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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
59% 
Page quality
74% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
59% 
External factors
18% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.44 s
File size
19.80 kB
Words
583
Media files
0
Number of links
38 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Permits, Licenses and Regulatory Compliance - Seattle Services Portal | seattle.gov
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 750 pixels long. Optimize title
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)
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
This page contains 583 words. That's ok.
27.6% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
16 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 20.42 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 12 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

No media files were found.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Seattle Services Portal
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Seattle Services Portal
H2 Find Existing
H2 Create New
H3 Search by Address or Record Number
H3 Narrow your search by category
H3 Commercial Building Tune-Ups
H3 Complaints - Building & Property
H3 Historic Preservation Certificate of Approval
H3 Licenses - Short Term Rentals
H3 Licenses - Taxi & For-Hire
H3 Licenses - Trade & Equipment
H3 Permits - Parking & Truck
H3 Permits - Street Use
H3 Permits - Trade, Construction & Land Use
H3 Public Comments
H3 Public Utilities - Development Services
H3 Rental Housing Registration (RRIO)
H3 Tenant Assistance (EDRA)
H3 Trees
H3 Not sure which category to choose to start your new request?
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 7 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.seattle.gov/External Subdomain Seattle
A-TITLE Seattle.gov home
/portal/welcome.aspxSeattle Services Portal
A-TITLE Portal Home
/portal/welcome.aspxhomeHome
/portal/customization/common/m...view_listMy Records
https://seattlegov.zendesk.com...New window External Subdomain helpHelp
/Portal/CommunityView/account/newperm_identityRegister for an Account
/Portal/Login.aspxLogin
/Portal/Cap/CapHome.aspx?modul...search
/Portal/Customization/common/m...My Records
/Portal/Cap/CapHome.aspx?modul...searchSearch All Records
/Portal/Cap/CapHome.aspx?modul...Complaints - Building & Property
/Portal/Cap/CapHome.aspx?modul...Historic Preservation Certificate of Approval
/Portal/Cap/CapHome.aspx?modul...Licenses - Short Term Rentals
/Portal/Cap/CapHome.aspx?modul...Licenses - Taxi & For-Hire
/Portal/Cap/CapHome.aspx?modul...Licenses - Trade & Equipment
/Portal/Cap/CapHome.aspx?modul...Permits - Parking & Truck
/Portal/Cap/CapHome.aspx?modul...Permits - Street Use
/Portal/Cap/CapHome.aspx?modul...Permits - Trade, Construction & Land Use
/Portal/Cap/CapHome.aspx?modul...Public Comments
/Portal/Cap/CapHome.aspx?modul...Public Notices
/Portal/Cap/CapHome.aspx?modul...Public Utilities - Development Services
/Portal/Cap/CapHome.aspx?modul...Rental Housing Registration (RRIO)
/Portal/Cap/CapHome.aspx?modul...Tenant Assistance (EDRA)
/Portal/Customization/pages/qu...Pay fees on a record
https://seattlegov.zendesk.com...External Subdomain How do I schedule an Inspection or Appointment with SDCI or SDOT?
/Portal/Customization/pages/re...Application Index
/Portal/urlrouting.ashx?type=1...Commercial Building Tune-Ups
/Portal/urlrouting.ashx?type=1...Text duplicate Complaints - Building & Property
/Portal/urlrouting.ashx?type=1...Text duplicate Historic Preservation Certificate of Approval
/Portal/urlrouting.ashx?type=1...Text duplicate Licenses - Short Term Rentals
/Portal/urlrouting.ashx?type=1...Text duplicate Licenses - Taxi & For-Hire
/Portal/urlrouting.ashx?type=1...Text duplicate Licenses - Trade & Equipment
/Portal/urlrouting.ashx?type=1...Text duplicate Permits - Parking & Truck
/Portal/urlrouting.ashx?type=1...Text duplicate Permits - Street Use
/Portal/urlrouting.ashx?type=1...Text duplicate Permits - Trade, Construction & Land Use
/Portal/Customization/comments...Text duplicate Public Comments
/Portal/urlrouting.ashx?type=1...Text duplicate Public Utilities - Development Services
/Portal/urlrouting.ashx?type=1...Text duplicate Rental Housing Registration (RRIO)
/Portal/urlrouting.ashx?type=1...Text duplicate Tenant Assistance (EDRA)
/Portal/Customization/pages/tr...Trees
/Portal/Customization/pages/re...Text duplicate Application Index
https://www.seattle.gov/External Subdomain seattle.gov
http://www.seattle.gov/digitalExternal Subdomain About Our Digital Properties
https://www.seattle.gov/tech/i...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
http://www.seattle.gov/america...External Subdomain ADA Notice

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://services.seattle.gov/Portal/Customization/SEATTLE/welcome.aspx"
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 (1.44 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 loads 7 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (20 kB).

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This page only has backlinks from 6 referring domains.
This page only has 60 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 5 different ip addresses.

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Seattle Services74%Check
Seattle72%Check
Seattle Services Portal72%Check
Services70%Check
Portal66%Check
or record57%Check
Tree Service56%Check
Development Services55%Check
Permits54%Check
Licenses54%Check
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