Assist.dhss.delaware.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
65% 
Page quality
69% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
0% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.63 s
File size
50.60 kB
Words
606
Media files
26
Number of links
22 internal / 1 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
ASSIST Home
The page title is too short. (130 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
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
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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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
apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-stylewhite
robotsindex,follow
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 606 words. That's ok.
37.8% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
7 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 19.6 words is good.
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 loads 21 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 12 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 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
/Content/Images/AST/SSI-head.pngASSIST
...tent/Images/AST/Home/resume_inactive.pngApplyForBenefitapplyforbenefit
/Content/Images/AST/Home/question.pngDoIQualify
/Content/Icons/SEBTProgram_Eng.pngNo alt attribute provided
/Content/Images/AST/Home/task.pngFinish My Application
...ges/AST/Home/arrow-pointing-to-right.pngFinish My Application
/Content/Images/AST/Home/clock.pngCheck Application Status
...ges/AST/Home/arrow-pointing-to-right.pngCheck Application Status
/Content/Images/AST/Home/login.pngMy ASSIST Account
...ges/AST/Home/arrow-pointing-to-right.pngMy ASSIST Account
/Content/Images/AST/Home/shuffle.pngReport a Change
...ges/AST/Home/arrow-pointing-to-right.pngReport a Change
...ent/Images/AST/Home/renewable-energy.pngRenew My Benefits
...ges/AST/Home/arrow-pointing-to-right.pngRenew My Benefits
/Content/Images/AST/Home/MA1.pngMedicaid
/Content/Images/AST/Home/FB.pngFood Bank
/Content/Images/AST/Home/FS.pngFood Supplement Program
/Content/Images/AST/Home/QMB.pngQualified Medicare Beneficiary
/Content/Images/AST/Home/HCP.pngDelaware Healthy Children Program
/Content/Images/AST/Home/NSLP.pngNational School Lunch Program
/Content/Images/AST/Home/SEBT3.pngSUN Bucks (Summer EBT)
/Content/Images/AST/Home/LIHEAP.pngLIHEAP
/Content/Images/AST/Home/CA.pngCash Assistance
/Content/Images/AST/Home/CC.pngChild Care Services
/Content/Images/AST/Home/LTC.pngLong Term Care
/Content/Images/AST/Home/WIC.pngWomen, Infants, and Children (WIC)

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Easily apply for benefits
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Easily apply for benefits
H2 Not sure if you qualify?
H2 Already Have an Account?
H2 Finish My Application
H2 Check Application Status
H2 My ASSIST Account
H2 Report a Change
H2 Renew My Benefits
H4 Returning Users
H4 Apply with ASSIST
H4 Your Session is About to Expire
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.
There are 1 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 1 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Common/SystemCompatibility?Or...Administrative Users Login
/Common/SystemCompatibility?Or...Community Partners Login
/Common/SystemCompatibility?Or...Service Providers Login
/?Language=es-USEn Español
/Common/SystemCompatibility?Or...IMG-ALT Finish My Application
/Common/SystemCompatibility?Or...Text duplicate IMG-ALT Finish My Application
/Common/SystemCompatibility?Or...Text duplicate Finish My Application
/Common/SystemCompatibility?Or...IMG-ALT Check Application Status
/Common/SystemCompatibility?Or...Text duplicate IMG-ALT Check Application Status
/Common/SystemCompatibility?Or...Text duplicate Check Application Status
/Common/SystemCompatibility?or...IMG-ALT My ASSIST Account
/Common/SystemCompatibility?or...Text duplicate IMG-ALT My ASSIST Account
/Common/SystemCompatibility?or...Text duplicate My ASSIST Account
/Common/SystemCompatibility?or...IMG-ALT Report a Change
/Common/SystemCompatibility?or...Text duplicate IMG-ALT Report a Change
/Common/SystemCompatibility?or...Text duplicate Report a Change
/Common/SystemCompatibility?Or...IMG-ALT Renew My Benefits
/Common/SystemCompatibility?Or...Text duplicate IMG-ALT Renew My Benefits
/Common/SystemCompatibility?Or...Text duplicate Renew My Benefits
/Common/SystemCompatibility?Or...New window Trivial anchor text
Click here
https://www.dhss.delaware.gov/...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Click here
/Common/Account/LogoutLog Out
/assisthome?Language=en-USContinue

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://assist.dhss.delaware.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (1.63 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 loads 21 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 2 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (51 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate,private, no-store
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
set-cookie35 Characters
x-content-type-optionsnosniff X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
dateFri, 13 Mar 2026 18:54:23 GMT
content-length51831
connectionclose
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 213 referring domains.
This page has 1,302 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 155 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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Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

KeywordResultRecheck
ASSIST68%Check
apply58%Check
benefits56%Check
ASSIST account56%Check
Easily50%Check
Delaware48%Check
benefits stolen47%Check
application44%Check
Account44%Check
Renew42%Check
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