Help.usajobs.gov - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
98% 
Page quality
47% 
Page structure
72% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
83% 
External factors
78% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.19 s
File size
25.10 kB
Words
157
Media files
3
Number of links
15 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
USAJOBS Help Center
The length of the page title is perfect. (207 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
USAJOBS Help Center
The length of the meta description is perfect. (207 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://help.usajobs.gov/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Germany
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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
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
viewportwidth=device-width,minimum-scale=1
descriptionUSAJOBS Help Center
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 157 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
24.8% of the text are stop words.
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)
This page loads 10 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width,minimum-scale=1" 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)
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

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Help
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (4 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Help
H2 Still need help?
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 9 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://help.usajobs.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://help.usajobs.gov/how-toHelp Center
/how-to/searchSearch tips
https://help.usajobs.gov/how-toHow to…
https://help.usajobs.gov/faqFAQs
/working-in-governmentWorking in Government
/working-in-government/unique-...Unique hiring paths
https://help.usajobs.gov/glossaryGlossary
/early-careersEarly careers
https://help.usajobs.gov/how-toHow to
/Help/ContactUs?selectedContac...Contact us
https://www.opm.gov/New window External Subdomain Opens in a new windowUnited States Office of Personnel Management
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain LinkedIn (Opens in a new window)
A-TITLE LinkedIn
https://www.youtube.com/playli...New window External Subdomain Youtube (Opens in a new window)
A-TITLE Youtube
https://help.usajobs.gov/aboutNew window Opens in a new windowAbout USAJOBS
/faq/policy/accessibility-policyNew window Opens in a new windowAccessibility
https://www.opm.gov/informatio...New window External Subdomain Opens in a new windowFOIA
https://www.opm.gov/our-inspec...New window External Subdomain Opens in a new windowInspector general
https://www.opm.gov/informatio...New window External Subdomain Opens in a new windowNo Fear Act Data
https://help.usajobs.gov/privacyNew window Opens in a new windowPrivacy policy
https://www.opm.gov/about-us/r...New window External Subdomain Opens in a new windowReports and publications
/terms-and-conditionsNew window Opens in a new windowTerms and conditions
https://www.usa.gov/New window External Subdomain Opens in a new windowUSA.gov
https://vote.gov/New window External Opens in a new windowVote.gov

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://help.usajobs.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)
This page loads 10 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.19 seconds.
This page only loads 2 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (25 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
x-frame-optionsDENY
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
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cross-origin-opener-policyunsafe-none
cross-origin-embedder-policyunsafe-none
cross-origin-resource-policysame-site
x-azure-ref20250728T210821Z-15cf58d5fd7lrzbghC1EWR8eu800000008a0000000006gt4
content-length7385
cache-controlpublic, max-age=22
dateMon, 28 Jul 2025 21:12:59 GMT
connectionkeep-alive
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000 ; includeSubDomains ; preload
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 26 referring domains.
This page only has 75 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 25 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /Content/
Disallow: /Scripts/
Disallow: /foresee/
Disallow: /Service References/

Sitemap: https://www.usajobs.gov/sitemap.xml

Search preview

help.usajobs.gov
USAJOBS Help Center
USAJOBS Help Center

Most important keywords

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