Ncei.noaa.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
54% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
91% 
Server
54% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.09 s
File size
31.90 kB
Words
333
Media files
8
Number of links
53 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
The length of the page title is perfect. (486 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
NCEI offers
The meta description is too short. (72 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length) Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/
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)
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
descriptionNCEI offers
keywordsclimate,data,observations,weather,coasts,oceans,geophysics,satellites
robotsindex, follow
generatorNCEI
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
twitter:cardsummary
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 333 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
30.3% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 13.75 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 22 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 7 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
/libraries/uswds/img/us_flag_small.pngU.S. flag
/themes/custom/ncei/logo.svgNational Centers for Environmental Information logoNational Centers for Environmental Information logo
.../custom/ncei/images/icons/src/search.svgClick to run NCEI search
.../Warmest Day 480 x 480.png?itok=0fO5Ai1bPhoto of dirt path leading through a field of wild purple flowers below a blue sky.
...easons-imagery-480x480.jpg?itok=q6HfLKC2Images reprenting spring, summer, fall, and winter
...2025 US Report 480x480.png?itok=EhrmAsiPBig thunderstorm over the downtown area of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
...pan-earthquake-480x480.jpg?itok=T0rPBCfj2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami
...tom/ncei/components/images/logo/logo.svgNational Centers for Environmental InformationNational Centers for Environmental Information logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
National Centers for Environmental Information
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 National Centers for Environmental Information
H2 Looking for Data?
H2 Recent Weather
H2 Featured News
H2 Archive
H2 Access
H2 Follow Us
H2 Contact Us
H3 When to Expect the Warmest Day of the Year
H3 Meteorological Versus Astronomical Seasons
H3 Assessing the U.S. Climate in May 2025
H3 On This Day: 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami
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 12 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/IMG-ALT National Centers for Environmental Information logo
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/Home
/productsProducts
/search/contentSearch/Filter
A-TITLE Search and filter content on the site
/servicesServices
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/accessAccess
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archiveArchive
/services/certificationData Certification
/maps-and-geospatial-productsMaps
/access/monitoring/products/Subdomain Monitoring
/online-storeOnline Store
/regionalRegional
/services/state-of-the-servicesState of the Services
/services/world-data-systemWorld Data System
/resourcesResources
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/alertsAlerts
https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/ab...External Subdomain Change Notices
/resources/educationEducation
/resources/metadataMetadata
/weather-climate-linksQuick Links
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/newsNews
/bams-state-of-climateBAMS
https://repository.library.noa...New window External Subdomain Publications
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contactContact
/about-usAbout
/about/locationsLocations
/about/our-impactSubdomain Our Impact
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/Anchor No Text
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/aboutAbout NCEI
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/searchSearch the Site
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/accessAccess Data
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archiveArchive Data
https://www.weather.gov/forecastExternal Subdomain National Weather Service.
/news/when-expect-warmest-day-...IMG-ALT Photo of dirt path leading through a field of wild purple flowers below a blue sky.
/news/when-expect-warmest-day-...When to Expect the Warmest Day of the Year
/news/when-expect-warmest-day-...Trivial anchor text
Read More
/news/meteorological-versus-as...IMG-ALT Images reprenting spring, summer, fall, and winter
/news/meteorological-versus-as...Meteorological Versus Astronomical Seasons
/news/meteorological-versus-as...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/news/national-climate-202505IMG-ALT Big thunderstorm over the downtown area of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
/news/national-climate-202505Assessing the U.S. Climate in May 2025
/news/national-climate-202505Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/news/day-2011-japan-earthquak...IMG-ALT 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami
/news/day-2011-japan-earthquak...On This Day: 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami
/news/day-2011-japan-earthquak...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/newsView More News
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archiveHow to Archive
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/accessHow to Access
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/Anchor Return to top
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/IMG-ALT National Centers for Environmental Information
A-TITLE Home
https://www.facebook.com/NOAAN...External Subdomain @NOAANCEI
A-TITLE Link to @NOAANCEI Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/noaa...External Subdomain @NOAAData
A-TITLE Link to @NOAAData Instagram
https://twitter.com/NOAANCEIExternal Text duplicate @NOAANCEI
A-TITLE Link to @NOAANCEI Twitter
/news.xmlNews Feed
A-TITLE Link to subscribe to NCEI News Feed
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contactEmail by topic
A-TITLE Contact NCEI NOAA via email
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/sitemapSitemap
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/privacyPrivacy Policy
https://www.noaa.gov/informati...External Subdomain Freedom of Information Act
https://www.noaa.gov/organizat...External Subdomain Information Quality
/accessibilitySubdomain Accessibility
https://www.noaa.gov/disclaimerExternal Subdomain Disclaimer
https://www.commerce.gov/External Subdomain Department of Commerce
https://www.noaa.gov/External Subdomain NOAA
http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/External Subdomain NESDIS

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.ncei.noaa.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 very slow (2.09 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 23 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 22 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (32 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateSat, 26 Jul 2025 20:18:48 GMT
servernginx
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
cache-controlmax-age=300, public
varyCookie,Accept-Encoding
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
last-modifiedFri, 25 Jul 2025 20:16:33 GMT
etag"1753474593-gunzip-gzip"
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cacheHIT
x-request-idv-83115b28-69ff-11f0-a665-57217635de32
x-ah-environment01live
age174
viavarnish
x-cacheHIT
x-cache-hits57
accept-rangesbytes
content-encodinggzip
access-control-allow-origin*
access-control-allow-headersX-Requested-With, Content-Type
content-length8165
connectionclose
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,104 referring domains.
This page has 18,148 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,344 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /data*
Disallow: /orders*

Allow: /data/oceans/coris/library*

#CRN
Disallow: /access/crn/*?
Disallow: /access/crn/ws/
Disallow: /access/crn/flex/
Disallow: /access/crn/error/
Disallow: /access/crn/new*
Disallow: /access/crn/xml*

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National65%Check
Environmental65%Check
Centers65%Check
National Centers65%Check
Environmental Information65%Check
Information64%Check
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