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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
76% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
96% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.47 s
File size
67.90 kB
Words
309
Media files
17
Number of links
64 internal / 14 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home :: California Secretary of State
The length of the page title is perfect. (327 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)
https://www.sos.ca.gov/
There is a valid canonical link 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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 309 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
21.7% 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 19.5 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
Multiple viewport tags are given. There should only be one.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" 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 6 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
...os/themes/casos_theme/images/ca-seal.svgThe Great Seal of the State of California
...n/files/1215/9666/1272/icon-business.pngBusiness
.../files/1415/9666/1274/icon-elections.pngElections
...n/files/5715/9666/1272/icon-archives.pngArchives
...files/8815/9666/1275/icon-registries.pngRegistries
...6215/9666/1273/icon-campaign-finance.pngCampaign Finance & Lobbying Activities
...5815/9666/1275/icon-notary-apostille.pngNotary & Apostille
.../files/1615/9666/1276/icon-safe-home.pngSafe at Home
...ation/files/6815/9666/1274/icon-news.pngNews
.../5654/6223/2022-VCA-Main-Button-blue.pngCalifornia Redistricting
...n/files/2815/9666/1526/casos-bizfile.jpgbizfile California
.../3530/Main-DiversityOnBoards-buttons.pngDiversity on Boards
...1715/9785/7938/casos-my-voter-status.jpgMy Voter Status
...s/7815/9666/1525/casos-register-vote.jpgVote California - Register to Vote
...ation/files/3815/9681/5355/icon-call.svgCall Us
...on/files/5615/9681/5355/icon-updates.svgReceive Updates
...tion/files/1415/9681/5356/icon-write.svgWrite Us

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
California Secretary of State
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 California Secretary of State
H2 Voter's Choice Act
H2 Business
H2 Elections
H2 Archives
H2 Registries
H2 Campaign Finance & Lobbying Activities
H2 Notary & Apostille
H2 Safe at Home
H2 News
H2 Call Us
H2 Receive Updates
H2 Write Us
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.sos.ca.gov/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.sos.ca.gov/Anchor Skip to Footer
https://www.sos.ca.gov/California Secretary of State Shirley N. Weber, Ph.D.
IMG-ALT The Great Seal of the State of California
A-TITLE California Secretary of State Home
https://www.sos.ca.gov/Home
/administration/About
/business-programs/Business
https://www.sos.ca.gov/notary/Notary & Apostille
https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/Elections
/voters-choice-act/VCA
/campaign-lobbying/Campaign & Lobbying
https://www.sos.ca.gov/archives/State Archives
/registries/Registries
/administration/news-releases-...News
/administration/events/Events
/contact-information/Contact
/administration/eventsSubdomain For more information and to register
https://bpd.cdn.sos.ca.gov/pdf...External Subdomain View
https://www.sos.ca.gov/electionsSubdomain Elections and Voter Information
https://bit.ly/SOS_CareerOppor...External View Career Opportunities
http://wheresmyballot.sos.ca.gov/External Subdomain WheresMyBallot.sos.ca.gov
/notary/request-apostilleSubdomain More information
https://bizfileonline.sos.ca.gov/External Subdomain bizfile Online
/voters-choice-act/vca-partici...Participating counties
/elections/voting-resources/vo...Subdomain Election Information
/elections/voting-resources/vo...Subdomain Información Electoral
/elections/voting-resources/vo...Subdomain 選舉信息
/elections/voting-resources/vo...Subdomain चुनाव जानकारी
/elections/voting-resources/vo...Subdomain 選挙情報
/elections/voting-resources/vo...Subdomain Impormasyon sa Halalan
/elections/voting-resources/vo...Subdomain ពការបោះឆ្នោត
/elections/voting-resources/vo...Subdomain 선거 정보
/elections/voting-resources/vo...Subdomain ข้อมูลการเลือกตั้ง
/elections/voting-resources/vo...Subdomain Thông tn bầu cử
/business-programsSubdomain Business Learn More
IMG-ALT Business
https://www.sos.ca.gov/electionsSubdomain Elections Learn More
IMG-ALT Elections
https://www.sos.ca.gov/archivesSubdomain Archives Learn More
IMG-ALT Archives
https://www.sos.ca.gov/registriesSubdomain Registries Learn More
IMG-ALT Registries
/campaign-lobbyingSubdomain Campaign Finance & Lobbying Activities Learn More
IMG-ALT Campaign Finance & Lobbying Activities
https://www.sos.ca.gov/notarySubdomain Notary & Apostille Learn More
IMG-ALT Notary & Apostille
/registries/safe-homeSubdomain Safe at Home Learn More
IMG-ALT Safe at Home
/administration/news-releases-...Subdomain News Learn More
IMG-ALT News
/voters-choice-actSubdomain IMG-ALT California Redistricting
/business-programs/bizfile/IMG-ALT bizfile California
/business-programs/diversity-b...Subdomain IMG-ALT Diversity on Boards
https://voterstatus.sos.ca.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT My Voter Status
https://registertovote.ca.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Vote California - Register to Vote
https://twitter.com/CASOSVoteExternal Tweets by @CASOSVote
https://visitor.r20.constantco...External Subdomain Sign up for e-updates
/contact-informationSubdomain Agency Contacts
https://www.sos.ca.gov/Text duplicate Home
/administration/Text duplicate About
/business-programs/Text duplicate Business
https://www.sos.ca.gov/notary/Text duplicate Notary & Apostille
https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/Text duplicate Elections
/campaign-lobbying/Text duplicate Campaign & Lobbying
https://www.sos.ca.gov/archives/Text duplicate State Archives
/registries/Text duplicate Registries
/administration/news-releases-...Text duplicate News
/contact-information/Contact Us
/administration/current-career...Contracting Opportunities
/administration/current-career...Career Opportunities
/site-maintenance-schedule/Site Maintenance Schedule
/administration/language-acces...Language Access Complaint Form
/administration/guidelines-acc...Public Records Act Requests
/free-doc-readers/Free Document Readers
https://www.sos.ca.gov/sitemap/Sitemap
https://www.ca.gov/External Subdomain California Home Page
https://www.facebook.com/Calif...External Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/CASOSvote/External Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/user/C...External Subdomain Youtube
https://www.snapchat.com/add/c...External Subdomain Snapchat
https://www.instagram.com/Cali...External Subdomain Instagram
/administration/multimedia/ava...RSS Feed
/administration/privacy-policy/Privacy Policy
/website-help/Website Help
/accessibility/Accessibility
/contact-information/Text duplicate Contact Us
https://www.sos.ca.gov/Anchor Top of Page

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.sos.ca.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 of 0.47 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (68 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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expiresThu, 12 Jun 2025 15:50:37 GMT
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x-frame-optionssameorigin
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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 1,060 referring domains.
This page has 159,128 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 678 different ip addresses.

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Secretary62%Check
California Secretary62%Check
State Archives53%Check
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Act44%Check
Choice Act43%Check
Apostille42%Check
  
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