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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
58% 
Page structure
83% 
Link structure
95% 
Server
31% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.18 s
File size
45.30 kB
Words
313
Media files
4
Number of links
33 internal / 1 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Public Access to Court Electronic Records | PACER: Federal Court Records
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 677 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
PACER provides information about accessing and filing federal court records electronically. Find resources for using PACER.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (766 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://pacer.uscourts.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
descriptionPACER provides information about accessing and filing federal court records electronically. Find resources for using PACER.
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
msapplication-TileColor#2b5797
msapplication-config/themes/pacer/assets/img/favicons/browserconfig.xml
theme-color#ffffff
format-detectiontelephone=no
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 313 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 9.25 words is low.
29.4% 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.
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)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
This page only loads 3 JavaScript files. That's good!
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 tags for this page.
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
/themes/pacer/assets/img/us_flag_small.pngU.S. flag
/themes/pacer/assets/img/PACER-logo2019.pngPACER Homepage
/themes/pacer/assets/img/close.svgclose
...assets/img/AO-seal-art-thicker-lines.svgAgency logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER)
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER)
H2 Search for a Case
H2 Search for a Case Duplicate text
H2 Filing Electronically
H2 Filing Electronically Duplicate text
H2 Manage Your Account
H2 Manage Your Account Duplicate text
H2 Sign up for an Account
H2 Sign up for an Account Duplicate text
H2 Frequently Asked Questions
H2 Announcements
H2 Learn
H2 Email Updates
H3 What is PACER?
H3 What if I cannot find the case I am looking for?
H3 How much does it cost to access documents using PACER?
H3 June 27, 2025
H3 May 2, 2025
H3 April 16, 2025
H4 See All
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.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 1 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://pacer.uscourts.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://pacer.uscourts.gov/IMG-ALT PACER Homepage
A-TITLE PACER Homepage
https://pacer.uscourts.gov/PACER
A-TITLE Home
https://pacer.uscourts.gov/Public Access to Court Electronic Records
/pacer-pricing-how-fees-workPricing
/find-case/search-specific-courtSearch by Specific Court
/find-case/search-national-indexSearch by National Index
/find-case/court-opinionsCourt Opinions
/find-case/phone-access-court-...Phone Access to Court Records
/file-case/how-file-caseHow to File a Case
/file-case/court-cmecf-lookupCourt CM/ECF Lookup
/file-case/developer-resourcesDeveloper Resources
/my-account-billing/manage-my-...Manage My Account Login
/my-account-billing/billingBilling
/my-account-billing/forgot-use...Forgot Username or Password?
/register-account/pacer-case-s...Case Search Only
/register-account/attorney-fil...Attorney Filers
/register-account/non-attorney...Non-attorney Filers
/register-account/group-billingGroup Billing
/?page=0See less
/help/faqsView all questions
/announcements/2025/06/27/addi...Additional Security Enhancements Coming Soon
/announcements/2025/05/02/mult...Multifactor Authentication Coming Soon
/announcements/2025/04/16/pace...PACER Quarterly Announcements |April 2025
/announcementsView more announcements
/help/pacerHow to Use PACER
/help/cmecfHow to Use CM/ECF
/about-usAbout Us
/policy-proceduresPolicy & Procedures
/privacyPrivacy
/announcementsAnnouncements
/file-case/developer-resourcesText duplicate Developer Resources
/contact-usContact Us
https://www.uscourts.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Agency logo

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://pacer.uscourts.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.18 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 only loads 2 CSS files. That's ok.
This page only loads 3 JavaScript files. That's good!
The file size of the HTML document is fine (45 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateMon, 30 Jun 2025 15:00:34 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length46338
connectionclose
cache-controlmust-revalidate, no-cache, private
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expires-1
pragmano-cache
strict-transport-securitymax-age=16070400; preload
set-cookie15 Characters
x-cache-statusMISS
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 1,960 referring domains.
This page has 32,547 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,444 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# 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.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# 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
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# 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: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

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Public Access to Court Electronic Records | PACER: Federal Court Re...
PACER provides information about accessing and filing federal court records electronically. Find resources for using PACER.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
PACER92%Check
Court85%Check
Access Court83%Check
Court Electronic83%Check
Court Electronic Records80%Check
Court Records79%Check
Access77%Check
Electronic77%Check
Records73%Check
federal court records72%Check
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