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Title

Home

Words count: 1 Unique Words: 1 Length: 4 characters
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The title is too short! that has less than 10 characters.

The title will be displayed in search engine results in the form of a direct link to the site.

Tips:
1. ideally, the title should contain 10 to 70 characters, including spaces. (Google displays up to 70 characters in the title, and takes into account only the first 12 words.)
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

Words count: 0 Length: 0 characters
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Meta Description is not set.

Meta Descriptions provide concise explanations of the contents of web pages, that are commonly used by search engines on search result pages to display preview snippets for a given page.

Tips:
1. it is best to keep meta descriptions between 70-160 characters.
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

Home www.mt.gov/

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Page description is missing.

an optimized SERP snippet will have a higher click through rate.

Tips:
1. make sure the title is clear, simple, straight to the point.
2. make sure the description is relevant and properly summarized the page content.

Keywords

Words count: 0 Length: 0 characters keyword phrases count : 0

Meta Keywords is not set.
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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

This keywords cloud gives your an idea of what are those important keywords appears in your website.

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Top 20 Keywords

Total Terms Count: 621

It is nice! the word density is quite ok.

Top 20 terms occurance and density
Keyword	In Body	Density
montana	50	8.05%
business	10	1.61%
services	10	1.61%
court	9	1.45%
portal	6	0.97%
agency	6	0.97%
view	6	0.97%
city	6	0.97%
representatives	6	0.97%
telephone	5	0.81%
numbers	5	0.81%
search	5	0.81%
education	5	0.81%
gallery	5	0.81%
governor	5	0.81%
contact	5	0.81%
senate	5	0.81%
resources	4	0.64%
center	4	0.64%
office	4	0.64%

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

Tips:
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
1	3	12	8	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	28

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

<H1> (1)	MONTANA.GOV
<H2> (3)	Site maintained by: About Montana Directories
<H3> (12)	FEATURED RESOURCES NEWS RELEASES GOVERNOR GREG GIANFORTE INTERACTIVE MAPS CITY, COUNTY & STATE CONTACTS WEATHER U.S. SENATE U.S. House of Representatives Montana Legislature Judicial Branch VIDEO GALLERY PHOTO GALLERY
<H4> (8)	CITY COUNTY STATE State Senate State House of Representatives Additional Information MY VOTER PAGE INTRODUCING THE FIRST NATIONS OF MONTANA TO THE WORLD
<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

0

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

http://mt.gov/sitemap.xml Excellent! the website has a XML Sitemap to guide search engine crawlers for indexing its pages.
[ To generate XML sitemap, Use this XML Sitemap Generator ]

Sitemap helps search engine crawler to identify your website pages.

Tips:
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

1.03 seconds - 71.76 Kb/s

Excellent! the loading speed is pretty fast!

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)
10.56 s	0.08 s	0.07 s	0.02 s	5.91 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

74 Kb (73,912 bytes)

Excellent! the page size is just nice, that is within 30K-150K!

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
74 Kb (73,912 bytes)	5 Kb (5,044 bytes)	69 Kb (68,868 bytes)	7.32 %

The Text/HTML Code Ratio is a bit too low, you may not have enough content to rank well!

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

47 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

Excellent! No Plain Text Email is 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

the websites http://www.mt.gov and http://mt.gov DOES NOT resolved to the same url.

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).

IP Canonicalization

Excellent! IP address of the site http://161.7.35.25 is forwarded to its domain name site https://www.mt.gov/.

URL Rewrite

Non SEO Friendly URLs
https://app.mt.gov/cal/html/event/statewide?viewtype=2
https://app.mt.gov/cal/html/event/statewide?viewtype=2
https://mslservices...ps/Gallery/MapViewer.aspx?id=9158c7d15bd34025a702707bf8a0951f
http://courts.mt.gov/?source=mtgovSectionHeading
https://app.mt.gov/voterinfo/?source=mtgovVoterImage

You may use url rewrite techniques to make these 5 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
http://mt.gov/residents/state_newspapers.html
http://mt.gov/govt/elected_officials.html
https://leg.mt.gov/bills/mca/title_0000/chapters_index.html
http://mt.gov/about_montana.html
https://mslservices....aspx?id=9158c7d15bd34025a702707bf8a0951f
http://mt.gov/govt/elected_officials.html
http://mt.gov/use_of_google_analytics.html
https://uiclaimant.mt.gov/TUP/Claimant/_/
https://mt.gov/govt/elected_officials

You have 9 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
159	42	201

Too many links (201), it may be considered as spam!

Internal Links (link to pages within this domain) - 159
URL	Anchor Text
http://mt.gov/employment.html	EMPLOYMENT
https://statecareers.mt.gov	STATE CAREERS
https://dli.mt.gov/job-seekers	JOB SEEKER RESOURCES
https://wsd.dli.mt.gov	INFORMATION AND RESOURCES
https://uiclaimant.mt.gov/	MONTANA JOB SERVICE RESOURCES
https://statecareers.mt.gov
http://mt.gov/residents	RESIDENTS
https://my.mt.gov	INTERACT WITH YOUR STATE GOVER...
https://statecareers.mt.gov/	EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
https://sos.mt.gov/Elections/Vote/index.asp	VOTER INFORMATION
https://doj.mt.gov/consumer	CONSUMER PROTECTION
https://sitsd.mt.gov/Cybersecurity/Resources/	INFORMATION SECURITY
http://mt.gov/residents/state_newspapers.html	MONTANA NEWSPAPERS
https://news.mt.gov	MONTANA NEWSROOM
https://housing.mt.gov/Homeownership/	HOMEOWNERSHIP PROGRAMS
https://mvdmt.gov/	DRIVER SERVICES
https://ceic.mt.gov/	CENSUS INFORMATION
http://mt.gov/business/	BUSINESS
https://business.mt.gov	MONTANA'S BUSINESS PORTAL
https://sbdc.mt.gov/	SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CEN...
https://sosmt.gov/business/	SECRETARY OF STATE BUSINESS SE...
https://wsd.dli.mt.gov	WORKFORCE SERVICES DIVISION
https://my.mt.gov	BUSINESS ONLINE SERVICES
https://vendor.mt.gov	ONESTOP VENDOR INFORMATION
https://revenue.mt.gov/home/businesses.aspx	BUSINESS TAX INFORMATION
https://my.mt.gov	ONLINE SERVICES
http://mt.gov/government.html	GOVERNMENT
http://mt.gov/govt/agencylisting.html	AGENCY WEBSITES
http://mt.gov/employee	EMPLOYEE ACCESS
https://leg.mt.gov/bills/mca/index.html	MONTANA CODE ANNOTATED (MCA)
https://rules.mt.gov/	ADMINISTRATIVE RULES OF MONTAN...
http://mt.gov/govt/capitolcomplexmap.html	CAPITOL COMPLEX MAP
https://gov.mt.gov/...ocuments/GovernorsOffice/executiveorders/	EXECUTIVE ORDERS
https://directory.mt.gov/govt/state-dir/agency/	AGENCY TELEPHONE LISTINGS
https://directory.mt.gov/govt/state-dir/city/	STATE TELEPHONE NUMBERS BY CIT...
https://directory.mt.gov/govt/state-dir/tollfree	TOLL-FREE TELEPHONE NUMBERS
https://svc.mt.gov/doa/pubdir/	STATE EMPLOYEE DIRECTORY SEARC...
http://mt.gov/SocialMedia.html	SOCIAL MEDIA INDEX
https://app.mt.gov/cal/html/event/statewide?viewtype=2	ECALENDAR
http://mt.gov/govt/elected_officials.html	STATEWIDE ELECTED OFFICIALS
https://sos.mt.gov/Elections/Parties/	MONTANA POLITICAL PARTIES
https://leg.mt.gov/bills/mca/title_0000/chapters_index.html	MONTANA CONSTITUTION
https://searchcourts.mt.gov	SUPREME COURT OPINIONS
https://dojmt.gov/agooffice/attorney-generals-opinions/	ATTORNEY GENERAL OPINIONS
https://formergovernors.mt.gov/	FORMER GOVERNORS
https://app.mt.gov/cal/html/event/statewide?viewtype=2
http://mt.gov/visiting.html	VISITING
https://stateparks.mt.gov	STATE PARKS
https://fwp.mt.gov	HUNTING AND FISHING
https://fwp.mt.gov/recreation	RECREATION
https://mdt.mt.gov/publications/maps.aspx	MONTANA MAPS
https://mdt.mt.gov/travinfo/	ROAD CONDITIONS
https://mhs.mt.gov	MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
https://montanaheritagecommission.mt.gov	MONTANA HERITAGE COMMISSION
http://mt.gov/about_montana.html	ABOUT MONTANA
https://ceic.mt.gov	CENSUS & ECONOMIC INFORMATION ...
https://mhs.mt.gov	MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
https://mslservices.mt.gov/aspen/	LIBRARY DIRECTORY
https://leg.mt.gov/	MONTANA LEGISLATURE FACTS AND ...
https://formergovernors.mt.gov/	FORMER GOVERNORS
http://mt.gov/education.html	EDUCATION
https://www.opi.mt.gov	K – 12 EDUCATION
https://dphhs.mt.gov/ecfsd/childcare/	EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES BUREA...
https://bpe.mt.gov/	BOARD OF PUBLIC EDUCATION
https://msl.mt.gov/	MONTANA STATE LIBRARY
https://mhs.mt.gov/research/	MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY RES...
https://msl.mt.gov/
https://sosmt.gov/elections/results/'	Election Results
https://tap.dor.mt.gov/	File Your Tax Return or Where'...
https://tap.dor.mt.gov/	File Upload for W-2s, 1099s & ...
https://uiclaimant.mt.gov/	File an Unemployment Claim
https://mvdmt.gov/renew-license-id	Online Driver License Renewal
https://svc.mt.gov/dor/educationdonation2/	Education Donation Portal
https://statecareers.mt.gov/	Search for a Job
https://boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/	Renew your Professional Licens...
https://fwp.mt.gov/hunting/licenses/	Hunting Information
https://biz.sosmt.gov/	Register A Business
https://app.mt.gov/conweb	Search for Convicted Felons
https://svc.mt.gov/msl/mtcadastral/	Search for Property Informatio...
https://www.mdt.mt.gov/travinfo/mobile.aspx	MDT Mobile
https://news.mt.gov/	NEWS RELEASES
https://governor.mt.gov/	GOVERNOR GREG GIANFORTE
https://governor.mt.gov/
https://budget.mt.gov/Budgets/	Budget for the 2025 Biennium
http://business.mt.gov/	Business Portal
http://transparency.mt.gov/	Transparency in Government
http://data.mt.gov/	Montana Data Portal
https://svc.mt.gov/gov/contact/shareopinion	Contact the Governor
http://mt.gov/mediagallery.html#mapgallery	INTERACTIVE MAPS
https://mslservices....aspx?id=9158c7d15bd34025a702707bf8a0951f
http://mt.gov/mediagallery.html#mapgallery	View Gallery
https://directory.mt.gov/govt/state-dir/city	Agency Phone Numbers by City
http://mt.gov/govt/agencylisting.html	Agency Websites
https://directory.mt.gov/govt/state-dir/agency	Agency Phone Numbers
http://pubdir.mt.gov/	Employee Directory
http://governor.mt.gov/	Office of the Governor
https://leg.mt.gov/legislator-information/	Contacting Legislators
http://www.mdt.mt.gov/travinfo/	Check Road Conditions
http://leg.mt.gov	Montana Legislature
https://leg.mt.gov/senate/	State Senate
...

External Links (link to pages on other websites) - 42
URL	Anchor Text
https://www.getlostmt.com	FIND AND SHARE YOUR FAVORITE P...
https://newslink.org/mttele.html	MONTANA TV STATIONS
https://newslink.org/mtradi.html	MONTANA RADIO STATIONS
https://www.w3newspapers.com/usa/montana-magazines	MONTANA MAGAZINES
https://www.montanarealtors.org	MONTANA ASSOCIATION OF REALTOR...
https://mtrevenue.gov/taxes/	STATE INCOME TAX INFORMATION
https://www.mwtc.org	MONTANA WORLD TRADE CENTER
https://www.sba.gov	U.S. SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRA...
https://stats.bls.gov/eag/eag.mt.htm	U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTIC...
https://fundingmt.org/	MONTANA GRANT AND LOAN PORTAL
https://marketmt.com/	MONTANA OFFICE OF TOURISM AND ...
https://www.montanafilm.com	MONTANA FILM OFFICE
https://www.madeinmontanausa.com	MADE IN MONTANA
https://www.visitmt.com/	OFFICIAL STATE TRAVEL SITE
https://www.nps.gov/state/mt/index.htm?program=parks	NATIONAL PARKS
https://www.visitmt...-to-do/history/lewis-and-clark-trail.html	ON THE LEWIS AND CLARK TRAIL
https://www.visitmt.com/things-to-do/winter-activities	WINTER RECREATION
https://www.visitmt.com/
https://montanakids.com	MONTANA KIDS SITE
https://www.visitmt.com/	VISIT MONTANA
https://www.visitmt.com/
https://applymontan...a-college/explore-all-colleges/index.html	MONTANA UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
https://www.msdbmustangs.org/	MONTANA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF & ...
https://montanadigitalacademy.org	MONTANA DIGITAL ACADEMY
https://montanakids.com	MONTANA KIDS SITE
https://mus.edu/index.html	BOARD OF REGENTS
https://mus.edu/che/	COMMISSIONER OF HIGHER EDUCATI...
https://www.mycacademy.org/	MONTANA YOUTH CHALLENGE ACADEM...
https://mtrealid.gov/	Montana REAL ID
https://mt.vitu.com/driver	Driver History Records
http://www.mtleague.org/	Montana League of Cities and T...
http://www.mtcounties.org/	Montana Association of Countie...
http://www.mtcounti...tion/montana-counties-contact-information	County Contact Information
http://www.tester.senate.gov/	Senator Jon Tester
http://www.daines.senate.gov/	Senator Steve Daines
https://rosendale.house.gov/	Representative Matt Rosendale
https://zinke.house.gov	Representative Ryan Zinke
https://www.visitmt.com/	Visit Montana
https://mt.vitu.com/mvdyourway/vrguest/renewal
https://mt.vitu.com/driver
https://doj.egovmt.com/choprs/
https://www.visitmt.com/	Visit Montana

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
42	26	16

16 images do not have Alt values.

Image URL - 42
URL	ALT Text
http://mt.gov/_images/navbar/employment.jpg	Montana State Job Listings ico...
http://mt.gov/_images/navbar/residents.jpg	Montana Cadastral Mapping Appl...
http://mt.gov/_images/navbar/ecalendar.jpg	Montana State Seal
http://mt.gov/_images/navbar/about.jpg	icon of a map with a magnifiyi...
http://mt.gov/_images/navbar/about.jpg	icon of a map with a magnifiyi...
http://mt.gov/_images/navbar/education.png	Montana State Library icon
http://mt.gov/_images/index-gianforte.jpg	Image of Governor Greg Gianfor...
http://mt.gov/_images/mtmap.png	Interactive map
http://mt.gov/_images/Tester.jpg	Portrait of Jon Tester
http://mt.gov/_images/daines.jpg	Portrait of Steve Daines
http://mt.gov/_images/rosendale.jpg	Portrait of Matt Rosendale
http://mt.gov/_images/ryan-zinke-web.jpg	Portrait of Ryan Zinke
http://mt.gov/_images/vote_lg.png	My Voter Page
http://mt.gov/_images/118317868HQ_playbtn.jpg	video thumbnail
http://mt.gov/_images/media-gallery/fp_photo_gallery/bear.jpg	Bear in the wild
http://mt.gov/_images/media-gallery/fp_photo_gallery/boat_on_water.jpg	Boat in the water
http://mt.gov/_images/media-gallery/fp_photo_gallery/Bob-Webster-photo.jpg	Two men sitting on a rock over...
http://mt.gov/_images/media-gallery/fp_photo_gallery/dirt_road.jpg	Horizon view on a dirt road
http://mt.gov/_images/media-gallery/fp_photo_gallery/flowers_on_canoe.jpg	Flowers on a canoe
http://mt.gov/_images/media-gallery/fp_photo_gallery/gov_mansion.jpg	Governors Home
http://mt.gov/_images/media-gallery/fp_photo_gallery/manskiing.jpg	A man downhill skiing
http://mt.gov/_images/media-gallery/fp_photo_gallery/person_on_bike.jpg	Man on a bike cycling through ...
http://mt.gov/_images/media-gallery/fp_photo_gallery/teepee.jpg	The poles set up for a teepee
http://mt.gov/_images/icons/realid_150x150.png
http://mt.gov/_images/icons/vrr_150x150X.png
http://mt.gov/_images/icons/smt_150x150-1.png
http://mt.gov/_images/icons/odlr_150x1501.png
http://mt.gov/_images/icons/uify_150x150.png
http://mt.gov/_images/icons/con_150x150X.png
http://mt.gov/_images/icons/cadastralicon.png
http://mt.gov/_images/icons/elic_elk_150x150x.png
http://mt.gov/_images/icons/ftsicon.png
http://mt.gov/_images/icons/csp_150x150.png
http://mt.gov/_images/icons/cspl_150x150.png
http://mt.gov/_images/icons/drs_150x150.png
http://mt.gov/_images/icons/choprs_150x1501.png
http://mt.gov/_images/icons/mpdr_150x150.png
http://mt.gov/_images/icons/Library_SSP_Logo.png
http://mt.gov/_images/icons/csed_services.png
http://mt.gov/_images/icons/facebook_smicon.png	Facebook Icon
http://mt.gov/_images/icons/x-logo.png	Twitter Icon
http://mt.gov/_images/icons/youtube_lgicon.png	YouTube Icon

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
2	10	12

Too many (10) external style sheet files , it will slow down the downloading.

Links To External Stylesheet Files - 10
Stylesheet URL	rel	type
https://template.mt.gov/resources/template/template.css	stylesheet
https://fonts.googl...l,wght@0,100;0,300;0,400;0,500;0,700;0,900;1,400&display=swap	stylesheet
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@4.5.3/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css	stylesheet
https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/6.2.0/css/all.min.css	stylesheet
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap-icons@1.8.1/font/bootstrap-icons.css	stylesheet
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/fullcalendar-scheduler@5.7.2/main.css	stylesheet
https://cdn.datatables.net/1.12.1/css/dataTables.bootstrap4.min.css	stylesheet
https://cdn.jsdeliv....net/gh/orestbida/cookieconsent@v2.9.1/dist/cookieconsent.css	stylesheet
http://mt.gov/_files/css/mtgov-styles.css	stylesheet
http://mt.gov/_files/css/styles.css	stylesheet

Script

Scripts Block In Same Page	Links to External Script Files	Total
19	17	36

Too many (17) external scripts files , it will slow down the downlaoding.

Links To External Script Files - 17
Script URL	Type
https://template.mt.gov/resources/template/template.js
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.1.3/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js	text/javascript
https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.6.0.min.js
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/popper.js@1.16.1/dist/umd/popper.min.js
https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.2/js/bootstrap.min.js
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/fullcalendar@5.3.2/main.min.js
https://use.fontawesome.com/320e1d7e9e.js
https://kit.fontawesome.com/dbf8152a72.js
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/orestbida/cookieconsent@v2.9.1/dist/cookieconsent.js
http://mt.gov/flag-status/util/flagState.js
http://mt.gov/_files/js/news-gallery.js
http://mt.gov/_files/js/lightbox.js
http://mt.gov/_files/js/photoGallery.js
http://mt.gov/_files/js/mtgov-photoGalleryData.js
http://mt.gov/_files/js/mtgov_main.js
http://mt.gov/_files/js/scripts.js
http://mt.gov/_files/js/snapengage.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://mt.gov/residents/state_newspapers.html	MONTANA NEWSPAPERS
https://newslink.org/mttele.html	MONTANA TV STATIONS

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

Analytics Service is not implemented for the site.

Google Page Rank

7 Excellent! the website has a high page rank (7/10).

0 - 1	2 - 3	4 - 10
7
Poor	Good	Excellent

Links From Root Domains

30
Fair Enough! number of root domains (30) linked to your site mt.gov could be improved.

< 20	21 - 50	> 51
30
Poor	Good	Excellent

Number of backlinks from some other root domains is an indicator of domain authority, the more backlinks your site has, the higher its domain authority, which leads to a higher chance of better ranking.

Tips:
1. make it easy for others to link to your site, provide the code if possible.
2. links from older domains are more powerful than links from new domains.
3. links from .edu and .gov generally have a higher value.

Social Engagement

Your site has an excellent social media engagement!

Facebook Likes 205

Facebook Shares 355

Facebook Comments 225

Tweets 119

LinkedIn 17

Social Media Integration

Your site is not integrated with Facebook, Twitter or Google+.

Facebook Page	Not Found
Twitter Account	Not Found
Google+ Page	Not Found

Trustworthiness

92

Excellent! the website has a good Trustworthiness Score (92/100).

0 - 19	20 - 39	40 - 59	60 - 79	80 - 100
92
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

94 Excellent! the website has a good Child Safe Score (94/100).

0 - 19	20 - 39	40 - 59	60 - 79	80 - 100
94
Very Poor	Poor	Unsatisfactory	Good	Excellent

Safe Browsing

Safe! the site mt.gov 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

39,282^th most visited website in the world.
6,570^th most visited website in United States

your site has an excellent high traffic rank in the world.

Websites On Same Server

Excellent! You do have very few domains (1 - mt.gov) hosted on the same server as mt.gov (ip : 161.7.35.25).

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 : 161.7.35.25) is located at United States

the most site visitors come from United States

Excellent! your server is located close to 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

23 years, 101 days old ( 1st registered on : 2001-07-30 )

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excellent, the domain age is old enough.

Domain Expires

0 years, 324 days from today ( expires on : 2025-09-29 )

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domain is expiring in less than a year.

Domain Info

mt.gov ( 6 characters )

Domain Registrar : Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

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Domain Created On	Last Modified On	Expires On
2001-07-30	2024-01-07	2025-09-29
23 years, 101 days old	0 years, 306 days ago	0 years, 324 days from today

23 years, 101 days old

Domain Name Servers used by mt.gov
DNS Name	IP Address
mtdnstri.mt.gov	161.7.129.10
mtdnssec.mt.gov	161.7.38.11
mtdnspri.mt.gov	161.7.38.10

Domain is going to expire in less than a year time (0 years, 324 days from today), try to renew it for more than one year!

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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