Community.hmrc.gov.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
76% 
Page quality
83% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
87% 
Server
0% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.71 s
File size
51.90 kB
Words
571
Media files
2
Number of links
13 internal / 21 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Community Forum - GOV.UK
The length of the page title is perfect. (329 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
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-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)
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
{page.title}This is a meta tag test
langen-us
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 571 words. That's ok.
38.2% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
11 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 19.55 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 13 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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 11 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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to the HMRC Community Forums
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 the HMRC Community Forums
H2 Important Notice:
H2 Customer Forums
H2 Agent Forums
H2 Support links
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 21 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://community.hmrc.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.gov.uk/External GOV.UK
https://www.gov.uk/External Text duplicate GOV.UK
https://community.hmrc.gov.uk/HMRC Community Forums
/SignIn?returnUrl=/Sign in
A-TITLE Sign in
https://community.hmrc.gov.uk/Home
A-TITLE Home
/help/Help
A-TITLE Help
/search/Search
A-TITLE Search
/feedback/feedback
/Account/Login/Register?return...Register
/SignIn?returnUrl=/Text duplicate Sign in
https://www.gov.uk/government/...New window External Text duplicate GOV.UK
https://www.gov.uk/government/...New window External Recorded webinars and sign up to receive notifications of future webinars
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/do...New window External The HMRC App
https://www.youtube.com/user/H...New window External Subdomain YouTube Videos
https://www.gov.uk/contact-hmrcNew window External Contact HMRC
https://x.com/HMRCcustomersNew window External @HMRCcustomers
https://www.tax.service.gov.uk...New window External Subdomain Webchat
https://x.com/HMRCcustomersNew window External Text duplicate @HMRCcustomers
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/he...New window External Anchor Agent Talking Points Webinars
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ta...New window External Tax agents’ handbook
https://www.tax.service.gov.uk...New window External Subdomain Service Dashboard
https://www.gov.uk/government/...New window External Agent update
https://www.gov.uk/contact-hmrcNew window External contact us
/customerforums/Go to Customer Forums
https://www.gov.uk/get-help-hm...External Get help from HMRC if you need extra support
https://www.gov.uk/helpExternal Text duplicate Help
/cookies/Cookies
/accessibility/Accessibility
https://www.gov.uk/government/...External Contact
/termsandconditionspage/Terms and conditions
https://www.gov.uk/cymraegExternal Rhestr o Wasanaethau Cymraeg
https://www.nationalarchives.g...External Subdomain Open Government Licence v3.0
https://www.nationalarchives.g...External Subdomain © Crown copyright

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://community.hmrc.gov.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.71 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 8 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 13 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (52 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-length53166
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
x-ms-request-ide6207de9-e104-44d9-a402-c5745497c45f
x-ms-portal-appsite-e1cfc2ea-2de6-4c96-8e99-76600a349358-UKw
server-timingresponse-code; desc=200
expiresSat, 17 May 2025 02:48:43 GMT
cache-controlmax-age=0, no-cache, no-store
pragmano-cache
dateSat, 17 May 2025 02:48:43 GMT
connectionkeep-alive
set-cookie258 Characters
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 118 referring domains.
This page has 887 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 106 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Search preview

community.hmrc.gov.uk
Home - Community Forum - GOV.UK

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Community73%Check
Community Forum71%Check
HMRC66%Check
forum66%Check
HMRC Community Forums66%Check
Community Forums65%Check
GOV58%Check
Forums54%Check
Welcome50%Check
Customer Forums48%Check

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