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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
94% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
60% 
Server
79% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.86 s
File size
110.60 kB
Words
576
Media files
12
Number of links
68 internal / 16 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Metro Nashville and Davidson County | Nashville.gov
The length of the page title is perfect. (473 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Official website of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (507 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.nashville.gov/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Canada
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

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descriptionOfficial website of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County.
robotsindex, follow
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@MetroNashville
fb:app_id494886014626060
og:site_nameNashville.gov
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://www.nashville.gov/
og:titleNashville.gov
og:descriptionOfficial website of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County
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og:image:typeimage/jpg
og:image:width1200
og:image:height630
og:localeen_US
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 576 words. That's ok.
23.3% 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.
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.
The average number of words per sentence of 21.88 words is good.
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=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 122 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"this form should only be used to provide feedback about the design, functionality or content of the na..."
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
.../nashville/images/metro-seal-blue-bg.pngHome
...lic/2023-11/mayor-th_0.jpg?itok=TRNtIi9fFreddie O'Connell
...-11/vice-mayor-th-2023.jpg?itok=i0ypgN-yVice Mayor Angie Henderson
...5-07/hub-logo-homepage.png?itok=IxTWOzKihubNashville logo
...o-high-school-featured.jpg?itok=dvhxLAPsMayor Freddie O'Connell stands with WeGo employee in front of a WeGo bus
...ll_signs_FY2026_Budget.jpg?itok=NPDWvM3FPHOTO: Mayor Freddie O'Connell signs Fiscal Year 2026 Budget.
...l-Empowerment-featured.jpg?itok=eHvdHVxvperson taking notes and using a calculator
...e-Development-featured.jpg?itok=nwRxkDxPgroup of office workers standing next to each other
...ansit-homepage-feature.jpg?itok=Wr5m48XPgroup of people sitting on a WeGo bus waving at camera
...homepage_card2_300_200.png?itok=thqqoPH9Decorative
...-homepage-card-350x200.png?itok=Svr2L_0CHistoric Metro Courthouse
...-homepage-card-350x200.png?itok=xaoljBbmdecoration

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to Nashville.gov
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to Nashville.gov
H2 Most Popular Services
H2 Metro News
H2 Choose How You Move
H2 Metro Events
H2 Mobile Apps
H2 Nashville.gov
H2 Quick Links
H2 Contact
H2 Connect
H3 NashvilleMaps
H3 Metro Government Enhances the Legislative Process
H3 Metro Nashville Network Video Stream
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are 16 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.nashville.gov/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.nashville.gov/Nashville.gov Home
IMG-ALT Home
https://www.nashville.gov/Nashville and Davidson County
/departments/government/paymen...Payments
/servicesServices
/services?keyword=police-fire-...Police, Fire, and EMS
/services?keyword=recycling&de...Recycling and Trash
/services?keyword=Animal&depar...Animal Services
/services?keyword&departments=...Human Resources
/services?keyword&departments=...Permits and Codes
/services?keyword=park&departm...Parks and Recreation
/services?keyword=vehicle-serv...Vehicle Services
/services?keyword=license-othe...Marriage and Other Licenses
/services?keyword=Property&dep...Property Services
/servicesView All Metro Services
/departments/governmentGovernment
/departments/mayorMayor's Office
/departments/councilMetro Council
/departments/government/about-...Boards and Commissions
/departments/metro-clerkMetropolitan Clerk
/event-listEvents and Meetings
/newsroomNews Releases
/departmentsDepartments
/departments/information-techn...Metro Nashville Network
/departments/government/mapsMaps
/departments/government/open-dataOpen Data
/departments/human-resources/e...Jobs
https://hub.nashville.gov/s/?l...New window External Subdomain Submit a hubNashville Request
https://www.nashville.gov/Anchor Translate
/translateView All Languages
/translateText duplicate Translate
https://hub.nashville.gov/s/?l...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Submit a hubNashville Request
https://hub.nashville.gov/s/?l...New window External Subdomain Submit a hubNashville Service Request
/departments/mayorMayor Freddie O'Connell
IMG-ALT Freddie O'Connell
/departments/councilVice Mayor & Metro Council
IMG-ALT Vice Mayor Angie Henderson
https://hub.nashville.gov/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Submit a hubNashville Request
IMG-ALT hubNashville logo
/departments/health/animal-car...Adopt an Animal from Animal Care and Control
/departments/waste-services/tr...New window Get Trash and Recycling Services
https://epermits.nashville.gov/New window External Subdomain Anchor Apply for Codes Electrical Permit
https://www.nashville-mdha.org...New window External Subdomain Check Availability of Affordable Housing
/departments/finance/procureme...New window Subdomain Do Business with Metro
/departments/county-clerk/moto...New window Title and Register Motor Vehicle
https://nashville-tn.mygovonli...New window External Subdomain Check Property Information and History
/departments/county-clerk/busi...New window Obtain Business License
/departments/transportation/ri...New window Get Brush and Leaf Collection Information
/departments/police/file-polic...New window File a Police Report Online
/departments/human-resources/e...New window Apply for Metro Job
/departments/transportation/co...Apply for Adopt a Street
/servicesAll Metro Services
https://experience.arcgis.com/...External Subdomain Visit NashView
/departments/mayor/news/studen...Students at two Metro high schools get new transit service through Choose How You Move
IMG-ALT Mayor Freddie O'Connell stands with WeGo employee in front of a WeGo bus
/departments/mayor/news/mayor-...Mayor Freddie O’Connell Signs Fiscal Year 2026 Budget
IMG-ALT PHOTO: Mayor Freddie O'Connell signs Fiscal Year 2026 Budget.
/departments/mayor/news/mayor-...Mayor O'Connell establishes Mayor's Office of Financial Empowerment to support affordability, improved quality of life priorities
IMG-ALT person taking notes and using a calculator
/departments/social-services/n...Metro Social Services Launches Workforce Readiness Program
IMG-ALT group of office workers standing next to each other
/newsroomAll Metro News
/featured-initiatives/transitSubdomain Learn More
/departments/assessor/boards/e...4 Aug Equalization Board Meeting, August 4, 2025 Howard Office Building | 8:30 a.m.
/departments/municipal-auditor...4 Aug Auditorium Commission Meeting, August 4, 2025 Nashville Municipal Auditorium | 10:30 a.m.
/departments/assessor/boards/e...4 Aug Equalization Board Meeting, August 4, 2025 Howard Office Building | 1:00 p.m.
/departments/office-homeless-s...4 Aug Continuum of Care Homelessness Planning Council Initiatives Efficiency Meeting, August 4, 2025 Oasis Center | 2:30 p.m.
/departments/council/boards/me...4 Aug Metropolitan Council Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Meeting, August 4, 2025 Historic Metro Courthouse | 4:00 - 4:30 p.m.
/event-listAll Metro Events
/departments/government/mapsNashvilleMaps
/departments/council/news/metr...Metro Government Enhances the Legislative Process
/departments/information-techn...Metro Nashville Network Video Stream
https://hub.nashville.gov/New window External Subdomain contact hubNashville online
/departments/government/mobile...Get Apps
/departments/government/access...Accessibility Statement
https://nashville.gov/analyticsAnalytics Dashboard
/departments/government/non-di...Non-Discrimination
/departments/government/privac...Privacy and Security
/departments/government/terms-...Terms of Service
http://ebid.nashville.gov/External Subdomain eBid Nashville
/departments/electionsVoting and Elections
/departments/government/employeesMetro Employee Resources
/departments/human-resources/e...Text duplicate Jobs
/photoarchiveSubdomain Metro Photo Archive
https://hub.nashville.gov/External Subdomain Contact Metro Customer Service: 311
https://public.govdelivery.com...External Subdomain Content Subscriptions
/departments/government/social...Social Media Center
https://www.facebook.com/Metro...New window External Subdomain Nashville.gov Facebook
https://x.com/metronashvilleNew window External Nashville.gov X
https://www.instagram.com/metr...New window External Subdomain Nashville.gov Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/MetroN...New window External Subdomain Nashville.gov YouTube

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.nashville.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 of 0.86 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 (111 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 895 referring domains.
This page has 9,978 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 648 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
Disallow: /googlea53c1e2396fe8704.html
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /user/logout/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password/
Disallow: /index.php/user/register/
Disallow: /index.php/user/login/
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout/
Disallow: /admin/login
Disallow: /saml_error
Disallow: /ajax/nt-alerts
Disallow: /ajax/nt-alerts/*
Disallow: /proxy-request/*

# Slow down GovDelivery crawler rate
User-agent: GovDelivery Evolution PageWatcher
Crawl-delay: 1

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Metro Nashville and Davidson County | Nashville.gov
Official website of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County.

Most important keywords

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gov93%Check
Metro Nashville86%Check
Nashville Davidson79%Check
Metro Nashville Davidson79%Check
Metro Nashville Davidson County75%Check
Metro74%Check
Nashville Davidson County72%Check
Metro Nashville Network71%Check
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