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Meta information
70% 
Page quality
34% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
48% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.06 s
File size
56.10 kB
Words
368
Media files
8
Number of links
54 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
South Carolina Legislature Online
The length of the page title is perfect. (300 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)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Canada
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)
HTTP-Header Content-Type: utf-8
Meta http-equiv Content-Type: iso-8859-1
Meta Charset Attribut: iso-8859-1
The specified character encodings are different.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype XHTML 1.0 Transitional 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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langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
There are only 368 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
There are 4 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate 1: Healthcare and Regulatory Subcommittee of the Government Efficiency an...
  • Duplicate 2: Law Enforcement, Criminal and Civil Justice Subcommittee of the Govern...
The average number of words per sentence of 59 words is high.
16.3% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
6 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
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 usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 7 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
4 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
/images/header8.pngSouth Carolina LegislatureSouth Carolina Legislature
/images/titleprint.jpgSouth Carolina LegislatureSouth Carolina Legislature
/images/lock.pngNo alt attribute provided
/images/scgov3.jpgSC.govSC.gov
/images/scsl_logo_rgb_web.pngStateLibrary.SC.govStateLibrary.SC.gov
/images/searchbutton2.pngNo alt attribute provided
/images/social-icon-twitter.pngNo alt attribute providedFollow on Twitter
/images/social-icon-twitter.pngNo alt attribute providedFollow on Twitter

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.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 South Carolina Law
H2 Quick Search
H2 Find Your Legislators
H2 Legislative Voting Record
H2 Contact Your Legislator
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 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/index.phpHome
/senate.phpSenate
/house.phpHouse
/committeeinfo.phpCommittee Postings and Reports
/council.phpLegislative Council
/citizens.phpCitizens' Interest
/publications.phpPublications
/onlineservices/index.phpStaff Portal
/video/schedule.phpVideo Schedule
/video/archives.phpVideo Archives
/howdoi.phpHow do I...
/legislation.phpLegislation
/listtracking/main.phpTrack Legislation
/multicriteria2/search.phpMulti-Criteria Search
/research.phpResearch
/man24/manual24.phpView Manual Online
http://www.studentconnection.s...External Subdomain Student Connection
/visit.phpVisiting the State House
/archives.phpArchives
http://www.sc.gov/Agency-ListingNew window External Subdomain State Agency Websites
/citizensinterestpage/media.phpMedia Links
http://www.sc.gov/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT SC.gov
http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT StateLibrary.SC.gov
/billsearch.php?billnumbers=29...S. 292
/senate.phpText duplicate Senate
/dashboard/senate.phpChamber Dashboard
/sessphp/sencal.phpCalendars
/committee.php?chamber=SCommittees
/sessphp/sjournal.phpJournals
/votehistory.php?chamber=SRoll Call Votes
/member.php?chamber=SSenators
/sessphp/sintros.phpIntroduced Legislation
https://redistricting.scsenate...New window External Subdomain Redistricting
/newlaws.phpRatifications & Acts
/code/statmast.phpCode of Laws
/coderegs/statmast.phpCode of Regulations
/scconstitution/scconst.phpConstitution
/state_register.phpState Register
/house.phpHouse of Representatives
/dashboard/house.phpText duplicate Chamber Dashboard
/sessphp/houcal.phpText duplicate Calendars
/committee.php?chamber=HText duplicate Committees
/sessphp/hjournal.phpText duplicate Journals
/votehistory.php?chamber=HText duplicate Roll Call Votes
/member.php?chamber=HRepresentatives
/sessphp/hintros.phpText duplicate Introduced Legislation
https://redistricting.schouse....New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Redistricting
/meetings.php?chamber=SSenate Meeting Schedule
https://twitter.com/scsenateNew window External Follow on Twitter
/meetings.php?chamber=SMore Info
/meetings.php?chamber=HHouse Meeting Schedule
https://twitter.com/schouseNew window External Text duplicate Follow on Twitter
/agendas/126h15519.pdfNew window Agenda Available
/agendas/126h15513.pdfNew window Text duplicate Agenda Available
/agendas/126h15520.pdfNew window Text duplicate Agenda Available
/agendas/126h15514.pdfNew window Text duplicate Agenda Available
/agendas/126h15521.pdfNew window Text duplicate Agenda Available
/meetings.php?chamber=HText duplicate More Info
/disclaimer.phpDisclaimer
/policies.phpPolicies
/credits.phpPhoto Credits
/contact.phpContact Us

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.scstatehouse.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 (1.06 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 (56 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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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 726 referring domains.
This page has 44,280 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 403 different ip addresses.

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