railroads.dot.gov website review
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Most important optimization pointers for railroads.dot.gov
This is a prioritized list for railroads.dot.gov of the issues, ordered ascending, and starting with the biggest quick wins for your website. The biggest quick win is the opportunity that requires the least effort to implement compared to the optimization payoff in effect.
Improve the relevance of the meta description
Improve the length of the meta description
Combine all CSS files
railroads.dot.gov is 71% geoptimaliseerd!
SEO Keyword summary for railroads.dot.gov
Keywords are extracted from the main content of your website and are the primary indicator of the words this page could rank for. By frequenty count we expect your focus keyword to be fra
Focus keyword
Short and long tail
Short Tail Keywords fra safety rail |
long Tail Keywords (2 words) bipartisan infrastructure safety data infrastructure law us department safety resources |
long Tail Keywords (3 words) department of transportation rail safety resources bipartisan infrastructure law policies and notices federal railroad administration 19 2024federal railroad fy22 cid selected |
railroads.dot.gov On-Page SEO Scan
Descriptive Elements
The <head> element of a railroads.dot.gov page is used to inform the browser and visitors of the page about the general meta information. The head section of the page is where we place the page title, the definition of the HTML version used, the language of in which the page is written. In the head section we can also include JavaScript and CSS (markup) files for the page.
Page title
Title length
united states department transportation
Meta description
Meta description legth
Meta description SEO
enabling safe reliable efficient movement people goods
Content SEO
Number of Words
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Headings
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Heading normalisation
Heading SEO impact
Emphasis (bold and italic)
Emphasis SEO impact
Images
Number of images
Images dimensions
Image alt descriptions
Images SEO impact
flag official government icon secure site home read fra safety bulletin conductor struck railcar gravity switching yard see fras grants calendar rail resources state local governments
Mobile SEO railroads.dot.gov
Mobile rendering
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Mobile optimizations
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No flash detected !
Mobile improvement
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Marketing / lead generation for railroads.dot.gov
Social Media
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Conversion form
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Analytics
Online presence
SERP Preview
SERP Title
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Domain Level SEO
Domain name
17 characters long
Domain name SEO Impact
gov found in domain name !
rail found in domain name !
railroad found in domain name !
Structured data
Publisher Markup
Other Structured data
Website configuration
Correct processing of non-existing pages?
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Navigation and internal links
Navigation
Url seperator
Human readable urls
Number of links
Link SEO Impact
about-fra about fra
organizational chart
program offices
contact us
reporter
governmental affairs
fra faqs
leadership profiles
readout of us department of transportation visit to key infrastructure and inspection sites on the northeast corridor
federal railroad administrations final accident report on norfolk southern derailment in east palestine reaches similar conclusions as ntsb and supports usdots continued calls for safety improvements and need for congress to act
fra makes available 153 million in funding to initiate restore and enhance intercity passenger rail services
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elibrary rd current projects
fras cy24 grants calendar
railroad capital project guidance
read fra safety bulletin 202405 conductor struck by railcar while gravity switching in a yard
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grants-loans grants and financial assistance
fra discretionary grant program tool
applying for grants
resources for grant recipients
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highway-rail-crossing rail safety resources for state and local governments
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highway-rail-crossing-and-trespasser-programs grade crossing safety trespass prevention
rail safety resources for law enforcement and first responders
rail safety resources for pedestrians and motorists
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legislation fast act
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legislation-regulations overview
civil penalties
regulations rulemaking
buy america
proactive disclosure
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newsroom press releases
speeches
fact sheets
testimony
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office-administrator fra civil rights
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passenger-rail amtrak
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program-areas close call reporting
broad agency announcement
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rail-network-development overview
environmental reviews
passenger rail
freight rail
environment
international
training guidance
national rail plan
proposed state rail plan
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railroad-safety request or create a quiet zone
rail share
highhazard flammable train route assessment
accident data reporting investigations
divisions
partnerships programs
file an alleged violation
safety management teams
fra secure area
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railroads.dot.gov resource center
web policies and notices
bipartisan infrastructure law
visit the newsroom
overview
rural
fra webinars
grant programs
fra elibrary
accidents fatalities
conferences presentations
emergency safety
enforcement litigation
publications policy
safety data
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research-development overview
hazardous materials
highwayrail grade crossing
program areas
rd reports
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resource-center make a foia request
doing business with fra
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train-control positive train control
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Links to external pages
Outloing links
www.fra.dot.gov
safetydata.fra.dot.gov
www.transportation.gov
storymaps.arcgis.com
safetydata.fra.dot.gov
public.govdelivery.com
www.facebook.com
www.youtube.com
rsac.fra.dot.gov
www.amtrak.com
www.oli.org
www.transportation.gov
www.transportation.gov
www.transportation.gov
www.transportation.gov
www.transportation.gov
www.usa.gov
www.transportation.gov
www.transportation.gov
www.transportation.gov
SEO Advice for railroads.dot.gov
In this section we provide pointers on how you can to optimize your web page so it can be found more easily by search engines and how to make it rank higher by optimizing the content of the page itself. For each of the individual criteria the maximum score is 100%. A score below 70% is considered to be indication that the page is not complying with general SEO standards and should be evaluated and/or fixed. Not every factor is weighted the same and some are not as important as others. Relatively unimportant factors like meta keywords are not included in the overall score.
Item | Factor | Pointers | |
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PageTitle | 100% | Far too many sites lack a page title. A page title is the first thing that shows in the search results so always use the title element. | |
Title relevance | 98% | A title should reflect the contents of a site. This site has a 75 % match | |
Title Length | 100% | Limit your title to anywhere between 40 and 70 characters. Your title was 43 characters long | |
Meta Description | 100% | A meta description is the second element that shows in the search results so always use the meta description. | |
Meta description length | 60% | The meta description should be between 145 and 160 characters. This meta description is 73 characters long. | |
Meta description relevance | 0% | Meta Description should reflect the contents of a site. This site has a 0 % match | |
Number of internal links | 85% | Linking to internal pages makes pages easier to find for search engines. Try to keep the number of links on your page roughly below 100. There are 110 internal links on this page. | |
Folder structure | 100% | We found a folder structure in the links on your page. A good folder structure makes a site easier to navigate. We found 16 level 1 folders and 47 folders above or in the first level of navigation. | |
Headings | 71% | Headers should reflect the contents of a site. This site has a 31 % match | |
Links | 26% | Link anchors should to some degree reflect the contents of a site. This site has a 13 % match | |
Image alt tags | 76% | Image alt tags should to some degree reflect the contents of a site. This site has a 27 % match | |
Bold and italic | 100% | Bold and italic tags should reflect the contents of a site to some degree. This site has a 80 % match | |
Html ratio | 60% | Try to keep the html / text ratio as low as possible. More html means longer loading times. Layout should be handled in a serpate css file | |
Image descriptions | 58% | 58.333333333333 % of all images have been described via the "alt" attribute. Describing images with relevant text may lead to better results in the search engines. | |
Page errors | 100% | Pages with no errors display significantly faster on most browsers. We detected 0 errors and warnings | |
WordCount | 90% | An ideal page contains between 400 and 600 words.This page contains 601 words | |
Server response time | 30% | A slow server slows down a website. This server responds 15.61% slower the average | |
Gzip Compression | 100% | This site uses Gzip compression to display faster | |
Keywords in Domainname | 100% | There are important keywords in your domain name | |
Structured Data | 100% | Structured data makes it easier for search engines to index your website | |
Inline css | 93% | Do not use inline css declarations. Inline css will slow down the rendering of the website. We detected 2 inline style declarations ( <a style="color:green">) with a size of 152 bytes | |
Excessive use of the same words | 100% | There is no indication that there are one or more keywords that are used excessively. | |
Frames or iframes | 100% | Perfect, detected not (i)frames on your webpagina | |
Flash | 100% | Perfect, we detected no flash objects on your page | |
Css | 30% | We detected too much (7) CSS files on your page. Css files block the loading of a webpage. | |
Javascript | 30% | Wij detected too much (11) blocking JavaScript files. Try to combine or defer the loading of JavaScript files | |
Mobile Website | 100% | Perfect, we found a responsive design for mobile users | |
Most important heading | 100% | Perfect, we detected a correct use of the most important (h1) heading! | |
Normalized headings | 100% | Perfect, we found a correct use of normalized headings ! |
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railroads.dot.gov images and descriptions
12 images found at railroads.dot.gov Images can improve the user experience for a website by making a pag visually appealing Images can also add extra keyword relevance to a webpage by using alt tags. Images can also slow down a website. If the width and height for a picture is not specified for a browser know in advance how large the image is. A browser must first load the picture and see before it knows how much space should be on the page. Upon reservation In the meantime, the browser can do little but wait. When the height and width for the plate are given in the HTML code, a browser just continues to build for a page while the images load in the background.
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