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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.87 s
File size
71.80 kB
Words
482
Media files
12
Number of links
71 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Barnet Council | Barnet Council
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (283 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.barnet.gov.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
(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
GeneratorDrupal 9 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
og:site_nameBarnet Council
og:typeHomepage
og:urlhttps://www.barnet.gov.uk/
og:titleBarnet Council
og:updated_time2023-06-15T11:25:01+0100
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
No paragraphs were detected.
There are only 482 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
24.1% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
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=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 10 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
...s/images/png_icons/barnet-logo-green.pngLondon Borough of Barnet homepage
...et_council/assets/images/logos/green.pngBarnet Council
...sel/public/2023-11/HTH.jpg?itok=Gjbr9jA3Hendon Town Hall
...sel/public/2023-11/HTH.jpg?itok=Gjbr9jA3Hendon Town Hall
...sel/public/2023-11/HTH.jpg?itok=Gjbr9jA3Hendon Town Hall
...lic/2024-07/Fly-tip5_0.jpg?itok=eQykYO0kCouncil crews clearing a fly-tip
...tay Alive bus stop pic.jpg?itok=lJVniHa_Stay Alive bus stop campaign poster
...ages/svg_icons/social_media/facebook.svgFacebook logo
...mages/svg_icons/social_media/twitter.svgTwitter logo
...ges/svg_icons/social_media/instagram.svgInstagram logo
...mages/svg_icons/social_media/youtube.svgYouTube logo
...s/images/png_icons/barnet-logo-green.pngLondon Borough of Barnet homepage

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 40 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 Elections and voting
H2 Cost of living
H2 Council Tax
H2 Parking
H2 Recycling and waste
H2 Planning and building
H2 Schools and education
H2 Your council
H2 Community
H2 Libraries
H2 Benefits, grants and financial help
H2 Jobs, training and skills
H2 Children and families
H2 Adult social care
H2 Births, deaths and marriages
H2 Housing
H2 Environmental problems
H2 Roads and pavements
H2 Parks, sport and leisure
H2 Health and wellbeing
H2 Business
H2 Licences, permits and registrations
H2 Digital Barnet
H2 Regeneration
H2 Sustainability
H2 Nationality and citizenship
H2 Young People
H2 Welcome to Barnet
H2 Promoted news and events carousel
H2 Barnet Council Leader thanks communities for peaceful response to threat of far-right demonstration
H2 Barnet Council Leader addresses social media claims about North Finchley demonstration
H2 Barnet Council's statement on the outbreak of Islamophobic, anti-immigrant and racist violence
H2 Fly-tipping crackdown launched by Barnet Council
H2 Barnet's Suicide Prevention Campaign ‘may have helped save 10 lives’, finds Middlesex University report
H2 Featured consultations
H2 A to Z of Services
H2 Follow us
H3 Stay up to date with the council's news and consultation on local issues
H3 Get involved
H3 What's on
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.barnet.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.barnet.gov.uk/IMG-ALT London Borough of Barnet homepage
A-TITLE London Borough of Barnet homepage
/accessibility-tools-and-our-s...Accessibility tools
https://account.barnet.gov.uk/...External Subdomain Sign in/Register to My Account
/elections-and-votingElections and voting Register to vote, Election results, Electoral Register
/benefits-grants-and-financial...Subdomain Cost of living Support and assistance
/council-taxCouncil Tax Payments, support, discounts
https://www.barnet.gov.uk/parkingParking Permits, Tickets, Penalty Charge Notices
/recyclingSubdomain Recycling and waste Bin updates, garden waste, household and business collections
/planning-and-building-controlPlanning and building Planning applications, Building Control
/schools-and-educationSchools and education Admissions, School holidays, Catchment areas
/your-councilYour council Councillors, Policies and plans, Council meetings
/communityCommunity Community safety, report hate crime, Middle East conflict
/librariesLibraries Find a library, Renew a book
/benefits-grants-and-financial...Benefits, grants and financial help Housing Benefit, Universal Credit
/jobs-training-and-skillsJobs, training and skills Employment in Barnet, training and skills support
/children-and-familiesChildren and families Worried about a child, Child care, Fostering and adoption
/adult-social-careAdult social care Keeping safe, Specialist support, Caring for someone
/births-deaths-and-ceremoniesBirths, deaths and marriages Register a birth or death, Give notice of a marriage
https://www.barnet.gov.uk/housingHousing Affordable and social housing, Information for tenants and landlords
/environmental-problemsEnvironmental problems Fly-tipping, Dog fouling, Noise pollution
/roads-and-pavementsRoads and pavements Report a pothole, Apply for a lowered kerb
/parks-sport-and-leisureParks, sport and leisure Find a park, Walks and trails
/health-and-wellbeingHealth and wellbeing Keeping active, Sexual health, Children's health
/businessBusiness Business rates, Consumer advice, Trading standards
/licensingLicences, permits and registrations Apply for a licence, Check the register
/digital-barnetDigital Barnet Learn digital skills and get online
/regenerationRegeneration Regeneration schemes, Growth areas
/sustainabilitySustainability What we're doing and what you can do
/nationality-and-citizenshipNationality and citizenship Citizenship ceremonies, EU Settlement Scheme
/young-peopleYoung People Youth activities, Youth and democracy
/welcome-barnetWelcome to Barnet Essential services for new residents
/news/allSubdomain news
http://engage.barnet.gov.uk/External Subdomain consultation on local issues
/news/barnet-council-leader-th...More on the "Barnet Council Leader thanks communities for peaceful response to threat of far-right demonstration" Article
/news/barnet-council-leader-ad...More on the "Barnet Council Leader addresses social media claims about North Finchley demonstration" Article
/news/barnet-councils-statemen...More on the "Barnet Council's statement on the outbreak of Islamophobic, anti-immigrant and racist violence" Article
/news/fly-tipping-crackdown-la...More on the "Fly-tipping crackdown launched by Barnet Council" Article
/news/barnets-suicide-preventi...More on the "Barnet's Suicide Prevention Campaign ‘may have helped save 10 lives’, finds Middlesex University report" Article
https://engage.barnet.gov.uk/External Subdomain Engage Barnet
/node/5197Volunteering opportunities
https://www.barnet.gov.uk/eventsEvents in Barnet
A-TITLE events in Barnet
/glossaryA
A-TITLE A
/glossaryB
A-TITLE B
/glossaryC
A-TITLE C
/glossaryD
A-TITLE D
/glossaryE
A-TITLE E
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A-TITLE P
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A-TITLE T
/glossaryU
A-TITLE U
/glossaryV
A-TITLE V
/glossaryW
A-TITLE W
/glossaryY
A-TITLE Y
https://www.facebook.com/Barne...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Facebook logo
https://twitter.com/barnetcouncilExternal IMG-ALT Twitter logo
https://www.instagram.com/barn...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Instagram logo
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain IMG-ALT YouTube logo
https://www.barnet.gov.uk/Text duplicate IMG-ALT London Borough of Barnet homepage
A-TITLE Home
/your-council/contact-councilContacting the council
http://www.barnet.gov.uk/news/allSubdomain News stories
/directories/council-buildingsSubdomain Council offices
/events/allSubdomain All Events
/your-council/contact-council/...Complaints
/your-council/policies-plans-a...Accessibility statement
/your-council/policies-plans-a...Cookies
https://www.gov.uk/External GOV.UK
https://fa-exnu-saasfaprod1.fa...External Subdomain Jobs at Barnet
/your-council/policies-plans-a...Privacy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.barnet.gov.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 0.87 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 (72 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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x-ua-compatibleIE=edge
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modifiedThu, 08 Aug 2024 18:53:27 GMT
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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 3,378 referring domains.
This page has 251,317 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,715 different ip addresses.

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# you save bandwidth and server resources.
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# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
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# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /media/oembed
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Barnet Council64%Check
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Barnet Council Leader54%Check
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news47%Check
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