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Meta information
76% 
Page quality
79% 
Page structure
37% 
Link structure
61% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.37 s
File size
69.50 kB
Words
695
Media files
23
Number of links
126 internal / 18 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
City of Portsmouth, NH | Official Government Website & Community Resources
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 709 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Official website of Portsmouth, NH, providing residents and visitors with essential information on city services, government, community events, and public resources.
The meta description is too long: 1011 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.portsmouthnh.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
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There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
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The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
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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
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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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
descriptionOfficial website of Portsmouth, NH, providing residents and visitors with essential information on city services, government, community events, and public resources.
keywordsCity of Portsmouth New Hampshire
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geo.placenamePortsmouth New Hampshire
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og:country_nameUnited States
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Content
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Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
This page contains 695 words. That's ok.
14% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
4 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 16.75 words is good.
Frames
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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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 14 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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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)
The HTML has geoname information: US-NH
The HTML has georegion information: Portsmouth New Hampshire
HTTPS
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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
/sites/default/files/2017-08/CoP-Logo.pngCity of Portsmouth, New Hampshire
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img.youtube.com/vi/3iu0Tb0wVGs/0.jpg6.9.2025 City Council Work Session
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img.youtube.com/vi/1762cpCm9NU/0.jpg8.7.2025 Parking and Traffic Safety Committee
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.../2024-01/Installation1.jpg?itok=RFTNQ3vLEndeavor sculpture at Bohenko Park
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...1/StrawberyBankeEntry.jpeg?itok=CPV0Mi6WStrawbery Banke Museum
...s/default/files/deparment-seals/seal.pngCity of Portsmouth Seal
...es/default/files/2017-05/footer-logo.pngCity of Portsmouth NH
...s/default/files/deparment-seals/seal.pngCity of Portsmouth Seal

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Portsmouth Master Plan
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 39 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Portsmouth Master Plan
H1 Seasonal Construction
H1 We're Hiring
H2 We want to hear from you!
H2 Great people, good work, great benefits
H2 City Meetings
H2 Technical Advisory Committee Work Session
H2 Fire Commission
H2 School Board Meeting
H2 What's New
H2 Community Events
H2 Yoga in Action: Yoga in the Park
H2 Jazz in the Streets
H2 New England Run for the Fallen
H2 Yoga in Action: Yoga in the Park Duplicate text
H2 Latest City Council Broadcast
H2 Recent Meeting Broadcast
H2 Photographs of Portsmouth
H2 City of Portsmouth NH
H3 City Installs Public Artwork, “Spiraling Serenity” on Peirce Island
H3 DPW Hosts Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day on September 6, 2025
H3 City Seeks Public Input for Capital Improvement Plan for Fiscal Years 2027 - 2032
H3 Municipal Election Filing Period Opens September 2, 2025
H3 8.4.2025 City Council
H3 7.14.2025 City Council
H3 7.14.2025 City Council Special Meeting Regarding Coakley Road Extension Eminent Domain Proceeding
H3 6.23.2025 City Council
H3 6.9.2025 City Council Work Session
H3 Live Broadcast
H3 8.11.2025 Governance Committee
H3 8.7.2025 Municipal Alliance for Adaptive Management
H3 8.7.2025 Parking and Traffic Safety Committee
H3 8.6.2025 Cable and Broadband Internet Commission
H3 Public art sculpture "Endeavor"
H3 North Church
H3 The Music Hall
H3 African Burying Ground
H3 Strawbery Banke Museum
H3 Resources
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.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 4 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 18 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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Read More
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/city/press-releases/municipal...Municipal Election Filing Period Opens September 2, 2025
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HTTP redirects
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HTTP header
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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 excellent with 0.37 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (70 kB).

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,183 referring domains.
This page has 11,978 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 468 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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