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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
56% 
Page quality
70% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
83% 
Server
36% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
4.33 s
File size
145.60 kB
Words
400
Media files
10
Number of links
58 internal / 16 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
HUD Home | HUD.gov / U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 759 pixels long. Optimize title
The domain is used in the page's title.
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
http://www.hud.gov/
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
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

NameValue
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 400 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
There are 2 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: “God blessed us with this great nation, and together, we can increase ...
24.8% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
5 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 12.27 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=1.0" is provided.
This page only loads 3 JavaScript files. That's good!
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
2 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
/sites/dfiles/Main/images/us_flag_small.pngU.S. flag
/sites/dfiles/Main/images/icon-dot-gov.svgNo alt attribute provided
/sites/dfiles/Main/images/icon-https.svgNo alt attribute provided
...lt/files/Main/images/hud-seal-white4.pngHUD LogoHUD Logo
...t/files/Main/images/headerheadernew4.jpg[HUD Home][HUD Home]
...efault/files/Main/images/hudfooter11.jpgOpportunity ZonesOpportunity Zones
...n/images/footeragencyicons_vertical3.pngAgency icons
...files/Main/images/footersocialicons4.pngAgency icons
...files/Main/images/footersocialicons4.pngAgency icons
...images/footeragencyicons_horizontal4.jpgAgency icons

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 Helping Americans
H2 HUD Partners
H2 Researchers
H2 News
H2 Opportunity Zones
H3 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
H4 ICYMI: Secretary Scott Turner Visits Pittsburgh to Witness Innovative Housing Solutions, Tours U.S. Steel and Faith-Based Shelter
H4 HUD and Census Bureau Report New Residential Sales in June 2025
H4 ICYMI: Secretary Turner Takes Action to Hold the Atlantic City Housing Authority Accountable After Years of Mismanagement
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 3 links with a trivial anchor text.
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 16 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.hud.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.hud.gov/Anchor Here’s how you know
/helping-americansHelping Americans
/helping-americansSubdomain Anchor Help with Homeownership
/helping-americansSubdomain Anchor Find Affordable Places to Live
/helping-americansSubdomain Anchor Find a HUD-certified counselor
/helping-americansSubdomain Anchor Housing Choice Voucher
/helping-americansSubdomain Anchor Experiencing Homelessness
/helping-americansSubdomain Anchor Report an Issue
/helping-americansSubdomain Anchor Current HUD Residents
/helping-americansSubdomain Anchor Experiencing a Natural Disaster
https://www.hud.gov/statesSubdomain Find State Resources
https://www.hud.gov/hud-partnersHUD Partners
https://www.hud.gov/fhaSubdomain FHA/Housing Resources
/helping-americans/public-indi...Subdomain Public and Indian Housing Resources
https://www.hud.gov/hud-partnersSubdomain Anchor Policies, Guidance, & Forms
https://www.hud.gov/hud-partnersSubdomain Anchor IT Systems
https://www.hud.gov/hud-partnersSubdomain Anchor Grants
https://www.hud.gov/codetalkSubdomain Native American Programs
https://www.hud.gov/hud-partnersSubdomain Anchor Affordable Places to Live
https://www.hud.gov/hud-partnersSubdomain Anchor Inspections for HUD Housing
https://www.hud.gov/hud-partnersSubdomain Anchor Housing Financing & Counseling
https://www.hud.gov/hud-partnersSubdomain Anchor Opportunity Zones & Community Development
https://www.hud.gov/hud-partnersSubdomain Anchor Healthy Homes
https://www.hud.gov/hud-partnersSubdomain Anchor Fair Housing
/stat/sdb/forecastSubdomain Small Business
https://www.hudexchange.info/External Subdomain HUDExchange
https://www.hud.gov/researchersData & Research
https://www.huduser.gov/portal...External Subdomain HUDuser.gov
https://data.hud.gov/External Subdomain Data.hud.gov
https://www.hud.gov/newsNews
https://www.hud.gov/aboutusAbout
https://www.hud.gov/contactusContact
https://www.hud.gov/IMG-ALT HUD Logo
/helping-americansText duplicate Helping Americans
https://www.hud.gov/hud-partnersText duplicate HUD Partners
https://www.hud.gov/researchersText duplicate Data & Research
https://www.hud.gov/newsText duplicate News
https://www.hud.gov/aboutusText duplicate About
https://www.hud.gov/contactusText duplicate Contact
/news/hud-no-25-112Trivial anchor text
Read More
/news/hud-no-25-111Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/news/hud-no-25-110Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/opportunity-zonesLearn More
/helping-americansText duplicate Helping Americans
https://www.hud.gov/hud-partnersText duplicate HUD Partners
https://www.hud.gov/researchersResearchers
https://www.hud.gov/newsText duplicate News
https://www.hud.gov/aboutusText duplicate About
https://www.hud.gov/contactusText duplicate Contact
/contactus/localFind a HUD office near you
https://www.hudoig.gov/External Subdomain Office of Inspector General
https://www.hud.gov/no-fear-actNo Fear Act
https://www.hud.gov/foiaFOIA
/aboutus/privacy-policyPrivacy
https://www.hud.gov/accessibilityAccessibility
/contactus/webmanagementWeb Policies
https://www.hud.gov/siteindexSitemap
https://www.hud.gov/A-TITLE U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
https://www.whitehouse.gov/New window External Subdomain A-TITLE The White House
/program_offices/fair_housing_...A-TITLE Fair Housing/Equal Opportunity
https://www.usa.gov/New window External Subdomain A-TITLE USAGov
https://vote.gov/New window External A-TITLE vote.gov
https://www.hud.gov/Text duplicate A-TITLE U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
https://www.whitehouse.gov/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate A-TITLE The White House
/program_offices/fair_housing_...Text duplicate A-TITLE Fair Housing/Equal Opportunity
https://www.usa.gov/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate A-TITLE USAGov
https://vote.gov/New window External Text duplicate A-TITLE vote.gov
https://twitter.com/hudgovNew window External A-TITLE HUDgov Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/HUD/New window External Subdomain A-TITLE U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/hudgov/New window External Subdomain A-TITLE HUDgov Instagram
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE HUD's Flickr
https://www.youtube.com/user/H...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE HUDchannel
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE LinkedIn

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.hud.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (4.33 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.
This page loads 5 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page only loads 3 JavaScript files. That's good!
The file size of the HTML document is fine (146 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 10,555 referring domains.
This page has 36,050,715 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 6,080 different ip addresses.

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# you save bandwidth and server resources.
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# 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
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# 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

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KeywordResultRecheck
HUD72%Check
gov64%Check
Housing and Urban54%Check
Housing53%Check
Department50%Check
Urban Development50%Check
Development49%Check
Housing Authority47%Check
Housing Solutions47%Check
Fair Housing45%Check
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