Forms.service.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
61% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
98% 
Server
45% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.15 s
File size
17.10 kB
Words
304
Media files
1
Number of links
15 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Create online forms for GOV.UK – GOV.UK Forms
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (450 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
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
langen
og:image/vite/assets/govuk-opengraph-image-Yr2Iq_U9.png
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 304 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
31.9% 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.
4 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 11.86 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" 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)
1 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...ssets/homepage-illustration-Br8iK5sH.svgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Create online forms for GOV.UK
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Create online forms for GOV.UK
H2 Easy to use
H2 Free
H2 Fewer errors
H2 Faster form processing
H2 Accessible forms
H2 See how well your forms are working
H2 Secure
H2 Protects data
H2 Find out more about GOV.UK Forms
H2 The GOV.UK Forms team
H2 Support links
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 6 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://forms.service.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
https://forms.service.gov.uk/Forms Beta
/get-startedGet started
/featuresFeatures
/supportSupport
https://admin.forms.service.go...External Subdomain Sign in
https://www.gov.uk/service-too...External Anchor GOV.UK services
https://forms.service.gov.uk/Anchor GOV.UK Forms
/get-startedText duplicate Get started
/featureshow GOV.UK Forms works
/create-good-formshow to make a good form
https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2021/0...External Subdomain the vision to make all forms on GOV.UK accessible, easy to use and quick to process
/supportcontact us
/mailing-listsubscribe to our mailing list
/accessibilityAccessibility
/cookiesCookies
/privacyPrivacy
/terms-of-useTerms of use
https://www.gov.uk/government/...External Government Digital Service
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://forms.service.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 is excellent with 0.15 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (17 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-length17524
dateThu, 14 Nov 2024 15:36:55 GMT
strict-transport-securitymax-age=63072000; includeSubDomains
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-xss-protection0
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-permitted-cross-domain-policiesnone
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
link</vite/assets/application-D6nOsdbF.css>; rel=preload; as=style; nopush,</vite/assets/application-XJJgErBn.js>; rel=modulepreload; as=script; crossorigin=anonymous; nopush
etagW/"d12f944c7aecc8ac15bb8ad0e98beb61"
cache-controlmax-age=0, private, must-revalidate
x-request-idf288c9fc-8ce1-40e8-86d4-ff600afdc894
x-runtime0.003368
x-cacheMiss from cloudfront
via1.1 c275031486c6f7b744b8d30847e98b14.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-popFRA6-C1
x-amz-cf-idH8PohuW_tPMWhZqez5aGVst3mnFnZp0oSB_TopSgeRemaBihWDYs7g==
varyOrigin
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 81 referring domains.
This page has 297 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 73 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
GOV77%Check
Forms75%Check
Online Forms67%Check
Create online forms64%Check
Create62%Check
Create Online62%Check
GOV.UK Forms59%Check
document-based forms53%Check
Service46%Check
Digital Service40%Check
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