Neh.gov - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
98% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
88% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.22 s
File size
51.70 kB
Words
509
Media files
12
Number of links
54 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
National Endowment for the Humanities
The length of the page title is perfect. (353 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://www.neh.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)
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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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 509 words. That's ok.
24.4% 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.
8 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 22.5 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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)
1 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.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
...es/gesso/images/logo-header.svg?neh=2025No alt attribute provided
...nian-quilt2.jpg?h=3a3df0c5&itok=xn-K913B48-State Quilt from the Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery
...default/files/2024-12/_AMPU_logo_v2a.jpgA More Perfect Union logo
...public/2026-09/met gca.png?itok=9IwoSrXMimage of woman painting on canvas in museum
...chair photo.jpg?h=505f292b&itok=sOTJsC1gMichael McDonald
...ic/2026-07/June #1 (2).png?itok=aCGGUBsSNEH July 2026 grants graphic
...geo_wash_v2.jpg?h=031ec227&itok=B0Q1Y3n9George Washington portrait by Augustus Weidenbach.
..._AF_Bradley.jpg?h=a2be90d3&itok=Wd0EXfA2ThumbnailMark Twain
...or_FlanSite.jpg?h=c44fcfa1&itok=zqp6SEZABlack and white image of Flannery O'Connor seated on steps
...23_Winter_webimages_32.jpg?itok=VSc4dww-interior of the strong museum
...25-09/60 years graphic.png?itok=WC7NzTcpNEH graphic of funded projects
/themes/gesso/images/neh-seal.jpg?neh=2025The National Endowment for the Humanities

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 NEH is a federal agency that supports the humanities in every state and U.S. jurisdiction.
H2 Explore NEH Funding Opportunities
H2 America’s 250th Anniversary
H2 Empty heading
H2 Latest News at NEH
H2 Janice at Met GCA Bruce Cole Initiative
H2 NEH Funding by the Numbers
H2 About NEH
H2 interior Strong
H2 60 years graphic.png
H2 NEH's 60th Anniversary
H3 Featured Projects
H3 Sign up for NEH updates
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.
There are 1 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 11 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.neh.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.neh.gov/National Endowment for the Humanities
A-TITLE Home
https://www.neh.gov/grantsGrants
/grants/listingSearch Grant Programs
/grants/application-processApplication Review Process
https://www.neh.gov/grants/manageManage Your Award
/grants/manage/grantee-communi...Grantee Communications Toolkit
/initiatives/international-opp...NEH International Opportunities
/grants/neh-resourcesNEH Resources
https://awardsearch.neh.gov/External Subdomain Search All Past Awards
/divisions-officesDivisions and Offices
/grants/professional-developmentProfessional Development
https://signup.neh.gov/External Subdomain Sign Up to Be a Panelist
/impact/emergency-and-disaster...Emergency and Disaster Relief
https://www.neh.gov/impactImpact & Stories
https://www.neh.gov/impact/statesStates and Jurisdictions
https://www.neh.gov/essentialsFeatured NEH-Funded Projects
https://www.neh.gov/impact/honorsHonors
https://awardsearch.neh.gov/External Subdomain Search Our Work
https://www.neh.gov/initiativesInitiatives
https://www.neh.gov/250A More Perfect Union
/initiatives/international-eng...International Engagement
https://www.neh.gov/aboutAbout
https://www.neh.gov/about/chairNEH Leadership
https://www.neh.gov/neh-staffStaff
https://www.neh.gov/about/historyHistory
https://www.neh.gov/openOpen Government
https://www.neh.gov/about/contactContact NEH
https://www.neh.gov/translateTranslate
https://www.neh.gov/newsNews
/newsroom?keywords&news_type[2...Press Releases
/newsroom?f[0]=news_type:416&f...NEH in the News
https://www.neh.gov/about/contactText duplicate Contact NEH
https://www.neh.gov/searchSearch
/information-reinstatement-gra...Information for NEH Grantees on Reinstatement of Grant Awards
https://www.neh.gov/grantsTrivial anchor text
here
https://www.neh.gov/250Explore More
/news/grand-central-atelier-la...Grand Central Atelier Launches The Bruce Cole Lectures
/news/senate-confirms-michael-...The Senate of the United States Confirms Michael McDonald as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities
/news/neh-announces-414-millio...NEH Announces $41.4 Million for 81 Humanities Projects
/project/papers-george-washingtonThe Papers of George Washington
IMG-ALT George Washington portrait by Augustus Weidenbach.
/explore/mark-twain-projectMark Twain Project
IMG-ALT Thumbnail
/project/flannery-storied-life...Flannery: The Storied Life of the Writer from Georgia
IMG-ALT Black and white image of Flannery O'Connor seated on steps
https://www.neh.gov/impact/statesimpact
https://www.neh.gov/essentialsBrowse a selection of NEH projects past and present
https://public.govdelivery.com...New window External Subdomain SUBSCRIBE
https://www.neh.gov/IMG-ALT The National Endowment for the Humanities
A-TITLE Home
https://chroniclingamerica.loc...External Subdomain Chronicling America: History American Newspapers
https://www.neh.gov/250Text duplicate A More Perfect Union
https://twitter.com/NEHgov?ref...External Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/nehgov/External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.instagram.com/nehg...External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://public.govdelivery.com...External Subdomain GovDelivery
https://www.neh.gov/about/foiaFOIA
/about/legal/no-fear-actNo Fear Act
https://www.neh.gov/about/oigOffice of the Inspector General
https://www.neh.gov/accessibilityAccessibility
/privacy-terms-of-usePrivacy Policy and Terms of Use
/about/website-disclaimersWebsite Disclaimers
https://www.neh.gov/openOpen Gov
https://www.neh.gov/plain-writingPlain Writing at NEH
/vulnerability-disclosure-policyVulnerability Disclosure Policy
/news/press-release/2016-06-21Scam Advisory

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.neh.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 (1.22 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (52 kB).

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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 2,735 referring domains.
This page has 871,431 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,892 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

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Most important keywords

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Humanities52%Check
NEH Funding50%Check
National48%Check
Endowment48%Check
National Endowment48%Check
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Funding43%Check
Anniversary43%Check

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