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Title

Groundwater | NGWA Home

Words count: 3 Unique Words: 3 Length: 23 characters
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Excellent! the title contains 1-12 words, and within 10-70 characters!

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2. put the most important and relevant keywords in the title, try not to repeat any word.
3. each individual page should have a unique title.

Description

Welcome to NGWA - The Groundwater Association. NGWA's vision is to be the leading groundwater association advocating the responsible development, management, and use of water.

Words count: 25 Length: 176 characters
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The description is too long! It has more than 160 characters

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2. a readable, compelling description using important keywords can draw a much higher click-through rate of searchers to the given web page.
3. avoid keyword stuffing, ensure each page has its own unique description.

Google SERP Preview

Groundwater | NGWA Home www.ngwa.org/
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2. make sure the description is relevant and properly summarized the page content.

Keywords

groundwater, hydrogeology, what is groundwater, ground water, water, drilling, wells, well owner, well water, aquifer, groundwater definition, groundwater contamination, groundwater pollution, association, NGWA, National Ground Water Association, membership, education, advocacy

Words count: 30 Length: 277 characters keyword phrases count : 19

The keywords contains more than 20 words!
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Keyword Occurrences in Different Sections
Word		keyword	content
1 word	:	58% (11/19)
		groundwater	0 (0%)
		hydrogeology	0 (0%)
		water	0 (0%)
		drilling	0 (0%)
		wells	0 (0%)
		aquifer	0 (0%)
		association	0 (0%)
		ngwa	0 (0%)
		membership	0 (0%)
		education	0 (0%)
		advocacy	0 (0%)
2 words	:	32% (6/19)
		ground water	0 (0%)
		well owner	0 (0%)
		well water	0 (0%)
		groundwater definition	0 (0%)
		groundwater contamination	0 (0%)
		groundwater pollution	0 (0%)
3 words	:	5% (1/19)
		what is groundwater	0 (0%)
4 words	:	5% (1/19)
		national ground water association	0 (0%)

Meta keywords should not be ignored, though they are not a major ranking factor for most of search engines nowadays. A Meta keywords tag is supposed to be a brief and concise list of the most important themes of your page

Tips:
1. keep your list of keywords or keyword phrases down to 10 - 20 unique words or phrases.
2. separate the words or phrases using a comma (you do not need to leave a space between words separated by commas).
3. do not repeat words or phrases.
4. put your most important word or phrases at the beginning of your list.

Keywords Cloud

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Top 20 Keywords

Total Terms Count: 843

It is nice! the word density is quite ok.

Top 20 terms occurance and density
Keyword	In Body	Density
groundwater	46	5.46%
ngwa	35	4.15%
water	19	2.25%
director	16	1.90%
issue	11	1.30%
aquifers	9	1.07%
manager	9	1.07%
president	8	0.95%
association	7	0.83%
resources	7	0.83%
ground	6	0.71%
national	6	0.71%
membership	6	0.71%
member	6	0.71%
contractors	6	0.71%
events	6	0.71%
industry	5	0.59%
webinar	5	0.59%
education	5	0.59%
papers	5	0.59%

keyword density can be used as a factor in determining whether a web page is relevant to a specified keyword or keyword phrase.

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1. the optimum keyword density to be 1.0% - 3.0%. Using a keyword more than that could be considered search spam.
2. overuse of keywords, a practice called keyword stuffing, will cause a web page to be penalized.

Highlight

<H1>	<H2>	<H3>	<H4>	<H5>	<H6>	<B>	<U>	<I>	<EM>	<STRONG>	Total
0	0	3	2	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	9

Excellent! The page is using HTML headings (<H1> - <H6>) and inline emphasis tags (<EM><B><I><EM><STRONG>)

<H3> (3)	NGWA HQ Staff NGWA Board Industry Closeup
<H4> (2)	Customer Service Headquarters
<I> (4)

HTML headings and emphasis tags are the most basic forms to indicate important content.

Tips:
1. use your keywords in the headings and make sure the first level heading (<H1>) includes the most important keywords.
2. never duplicate the title tag content in the heading tags.
3. for more effective SEO, use only one <H1> tag per page

Reading Level

3.5

The page text content is a bit too difficult to be read and understood!

Ensure your page content text can be read and understood by most of your site visitors. not too difficult nor too simple.

Tips:
1. a score below 30, indicates the text content is too difficult to be read and understood.
2. a sore above 80, may suggest that the site is lack of in-depth and expertise of its topics (low quality content).
3. an optimal reading level score shall be 50-70.

Language

en Excellent! the website declared its language in use.

the detected language is : en

Declare the language in use can help search engine to better understand and rendering your page, especially when special characters are encountered.

Page Encoding

utf-8 Excellent! the website declared its character encoding.

Declare the character encoding can help search engine to better rendering your page, especially when it comes to
non-asii characters.

Favicon

Excellent! the website has a shortcut favicon image.

RSS

the website does not have a RSS Feed.

Robots.txt

Robots.txt is not presented for the site.

Robots.txt file can be used to regulate access of search engine crawlers, properly configured robots.txt file can help
crawlers to better understand your website.

Tips:
1. grand robots access to those pages you wish them to crawl.
2. restrict access to those pages you do not wish search engines to see and crawl.

XML Sitemap

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Sitemap helps search engine crawler to identify your website pages.

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1. ensure all your important pages are listed in the sitemap.
2. ensure to indicate the frequency of change and importance of each url.
3. inform search engines of the location/URL of your sitemap (eg, For Google, you can set the website sitemap location through Google Webmaster management panel).

Loading Time

0.16 seconds - 157.64 Kb/s

Excellent! the site is pretty fast and it takes less than 1 second to load.

Estimated loading time for different internet connections
Modem (56Kbits/s)	Mobile/HSDPAM (7.2Mbits/s)	ADSL (8Mbits/s)	Cable (30Mbits/s)	Optical Fibre (100Mbits/s)
3.60 s	0.03 s	0.03 s	0.01 s	2.02 ms

Site speed is becoming an crucial ranking factor. Slow page loading is one of the biggest complains of web users. If the loading time is too long, you may need to check your server, network, or system codes and structure.

Tips:
1. ideal loading time is less than 1 seconds, if it take more than 5 seconds to load your site, likely users will run out of patience, so do search engines.
2. improve your SEO by optimizing your website to have a small size and faster responding server.

Total Size

25 Kb (25,222 bytes)

The page is a bit too small, it may not have enough relevant content to rank well!

Page size affects the speed of your website.

Tips:
1. try to keep you page size between 30K-150K
2. put javascript and style sheet in separate files, and link them to the main page.
3. use optimized images for web and set up your server with gzip for downloading

Text To Code Ratio

Total Size	Text Size	HTML Code Size	Text/HTML Code Ratio
25 Kb (25,222 bytes)	7 Kb (7,160 bytes)	18 Kb (18,062 bytes)	39.64 %

Excellent! the text to html code ratio is just nice, that is within 15%-70%!

the ratio of text to HTML code should always be above 15% for good SEO gain,
it is below 15% then that means that your website probably needs more text content.

Tips:
1. a ratio between 25% and 70% is ideal, when it goes beyond than that, the page might run the risk of being considered as spam. As long as the content is relevant and gives essential information, it is a plus point to have more of it.
2. improve your SEO by adding more relevant text to your pages and also increasing your keyword density.

Flash

Excellent! No flash component is detected on this page.

Flash content can not be properly indexed by search engines, and normally flash file is large in size, which slow down the loading of your page.

Tips:
1. avoid flash content whenever possible if you wish to have a fast and SEO friendly website.

Frame

Excellent! No frame is detected on this page.

Framesets and individual frames could cause problem for search engine to crawl your pages

Tips:
1. avoid frames whenever possible.
2. search engines do not like frames.
3. use iframe instead if you really have no choice.

Inline CSS

21 Inline CSS components are detected on this page.

It is a good practice to move inline CSS rules into an external CSS file in order to make your page lighter and increasing the text to code ratio.

Tips:
1. move inline css rules to external css file.
2. separate style from html.

Nested Table

Excellent! No nested table is detected on this page (nested table : 0, total table : 0)

nested tables could slow down page rendering and lead to bad user experience.

Tips:
1. avoiding <table> for your page layout.
2. using <div> instead of <table>.

Plain Text Email

1 Email Address (c**************@ngwa.org) was detected on this page.

Redirect Count

1 redirection was detected for loading this page.

Using HTTPS

Excellent! HTTPS is used for your page.

WWW Resolve

Excellent! the websites https://www.ngwa.org/ and http://ngwa.org are resolved to the same url :https://www.ngwa.org/

Search Engines treat URLs with or without "www" as two different records.

Tips:
1. edit your .htaccess file and permanently redirect one to the other (eg redirect www.mysite.com to mysite.com).

URL Rewrite

Non SEO Friendly URLs
https://my.ngwa.org/CommitteeMembersPage?CommitteeId=a0O5000000KDXqC
https://my.ngwa.org/_ui/core/chatter/groups/GroupProfilePage?g=0F9500000004aEL

You may use url rewrite techniques to make these 2 urls to be SEO friendly.

clean, short and relevant URLs are favoured by users and search engines

Tips:
1. use url rewrite to turn dynamic pages with query parameters into seo friendly static pages.
2. put your important keywords in the url.
3. good urls are not only user friendly but also seo friendly.

Underscore In URL

URLs with underscore
https://my.ngwa.org/_...oups/GroupProfilePage?g=0F9500000004aEL

You have 1 Urls with underscore.

Search Engines treat hyphen as word separator, they do not treat underscore as word separator.

Tips:
1. use hyphen "-" instead of underscore "_" to optimize your page url.
2. help search engines to better understand your url, eventually will benefit your page`s ranking.

Links

Internal Links (link to pages within this domain)	External Links (link to pages on other websites)	Total
238	8	246

Too many links (246), it may be considered as spam!

Internal Links (link to pages within this domain) - 238
URL	Anchor Text
http://ngwa.org/home
http://ngwa.org/store	Store
http://ngwa.org/about	About NGWA
http://ngwa.org/join	Join NGWA
http://ngwa.org/home/SignOut/	Logout
http://ngwa.org/members	Membership
http://ngwa.org/members/renew-your-membership	Renew Your Membership
http://ngwa.org/members/join-ngwa	Join NGWA
http://ngwa.org/members/join-ngwa/Contractors	Contractors
http://ngwa.org/members/join-ngwa/Scientists-and-engineers	Scientists and Engineers
http://ngwa.org/members/join-ngwa/Manufacturers	Manufacturers
http://ngwa.org/members/join-ngwa/Suppliers	Suppliers
http://ngwa.org/members/join-ngwa/Associates	Associates
http://ngwa.org/members/join-ngwa/Students	Students
http://ngwa.org/members/join-ngwa/early-career-professionals	Early Career Professionals
http://ngwa.org/membe...retired-emeritus-or-inactive-membership	Retired, Emeritus, or Inactive...
http://ngwa.org/members/member-benefits	Member Benefits
http://ngwa.org/members/member-benefits/Business-insurance	Insurance Programs
http://ngwa.org/membe...fits/member-benefits-from-ngwa-partners	Benefits from NGWA Partners
http://ngwa.org/membe...s/member-benefits/Resources-for-members	Business Resources for Members
http://ngwa.org/membe...dustry-reports-statistics-and-resources	Industry Reports and Statistic...
http://ngwa.org/membe...ety-related-organizations-and-societies	Safety-Related Resources
http://ngwa.org/membe...er-benefits/Industry-and-business-tools	Tools and Calculators
http://ngwa.org/membe...ber-benefits/contractor-resource-center	Contractor Resource Center
http://ngwa.org/members/member-discussion-forum	Members' Discussion Forum (Gro...
http://ngwa.org/members/awards	Membership Awards
http://ngwa.org/get-involved	Get Involved
http://ngwa.org/get-involved/advocacy	Water Policies, Issues, and Ad...
http://ngwa.org/get-i...-infrastructure-investment-and-jobs-act	Issue: Groundwater and The Inf...
http://ngwa.org/get-i...ed/advocacy/groundwater-and-pfas-policy	Issue: Groundwater and PFAS
http://ngwa.org/get-involved/advocacy/mandatory-hook-up	Issue: Mandatory Hook-Up
http://ngwa.org/get-i...dvocacy/managed-aquifer-recharge-policy	Issue: Managed Aquifer Recharg...
http://ngwa.org/get-i...dvocacy/united-states-geological-survey	Issue: United States Geologica...
http://ngwa.org/get-i...cacy/groundwater-sustainability-pollicy	Issue: Groundwater Sustainabil...
http://ngwa.org/get-i...-ground-water-monitoring-network-policy	Issue: National Ground-Water M...
http://ngwa.org/get-i...ing-and-functional-equivalent-discharge	Issue: Maui County v. Hawaii W...
http://ngwa.org/get-involved/advocacy/position-papers	Position Papers
http://ngwa.org/get-involved/fly-in-2025	NGWA and WQA Fly-In
http://ngwa.org/get-involved/groundwater-awareness-week	National Groundwater Awareness...
http://ngwa.org/foundation	Groundwater Foundation
http://ngwa.org/get-involved/NGWA-Volunteer-opportunities	NGWA Volunteer Opportunities
http://ngwa.org/get-i...ndwater-forum---member-discussion-group	Member Discussion Forum (Groun...
http://ngwa.org/get-i...ved/Groundwater-Modeling-Advisory-Panel	Groundwater Modeling Advisory ...
http://ngwa.org/get-i...lved/submit-an-abstract-or-presentation	Submit an Abstract or Presenta...
http://ngwa.org/get-involved/submit-a-paper-to-groundwater	Submit a Paper to Groundwater
http://ngwa.org/get-i...r-to-groundwater-monitoring-remediation	Submit a Paper to Groundwater ...
http://ngwa.org/get-involved/gwaw	National Groundwater Awareness...
http://ngwa.org/events-and-education	Events & Education
http://ngwa.org/events-and-education/ngwa's-event-calendar	NGWA's Event Calendar
http://ngwa.org/events-and-education/learning-center	NGWA Learning Center
http://ngwa.org/event...on/ngwa-member-exclusive-webinar-series	NGWA Member Exclusive Webinar ...
http://ngwa.org/event...groundwater-industry-calendar-of-events	Groundwater Industry Calendar ...
http://ngwa.org/events-and-education/open-calls	Open Calls for Presentations/S...
http://ngwa.org/events-and-education/groundwater-week	Groundwater Week
http://ngwa.org/events-and-education/groundwater-summit	Groundwater Summit
http://ngwa.org/event...ion/groundwater-foundation-scholarships	Groundwater Foundation Scholar...
http://ngwa.org/event...nd-education/groundwater-lecture-series	Groundwater Lecture Series
http://ngwa.org/events-and-education/ngwa-s-priority-issues	NGWA’s Priority Issues
http://ngwa.org/event...nd-education/team-and-student-discounts	Team and Student Discounts
http://ngwa.org/events-and-education/ngwa-event-policies	NGWA Event Policies
http://ngwa.org/event...ion/ngwa-webinar-and-virtual-event-faqs	NGWA Webinar and Virtual Event...
http://ngwa.org/events-and-education/students-and-educators	Students and Educators
http://ngwa.org/publications-and-news	Publications & News
http://ngwa.org/publi...nd-news/find-a-business-or-professional	NGWA Buyers Guides
http://ngwa.org/publi...s-or-professional/buyers-guide-listings	Find a Manufacturer or Supplie...
http://ngwa.org/publi...al/find-a-contractor-(on-wellowner.org)	Find a Contractor (on WellOwne...
http://ngwa.org/publi...onal/find-a-ngwa-certified-professional	Find an NGWA Certified Profess...
http://ngwa.org/publications-and-news/journals	Journals
http://ngwa.org/publications-and-news/journals/Groundwater	Groundwater
http://ngwa.org/publi...nals/groundwater-monitoring-remediation	Groundwater Monitoring & Remed...
http://ngwa.org/publi.../journals/ngwa-journals-on-wiley-online	NGWA Journals on Wiley Online
http://ngwa.org/publi...tions-and-news/journals/search-journals	NGWA's Journal Search
http://ngwa.org/publi...ns-and-news/journals/water-well-journal	Water Well Journal
http://ngwa.org/publications-and-news/bookstore	Bookstore
http://ngwa.org/publi...ons-and-news/ngwa-s-geothermal-retrofit	NGWA’s Geothermal Retrofit
http://ngwa.org/publications-and-news/wwj-videos	Water Well Journal Videos
http://ngwa.org/publications-and-news/Newsroom	Newsroom
http://ngwa.org/publi...s-and-news/Newsroom/press-releases-2024	Press Releases 2024
http://ngwa.org/publi...s-and-news/Newsroom/press-releases-2023	Press Releases 2023
http://ngwa.org/publi...s-and-news/Newsroom/press-releases-2022	Press Releases 2022
http://ngwa.org/publi...ions-and-news/Newsroom/news-and-updates	News and Updates
http://ngwa.org/publi...ions-and-news/industry-resource-library	Industry Resource Library
http://ngwa.org/publi...brary/Industry-best-suggested-practices	Best Suggested Practices
http://ngwa.org/publi...try-resource-library/information-sheets	Consumer Information Sheets
http://ngwa.org/publi...try-resource-library/information-briefs	Information Briefs
http://ngwa.org/publi...dustry-resource-library/position-papers	Position Papers
http://ngwa.org/publi.../industry-resource-library/White-papers	White Papers
http://ngwa.org/publi...ce-library/groundwater-use-in-the-u.s.a	Groundwater Use in the U.S.A.
http://ngwa.org/publications-and-news/ngwa-press	NGWA Press
http://ngwa.org/publications-and-news/publishing-honors	Publishing Honors
http://ngwa.org/publi...ions-and-news/advertising-opportunities	Advertising Opportunities
http://ngwa.org/publi...ns-and-news/covid-19-news-and-resources	COVID-19 News and Resources
http://ngwa.org/advance-your-career	Advance Your Career
http://ngwa.org/advance-your-career/certification	Certification
http://ngwa.org/advan.../certification/contractor-certification	For Contractors
http://ngwa.org/advan.../certification/Geothermal-driller-CVCLD	Geothermal Driller (CVCLD)
http://ngwa.org/advan...ification/contractor-certification-faqs	Certification FAQs
http://ngwa.org/advan...cation/promote-your-professional-status	Promote Your Professional Stat...
http://ngwa.org/advan...rectory-of-ngwa-certified-professionals	Directory of NGWA Certified Pr...
http://ngwa.org/advan...-your-career/contractor-state-licensing	Contractor State Licensing and...
...

External Links (link to pages on other websites) - 8
URL	Anchor Text
https://ngwabusinesspro.com/	Streamline Your Business Opera...
https://groundwaterweek.com/
http://www.wellowner.org/	WellOwner.org ...
http://www.facebook.com/ngwafb
http://twitter.com/ngwatweets
http://www.linkedin.c...groups?home=&gid=4204578&trk=anet_ug_hm
http://www.youtube.com/user/NGWATUBE
https://www.instagram.com/nationalgroundwater

reasonable number of links (below 100) per page will give a better user experience.

Tips:
1. keep the number of links per page below 100.
2. having more than 100 links in a single page will lead to a bad user experience, and it possibly runs into the risk of been considered as spam.
3. search engines may not follow all the links if you have too many of them in a single page.

Images

Total Images	Alt Present	Alt Missing
59	50	9

9 images do not have Alt values.

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https://www.ngwa.org/...source/default-album/staff/price_mike.jpg?sfvrsn=b3a25f18_6	Mike Price
https://www.ngwa.org/...ault-source/default-album/staff/daves.png?sfvrsn=f4196e79_0	Dave Schulenberg
https://www.ngwa.org/...ce/default-album/staff/stevens_deirdre.png?sfvrsn=db5d5b5_4	Stevens_Deirdre
https://www.ngwa.org/...ult-album/people/2025-ngwa-board/ward.png?sfvrsn=a134e1cc_2	ward
https://www.ngwa.org/...t-album/people/2025-ngwa-board/lipson.png?sfvrsn=724219db_2	lipson
https://www.ngwa.org/...-album/people/2025-ngwa-board/laborde.png?sfvrsn=1cb4549a_2	laborde
https://www.ngwa.org/...t-album/people/2025-ngwa-board/dillon.png?sfvrsn=5df2881a_2	dillon
https://www.ngwa.org/...ult-album/people/2025-ngwa-board/baker.png?sfvrsn=f08a2b3_2	baker
https://www.ngwa.org/...t-album/people/2025-ngwa-board/nelson.png?sfvrsn=87882269_2	nelson
https://www.ngwa.org/...lt-album/people/2025-ngwa-board/david.png?sfvrsn=655ec909_2	david
https://www.ngwa.org/...lbum/people/2025-ngwa-board/sebastian.png?sfvrsn=6fcc9e85_2	sebastian
https://www.ngwa.org/...t-album/people/2025-ngwa-board/massey.png?sfvrsn=40c21abf_2	massey
https://www.ngwa.org/...t-album/people/2025-ngwa-board/macias.png?sfvrsn=c500ce7f_2	macias
https://www.ngwa.org/...-album/people/2025-ngwa-board/beasley.png?sfvrsn=de8c865f_2	beasley
https://www.ngwa.org/...ult-album/people/2025-ngwa-board/kuhn.png?sfvrsn=a628af18_2	kuhn
https://www.ngwa.org/...-album/people/2025-ngwa-board/leggett.png?sfvrsn=264ab47b_2	leggett
https://www.ngwa.org/...-album/people/2025-ngwa-board/kellogg.png?sfvrsn=8da7f8dd_2	kellogg
https://www.ngwa.org/...ult-album/people/2025-ngwa-board/bach.png?sfvrsn=1c377351_2	bach
https://www.ngwa.org/...-album/people/2025-ngwa-board/boyette.png?sfvrsn=a6383d71_2	boyette
https://www.ngwa.org/...lt-album/people/2025-ngwa-board/traut.png?sfvrsn=6ce2d39c_2	traut
https://www.ngwa.org/...lt-album/people/2025-ngwa-board/keyes.png?sfvrsn=86b910f6_2	keyes
https://www.ngwa.org/...album/people/2025-ngwa-board/routhage.png?sfvrsn=eb300f5d_2	routhage
https://www.ngwa.org/...-source/default-album/rod-bartholomew.png?sfvrsn=c887372f_1
http://ngwa.org/image...rce/default-album/ngwa-new-logo-white.png?sfvrsn=390edbab_0	NGWA new logo white
http://ngwa.org/image...urce/site-design/icons/icon-social-gw.png?sfvrsn=137dd90f_4	GW Forum
http://ngwa.org/image...ite-design/icons/icon-social-facebook.png?sfvrsn=74f26494_4	NGWA on Facebook
http://ngwa.org/image.../site-design/icons/icon-social-twitter.png?sfvrsn=1706284_4	NGWA on Twitter
http://ngwa.org/image...ite-design/icons/icon-social-linkedin.png?sfvrsn=4e90f873_4	NGWA on LinkedIn
http://ngwa.org/image...site-design/icons/icon-social-youtube.png?sfvrsn=33db53c3_4	NGWA on YouTube
http://ngwa.org/image...urce/site-design/icons/icon-social-ig.png?sfvrsn=f4df7709_8	NGWA on Instagram

search engines cannot `see` images, proper Alt content will help them to better understand and index images.

Tips:
1. always add alt attributes to images. Alt is mandatory for accessibility and for valid XHTML.
2. words used within an image`s Alt attribute should be its text equivalent and convey the same information.
3. use a human-readable caption and descriptive text around the image.

CSS

Style Block In Same Page	Links to External Style Files	Total
0	3	3

Excellent! all stylesheets are kept in separate files.

Links To External Stylesheet Files - 3
Stylesheet URL	rel	type
http://ngwa.org/Teler...df563%3aen%3a2ce015e2-e0b6-41fe-b4f7-9b0a2a9058b3%3a7a90d6a	stylesheet	text/css
http://ngwa.org/Style...s/NGWAMain/9fff3cee-1d6a-42a1-80cf-f9e07d3aa662?version=604	stylesheet	text/css
http://ngwa.org/Styles/RDCustom.css	stylesheet

Script

Scripts Block In Same Page	Links to External Script Files	Total
25	11	36

Too many (11) external scripts files , it will slow down the downlaoding.

Links To External Script Files - 11
Script URL	Type
	text/javascript
http://ngwa.org/WebRe...MkZC7v1EbSTWsnVRcsDtlgwrIIBeHA2-GaUvQ2&t=638628063619783110	text/javascript
http://ngwa.org/Teler...a95047a2c-8908-49e3-b68e-d249be89f134%3aea597d4b%3ab25378d2	text/javascript
http://ngwa.org/Scrip...y2Hx7cPnuR0A13AkFkHlHMApHFdlTwHhqcadyiGBAZ4b1Pt0&t=7a019d00	text/javascript
http://ngwa.org/Teler...3a798cebe8-3b44-4702-9a8f-a9ab2c571118%3a721addc%3a41f6c3a7	text/javascript
http://ngwa.org/Mvc/Scripts/RDLoginLogoutStatus/login-status.js	text/javascript
http://ngwa.org/Scripts/polyfills.min.js	text/javascript
http://ngwa.org/Scripts/lodash.custom.min.js	text/javascript
http://ngwa.org/Scripts/scripts.js	text/javascript
http://ngwa.org/Scripts/prism.min.js	text/javascript
https://kit.fontawesome.com/d792851f7e.js

put scripts together and link them from an external files rather then put them in the same file as the main page.

Tips:
1. reduce the use of in-page scripts, put them in separate files and link them in.
2. reduce the number of external script files, it will help browser to make lesser number of http requests from the server.
3. optimize or compress the script files to have smaller size and faster loading.

Blog Or News Release

Link to Blog / News Release Page
http://ngwa.org/publications-and-news	Publications & News

Excellent! we have found blog linked to your site.

Having a blog is a great way to provide fresh content and retain users, search engines favour it too.

Tips:
1. regularly update your blog and provide fresh and quality content.
2. relevant blogs of your website topics, generate more credits in the eyes of your visitors, as well as search engines.

DMOZ Listing

Yes

Excellent! the website is listed in the DMOZ open directory. DMOZ Open Directory Project

Google Analytics

UA-1468857-1 Excellent! the website implements Google Analytics.

Social Media Integration

Excellent! your site is well integrated with social media networks.

Facebook Page	http://www.facebook.com/ngwafb
Twitter Account	http://twitter.com/ngwatweets
Google+ Page	Not Found

Trustworthiness

0

No Trustworthiness Score is calculated for the site.

0 - 19	20 - 39	40 - 59	60 - 79	80 - 100
0
Very Poor	Poor	Unsatisfactory	Good	Excellent

Users are concerned about the safety of their online transactions. Trustworthiness rating is based on real user ratings and that tells you how much other users trust this site, so do the serch engines. note: this trustworthiness score is provided by WOT (Web of Trust).

Tips:
1. pay attention to the look and design of your site, many people look for visual cues when assessing a site`s credibility
2. make your site easy to use, sites that are easy to navigate are perceived as being more trustworthy.
3. make it easy for user to contact you, users will be more comfortable and feel more secured shall they need to get in touch with you.

Child Safe

0 No Child Safe Score is calculated for the site.

0 - 19	20 - 39	40 - 59	60 - 79	80 - 100
0
Very Poor	Poor	Unsatisfactory	Good	Excellent

Safe Browsing

Safe! the site ngwa.org is NOT currently listed as suspicious, most-likely it is clean from malware and phining code [ verify this by Google Safe Browsing ]

Ensure that your site is malware free and does not cause harm to users` computers.

Tips:
1. do not put virus, malicious worms, adwares, trojans, spywares and suspicious phishing code in your server.
2. take suspicious behaviours seriously, have a regular check-up and monitor closely of your server`s log files.
3. if your site is black-listed by Google as suspicious, clean it up before requesting for a review.

Traffic Rank

Your site is not among the most visited 1 million websites in the world.

Websites On Same Server

Excellent! You domain ngwa.org is the only one hosted on the server (ip : 100.27.62.44).

Too many domains hosted on the same server is an indicator that you are not really serious about your website, and your site will have a higher chance to be surrounded by bad neighbours.

Tips:
1. the fewer domains hosted on the same server/ip the better.
2. avoid shared hosting whenever possible, especially when there are already hundreds or thousands of sites are hosted on the same server.
3. dedicated ip or resources for your site not only do good to your site visitors but also favoured by search engines.

Server Location

your server (IP : 100.27.62.44) is located at United States

ensure your server is not located far away from most of your site visitors.

HTTP Compression

No

your website server does not support HTTP Compression.

Caching

No

your website server does not support Caching.

Server Signature

Excellent! the website server signature is off.

A secure and safe server is not only good for your site visitors but also good for search engines.

Tips:
1. server software version information can be utilized by malicious visitors to attack your server.
2. by turning off the server signature, you actually have made your server a little bit more secure.
3. for Apache server - edit the apache2.conf or the .htaccess file to turn server signature off.

Domain Age

27 years, 303 days old ( 1st registered on : 1997-07-12 )

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excellent, the domain age is old enough.

Domain Expires

3 years, 59 days from today ( expires on : 2028-07-10 )

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excellent, the domain is not expiring too soon.

Domain Info

ngwa.org ( 8 characters )

Domain Registrar : Public Interest Registry

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Domain Created On	Last Modified On	Expires On
1997-07-12	1997-07-12	2028-07-10
27 years, 303 days old	27 years, 303 days ago	3 years, 59 days from today

27 years, 303 days old

Domain Name Servers used by ngwa.org
DNS Name	IP Address
ns65.domaincontrol.com	97.74.102.43
ns66.domaincontrol.com	173.201.70.43

You have a nice choice of domain name, which is of a right length (8 characters).

domain name choice and domain age are crucial for SEO.

Tips:
1. keep the domain name short and relevant to the content, which will be easier to be remembered and related to.
2. older domain tends to be more trustworthy.
3. register a domain for more than 1 year, and search engine will think it is a serious business.

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