Contact.dvla.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
69% 
Page quality
51% 
Page structure
97% 
Link structure
78% 
Server
42% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.25 s
File size
9.00 kB
Words
62
Media files
0
Number of links
4 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
GOV.UK - DVLA
The page title is too short. (149 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
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
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
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
theme-color#0b0c0c
hmrc-timeout-dialoghmrc-timeout-dialog
csrf-paramauthenticity_token
csrf-tokenFHm4GJzBVngT1YxkYYoRmPc2uz5x-VB9RCbsw4GpphjSzhe12tIsOm6ge2nntU0YalRlo2GUGKW3DHR4IpUy_Q
langen
og:image/images/govuk-opengraph-image.png
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 62 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
37.1% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 4 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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 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)
Contact the DVLA
The H1 heading is too short (16 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Contact the DVLA
H2 Support links
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
There are too few (4) internal links on this page.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://contact.dvla.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.gov.uk/External GOV.UK
https://www.gov.uk/contact-the...External URL anchor text
https://www.gov.uk/contact-the-dvla
/dvla/cookie-policy?locale=enNew window Cookie policy
https://www.gov.uk/government/...New window External Privacy Policy
/terms_and_conditions?locale=enNew window Terms and Conditions
/accessibility_statement?local...New window Accessibility statement
https://www.nationalarchives.g...External Subdomain Open Government Licence v3.0
http://www.nationalarchives.go...New window External Subdomain © Crown copyright

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://contact.dvla.gov.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 4 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.25 seconds.
This page only loads 1 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (9 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-length9226
connectionclose
dateTue, 24 Sep 2024 12:03:47 GMT
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-xss-protection0
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-download-optionsnoopen
x-permitted-cross-domain-policiesnone
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
cache-controlno-store
pragmano-cache
expires0
link</packs/css/application-e1ed7d5b.css>; rel=preload; as=style; nopush
etagW/"70c08b8e98cfc4cdb58d4c27db06d25c"
content-security-policydefault-src 'self'; img-src 'self' https://www.google-analytics.com https://*.google-analytics.com https://*.googletagmanager.com; font-src 'self'; object-src 'none'; frame-src 'self' https://www.googletagmanager.com; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' https://www.google-analytics.com https://ssl.google-analytics.com https://*.googletagmanager.com; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; connect-src 'self' https://www.google-analytics.com https://*.google-analytics.com https://*.analytics.google.com https://*.googletagmanager.com
set-cookie143 Characters
x-request-id145860c6c79b20d7381029744bd8cc45
x-runtime0.065729
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x-cacheMiss from cloudfront
via1.1 544049d1dc4d534822b40b9f9c7529da.cloudfront.net (CloudFront), 1.1 fra1-bit15002
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statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 515 referring domains.
This page has 1,775 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 420 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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contact.dvla.gov.uk
GOV.UK - DVLA

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
DVLA73%Check
Contact62%Check
GOV58%Check
beta39%Check
Support38%Check
links38%Check
content34%Check
feedback34%Check
policy34%Check
Privacy Policy34%Check
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