Nibbler SEO audit for www.forfeiture.gov
Summary
Overall8.1
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility9.3
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience7.1
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing5.2
How well marketed and popular the website is.
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Technology7.0
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 3:57 PM on Mar 28, 2024 (GMT).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Ensure your web server returns a 404 HTTP status code for error pages. (read more)
- Make sure that all the pages of this website include a meta description. If you don't include one, Google will choose a sample of text from the page to appear in the search engine result. By including a meta description, you can control how your search engine result will appear. (read more)
- Sign up for a Twitter account and make sure it is linked to from your site. (read more)
Twitter0.0
This website does not appear to be associated with a Twitter account.
- This website did not contain a link to Twitter.
- Sign up for a Twitter account and make sure it is linked to from your site.
Server behavior1.0
404 page
Compression
- This website does not return a 404 error HTTP status code for missing pages. This is bad because search engines like Google might mistake this for a real page of content.
- Ensure your web server returns a 404 HTTP status code for error pages.
- This website was not served using GZIP encoding. GZIP compression is widely supported and reduces the load time of a web page.
- Enable GZIP compression on your web server or in your application.
- This website returns page content with or without a trailing slash on the URLs. Search engines might see these as separate pages with duplicate content which they could penalise for.
- Use a 301 redirect or a canonical meta tag to force search engines to see the correct version.
Duplicate pages
- Use a 301 redirect or a canonical meta tag to force search engines to see the correct version.
- There was no website found on http://forfeiture.gov. This is bad, as visitors might presume they can visit this website by visiting that address.
- Put a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect to http://www.forfeiture.gov on http://forfeiture.gov.
Meta tags3.6
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
Home | Forfeiture.gov
www.forfeiture.gov/
The U.S. Department of Justice forfeiture home page provides access to forfeiture information.
- All pages include at least some metadata, but only 20.0% of pages have a description meta tag. The description meta data is important as it appears on Google's search result pages.
- Make sure that all the pages of this website include a meta description. If you don't include one, Google will choose a sample of text from the page to appear in the search engine result. By including a meta description, you can control how your search engine result will appear.
Pages with no meta description
- Make sure that all the pages of this website include a meta description. If you don't include one, Google will choose a sample of text from the page to appear in the search engine result. By including a meta description, you can control how your search engine result will appear.
Meta Tags (name attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| www.forfeiture.gov/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.forfeiture.gov/ | dc.title | forfeiture.gov |
| www.forfeiture.gov/ | dc.description | The U.S. Department of Justice forfeiture home page provides access to forfeiture information. |
| www.forfeiture.gov/ | description | The U.S. Department of Justice forfeiture home page provides access to forfeiture information. |
| www.forfeiture.gov/ | dc.creator | United States Department of Justice (DOJ) |
| www.forfeiture.gov/ | dc.language | en-us |
| www.forfeiture.gov/FilingPetition.htm | description | |
| www.forfeiture.gov/FilingPetition.htm | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.forfeiture.gov/FilingClaim.htm | description | |
| www.forfeiture.gov/FilingClaim.htm | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.forfeiture.gov/adobe.htm | description | |
| www.forfeiture.gov/adobe.htm | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.forfeiture.gov/Accessibility.htm | description | |
| www.forfeiture.gov/Accessibility.htm | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| www.forfeiture.gov/ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge,chrome=1 |
| www.forfeiture.gov/FilingPetition.htm | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge,chrome=1 |
| www.forfeiture.gov/FilingClaim.htm | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge,chrome=1 |
| www.forfeiture.gov/adobe.htm | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge,chrome=1 |
| www.forfeiture.gov/Accessibility.htm | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge,chrome=1 |
URL format5.2
4 URLs are less than ideal
- 4 URLs include a file extension.
- Avoid use of file extensions wherever possible. File extensions appear at the end of web addresses, and have several negative effects. They make the address harder to remember or type (particularly for non-technical users), and can reveal the underlying technology of the website making it very slightly more vulnerable to hackers. They also tie the implementation of the website to a specific technology, which can make subsequent migration of URLs difficult. Consider URL rewriting as an effective and transparent means of creating appropriate URLs.
Page extensions
- Avoid use of file extensions wherever possible. File extensions appear at the end of web addresses, and have several negative effects. They make the address harder to remember or type (particularly for non-technical users), and can reveal the underlying technology of the website making it very slightly more vulnerable to hackers. They also tie the implementation of the website to a specific technology, which can make subsequent migration of URLs difficult. Consider URL rewriting as an effective and transparent means of creating appropriate URLs.
Amount of content7.8
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 373 words per page. The amount of content on a website has been shown to correlate with its search engine ranking.
- Consider the amount of text on this website and increase it if appropriate.
Amount of content discovered
| Page | Characters | Words |
| www.forfeiture.gov/ | 1747 | 274 |
| www.forfeiture.gov/FilingPetition.htm | 4437 | 685 |
| www.forfeiture.gov/FilingClaim.htm | 4254 | 680 |
| www.forfeiture.gov/adobe.htm | 589 | 87 |
| www.forfeiture.gov/Accessibility.htm | 899 | 137 |
Headings9.0
- All pages were found to use defined headings. This is excellent as it allows visitors and search engines to summarize the content of webpages quickly. Correctly defined headings aid accessibility and are particularly important for search engine optimization.
- Some pages did not define headings correctly. The H1 tag should be used for the most top-level heading, with H2 being used for sub-headings and H3 for further sub-headings and so-on. Not conforming to this convention may confuse visitors.
- Ensure that headings are defined in a semantically correct way, i.e. always start with a H1 tag. This is used to summarise the page content. Further tags (H2, H3, H4 etc) are meant to summarise and partition sections within the content.
Page headings detail
| URL | Heading | Level |
| www.forfeiture.gov/ | I have received a Notice of Seizure letter in the mail and want to... | H2 |
| www.forfeiture.gov/ | Public Notices of Forfeiture | H2 |
| www.forfeiture.gov/FilingPetition.htm | Petitions | H1 |
| www.forfeiture.gov/FilingPetition.htm | File Your Petition Online | H2 |
| www.forfeiture.gov/FilingPetition.htm | Blank Petition Form | H2 |
| www.forfeiture.gov/FilingPetition.htm | Resources | H2 |
| www.forfeiture.gov/FilingPetition.htm | Agency Addresses | H2 |
| www.forfeiture.gov/FilingClaim.htm | Claims | H1 |
| www.forfeiture.gov/FilingClaim.htm | File Your Claim Online | H2 |
| www.forfeiture.gov/FilingClaim.htm | Blank Claim Form | H2 |
| www.forfeiture.gov/FilingClaim.htm | Resources | H2 |
| www.forfeiture.gov/FilingClaim.htm | Agency Addresses | H2 |
| www.forfeiture.gov/adobe.htm | External Link Redirect | H1 |
| www.forfeiture.gov/Accessibility.htm | Accessibility Information | H1 |
Mobile10.0
- All of this website appears to be optimised for viewing on a mobile phone or a tablet.
Media specific CSS detected
| Media | Min width | Max width | CSS file |
| only screen | - | 1024px | www.forfeiture.gov/css/fgov.css |
Analytics10.0
100% of pages use analytics
Multiple Analytics Solutions
- Every page in this website is using some form of analytics software. This is excellent and should allow for a complete analysis of visitor behavior.
Analytics Software Found
| Software Name |
| Google Analytics |
Page titles10.0
100% of pages have defined titles
0% of page titles are weak
- All pages were found to use page titles appropriately. Page titles appear in search results and at the top of the browser's window when visiting the site. Appropriate page titles are particularly important for search engine optimization.
Images10.0
100% of images have a clearly defined size
No images are being resized by the browser
- All images have defined sizes using width and height attributes in the HTML. These attributes are optional, but strongly recommended as they help the browser arrange the page faster.
Internal links10.0
- Every link tested appears to be well defined. This is good because well defined links help SEO and aid accessibility.
Printability10.0
100% of pages are optimized for printing
- All pages of this website appear to be optimized for printing (using CSS).
Media specific CSS detected
| Media | Min width | Max width | CSS file |
| - | - | www.forfeiture.gov/css/fgov.css | |
| only screen | - | 1024px | www.forfeiture.gov/css/fgov.css |
| - | - | www.forfeiture.gov/css/main.css |
Freshness10.0
Last updated January 13, 2024
- It looks like this website was last updated on Saturday, January 13, 2024. This is good because visitors perceive up-to-date websites as more credible. Websites that are updated regularly are also spidered by search engines more often.
- To find this information we used the last modified dates reported by this website's server in addition to looking for dates written on each page.
All dates found
| Date | File | Source |
| 1/13/24 | www.forfeiture.gov/ | Last modified header |
| 1/13/24 | www.forfeiture.gov/FilingPetition.htm | Last modified header |
| 1/13/24 | www.forfeiture.gov/FilingClaim.htm | Last modified header |
| 1/13/24 | www.forfeiture.gov/adobe.htm | Last modified header |
| 1/13/24 | www.forfeiture.gov/Accessibility.htm | Last modified header |
| 1/13/24 | www.forfeiture.gov/css/normalize.min.css | Last modified header |
| 1/13/24 | www.forfeiture.gov/.../font-awesome.css | Last modified header |
| 1/13/24 | www.forfeiture.gov/css/jquery-ui.min.css | Last modified header |
| 1/13/24 | www.forfeiture.gov/css/jquery-ui.structure.min.css | Last modified header |
| 1/13/24 | www.forfeiture.gov/css/jquery-ui.theme.min.css | Last modified header |
| 1/13/24 | www.forfeiture.gov/css/jquery.qtip.css | Last modified header |
| 1/13/24 | www.forfeiture.gov/css/main.css | Last modified header |
| 1/13/24 | www.forfeiture.gov/css/fgov.css | Last modified header |
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