Forestryandland.gov.scot - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
97% 
Page quality
50% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.25 s
File size
497.30 kB
Words
333
Media files
15
Number of links
41 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Forestry and Land Scotland | Forestry and Land Scotland
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 582 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
Forestry and Land Scotland is the Scottish Government agency responsible for managing our national forests and land.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (732 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://forestryandland.gov.scot/
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

NameValue
descriptionForestry and Land Scotland is the Scottish Government agency responsible for managing our national forests and land.
viewportwidth=device-width,initial-scale=1
facebook-domain-verificationEmpty
og:titleHome - Forestry and Land Scotland
og:descriptionEmpty
og:urlhttps://forestryandland.gov.scot/
og:site_nameForestry and Land Scotland
og:localeen_UK
og:typewebsite
langen
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:titleHome - Forestry and Land Scotland
twitter:descriptionEmpty
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 333 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 36.67 words is high.
36.9% 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.
5 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
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 7 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
8 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
...724&cropmode=crop&format=webp&quality=72No alt attribute provided
...724&cropmode=crop&format=webp&quality=72Two people enjoying a coffee next to a picnic table with their camper van behind them
...724&cropmode=crop&format=webp&quality=72A woman riding a bike down a gravel trail
...724&cropmode=crop&format=webp&quality=72View through the cab of a harvester looking at cut logs
...724&cropmode=crop&format=webp&quality=72An old oak tree in a forest
...724&cropmode=crop&format=webp&quality=72A red squirrel sitting on a tree stump
...724&cropmode=crop&quality=72&format=webpNo alt attribute provided
...724&cropmode=crop&quality=72&format=webpNo alt attribute provided
...724&cropmode=crop&quality=72&format=webpNo alt attribute provided
...724&cropmode=crop&quality=72&format=webpNo alt attribute provided
...6-1.jpg?width=550&height=378&format=webpNo alt attribute provided
...res.jpg?width=550&height=378&format=webpNo alt attribute provided
...ree.jpg?width=550&height=378&format=webpNo alt attribute provided
/media/bvnonged/fsc-logo.pngForest Stewardship Council, the mark of responsible forestry
/media/1uwpjxoq/pefc-logo.pngProgramme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification, PEFC

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Looking after Scotland's national forests and land
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Looking after Scotland's national forests and land
H2 Discover more about our work
H2 Learning and resources
H2 Latest from our blog
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 5 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://forestryandland.gov.scot/Anchor Skip to main content
https://forestryandland.gov.scot/No Text
/visitVisit
/learnLearn
/what-we-doWhat we do
/what-we-do/climate-emergencyClimate
/business-and-servicesBusiness and services
/blogBlog
/jobsJobs
/contactContact us
/destinations-searchView all forests
/visitVisit our forests
/visit/activities/our-trailsExplore our forests
/stay-the-nightStay the Night
/visit/activities/mountain-bikingTry our trails
/what-we-do/planningPlanning our work
/what-we-do/biodiversity-and-c...Protecting our nature
/learn/wildlifeEnjoy our wildlife
/learnText duplicate Learn
/learn/treesTrees
/what-we-do/biodiversity-and-c...Habitats
/learn/heritageHeritage
/learn/forestryForestry
/blogSee all posts
/blog/walks-near-aberdeenWalks near Aberdeen
/blog/dig-deeper-new-archaeolo...Dig deeper: new archaeological visualisation in Galloway
/blog/frozen-trees-to-help-ext...Frozen trees to help extend planting season
/scotlands-national-forests-an...Map Viewer
/what-we-do/climate-emergencyThe Climate Emergency
/contactText duplicate Contact us
/what-we-do/about-usAbout us
/jobsText duplicate Jobs
/volunteerVolunteer
/diversityDiversity and inclusion
/news-releasesNews releases
/visit/car-parkingParking
https://www.facebook.com/Fores...New window External Subdomain Forestry and Land Scotland on Facebook
https://www.twitter.com/forest...New window External Subdomain Forestry and Land Scotland on Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/fore...New window External Subdomain Forestry and Land Scotland on Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain Forestry and Land Scotland on LinkedIn
/privacyPrivacy notice
/cookiesCookies
/accessibility-statement-for-f...Web accessibility
/freedom-of-informationFreedom of information
/what-we-do/about-us/corporate...Human trafficking
https://www.gov.scot/New window External Subdomain Link to gov.scot

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://forestryandland.gov.scot/"
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 0.25 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (497 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
dateSun, 04 May 2025 12:53:26 GMT
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; preload
x-frame-optionssameorigin
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1;mode=block
referrer-policyno-referrer-when-downgrade
permissions-policyaccelerometer=(), ambient-light-sensor=(), geolocation=(), gyroscope=(), microphone=(), midi=(), payment=()
content-security-policymanifest-src 'self'
x-permitted-cross-domain-policiesall
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 365 referring domains.
This page has 25,631 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 328 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

User-agent: Twitterbot
Disallow:


User-agent: *
Disallow: /aspnet_client/
Disallow: /bin/
Disallow: /config/
Disallow: /data/
Disallow: /install/
Disallow: /masterpages/
Disallow: /python/
Disallow: /umbraco/
Disallow: /umbraco_client/
Disallow: /usercontrols/
Disallow: /xslt/
Disallow: /search-results

Sitemap: https://forestryandland.gov.scot/sitemap.xml

Search preview

forestryandland.gov.scot
Home - Forestry and Land Scotland | Forestry and Land Scotland
Forestry and Land Scotland is the Scottish Government agency responsible for managing our national forests and land.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
land87%Check
Land Scotland80%Check
Scotland73%Check
forest73%Check
Forestry71%Check
forests62%Check
national62%Check
national forests62%Check
Looking52%Check
managing46%Check

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