Thenationaltree.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
66% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.05 s
File size
49.50 kB
Words
338
Media files
9
Number of links
15 internal / 4 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
National Christmas Tree Lighting
The length of the page title is perfect. (292 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Explore past performances and the history of the National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (575 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.thenationaltree.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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
descriptionExplore past performances and the history of the National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony.
msapplication-TileImagehttps://www.thenationaltree.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/nctl-star.png
article:modified_time2025-01-21T18:15:06+00:00
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:imagehttps://www.thenationaltree.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/2019NCTL_Tree_2730x2045-scaled.jpg
twitter:site@thenationaltree
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleNational Christmas Tree Lighting
og:descriptionExplore past performances and the history of the National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony.
og:urlhttps://www.thenationaltree.org/
og:site_nameNational Christmas Tree Lighting
og:imagehttps://www.thenationaltree.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/2019NCTL_Tree_2730x2045-scaled.jpg
og:image:width2560
og:image:height1918
og:image:typeimage/jpeg
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 338 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
32.2% 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.
5 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 10.81 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0" 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)
5 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 The National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony
H2 The Holiday Spirit Starts Here
H2 Celebrating Over 100 Years
H2 Ornaments From Across the USA
H2 light up your inbox
H3 IN PERSON
H3 ON TELEVISION
H3 VISIT THE TREE
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 4 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.thenationaltree.org/Subdomain IMG-ALT National Christmas Tree Lighting
/watch-the-lighting/Subdomain Watch The Lighting
/about-the-tree/Subdomain About the Tree
/plan-your-visit/Subdomain Plan Your Visit
/ceremony/2024-national-christ...New window Subdomain Get the Details
/plan-your-visit/New window Subdomain Text duplicate Plan Your Visit
https://maps.app.goo.gl/GY752v...New window External Subdomain Map
/watch-the-lighting/Subdomain Watch Past Ceremonies
/ornaments/Subdomain See the State Ornaments
/plan-your-visit/Subdomain Text duplicate Plan Your Visit
/about-the-tree/Subdomain Learn About the tree
/ornaments/Subdomain See the 2024 Ornaments
/watch-the-lighting/Our Partners
/ornaments/State Ornaments
http://nationalparks.org/New window External IMG-ALT National Parks Foundation
http://nps.gov/New window External No Text
/privacy-policy/Privacy Policy
/terms-of-use/Terms of Use
http://nationalparks.org/priva...New window External nationalparks.org

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.thenationaltree.org/"
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 is excellent with 0.05 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (50 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlpublic, max-age=604800
content-encodinggzip
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
link<https://www.thenationaltree.org/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
servernginx
strict-transport-securitymax-age=300
x-pantheon-styx-hostnamestyx-fe2-b-7f8b98f8df-njmj6
x-styx-req-id66e8792e-418f-11f0-afa3-166171c35dd3
dateMon, 09 Jun 2025 18:08:40 GMT
x-served-bycache-chi-klot8100086-CHI, cache-fra-eddf8230175-FRA
x-cacheHIT, HIT
x-cache-hits2, 0
x-timerS1749492520.323425,VS0,VE9
varyAccept-Encoding, Cookie, Cookie
age418059
accept-rangesbytes
via1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
content-length17962
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 82 referring domains.
This page has 394 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 76 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

# START YOAST BLOCK
# ---------------------------
User-agent: *
Disallow:

Sitemap: https://www.thenationaltree.org/sitemap_index.xml
# ---------------------------
# END YOAST BLOCK

Search preview

www.thenationaltree.org
National Christmas Tree Lighting
Explore past performances and the history of the National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Tree93%Check
National89%Check
National Christmas Tree87%Check
Christmas Tree85%Check
National Christmas Tree Lighting84%Check
Lighting75%Check
Lighting Ceremony68%Check
Ceremony62%Check
National Park62%Check
National Parks59%Check

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