Haysusa.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
50% 
Page structure
40% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
87% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.60 s
File size
122.40 kB
Words
464
Media files
4
Number of links
60 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Hays, KS | Official Website
The length of the page title is perfect. (240 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
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)
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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theme-color#133361
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descriptionEmpty
keywordsHome
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Content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 464 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
There are 2 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: The Kansas Department of Agriculture’s Division of Water Resources has...
23.7% of the text are stop words.
5 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 15.86 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The following tag is repeated too often: city commission work session
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
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
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=5750Hays Kansas home page
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=5769Search
/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=8112Water faucet
/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=5768Hays Kansas home page

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
News Flash
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (10 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 News Flash
H1 Calendar
H1 Resources
H3 June 2025
H3 Contact Us
H3 Quick Links
H3 Site Links
H4 Water Conservation Measures Implemented in Hays
H4 6-3-2025 City of Hays Press Briefing
H4 Water Conservation Measures Implemented in Hays Duplicate text
H4 Ordinance No. 4072 - Covenant Estates 1st Addition Annexation
H4 Ordinance No. 4071 - Covenant Estates 1st Addition Rezoning
H4 2025-06-16 Public Hearing for Variance Request at 1600 E 29th St
H4 Hays Police Department & Hays Municipal Court Offices Closed on Fridays
H4 Thu, Jun. 5
H4 Thu, Jun. 12
H4 Thu, Jun. 19
H4 Thu, Jun. 26
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 7 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.haysusa.com/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.haysusa.com/IMG-ALT Hays Kansas home page
/Search/ResultsIMG-ALT Search
/27/GovernmentGovernment
/35/DepartmentsDepartments
/101/ServicesServices
https://www.haysusa.com/31/VisitVisit
/9/How-Do-IHow Do I...
https://www.haysusa.com/list.aspxNotify Me®
/264/Employment-OpportunitiesEmployment
https://www.haysusa.com/338/MapsGIS/Maps
/225/City-OrdinancesOrdinances
https://cityofhaysks.munisself...External Subdomain Pay Utility Bill
/209/Utility-BillingUtilities
https://portal.iworq.net/HAYS/...External Subdomain Report a Concern
/269/City-CommissionCommission MeetingsView upcoming meetings
/160/Water-ConservationWater ConservationFind out more
/369/PolicePoliceGet to know us
/150/Parks-DepartmentParksExplore the city
/296/Refuse-CollectionRefuseView routes
/356/Zoning-Building-Permits-A...PermitsFind a permit
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1604New window Water Conservation Measures Implemented in Hays
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1604New window Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1613New window 6-3-2025 City of Hays Press Briefing
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1613New window Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?CID=19View All News
/342/Volunteer-for-a-CommitteeBoard/Committee Application
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1604New window IMG-ALT Water faucet
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1604New window Text duplicate Water Conservation Measures Implemented in Hays
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1604New window Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1610New window Ordinance No. 4072 - Covenant Estates 1st Addition Annexation
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1610New window Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1609New window Ordinance No. 4071 - Covenant Estates 1st Addition Rezoning
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1609New window Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=16082025-06-16 Public Hearing for Variance Request at 1600 E 29th St
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1608Text duplicate Read on...
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1502Hays Police Department & Hays Municipal Court Offices Closed on Fridays
/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1502The Hays Police Department’s front office and the
/CivicAlerts.aspx?CID=28,5,26,21Text duplicate View All News
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...5
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...12
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...19
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...26
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...3
/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=...4
/Calendar.aspx?EID=488City Commission Work Session
/Calendar.aspx?EID=512City Commission Meeting
/Calendar.aspx?EID=500Text duplicate City Commission Work Session
/Calendar.aspx?EID=524Text duplicate City Commission Meeting
/calendar.aspx?CID=30,27View Full Calendar
https://ks-hays.civicplus.com/...External Subdomain Annual Budgets
/305/Boards-CommissionsBoards & Committees
/298/City-ContactsCity Contacts
https://www.haysusa.com/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Hays Kansas home page
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=32,14Quick Links
https://ks-hays.civicplus.com/...External Subdomain Text duplicate Annual Budgets
/305/Boards-CommissionsText duplicate Boards & Committees
/298/City-ContactsText duplicate City Contacts
https://ks-hays.civicplus.com/...External Subdomain City Commission
/DocumentCenter/View/6697/City...City of Hays Policy Manual
/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=15Site Links
https://www.haysusa.com/Home
https://ks-hays.civicplus.com/...External Subdomain Notifications / Notify Me
https://www.haysusa.com/sitemapSite Map
/accessibilityAccessibility
/DocumentCenter/View/643/Priva...New window Privacy Policy
https://connect.civicplus.com/...External Subdomain CivicPlus®

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.haysusa.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
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 (1.60 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 (122 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate, s-maxage=600,no-transform
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
p3pCP="IDC DSP COR ADM DEVi TAIi PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi HIS OUR IND CNT"
set-cookie25 Characters
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self' https://*.granicus.com https://platform.civicplus.com https://account.civicplus.com https://analytics.civicplus.com; img-src * data: blob:; worker-src * data: blob: 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline'; script-src * about: 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval'; style-src * 'unsafe-inline'; media-src * blob:; font-src * data:; default-src *
dateTue, 03 Jun 2025 12:05:52 GMT
content-length33800
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 523 referring domains.
This page has 601 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 143 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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Disallow: /map.aspx
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KeywordResultRecheck
Hays68%Check
Hays Police54%Check
News50%Check
Site50%Check
Flash50%Check
Hays Police Department49%Check
Hays Municipal Court49%Check
Water44%Check
Notify Me44%Check
city43%Check
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