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Meta information
79% 
Page quality
40% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
82% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.78 s
File size
18.70 kB
Words
220
Media files
11
Number of links
0 internal / 20 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
National Institute of Standards and Technology | NIST
The length of the page title is perfect. (478 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
NIST promotes U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life.
The meta description is too long: 1217 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
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 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
titleNational Institute of Standards and Technology | NIST
dcterms.titleNational Institute of Standards and Technology | NIST
descriptionNIST promotes U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life.
dcterms.subjectWorking with industry and science to advance innovation and improve quality of life.
google-site-verificationEmpty
dcterms.typetext
dcterms.formattext/html
dcterms.identifierhttps://www.nist.gov/national-institute-standards-and-technology
langen
twitter:titleThe Official U.S. Time | NIST
twitter:descriptionThe National Institute of Standards and Technology - Time and Frequency Division maintains the standard for frequency and time interval for the United States, provides official time to the United States, and carries out a broad program of research and service activities in time and frequency metrology.
twitter:image/img/map-elements/og_map.png
og:site_nameNIST
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://www.time.gov/
og:titleThe Official U.S. Time | NIST
og:descriptionThe National Institute of Standards and Technology - Time and Frequency Division maintains the standard for frequency and time interval for the United States, provides official time to the United States, and carries out a broad program of research and service activities in time and frequency metrology.
og:imagehttps://time.gov/img/map-elements/og_map.png
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 220 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
The average number of words per sentence of 8.8 words is low.
19.5% of the text are stop words.
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.
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)
The following tag is repeated too often: puerto rico / us virgin islands
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
https://nist.time.gov/img/us_flag_small.pngU.S. Flag
https://nist.time.gov/img/icon-dot-gov.svgicon dot gov
https://nist.time.gov/img/icon-https.svgicon https
/img/nist_logo_sidestack_rev.pngNational Institute of Standards and Technology/
https://nist.time.gov/img/USNO_logo_sh2.pngUnited States Naval Observatory
/img/map-elements/alaska.svgAlaska Map
/img/map-elements/hawaii.svgHawaii Map
/img/map-elements/united-states-map.svgUnited States Time Zone Map
https://nist.time.gov/img/stripes.svgHashed image for Daylight Saving Time not observed
/img/nist_logo_sidestack_large.pngNational Institute of Standards and Technology logo
/img/USNO_logo_large.pngUnited States Naval Observatory

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
There are no headings specified on the page. Headings are important for search engine optimization and help to structure your content.

Heading structure

No headings were found.
This page seems to be an entry page, because only very few links were found.
There are 20 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-...External Subdomain IMG-ALT National Institute of Standards and Technology/
https://www.cnmoc.usff.navy.mi...External Subdomain IMG-ALT United States Naval Observatory
https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-...External Subdomain About/Contact
https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-...External Subdomain FAQ
https://www.nist.gov/privacy-p...New window External Subdomain Privacy Statement
https://www.nist.gov/privacy-p...New window External Subdomain Anchor Privacy Policy
https://www.nist.gov/privacy-p...New window External Subdomain Anchor Security Notice
https://www.nist.gov/privacy-p...New window External Subdomain Anchor Accessibility Statement
https://www.nist.gov/privacyNew window External Subdomain NIST Privacy Program
https://www.nist.gov/no-fear-a...New window External Subdomain NIST No Fear Act Policy
https://www.secnav.navy.mil/do...New window External Subdomain Navy No Fear Act Policy
https://www.nist.gov/disclaimerNew window External Subdomain Disclaimer
https://www.nist.gov/foiaNew window External Subdomain NIST FOIA
https://www.secnav.navy.mil/fo...New window External Subdomain Navy FOIA
https://www.nist.gov/environme...New window External Subdomain Environmental Policy Statement
https://www.nist.gov/privacy-p...New window External Subdomain Anchor Cookie Disclaimer
https://www.nist.gov/summary-r...New window External Subdomain Scientific Integrity Summary
https://www.nist.gov/nist-info...New window External Subdomain NIST Information Quality Standards
https://www.nist.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT National Institute of Standards and Technology logo
A-TITLE National Institute of Standards and Technology
https://www.cnmoc.usff.navy.mi...External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT United States Naval Observatory
A-TITLE United States Naval Observatory

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://nist.time.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 0.78 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 (19 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateThu, 22 Oct 2026 16:58:06 GMT
content-typetext/html
servercloudflare
server-timingcfCacheStatus;desc="DYNAMIC"
expiresFri, 23 Oct 2026 16:58:06 GMT
cache-controlmax-age=86400
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self' *.nist.gov nistwww.localhost ;
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
content-encodinggzip
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
varyaccept-encoding
set-cookie304 Characters
cf-raya4ea0b7b9996d113-CDG
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 351 referring domains.
This page has 5,968 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 201 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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NIST promotes U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life.

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