Dover.gov.uk - SEO Checker

Sign up for free! PDF Export
Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
98% 
Page quality
71% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.35 s
File size
37.70 kB
Words
506
Media files
14
Number of links
159 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Dover District Council
The page title is too short. (194 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Dover District Council providing services to the people who live, work and study in Dover, Deal, Sandwich and the surrounding areas
The length of the meta description is perfect. (814 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
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-gb
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-gb
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
GENERATORContensis CMS Version 16.2
DescriptionDover District Council providing services to the people who live, work and study in Dover, Deal, Sandwich and the surrounding areas
Keywords.,dover,district,council,deal,sandwich,Aylesham,sutton,Ash,WIngham,capel
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
google-site-verificationDEnPb16l-N-4My4jNgyxXdYYqfbSHkcLfHDZqb7mWIs
langen-gb
charsetutf-8

Test up to 1.000 webpages of dover.gov.uk with our free plan!

Try For Free
No trial. It's just free!

Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
This page contains 506 words. That's ok.
26.5% 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 13.57 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
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 10 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
10 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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
/NEW-Site-Elements/Images/whitecastle2.pngNo alt attribute provided
/NEW-Site-Elements/Images/menu-icon.gifNo alt attribute provided
/Images/icons/Pin.pngNo alt attribute provided
/Images/icons/Microphone.pngNo alt attribute provided
/Images/icons/Have-your-say.pngNo alt attribute provided
/image-library/imported-images/image-58.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ly-Supporting-Graphic-CALL-TO-ACTION.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ements/Images/icons/bi-arrow-up-blue.svgNo alt attribute provided
/Images/Logos/ddc-logo.gifddc-logo
/NEW-Site-Elements/Images/FB.gifNo alt attribute provided
...ements/Images/X-logo-2023-white45x45.pngX_logo_2023_(white)
/NEW-Site-Elements/Images/youtube.gifNo alt attribute provided
...te-Elements/Images/linkedin-xxl45x45.pnglinkedin-xxl
/NEW-Site-Elements/Images/images45x45.pngimages

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Dover District Council Home Page
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Dover District Council Home Page
H2 New Payment System
H2 Advice and support with the cost of living
H2 About the Council
H2 Benefits
H2 Bins & Recycling
H2 Business
H2 Community & Events
H2 Councillors & Elections
H2 Council Tax
H2 Environment
H2 Housing
H2 Leisure & Tourism
H2 Planning
H2 Parking & Streets
H2 Port Health & Public Protection
H2 Empty heading
H2 My Neighbourhood
H2 Latest News
H2 Have Your Say
H2 Links to services, organised alphabetically
H2 Keep me posted
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.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Home.aspxAnchor Skip to main content
https://www.dover.gov.uk/Dover District Council Home Page
https://www.dover.gov.uk/payPay
https://www.dover.gov.uk/reportReport
https://www.dover.gov.uk/applyApply
https://www.dover.gov.uk/a-zA-Z of Services
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Services beginning with A
A-TITLE Services beginning with A
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Services beginning with B
A-TITLE Services beginning with B
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Services beginning with C
A-TITLE Services beginning with C
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Services beginning with D
A-TITLE Services beginning with D
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Services beginning with E
A-TITLE Services beginning with E
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Services beginning with F
A-TITLE Services beginning with F
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Services beginning with G
A-TITLE Services beginning with G
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Services beginning with H
A-TITLE Services beginning with H
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Services beginning with I
A-TITLE Services beginning with I
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Services beginning with J
A-TITLE Services beginning with J
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Services beginning with K
A-TITLE Services beginning with K
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Services beginning with L
A-TITLE Services beginning with L
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Services beginning with M
A-TITLE Services beginning with M
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Services beginning with N
A-TITLE Services beginning with N
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Services beginning with O
A-TITLE Services beginning with O
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Services beginning with P
A-TITLE Services beginning with P
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Services beginning with Q
A-TITLE Services beginning with Q
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Services beginning with R
A-TITLE Services beginning with R
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Services beginning with S
A-TITLE Services beginning with S
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Services beginning with T
A-TITLE Services beginning with T
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Services beginning with U
A-TITLE Services beginning with U
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Services beginning with V
A-TITLE Services beginning with V
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Services beginning with W
A-TITLE Services beginning with W
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Services beginning with X
A-TITLE Services beginning with X
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Services beginning with Y
A-TITLE Services beginning with Y
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Services beginning with Z
A-TITLE Services beginning with Z
https://www.dover.gov.uk/benefitsBenefits
/counciltaxCouncil Tax
https://www.dover.gov.uk/leisureLeisure & Tourism
/Recycling--Waste/Bins-Recycli...Bins & Recycling
/councillorsCouncillors & Elections
/transportParking & Streets
https://www.dover.gov.uk/businessBusiness
/environmentEnvironment
https://www.dover.gov.uk/planningPlanning
/communityCommunity & Events
https://www.dover.gov.uk/housingHousing
https://www.dover.gov.uk/aboutAbout the Council
/Pay/Pay.aspxText duplicate Pay
/Report/Report.aspxText duplicate Report
/Apply/Apply.aspxText duplicate Apply
/Public-payments-4.pdfguidance document
A-TITLE Public payments (4)
/Community/Cost-of-Living-Webp...Advice and support with the cost of living
A-TITLE Cost of Living
/Community/Communities-cost-of...our cost-of-living plan
A-TITLE Communities_cost_of_living_plan
/Community/Cost-of-Living-Webp...Please see our cost of living page for further support
A-TITLE Cost of Living
/Corporate-Information/About-t...Text duplicate About the Council
A-TITLE About the Council
/Job-Vacancies/Job-vacancies.aspxJobs
A-TITLE Job Vacancies
/Corporate-Information/Freedom...Freedom of Information
A-TITLE Freedom of Information
/Corporate-Information/Transpa...Transparency
/Corporate-Information/Facts-a...Facts and Figures
A-TITLE Facts and Figures
/Benefits/Home.aspxText duplicate Benefits
A-TITLE Benefits
/Benefits/Housing-Benefit/Home...Housing Benefit
A-TITLE Housing Benefit
/Benefits/Council-Tax-Support/...Council Tax Support
A-TITLE Council Tax Support
https://www.gov.uk/benefit-fraudExternal Fraud
/Benefits/Application-Forms.aspxForms
A-TITLE Housing Benefit and Council Tax Support application forms
/Recycling--Waste/Bins-Recycli...Text duplicate Bins & Recycling
A-TITLE Recycling & Waste
/Recycling--Waste/Collection-S...Your collections
A-TITLE Bins & Recycling
/Recycling--Waste/Collection-S...Missed bins
A-TITLE Missed collections
/Recycling--Waste/Garden-Waste...Garden waste
A-TITLE Garden Waste Collections
/Recycling--Waste/Collection-S...Bulky items
A-TITLE Bulky Item Service
/Business/Business.aspxText duplicate Business
A-TITLE Business
/Business/Business-Rates/Home....Business rates
A-TITLE Business Rates
/Business/Licensing/Home.aspxLicensing
A-TITLE Licensing
/Business/Doing-Business-with-...Selling to us
A-TITLE Doing Business with DDC
/Business/Advice-and-Informati...Advice & information
A-TITLE Advice & Information
/Community/Home.aspxText duplicate Community & Events
A-TITLE Community
/Community/Community-Groups/Co...Community groups
A-TITLE Community Portal
/Community/EventPlanning/Event...Events
A-TITLE Event Planning
/Community/Community-Safety/Ho...Community Safety
A-TITLE Community Safety
/Housing/Housing-Development/C...Community-Led Housing
A-TITLE Community Led Housing
/Community/Armed-Forces-Suppor...Armed Forces
A-TITLE Armed Forces Support
/Council--Democracy/Councillor...Text duplicate Councillors & Elections
A-TITLE Councillors and Elections
/Council--Democracy/Your-Counc...Councillors
A-TITLE Your Councillors
https://moderngov.dover.gov.uk...External Subdomain Meetings
/Council--Democracy/Elections/...Elections
A-TITLE Elections
/Council--Democracy/Decisions....Decisions
A-TITLE Decisions
https://moderngov.dover.gov.uk...External Subdomain Petitions
/CouncilTax/Home.aspxText duplicate Council Tax
A-TITLE Council Tax
/CouncilTax/How-to-pay.aspxHow to pay
A-TITLE How to pay your Council Tax
/CouncilTax/Council-Tax-charge...Charges
A-TITLE Council Tax charges
/CouncilTax/Problems-Paying-Yo...Problems paying
A-TITLE Having difficulty paying your Council Tax?
/CouncilTax/Discounts-and-exem...Discounts & exemptions
A-TITLE Discounts and exemptions
/Environment/Environment.aspxText duplicate Environment
A-TITLE Environment
/Environment/Environmental-Cri...Litter & dog fouling
A-TITLE Environmental Crime
/Environment/Environmental-Pro...Environmental Health
A-TITLE Environmental Health
/Environment/Flooding/Home.aspxFlooding
A-TITLE Flooding
/Environment/Coast--Rivers/Coa...Coast
A-TITLE Coast & Rivers
/Environment/Energy-Advice/Ene...Energy
A-TITLE Energy Advice
/Environment/Climate-Change/Ho...Climate Change
A-TITLE Climate Change
/Housing/Home.aspxText duplicate Housing
A-TITLE Housing
/Housing/Housing-Advice/Housin...Getting a home
A-TITLE Housing Needs
/Housing/Housing-for-Tenants/H...Housing for Council Tenants
/Housing/Private-Sector-Housin...Private Housing
A-TITLE Private Sector Housing
/Leisure-Culture-Tourism/home....Text duplicate Leisure & Tourism
A-TITLE Leisure, Culture & Tourism
/Leisure-Culture-Tourism/Get-A...Get active
A-TITLE Get Active
/Leisure-Culture-Tourism/Leisu...Parks & open spaces
A-TITLE Parks and Open Spaces
/Leisure-Culture-Tourism/Leisu...Leisure facilities
A-TITLE Leisure Facilities
/Leisure-Culture-Tourism/Touri...Tourism & what's on
A-TITLE Tourism & Events
/Planning/Planning.aspxText duplicate Planning
A-TITLE Planning
/Planning/Planning-Application...Planning applications
A-TITLE Planning
/Planning/Building-Control/Bui...Building Control
A-TITLE Building Control
/Planning/Heritage/Home.aspxHeritage
A-TITLE Conservation
/Planning/Planning-Policy/Home...Planning Policy
A-TITLE Planning Policy and Regeneration
/Transport,-Streets--Parking/P...Text duplicate Parking & Streets
A-TITLE Parking and Streets
/Transport,-Streets--Parking/P...Parking
A-TITLE Parking Permits
/Transport,-Streets--Parking/T...Roads & transport
/Transport,-Streets--Parking/T...Severe weather
/Transport,-Streets--Parking/N...Street & house names
A-TITLE Street & House Naming & Numbering
/Port-Health-and-Public-Protec...Port Health & Public Protection
A-TITLE Port health and Public protection
/Port-Health-and-Public-Protec...Food Safety
/Port-Health-and-Public-Protec...Health & Safety
/Port-Health-and-Public-Protec...Infectious Disease
/Port-Health-and-Public-Protec...Port Health
/Port-Health-and-Public-Protec...A-TITLE Port health and Public protection
/Port-Health-and-Public-Protec...No Text
/News/Home.aspxSubdomain Press releases & newsletter
/Corporate-Information/Financi...Accounts & budgets
A-TITLE Combined MTFP 2020-21
/Welcome/Devolution-Local-Gove...Devolution & Local Government Reorganisation
A-TITLE Devolution & Local Government Reorganisation
/Consultation/Home.aspxConsultations
A-TITLE Consultation
/Customer-Services/Comments,-C...Comments and complaints
A-TITLE Comments & Complaints
https://moderngov.dover.gov.uk...External Subdomain Text duplicate Petitions
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Text duplicate Services beginning with A
A-TITLE Services beginning with A
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Text duplicate Services beginning with B
A-TITLE Services beginning with B
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Text duplicate Services beginning with C
A-TITLE Services beginning with C
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Text duplicate Services beginning with D
A-TITLE Services beginning with D
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Text duplicate Services beginning with E
A-TITLE Services beginning with E
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Text duplicate Services beginning with F
A-TITLE Services beginning with F
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Text duplicate Services beginning with G
A-TITLE Services beginning with G
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Text duplicate Services beginning with H
A-TITLE Services beginning with H
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Text duplicate Services beginning with I
A-TITLE Services beginning with I
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Text duplicate Services beginning with J
A-TITLE Services beginning with J
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Text duplicate Services beginning with K
A-TITLE Services beginning with K
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Text duplicate Services beginning with L
A-TITLE Services beginning with L
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Text duplicate Services beginning with M
A-TITLE Services beginning with M
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Text duplicate Services beginning with N
A-TITLE Services beginning with N
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Text duplicate Services beginning with O
A-TITLE Services beginning with O
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Text duplicate Services beginning with P
A-TITLE Services beginning with P
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Text duplicate Services beginning with Q
A-TITLE Services beginning with Q
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Text duplicate Services beginning with R
A-TITLE Services beginning with R
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Text duplicate Services beginning with S
A-TITLE Services beginning with S
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Text duplicate Services beginning with T
A-TITLE Services beginning with T
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Text duplicate Services beginning with U
A-TITLE Services beginning with U
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Text duplicate Services beginning with V
A-TITLE Services beginning with V
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Text duplicate Services beginning with W
A-TITLE Services beginning with W
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Text duplicate Services beginning with X
A-TITLE Services beginning with X
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Text duplicate Services beginning with Y
A-TITLE Services beginning with Y
/List-of-Services.aspx?AZListi...Text duplicate Services beginning with Z
A-TITLE Services beginning with Z
/Corporate-Information/Health-...A-TITLE Dementia Friendly
/Community/Armed-Forces-Suppor...A-TITLE Armed Forces Support
/keepmepostedwww.dover.gov.uk/keepmeposted
/Home.aspxAnchor Back to top
/Contact-us.aspxContact us
A-TITLE Contact us
/Customer-Services/Home.aspxCustomer Services
/Website/Privacy-and-Cookies.aspxPrivacy Statement
/Website/Accessibility.aspxAccessibility Statement
/Website/Help.aspxHelp
/Website/Feedback.aspxFeedback
https://www.facebook.com/doverdcExternal Subdomain No Text
https://www.twitter.com/doverdcExternal Subdomain IMG-ALT X_logo_2023_(white)
https://www.youtube.com/doverdcExternal Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain IMG-ALT linkedin-xxl
https://www.instagram.com/dove...External Subdomain IMG-ALT images

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.dover.gov.uk/Home.aspx"
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 0.35 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (38 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
x-contensis-viewer-groups0
x-node84893
surrogate-controlmax-age=60
dateSat, 22 Mar 2025 17:50:57 GMT
x-origin-serverz-dover-WEB2
x-hostlive-dover.cloud.contensis.com
x-grace72h
x-backend-ttl60.000
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
x-varnish52340980 52052227
x-varnish-authenticationskip
x-age46
cache-controlno-cache, no-store
pragmano-cache
x-cache-aspxtrue
expires-1
accept-rangesbytes
content-length9214
x-server-namez-dover-CACHE
strict-transport-securitymax-age=15768000
x-geoip-country-codeDE
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 216 referring domains.
This page has 28,441 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 110 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

You can find more links using Wikipedia search

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

Similar sites

Search preview

www.dover.gov.uk › Home.aspx
Dover District Council
Dover District Council providing services to the people who live, work and study in Dover, Deal, Sandwich and the surrounding areas

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Dover79%Check
Dover District Council78%Check
Council77%Check
District Council77%Check
Council Tax60%Check
Services50%Check
Page50%Check
New44%Check
Port44%Check
Port Health43%Check
Show more keywords and terms

Test up to 1.000 webpages of dover.gov.uk with our free plan!

Try For Free
No trial. It's just free!

Cookie Policy

We use cookies to make our site work and also for analytics and advertising purposes. You can enable or disable optional cookies as desired. See the following links for more information.

Contact | Privacy

We need these so the site can function properly

So we can better understand how visitors use our website

So we can serve you tailored ads and promotions