Tax.ny.gov - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
99% 
Page structure
93% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
70% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.98 s
File size
27.10 kB
Words
956
Media files
17
Number of links
96 internal / 14 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Department of Taxation and Finance
The length of the page title is perfect. (322 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Welcome to the official website of the NYS Department of Taxation and Finance. Visit us to learn about your tax responsibilities, check your refund status, and use our online services—anywhere, any time!
The meta description is too long: 1253 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
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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viewportwidth=device-width
descriptionWelcome to the official website of the NYS Department of Taxation and Finance. Visit us to learn about your tax responsibilities, check your refund status, and use our online services—anywhere, any time!
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 956 words. That's ok.
31.7% 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.
17 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 16.03 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 4 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "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 19 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)
Department of Taxation and Finance
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 26 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Department of Taxation and Finance
H2 It's time to check your property assessment
H2 What are you looking for?
H2 Popular Services
H2 Featured Resources
H2 What's New
H2 Featured in May
H2 Department of Taxation and Finance Duplicate text
H3 Choose an online service
H3 Learn about STAR benefits for homeowners
H3 Use Sales Tax Web File
H3 Quick Pay—no Online Services account required!
H3 Respond to a department notice
H3 Benefit from good recordkeeping
H3 Tax Tips for Businesses emails
H3 Tax facts
H3 Improvements to withholding tax and wage reporting
H3 Did you receive mail from us?
H3 Missed a due date?
H3 Do you make estimated tax payments?
H3 View our due dates calendar
H3 Get help
H3 Website
H3 About us
H3 Language assistance
H3 Connect with 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.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.tax.ny.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.tax.ny.gov/Department of Taxation and Finance
https://www.tax.ny.gov/online/Online Services home
https://www.tax.ny.gov/pay/Make a payment
/pay/pay-bill.htmQuick Pay (businesses and individuals)
https://www.tax.ny.gov/pay/ipa/Request installment payment agreement
https://www.tax.ny.gov/pit/Individuals home
/pay/pay-bill.htmQuick Pay
/pit/inflation-refund-checks.htmInflation refund checks
https://www.tax.ny.gov/pit/efile/E-file options
https://www.tax.ny.gov/pit/file/Income tax filing resource center
/pit/file/refund.htmCheck your refund
/pit/letters/Respond to a letter
/pit/file/self-employment.htmSelf-employment resource center
https://www.tax.ny.gov/bus/Businesses home
/bus/st/stidx.htmSales and use tax
/bus/wt/wtidx.htmWithholding tax
/bus/ct/ctidx.htmCorporation tax
/pay/pay-bill.htmText duplicate Quick Pay
/pit/file/self-employment.htmText duplicate Self-employment resource center
/bus/multi/other.htmOther taxes
https://www.tax.ny.gov/tp/Tax professionals home
/tp/reg/tpreg.htmRegistration and education
/tp/posting-reqs.htmPosting requirements
/tp/reg/opr.htmProfessional responsibility
/pit/property/Real property home
https://www.tax.ny.gov/star/STAR
/pit/property/propertyowners.htmProperty owners
/pit/property/homeowner-benefi...Homeowner Benefit Portal
http://orps1.orpts.ny.gov/cfap...External Subdomain Municipal Profiles
/research/property/Assessment community
/pit/property/new-homebuyers/t...Real property transfer information
/forms/forms-guidance.htmForms and guidance home
/pit/property/new-homebuyers/f...Form RP-5217-PDF
/pit/file/tax-tables/2024.htm2024 tax tables
/pit/file/school_district/School district codes
/forms/income_cur_forms.htmCurrent-year income tax forms
https://www.tax.ny.gov/data/Tax data home
/data/stats/Statistics and reports
/research/stats/statistics/ope...Data set list
http://orps1.orpts.ny.gov/cfap...External Subdomain Text duplicate Municipal Profiles
https://www.tax.ny.gov/about/About us
https://www.tax.ny.gov/careers/Employment opportunities
/about/leadership-team.htmLeadership
https://login.ny.gov/home/nys_...External Subdomain Log in
/online/createaccount.htmCreate account
/pit/property/assess/local/Check your assessment
/pit/property/learn/reassess.htmreassessments
https://www.tax.ny.gov/pit/file/File your return
https://www.tax.ny.gov/pay/Text duplicate Make a payment
/pit/file/refund.htmText duplicate Check your refund
/bus/st/register.htmRegister for sales tax
https://www.tax.ny.gov/online/Log in or create an account
https://www.tax.ny.gov/star/Visit the STAR resource center
/bus/st/stmp.htmWeb File your return
/pay/pay-bill.htmWatch our Quick Pay demo for individuals
/pay/pay-bill.htmWatch our Quick Pay demo for businesses
https://www8.tax.ny.gov/QPAY/q...External Subdomain Pay with Quick Pay
/e-services/rtdn/rtdn-walkthro...walk you through the process
/e-services/pris/understanding...refund status
/pit/letters/Text duplicate Respond to a letter
/e-services/rtdn/rtdn.htmRespond online
/pit/letters/recordkeeping.htmReview our checklists
https://public.govdelivery.com...External Subdomain Subscribe to Tax Tips for Businesses
/data/stats/taxfacts/See Tax facts
/bus/wt/changes-2025/Learn about the changes
/help/letters/See mail resource center
https://www8.tax.ny.gov/PAIC/p...External Subdomain Calculate penalty
/pit/file/self-employment.htmText duplicate Self-employment resource center
/pit/estimated_tax/resource-ce...Visit resource center
/help/calendar/Find your due date
/help/contact/Contact us
https://www.tax.ny.gov/help/Help resources
/help/contact/foil.htmFreedom of Information Law (FOIL)
https://www.tax.ny.gov/tra/Taxpayer Rights Advocate
/help/contact/fraud/Report fraud
/about/feedback.htmFeedback
/help/siteindex.htmSite map
/help/tech/privacy-policy.htmPrivacy
/help/tech/securesite.htmSecurity
/help/tech/disclaimer.htmDisclaimer
https://www.tax.ny.gov/about/Text duplicate About us
https://www.tax.ny.gov/careers/Text duplicate Employment opportunities
https://www.tax.ny.gov/press/Press
/help/tech/email-policy.htmEmail policy
/help/tech/accessibility.htmAccessibility
https://www.tax.ny.gov/rulemaker/Regulations and regulatory actions
https://www.tax.ny.gov/language/Language access
/language/espanol/Español
/language/chinese/繁體中文
/language/russian/Русский
/language/yiddish/יידיש
/language/bengali/বাংলা
/language/korean/한국어
https://www.tax.ny.gov/language/Free interpretation
/language/hcreole/Kreyòl ayisyen
/language/italian/Italiano
/language/arabic/العربية
/language/polish/Polski
/language/french/Français
/language/urdu/اردو
/help/subscribe.htmSubscribe to NYS Department of Tax and Finance
IMG-ALT Mail icon
A-TITLE Subscribe to NYS Department of Tax and Finance
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain NYS Department of Tax and Finance on LinkedIn
IMG-ALT LinkedIn icon
A-TITLE NYS Department of Tax and Finance on LinkedIn
https://www.facebook.com/NYSTa...External Subdomain NYS Department of Tax and Finance on Facebook
IMG-ALT Facebook icon
A-TITLE NYS Department of Tax and Finance on Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/nyst...External Subdomain NYS Department of Tax and Finance on Instagram
IMG-ALT Instagram icon
A-TITLE Department of Tax and Finance on Instagram
https://x.com/NYSTaxDeptExternal NYS Department of Tax and Finance on X
IMG-ALT X icon
A-TITLE Department of Tax and Finance on X
http://www.youtube.com/user/NY...External Subdomain NYS Department of Tax and Finance on YouTube
IMG-ALT YouTube icon
A-TITLE Department of Tax and Finance on YouTube
https://www.ny.gov/services/re...New window External Subdomain Register To Vote
https://www.ny.gov/vaccineNew window External Subdomain Vaccinate NY
https://donatelife.ny.gov/regi...New window External Subdomain Donate Life

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.tax.ny.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 0.98 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.
This page loads 4 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 3 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (27 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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accept-rangesbytes
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
content-length7118
connectionclose
content-typetext/html
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,030 referring domains.
This page has 3,009 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 775 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /config/
Disallow: /demos/
Disallow: /draftforms/
Disallow: /e-services/
Disallow: /r/
Disallow: /volunteer/
Disallow: /training/
Disallow: /pdf/publications/multi/pub300.pdf
Disallow: /about/dtf_org.pdf
Sitemap: https://www.tax.ny.gov/sitemap.xml

Search preview

www.tax.ny.gov
Department of Taxation and Finance
Welcome to the official website of the NYS Department of Taxation and Finance. Visit us to learn about your tax responsibilities, check your refund status, and use our online services—anywhere, any time!

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
tax89%Check
Tax Department83%Check
Department77%Check
Finance77%Check
Taxation77%Check
Sales tax66%Check
Withholding tax65%Check
Tax Tips65%Check
Tax facts65%Check
estimated tax65%Check

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