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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
43% 
Page structure
66% 
Link structure
70% 
Server
0% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.00 s
File size
41.80 kB
Words
354
Media files
4
Number of links
7 internal / 49 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The title of the page is empty or not set.
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://news.maryland.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)
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 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, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
robotsmax-image-preview:large
langen
og:urlEmpty
og:typewebsite
og:descriptionEmpty
og:image/wp-content/themes/MDTheme_eGov_news/egov/dist/img/logo.png
og:image:altEmpty
og:site_nameEmpty
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
No paragraphs were detected.
There are only 354 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
These Typos were found:
  • leutenant => lieutenant
16.1% of the text are stop words.
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.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" 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 7 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
...MDTheme_eGov_news/egov/dist/img/logo.pngGo To Home Page
/wp-includes/images/rss.pngRSS
...gov/publishingimages/gov/govLtGov-v3.pngMaryland Governor and Leutenant Governor
/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/md-flag-bg.jpgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Maryland State Agency News
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Maryland State Agency News
H1 Empty heading
H2 Main Navigation
H2 Section Menu
H2 Latest News RSS
H2 Human Trafficking GET HELP
H2 Our Social Media Channels
There are too few (7) internal links on this page.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (49) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://news.maryland.gov/Anchor Skip to Content
https://www.maryland.gov/pages...New window External Subdomain Accessibility Information
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...External Subdomain RESIDENTS
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...External Subdomain BUSINESS
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...External Subdomain GOVERNMENT
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...External Subdomain JOBS
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...External Subdomain EDUCATION
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...External Subdomain VISITORS
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...External Subdomain ONLINE SERVICES
https://www.facebook.com/state...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Facebook
https://twitter.com/StateMarylandNew window External A-TITLE Twitter
https://news.maryland.gov/Anchor Section Menu
http://news.maryland.gov/Subdomain News Home
/mda/category/mda-newsroom/Subdomain Agriculture
https://news.maryland.gov/mde/Subdomain Environment
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor’s Office
https://news.maryland.gov/dnr/Subdomain Natural Resources
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...External Subdomain State Parks
http://news.maryland.gov/mspSubdomain State Police
https://www.mdot.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Transportation
https://www.visitmaryland.org/...External Subdomain Visiting Maryland
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...External Subdomain Central Maryland
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...External Subdomain Eastern Maryland
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...External Subdomain Southern Maryland
http://www.maryland.gov/pages/...External Subdomain Western Maryland
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain IMG-ALT RSS
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Latest News
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Joint Statement from Maryland Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Treasurer, Comptroller, House Speaker, and Senate President on Fitch’s AAA Credit Rating
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Delivers University of Maryland Eastern Shore Commencement Address
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Statement on Moody’s U.S. Credit Rating Downgrade
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Team Maryland Statement on Kash Patel’s Comments About FBI Vacating J. Edgar Hoover Building
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Signs Executive Order to Support Office of the Chief Medical Examiner Audit Findings in In-Custody Restraint-Related Death Investigations
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Applauds McDonald’s Workforce Expansion and Education Assistance Initiatives in Maryland
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Declares State of Emergency in Response to Historic Flooding in Western Maryland
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Urges Marylanders to Stay Vigilant and Exercise Extreme Caution Amid Severe Flooding in Western Maryland
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Joint Statement from Maryland Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Treasurer, Comptroller, House Speaker, and Senate President on Moody’s Credit Rating
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Attends Groundbreaking for Morgan State University Science and Research Center
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Signs Legislation to Protect and Strengthen the Chesapeake Bay Economy
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Announces Oriole Park at Camden Yards’ True Blue Certification
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Board of Public Works Approves Investments to Promote the Future of Thoroughbred Racing in Maryland
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Announces Maryland Department of Veterans and Military Families Leadership Transition
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Signs Legislation Focused on Education, Veterans, and Military Families
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Delivers Lincoln University Commencement Address
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Statement on Trump Budget Proposal
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Announces Multi-State Strategic Action Plan to Explore Cost Savings in Electric Transmission
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Announces Opening of Applications for Maryland Business Ready Sites Program
https://governor.maryland.gov/...External Subdomain Governor Moore Announces Additional State Support for the Maryland Craft Beverage Industry
https://governor.maryland.gov/...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Maryland Governor and Leutenant Governor
http://goccp.maryland.gov/vict...New window External Subdomain More Information on human trafficking in Maryland
http://www.maryland.gov/New window External Subdomain Maryland.gov
https://www.maryland.gov/pages...External Subdomain Contact Us
https://www.maryland.gov/pages...External Subdomain Privacy
https://www.maryland.gov/pages...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://www.ola.state.md.us/fr...External Subdomain Report Fraud
https://www.facebook.com/state...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Facebook
https://twitter.com/StateMarylandNew window External Text duplicate Twitter

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://news.maryland.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 1.00 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.
This page loads 6 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (42 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateMon, 19 May 2025 05:59:26 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length42841
x-via-nscopi1.0
connectionkeep-alive
cache-controlmax-age=3, must-revalidate
varyAccept-Encoding, Cookie
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
x-powered-byPHP/8.2.20
set-cookie135 Characters
strict-transport-securitymax-age=157680000; includeSubDomains; preload
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 152 referring domains.
This page has 565 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 66 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: https://news.maryland.gov/wp-sitemap.xml

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