Cityoflaporte.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
58% 
Page quality
71% 
Page structure
50% 
Link structure
75% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.88 s
File size
43.20 kB
Words
785
Media files
8
Number of links
90 internal / 39 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Welcome to the City of La Porte
The title contains the word Welcome to! More content should be covered in the title.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
>
The meta description is too short. (8 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)
HTTP-Header Content-Type: utf-8
Meta Charset Attribut: utf-iso-8859-1
The specified character encodings are different.
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
description>
keywordsHistoric Downtown La Porte Indiana
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
This page contains 785 words. That's ok.
27.6% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
4 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 17.24 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 16 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
8 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
/img/laport_logo2.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/uploads/canoe-Stone-Lake%20(1).jpgNo alt attribute provided
/uploads/Downtown%20(2).jpgNo alt attribute provided
...-indiana-downtown-courthouse (8) (2).jpgNo alt attribute provided
/uploads/microsoft-groupphoto.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/icons/letschat.jpgNo alt attribute provided
https://cityoflaporte.com/img/posts.pngNo alt attribute provided
/icons/logo_dark_bg.svgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Livin' the Lake Life
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Livin' the Lake Life
H1 Mayor's Corner
H1 Making headlines
H1 Upcoming Meetings All Meetings »
H3 QUICK LINKS
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 1 links with a trivial anchor text.
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 (39) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://cityoflaporte.com/No Text
https://www.facebook.com/cityo...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/LaPortePar...New window External No Text
https://www.instagram.com/city...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://laportein.authoritypay...New window External Subdomain Bill Pay
/meetings/Meetings
https://www.wm.com/us/en/locat...New window External Subdomain Trash
https://livinthelakelife.org/e...External Events
https://cityoflaporte.com/jobsJobs
https://laporteparkandrec.com/New window External Park & Rec
/residents/Residents (current)
/about-laporte/About La Porte, Indiana
https://livinthelakelife.org/e...New window External Calendar of Events
/residents/downtown-la-porte/Downtown La Porte
https://www.thecollectivein.co...New window External Subdomain Farmers Market
/departments/fire/Fire
https://laportelibrary.org/New window External LaPorte County Public Library
https://laporteparkandrec.com/New window External Parks
https://laporteparkandrec.com/...New window External Trails
/departments/police/Police
/departments/transporte/Public Transportation
/residents/schools/Schools
https://www.wm.com/us/en/locat...New window External Subdomain Trash Pickup
/departments/laporte-utilities/Utilities
/departments/laporte-utilities...New window Pay on time and save
https://laportein.viewpointclo...New window External Subdomain Utility Service App
https://laportein.viewpointclo...New window External Subdomain City Licenses
/departments/Departments (current)
/departments/clerk-treasurer/Clerk-Treasurer(current)
/departments/code-enforcement/Code Enforcement(current)
/departments/community-develop...Community Development and Planning(current)
/departments/communications/Communications(current)
/departments/engineering-build...Engineering & Building(current)
/departments/fire/Fire Department(current)
/departments/human-resources/Human Resources(current)
/departments/legal/Legal(current)
/departments/mayors-office/Office of the Mayor(current)
https://laporteparkandrec.com/New window External Park and Rec(current)
/departments/police/Police(current)
/departments/street/Street(current)
/departments/transporte/TransPorte(current)
/departments/laporte-utilities/La Porte Utilities(current)
/departments/laporte-utilties/...Water Division
/departments/laporte-utilities...Wastewater Division
/business/Business (current)
https://laportepartnership.com...New window External Available Properties
/departments/community-develop...Community Development & Planning
https://laportepartnership.com/New window External Economic Development
/departments/engineering-build...Site Review Committee
/departments/government/boards...Urban Enterprise Association
/getting-here/Getting Here
/laporte-indiana/Choose LaPorte, Indiana for Your Business
/departments/government/boards...Business Improvement District
/government/Government (current)
/departments/mayors-office/Office of the Mayor
/departments/government/city-c...City Council
/departments/clerk-treasurer/Clerk-Treasurer
/departments/government/board-...Board of Public Works Safety
/departments/government/boards...Boards and Commissions
/departments/government/boards...Alcohol Beverage Review Commission
/departments/government/boards...Board of Zoning Appeals
/departments/government/boards...Text duplicate Business Improvement District
/departments/government/boards...Commission on Sustainability
/departments/government/boards...Fire Merit Commission
/departments/government/boards...Historic Preservation Commission
/departments/government/boards...Mayor Council for Veteran Affairs
/departments/government/boards...Park Board
/departments/government/boards...Park Foundation
/departments/government/boards...Plan Commission
/departments/government/boards...Police Merit Commission
/departments/government/boards...Redevelopment Authority
/departments/government/boards...Redevelopment Commission
/departments/government/boards...Standing Committees
/departments/government/boards...Traffic Commission
/departments/government/boards...Text duplicate Urban Enterprise Association
/departments/government/city-c...City Code
/departments/government/zoning...Zoning Ordinance
/departments/government/transp...Transparency Portal
/contact/Contact (current)
https://livinthelakelife.org/New window External Visitors (current)
https://www.livinthelakelife.org/External Subdomain Explore La Porte
/departments/mayors-office/Trivial anchor text
here
https://www.bottomlineinc.com/...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
here
https://10best.usatoday.com/aw...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
here
/news/gov-holcomb-announces-pl...New window Click here to learn more.
/meetings/All Meetings »
/meetings/1887Jul 30
/uploads/agenda/Jul-25_RDC-Jul...New window No Text
/meetings/1804Aug 4
/meetings/1805Aug 18
/meetings/1806Sep 2
/meetings/1808Sep 15
/forms/police.phpNew window Anonymous Crime Tip
/departments/engineering-build...Building Permits
https://laportein.portal.openg...New window External Subdomain File an ADA Complaint
https://laportein.viewpointclo...New window External Subdomain Golf Cart Registration
https://laportein.viewpointclo...New window External Subdomain Pay a Parking Ticket
/forms/pothole.phpNew window Report a Pothole
https://laportein.viewpointclo...New window External Subdomain Report Code Violation Concern
/news/friday-night-live-cheese...Friday Night Live Cheeseburger in Paradise rounds out event series in August
/news/la-porte-to-kick-off-4th...La Porte to kick off 4th of July with fireworks over Clear Lake
/news/friday-night-live-taco-f...Friday Night Live Taco Fest returns to Downtown La Porte this month
/news/schedule-for-fifth-annua...Schedule for fifth annual LakeFest announced
/news/friday-night-live-series...Friday Night Live Series returns this month, kicks off with all-new event
/news/city-of-la-porte-awarded...City of La Porte awarded national rankings for affordability, quality of life
/news/lp-firefighters-to-host-...LP firefighters to host annual pancake breakfast this month
https://cityoflaporte.com/news/See More Stories
https://cityoflaporte.com/No Text
/residents/Residents
/businessBusiness
/departments/governmentGovernment
/departments/Departments
https://livinthelakelife.org/New window External Visitors
/contact/Contact
https://laportein.authoritypay...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Bill Pay
/meetingsText duplicate Meetings
https://www.wm.com/us/en/locat...New window External Subdomain Trash Schedule
https://livinthelakelife.org/e...External Text duplicate Events
https://cityoflaporte.com/jobsText duplicate Jobs
https://laporteparkandrec.com/New window External Park & Recreation
/departments/human-resources/e...Employee Portal
https://login.microsoftonline....New window External Subdomain Office 365
https://www.livinthelakelife.org/New window External Subdomain Livin' the Lake Life
https://threelakesmarketing.com/New window External Threelakesmarketing.com
https://www.facebook.com/cityo...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/LaPortePar...New window External No Text
https://www.instagram.com/city...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://cityoflaporte.com/"
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 of 0.88 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (43 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
expiresTue, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT
cache-controlno-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0, post-check=0, pre-check=0
pragmano-cache
set-cookie50 Characters
last-modifiedTue, 29 Jul 2025 14:21:22 GMT
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodingbr
content-length8564
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
dateTue, 29 Jul 2025 14:21:22 GMT
serverApache
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 100 referring domains.
This page has 147 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 45 different ip addresses.

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Porte64%Check
City62%Check
Lake52%Check
Life50%Check
LaPorte48%Check
City Council48%Check
City Hall48%Check
Town41%Check
LaPorte County41%Check
spot39%Check
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