Citizensadvice.org.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
88% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.19 s
File size
22.60 kB
Words
309
Media files
0
Number of links
56 internal / 1 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Citizens Advice
The page title is too short. (139 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Online free advice from Citizens Advice to help you find a way forward, whatever the problem. Our research enables us to campaign on issues affecting people's lives.
The meta description is too long: 1022 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.citizensadvice.org.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 name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 309 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
29.8% 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 14.67 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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 6 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

No media files were found.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to Citizens Advice
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to Citizens Advice
H2 Search for advice
H2 Popular content
H2 Volunteer with us
H2 Policy, research and campaigns
H2 Find your local Citizens Advice
H2 Advice
H2 Resources and tools
H2 More from us
H2 About this site
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 1 external links on this page.
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/consumer/Consumer
/housing/Housing
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/law-and-courts/Law and courts
/immigration/Immigration
/health/Health
/about-us/More from us
/about-us/northern-ireland/See advice for Northern Ireland
/scotland/See advice for Scotland
/wales/See advice for Wales
/about-us/donate/Make a donation
/debt-and-money/cost-of-living...Get help with the cost of living
/consumer/energy/energy-supply...Grants and benefits to help you pay your energy bills
/consumer/scams/check-if-somet...If something you ordered hasn't arrived
/housing/council-tax/check-if-...Check if you can pay less council tax
/consumer/energy/energy-supply...How to read your smart electricity meter
/benefits/benefits-introductio...Check what benefits you can get
/benefits/sick-or-disabled-peo...Extra money and help PIP entitles you to
/about-us/our-work/our-campaigns/See our latest campaigns
/policy/Read our policy research work
/about-us/browse/our-impact/Find out about the impact of our advice
https://www.research.net/r/J8P...New window External Subdomain Is there anything wrong with this page? Let us know
/benefits/Text duplicate Benefits
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/debt-and-money/Text duplicate Debt and money
/consumer/Text duplicate Consumer
/housing/Text duplicate Housing
/family/Text duplicate Family
/law-and-courts/Text duplicate Law and courts
/immigration/Text duplicate Immigration
/health/Text duplicate Health
/about-us/adviser-resources/Adviser resources
/about-us/information/consumer...Education resources
/sSite search
/about-us/About us
/about-us/contact-us/Contact us
/about-us/support-us/Support us
/about-us/information/citizens...Annual reports
/about-us/information/feedback...Complaints
/about-us/media-centre/Media
/about-us/information/modern-s...Modern slavery statement
/about-us/policy/Policy research
/about-us/support-us/volunteer...Volunteering
/about-us/job-and-voluntary-op...Jobs
/resources-and-tools/about-thi...Accessibility statement
/resources-and-tools/about-thi...Terms and conditions
/about-us/browse/privacy-and-c...Privacy and cookies
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.citizensadvice.org.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 0.19 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (23 kB).

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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 25,173 referring domains.
This page has 1,705,681 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 14,863 different ip addresses.

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www.citizensadvice.org.uk
Citizens Advice
Online free advice from Citizens Advice to help you find a way forward, whatever the problem. Our research enables us to campaign on issues affecting people's lives.

Most important keywords

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

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Citizens Advice88%Check
advice87%Check
local Citizens Advice71%Check
See advice59%Check
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