Townofsomerset.org - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
44% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.11 s
File size
111.00 kB
Words
319
Media files
11
Number of links
62 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Somerset, MA | Official Website
The length of the page title is perfect. (283 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
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 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
category0Home
theme-colorrgb(21, 87, 175)
descriptionEmpty
keywordsHome
langen
Content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 319 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
20.1% of the text are stop words.
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 9.83 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" is provided.
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)
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=75Somerset MA Homepage
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=64Search
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=79Logo Placeholder
data:[...] Base64roundabout
data:[...] Base64MSQ_July_WNVFacts_Social
data:[...] Base64Heat wave sign with sun
data:[...] Base64genericImage-websiteLogo-255407-1748562155.8302-0.bOopdR
data:[...] Base64Logo Placeholder
data:[...] Base64Waterfront Park Gazebo
data:[...] Base64Big Red Slide
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=99Somerset MA Homepage

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
News & Spotlights
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (17 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 News & Spotlights
H1 Town Calendar
H3 August 2025
H3 August 2025 Duplicate text
H3 Town Hall
H3 Quick Links
H3 Site Links
H4 Somerset featured in Business View Magazine as a Municipal Blueprint for Prosperity!
H4 Public Informational Meeting, Route 6 Intersection Project
H4 West Nile Virus
H4 Cooling Centers
H4 Shirley May France 10K
H4 Stay connected!
H4 Create an Account
H4 Website Personalization Now Available!
H4 Tue, Aug. 5
H4 Mon, Aug. 11
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 7 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.townofsomerset.org/Anchor Skip to Main Content
/MyAccount/ProfileCreateCreate a Website Account
/MyAccountWebsite Sign In
https://www.townofsomerset.org/IMG-ALT Somerset MA Homepage
/Search/ResultsIMG-ALT Search
/27/GovernmentGovernment
/101/DepartmentsDepartments
/31/CommunityCommunity
/35/BusinessBusiness
/9/How-Do-IHow Do I...
https://www.invoicecloud.com/p...External Subdomain Payments
/532/Forms-DocumentsForms & Documents
/473/Trash-RecyclingRecycling
/agendacenterMeetings & Agendas
/jobs.aspxEmployment
/Bids.aspxBids
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=79IMG-ALT Logo Placeholder
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=79Somerset featured in Business View Magazine as a Municipal Blueprint for Prosperity!
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=79Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=78IMG-ALT roundabout
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=78Public Informational Meeting, Route 6 Intersection Project
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=78Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=77IMG-ALT MSQ_July_WNVFacts_Social
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=77West Nile Virus
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=77Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=74IMG-ALT Heat wave sign with sun
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=74Cooling Centers
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=74Text duplicate Read on...
https://runsignup.com/Race/MA/...External IMG-ALT genericImage-websiteLogo-255407-1748562155.8302-0.bOopdR
https://runsignup.com/Race/MA/...External Shirley May France 10K
https://runsignup.com/Race/MA/...External Additional Info...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=13Text duplicate IMG-ALT Logo Placeholder
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=13Stay connected!
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=13Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=14IMG-ALT Waterfront Park Gazebo
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=14Create an Account
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=14Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=10IMG-ALT Big Red Slide
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=10Website Personalization Now Available!
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=10Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?CID=1View All News
https://www.townofsomerset.org/Anchor Meetings
https://www.townofsomerset.org/Anchor Events
https://www.townofsomerset.org/Anchor Text duplicate Meetings
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...5
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...11
/Calendar.aspx?EID=1449Economic Development Committee (EDC)
/Calendar.aspx?EID=1449Economic Development Committee (EDC)Read on...
/Calendar.aspx?EID=1450Somerset Conservation Commission
/Calendar.aspx?EID=1450Somerset Conservation CommissionRead on...
/calendar.aspx?CID=22,23View All Events
https://www.townofsomerset.org/Anchor Text duplicate Events
/calendar.aspx?CID=14,22Text duplicate View All Events
https://www.townofsomerset.org/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Somerset MA Homepage
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=15Quick Links
/318/Election-Information-ResultsElections
/538/Map-DirectionsMap & Directions
/545/Public-Records-AccessPublic Records Access
https://www.somersetschools.org/External Subdomain Schools
https://www.somersetaccesstv.o...External Subdomain Somerset Access TV
/directory.aspxStaff Directory
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=16Site Links
https://www.townofsomerset.org/Home
/sitemapSite Map
/directory.aspxContact Us
/accessibilityAccessibility
/copyrightCopyright Notices
/privacyPrivacy Policy
https://connect.civicplus.com/...External Subdomain CivicPlus®

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.townofsomerset.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
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 slow (1.11 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 (111 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate, s-maxage=600,no-transform
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
p3pCP="IDC DSP COR ADM DEVi TAIi PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi HIS OUR IND CNT"
set-cookie25 Characters
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self' https://*.granicus.com https://platform.civicplus.com https://account.civicplus.com https://analytics.civicplus.com; img-src * data: blob:; worker-src * data: blob: 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline'; script-src * about: 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval'; style-src * 'unsafe-inline'; media-src * blob:; font-src * data:; default-src *
dateSun, 03 Aug 2025 17:09:27 GMT
content-length31626
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 57 referring domains.
This page has 98 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 52 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /
User-agent: *
Disallow: /activedit
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /common/admin/
Disallow: /OJA
Disallow: /support
Disallow: /currenteventsview.asp
Disallow: /search.asp
Disallow: /currenteventsview.aspx
Disallow: /search.aspx
Disallow: /currentevents.aspx
Disallow: /Support
Disallow: /CurrentEventsView.asp
Disallow: /Search.asp
Disallow: /CurrentEventsView.aspx
Disallow: /Search.aspx
Disallow: /Search
Disallow: /CurrentEvents.aspx
Disallow: /Currentevents.aspx
Disallow: /map.aspx
Disallow: /map.asp
Disallow: /Map.aspx
Disallow: /Map.asp
Sitemap: /sitemap.xml
Disallow: /RSS.aspx
User-agent: Siteimprove
Crawl-delay: 20
User-agent: Siteimprovebot
Crawl-delay: 20
User-agent: Siteimprovebot-crawler
Crawl-delay: 20

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www.townofsomerset.org
Somerset, MA | Official Website

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Somerset68%Check
Site56%Check
Town54%Check
Somerset Conservation53%Check
Website52%Check
News50%Check
Spotlights50%Check
Town Hall48%Check
Links43%Check
August43%Check
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