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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
66% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
90% 
Server
80% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.84 s
File size
61.70 kB
Words
409
Media files
8
Number of links
51 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
National Wild and Scenic River System | Rivers.gov
The length of the page title is perfect. (461 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The National Wild and Scenic Rivers System was created by Congress in 1968 to preserve rivers with outstanding natural, cultural, and recreational values.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (957 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://rivers.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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descriptionThe National Wild and Scenic Rivers System was created by Congress in 1968 to preserve rivers with outstanding natural, cultural, and recreational values.
abstractThe National Wild and Scenic Rivers System was created by Congress in 1968 to preserve rivers with outstanding natural, cultural, and recreational values.
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og:image:altImage of the American River in California
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 409 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
28.4% 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.
5 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 22.67 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
...ers/themes/custom/rivers/images/logo.svgHome
...iver-home-1.jpg?h=1cf48579&itok=AER9rVhYOntonagon River, Michigan
...lmon-river-middle-fork.jpg?itok=X8XcmhnSMiddle Fork Salmon River
...t_federal_agency_logos.png?itok=NEWN1WBGWild and scenic river federal agency management logos
...-training_0.jpg?h=fab29234&itok=tqQBE465No alt attribute provided
...artnerships.jpg?h=fab29234&itok=_R0RGeZINo alt attribute provided
...er-training.jpg?h=926d89e9&itok=g3AUMo6SNo alt attribute provided
...iver_management_federal_agency_logos.pngagency logos

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
National Wild and Scenic Rivers System
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 National Wild and Scenic Rivers System
H2 Main navigation
H2 Find a River
H2 About the System
H2 Managing the System
H2 News
H2 Footer
H2 Partners
H2 References
H3 Questions and Answers
H3 Management Plans
H3 Documents
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
3 links don't have an 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 7 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://rivers.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://rivers.gov/IMG-ALT Home
A-TITLE Home
https://rivers.gov/Text duplicate Home
https://rivers.gov/find-a-riverThe Rivers
https://rivers.gov/find-a-riverFind Rivers
https://rivers.gov/mapSystem-wide Map
https://rivers.gov/river-statsRiver Miles
https://rivers.gov/study-riversStudy Rivers
https://rivers.gov/aboutA National System
https://rivers.gov/aboutAbout The System
A-TITLE About the National System
https://rivers.gov/designationHow Rivers Are Designated
https://rivers.gov/legislationLegislation
/managing-the-systemManaging The System
https://rivers.gov/historyHistory
https://rivers.gov/documentsRiver Resources
https://rivers.gov/project-reviewProject Review
/technical-papersTechnical Papers
https://rivers.gov/trainingTraining
https://rivers.gov/maps-graphicsGIS
https://rivers.gov/visitor-useManaging Visitors
https://rivers.gov/signsLogo & Sign Standards
/questions-and-answersQuestions & Answers
https://rivers.gov/searchSearch
/image/ontonagon-river-2Image Details
https://www.timpalmer.org/External Subdomain Tim Palmer
https://rivers.gov/mapView the system wide map
https://rivers.gov/aboutFind Out More
/managing-the-systemLearn More
/questions-and-answersView Q&A
/resources/river-management-plansView Plans
https://rivers.gov/documentsView Documents
/news/2026-river-management-tr...No Text
/news/2026-river-management-tr...2026 River Management Training Available
/news/2026-river-management-tr...Find out more
/news/study-federal-tribal-par...No Text
/news/study-federal-tribal-par...Study on Federal-Tribal Partnerships Published
/news/study-federal-tribal-par...Text duplicate Find out more
/news/new-training-series-rele...No Text
/news/new-training-series-rele...New Training Series Released May 2025: Management Videos
/news/new-training-series-rele...Text duplicate Find out more
https://rivers.gov/newsMore news
/national-awardsNational Awards
https://rivers.gov/river-statsThe Numbers
https://rivers.gov/nriNationwide Rivers Inventory
https://rivers.gov/documentsDocuments
https://rivers.gov/accessibilityAccessibility
A-TITLE Accessibility statement from Rivers.gov
https://blm.gov/programs/natio...New window External Bureau of Land Management
https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1912/...New window External Subdomain National Park Service
https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1912/...New window External Subdomain NPS Partnership Rivers
https://www.fws.gov/story/wild...New window External Subdomain U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
https://www.fs.usda.gov/managi...New window External Subdomain U.S. Forest Service
http://river-management.org/New window External River Management Society
https://rivers.gov/bibliographyBibliography
https://rivers.gov/councilInteragency Council
https://rivers.gov/stewardshipStewardship
https://rivers.gov/newsNews
https://rivers.gov/videoVideos
/vulnerability-disclosure-policyVulnerability Disclosure Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://rivers.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 0.84 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 (62 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
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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 262 referring domains.
This page has 444 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 111 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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# 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

Sitemap: https://www.fws.gov/sitemap.xml

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
# 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

# custom additions from Acquia
# Any search pages, e.g:
Disallow: /search*

# pager paramaters - e.g.
Disallow: *page=

# Any faceted search patterns:
Disallow: *f[
Disallow: *f[
Disallow: *f%5B

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National Wild and Scenic River System | Rivers.gov
The National Wild and Scenic Rivers System was created by Congress in 1968 to preserve rivers with outstanding natural, cultural, and recreational values.

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