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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
45% 
Page structure
99% 
Link structure
70% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.12 s
File size
59.50 kB
Words
399
Media files
3
Number of links
7 internal / 74 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
HSE website - Health Service Executive - HSE.ie
The length of the page title is perfect. (438 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Health Service Executive (HSE) provides public health and social care services to everyone living in Ireland. The HSE.ie website describes and gives contact details for all Health Services, is home to the Health A-Z database of medical conditions and treatments, and give details of HSE Organisational Structure, Staff Information, Publications and Online Services.
The meta description is too long: 2265 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.hse.ie/
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
descriptionThe Health Service Executive (HSE) provides public health and social care services to everyone living in Ireland. The HSE.ie website describes and gives contact details for all Health Services, is home to the Health A-Z database of medical conditions and treatments, and give details of HSE Organisational Structure, Staff Information, Publications and Online Services.
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
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msapplication-TileColor#006858
msapplication-square70x70logohttps://assets.hse.ie/static/hse-frontend/assets/favicons/smalltile-70x70.png
msapplication-square150x150logohttps://assets.hse.ie/static/hse-frontend/assets/favicons/mediumtile-150x150.png
msapplication-wide310x150logohttps://assets.hse.ie/static/hse-frontend/assets/favicons/widetile-310x150.png
msapplication-square310x310logohttps://assets.hse.ie/static/hse-frontend/assets/favicons/largetile-310x310.png
langen
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:imagehttps://assets.hse.ie/media/images/HSE_1200x628.max-1200x675_8obkuDp.png
twitter:siteEmpty
twitter:titleHome
twitter:descriptionThe Health Service Executive (HSE) provides public health and social care services to everyone living in Ireland. The HSE.ie website describes and gives contact details for all Health Services, is home to the Health A-Z database of medical conditions and treatments, and give details of HSE Organisational Structure, Staff Information, Publications and Online Services.
og:site_nameHSE.ie
og:urlhttps://www.hse.ie/
og:typeEmpty
og:titleHome
og:descriptionThe Health Service Executive (HSE) provides public health and social care services to everyone living in Ireland. The HSE.ie website describes and gives contact details for all Health Services, is home to the Health A-Z database of medical conditions and treatments, and give details of HSE Organisational Structure, Staff Information, Publications and Online Services.
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charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 399 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
28.8% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
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 11 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" 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 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
...pp_home_promo2.2e16d0ba.fill-320x190.pngNo alt attribute provided
...-image.2e16d0ba.fill-320x190_PWeqmSA.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...d_it_be_Sepsis.2e16d0ba.fill-320x190.jpgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Your health service
The H1 heading is too short (19 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Your health service
H2 Health A to Z
H2 Living well
H2 Health topics
H2 COVID-19
H2 Screening and vaccinations
H2 Featured
H2 More on HSE.ie
H2 HSE Live - we're here to help
H2 Support links
H3 Warning notification:Warning
H3 Services
H3 Schemes and allowances
H3 HSE Health App
H3 COVID-19 spring booster vaccine
H3 Could it be sepsis?
H3 Topics
H3 About the HSE
H3 HSE Staff
There are too few (7) internal links on this page.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (74) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.hse.ie/Anchor Skip to main content
https://about.hse.ie/jobs/job-...External Subdomain Jobs
https://healthservice.hse.ie/s...External Subdomain HSE Staff
https://about.hse.ie/External Subdomain About the HSE
https://www.hse.ie/No Text
https://www2.hse.ie/services/s...External Subdomain Medical cards
https://www2.hse.ie/services/s...External Subdomain European Health Insurance Card (EHIC)
https://www2.hse.ie/services/u...External Subdomain Find urgent and emergency care
https://www2.hse.ie/services/b...External Subdomain Find a civil registration service
https://www2.hse.ie/services/s...External Subdomain GP visit cards
https://www2.hse.ie/conditions/External Subdomain Health A to Z
https://www2.hse.ie/services/External Subdomain Services
https://www2.hse.ie/living-well/External Subdomain Living well
https://www2.hse.ie/mental-hea...External Subdomain Mental health
https://www2.hse.ie/pregnancy-...External Subdomain Pregnancy and birth
https://www2.hse.ie/babies-chi...External Subdomain Babies and children
https://about.hse.ie/jobs/job-...External Subdomain Text duplicate Jobs
https://healthservice.hse.ie/s...External Subdomain Text duplicate HSE Staff
https://about.hse.ie/External Subdomain Text duplicate About the HSE
https://www2.hse.ie/conditions/External Subdomain Text duplicate Health A to Z
https://www2.hse.ie/services/External Subdomain Text duplicate Services
https://www2.hse.ie/living-wellExternal Subdomain Living Well
https://www.google.com/intl/en...External Subdomain Chrome
A-TITLE Chrome
https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...External Subdomain Edge
A-TITLE Edge
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/...External Subdomain FireFox
A-TITLE FireFox
https://www.opera.com/External Subdomain Opera
A-TITLE Opera
https://www.apple.com/safari/External Subdomain Safari
A-TITLE Safari
https://www2.hse.ie/conditions/External Subdomain Text duplicate Health A to Z
https://www2.hse.ie/living-well/External Subdomain Text duplicate Living well
https://www2.hse.ie/services/f...External Subdomain Find a GP out of hours
https://www2.hse.ie/services/f...External Subdomain Text duplicate Find urgent and emergency care
https://www2.hse.ie/services/f...External Subdomain Find a GP
https://www2.hse.ie/services/b...External Subdomain Text duplicate Find a civil registration service
https://www2.hse.ie/services/External Subdomain See all services
https://www2.hse.ie/services/s...External Subdomain Text duplicate Medical cards
https://www2.hse.ie/services/s...External Subdomain Text duplicate European Health Insurance Card (EHIC)
https://www2.hse.ie/services/s...External Subdomain Drugs payment scheme
https://www2.hse.ie/services/s...External Subdomain Text duplicate GP visit cards
https://www2.hse.ie/services/s...External Subdomain See all schemes and allowances
https://www2.hse.ie/conditions...External Subdomain Norovirus
https://www2.hse.ie/conditions...External Subdomain Sepsis
https://www2.hse.ie/conditions...External Subdomain Slapped cheek syndrome
https://www2.hse.ie/medicines/External Subdomain Medicines A to Z
https://www2.hse.ie/conditions...External Subdomain Learn more about COVID-19
https://www2.hse.ie/screening-...External Subdomain Go to screening and vaccinations
https://www2.hse.ie/health-app/External Subdomain HSE Health App Find out more about our new app
https://www2.hse.ie/screening-...External Subdomain COVID-19 spring booster vaccine Find out if a spring booster is recommended for you
https://www2.hse.ie/conditions...External Subdomain Could it be sepsis? Get information on what sepsis is and symptoms to watch out for
/eng/services/mhml/Subdomain My health my language
https://www.healthpromotion.ie/External Subdomain Order HSE resources
https://www2.hse.ie/services/u...External Subdomain Urgent and emergency care report (daily)
/eng/staff/pcrs/Subdomain PCRS online services
https://www2.hse.ie/conditions/External Subdomain Text duplicate Health A to Z
https://www2.hse.ie/pregnancy-...External Subdomain Text duplicate Pregnancy and birth
https://www2.hse.ie/babies-chi...External Subdomain Text duplicate Babies and children
https://www2.hse.ie/mental-hea...External Subdomain Text duplicate Mental health
https://www2.hse.ie/living-well/External Subdomain Text duplicate Living well
https://www2.hse.ie/services/External Subdomain Text duplicate Services
https://www2.hse.ie/screening-...External Subdomain Screening and vaccinations
https://about.hse.ie/our-work/External Subdomain Our work
https://about.hse.ie/leadershi...External Subdomain Leadership and operations
https://about.hse.ie/health-re...External Subdomain Health regions
https://about.hse.ie/organisat...External Subdomain Teams
https://about.hse.ie/news/External Subdomain News
https://about.hse.ie/publicati...External Subdomain Publications
https://about.hse.ie/jobs/job-...External Subdomain Text duplicate Jobs
http://healthservice.hse.ie/st...External Subdomain Benefits
http://healthservice.hse.ie/st...External Subdomain Training
http://healthservice.hse.ie/st...External Subdomain Staff news
https://www.facebook.com/HSElive/New window External Subdomain HSE Facebook
https://instagram.com/irishhea...New window External HSE Instagram
https://www.tiktok.com/@hseliveNew window External Subdomain HSE TikTok
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain HSE YouTube
https://ie.linkedin.com/compan...New window External Subdomain HSE LinkedIn
https://twitter.com/HSELiveNew window External HSE X (Twitter)
https://www2.hse.ie/services/h...External Subdomain Complaints and feedback
https://www2.hse.ie/services/f...External Subdomain Emergencies
/eng/cookie-policy/Subdomain Cookie statement
https://www2.hse.ie/accessibil...External Subdomain Accessibility
/eng/privacy-statement/Subdomain Privacy statement
/eng/disclaimer/Subdomain Disclaimer

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
The checked page does not redirect to another URL.
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 is excellent with 0.12 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (60 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
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expiresTue, 06 May 2025 10:19:19 GMT
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referrer-policysame-origin
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content-languageen-ie
x-frame-optionsDENY
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x-fd-int-roxy-purgeid83931889
x-cacheTCP_MISS
content-encodingbr
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 485 referring domains.
This page has 18,116 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 419 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

# robots.txt 
User-agent: *
Disallow: 
Disallow: /go/
Disallow: /eng/Find_a_Service/
Disallow: /eng/Find_a_Service/entitlements/Medical_Cards/
Disallow: /eng/Access_to_Information_PQs/
Disallow: /eng/Publications/
Disallow: /eng/About_the_hse/
Disallow: /eng/FactFile/
Disallow: /eng/HealthAtlas/
Disallow: /irl/
Disallow: /eng/rss.aspx/
Disallow: /eng/deleted_content/
Disallow: /eng/eservicestest/
Disallow: /eng/keepalive/
Disallow: /eng/services/A-Z/A-to-Z11/
Disallow: /eng/services/flu/A-Z/ 
Disallow: /Hidden_A-Z/ 
Disallow: /eng/services/flu/A-Z/
Disallow: /www.hse.ie/eng/Find_a_Service/
Disallow: /www.hse.ie/eng/Find_a_Service/entitlements/Medical_Cards/
Disallow: /www.hse.ie/eng/Access_to_Information_PQs/
Disallow: /www.hse.ie/eng/Publications/
Disallow: /www.hse.ie/eng/About_the_hse/
Disallow: /www.hse.ie/eng/FactFile/
Disallow: /www.hse.ie/eng/HealthAtlas/
Disallow: /www.hse.ie/irl/
Disallow: /www.healthireland.ie/irl/
Disallow: /www.hse.ie/eng/rss.aspx/
Disallow: /www.hse.ie/eng/deleted_content/
Disallow: /www.hse.ie/eng/eservicestest/
Disallow: /www.hse.ie/eng/keepalive/
Disallow: /www.hse.ie/eng/services/a-z/a-to-z11D
Disallow: /www.hse.ie/eng/services/flu/A-Z/
Disallow: /www.hse.ie/Hidden_A-Z/
Disallow: /Hidden_A-Z/
Disallow: /eng/services/flu/A-Z/
Disallow: /www.hse.ie/eng/services/flu/A-Z/
Disallow: /www.hse.ie/Hidden_A-Z/
Disallow: /www.hse.ie/eng/services/A-Z/A-toZ11/
Disallow: /www.hse.ie/eng/services/swineflu/A-Z/
Disallow: /www.hse.ie/eng/services/A-to-Z11/
Disallow: /eng/services/Publications/services/addiction/
Disallow: /eng/services/Publications/services/Bereavement/
Disallow: /eng/services/Publications/Dental_Services/
Disallow: /eng/services/Publications/services/Disability/
Disallow: /eng/services/Publications/services/Environmentalhealth/
Disallow: /eng/services/Publications/services/Primary/
Disallow: /eng/services/Publications/services/olderpeople/
Disallow: /eng/services/Publications/services/SocialInclusion/
Disallow: /portal/eng/about/rialtas/
Disallow: /eng/about/Procurement/
Disallow: /eng/about/PersonalPQ/
Disallow: /eng/services/hpv/
Disallow: /eng/services/flu/
Disallow: /eng/services/Find_a_Service/Addiction_Services/
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Disallow: /eng/services/Find_a_Service/entitlements/EHIC/
Disallow: /eng/services/Find_a_Service/bdm/
Disallow: /eng/services/Find_a_Service/National_Cancer_Control_Programme/
Disallow: /eng/services/Find_a_Service/Children_and_Family_Services/
Disallow: /eng/services/Find_a_Service/Disability_Services/
Disallow: /eng/services/Find_a_Service/Environmental_Health/
Disallow: /eng/services/Find_a_Service/Health_Centres/
Disallow: /eng/services/Find_a_Service/hospitals/
Disallow: /eng/services/Find_a_Service/LHO/
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Disallow: /eng/services/health/about/Hidden_A-Z/
Disallow: /www.hse.ie/eng/health/about/Hidden_A-Z/

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Health79%Check
Health Service78%Check
service77%Check
Health Service Executive74%Check
HSE website70%Check
Health Services66%Check
Health Information64%Check
Public Health61%Check
Health Screening60%Check
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