New.newcastle.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
98% 
Page quality
45% 
Page structure
74% 
Link structure
80% 
Server
46% 
External factors
33% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.72 s
File size
76.70 kB
Words
364
Media files
7
Number of links
14 internal / 40 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Housing | Newcastle City Council
The length of the page title is perfect. (300 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
How to apply for council housing, rent a private property, get homelessness support and find affordable housing
The length of the meta description is perfect. (684 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://new.newcastle.gov.uk/housing
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)
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
descriptionHow to apply for council housing, rent a private property, get homelessness support and find affordable housing
GeneratorDrupal 10 (LocalGov Drupal | https://localgovdrupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
msapplication-configfavicons/browserconfig.xml
msapplication-TileColor#ffffff
theme-color#ffffff
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 364 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 42.33 words is high.
31.9% 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.
5 paragraphs were found on this page.
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)
This page loads 14 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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 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)
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
/sites/default/files/ncc-logo.pngNewcastle City Council
...c_theme/assets/images/icons/facebook.svgFacebook
...cc_theme/assets/images/icons/twitter.svgTwitter
...cc_theme/assets/images/icons/youtube.svgYouTube
..._theme/assets/images/icons/instagram.svgInstagram
...ncc_theme/assets/images/icons/tiktok.svgTiktok
...c_theme/assets/images/icons/linkedin.svgLinkedIn

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Housing
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (7 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Housing
H2 Main navigation
H2 Services menu
H2 Topics
H2 Improvements to our website
H2 Breadcrumbs
H2 Services List
H2 Contact us
H2 Your Community
H2 Popular Pages
H2 Footer
H3 Council housing
H3 Private housing
H3 Homelessness and living on the street
H3 Have your say as a council tenant
H3 Housing policies
H3 Shared Ownership Homes from the Council
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 too many external links (40) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/housingAnchor Skip to main content
https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Newcastle City Council
/council-electionsYour council
https://newcastle.gov.uk/newsExternal News
https://myportal.newcastle.gov...External Subdomain My portal
https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/s...External Subdomain Benefits
/births-deaths-marriages-cerem...Births, deaths, marriages and ceremonies
https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/s...External Subdomain Business
https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/s...External Subdomain Care and support
https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/s...External Subdomain Communities
/council-taxSubdomain Council tax
A-TITLE Pay your council tax, tell us you're moving, report a change in circumstances, find information on discounts, exemptions and reductions, and other help avail...
https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/s...External Subdomain Elections and voting
https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/s...External Subdomain Environment and waste
https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/s...External Subdomain Housing
https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/s...External Subdomain Jobs and careers
https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/s...External Subdomain Libraries and community hubs
https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/s...External Subdomain Licenses and permits
https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/s...External Subdomain Parking and bus lanes
https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/s...External Subdomain Planning, building and development
https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/s...External Subdomain Public health
https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/s...External Subdomain Roads, pavements and streets
https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/s...External Subdomain Schools, learning and childcare
https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/s...External Subdomain Asylum and refugees
https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/n...External Subdomain Climate change
https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/c...External Subdomain Cost of living support
https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/o...External Subdomain Newcastle and Gateshead clean air zone
A-TITLE Information on the clean air zone covering parts of Newcastle and Gateshead
https://new.newcastle.gov.uk/Home
https://newcastle.gov.uk/servi...External Find homelessness support
/housing/council-housing/repai...Request a council house repair
https://www.newcastlehomes.org...External Subdomain Apply for a council property
/housing/council-housing/my-ho...Pay your council home rent
https://newcastle.gov.uk/servi...External Building your own home
https://newcastle.gov.uk/servi...External Housing transfer
/housing/council-housingCouncil housing
/housing/private-housingPrivate housing
/housing/homelessness-living-s...Homelessness and living on the street
/housing/have-your-say-council...Have your say as a council tenant
/budget-policies-performance-d...Housing policies
/shared-ownership-homes-councilShared Ownership Homes from the Council
https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/c...External Subdomain Get in touch online
https://www.facebook.com/Newca...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Facebook
https://twitter.com/newcastleccExternal IMG-ALT Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/user/N...External Subdomain IMG-ALT YouTube
https://www.instagram.com/newc...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Instagram
https://www.tiktok.com/@newcas...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Tiktok
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain IMG-ALT LinkedIn
http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/jobsExternal Subdomain Jobs available
http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/se...External Subdomain School term dates
/council-taxSubdomain Text duplicate Council tax
A-TITLE Pay your council tax, tell us you're moving, report a change in circumstances, find information on discounts, exemptions and reductions, and other help avail...
http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/se...External Subdomain Car parks and street parking
http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/se...External Subdomain Search and comment on planning applications
https://newcastle.gov.uk/local...External Accessibility
https://newcastle.gov.uk/local...External Privacy
https://newcastle.gov.uk/local...External Terms and conditions

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
The checked page does not redirect to another URL.
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.72 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.
This page loads 46 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 14 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (77 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSat, 05 Oct 2024 14:21:21 GMT
x-powered-byPHP/8.2.24
cache-controlmust-revalidate, no-cache, private
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
content-languageen
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cacheMISS
content-security-policydefault-src https: data: 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval'
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
content-length9258
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
referrer-policyno-referrer-when-downgrade
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 3 referring domains.
This page only has 28 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 3 different ip addresses.
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

You can find more links using Wikipedia search

Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# 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.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/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
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

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Housing | Newcastle City Council
How to apply for council housing, rent a private property, get homelessness support and find affordable housing

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Housing83%Check
council housing75%Check
council68%Check
Private housing68%Check
Affordable Housing66%Check
find affordable housing60%Check
City Council59%Check
Newcastle City Council58%Check
Newcastle54%Check
Newcastle City51%Check
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