Website review boston.gov
Homepage | Boston.gov
Generated on March 04 2026 09:40 AM
Old data? UPDATE !
The score is 38/100
SEO Content
Title
Homepage | Boston.gov
Length : 21
Perfect, your title contains between 10 and 70 characters.
Description
Welcome to the official homepage for the City of Boston.
Length : 56
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Keywords
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Og Meta Properties
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| Property | Content |
|---|---|
| site_name | Boston.gov |
| type | website |
| url | https://www.boston.gov |
| title | Homepage | Boston.gov |
| description | Welcome to the official homepage for the City of Boston. |
| image | http://patterns.boston.gov/images/global/icons/seal_dark_1000x1000.png |
| image:secure_url | https://patterns.boston.gov/images/global/icons/seal_dark_1000x1000.png |
| locality | Boston |
| region | Massachusetts |
| country_name | United States |
Headings
| H1 | H2 | H3 | H4 | H5 | H6 |
| 1 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
- [H1] City of Boston
- [H2] Wednesday, March 4
- [H2] Featured resources
- [H2] Latest news
- [H2] Featured videos
- [H2] BOS:311 service requests
- [H2] Stay Connected
- [H2] Upcoming Events
- [H2] Boston Mayor Michelle Wu
- [H2] Boston City Council
- [H3] Six Recipients Awarded the 2026 Boston Tree Alliance Program Tree Planting and
- [H3] New Chinatown, Downtown, and Leather District Liaison and Back Bay, Beacon Hill
- [H3] Copley Plaza Hotel Study Report
- [H3] Dog Licensing Reminder (and Boston’s Most Popular Dog Names!)
- [H4] Meet the Mayor
Images
We found 34 images on this web page.
13 alt attributes are empty or missing. Add alternative text so that search engines can better understand the content of your images.
Text/HTML Ratio
Ratio : 0%
This page's ratio of text to HTML code is below 15 percent, this means that your website probably needs more text content.
Flash
Perfect, no Flash content has been detected on this page.
Iframe
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SEO Links
URL Rewrite
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Underscores in the URLs
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In-page links
We found a total of 48 links including 0 link(s) to files
| Anchor | Type | Juice |
|---|---|---|
| Skip to Main Content | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Help / 311 | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Home | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Guides to Boston | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Departments | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Public Notices | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Pay and apply | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Business Support | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Events | Internal | Passing Juice |
| City of Boston News | Internal | Passing Juice |
| View City Projects | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Newsletters | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Places | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Cemeteries | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Community centers | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Historic Districts | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Libraries | External | Passing Juice |
| Neighborhoods | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Parks and playgrounds | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Schools | External | Passing Juice |
| City Clerk | Internal | Passing Juice |
| City Council | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Elections | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Boards and commissions | Internal | Passing Juice |
| City government overview | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Jobs and careers | Internal | Passing Juice |
| The Mayor's Office | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Mayor Michelle Wu | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Feedback | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Complete the census | Internal | Passing Juice |
| All BOS:311 requests | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Improper storage of trash barrels | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Request a bulk item pickup | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Request sidewalk repair | External | Passing Juice |
| Tree maintenance | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Report a pothole | External | Passing Juice |
| Report a parking violation | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Report a missing or damaged street sign | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Find more City events | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Mayor's Office | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Learn about Mayor Wu | Internal | Passing Juice |
| City Council | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Provide Your Feedback | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Privacy Policy | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Vulnerability Disclosure | External | Passing Juice |
| Public records | External | Passing Juice |
| Accessibility | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Contact Us | Internal | Passing Juice |
SEO Keywords
Keywords Cloud
Keywords Consistency
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Usability
Url
Domain : boston.gov
Length : 10
Favicon
Great, your website has a favicon.
Printability
We could not find a Print-Friendly CSS.
Language
Good. Your declared language is en.
Dublin Core
This page does not take advantage of Dublin Core.
Document
Doctype
HTML 5
Encoding
Perfect. Your declared charset is UTF-8.
W3C Validity
Errors : 0
Warnings : 0
Email Privacy
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Deprecated HTML
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Speed Tips
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Excellent, your website doesn't use nested tables. |
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Too bad, your website is using inline styles. |
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Too bad, your website has too many CSS files (more than 4). |
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Too bad, your website has too many JS files (more than 6). |
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Perfect, your website takes advantage of gzip. |
Mobile
Mobile Optimization
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Optimization
XML Sitemap
Great, your website has an XML sitemap.
| https://www.boston.gov/sitemap.xml |
Robots.txt
https://boston.gov/robots.txt
Great, your website has a robots.txt file.
Analytics
Missing
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PageSpeed Insights
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