Archives.parliament.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
98% 
Page quality
49% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.39 s
File size
53.50 kB
Words
312
Media files
9
Number of links
23 internal / 15 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Parliament Archives
The length of the page title is perfect. (249 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Parliamentary Archives home page
The length of the meta description is perfect. (216 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://archives.parliament.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-gb
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-gb
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=1.0
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
descriptionParliamentary Archives home page
msapplication-TileImagehttps://archives.parliament.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/portcullis-e1638285327530.jpg
langen-gb
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:titleHome - Parliament Archives
twitter:descriptionParliamentary Archives home page
twitter:site@UKParlArchives
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 312 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
26.6% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 15.33 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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)
6 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...parliament-uk/img/uk_parliament_logo.svgUK Parliament logo
...3_178A.Earl-of-Banbury.Banner-150dpi.jpgThe Parliamentary Archives
...r-FarmerModernImages-ImagineTeam.001.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...AR_1_9.Hoisting-the-Union-Jack.001-3.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...18/10/150dpi.Book-edge.001.formatted.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...bility-of-the-Earl-of-Banbury.edited.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...2019/01/Commons-Chamber-ImagingTeam3.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...018/11/DigitsationStudio.ImagingTeam.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...rchive-accred-weblogo-e1638284282542.jpgArchives Accreditation Scheme logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
UK Parliamentary Archives
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 UK Parliamentary Archives
H2 The Parliamentary Archives
H2 Visiting the Archives
H2 Start Your Research
H2 Our Collections
H2 Research Guides
H2 Online Resources
H2 Services
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 15 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://archives.parliament.uk/Anchor skip to main content
http://www.parliament.uk/New window External Subdomain parliament.uk
https://www.parliament.uk/busi...External Subdomain Parliamentary business
https://members.parliament.uk/External Subdomain MPs, Lords & offices
https://www.parliament.uk/about/External Subdomain About Parliament
https://www.parliament.uk/get-...External Subdomain Get involved
https://www.parliament.uk/visi...External Subdomain Visit Parliament
https://learning.parliament.uk...External Subdomain Education
https://archives.parliament.uk/IMG-ALT UK Parliament logo
A-TITLE home
https://archives.parliament.uk/Subdomain Home
/visit-us/Subdomain Visit the Archives
/our-collections/Subdomain Collections
/research-guides/Subdomain Research Guides
/online-resources/Subdomain Online Resources
/our-services/Subdomain Services
/about-us/Subdomain About Us
https://rom-archives.parliamen...External Subdomain Sign In
A-TITLE Sign in to your reader account
https://rom-archives.parliamen...External Subdomain Register
A-TITLE Register
/our-collections/Subdomain The Parliamentary Archives
A-TITLE The Parliamentary Archives
/visit-us/Subdomain Visiting the Archives
A-TITLE Visiting the Archives
/start-your-research/Subdomain Start Your Research
A-TITLE Start Your Research
/our-collections/Subdomain Our Collections
A-TITLE Our Collections
/research-guides/Subdomain Text duplicate Research Guides
A-TITLE Research Guides
/online-resources/Subdomain Text duplicate Online Resources
A-TITLE Online Resources
/our-services/Subdomain Text duplicate Services
A-TITLE Services
/about-us/About the Service
https://archives.blog.parliame...External Subdomain Blog
https://twitter.com/ukparlarch...External Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/pages...External Subdomain Facebook
/visit-us/Visit
/help/Subdomain Help
/help/faqs/Subdomain FAQs
https://www.parliament.uk/site...External Subdomain Accessibility Statement
/about-us/privacy-policy/Subdomain Privacy Policy
/help/contact-us/Subdomain Contact Us
/our-services/publishing-images/Subdomain Copyright and Terms of Use
https://www.parliament.uk/site...External Subdomain UK Parliamentary Glossary
https://www.parliament.uk/site...External Subdomain Cookie policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://archives.parliament.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.39 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (54 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateMon, 07 Apr 2025 19:54:36 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length13272
set-cookie44 Characters
expiresThu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
cache-controlno-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
pragmano-cache
link<https://archives.parliament.uk/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
x-frame-optionsGOFORIT
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge
age0
via1.1 varnish (Varnish/5.2)
x-cacheOLS-FRONT-09-MISS
accept-rangesbytes
x-haproxy-infoOLS-FRONT-09_OLS-WEB-PARLIAMENT-443_ols-front-09-varnish
x-haproxy-server127.0.0.1:6081
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
servercloudflare
cf-ray92cc13eb4909d11b-CDG
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 205 referring domains.
This page has 1,059 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 152 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: https://archives.parliament.uk/sitemap_index.xml

User-agent: bingbot 
Disallow: /collections/search

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /collections/

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