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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
66% 
Page quality
90% 
Page structure
92% 
Link structure
98% 
Server
91% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.06 s
File size
58.50 kB
Words
614
Media files
0
Number of links
24 internal / 14 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | SAM.gov
The page title is too short. (151 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://sam.gov/node/78
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
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)
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
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 614 words. That's ok.
30.9% 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.
The average number of words per sentence of 12.1 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.
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)
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

No media files were found.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
SAM.gov | Home
The H1 heading is too short (14 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 SAM.gov | Home
H2 The Official U.S. Government System for:
H2 Already know what you want to find?
H2 Already know what you want to find? Duplicate text
H2 Register Your Entity or Get a Unique Entity ID
H2 Announcements
H2 How to get a Unique Entity ID
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 14 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://sam.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://sam.gov/contractingContracting
/wage-determinationsWage Determinations
https://sam.gov/hierarchyFederal Hierarchy
/federal-assistanceFederal Assistance
/entity-informationEntity Information
https://sam.gov/entity-reportingEntity Reporting
/entity-registrationGet Started
/content/status-trackerCheck Entity Status
/announcements/entity-records-...Records Retention Policy Impacts Old SAM Registration Data
/announcements/subaward-report...Subaward Reporting is live on SAM.gov
https://www.fsd.gov/gsafsd_sp?...New window External Subdomain Entity Validation Review Time
/opp/91ba3d8d8dc94076a16ae3dea...New window GSA Policy Statement
/announcements/american-securi...American Security Drone Act-Covered Foreign Entity List
https://www.fsd.gov/gsafsd_sp?...External Subdomain Do I need a user account?
https://www.fsd.gov/gsafsd_sp?...External Subdomain What's the difference between signing up and registering?
https://www.fsd.gov/gsafsd_sp?...External Subdomain What if I already have a login.gov account?
https://www.fsd.gov/gsafsd_sp?...External Subdomain What do I need to register my entity?
http://fsd.gov/New window External Federal Service Desk.
https://sam.gov/about/this-siteAbout This Site
A-TITLE About This Site
https://interact.gsa.gov/group...External Subdomain Our Community
https://www.fsd.gov/gsafsd_sp?...External Subdomain Release Notes
https://sam.gov/alertsSystem Alerts
https://acquisition.gov/External Acquisition.gov
https://usaspending.gov/External USASpending.gov
https://grants.gov/External Grants.gov
https://sam.gov/about/partnersMore Partners
/about/terms-of-useTerms of Use
A-TITLE Terms of Use
/about/terms-of-usePrivacy Policy
/about/terms-of-useRestricted Data Use
https://www.gsa.gov/reference/...External Subdomain Freedom of Information Act
/about/accessibilityAccessibility
https://sam.gov/helpHelp
/content/status-trackerText duplicate Check Entity Status
https://www.fsd.gov/gsafsd_sp/...External Subdomain Federal Service Desk
/about/external-resourcesExternal Resources
https://sam.gov/about/contactContact
https://www.gsa.gov/External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://sam.gov/"
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 excellent with 0.06 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (59 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
dateMon, 26 May 2025 17:38:44 GMT
servernginx/1.25.5
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
cache-controls-maxage=43200
content-languageen
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
content-encodinggzip
x-envoy-upstream-service-time324
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
varyAccept-Encoding
x-cacheHit from cloudfront
via1.1 99a0678067c9afa5ffc6dde34b960d40.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-popFRA60-P7
x-amz-cf-idWcQYPWfbZ80TWFzJ5jK_dr8RUIjk2sTPtmQCUUis19G89-FkPw2Qmg==
age12353
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 1,761 referring domains.
This page has 22,324 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,044 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# 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.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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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
gov77%Check
Entity or Get44%Check
Entity43%Check
find43%Check
Get43%Check
Official43%Check
Unique43%Check
Unique Entity ID43%Check
know43%Check
get started40%Check
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