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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
71% 
Page quality
94% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
80% 
Server
26% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.81 s
File size
138.90 kB
Words
584
Media files
10
Number of links
41 internal / 34 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | Flag.dol.gov
The page title is too short. (179 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)
https://flag.dol.gov/node/11
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Canada
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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viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 6.88 words is low.
This page contains 584 words. That's ok.
22.1% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
9 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.
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=1.0" is provided.
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)
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
...custom/flag/assets/img/us_flag_small.pngU.S. flag
.../custom/flag/assets/img/icon-dot-gov.svgDot gov
...es/custom/flag/assets/img/icon-https.svgHttps
/themes/custom/flag/logo.svgHome
/sites/default/files/img/homepage/PW.pngPrevailing Wages
/sites/default/files/img/homepage/H2B.pngH-2B, Temporary Labor Certification for Non-Agricultural Workers
/sites/default/files/img/homepage/H2A.pngH-2A, Temporary Labor Certification for Agricultural Workers
/sites/default/files/img/homepage/LCA.pngH-1B | H-1B1 | E-3, Labor Condition Application (LCA) for Specialty Occupations
/sites/default/files/img/homepage/CW1.pngCW-1 Transitional Worker Program in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
/sites/default/files/img/homepage/PERM.pngPERMANENT LABOR CERTIFICATION (PERM)

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Programs
H2 Announcements
H2 Support
H2 Related Links
H3 Foreign Labor Application Gateway
H3 Prevailing Wages
H3 H-2B, Temporary Labor Certification for Non-Agricultural Workers
H3 H-2A, Temporary Labor Certification for Agricultural Workers
H3 H-1B | H-1B1 | E-3, Labor Condition Application (LCA) for Specialty Occupations
H3 CW-1 Transitional Worker Program in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
H3 PERMANENT LABOR CERTIFICATION (PERM)
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (34) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://flag.dol.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://dol.gov/External U.S. Department of Labor
A-TITLE U.S. Department of Labor
https://flag.dol.gov/IMG-ALT Home
A-TITLE Home
https://flag.dol.gov/FLAG.DOL.GOV
A-TITLE Home
https://flag.dol.gov/Text duplicate Home
https://flag.dol.gov/aboutAbout
/announcementsNews
https://flag.dol.gov/programs/cw1CW-1
/programs/H-2AH-2A
/programs/H-2BH-2B
https://flag.dol.gov/programs/LCALCA
/programs/permPERM
/programs/prevailingwagesPrevailing Wages
/wage-data/wage-searchOFLC Wage Search
/wage-data/wage-data-downloadsOFLC Wage Data Downloads
/wage-data/adverse-effect-wage...H-2A Adverse Effect Wage Rates (AEWRs)
/wage-data/labor-supply-state-...H-2A Labor Supply State Determinations
/wage-data/subsistence-ratesH-2A Meals & H-2A and H-2B Subsistence Rates
/case-status-searchCase Status Search
/processingtimesProcessing Times
https://flag.dol.gov/support/FAQFrequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
/support/videotutorialsVideo Tutorials
/support/userguidesUser Guides
/support/contactContact
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/e...External Subdomain Find Your State Workforce Agency
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/e...External Subdomain Foreign Labor Recruiters
https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolg...External Subdomain Program Debarments
https://seasonaljobs.dol.gov/External Subdomain Seasonal Jobs
https://flag.dol.gov/auth/Login
/programs/prevailingwagesText duplicate Prevailing Wages
/programs/h-2bH-2B, Temporary Labor Certification for Non-Agricultural Workers
/programs/h-2aH-2A, Temporary Labor Certification for Agricultural Workers
https://flag.dol.gov/programs/lcaH-1B | H-1B1 | E-3, Labor Condition Application (LCA) for Specialty Occupations
https://flag.dol.gov/programs/cw1CW-1 Transitional Worker Program in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
/programs/permPERMANENT LABOR CERTIFICATION (PERM)
/announcement/2025-07-01/1OFLC Issues Technical Release Notes for the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics Update for the July 2025 through June 2026 Wage Year
/announcement/2025-07-01/2OFLC Publishes Updated Wage Data for the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands
/announcement/2025-07-01/3Permanent Employment Certification (PERM) Online Filing Release Notes 07/01/2025
/announcement/2025-05-28Foreign Labor Application Gateway (FLAG) Online Filing Release Notes 05/28/2025
/announcement/2025-05-16The Department of Labor Announces Additional Guidance for the H-2A Program in Washington State for Non-Range Occupations; Compliance with District Court Order
/announcementsAll Announcements
https://flag.dol.gov/support/FAQText duplicate Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
/support/videotutorialsText duplicate Video Tutorials
/support/userguidesText duplicate User Guides
/support/contactText duplicate Contact
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/e...External Subdomain Text duplicate Find Your State Workforce Agency
https://www.foreignlaborcert.d...External Subdomain Text duplicate Foreign Labor Recruiters
/processingtimesSubdomain Text duplicate Processing Times
https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolg...External Subdomain Text duplicate Program Debarments
https://seasonaljobs.dol.gov/External Subdomain Text duplicate Seasonal Jobs
https://www.dol.gov/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.dol.gov/general/co...External Subdomain Contact Us
https://www.uscis.gov/External Subdomain U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
https://www.state.gov/External Subdomain U.S. Department of State
https://www.justice.gov/crt/im...External Subdomain DOJ Immigrant and Employee Rights
https://www.whitehouse.gov/External Subdomain White House
https://www.usa.gov/External Subdomain USA.gov
https://www.dol.gov/general/ab...External Subdomain About DOL
https://www.foreignlaborcert.d...External Subdomain Office of Foreign Labor Certification
https://www.dol.gov/whd/External Subdomain Wage and Hour Division
https://www.oig.dol.gov/External Subdomain Office of Inspector General
https://www.dol.gov/oasam/prog...External Subdomain No Fear Act Data
https://public.govdelivery.com...External Subdomain Subscribe to the DOL Newsletter
https://www.dol.gov/general/si...External Subdomain A to Z Index
https://www.dol.gov/general/foiaExternal Subdomain Freedom of Information Act
https://www.dol.gov/general/di...External Subdomain Disclaimers
https://www.dol.gov/general/ab...External Subdomain Important Website Notices
https://www.dol.gov/general/ab...External Subdomain Plug-ins Used on DOL.gov
https://www.dol.gov/general/ab...External Subdomain Accessibility Statement
https://www.facebook.com/depar...External Subdomain Facebook
A-TITLE Department of Labor Facebook
https://twitter.com/USDOLExternal Twitter
A-TITLE Department of Labor Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/USDOL/External Subdomain Instagram
A-TITLE Department of Labor Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/user/U...External Subdomain Youtube
A-TITLE Department of Labor Youtube
https://www.dol.gov/general/pr...External Subdomain Privacy & Security Statement
https://www.dol.gov/general/ab...External Subdomain Copyright Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://flag.dol.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 of 0.81 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 (139 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 332 referring domains.
This page has 908 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 222 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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# robots.txt
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# 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.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/
# 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/

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
gov66%Check
FLAG61%Check
DOL59%Check
workers44%Check
Certification44%Check
Program44%Check
Application44%Check
Temporary44%Check
Agricultural44%Check
Temporary Labor Certification44%Check
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