Smithfieldva.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
44% 
Page structure
55% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.07 s
File size
101.90 kB
Words
475
Media files
9
Number of links
80 internal / 1 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Smithfield, VA | Official Website
The length of the page title is perfect. (281 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
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: 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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
category0Home
theme-colorrgb(101, 8, 16)
descriptionEmpty
keywordsHome
langen
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 475 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
There are 8 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate 1: Town Council Meeting The Town Council will hold a regular meeting at t...
  • Duplicate 2: Planning Commission Meeting The Planning Commission will hold a regula...
  • Duplicate 3: Board of Historic & Architectural Review Meeting The Board of Historic...
  • Duplicate 4: Board of Zoning Appeals Meeting The Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) will...
26.9% 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.
10 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 18.08 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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The following tag is repeated too often: town council meeting
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
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=77Smithfield Virginia Homepage
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=81Search2
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=83Marina
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=85Smithfield Virginia Homepage
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=66Smithfield Virginia Homepage
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=48 Facebook
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=65X
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=49 Instagram
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=51 YouTube

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
News & Calendar
The H1 heading is too short (15 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 News & Calendar
H3 June 2025
H3 June 2025 Duplicate text
H3 Contact Us
H3 Helpful Links
H3 Site Links
H4 2025-26 Budget Proposal
H4 2024-25 Budget Proposal
H4 Create an Account
H4 Stay connected!
H4 Tue, Jun 3
H4 Tue, Jun 10
H4 Tue, Jun 17
H4 Tue, Jun 17 Duplicate text
H4 Tue, Jun 3 Duplicate text
H4 Tue, Jun 10 Duplicate text
H4 Tue, Jun 17 Duplicate text
H4 Tue, Jun 17 Duplicate text
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://www.smithfieldva.gov/Anchor Skip to Main Content
/MyAccount/ProfileCreateCreate a Website Account
/MyAccountWebsite Sign In
https://www.smithfieldva.gov/IMG-ALT Smithfield Virginia Homepage
/Search/ResultsIMG-ALT Search2
/27/GovernmentGovernment
/149/DepartmentsDepartments
/31/CommunityCommunity
/101/ServicesServices
/9/How-Do-IHow Do I...
/360/2691/Agendas-Minutes-Plac...Agendas & Minutes
/311/Online-PaymentsOnline Payments
/CivicAlerts.aspxNews
/Calendar.aspxEvents
/FormCenter/Contact-Us-5/Conta...Contact Us
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=202025-26 Budget Proposal
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=20Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=172024-25 Budget Proposal
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=17Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=14IMG-ALT Marina
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=14Create an Account
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=14Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=13Text duplicate IMG-ALT Smithfield Virginia Homepage
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=13Stay connected!
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=13Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?CID=1View All News
https://www.smithfieldva.gov/Anchor Meetings
https://www.smithfieldva.gov/Anchor Text duplicate Events
https://www.smithfieldva.gov/Anchor Text duplicate Meetings
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...3
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...10
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...17
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...19
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...23
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...1
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...4
/Calendar.aspx?EID=771Town Council Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=771Town Council MeetingRead On
/Calendar.aspx?EID=724Planning Commission Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=724Planning Commission MeetingRead On
/Calendar.aspx?EID=736Board of Historic & Architectural Review Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=736Board of Historic & Architectural Review MeetingRead On
/Calendar.aspx?EID=748Board of Zoning Appeals Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=748Board of Zoning Appeals MeetingRead On
/calendar.aspx?CID=14,22View All Meetings
https://www.smithfieldva.gov/Anchor Text duplicate Events
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...Text duplicate 3
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...Text duplicate 10
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...Text duplicate 17
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...Text duplicate 19
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...Text duplicate 23
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...Text duplicate 1
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...Text duplicate 4
/Calendar.aspx?EID=771Text duplicate Town Council Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=771Text duplicate Town Council MeetingRead On
/Calendar.aspx?EID=724Text duplicate Planning Commission Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=724Text duplicate Planning Commission MeetingRead On
/Calendar.aspx?EID=736Text duplicate Board of Historic & Architectural Review Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=736Text duplicate Board of Historic & Architectural Review MeetingRead On
/Calendar.aspx?EID=748Text duplicate Board of Zoning Appeals Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=748Text duplicate Board of Zoning Appeals MeetingRead On
/calendar.aspx?CID=14,22View All Events
https://www.smithfieldva.gov/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Smithfield Virginia Homepage
/facebookIMG-ALT Facebook
/twitterIMG-ALT X
/instagramIMG-ALT Instagram
/youtubeIMG-ALT YouTube
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=15Helpful Links
/DocumentCenter/View/730/Newco...New window Newcomer's Guide
/AgendaCenterMeeting Agendas
/287/Town-CouncilTown Council
/Bids.aspxRFPs/Invitation for Bids
/Jobs.aspxEmployment Opportunities
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=16Site Links
https://www.smithfieldva.gov/Home
/sitemapSite Map
/directory.aspxText duplicate Contact Us
/accessibilityAccessibility
/copyrightCopyright Notices
/privacyPrivacy Policy
https://connect.civicplus.com/...External Subdomain CivicPlus®

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.smithfieldva.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
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 (1.07 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 (102 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate, s-maxage=600,no-transform
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
p3pCP="IDC DSP COR ADM DEVi TAIi PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi HIS OUR IND CNT"
set-cookie25 Characters
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self' https://*.granicus.com https://platform.civicplus.com https://account.civicplus.com https://analytics.civicplus.com; img-src * data: blob:; worker-src * data: blob: 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline'; script-src * about: 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval'; style-src * 'unsafe-inline'; media-src * blob:; font-src * data:; default-src *
dateMon, 02 Jun 2025 11:06:37 GMT
content-length30258
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 63 referring domains.
This page has 1,771 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 56 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

user-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /
User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /
User-agent: *
Disallow: /activedit
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /common/admin/
Disallow: /OJA
Disallow: /support
Disallow: /currenteventsview.asp
Disallow: /search.asp
Disallow: /currenteventsview.aspx
Disallow: /search.aspx
Disallow: /currentevents.aspx
Disallow: /Support
Disallow: /CurrentEventsView.asp
Disallow: /Search.asp
Disallow: /CurrentEventsView.aspx
Disallow: /Search.aspx
Disallow: /Search
Disallow: /CurrentEvents.aspx
Disallow: /Currentevents.aspx
Disallow: /map.aspx
Disallow: /map.asp
Disallow: /Map.aspx
Disallow: /Map.asp
Sitemap: /sitemap.xml
Disallow: /RSS.aspx
User-agent: Siteimprove
Crawl-delay: 20
User-agent: Siteimprovebot
Crawl-delay: 20
User-agent: Siteimprovebot-crawler
Crawl-delay: 20

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Smithfield, VA | Official Website

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Smithfield64%Check
News50%Check
Calendar50%Check
Site50%Check
Smithfield Center49%Check
Website46%Check
Smithfield Center 3044%Check
Budget43%Check
Proposal43%Check
Links43%Check
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