Visitgarlandtx.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
71% 
Page quality
54% 
Page structure
64% 
Link structure
70% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.57 s
File size
90.40 kB
Words
243
Media files
5
Number of links
68 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Visit Garland, TX
The page title is too short. (152 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Garland Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) is the destination marketing organization for the City of Garland, Texas. The CVB partners with hospitality and tourism stakeholders to position Garland as a destination for visitors, meetings, and events. Programs include marketing, advertising, media, and business development.
The meta description is too long: 2022 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.visitgarlandtx.com/
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
google-site-verificationSdpRWSQy0UouBcCMkdsPrai0mOjqOfuWjS4WzVr25_o
descriptionThe Garland Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) is the destination marketing organization for the City of Garland, Texas. The CVB partners with hospitality and tourism stakeholders to position Garland as a destination for visitors, meetings, and events. Programs include marketing, advertising, media, and business development.
keywordsGarland, Events, Visiting, Downtown, Attractions, Texas Made Here, Tours, Historical, Texas, DFW, Parks and Recreation, GISD, Sports, Restaurants, Activities, CVB, Fun Things, Date Night, Shopping
langen
fb:adminsSaffireEvents
og:typearticle
og:titleVisit Garland, TX
og:imagehttps://cdn.saffire.com/images.ashx?t=ig&rid=VisitGarlandTX&i=Logo-new.jpg
og:urlhttps://www.visitgarlandtx.com/
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 243 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
17.3% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
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)
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
/images/socialMedia/facebook.pngFacebook
/images/socialMedia/instagram.pngInstagram
....png&cb=9fce594b&w=40&h=40&cropBox=1&c=1Youtube
/images/socialMedia/Flickr.pngFlickr
/images/logo-saffire.pngPowered by Saffire

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Let's Meet
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (10 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Let's Meet
H1 Garland's Got Deals.
H1 Contact Us
H2 SITE MAP
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 7 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.visitgarlandtx.com/No Text
/businesses/things-to-doThings to Do
/visitor-centerVisitor Center
https://www.downtowngarlandtx....New window External Subdomain Downtown Garland
/cowboy-hat-capital-of-texasNew window Cowboy Hat Capital of Texas
/eventsEvents
/p/things-to-do/10-reasons-to-...10 Reasons to Visit Garland
/music-made-hereMusic Made Here
/p/things-to-do/garland-for-ch...Garland for Christmas
/p/things-to-do/garland-histor...Garland History GeoTour
/p/things-to-do/veronica-on-th...Veronica on the Go
/p/info/travel-instructionsNew window Maps & Travel Info
/businesses/hotelsPlaces To Stay
/p/eventsText duplicate Events
/p/events/2025-featured-events2025 Featured Events
/businesses/restaurantRestaurants
/p/restaurants/cuisinesTaste the Flavor&nbsp&nbsp&gt
/businesses/restaurant/americanAmerican
/businesses/restaurant/barbecueBBQ
/businesses/restaurant/burgersBurgers
/businesses/restaurant/coffee-...Coffee House
/businesses/restaurant/dessertDesserts/Bakery
/businesses/restaurant/downtow...Downtown Dining
/businesses/restaurant/italianItalian / Pizza
/businesses/restaurant/mexicanMexican
/businesses/restaurant/pubgrillPub / Wings
/businesses/restaurant/sandwic...Sandwich / Deli
/businesses/restaurant/seafoodSeafood
/p/restaurants/garland-tamale-...Garland Tamale Trail
/p/restaurants/garland-pho-rea...Garland Pho Real Trail
/p/restaurants/the-garlandrita...The GarlandRita Tour
/p/restaurants/locationsLocations&nbsp&nbsp&gt
/businesses/restaurant/?t=bass...Bass Pro Area
/businesses/restaurant/?t=down...Downtown Area
/businesses/restaurant/?t=fire...Firewheel Area
/businesses/shoppingShopping
/businesses/shopping?t=downtow...Text duplicate Downtown Area
/businesses/shopping/?t=firewh...Text duplicate Firewheel Area
/p/infoVenues
/p/about-garland/lets-meetLet's Meet
/p/info/you-are-key-to-convent...You are Key to Conference Business
/p/info/travel-instructionsTravel Instructions
/p/other/blogBlog
/p/other/visit-garland-wins-th...Visit Garland Wins Three First-Place Awards at Destinations Texas Annual Co
/p/other/garlands-festival-sea...Garland's Festival Season Kicks Off
/p/other/downtown-square-grand...Downtown Square Grand Opening – A Day to Remember!
/p/other/a-vibrant-celebration...A Vibrant Celebration of Garland's Día de los Muertos
/p/other/magical-memories-a-re...Magical Memories from Garland's Christmas on the Square
/p/other/celebrating-excellenc...Celebrating Excellence: Garland's Special Events and Cultural Arts Teams
/p/imgoing-page-xmlIndex Page
https://www.facebook.com/visit...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/visi...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Youtube
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Flickr
https://www.visitgarlandtx.com/Home
/businesses/things-to-doText duplicate Things to Do
/businesses/hotelsText duplicate Places To Stay
/p/eventsText duplicate Events
/businesses/restaurantText duplicate Restaurants
/businesses/shoppingText duplicate Shopping
/p/infoText duplicate Venues
/p/other/blogText duplicate Blog
/p/imgoing-page-xmlText duplicate Index Page
/contact.aspxContact
/sitemap.aspxSite Map
/privacy-terms-cookiesPrivacy, Terms & Cookies
https://www.garlandtx.gov/New window External Subdomain No Text
http://www.saffire.com/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Powered by Saffire
https://www.visitgarlandtx.com/Anchor Back to Top
/p/34Tickets & Deals
/directions.aspxHours & Directions
/contact.aspxText duplicate Contact
/sitemap.aspxText duplicate Site Map
/privacy-terms-cookiesText duplicate Privacy, Terms & Cookies
/purchase-policyPurchase Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.visitgarlandtx.com/"
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 is very slow (2.57 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (90 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
varyOrigin,Accept-Encoding
cache-controlprivate
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-encodinggzip
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000;
content-security-policydefault-src * 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' data: blob:;
dateTue, 02 Dec 2025 02:01:08 GMT
access-control-max-age86400
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
set-cookie52 Characters
x-ua-compatibleIE=Edge
access-control-allow-headersAccess-Control-Allow-Origin,Authorization,Origin,X-Requested-With,Content-Type,Content-Range,Content-Disposition,Content-Description,Accept
access-control-allow-methodsOPTIONS, GET, HEAD, POST
content-length31581
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 53 referring domains.
This page has 288 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 50 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /

User-agent: dotbot
Crawl-delay: 10

User-agent: *
Disallow: /undefined*
Disallow: *I_map.aspx*
Disallow: *I_emailevent.aspx*
Disallow: *I_emailbusiness.aspx*



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Visit Garland, TX
The Garland Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) is the destination marketing organization for the City of Garland, Texas. The CVB partners with hospitality and tourism stakeholders to position Garland as a destination for visitors, meetings, and events. Programs include marketing, advertising, media, and business development.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Garland80%Check
Visit Garland78%Check
Visit76%Check
Meet66%Check
Events51%Check
Texas51%Check
Business51%Check
Visitor51%Check
Tour51%Check
Deals43%Check
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