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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
63% 
Page structure
66% 
Link structure
63% 
Server
20% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.93 s
File size
35.00 kB
Words
1013
Media files
16
Number of links
47 internal / 71 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Connecticut Travel Vacation Guide, Attractions, & Events | Visit Connecticut
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 675 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Visit Connecticut has your next travel and tourism vacation guides for Connecticut. Visit us to learn more about all the attractions and events in Connecticut.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (955 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.visitconnecticut.com/state/
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)
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

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viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
descriptionVisit Connecticut has your next travel and tourism vacation guides for Connecticut. Visit us to learn more about all the attractions and events in Connecticut.
keywordsEmpty
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msvalidate.010C7D233A50DFEFD2788B2B0CF728BA60
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 1013 words. That's ok.
30.5% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
6 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 24.9 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, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The amount of tags is very high (32). We recommend using a maximum of 20 tags for this page.
Some tags are too long. With 79 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"essex, old saybrook, ivoryton, old lyme, haddam, east haddam and deep river, ct"
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)
This page uses Google authorship markup.
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
/Content/images/brand-logo.svgNo alt attribute provided
/adservimage/7786.jpgStamford Museum and Nature Center in Stamford, CT - Photo Credit Stamford Museum
/adservimage/5011.jpgSummer on the New Haven Green - New Haven, CT - Photo Credit CT Tourism
/adservimage/9388.jpgAerial View of the Thimble Islands - Branford, CT
/adservimage/6186.jpgClick here to see VNE's Connecticut July 4th 2025 Events Calendar! Fireworks shows, Parades and Celebrations!
/adservimage/11109.jpgFairfield Southwest
/adservimage/11108.jpgHartford Central
/adservimage/11107.jpgLitchfield Northwest
/adservimage/11106.jpgMystic Eastern
/adservimage/11105.jpgNew Haven South Central
/adservimage/20282.jpgThe Old Red Mill in Bridgewater, CT in Fall - Photo Credit Thomas Schoeller PhotographyClick here for prints of this image
/adservimage/12111.jpgWeir Farm National Historic Park in Wilton, CT - Photo Credit Shutterstock
/adservimage/20284.jpgCitySeed Wooster Square Farmers Market - New Haven, CT - Photo Credit Richard Queen via Google Maps
/adservimage/11130.jpgSealion Tank at Mystic Aquarium - Mystic, CT - Credit Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration
/adservimage/13026.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/adservimage/20281.jpgDirt Roads Are Down To Earth - Litchfield County, CT in Fall - Photo Credit © Thomas Schoeller PhotographyClick here for prints of this image

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to Visit Connecticut
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to Visit Connecticut
H2 Great shopping, dining, casinos, and maritime fun!
H3 Connecticut Regions and Highlights:
H4 Fairfield County & Southwest CT
H4 New Haven & South Central CT
H4 Mystic Country & Eastern CT
H4 Greater Hartford & Central CT
H4 Litchfield County & Northwest CT
H4 Destinations
H4 Company
H4 Partnership
H4 Top Articles
H5 Stamford Museum and Nature Center in Stamford, CT - Photo Credit: Stamford Museum
H5 Summer on the New Haven, CT Green - Photo Credit: CT Dept. of Tourism
H5 Aerial View of the Thimble Islands in Branford, CT
H5 Fairfield Southwest
H5 Hartford Central
H5 Litchfield Northwest
H5 Mystic Eastern
H5 New Haven South Central
H5 © Thomas Schoeller Photography
H5 © Thomas Schoeller Photography Duplicate text
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an 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 too many external links (71) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/state/ctmap/Maps
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https://www.facebook.com/Visit...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/visi...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://blog.visitnewengland.com/New window External Subdomain Blog
https://www.visitnewengland.co...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.visitconnecticut.com/Connecticut
/state/State
/fairfield_southwest/Fairfield Southwest
/hartford_central/Hartford Central
/litchfield_northwest/Litchfield Northwest
/mystic_eastern/Mystic Eastern
/newhaven_southcentral/New Haven South Central
https://www.visit-maine.com/External Subdomain Maine
https://www.visit-maine.com/st...External Subdomain Text duplicate State
https://www.visit-maine.com/ac...External Subdomain Bar Harbor Acadia
https://www.visit-maine.com/gr...External Subdomain Greater Portland
https://www.visit-maine.com/mi...External Subdomain Mid Coast
https://www.visit-maine.com/no...External Subdomain Northern Maine
https://www.visit-maine.com/so...External Subdomain South Coast
https://www.visit-maine.com/we...External Subdomain Western Lakes Mountains
https://www.visit-massachusett...External Subdomain Massachusetts
https://www.visit-massachusett...External Subdomain Text duplicate State
https://www.visit-massachusett...External Subdomain Cape Cod & The Islands
https://www.visit-massachusett...External Subdomain Central Mass.
https://www.visit-massachusett...External Subdomain Greater Boston & Cambridge
https://www.visit-massachusett...External Subdomain North of Boston
https://www.visit-massachusett...External Subdomain South of Boston
https://www.visit-massachusett...External Subdomain Western Mass.
https://www.visit-newhampshire...External Subdomain New Hampshire
https://www.visit-newhampshire...External Subdomain Text duplicate State
https://www.visit-newhampshire...External Subdomain Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee
https://www.visit-newhampshire...External Subdomain Great North Woods
https://www.visit-newhampshire...External Subdomain Lakes
https://www.visit-newhampshire...External Subdomain Merrimack Valley
https://www.visit-newhampshire...External Subdomain Monadnock
https://www.visit-newhampshire...External Subdomain Seacoast
https://www.visit-newhampshire...External Subdomain White Mountains
https://www.visitri.com/External Subdomain Rhode Island
https://www.visitri.com/state/External Subdomain Text duplicate State
https://www.visitri.com/blacks...External Subdomain Blackstone Valley
https://www.visitri.com/blocki...External Subdomain Block Island
https://www.visitri.com/newport/External Subdomain Newport
https://www.visitri.com/provid...External Subdomain Providence Warwick
https://www.visitri.com/southc...External Subdomain South County
https://www.visit-vermont.com/External Subdomain Vermont
https://www.visit-vermont.com/...External Subdomain Text duplicate State
https://www.visit-vermont.com/...External Subdomain Central
https://www.visit-vermont.com/...External Subdomain Northeast Kingdom
https://www.visit-vermont.com/...External Subdomain Northern
https://www.visit-vermont.com/...External Subdomain Southern
https://www.visitnewengland.com/External Subdomain New England
https://www.visitnewengland.co...External Subdomain All New England
/state/where-to-visit/Where to Visit
/state/things-to-do-and-see/Things to Do and See
/state/places-to-stay/Places to Stay
/state/events/Events
/state/weddings/Weddings
/state/food-and-drink/Food & Drink
/state/travel-information/Travel Information
/state/Anchor Previous
/state/Anchor Next
/state/july-4-events/events/IMG-ALT Click here to see VNE's Connecticut July 4th 2025 Events Calendar! Fireworks shows, Parades and Celebrations!
/fairfield_southwest/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Fairfield Southwest
/fairfield_southwest/Text duplicate Fairfield Southwest
/hartford_central/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Hartford Central
/hartford_central/Text duplicate Hartford Central
/litchfield_northwest/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Litchfield Northwest
/litchfield_northwest/Text duplicate Litchfield Northwest
/mystic_eastern/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Mystic Eastern
/mystic_eastern/Text duplicate Mystic Eastern
/newhaven_southcentral/Text duplicate IMG-ALT New Haven South Central
/newhaven_southcentral/Text duplicate New Haven South Central
/state/50-great-things-to-do-i...Great Things To Do
/state/events/events/Events Calendar
/state/ctmap/State Map
https://www.thomasschoeller.ph...Nofollow External Subdomain IMG-ALT The Old Red Mill in Bridgewater, CT in Fall - Photo Credit Thomas Schoeller Photography
https://www.thomasschoeller.ph...Nofollow External Subdomain © Thomas Schoeller Photography
/fairfield_southwest/Fairfield County & Southwest CT
/fairfield_southwest/IMG-ALT Weir Farm National Historic Park in Wilton, CT - Photo Credit Shutterstock
/newhaven_southcentral/New Haven & South Central CT
/newhaven_southcentral/IMG-ALT CitySeed Wooster Square Farmers Market - New Haven, CT - Photo Credit Richard Queen via Google Maps
/mystic_eastern/Mystic Country & Eastern CT
/state/lower-ct-river-valley/mouth of the Connecticut River
/mystic_eastern/IMG-ALT Sealion Tank at Mystic Aquarium - Mystic, CT - Credit Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration
/hartford_central/Greater Hartford & Central CT
/state/ski-areas/winter-activi...ski areas
/hartford_central/No Text
/litchfield_northwest/Litchfield County & Northwest CT
/state/50-great-things-to-do-i...Great Things To Do in Connecticut
https://www.thomasschoeller.ph...Nofollow External Subdomain IMG-ALT Dirt Roads Are Down To Earth - Litchfield County, CT in Fall - Photo Credit © Thomas Schoeller Photography
https://www.thomasschoeller.ph...Nofollow External Subdomain Text duplicate © Thomas Schoeller Photography
https://www.visitnewengland.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate All New England
https://www.visitconnecticut.com/Text duplicate Connecticut
https://www.visit-maine.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Maine
https://www.visit-massachusett...External Subdomain Text duplicate Massachusetts
https://www.visit-newhampshire...External Subdomain Text duplicate New Hampshire
https://www.visitri.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Rhode Island
https://www.visit-vermont.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Vermont
/state/ctmap/Text duplicate State Map
https://www.visitnewengland.co...Nofollow External Subdomain About Us
https://www.visitnewengland.co...Nofollow External Subdomain Contact
https://www.visitnewengland.co...Nofollow External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://www.visitnewengland.co...Nofollow External Subdomain Terms and Conditions
https://www.visitnewengland.co...Nofollow External Subdomain Copyright
/site-map/Site Map
https://www.visitnewengland.co...Nofollow External Subdomain Advertise
https://share.hsforms.com/2ckI...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Submit a Listing
https://www.visitnewengland.co...Nofollow External Subdomain Submit an Event
https://www.visitnewengland.co...Nofollow External Subdomain Text duplicate Great Things To Do
https://www.visitnewengland.co...Nofollow External Subdomain Fairs and Festivals
https://www.visitnewengland.co...Nofollow External Subdomain Family Activities
https://www.visitnewengland.co...Nofollow External Subdomain Winter Activities
https://www.visitnewengland.co...Nofollow External Subdomain Fall Foliage
https://www.visitnewengland.co...Nofollow External Subdomain Pet Friendly Lodging
https://www.visitnewengland.co...Nofollow External Subdomain Romantic Gateways
https://www.visitnewengland.co...Nofollow External Subdomain Waterfront Lodging
/state/Anchor Top

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.visitconnecticut.com/state/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.93 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 (35 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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cache-controlprivate
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
varyUser-Agent
serverCheetah/1.9
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
x-permitted-cross-domain-policiesmaster-only
dateSat, 14 Jun 2025 20:54:51 GMT
content-length35815
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 52 referring domains.
This page has 3,063 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 31 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *

Disallow: /file-not-found/
User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SemrushBot-SA
Disallow: /
User-agent: dotbot
Disallow: /

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Visit Connecticut86%Check
Visit78%Check
Connecticut travel75%Check
Central CT67%Check
Connecticut River66%Check
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Events63%Check
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