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Meta information
80% 
Page quality
93% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
80% 
Server
87% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.88 s
File size
308.70 kB
Words
601
Media files
16
Number of links
61 internal / 38 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
CalRecycle Home Page
The length of the page title is perfect. (215 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
State of California
There are more than one meta descriptions on the page. Only one is allowed.
The meta description is too short. (110 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length) Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://calrecycle.ca.gov/
There is a valid canonical link 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

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AuthorState of California
DescriptionState of California
KeywordsCalifornia, government
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MobileOptimized320
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descriptionHome page of CalRecycle (Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery)
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twitter:cardsummary_large_image
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twitter:descriptionHome page of CalRecycle (Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery)
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og:titleCalRecycle Home Page
og:descriptionHome page of CalRecycle (Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery)
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og:image:height400
og:image:alt#null
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 601 words. That's ok.
19.6% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
6 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 21.33 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
Multiple viewport tags are given. There should only be one.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-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 12 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
2 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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
data:[...] Base64CalRecycle logo
...tes/39/2022/03/082_N2_06242-1-scaled.jpgPerson scratching their head with confused look
data:[...] Base64Turtle in kitchen holding apple core next to bin
data:[...] Base64Kids with fruits and vegetables
data:[...] Base64Downtown Sacramento
data:[...] Base64#null
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
data:[...] Base64#null
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
data:[...] Base64Yana Garcia, Secretary for Environmental Protection
data:[...] Base64Director Zoe Heller
data:[...] Base64CalEPA button
data:[...] Base64Save Our Water logo
data:[...] Base64California Grants Portal logo
data:[...] Base64California Covid-19 updates button
data:[...] Base64Report an Environmental Concern button

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 41 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Our Mission
H2 Upcoming Events
H3 Latest News and Updates
H3 Where to Recycle
H3 Recycling Outreach
H3 1383 Progress
H3 Public Meeting
H3 October 2026 CalRecycle Monthly Public Meeting
H3 SB 1383 Chat with CalRecycle – CalRecycle Jurisdictional Enforcement
H3 Application Due Dates: Recycled Glass Processing Incentive Grant Program Fiscal Year 2026-27 (Cycle 3)
H3 What Can I Recycle?
H3 I Recycle Smart
H3 1383 Progress Duplicate text
H3 Monthly Public Meeting
H3 SB 1383 California’s Organic Waste Reduction
H3 Textile Stewardship
H3 Plastic Pollution and Packaging Reduction Law
H3 Gavin Newsom
H3 Governor
H3 Yana Garcia Yana Garcia, Secretary for Environmental Protection
H3 Secretary for Environmental Protection
H3 Zoe Heller Director Zoe Heller
H3 Director
H4 Billion Beverage Containers Collected
H4 Billion Pounds of E-Waste Collected
H4 Million Waste Tires Collected
H4 Wildfire Properties Cleaned Up
H4 Million Mattresses Collected
H4 Billion Pounds of Carpet Collected
H4 Million Gallons of Paint Collected
H4 Million Pounds of Pharmaceuticals Collected
H4 Million Pounds of Home-Generated Sharps Waste Collected
H4 Billion Unsold Meals to Californians in Need
H4 Billion Gallons of Used Oil Collected
H4 CA Communities Expanded Still-Fresh Unsold Food Donation Programs
H4 Required CA Communities with Residential Organic Waste Collection
H4 Beverage Container Recycling Rate
H4 Public Notices
H4 Grants
H4 Laws and Contracts
H4 Forms and Requests
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 too many external links (38) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://calrecycle.ca.gov/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.ca.gov/External Subdomain CA.gov
A-TITLE CA.gov website
/contactus/Contact Us
https://calrecycle.ca.gov/IMG-ALT CalRecycle logo
/bevcontainer/Subdomain Beverage Container Recycling
/disaster/Subdomain Disaster Debris Removal
/electronics/Subdomain E-Waste
https://calrecycle.ca.gov/epr/Subdomain Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
https://calrecycle.ca.gov/fundingSubdomain Funding
/organics/Subdomain Organics
/plastics/Subdomain Plastics and Packaging
https://calrecycle.ca.gov/tires/Subdomain Tires
/usedoil/Subdomain Used Oil & Filters
https://www2.calrecycle.ca.gov...External Subdomain Bottles & Cans
https://www2.calrecycle.ca.gov...External Subdomain Text duplicate E-Waste
https://www2.calrecycle.ca.gov...External Subdomain Motor Oil
/recycleorganics/Subdomain Text duplicate Organics
/Recycle/Subdomain More Recycling Info
/homehazwaste/info/Subdomain Waste Banned from Trash
/lgcentral/Subdomain Local Coordinators
https://calrecycle.ca.gov/LEA/Subdomain Enforcement Agencies
/stateagency/Subdomain State Agencies
/organics/slcp/schools/Subdomain Schools
/greengov/Subdomain Green Government
/regulatedbusiness/Subdomain Regulated Businesses
/businessassistance/Subdomain Grow Your Business
/greenbusiness/Subdomain Green Your Business
https://calosba.ca.gov/External Subdomain California Business Portal
/publicmeeting/Subdomain Monthly Public Meetings
/PublicInfo/Subdomain Decisions & Public Participation
/emailupdatesSign up for Email Updates
/newsroom/Subdomain News Room
https://www2.calrecycle.ca.gov...External Subdomain Publications
https://www2.calrecycle.ca.gov...External Subdomain Public Notices
/aboutus/Subdomain About CalRecycle
/aboutus/exec/Subdomain Executive Team
https://calrecycle.ca.gov/jobs/Subdomain Jobs at CalRecycle
/contactus/Subdomain Text duplicate Contact Us
https://calrecycle.ca.gov/help/Subdomain Site Help
https://www2.calrecycle.ca.gov...External Subdomain Feedback
https://calepa.my.salesforce-s...External Subdomain Environmental Complaints
/help/translation/Subdomain Translation
/laws/rulemaking/bagdrop/Subdomain AB 1311 Emergency Regulations page
/bevcontainer/dreams/Subdomain Register now
/bevcontainer/dealercooperatives/Subdomain Dealer Cooperative
/Recycle/Subdomain Find Information
https://irecyclesmart.com/External I Recycle Smart
https://recyclingreimaginedca....External Recycling Reimagined
/organics/slcp/progress/Subdomain Learn More
/publicmeeting/Subdomain New Updates
/event/october-2026-calrecycle...Subdomain October 2026 CalRecycle Monthly Public Meeting
A-TITLE October 2026 CalRecycle Monthly Public Meeting
/event/sb-1383-chat-with-calre...Subdomain SB 1383 Chat with CalRecycle – CalRecycle Jurisdictional Enforcement
A-TITLE SB 1383 Chat with CalRecycle – CalRecycle Jurisdictional Enforcement
/event/application-due-dates-r...Subdomain Application Due Dates: Recycled Glass Processing Incentive Grant Program Fiscal Year 2026-27 (Cycle 3)
A-TITLE Application Due Dates: Recycled Glass Processing Incentive Grant Program Fiscal Year 2026-27 (Cycle 3)
https://calrecycle.ca.gov/events/Subdomain View Calendar
A-TITLE View more events.
https://www2.calrecycle.ca.gov...External Subdomain Recycling Center Map
https://www2.calrecycle.ca.gov...External Subdomain Beverage Containers
https://www2.calrecycle.ca.gov...External Subdomain Text duplicate E-Waste
https://www.paintcare.org/pain...External Subdomain Anchor Paint
https://www2.calrecycle.ca.gov...External Subdomain Text duplicate Used Oil & Filters
https://carpetrecovery.org/ca/External Carpet
https://byebyemattress.com/External Mattresses
https://irecyclesmart.com/what...External What can I recycle?
https://irecyclesmart.com/find...External Looking for your local recycling information?
https://irecyclesmart.com/orga...External What food scraps and yard waste can you recycle?
https://irecyclesmart.com/redu...External How do I reduce waste?
/organics/slcp/progress/Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
/PublicMeeting/Subdomain Anchor Meeting Details
/organics/slcpLearn More about SB 1383
https://leginfo.legislature.ca...External Subdomain Responsible Textile Recovery Act
/epr/textiles/Subdomain Learn More about Textiles
/packaging/packaging-epr/Subdomain Learn More about SB 54
https://www2.calrecycle.ca.gov...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Public Notices
A-TITLE Section Footer Group Public Notices
/publicinfo/New window Subdomain Decisions and Public Participation
A-TITLE Section Footer Group Decisions and Public Participation
/datacentral/New window Subdomain Data Central
A-TITLE Section Footer Group Data Central
/Funding/New window Subdomain Grants, Payments, and Loans Programs
A-TITLE Section Footer Group Grants, Payments, and Loans Programs
/Contracts/New window Subdomain Contracts
A-TITLE Section Footer Group Contracts
https://calrecycle.ca.gov/laws/New window Subdomain Laws and Regulations
A-TITLE Section Footer Group Laws and Regulations
/titlevi/New window Subdomain Civil Rights and Title VI
A-TITLE Section Footer Group Civil Rights and Title VI
https://calrecycle.ca.gov/forms/New window Subdomain Forms
A-TITLE Section Footer Group Forms
https://www2.calrecycle.ca.gov...New window External Subdomain Public Records Act Requests
A-TITLE Section Footer Group Public Records Act Requests
http://gov.ca.gov/External Subdomain Visit his page
https://calepa.ca.gov/yana-gar...External Subdomain Visit her profile page
/aboutus/exec/Subdomain Visit her bio
https://calepa.ca.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT CalEPA button
A-TITLE CalEPA button
http://saveourwater.com/External IMG-ALT Save Our Water logo
A-TITLE Save Our Water logo
https://www.grants.ca.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT California Grants Portal logo
A-TITLE California Grants Portal logo
https://covid19.ca.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT California Covid-19 updates button
A-TITLE California Covid-19 updates button
https://calepa.my.salesforce-s...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Report an Environmental Concern button
A-TITLE Report an Environmental Concern button
https://www.ca.gov/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate A-TITLE CA.gov
/help/privacy/Subdomain Privacy Policy
/help/conditionsofuse/Subdomain Conditions of Use
/help/accessibility/Subdomain Accessibility
/contactus/Subdomain Text duplicate Contact Us
/help/siteinfo/Subdomain Information and Disclaimers
https://www.facebook.com/CalRe...External Subdomain A-TITLE CalRecycle on Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/calr...External Subdomain A-TITLE CalRecycle on Instagram
http://www.linkedin.com/compan...External Subdomain A-TITLE CalRecycle on LinkedIn
http://twitter.com/calrecycle/External A-TITLE CalRecycle on Twitter
http://www.youtube.com/user/Ca...External Subdomain A-TITLE CalRecycle on YouTube

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://calrecycle.ca.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (1.88 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 (309 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

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This page has backlinks from 598 referring domains.
This page has 8,347 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 372 different ip addresses.

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CalRecycle70%Check
CA Communities62%Check
CalRecycle Monthly56%Check
California54%Check
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Recycling47%Check
State46%Check
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