Citb.co.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
82% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
71% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.35 s
File size
71.80 kB
Words
930
Media files
14
Number of links
155 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
CITB: Construction Industry Training Board - CITB
The length of the page title is perfect. (450 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
CITB is the Industry Training Board for the construction industry and a partner in ConstructionSkills, the Sector Skills Council, devoted to building competitive advantage for the construction industry and the people who work in it
The meta description is too long: 1392 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.citb.co.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
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
application-nameCITB
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
descriptionCITB is the Industry Training Board for the construction industry and a partner in ConstructionSkills, the Sector Skills Council, devoted to building competitive advantage for the construction industry and the people who work in it
dc.titleCITB: Construction Industry Training Board - CITB
langen-us
twitter:urlhttps://www.citb.co.uk/
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@CITB_UK
twitter:titleCITB - Construction Industry Training Board
twitter:descriptionCITB is the Industry Training Board for the construction industry.
twitter:creator@CITB_UK
twitter:imagehttps://www.citb.co.uk/media/5yejmmr3/spring-engagement-banner-pic.jpg
og:urlhttps://www.citb.co.uk/
og:titleCITB - Construction Industry Training Board
og:typewebsite
og:descriptionCITB is the Industry Training Board for the construction industry and a partner in ConstructionSkills, the Sector Skills Council, devoted to building competitive advantage for the construction industry and the people who work in it
og:imagehttps://www.citb.co.uk/media/5yejmmr3/spring-engagement-banner-pic.jpg
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 930 words. That's ok.
29.6% 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.
7 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.
The average number of words per sentence of 18.18 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
Multiple viewport tags are given. There should only be one.
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 19 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
...-citb/default/images/logos/citb_logo.pngCITB: Construction Industry Training Board
...th=813&height=424&rnd=133836567441400000No alt attribute provided
/media/sk3l3cid/qualifications.pngQualification check
/media/0btjlwkc/training.pngTraining Organisations
/media/m5gp3uyp/health-safety.pngHealth Safety & Environment test
/media/vumlukyb/apprentice.pngCITB Apprenticeships
/media/h5xl05js/lm-banner.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/media/n2ulft4h/nest-homepage.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...-citb/default/images/logos/citb_logo.pngCITB: Construction Industry Training Board
...ia/0jwbmxoq/go-construct-on-light-en.pngin support of careers in the construction sector
...ault/images/logos/footer/bitc_colour.pngBITC - The Prince's Responsible Business Network
...efault/images/logos/footer/plain_eng.pngWebsite approved by Plain English Campaign

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
CITB: Construction Industry Training Board
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 CITB: Construction Industry Training Board
H2 National Apprenticeship Week 2025
H2 Qualification check
H2 Training Organisations
H2 Health Safety & Environment test
H2 CITB Apprenticeships
H2 Popular content
H2 Find out more about
H2 Latest news
H2 Latest blog
H2 Newsletter sign up
H2 Local information
H2 Connect with CITB
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 8 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.citb.co.uk/Anchor Skip to content
/levy-grants-and-funding/citb-...Subdomain Login / Sign up
/about-citb/contact-citb/Subdomain Contact CITB
https://www.citb.co.uk/cy-gb/Subdomain Cymraeg
https://www.citb.co.uk/IMG-ALT CITB: Construction Industry Training Board
/levy-grants-and-funding/Levy, grants and funding
/levy-grants-and-funding/citb-...CITB Levy
/levy-grants-and-funding/citb-...About the CITB Levy
/levy-grants-and-funding/citb-...Levy Return
/levy-grants-and-funding/citb-...How to pay the Levy
/levy-grants-and-funding/citb-...More CITB Levy
/levy-grants-and-funding/grant...Grants and funding
/levy-grants-and-funding/grant...About CITB Grants Scheme
/levy-grants-and-funding/grant...What you can get grant and funding for
/levy-grants-and-funding/grant...Apprenticeship grants
/levy-grants-and-funding/grant...More Grants and funding
/levy-grants-and-funding/funde...Funded Projects
/levy-grants-and-funding/funde...Funded projects library
/levy-grants-and-funding/funde...Current opportunities
/levy-grants-and-funding/funde...Live funded projects
/levy-grants-and-funding/indus...Industry consultation (Consensus)
/levy-grants-and-funding/indus...About Consensus
/levy-grants-and-funding/indus...Who is consulted?
/levy-grants-and-funding/indus...Levy Proposals and Consultation
/levy-grants-and-funding/indus...More Industry consultation (Consensus)
/levy-grants-and-funding/Text duplicate Levy, grants and funding
/courses-and-qualifications/Courses and qualifications
/courses-and-qualifications/fi...Find a training course
/courses-and-qualifications/fi...eCourses
/courses-and-qualifications/fi...Site Safety Plus courses
/courses-and-qualifications/fi...National Construction College (NCC)
/courses-and-qualifications/fi...More Find a training course
/courses-and-qualifications/ch...Check a card training record
/courses-and-qualifications/ch...Log into the portal
/courses-and-qualifications/ch...Online Card Checker
/courses-and-qualifications/ch...Fraudulent cards
/courses-and-qualifications/ch...More Check a card training record
/courses-and-qualifications/ci...CITB Apprenticeships
/courses-and-qualifications/ci...Take on an apprentice
/courses-and-qualifications/ci...Become a CITB apprentice
/courses-and-qualifications/he...Health Safety and environment HSE test and cards
/courses-and-qualifications/he...About the Health Safety and Environment HSE test
/courses-and-qualifications/he...Book a test
/courses-and-qualifications/he...Preparing for the test
/courses-and-qualifications/he...More Health Safety and environment HSE test and cards
/courses-and-qualifications/wo...Work experience programme
/courses-and-qualifications/Text duplicate Courses and qualifications
/standards-and-delivering-trai...Standards and delivering training
/standards-and-delivering-trai...Approved Training Organisations
/standards-and-delivering-trai...What is an Approved Training Organisation (ATO)?
/standards-and-delivering-trai...How to become ATO
/standards-and-delivering-trai...Support for ATOs
/standards-and-delivering-trai...More Approved Training Organisations
/standards-and-delivering-trai...Training standards
/standards-and-delivering-trai...Short training standards search
/standards-and-delivering-trai...About developing standards and qualifications
/standards-and-delivering-trai...National Occupational Standards (NOS)
/standards-and-delivering-trai...More Training standards
/standards-and-delivering-trai...Site Safety Plus SSP
/standards-and-delivering-trai...Courses available
/standards-and-delivering-trai...How to become a Site Safety Plus (SSP) centre
/standards-and-delivering-trai...Scheme rules
/standards-and-delivering-trai...More Site Safety Plus SSP
/standards-and-delivering-trai...Training Groups
/standards-and-delivering-trai...About Training Groups
/standards-and-delivering-trai...Find a Training Group
/standards-and-delivering-trai...Find a Training Group by speciality or trade
/standards-and-delivering-trai...More Training Groups
/standards-and-delivering-trai...National Specialist Accredited Centre (NSAC)
/standards-and-delivering-trai...NSAC support for specialist trade operatives
/standards-and-delivering-trai...Specialist applied skills programmes
/standards-and-delivering-trai...Guidance for registering onto a SAP
/standards-and-delivering-trai...More National Specialist Accredited Centre (NSAC)
/standards-and-delivering-trai...Health and safety publications and support materials
/standards-and-delivering-trai...GE700 companion content
/standards-and-delivering-trai...GE706 companion content
/standards-and-delivering-trai...GT700 companion content
/standards-and-delivering-trai...More Health and safety publications and support materials
/standards-and-delivering-trai...Recognised Organisations
/standards-and-delivering-trai...Do you provide accredited training standards?
/standards-and-delivering-trai...How you benefit as a CITB Recognised Organisation
/standards-and-delivering-trai...Sign up as a CITB Recognised Organisation
/standards-and-delivering-trai...Fairness, Inclusion and Respect
/standards-and-delivering-trai...Text duplicate Standards and delivering training
/about-citb/About CITB
/about-citb/what-we-do/What we do
/about-citb/what-we-do/our-role/Our role
/about-citb/what-we-do/plans-a...Plans and performance
/about-citb/what-we-do/citb-in...CITB in your local area
/about-citb/what-we-do/More What we do
/about-citb/people-and-governa...People and governance
/about-citb/people-and-governa...Board and Committees
/about-citb/people-and-governa...Our Councils
/about-citb/people-and-governa...Management Team
/about-citb/people-and-governa...More People and governance
/about-citb/construction-indus...Construction industry research reports
/about-citb/construction-indus...Search our construction industry research reports
/about-citb/construction-indus...Construction Skills Network CSN
/about-citb/construction-indus...Our methodology and service
/about-citb/construction-indus...More Construction industry research reports
/about-citb/partnerships-and-i...Partnerships and initiatives
/about-citb/partnerships-and-i...Asbestos
/about-citb/partnerships-and-i...Who we work with
/about-citb/partnerships-and-i...Construction design and management regulations 2015
/about-citb/partnerships-and-i...More Partnerships and initiatives
/about-citb/contact-citb/Text duplicate Contact CITB
/about-citb/contact-citb/conta...Contact us form
/about-citb/contact-citb/stay-...Stay up to date with CITB
/about-citb/contact-citb/fundi...Funding projects feedback
/about-citb/contact-citb/More Contact CITB
/about-citb/jobs-at-citb/Jobs at CITB
/about-citb/jobs-at-citb/what-...Text duplicate What we do
/about-citb/jobs-at-citb/locat...Locations
/about-citb/jobs-at-citb/worki...Working for us
/about-citb/jobs-at-citb/More Jobs at CITB
/about-citb/news-events-and-bl...News, events and blogs
/about-citb/news-events-and-bl...Search
/about-citb/news-events-and-bl...CITB Chief Executive Sarah Beale to leave next year
/about-citb/news-events-and-bl...Construction employers of Wales - CITB needs your help
/about-citb/news-events-and-bl...More News, events and blogs
/about-citb/suppliers/Suppliers
/about-citb/suppliers/tenderin...Tendering and procurement
/about-citb/suppliers/advertis...Advertised current frameworks
/about-citb/suppliers/procurem...Procurement opportunities
/about-citb/Text duplicate About CITB
/courses-and-qualifications/ci...Subdomain National Apprenticeship Week 2025
/courses-and-qualifications/ci...Subdomain Get involved
/courses-and-qualifications/ci...Subdomain Text duplicate National Apprenticeship Week 2025
/courses-and-qualifications/ch...Qualification check Check the skills of your workforce - check a card or training record
IMG-ALT Qualification check
/standards-and-delivering-trai...Training Organisations Register courses and upload qualifications - for Approved Training Providers (ATOs)
IMG-ALT Training Organisations
/courses-and-qualifications/he...Health Safety & Environment test Learn about the test, how to prepare & book
IMG-ALT Health Safety & Environment test
/courses-and-qualifications/ci...CITB Apprenticeships For employers looking to recruit an apprentice and applicants interested in a CITB Apprenticeship
IMG-ALT CITB Apprenticeships
/courses-and-qualifications/fi...Subdomain Text duplicate eCourses
A-TITLE eCourses
/courses-and-qualifications/he...Subdomain HS&E managers and professionals test
A-TITLE HS&E managers and professionals test
/about-citb/construction-indus...Subdomain CSN Report 2024-28
A-TITLE CSN Report 2024-28
https://myportal.citb.co.uk/CI...External Subdomain Construction Training Directory
A-TITLE Construction Training Directory
/courses-and-qualifications/fi...Subdomain Leadership and Management Training from CITB
A-TITLE Leadership and Management Training from CITB
/courses-and-qualifications/ci...Subdomain New Entrant Support team
A-TITLE New Entrant Support team
/about-citb/news-events-and-bl...30 January 2025 Government publishes Industrial Training Board review report
/about-citb/news-events-and-bl...View all news
/about-citb/news-events-and-bl...13 December 2024 Inspiring the next generation: preview of Open Doors 2025
/about-citb/news-events-and-bl...View all blogs
/about-citb/contact-citb/newsl...Subdomain Register now
/about-citb/what-we-do/citb-in...Text duplicate CITB in your local area
https://www.citb.co.uk/feedback/Give feedback
https://www.citb.co.uk/Text duplicate IMG-ALT CITB: Construction Industry Training Board
https://www.goconstruct.org/External Subdomain IMG-ALT in support of careers in the construction sector
/utility-links/accessibility/Accessibility
/about-citb/contact-citb/Text duplicate Contact CITB
/about-citb/people-and-governa...FOI requests
/about-citb/news-events-and-bl...Text duplicate News, events and blogs
/utility-links/site-map/Site map
/about-citb/what-we-do/citb-po...Modern slavery statement
/utility-links/privacy-policy-...Privacy policy
/utility-links/terms-and-condi...Terms and Conditions
/utility-links/privacy-policy-...Cookies policy
/about-citb/jobs-at-citb/Text duplicate Jobs at CITB
https://shop.citb.co.uk/External Subdomain CITB Shop
https://www.facebook.com/citb.uk/New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://x.com/CITB_UKNew window External X
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain Youtube
https://www.instagram.com/citb...New window External Subdomain Instagram

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.citb.co.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 is excellent with 0.35 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (72 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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varyAccept-Encoding
access-control-allow-headersAuthorization
access-control-allow-methodsGET, POST
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
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x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
servercloudflare
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 3,883 referring domains.
This page has 331,011 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,499 different ip addresses.

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www.citb.co.uk
CITB: Construction Industry Training Board - CITB
CITB is the Industry Training Board for the construction industry and a partner in ConstructionSkills, the Sector Skills Council, devoted to building competitive advantage for the construction industry and the people who work in it

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
CITB93%Check
training81%Check
Industry Training80%Check
Training Board80%Check
Industry Training Board79%Check
Construction Industry Training79%Check
Construction Industry Training Board78%Check
Construction75%Check
Industry75%Check
Construction Industry75%Check

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