Website Review: usap.gov
Generated on October 06 2026 06:45 AM
The score is 38/100
SEO Content
Title
The USAP Portal: Science and Support in Antarctica - Welcome to the United States Antarctic Program Portal
Length : 106
Your title's length should be between 40 and 70 characters. The optimal title length is between 50 to 70 chars. Rewrite the title tag to fit this range.
Description
USAP.gov is the main repository for information about the United States Antarctic Program. The site is designed for the general public, news agencies, academia, and program participants. Topics include News, About the USAP, About the Continent, About USAP Participants, The Antarctic Treaty, Researchers and Science Projects, Science Summaries and Discoveries, Webcams, Slide Shows, Maps, and Opportunities to Participate.
Length : 424
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Keywords
Antarctica, Antarctica webcams, South Pole, McMurdo, penguins, USAP, United States Antarctic Program, National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs, science, aeronomy, astrophysics, biology, medicine, geology, climate, glaciology, logistics
Good, your page contains a meta keywords tag.
Og Meta Properties
This page does not take advantage of Open Graph Properties. This tags allows social crawler's better structurize your page. Add og:title, og:description, og:image and og:url meta tags to the page's <head>.
Headings
| H1 | H2 | H3 | H4 | H5 | H6 |
| 3 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
- [H1] USAP Station Webcams
- [H1] Office of Polar Programs News
- [H1] Features
- [H2] For USAP Participants
- [H2] For The Public
- [H2] For Researchers and Educators
- [H2] Contact Us
- [H2] Live Images from Antarctica
- [H2] Most Recent
- [H2] Special Report
- [H2] Contact USAP
- [H2] Quick Links
- [H2] Help
- [H4] Upcoming OPP career opportunities
- [H4] NSF releases final South Pole Station Master Plan
- [H5] NSF introduces anonymous reporting system for safety issues in polar regions
- [H5] Update on RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer
Images
We found 18 images on this web page.
Awesome, most or all of your images have alt attributes. This helps search engines understand the content of your images.
Text/HTML Ratio
Ratio : 0%
This page's ratio of text to HTML code is below 20 percent, this means that your website probably needs more text content in order to do well in search engines. Note: This may also result from a false reading due to your server blocking external scripts from accessing the home page.
Flash
Perfect, no Flash content has been detected on this page.
Iframe
Awesome, there are no Iframes found on this page.
SEO Links
URL Rewrite
Good. Your links look SEO friendly and are easy to crawl!
Underscores in the URLs
We have detected underscores in your URLs. It would be better to use hyphens to optimize your SEO.
In-page links
We found a total of 69 links including 2 link(s) to files
SEO Keywords
Keywords Cloud
Keywords Consistency
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Usability
Url
Domain : usap.gov
Length : 8
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
Great. Your declared charset is UTF-8.
W3C Validity
Errors : 0
Warnings : 0
Email Privacy
Warning! At least one email address has been found in plain text. Consider using an image or a form to hide email from spammers.
Deprecated HTML
Great! We haven't found deprecated HTML tags in your HTML.
Speed Tips
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Attention! Optimize your site's HTML by avoiding nested tables. |
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Not great, your website is using inline styles. This is not optimal. |
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Great, your website has few CSS files. |
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This website has an excessive amount of Javascript files (more than 6). |
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This website does not take advantage of GZIP optimization. GZIP compression means your site loads faster for your visitors and improves the user's experience. |
Mobile
Mobile Optimization
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Optimization
XML Sitemap
Missing
Your website does not have an XML sitemap - this can be a problem for search engines.
An XML sitemap informs search engines about URLs available for crawling on your site. It includes information about your site's latest updates, frequency of changes and relative importance of each URL. This allows search engines to crawl the site more efficiently.
Robots.txt
http://usap.gov/robots.txt
Great, your website has a robots.txt file.
Analytics
Missing
Unverified
Domain Info
usap.gov was registered on 19 Jun 2000 with get.gov and expires on 9 Sep 2027. It accepts email and has both SPF and DMARC records. The Wayback Machine first archived it in April 2004.
Registration
| Registrar | get.gov |
| Registered | 19 Jun 2000 (26 years ago) |
| Expires | 9 Sep 2027 |
| Last changed | 15 Aug 2026 |
| Nameservers | ns1.usap.gov, ns2.usap.gov, ns3.usap.gov |
| DNSSEC | Signed |
Hosting
| IPv4 address | 157.132.252.36 |
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IPv6 support |
Email Security
Mail servers: primary.us.etp.fireeyegov.com, alt1.us.etp.fireeyegov.com, alt2.us.etp.fireeyegov.com, alt3.us.etp.fireeyegov.com
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SPF record |
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DMARC record (policy: reject) |
Archive History
The Wayback Machine has snapshots of this site from 244 different months, from April 2004 to October 2026. View snapshots
PageSpeed Insights
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