Barcouncil.org.uk - SEO Checker

Sign up for free! PDF Export
Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
75% 
Page quality
90% 
Page structure
71% 
Link structure
90% 
Server
88% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.65 s
File size
44.50 kB
Words
693
Media files
13
Number of links
83 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Homepage
The title contains the word Homepage! More content should be covered in the title.
The page title is too short. (100 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
The page title is only one word.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The General Council of the Bar, commonly known as the Bar Council, is the representative body for barristers in England and Wales.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (817 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
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
Server location: United States of America
The language is not specified in the HTML markup.
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)
The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
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
descriptionThe General Council of the Bar, commonly known as the Bar Council, is the representative body for barristers in England and Wales.
robotsindex,follow
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
og:titleHomepage
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://www.barcouncil.org.uk/
og:descriptionWelcome to Bar Council

Test up to 1.000 webpages of barcouncil.org.uk with our free plan!

Try For Free
No trial. It's just free!

Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 25.88 words is high.
This page contains 693 words. That's ok.
28.7% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
9 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.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 14 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...c7e45a350/HP-banner-white-background.jpgPhoto of wooden pegs, one which is red and pushed over, the rest of the pegs are upstanding and plain coloured. This image represents bullying
.../Home-page-banner-template-manifesto.pngPhoto of the top of the Old Bailey building
...ea84f9c2ba/HP-banner-remote-justice2.jpgA graphic of a laptop on a blue background, the laptop has an image of lady justice on the screen.
...88_4a7c7e45a350/BTB-website-carousel.pngBTB website carousel
...0/Cyber-Security-at-the-Bar-Carousel.jpgCyber Security at the Bar - Carousel
...0488_4a7c7e45a350/AI-guidance-report.pngBlue background with light blue graphics of a grid at the bottom.
...00488_4a7c7e45a350/lady-justice-grey.pnglady-justice-grey.png
...c00488_4a7c7e45a350/wellbeing-banner.pngwellbeing banner.png
...a3bdf7a1/Bar-Council-homepage-banner.jpgBar Council homepage banner.jpg
...690/Homepage-banner-for-policy-areas.jpgStatue of Lady Justice holding scales up high in their left hand and sword in their right hand.
...-Bar-2024-Website-image-610-x-395-mm.jpgBarrister's back wearing a wig and a gown with
...d06a73c240daa54e0774b8bbc26f0baa/CTA.jpgCTA.jpg
...6a73c240daa54e0774b8bbc26f0baa/Blogs.jpgBlogs.jpg

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 27 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Independent review of bullying and harassment at the Bar
H2 Manifesto for justice
H2 A lens on justice: The move to remote justice 2020 – 2024
H2 Back the Bar
H2 New Cyber Security at the Bar training
H2 New guidance on generative AI for the Bar
H2 Chambers Management Panel
H2 Wellbeing matters
H2 The Bar Council
H2 Policy work
H2 Russia sanctions
H2 In the press
H2 In the press Duplicate text
H2 Training and events
H2 BarTalk
H2 Our login portals
H4 View our statement from 25 February 2022
H4 Bar Council reaction to the King’s Speech
H4 Bar Council responds to 2024 judicial diversity statistics
H4 Chair of the Bar welcomes appointment of Richard Hermer KC as Attorney General
H4 We will work with new Lord Chancellor to rebuild the justice system - Bar Council Chair
H4 Support the Bar Council
H4 Foundation mediation training
H4 Handling challenging behaviour amongst barristers in chambers
H4 Mexico Development Visit 2024
H4 Bar Sustainability Network: Lowering Emissions and Raising Awareness
H5 Bar Council online support services
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.barcouncil.org.uk/No Text
https://www.mybar.org.uk/login...New window External Subdomain MyBar
A-TITLE My Bar
/useful-information/contact-us...New window Subdomain Contact
A-TITLE Contact Us
https://www.barcouncil.org.uk/Anchor Accessibility
/about.htmlSubdomain About us and the Bar
/about/about-the-bar.htmlSubdomain About the Bar
/about/bar-council-governance....Subdomain Bar Council governance
/about/the-bar-council-team.htmlSubdomain The Bar Council team
/about/the-barristers-foundati...Subdomain The Barristers' Foundation
/about/bar-representation-fee....Subdomain Bar Representation Fee (BRF)
/find-a-barrister.htmlSubdomain Find a barrister
/becoming-a-barrister.htmlSubdomain Becoming a barrister
/becoming-a-barrister/school-s...Subdomain School and college students
/becoming-a-barrister/students...Subdomain University students and graduates
/becoming-a-barrister/pupil-ba...Subdomain Pupil barristers
/support-for-barristers.htmlSubdomain Support for barristers
/support-for-barristers/ethics...Subdomain Ethics guidance
/support-for-barristers/equali...Subdomain Equality, diversity and inclusion
/support-for-barristers/bullyi...Subdomain Bullying and harassment
/support-for-barristers/wellbe...Subdomain Wellbeing and career support
/support-for-barristers/intern...Subdomain International
/support-for-barristers/employ...Subdomain Employed Bar
/support-for-barristers/young-...Subdomain Young Bar
/support-for-barristers/suppor...Subdomain Support in disputes
/support-for-barristers/barris...Subdomain Barristers' Working Lives
/support-for-barristers/it-and...Subdomain IT and GDPR support
/bar-council-services.htmlSubdomain Bar Council services
/bar-council-services/for-barr...Subdomain For barristers
/bar-council-services/for-cham...Subdomain For chambers and AETOs
/bar-council-services/for-the-...Subdomain For the public
/training-events.htmlSubdomain Training and events
/training-events/training-and-...Subdomain Training and workshops
/training-events/conferences-a...Subdomain Conferences and seminars
/training-events/bespoke-train...Subdomain Bespoke training
/training-events/calendar.htmlSubdomain Calendar
/policy-representation.htmlSubdomain Policy & representation
/policy-representation/policy-...Subdomain Policy issues
/policy-representation/consult...Subdomain Consultations
/policy-representation/work-in...Subdomain Work in Parliament
/policy-representation/dashboa...Subdomain Dashboards
/media-campaigns.htmlSubdomain Media & campaigns
/media-campaigns/campaigns.htmlSubdomain Campaigns
/media-campaigns/press-release...Subdomain Press releases
/media-campaigns/blogs.htmlSubdomain Blogs
/media-campaigns/newsletters.htmlSubdomain Newsletters
/media-campaigns/counsel-magaz...Subdomain Counsel magazine
/media-campaigns/speeches.htmlSubdomain Speeches
/media-campaigns/publications....Subdomain Publications
/media-campaigns/contributing-...Subdomain Contributing writers
https://www.mybar.org.uk/login...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate MyBar
A-TITLE My Bar
/useful-information/contact-us...New window Subdomain Text duplicate Contact
A-TITLE Contact Us
https://www.barcouncil.org.uk/Anchor Text duplicate Accessibility
/support-for-barristers/bullyi...New window Subdomain Submit your views
A-TITLE Submit your views
/resource/bar-council-manifest...Subdomain View manifesto
/resource/remote-justice-repor...Subdomain Find out more
/about/bar-representation-fee....New window Subdomain Text duplicate Find out more
A-TITLE #BacktheBar - support our vital work in representing the profession, promoting the Bar, and championing fair access to justice in England and Wales.
/training-events/cyber-securit...New window Subdomain Book the course
/resource/new-guidance-on-gene...Subdomain Read the guidance
/bar-council-services/for-cham...New window Subdomain Text duplicate Find out more
/resource/wellbeing-matters-to...New window Subdomain Text duplicate Find out more
/about/bar-council-governance/...Subdomain Current vacancies
/policy-representation/policy-...Subdomain Policy areas and issues
A-TITLE Policy issues
http://www.barcouncilethics.co...External Subdomain Text duplicate Ethics guidance
A-TITLE Ethics and practice hub
http://www.wellbeingatthebar.o...External Subdomain Wellbeing support
A-TITLE Wellbeing at the Bar
http://www.directaccessportal....New window External Subdomain Direct Access Portal
A-TITLE Direct Access Portal
/useful-information/russia-san...Subdomain View our statement from 25 February
/resource/bar-council-reaction...Subdomain Bar Council reaction to the King’s Speech
/resource/bar-council-responds...Subdomain Bar Council responds to 2024 judicial diversity statistics
/resource/chair-of-the-bar-wel...Subdomain Chair of the Bar welcomes appointment of Richard Hermer KC as Attorney General
/resource/we-will-work-with-ne...Subdomain We will work with new Lord Chancellor to rebuild the justice system - Bar Council Chair
/media-campaigns/press-release...New window Subdomain See all news
/about/bar-representation-fee....New window Subdomain Text duplicate Find out more
/training-events/calendar/foun...Subdomain Foundation mediation training
/training-events/calendar/hand...Subdomain Handling challenging behaviour amongst barristers in chambers
/training-events/calendar/mexi...Subdomain Mexico Development Visit 2024
/training-events/calendar/lowe...Subdomain Bar Sustainability Network: Lowering Emissions and Raising Awareness
/training-events/calendar.htmlSubdomain See all events
/media-campaigns/newsletters/b...Subdomain Sign Up
/login-portals.htmlSubdomain View page
https://www.barcouncil.org.uk/No Text
/useful-information/help.htmlSubdomain Help
/useful-information/site-infor...Subdomain Site information
/useful-information/terms-cond...Subdomain Terms & conditions
/useful-information/cookies.htmlSubdomain Cookies
/useful-information/privacy-st...New window Subdomain Privacy Statement
A-TITLE Privacy Statement
/useful-information/contact-us...New window Subdomain Contact Us
A-TITLE Contact Us
/resource/complaints-policy.htmlNew window Subdomain Complaints
https://www.barcouncil.org.uk/Anchor Text duplicate Accessibility
https://twitter.com/thebarcouncilExternal No Text
https://www.facebook.com/theba...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain No Text
http://pixl8.co.uk/New window External Design & Development by Pixl8

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.barcouncil.org.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.65 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (45 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateTue, 23 Jul 2024 10:51:26 GMT
content-typetext/html;charset=UTF-8
set-cookie93 Characters
varyAccept-Encoding
x-cacheingress: BYPASS, nginx: HIT, fpc: HIT
x-frame-optionsDENY
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-download-optionsnoopen
x-permitted-cross-domain-policiesnone
strict-transport-securitymax-age=15552000; preload
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
report-to{"endpoints":[{"url":"https:\/\/a.nel.cloudflare.com\/report\/v4?s=pC4jl7MGzz0MqL2uaXytv7aF1eZJ2xE2AggmDtR1ywCn98gpyZET2msKp53D%2B4kEcxApNJcCZQGW01y75%2BhqYrYDXINm15j6okQyrbSfJht8jBvrUU%2FrysGqaP8HmkuSo4I9eyp9p6o%3D"}],"group":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}
nel{"success_fraction":0,"report_to":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}
servercloudflare
cf-ray8a7b1d7dfd989a1e-FRA
content-encodinggzip
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,471 referring domains.
This page has 165,922 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,333 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

Similar sites

Search preview

www.barcouncil.org.uk
Homepage
The General Council of the Bar, commonly known as the Bar Council, is the representative body for barristers in England and Wales.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Council70%Check
Bar Council63%Check
Bar61%Check
General Council58%Check
barrister52%Check
Barristers50%Check
Bar Representation48%Check
Support barristers48%Check
General47%Check
justice46%Check
Show more keywords and terms

Test up to 1.000 webpages of barcouncil.org.uk with our free plan!

Try For Free
No trial. It's just free!

Cookie Policy

We use cookies to make our site work and also for analytics and advertising purposes. You can enable or disable optional cookies as desired. See the following links for more information.

Contact | Privacy

We need these so the site can function properly

So we can better understand how visitors use our website

So we can serve you tailored ads and promotions