Dfi.wa.gov - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
60% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.34 s
File size
29.60 kB
Words
298
Media files
7
Number of links
43 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Washington State Department of Financial Institutions
The length of the page title is perfect. (480 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Information and resources from the Washington Department of Financial Institutions.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (517 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://dfi.wa.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)
The specified alternate links have no errors.
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
descriptionInformation and resources from the Washington Department of Financial Institutions.
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
og:site_nameWashington State Department of Financial Institutions
og:descriptionInformation and resources from the Washington Department of Financial Institutions.
og:imagehttps://dfi.wa.gov/sites/default/files/dfi-web-og-image.png
x-ua-compatibleie=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 298 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
19.5% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
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.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 16.33 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, shrink-to-fit=no" 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)
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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Washington State Department of Financial Institutions
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Washington State Department of Financial Institutions
H1 Welcome to the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions (DFI)
H2 Main menu
H2 News and Alerts
H2 Services and Information
H2 Resources and Topics
H2 Contact Us
H3 Flood Recovery Resources
H3 Securities Whistleblower Protection
H3 Center for FinTech Information
H3 Money Services Business Licensing
H3 Student Education Loan Servicers
H3 Residential Seller Financing and Third-Party Lending
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 6 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://dfi.wa.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://dfi.wa.gov/IMG-ALT Home
A-TITLE Home
https://dfi.wa.gov/es/Español
https://dfi.wa.gov/file-complaintFile Complaint
/consumers/verify-licenseVerify License
https://dfi.wa.gov/contact-usContact Us
https://dfi.wa.gov/consumersFor Consumers
https://dfi.wa.gov/industryFor Industry
https://dfi.wa.gov/newsNews & Alerts
/laws-enforcementLaws & Enforcement
/reports-publicationsReports & Publications
https://dfi.wa.gov/about-dfiAbout DFI
https://dfi.wa.gov/Anchor No Text
https://dfi.wa.gov/10b$12.5 billion was lost to fraud in 2024. Protect yourself. →
/news/press/washington-dfi-urg...Washington DFI Urges Investors to Beware of AI-Powered Investment Scams
/news/press/new-year-means-new...New Year Warning: 12 Investor Fraud Threats To Watch For
/sites/default/files/2025-12/d...Guidance for Licensees: Responding to Historic Flooding
/flood-resourcesWashington Flood Emergency: Financial Resources and Recovery
/consumers/file-complaintFile A Complaint
/consumers/verify-licenseVerify A License
https://dfi.wa.gov/industryLicensing & Regulation
https://dfi.wa.gov/homeownershipMortgage Help
/financial-educationFinancial Education
/public-records-indexRequest Public Records
/laws-enforcement/dfi-enforcem...Enforcement Actions
/agency-rulemakingRulemaking
/about-dfi/careersJob Announcements
/flood-resourcesIMG-ALT Flooded Cars
/flood-resourcesFlood Recovery Resources
/securities/whistleblowerIMG-ALT Whistle
/securities/whistleblowerSecurities Whistleblower Protection
https://dfi.wa.gov/fintechIMG-ALT Technology and Numbers
https://dfi.wa.gov/fintechCenter for FinTech Information
/money-services/licensingIMG-ALT Handshake
/money-services/licensingMoney Services Business Licensing
/student-education-loan-servicersIMG-ALT Loan Servicers
/student-education-loan-servicersStudent Education Loan Servicers
/residential-seller-financingResidential Seller Financing and Third-Party Lending
https://www.facebook.com/wadfiNew window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/wast...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://x.com/dficonsumersNew window External No Text
https://bsky.app/profile/wasta...New window External No Text
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://dfi.wa.gov/staff-onlyStaff Only
https://dfi.wa.gov/accessibilityAccessibility
https://dfi.wa.gov/link-policyLink Policy
https://dfi.wa.gov/privacy-noticePrivacy and Legal Disclaimer
/documents/open-data-plan.pdfOpen Data Plan

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://dfi.wa.gov/"
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 is very slow (2.34 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 (30 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlmust-revalidate, no-cache, private
content-encodinggzip
content-languageen
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
servernginx
strict-transport-securitymax-age=300
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-drupal-cacheHIT
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheHIT
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-pantheon-styx-hostnamestyx-fe1-a-6c5bdb56b8-czzzc
x-styx-req-id06bb6e9d-056a-11f1-85a5-5edf09745cb5
age0
accept-rangesbytes
via1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
dateMon, 09 Feb 2026 03:47:16 GMT
x-served-bycache-chi-klot8100176-CHI, cache-par-lfpg1960024-PAR, cache-par-lfpg1960046-PAR, cache-par-lfpg1960046-PAR
x-cacheMISS, MISS, MISS, MISS
x-cache-hits0, 0, 0, 0
x-timerS1770608836.222082,VS0,VE130
varyAccept-Encoding, Cookie, Cookie
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 706 referring domains.
This page has 2,988 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 297 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

Search preview

dfi.wa.gov
Washington State Department of Financial Institutions
Information and resources from the Washington Department of Financial Institutions.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Washington77%Check
Department77%Check
Financial Institutions77%Check
Financial76%Check
Institutions76%Check
Washington State Department73%Check
Washington State72%Check
State Department72%Check
Financial Resources65%Check
Financial Services59%Check

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