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Meta information
63% 
Page quality
39% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
62% 
Server
86% 
External factors
75% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.11 s
File size
19.70 kB
Words
296
Media files
17
Number of links
39 internal / 39 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
RAP Real-Time Weather
The length of the page title is perfect. (219 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
Server location: United States of America
The language is not specified in the HTML markup.
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)
HTTP-Header Content-Type: utf-8
Meta http-equiv Content-Type: iso-8859-1
The specified character encodings are different.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype HTML 4.01 Transitional 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

NameValue
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
There are only 296 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 42 words is high.
19.3% of the text are stop words.
4 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No viewpoint tag is provided.
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page only loads 1 JavaScript files. That's good!
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)
3 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
/layout/rtwx_head.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/layout/b1_ncar_home.gifNCAR Home
/layout/b1_rap_home.gifRAL Home
/layout/b2_rtwx_home.gifWeather Home
/layout/b1_satellite.gifSatellite
/layout/b1_radar.gifRadar
/layout/b1_surface.gifSurface
/layout/b1_upper.gifUpper-Air
/layout/b1_forecast.gifForecasts
/layout/b1_trailer.gifNo alt attribute provided
/layout/thumb_sat.jpgSatellite
/layout/thumb_rad.gifRadar
/layout/thumb_sfc.gifSurface
/layout/thumb_upr.gifUpper-Air
/layout/thumb_fcst.gifForecast
/layout/thumbs/WxClds18b_08t.jpgHelp pages
https://weather.ral.ucar.edu/layout/nsf.gifNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
There are no headings specified on the page. Headings are important for search engine optimization and help to structure your content.

Heading structure

No headings were found.
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 too many external links (39) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://ncar.ucar.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT NCAR Home
https://ral.ucar.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT RAL Home
https://weather.ral.ucar.edu/IMG-ALT Weather Home
/satellite/IMG-ALT Satellite
/radar/IMG-ALT Radar
/surface/IMG-ALT Surface
/upper/IMG-ALT Upper-Air
/model/IMG-ALT Forecasts
/info/index.php?referrer=indexHelp for this page
https://ucar.edu/searchExternal advanced
/satellite/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Satellite
/satellite/Text duplicate Satellite
/satellite/more >
/radar/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Radar
/radar/Text duplicate Radar
/radar/Text duplicate more >
/surface/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Surface
/surface/Text duplicate Surface
/surface/Text duplicate more >
/upper/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Upper-Air
/upper/Text duplicate Upper-Air
/upper/Text duplicate more >
/model/IMG-ALT Forecast
/model/Text duplicate Forecast
/model/Text duplicate more >
/info/IMG-ALT Help pages
/info/Help Pages
/info/Text duplicate more >
https://archive.eol.ucar.edu/c...External Subdomain Foothills
https://archive.eol.ucar.edu/c...External Subdomain Mesa
http://www.colorado.gov/airqua...External Subdomain Regional air quality
https://forecast.weather.gov/z...External Subdomain Boulder Forecast
http://www.cocorahs.org/Maps/V...External Subdomain CoCoRaHS snow/rain
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/External Subdomain Storm Prediction Cntr
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/produc...External Subdomain Storm Watches
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/produc...External Subdomain Thunderstorm Outlook
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/External Subdomain Tropical Prediction Cntr
http://www.ral.ucar.edu/hurric...External Subdomain Tropical Cyclone Guidance Project
https://tropical.colostate.edu/External Subdomain CSU hurricane forecasts
https://bmcnoldy.rsmas.miami.e...External Subdomain MESO Tropical Atlantic HQ
http://www.aviationweather.gov/External Subdomain Aviation Weather Cntr
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/External Subdomain Climate Prediction Cntr
https://www2.hao.ucar.edu/mlso...External Subdomain NCAR solar images
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/External Subdomain NOAA today's space weather
/news.phpImage generation server upgrade
/news.phpKLIX radar moved to KHDC
/news.phpHTTPS security upgrade
/news.phpData ingest server maintenance
/news.phpSwitched GOES-W to GOES-18
/news.phpText duplicate Data ingest server maintenance
http://weather.noaa.gov/External Subdomain National Weather Service
http://www.ucar.edu/governance...External Subdomain UCAR members
http://www.wmo.ch/web-en/membe...External Subdomain WMO International Sources
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/by-ne...External Subdomain sci.geo.meteorology FAQ
http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu...External Subdomain Learn to forecast
http://www.noaa.gov/External Subdomain NOAA
http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS/External Subdomain American Meteorological Society
http://www.nwas.org/External Subdomain National Weather Association
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/p...External Subdomain U.S. drought monitor
https://ucar.edu/External Home
https://ral.ucar.edu/External Subdomain RAL
https://weather.ral.ucar.edu/Weather
/satellite/Text duplicate Satellite
/radar/Text duplicate Radar
/surface/Text duplicate Surface
/upper/Text duplicate Upper-Air
/model/Text duplicate Forecast
/news.phpNews
/info/Text duplicate Help Pages
https://www.ucar.edu/privacy-n...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://www.ucar.edu/cookie-ot...External Subdomain Cookies
https://www.ucar.edu/accessibi...External Subdomain Web Accessibility
https://www.ucar.edu/terms-of-useExternal Subdomain Terms of Use
https://www.ucar.edu/notificat...External Subdomain Copyright issues
https://www.ucar.edu/External Subdomain Contact us
http://www.nsf.gov/External Subdomain Sponsored by
https://ncar.ucar.edu/External Subdomain No Text
https://ncar.ucar.edu/External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://weather.ral.ucar.edu/"
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 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.
This page does not require any CSS files.
This page only loads 1 JavaScript files. That's good!
The file size of the HTML document is fine (20 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSun, 03 Aug 2025 22:01:50 GMT
serverApache
x-frame-optionssameorigin
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
strict-transport-securitymax-age=63072000; includeSubDomains
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self';
content-length4632
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 25 referring domains.
This page only has 50 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 22 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
weather59%Check
Weather Forecast51%Check
National Weather47%Check
weather conditions47%Check
UCAR46%Check
Forecast43%Check
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Radar43%Check
Satellite43%Check
Help41%Check
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