Apply-provisional-driving-licence.service.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
53% 
Page structure
97% 
Link structure
72% 
Server
42% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.19 s
File size
11.90 kB
Words
206
Media files
0
Number of links
7 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
GOV.UK - Before you start
The length of the page title is perfect. (239 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
(Somewhat important)
There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
(Somewhat important)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
(Somewhat important)
No parameters were found in the URL.
No session ID was found in the URL.
The URL does not have too many subdirectories.
Charset encoding
(Somewhat important)
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
theme-color#0b0c0c
hmrc-timeout-dialoghmrc-timeout-dialog
csrf-paramauthenticity_token
csrf-tokenZ4UcMYMfhsprzlvhPQKIXJD5zZYACFJPvAS5z_UtI_E1iX9vWKGpl-nOoQFGemvxszxEAkqlnteRTnfZOXeu_Q
langen
og:image/packs/static/node_modules/dvla-external-frontend/dist/media/govuk/images/govuk-opengraph-image-bd4c811b9acf530262cb.png
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 206 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
43.7% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
3 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 18.75 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 4 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
Additional markup
(Nice to have)
No additional page markup was found.
HTTPS
(Somewhat important)
This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

Media list

No media files were found.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Before you start
The H1 heading is too short (16 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Before you start
H2 Support links
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
There are too few (7) internal links on this page.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 6 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.gov.uk/External GOV.UK
/give_feedback?locale=enfeedback
https://www.gov.uk/apply-first...External Back
/cookie_policy?locale=en&back_...Cookie policy
/?locale=cyCymraeg
/terms_and_conditions?locale=enNew window Terms and conditions
https://www.gov.uk/government/...New window External Privacy policy
/accessibility_statement?local...New window Accessibility statement
/give_feedback?locale=enFeedback
https://www.gov.uk/government/...New window External Built by DVLA
https://www.nationalarchives.g...New window External Subdomain Open Government Licence v3.0
http://www.nationalarchives.go...New window External Subdomain © Crown copyright

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://apply-provisional-driving-licence.service.gov.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 4 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.19 seconds.
This page only loads 1 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (12 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-length12154
connectionclose
dateWed, 16 Oct 2024 09:39:21 GMT
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-xss-protection0
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-download-optionsnoopen
x-permitted-cross-domain-policiesnone
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
cache-controlno-store
pragmano-cache
expires0
link</packs/css/application-89bd3614.css>; rel=preload; as=style; nopush
etagW/"c46c9ee1b26713474e5e196513d561e4"
set-cookie202 Characters
x-request-id561f03623bbb823dc4c395c09acd9dd8
x-runtime0.122970
x-cacheMiss from cloudfront
via1.1 a962efd99fafcdb81ca24e0e8140a67c.cloudfront.net (CloudFront), 1.1 fra1-bit15001
x-amz-cf-popFRA60-P4
x-amz-cf-idF1ZLPJVqcrzBWY8xrLdGNZmg7vO3DItyDCp_Wt0Et9YVlVk6P7VD9A==
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 71 referring domains.
This page has 93 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 63 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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apply-provisional-driving-licence.service.gov.uk
GOV.UK - Before you start

Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

KeywordResultRecheck
start62%Check
GOV58%Check
licence46%Check
provisional46%Check
driving46%Check
service46%Check
UK passport46%Check
provisional driving licence46%Check
First provisional driving licence43%Check
Beta39%Check
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