Website review mchap.io
Civic Hax
Generated on February 21 2026 22:21 PM
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The score is 39/100
SEO Content
Title
Civic Hax
Length : 9
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Description
Length : 0
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Og Meta Properties
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Headings
| H1 | H2 | H3 | H4 | H5 | H6 |
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- [H1] Civic Hax
- [H2] Intro
- [H2] Why Go Through All of This?
- [H2] First Attempts for Parking Ticket Data
- [H2] But Wait, Is There More?
- [H2] Requesting Database Records from All City Databases
- [H2] "Metalicious": Chicago's Failed Data Dictionary
- [H2] All That Is Over: Its Inevitable Shutdown
- [H2] Requesting Metalicious
- [H2] The CANVAS Request and Trial
- [H2] "Civic Hacker"
- [H2] Privacy When It's Convenient
- [H2] Next Steps
- [H3] Losing a 5-year-long Illinois FOIA lawsuit for database schemas
Images
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Text/HTML Ratio
Ratio : 1%
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Flash
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Iframe
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SEO Links
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In-page links
We found a total of 32 links including 3 link(s) to files
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| Civic Hax | Internal | Passing Juice |
| companion post | External | Passing Juice |
| received through FOIA | Internal | Passing Juice |
| CANVAS specification | External | Passing Juice |
| good explainer | External | Passing Juice |
| "FOIA does not compel the agency to provide answers to questions posed by the inquirer." | External | Passing Juice |
| very first | External | Passing Juice |
| requested: | External | Passing Juice |
| a bit more | External | Passing Juice |
| another request | External | Passing Juice |
| lackluster spreadsheet | External | Passing Juice |
| "data dictionary" | External | Passing Juice |
| as described in the RFP spec for this $200 million system | External | Passing Juice |
| the City claimed | External | Passing Juice |
| despite the City's public support for launching one | External | Passing Juice |
| a letter on behalf of every agency | External | Passing Juice |
| PDFs of table names, column names, and descriptions of both. | External | Passing Juice |
| open specification | Internal | Passing Juice |
| some attention | External | Passing Juice |
| Down For Maintenance | External | Passing Juice |
| Last-Known Running | External | Passing Juice |
| Metalicious GitHub | External | Passing Juice |
| submitted my request for the MySQL dump of Metalicious | External | Passing Juice |
| Loevy & Loevy | External | Passing Juice |
| created this visualization | External | Passing Juice |
| two | External | Passing Juice |
| bills | External | Passing Juice |
| new bill | External | Passing Juice |
| View more posts | Internal | Passing Juice |
| All tags | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Subscribe | Internal | Passing Juice |
| bashblog | External | Passing Juice |
SEO Keywords
Keywords Cloud
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Keywords Consistency
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Usability
Url
Domain : mchap.io
Length : 8
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Printability
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Dublin Core
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Document
Doctype
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Encoding
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W3C Validity
Errors : 0
Warnings : 0
Email Privacy
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Deprecated HTML
| Deprecated tags | Occurrences |
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| <center> | 5 |
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Mobile
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Optimization
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Robots.txt
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