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Meta information
70% 
Page quality
92% 
Page structure
64% 
Link structure
90% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.20 s
File size
182.60 kB
Words
975
Media files
33
Number of links
157 internal / 17 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Welcome to the Barbican | Barbican
The title contains the word Welcome to! More content should be covered in the title.
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.barbican.org.uk/
There is a valid canonical link 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
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There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
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The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
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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
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
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The favicon is linked correctly.

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Page quality

Content
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This page contains 975 words. That's ok.
21.4% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
4 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 14.57 words is good.
Frames
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This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
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A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 20 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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4 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
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Additional markup
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HTTPS
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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
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...551-1-15520.jpg?h=b165c7ad&itok=nh5edSaePamela Phatsimo Sunstrum installation photography
...cember exhibition 2024.jpg?itok=5euM2U72Vision Art Group
...age 800x520.jpg?h=0ab866ec&itok=d7gKwNhrI'm Not Okay (An Emo Retrospective) in black and pink colours
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...c/images/Barbican-3064.jpg?itok=LYtOisC-Photo of walkway inside the Barbican Centre
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Winter at the Barbican
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 38 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Winter at the Barbican
H2 Main navigation
H2 Saved events
H2 This week
H2 Let our screens bring you closer
H2 Book ahead
H2 Browse concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra
H2 In the Cinemas
H2 Young Barbican tickets from £5
H2 Please consider donating
H2 Subscribe to our newsletters
H2 Footer
H3 Find events
H3 General info
H3 During your visit
H3 Eat & drink
H3 Accessibility
H3 Membership
H3 Young Barbican
H3 Support us
H3 Schools & colleges
H3 Young Creatives
H3 Emerging & Practising Artists
H3 Communities & Neighbourhoods
H3 About us
H3 Architecture
H3 Programme
H3 How we're changing
H3 Venue Hire
H3 Exhibition hire (Barbican Immersive)
H3 Empty heading
H4 Venue Hire Duplicate text
H4 What we offer
H4 Barbican Immersive Exhibitions
H4 Access guides
H4 Barbican Kitchen
H4 Barbican Bar & Grill
H4 Barbican Brasserie
H4 Cinema Cafe & Bar
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 17 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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/hire/exhibition-hire-barbican...Virtual Realms
/hire/exhibition-hire-barbican...AI: More Than Human
/hire/exhibition-hire-barbican...Our Time on Earth
/hire/exhibition-hire-barbican...Asian Comics
/hire/exhibition-hire-barbican...Game On
/hire/exhibition-hire-bie/past...Past Exhibitions
/hire/venue-hireVenue Hire Hire a Barbican venue
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/read-watch-listenRead, watch & listen
https://shop.barbican.org.uk/External Subdomain Shop
https://tickets.barbican.org.u...External Subdomain Register now
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/whats-on/series/winter-202425Explore the programme
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/your-visit/eat-drink/barbican...Text duplicate Barbican Kitchen
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https://tickets.barbican.org.u...External Subdomain Donate £5
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https://www.facebook.com/Barbi...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Barbican Centre Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/barb...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Barbican Centre Instagram

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HTTP redirects
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This page redirects to "https://www.barbican.org.uk/"
HTTP header
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This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.20 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (183 kB).

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