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Whois & Analysis for benefits.gov

Dec 25, 2019 6:41 pm UTC

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

The owner has chosen to keep his whois contact information private.
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PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES

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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner
Private
• Category
Law, Government, & Politics  >  Government Resources
• Alexa Rank
#64.712, benefits.gov is in the world's top 100.000 websites!

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TECHNICAL SEO & SECURITY

SSL Certificate
This website is not SSL secured (HTTPS), the certificate issued by Let's Encrypt has expired on February 25, 2020.
Title Tag
Welcome to Benefits.gov | Benefits.gov
Length: 38 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
Browse benefits by state or category or take the benefit finder questionnaire to determine eligibility.
Length: 103 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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Desktop Version

Welcome to Benefits.gov | Benefits.gov

https://benefits.gov

Browse benefits by state or category or take the benefit finder questionnaire to determine eligibility.

Mobile Version

https://benefits.gov

Welcome to Benefits.gov | Benefits.gov

Browse benefits by state or category or take the benefit finder questionnaire to determine eligibility.

Encoding
Great, language/character encoding is specified: utf-8
URL Resolve

Great, a redirect is in place to redirect traffic from your non-preferred domain. All versions of your page point to the same URL.

URL Parameters
Great, the domain URLs look clean.
Attribute Value
viewport width=device-width,initial-scale=1,shrink-to-fit=no

SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

The results of our semantic analysis are shown below using the website's language.

They are the main concepts covered by benefits.gov.

Each concept has a confidence score. The higher it is, the more important the topic is relative to the page.

Topics
Benefits.gov Confidence: 86% Arrow up

Benefits.gov (formerly GovBenefits.gov) was launched by the U.S. Department of Labor in April 2002, as a website designed to provide American citizens with access to government benefit eligibility information.

Benefits.gov helps citizens determine their potential eligibility for more than 1,000 government-funded benefit and assistance programs.

Visitors can complete an on-line questionnaire, and Benefits.gov matches benefit programs with their needs and provides information on how to apply.

WEBSITE SPEED

benefits.gov website speed is normal. Page speed is important for visitors and search engines.

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Page Loading Time

1.9s

This domain loads at the median speed of 1.9 seconds.

Speed Percentile

46%

benefits.gov is faster than approximately 46 percent of the web. Your website page speed needs to be as fast as you can make it, without compromising the customer experience.

A good goal to achieve is a loading time of 2 seconds on desktop and mobile devices.

PAGESPEED INSIGHTS

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Chrome User Experience Report Results

Lighthouse Results

TRAFFIC

This website is ranked #64.712 by Alexa.

This rank is traffic based. The lower the rank is, the better the domain is ranked.

Daily visitors by country

  • benefits.gov daily visitors distribution - Total: 1 country
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (98.0%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (4%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America #11.389

LAYOUT

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Mobile Rendering

This website seems to be optimized for Mobile Visitors.

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How benefits.gov looks like on a mobile device such as an iPhone.

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How benefits.gov looks like on a tablet such as an iPad.

Main colors used

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  • 19% #e0f0ff
  • 18% #ffffff
  • 14% #f0f0f0
  • 8% #f0c040
  • 4% #fff0e0
  • 3% #f0e080
  • 3% #805020
  • 3% #fffff0
  • 2% #605010
  • 2% #e0b070
  • 2% #c09050
  • 2% #b08040

Text/code ratio

benefits.gov's text/code ratio is 6.68%. It's a bit low. Consider raising it by adding more text content of value for your visitors, or keeping your code clean.
Text / Code Ratio 6.68%

A good text to HTML ratio is anywhere from 25 to 70%.

This percentage refers to the visible text ratio, as opposed to HTML elements, image tags and other non-visible information.

Main HTML tags

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Great, we found headings on this page.

  • <H1> 2
  • <H2> 4
  • <H3> 9
  • <H4> 0
  • <H5> 0
  • <H6> 0
<H1>
Top level heading
Benefit finder (2)
<H2>
2nd level heading
What type of benefits are you looking for?
Featured news
Video highlights
Social feed
<H3>
3rd level heading
Disaster relief
Housing and public utilities
Financial assistance
Social security and retirement
How to apply for medicaid in your state
Alt attributes Arrow up

We found 13 images on this website.
3 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags.

Image Image URL Occurrences
- data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADkAAAA5CAYAAACMGIOFAAAB1UlEQVR4Ae2YJ0xEQRCGn/eSst6C5p... 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on benefits.gov /static/media/icon-dot-gov.cdd13dd3.svg 1
Image with missing alt attribute found on benefits.gov /static/media/icon-https.c7c1e46f.svg 1

Alternative text allows you to add a description to an image.

Google rely on alternative text attributes to determine relevance to a search query. Alternative text also makes an image more likely to appear in a Google image search.

It looks like you're missing alternative text for 3 images on benefits.gov. Check your website to make sure it's specified for each image on the page.

SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE

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The more people share your website, the more likely you will get links from others, which is a key point when it comes to improving your overall search engine rankings.

  • Facebook iconFacebook
  • Total Engagement 3.508
  • Likes 1.414
  • Shares 1.528
  • Comments 566

SERVER DETAILS

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • Microsoft Corporation
  • IP Address
  • 52.170.217.131
  • Country
  • Flag for United StatesUnited States
  • Region
  • Virginia , Ashburn
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 39.0438 : -77.4874
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