Sos.arkansas.gov - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
76% 
Page quality
76% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
66% 
Server
40% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.88 s
File size
65.20 kB
Words
455
Media files
28
Number of links
95 internal / 25 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Arkansas Secretary of State
The length of the page title is perfect. (252 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: 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)
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

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langen
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 455 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
19.3% 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.
3 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 11.5 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 9 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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
About the Secretary of State
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 About the Secretary of State
H2 Secretary Jester Announces Arkansas Ranked First for Election Integrity
H4 Elections Elections Icon Arrow Up Icon
H4 Business Services Business Services Icon Arrow Up Icon
H4 Educators Educators Icon Arrow Up Icon
H4 Visit the Capitol Visit The Capitol Icon Arrow Up Icon
H4 Cole Jester Arkansas Secretary of State
H4 Arkansas Secretary of State Executive Office
H4 Business & Commercial Services (BCS)
H4 Northwest Arkansas Office
H5 News & Notices
H5 Business Search
H5 Voter View
H5 Election Results
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 2 links with a trivial 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 25 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/elections/petitionfraudPlease report any petition fraud or violation of canvassing laws here.
https://sos.arkansas.gov/IMG-ALT Home Icon
/electionsElections
IMG-ALT Elections Icon
/elections/for-votersNew window For Voters
/elections/for-election-resultsNew window Election Results
/elections/for-ethics-filingsNew window Ethics Filings
/elections/for-candidatesNew window For Candidates
/elections/for-election-officalsNew window Election Officials
/elections/for-rules-regulationsNew window Rules & Regulations
/elections/for-other-election-...New window Other Election Services
/business-commercial-services-bcsBusiness Services
IMG-ALT Business Services Icon
/business-commercial-services-...New window New Businesses
/business-commercial-services-...New window Current Businesses
/business-commercial-services-...New window UCC & Other Commercial Services
/business-commercial-services-...New window Notary
/business-commercial-services-...New window eNotary
/business-commercial-services-...New window Apostille & Certification
/business-commercial-services-...New window For Nonprofit/Charitable Entities
/business-commercial-services-...New window Other Key Services
https://www.ark.org/sos/franch...New window External Subdomain File Franchise Taxes
/educatorsEducators
IMG-ALT Educators Icon
/education/students-educatorsNew window Students & Educators
/education/capitol-field-tripsNew window Capitol Field Trips
/education/classroom-presentat...New window Order Classroom Material
/state-capitolVisit the Capitol
IMG-ALT Visit the Capitol Icon
/state-capitol/for-business-vi...New window Business Visitors
/state-capitol/for-tourists-ed...New window Tourists & Educators
/state-capitol/for-eventsNew window Event Planners
/state-capitol/about-the-capitolNew window About the Capitol
/state-capitol/arkansas-state-...New window Arkansas State Capitol Police
https://sos.arkansas.gov/aboutAbout
IMG-ALT About Icon
/about-the-office/leadership-o...New window Leadership & Overview
/about-the-office/media-center/New window Media Center
/about-the-office/administrati...New window Administrative Offices
https://www.facebook.com/ARSec...External Subdomain Facebook Link
https://twitter.com/ARSecofStateExternal Twitter Link
https://www.pinterest.com/ARSt...External Subdomain Pinterest Link
https://www.instagram.com/sosj...External Subdomain Instagram Link
https://www.youtube.com/user/A...External Subdomain YouTube Link
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...External Subdomain Flickr Link
https://sos.arkansas.gov/IMG-ALT Secretary of State Seal
https://sos.arkansas.gov/IMG-ALT Secretary of State Seal Mobile
/electionsText duplicate Elections
/elections/for-votersText duplicate For Voters
/elections/research/election-r...Text duplicate Election Results
/elections/for-ethics-filingsText duplicate Ethics Filings
/elections/for-candidatesText duplicate For Candidates
/elections/for-election-officalsText duplicate Election Officials
/elections/for-rules-regulationsText duplicate Rules & Regulations
/elections/for-other-election-...Text duplicate Other Election Services
/business-commercial-services-bcsText duplicate Business Services
/business-commercial-services-...Text duplicate New Businesses
/business-commercial-services-...Text duplicate Current Businesses
/business-commercial-services-...Text duplicate UCC & Other Commercial Services
/business-commercial-services-...Text duplicate Notary
/business-commercial-services-...Enotary
/business-commercial-services-...Text duplicate Apostille & Certification
/business-commercial-services-...For Nonprofit/ Charitable Entities
/business-commercial-services-...Text duplicate Other Key Services
/educatorsText duplicate Educators
/education/students-educatorsText duplicate Students & Educators
/education/capitol-field-tripsText duplicate Capitol Field Trips
/education/classroom-presentat...Order Classroom Materials
/state-capitolText duplicate Visit the Capitol
/state-capitol/for-business-vi...Text duplicate Business Visitors
/state-capitol/for-tourists-ed...For Tourists & Educators
/state-capitol/for-eventsText duplicate Event Planners
/state-capitol/about-the-capitolText duplicate About the Capitol
/state-capitol/arkansas-state-...Text duplicate Arkansas State Capitol Police
https://sos.arkansas.gov/aboutText duplicate About
/about-the-office/leadership-o...Text duplicate Leadership & Overview
/about-the-office/media-center/Text duplicate Media Center
/about-the-office/administrati...Text duplicate Administrative Offices
/about-the-office/media-center...Awards & Citations
/news/detail/after-reforms-ark...New window Trivial anchor text
Read More
/news/New window View All >
https://www.ark.org/corp-searc...New window External Subdomain Click Here >
https://www.voterview.ar-nova....New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Click Here >
https://enr.totalresults.com/a...New window External Subdomain Anchor Election Results >
/electionsText duplicate Elections
/elections/for-votersNew window Text duplicate For Voters
/elections/research/election-r...New window Text duplicate Election Results
/elections/for-candidatesNew window Text duplicate For Candidates
/elections/for-ethics-filingsNew window Text duplicate Ethics Filings
/elections/for-rules-regulationsNew window Text duplicate Rules & Regulations
/elections/for-election-officalsNew window For Local Election Officials
/business-commercial-services-bcsText duplicate Business Services
/business-commercial-services-...New window For Current Businesses
/business-commercial-services-...New window For New Businesses
/business-commercial-services-...New window For Charities
/business-commercial-services-...New window UCC
/business-commercial-services-...New window Text duplicate Notary
/business-commercial-services-...New window Text duplicate eNotary
/business-commercial-services-...New window Text duplicate Other Key Services
/educatorsText duplicate Educators
/education/students-educatorsNew window For Students
/education/capitol-field-tripsNew window Field Trips
/state-capitolText duplicate Visit the Capitol
/state-capitol/for-tourists-ed...New window For Tours & Field Trips
/state-capitol/for-business-vi...New window For Business Visitors
/state-capitol/for-eventsNew window For Event Planners
/state-capitol/about-the-capitolNew window History of the Capitol
https://www.voterview.ar-nova....External Subdomain No Text
/about-the-office/latest-newsTrivial anchor text
Click here
https://sos.arkansas.gov/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Secretary of State Seal
https://goo.gl/maps/77onyPmxp1...New window External View Google Map
/about-the-office/contact-usNew window Contact Us
https://www.google.com/maps/pl...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate View Google Map
https://goo.gl/maps/Cjkfp1irpv...New window External Text duplicate View Google Map
https://www.facebook.com/ARSec...External Subdomain Text duplicate Facebook Link
https://twitter.com/ARSecofStateExternal IMG-ALT x-logo
https://www.instagram.com/sosc...External Subdomain Text duplicate Instagram Link
https://www.youtube.com/user/A...External Subdomain Text duplicate YouTube Link
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...External Subdomain Text duplicate Flickr Link
https://portal.arkansas.gov/pa...External Subdomain Anchor Accessibility
https://portal.arkansas.gov/pa...External Subdomain Anchor Privacy
https://portal.arkansas.gov/pa...External Subdomain Anchor Security
https://portal.arkansas.gov/pa...External Subdomain Anchor Acceptable Use
https://transparency.arkansas....External Subdomain Transparency
https://www.arkansas.gov/External Subdomain Arkansas.gov

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://sos.arkansas.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (2.88 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 (65 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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set-cookie100 Characters
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresMon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
varyAccept-Encoding
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 171 referring domains.
This page has 215 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 34 different ip addresses.

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sos.arkansas.gov
Arkansas Secretary of State

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Arkansas72%Check
State72%Check
Secretary72%Check
Arkansas Secretary72%Check
Arkansas State72%Check
State Capitol61%Check
Secretary Jester61%Check
Northwest Arkansas59%Check
AR 7220158%Check
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