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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
60% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
46% 
External factors
50% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.91 s
File size
111.50 kB
Words
317
Media files
14
Number of links
50 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Wells, ME - Official Website | Official Website
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (403 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
Home Page
The meta description is too short. (73 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length) 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 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(8, 29, 63)
descriptionHome Page
keywordsHome
langen
Content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 317 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
21.8% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
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 13.5 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 16 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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)
The HTTPS protocol for secure data transmission is not used.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=7198Town of Wells Maine Homepage
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=7236Town of Wells, Maine
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=7208Search
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=7211Facebook
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=7222X
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=7212Instagram
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=7223YouTube
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=7999early closure newsflash (1)
data:[...] Base64EAC Newsflash (3)
data:[...] Base64Newsletter Newsflash
data:[...] Base64Election Results Newsflash (1)
data:[...] Base64Dog Leash Rules Newsflash
data:[...] Base64Beach Pass Notice Newsflash (1)
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=7291Town of Wells Maine Homepage

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Wells Services
H2 Town News
H2 Town Calendar
H3 July 2025
H3 Town of Wells
H3 Site Links
H4 Town Hall Delayed Opening: Wednesday, July 30
H4 Energy Advisory Committee Survey
H4 July Newsletter
H4 June 10, 2025 Annual Town Meeting Official Results
H4 Seasonal Dog Leash Rules
H4 Multi-Use Pass Sales
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
http://wellstown.org/Anchor Skip to Main Content
http://wellstown.org/IMG-ALT Town of Wells Maine Homepage
/27/GovernmentGovernment
/35/DepartmentsDepartments
http://wellstown.org/31/CommunityCommunity
http://wellstown.org/101/ServicesServices
http://wellstown.org/131/VisitorsVisitors
http://wellstown.org/9/How-Do-IHow Do I...
/Search/ResultsIMG-ALT Search
/835/Beach-Parking-PassesBeaches
https://www.axisgis.com/WellsME/External Subdomain WebGIS
http://wellstown.org/agendacenterAgendas & Minutes
https://epayment.informe.org/p...External Subdomain Pay Property Tax
/1041/Town-of-Wells-NewslettersNewsletter
https://townhallstreams.com/to...External Streaming Videos
http://wellstown.org/facebookIMG-ALT Facebook
http://wellstown.org/twitterIMG-ALT X
http://wellstown.org/instagramIMG-ALT Instagram
http://wellstown.org/youtubeIMG-ALT YouTube
https://www.usharbors.com/harb...New window External Subdomain Tide Chart
https://www.ipcamlive.com/well...External Subdomain Jetty Cam
/725/Beach-ReportsBeach Reports
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=185Text duplicate Newsletter
/748/Summer-Concert-SeriesSummer Concert Series
/742/Wells-Harbor-FestivalWells Harbor Festival
https://www.wellschamber.org/New window External Subdomain Wells Chamber
/821/Parks-RecreationParks & Recreation
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=297IMG-ALT early closure newsflash (1)
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=297Town Hall Delayed Opening: Wednesday, July 30
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=297Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=296New window IMG-ALT EAC Newsflash (3)
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=296New window Energy Advisory Committee Survey
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=296New window Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=185New window IMG-ALT Newsletter Newsflash
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=185New window July Newsletter
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=185New window Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=294New window IMG-ALT Election Results Newsflash (1)
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=294New window June 10, 2025 Annual Town Meeting Official Results
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=294New window Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=290IMG-ALT Dog Leash Rules Newsflash
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=290Seasonal Dog Leash Rules
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=290Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=289IMG-ALT Beach Pass Notice Newsflash (1)
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=289Multi-Use Pass Sales
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=289Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?CID=11View All News
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...2
/calendar.aspx?CID=14View Full Calendar
/483/Hours-of-OperationHours
http://wellstown.org/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Town of Wells Maine Homepage
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=13Site Links
http://wellstown.org/Home
http://wellstown.org/sitemapSite Map
/AccessibilityAccessibility
/site/copyrightCopyright Notices
http://wellstown.org/adminWebsite Sign-in
https://connect.civicplus.com/...External Subdomain CivicPlus®

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
The checked page does not redirect to another URL.
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 of 0.91 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 7 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 16 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (112 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 *
dateTue, 29 Jul 2025 03:50:21 GMT
content-length32322
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 15 referring domains.
This page only has 28 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 12 different ip addresses.
This page is referenced by wikipedia.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

user-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /
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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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Wells68%Check
Town53%Check
Site50%Check
Town News49%Check
Official48%Check
Official Website48%Check
News44%Check
Town Hall44%Check
July43%Check
Official Results43%Check
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