway Signs
/resources/interim_approval/ia...Interim Approval 23
/mutcd_news.htmMUTCD News Feed
/kno_11th_Edition.htmIMG-ALT PDF version of MUTCD 11
A-TITLE Current Edition of MUTCD
/kno_11th_Edition.htmCurrent Edition of the MUTCD
A-TITLE Current Edition of MUTCD
/res-23cfr655.htm23 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 655, Subpart F
https://www.federalregister.go...External Subdomain URL anchor text
https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2023-27178
/kno_11th_Edition.htm11th Edition of the MUTCD
https://www.transportation.gov/External Subdomain US DOT Home
https://highways.dot.gov/External Subdomain Text duplicate FHWA Home
https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/Subdomain Text duplicate MUTCD Home
A-TITLE MUTCD
https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/External Subdomain Operations Home
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/priva...External Subdomain Privacy Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.99 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 (15 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate
content-typetext/html
last-modifiedFri, 14 Mar 2025 17:18:03 GMT
accept-rangesbytes
etag"753379b595db1:0"
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
x-powered-byASP.NET
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
set-cookie24 Characters
server
dateTue, 01 Jul 2025 04:19:10 GMT
content-length15595
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 2,555 referring domains.
This page has 67,454 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 675 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

# /robots.txt file for https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov
# comments? mail web.master@fhwa.dot.gov, FHWAWEB2@dot.gov

# rules for all robots
User-agent: *

# 1 second crawl delay (note - ignored by googlebot)
Crawl-delay: 1

# files/directories excluded from crawl
Disallow:

# exception files from excluded list above
# Allow:

Sitemap: https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/mutcd_sitemap.xml

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Traffic72%Check
Control72%Check
Traffic Control72%Check
Manual72%Check
Uniform72%Check
Traffic Control Devices72%Check
Uniform Traffic Control Devices72%Check
Devices71%Check
MUTCD69%Check
temporary traffic control64%Check
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