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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
97% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.45 s
File size
21.90 kB
Words
184
Media files
13
Number of links
27 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
South Carolina Department of Transportation
The length of the page title is perfect. (400 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
South Carolina Department of Transportation website providing information to the public about highways and roadways throughout the state.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (860 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.scdot.org/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Canada
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
descriptionSouth Carolina Department of Transportation website providing information to the public about highways and roadways throughout the state.
templatehomepage
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
langen
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 184 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
These Typos were found:
  • transporation => transportation
27.7% 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.
3 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 19.75 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" is provided.
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...ib-legacy/resources/images/SCDOT-BLK.svgSCDOT Logo
...ib-legacy/resources/images/SCDOT-WHT.svgSCDOT logo white
...mg/default-large-image-1momentum2050.pngPlanning the Future of Transporation in South Carolina
...dot-legacy/img/index-graphic-gas-tax.jpgNew Gas Tax Funds
...scdot-legacy/img/State-of-SCDOT-2025.jpg2025 State of SCDOT Presentation
...gacy/img/default-sm-pavement-program.jpg2025-2026 Pavement Improvement Program
...mg/index-graphic-damage-claims225x75.jpgSideview of a car and hazard sign representing the Damage Claims button
...img/index-graphic-transparency225x75.jpgCollage with Ben Franklin and a graph representing agency transparency button
...x-graphic-how-we-pick-projects225x75.jpgPeople around a table looking at a laptop
.../scdot-legacy/img/index-graphic-foia.jpgPhoto of an American flag representing Freedom Information Act button
...phic-maintenance-work-requests225x75.jpgPhoto of an asphalt road and a safety cone
.../index-graphic-speakers-bureau225x75.jpgPhoto of a microphone and speaking event in background
...ib-legacy/resources/images/SCDOT-WHT.svgSCDOT Logo White

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Your Complete Resource for South Carolina's Transportation System
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Your Complete Resource for South Carolina's Transportation System
H2 Planning the Future of Transporation in South Carolina
H2 New Gas Tax Funds
H2 2025 State of SCDOT Presentation
H2 2025-2026 Pavement Improvement Program
H2 Find Us
H3 Contact
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.scdot.org/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.scdot.org/Subdomain IMG-ALT SCDOT Logo
https://www.scdot.org/Subdomain IMG-ALT SCDOT logo white
https://www.scdot.org/Subdomain No Text
/popular.htmlSubdomain Popular
/projects.htmlSubdomain Programs & Projects
https://www.scdot.org/travel.htmlSubdomain Travel
/business.htmlSubdomain Business
https://www.scdot.org/inside.htmlSubdomain Inside
/performance.htmlSubdomain Performance
/inside/inside-communications-...Subdomain Newsroom
/scdotcontactus.htmlSubdomain Contact
https://movingsouthcarolinafor...External IMG-ALT Planning the Future of Transporation in South Carolina
https://movingsouthcarolinafor...External movingsouthcarolinaforward.com
https://movingsouthcarolinafor...External Learn More
/inside/new-gastax-trustfund.htmlSubdomain IMG-ALT New Gas Tax Funds
/inside/new-gastax-trustfund.htmlSubdomain Funding Road Work
/performance/state-of-scdot-20...Subdomain IMG-ALT 2025 State of SCDOT Presentation
/performance/state-of-scdot-20...Subdomain Watch the presentation
/inside/pavement-improvement.htmlSubdomain IMG-ALT 2025-2026 Pavement Improvement Program
/inside/pavement-improvement.htmlSubdomain Pavement Program
/travel/travel-DamageClaims.htmlSubdomain IMG-ALT Sideview of a car and hazard sign representing the Damage Claims button
/performance/performance-repor...Subdomain IMG-ALT Collage with Ben Franklin and a graph representing agency transparency button
/inside/planning.htmlSubdomain IMG-ALT People around a table looking at a laptop
/inside/freedom-of-information...Subdomain IMG-ALT Photo of an American flag representing Freedom Information Act button
https://apps.scdot.org/MWRO/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Photo of an asphalt road and a safety cone
/scdotwebforms/speakerbureau.htmlSubdomain IMG-ALT Photo of a microphone and speaking event in background
https://www.facebook.com/SCDOT/New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/SCDOTPressNew window External X
https://www.youtube.com/user/S...New window External Subdomain You Tube
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain LinkedIn
/resources.htmlSubdomain Resources
/disclaimer.htmlSubdomain Disclaimer
/privacy.htmlSubdomain Policy
/inside/freedom-of-information...Subdomain Freedom of Information

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.scdot.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
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 of 0.45 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (22 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
strict-transport-securitymax-age=63072000; includeSubdomains;
last-modifiedSun, 27 Jul 2025 04:51:06 GMT
etag"5770-63ae1ec449ab7-gzip"
cache-controlmax-age=300
expiresSun, 27 Jul 2025 23:49:04 GMT
content-encodinggzip
x-vhostpublish
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self' https://*.scdot.org https://scdot.maps.arcgis.com https://i77exit26.com https://churchstbridgerehab.com https://www.crossislandparkway.org https://www.i26-sc27.com https://buildingabetterbutler.com http://www.fixwoodruffroad.com https://fixwoodruffroad.com http://www.i73insc.com https://i73insc.com https://greenwood246.com https://www.85widening.com;
content-typetext/html;charset=utf-8
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
accept-rangesbytes
dateSun, 27 Jul 2025 23:44:51 GMT
age47
x-served-bycache-fra-etou8220117-FRA
x-cacheHIT
x-timerS1753659892.705576,VS0,VS0,VE2
varyAccept-Encoding
content-length5769
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 329 referring domains.
This page has 1,662 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 294 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

# Start Group: all
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /private/
# End Group: all
# Start Group: google
User-agent: googlebot
Disallow: /private/
# End Group: google
Sitemap: /content/scdot-legacy/us/en.sitemap.xml

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South Carolina Department of Transportation
South Carolina Department of Transportation website providing information to the public about highways and roadways throughout the state.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
South79%Check
Carolina79%Check
South Carolina79%Check
South Carolina Department75%Check
Transportation72%Check
Carolina Department70%Check
state54%Check
SCDOT54%Check
transportation network53%Check
Resource52%Check
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