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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
64% 
Page structure
74% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
87% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.46 s
File size
107.50 kB
Words
331
Media files
7
Number of links
45 internal / 14 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - City of Sonoma
The length of the page title is perfect. (209 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Sonoma is a historic city with a population of 11,000, located in the heart of the renowned Sonoma Valley wine region. The five-member City Council acts as the legislative arm of City government. City Hall is located in the center of the historic town square, also known as The Plaza.
The meta description is too long: 1731 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.sonomacity.org/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
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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descriptionSonoma is a historic city with a population of 11,000, located in the heart of the renowned Sonoma Valley wine region. The five-member City Council acts as the legislative arm of City government. City Hall is located in the center of the historic town square, also known as The Plaza.
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article:modified_time2025-05-17T00:57:13+00:00
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleHome - City of Sonoma
og:descriptionSonoma is a historic city with a population of 11,000, located in the heart of the renowned Sonoma Valley wine region. The five-member City Council acts as the legislative arm of City government. City Hall is located in the center of the historic town square, also known as The Plaza.
og:urlhttps://www.sonomacity.org/
og:site_nameCity of Sonoma
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og:image:width857
og:image:height630
og:image:typeimage/jpeg
x-ua-compatibleie=edge
X-Content-Type-Optionsnosniff
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 331 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
20.2% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 16 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "initial-scale=1.0, width=device-width" is provided.
At least one 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)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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
...ty_Seal_transparent_background-64x64.pngHomeHome
...ty_Seal_transparent_background-64x64.pngHomeHome
...016/02/Sonoma_City_Hall_2016-300x221.jpgSonoma City Hall
...ma-overlook-before-and-after-500x250.pngA before and after photo of a portion of the Sonoma Overlook Trail before it's repair and after.
...maca/2025/05/sidewalk-sale-3-500x250.pngA graphic advertising a sidewalk sale and corresponding map of participating locations.
...24/12/city-council-12-2024-1-500x250.pngA photo of the five members of Sonoma City Council at their December 18th meeting.
...oud-core/assets/images/logo-white-1x.pngProudCity

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Sonoma
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (6 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Sonoma
H2 Action toolbar
H2 Primary menu links
H2 City News
H2 Upcoming Events
H2 Upcoming Meetings
H2 Frequently Requested
H2 Let's Stay Connected
H2 Contact
H2 Subscribe
H2 Connect
H3 Upper Sonoma Overlook Trail Reopens Following Accessibility and Drainage Improvements
H3 Reminder: City Council to Hold Budget Study Session May 22
H3 Vegetation Management & Weed Abatement: Fire Safety Starts with You
H3 Memorial Day Sidewalk Sale
H3 City Offices Closed – Memorial Day
H3 67th Annual Memorial Day Observance & All-American Picnic
H3 City Council Meeting
H3 Design Review and Historic Preservation Commission Meeting
H3 Parks, Recreation & Open Space Commission Meeting
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 14 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.sonomacity.org/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.sonomacity.org/Anchor Skip to navigation
/sitemapSite map
https://www.sonomacity.org/Subdomain IMG-ALT Home
A-TITLE Home
https://www.sonomacity.org/Subdomain City of Sonoma
A-TITLE Home
/communityCommunity
/governmentGovernment
/businessesBusinesses
/calendarCalendar
/visitorsVisitors
/contactContact
https://www.sonomacity.org/newsNews
https://www.sonomacity.org/Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Home
A-TITLE Home
https://www.sonomacity.org/Subdomain Text duplicate City of Sonoma
A-TITLE Home
https://sonomacity.civicweb.ne...External Subdomain Meetings & Agendas (CivicWeb Portal)
/online-payment-water-bills/Subdomain Pay Your Water Bill & Track Water Use Online
/current-job-recruitments/Subdomain Current Job Recruitments
https://sonomaca.viewpointclou...External Subdomain Online Permits & Applications
/upper-sonoma-overlook-trail-r...Subdomain IMG-ALT A before and after photo of a portion of the Sonoma Overlook Trail before it's repair and after.
/upper-sonoma-overlook-trail-r...Subdomain Upper Sonoma Overlook Trail Reopens Following Accessibility and Drainage Improvements
/upper-sonoma-overlook-trail-r...Subdomain Continued
/reminder-city-council-to-hold...Subdomain Reminder: City Council to Hold Budget Study Session May 22
/vegetation-management-weed-ab...Subdomain Vegetation Management & Weed Abatement: Fire Safety Starts with You
https://www.sonomacity.org/NewsMore news
/event/memorial-day-sidewalk-s...Subdomain IMG-ALT A graphic advertising a sidewalk sale and corresponding map of participating locations.
/event/memorial-day-sidewalk-s...Subdomain Memorial Day Sidewalk Sale
/event/memorial-day-sidewalk-s...Subdomain Text duplicate Continued
/event/city-offices-closed-mem...Subdomain City Offices Closed – Memorial Day
/event/67th-annual-memorial-da...Subdomain 67th Annual Memorial Day Observance & All-American Picnic
/calendarSubdomain More events
/event/city-council-meeting-10...Subdomain IMG-ALT A photo of the five members of Sonoma City Council at their December 18th meeting.
/event/city-council-meeting-10...Subdomain City Council Meeting
/event/city-council-meeting-10...Subdomain Text duplicate Continued
/event/design-review-and-histo...Subdomain Design Review and Historic Preservation Commission Meeting
/event/parks-recreation-open-s...Subdomain Parks, Recreation & Open Space Commission Meeting
/calendarSubdomain More meetings
/departments/emergency-prep/Subdomain Emergency Preparedness
/parks-and-recreation-directory/Subdomain Parks & Recreation Directory
https://sonomacity.generalplan...External Subdomain General Plan Update
/business-licensesSubdomain Business Licenses
https://sonomacity.civicweb.ne...External Subdomain Municipal Code
/documents/water-turn-on-off-f...Subdomain Start/Stop Water Service
https://www.sonomacity.org/Anchor skip decoration
/subscribe/New window Subdomain Subscribe to our E-Newsletter
https://sonomacity.civicweb.ne...New window External Subdomain Sign up for Agenda Updates
https://www.facebook.com/CityO...New window External Subdomain Follow us on Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/sono...New window External Subdomain Follow us on Instagram
https://nextdoor.com/agency-de...External Find us on Nextdoor
https://www.facebook.com/share...New window External Subdomain Facebook
A-TITLE Share on Facebook
https://twitter.com/share?url=...External Twitter
A-TITLE Share on Twitter
/contactDirectory
/feedbackFeedback
/accessibility-statementAccessibility
/sitemapSitemap
/subscribeSubscribe to more lists >
https://facebook.com/cityofsonomaNew window External Text duplicate Facebook
A-TITLE Facebook
https://instagram.com/sonomacityNew window External Instagram
A-TITLE Instagram
https://youtube.com/channel/UC...New window External Youtube
A-TITLE Youtube
https://proudcity.com/External IMG-ALT ProudCity

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.sonomacity.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (2.46 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 (108 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSat, 24 May 2025 20:37:48 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length24703
varyX-Forwarded-Proto,Accept-Encoding
x-powered-byPHP/8.2.28
link<https://www.sonomacity.org/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
cache-controlmax-age=0
expiresSat, 24 May 2025 20:37:47 GMT
content-encodinggzip
strict-transport-securitymax-age=15724800; includeSubDomains
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 126 referring domains.
This page has 382 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 106 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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Home - City of Sonoma
Sonoma is a historic city with a population of 11,000, located in the heart of the renowned Sonoma Valley wine region. The five-member City Council acts as the legislative arm of City government. City Hall is located in the center of the historic town square, also known as The Plaza.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Sonoma97%Check
City Sonoma92%Check
City86%Check
City Council72%Check
City News64%Check
Sonoma Valley56%Check
Upper Sonoma Overlook Trail56%Check
City Hall52%Check
Historic50%Check
government46%Check
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