Cityofsanrafael.org - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
58% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
87% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.61 s
File size
85.90 kB
Words
307
Media files
5
Number of links
57 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
San Rafael, California - The City with a Mission
The length of the page title is perfect. (421 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)
https://www.cityofsanrafael.org/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
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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generatorSite Kit by Google 1.170.0
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article:modified_time2026-01-05T18:45:08+00:00
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleSan Rafael, California - The City with a Mission
og:urlhttps://www.cityofsanrafael.org/
og:site_nameSan Rafael
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og:image:width4496
og:image:height3000
og:image:typeimage/jpeg
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X-Content-Type-Optionsnosniff
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
No paragraphs were detected.
There are only 307 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
16.9% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "initial-scale=1.0, width=device-width" 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 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)
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
...p-proud-sr-ca-theme/dist/images/logo.svgHomeHome
.../2016/08/CityOfSRLogo_onColor-201x64.pngHomeHome
...sser_MoonriseOverSanPabloBay-300x203.jpgMoonrise over San Pablo Bay, photo by Mark Glasser
...39-san-rafael-seed-library-1-500x250.jpgSan Rafael Seed Library
...oud-core/assets/images/logo-white-1x.pngProudCity

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to San Rafael
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to San Rafael
H2 Primary menu links
H2 Action toolbar
H2 Popular
H2 News
H2 Upcoming Events
H2 Upcoming Meetings
H2 Key Initiatives
H2 Get Involved
H2 Contact
H2 Social Media
H3 Welcome to the San Rafael Seed Library!
H3 Upcoming CERT Trainings
H3 Gerstle Park Fuel Reduction Project
H3 Fire Operations & EMS Division Wins Team of the Quarter Award for 2025 Q3!
H3 Update: Lincoln Ave. Safety Improvements at Wilson Ct. & Brookdale Ave. Project
H3 Sea Level Rise Feasibility Study – Final Results Presentation (English)
H3 Aumento de Nivel del Mar – presentación de los resultados del estudio (en español)
H3 CERT Refresher – Disaster Medical Operations Part 2
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 6 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.cityofsanrafael.org/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.cityofsanrafael.org/Anchor Skip to navigation
/sitemapSite map
https://www.cityofsanrafael.org/IMG-ALT Home
A-TITLE Home
https://www.cityofsanrafael.org/San Rafael
A-TITLE Home
/residents/Residents
/businesses/Businesses
/visitors/Visitors
/departments/Departments
/news/News
/events/Events
/contact/Contact
https://www.cityofsanrafael.org/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Home
A-TITLE Home
https://www.cityofsanrafael.org/Text duplicate San Rafael
A-TITLE Home
/departments/homelessness/Homelessness
/major-planning-projects-2025/Major Planning Projects
/departments/public-meetings/New window Public Meetings
/stay-informed/New window Sign up for emergency alerts
https://www.cityofsanrafael.org/Anchor skip decoration
/recreation/New window Register for a Class
/jobsJobs
/public-records/Public Records
/public-works-projects/The City's Public Works Projects
/building-permitsBuilding Permits
/stormsStorm Readiness
/food-vending/Food Vending
/departments/businesslicenses/Business License
/welcome-to-the-san-rafael-see...IMG-ALT San Rafael Seed Library
/welcome-to-the-san-rafael-see...Welcome to the San Rafael Seed Library!
/welcome-to-the-san-rafael-see...Continued
/upcoming-cert-trainings/Upcoming CERT Trainings
/gerstle-park-fuel-reduction-p...Gerstle Park Fuel Reduction Project
/fire-operations-ems-division-...Fire Operations & EMS Division Wins Team of the Quarter Award for 2025 Q3!
/update-lincoln-ave-safety-imp...Update: Lincoln Ave. Safety Improvements at Wilson Ct. & Brookdale Ave. Project
/newsMore news
/event/sea-level-rise-feasibil...Sea Level Rise Feasibility Study – Final Results Presentation (English)
/event/sea-level-rise-feasibil...Text duplicate Continued
/event/aumento-de-nivel-del-ma...Aumento de Nivel del Mar – presentación de los resultados del estudio (en español)
/event/cert-refresher-disaster...CERT Refresher – Disaster Medical Operations Part 2
/eventsMore events
/departments/public-meetings/More Meetings
/protecting-against-wildfire/Wildfire Prevention
/departments/homelessness/Text duplicate Homelessness
/policinginsanrafael/New window Policing in San Rafael
/departments/general-plan-2040/General Plan 2040
/eastsanrafaelparking/East San Rafael Parking
/departments/sustainabilitySustainability
/departments/renters-landlords/Renters & Landlords
/departments/san-rafael-volunt...Volunteer
/boards-commissions/Serve on a Commission
/departments/community-engagem...Community Engagement
/elections/Elections
https://www.facebook.com/share...New window External Subdomain Facebook
A-TITLE Share on Facebook
https://twitter.com/share?url=...External Twitter
A-TITLE Share on Twitter
/contactDirectory
/feedbackFeedback
/accessibility-statementAccessibility
/sitemapSitemap
https://www.facebook.com/Cityo...External Subdomain Text duplicate Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/thec...External Subdomain Instagram
https://x.com/i/flow/login?red...External X
/city-social-media-accounts/Additional City Social Media Accounts
https://proudcity.com/External IMG-ALT ProudCity

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.cityofsanrafael.org/"
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 (1.61 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 (86 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateFri, 23 Jan 2026 16:53:26 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length19221
varyX-Forwarded-Proto,Accept-Encoding
x-powered-byPHP/8.2.30
link<https://www.cityofsanrafael.org/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
x-elasticpress-querytrue
cache-controlmax-age=0
expiresFri, 23 Jan 2026 16:53:25 GMT
content-encodinggzip
strict-transport-securitymax-age=15724800; includeSubDomains
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 182 referring domains.
This page has 497 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 156 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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Disallow: /
User-agent: RecordedFuture-ASI
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KeywordResultRecheck
San86%Check
Rafael86%Check
San Rafael86%Check
City61%Check
Welcome54%Check
City Hall48%Check
Upcoming43%Check
CERT43%Check
Project43%Check
Operations43%Check
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