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paloalto.gov

Home – City of Palo Alto, CA

Last scanned Aug 24, 2026, 1:22 PM

89

Overall score

Great

Summary

Palo Alto, known as the “Birthplace of Silicon Valley,” is home to 69,700 residents and nearly 100,000 jobs. This website uses Google Analytics. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

Palo Alto, known as the “Birthplace of Silicon Valley,” is home to 69,700 residents and nearly 100,000 jobs. Unique among city organizations, the City of Palo Alto operates a full-array of services including its own gas, electric, water, sewer, refuse and storm drainage provided at very competitive rates for its customers.

Top issues to fix

6 issues found

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters

    SEO

    Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.

  • Multiple H1 headings found

    SEO

    Keep a single H1 per page and demote the others to H2/H3.

  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found

    SEO

    Add JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.

  • robots.txt not found

    SEO

    Publish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.

  • sitemap.xml not found

    SEO

    Publish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.

  • 15 broken links on the page

    SEO

    Fix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.

70

SEO

5 issue(s) found

90

Performance

2.06 s

100

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Not enough scan history yet to show a trend — check back after this site has been re-scanned a few more times.

Organization

Company details published in this site's own structured data.

Palo Alto, known as the “Birthplace of Silicon Valley,” is home to 69,700 residents and nearly 100,000 jobs. Unique among city organizations, the City of Palo Alto operates a full-array of services including its own gas, electric, water, sewer, refuse and storm drainage provided at very competitive rates for its customers.

Contact

Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.

Meta tags

Title
Home – City of Palo Alto, CA
Description
Palo Alto, known as the “Birthplace of Silicon Valley,” is home to 69,700 residents and nearly 100,000 jobs. Unique among city organizations, the City of Palo Alto operates a full-array of services including its own gas, electric, water, sewer, refuse and storm drainage provided at very competitive rates for its customers.
Canonical
https://www.paloalto.gov/Home
Language
en-US
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Robots meta
Manifest
https://www.paloalto.gov/files/ocfavicon/Public/site.webmanifest?V=637249801650403408

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
City of Palo Alto
og:description
Palo Alto, known as the “Birthplace of Silicon Valley,” is home to 69,700 residents and nearly 100,000 jobs. Unique among city organizations, the City of Palo Alto operates a full-array of services including its own gas, electric, water, sewer, refuse and storm drainage provided at very competitive rates for its customers.
og:type
article
og:url
https://www.paloalto.gov/Home

Twitter Card

twitter:card
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Let's Encrypt
Subject
san-h2.granicusgovaccess.net
Valid from
Aug 19, 2026
Valid to
Nov 17, 2026
Days until expiry
84
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Security headers

  • Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
  • Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
  • X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
  • X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
  • Referrer-PolicyEnabled
  • Permissions-PolicyMissing

Compression: gzip · 2 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 6 · H2 24 · H3 4

Links

335 internal · 7 external · 15 broken

Images

11 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

60 scripts · 6 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

16.5 KB · 1.1 KB

Page size

139 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Not found
Disallow rules
0
sitemap.xml
Not found
URLs in sitemap
0

SEO issues

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters
  • Multiple H1 headings found
  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Scan details

Requested URL
https://paloalto.gov
Final URL
https://www.paloalto.gov/Home
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
2.05 s
HTML size
139 KB
Redirect chain
https://paloalto.gov → https://www.paloalto.gov/ → https://www.paloalto.gov/Home

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does paloalto.gov use?
paloalto.gov is built with jQuery, Google Analytics, Google Ads, Meta Pixel.
Is paloalto.gov secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. paloalto.gov uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Nov 17, 2026.
Who hosts paloalto.gov?
Hosting provider information for paloalto.gov is not available yet.
What is paloalto.gov's SEO score?
paloalto.gov scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is paloalto.gov's overall website score?
paloalto.gov has an overall SiteGraph score of 89/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.