Bristol.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
93% 
Page quality
54% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
80% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.83 s
File size
38.50 kB
Words
349
Media files
6
Number of links
88 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Bristol City Council
The page title is too short. (169 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
About Bristol City Council services, including council tax, bins and recycling and schools. Postal address: City Hall, PO Box 3399, Bristol BS1 9NE
The length of the meta description is perfect. (899 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
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)
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
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
descriptionAbout Bristol City Council services, including council tax, bins and recycling and schools. Postal address: City Hall, PO Box 3399, Bristol BS1 9NE
langen-gb
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:descriptionInformation about Bristol City Council services, including council tax, bins and recycling and schools. Postal address: City Hall, PO Box 3399, Bristol BS1 9NE
twitter:siteEmpty
twitter:titleHome
fb:app_idEmpty
og:descriptionInformation about Bristol City Council services, including council tax, bins and recycling and schools. Postal address: City Hall, PO Box 3399, Bristol BS1 9NE
og:imagehttps://www.bristol.gov.uk/images/General/Logos/BCC_colour-png.png
og:site_nameBristol City Council
og:titleHome
og:typearticle
og:urlhttps://www.bristol.gov.uk/
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 349 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
20.9% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
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 17 words is good.
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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 7 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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
.../Logos/BCC-logo-spot-white-text-dots.pngBristol City Council
...epage hero images/harbour - homepage.jpgView of the Bristol Harbour
...neral/Promos/Advice AId promo. small.jpgA man in a green jacket looking at a mobile phone
... elections/British passport Voter ID.jpgA hand passing another hand a blue passport, a yellow sheet of paper on a white table underneath the hands
...lyHubs2023LisaWhitingPhotography-446.jpgA group of mums playing with their babies together.
.../Logos/BCC-logo-spot-white-text-dots.pngBristol City Council

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Bristol City Council services
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Bristol City Council services
H2 bristol.gov.uk
H2 Help with housing
H2 Voting and elections
H2 Parenting
H3 Empty heading
H3 Council Tax
H3 Bins and recycling
H3 Schools, learning and early years
H3 Parking
H3 Streets and travel
H3 Libraries and archives
H3 Benefits and financial help
H3 Housing
H3 Planning and building regulations
H3 Births, deaths, marriages and citizenship
H3 Jobs and training
H3 Social care and health
H3 Pests, pollution, noise and food
H3 Museums, parks, sports and culture
H3 Crime and emergencies
H3 People and communities
H3 Get housing advice
H3 Voter ID
H3 Join a Bristol Family Hub parent and carer group
H4 Follow us:
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 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.bristol.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to content
A-TITLE Skip to content
https://www.bristol.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to navigation
A-TITLE Skip to navigation
https://www.bristol.gov.uk/Subdomain bristol.gov.uk
IMG-ALT Bristol City Council
/your-accountsYour accounts
https://www.bristol.gov.uk/For residents
/businessFor business
/councilCouncil
/pay-council-bills-fines-and-i...Pay online
/residents/bins-and-recycling/...Find your bin collection day
/residents/streets-travel/bris...Bristol's Clean Air Zone
/residents/benefits-and-financ...Benefits and financial help
/bristol-local-offerBristol's SEND Local Offer: SEND support and information
/residents/streets-travel/repo...Report a street issue
/residents/council-taxCouncil Tax
/residents/council-tax/paymentsPayments
/residents/council-tax/changes...Moving and changes
/residents/council-tax/discoun...Discounts and exemptions
/residents/bins-and-recyclingBins and recycling
/residents/bins-and-recycling/...Bin collection day finder
/residents/bins-and-recycling/...Report a missed collection
/residents/bins-and-recycling/...New bin or recycling box
/residents/schools-learning-an...Schools, learning and early years
/residents/schools-learning-an...School closures
/residents/schools-learning-an...School admissions
/residents/schools-learning-an...School term and holiday dates
/residents/parkingParking
/residents/parking/parking-fin...Pay parking fines
/residents/parking/residents-p...Residents' parking
/residents/parking/disabled-pa...Disabled parking: Blue badge
/residents/streets-travelStreets and travel
/residents/streets-travel/bris...Clean Air Zone
/residents/streets-travel/road...Temporary road closures and traffic restrictions
/residents/streets-travel/repo...Text duplicate Report a street issue
/residents/libraries-and-archivesLibraries and archives
/residents/libraries-and-archi...Join the library
/residents/libraries-and-archi...Find a library
/residents/libraries-and-archi...Library online resources
/residents/benefits-and-financ...Text duplicate Benefits and financial help
/residents/benefits-and-financ...Housing Benefit
/residents/benefits-and-financ...Council Tax Reduction
/residents/benefits-and-financ...Help with money and debt problems
/residents/housingHousing
/residents/housing/council-ten...Council tenants and leaseholders
/residents/housing/council-ten...Report a repair
/residents/housing/help-with-h...Help with housing
/residents/planning-and-buildi...Planning and building regulations
/residents/planning-and-buildi...Make a planning application
/residents/planning-and-buildi...Building regulations application
/residents/planning-and-buildi...Planning permission
/residents/births-deaths-marri...Births, deaths, marriages and citizenship
/residents/births-deaths-marri...Register a birth
/residents/births-deaths-marri...Register a death
/residents/births-deaths-marri...Marriages and civil partnerships
/residents/jobs-and-trainingJobs and training
/residents/jobs-and-training/e...Education jobs
/residents/jobs-and-training/j...Jobs with the council
/residents/social-care-and-healthSocial care and health
/residents/social-care-and-hea...Adults and older people
/residents/social-care-and-hea...Children and families
/residents/social-care-and-hea...Carers
/residents/pests-pollution-noi...Pests, pollution, noise and food
/residents/pests-pollution-noi...Air quality
/residents/pests-pollution-noi...Pest control
/residents/pests-pollution-noi...Noise complaints
/residents/museums-parks-sport...Museums, parks, sports and culture
/residents/museums-parks-sport...Swimming pools, leisure centres and sports facilities
/residents/museums-parks-sport...Report a problem with a tree
/residents/crime-and-emergenciesCrime and emergencies
/residents/crime-and-emergenci...Domestic abuse
/residents/crime-and-emergenci...Anti-social behaviour
/residents/crime-and-emergenci...Emergencies
/residents/people-and-communitiesPeople and communities
/residents/people-and-communit...Cost of living support
/residents/people-and-communit...My neighbourhood search
/residents/people-and-communit...Liveable neighbourhoods
/residents/housing/help-with-h...IMG-ALT A man in a green jacket looking at a mobile phone
/residents/housing/help-with-h...Get housing advice
/council/voting-and-elections/...IMG-ALT A hand passing another hand a blue passport, a yellow sheet of paper on a white table underneath the hands
/council/voting-and-elections/...Voter ID
/bristol-family-hubs/parenting...IMG-ALT A group of mums playing with their babies together.
/bristol-family-hubs/parenting...Join a Bristol Family Hub parent and carer group
https://news.bristol.gov.uk/External Subdomain Newsroom
https://subscribe.emailblaster...External Subdomain Newsletter
https://digital.bristol.gov.uk...New window External Subdomain Tell us about a problem with a form, page or online account
/contactContact
/contact/complaints-and-feedbackComplaints and feedback
/council/about-our-website/coo...Cookies
/council/about-our-website/pri...Privacy
/council/about-our-website/web...Accessibility
https://www.bristol.gov.uk/IMG-ALT Bristol City Council
A-TITLE Go to the https://bristol.gov.uk homepage
http://www.facebook.com/Bristo...New window External Subdomain Facebook
http://www.twitter.com/bristol...New window External Subdomain Twitter
http://www.youtube.com/bristol...New window External Subdomain Youtube
https://nextdoor.co.uk/agency-...New window External Nextdoor
https://www.instagram.com/bris...New window External Subdomain Instagram
/council/about-our-website/cop...Copyright © 2025 Bristol City Council

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.bristol.gov.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 of 0.83 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 (39 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSat, 26 Apr 2025 10:51:02 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-length8734
set-cookie94 Characters
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
cross-origin-opener-policysame-origin
expiresWed, 17 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT
cache-controlno-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
pragmano-cache
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
last-modifiedSat, 26 Apr 2025 10:51:02 GMT
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
content-security-policydefault-src * data: blob: filesystem: about: ws: wss: 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-dynamic'; script-src * data: blob: 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval'; connect-src * data: blob: 'unsafe-inline'; img-src * data: blob: 'unsafe-inline'; frame-src * data: blob: ; style-src * data: blob: 'unsafe-inline'; font-src * data: blob: 'unsafe-inline'; frame-ancestors * data: blob: 'unsafe-inline';
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 8,269 referring domains.
This page has 496,299 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 3,460 different ip addresses.

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Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /bin/
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /cli/
Disallow: /components/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /installation/
Disallow: /language/
Disallow: /layouts/
Disallow: /libraries/
Disallow: /logs/
Disallow: /modules/
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Disallow: /tmp/
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Bristol City Council
About Bristol City Council services, including council tax, bins and recycling and schools. Postal address: City Hall, PO Box 3399, Bristol BS1 9NE

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Bristol City Council84%Check
Council81%Check
City Council80%Check
Bristol City Council services80%Check
Council Tax67%Check
services62%Check
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