Gov.wales - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
97% 
Page quality
51% 
Page structure
99% 
Link structure
98% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.35 s
File size
30.50 kB
Words
469
Media files
10
Number of links
57 internal / 3 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | GOV.WALES
The page title is too short. (187 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Welsh Government is the devolved Government for Wales
The length of the meta description is perfect. (384 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.gov.wales/
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)
The specified alternate links have no errors.
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

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GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
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msapplication-TileImage/themes/custom/govwales/favicon/ms-icon-144x144.png
langen
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:titlegov.wales | gov.wales
twitter:imagehttps://www.gov.wales//themes/custom/govwales/images/content/og-global-120.png
twitter:descriptionThe Welsh Government is the devolved Government for Wales
og:site_nameGOV.WALES
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://gov.wales
og:imagehttps://www.gov.wales//themes/custom/govwales/images/content/og-global-1200.png
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 469 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 8.75 words is low.
25.2% of the text are stop words.
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.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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 9 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
...es/custom/govwales/images/print/logo.pngWelsh Government
...govwales/images/logos/logo-gov-wales.pngGOV.WALES
.../files/cta-blocks/2022-05/help-thumb.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...2022-03/in-focus-ukraine-wales-thumb.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...iles/cta-blocks/2024-12/budget-thumb.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ocks/2022-03/wg-in-focus-blog-cta-en.pngNo alt attribute provided
...fault/files/cta-blocks/2017-09/about.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...blocks/2018-12/WG RED LOGO 503 X 336.pngNo alt attribute provided
...fault/files/cta-blocks/2017-10/job-2.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...s/cta-blocks/2021-06/pfg-cta-600x400.jpgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
GOV.WALES GOV.WALES
The H1 heading is too short (19 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 GOV.WALES GOV.WALES
H2 Welsh Government services and information
H2 Share this page
H3 Announcements
H3 Browse by
H3 Organisations
H3 In focus
H3 Welsh government
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 3 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.gov.wales/Anchor Skip to main content
/help/cookiesSubdomain About cookies
https://www.gov.wales/Subdomain Home
A-TITLE Welsh Government
https://www.gov.wales/Subdomain English
https://www.llyw.cymru/External Subdomain Cymraeg
/arts-culture-sportSubdomain Arts, culture and sport
/building-planningSubdomain Building and planning
/business-economy-innovationSubdomain Business, economy and innovation
/children-familiesSubdomain Children and families
/communities-regenerationSubdomain Communities and regeneration
https://www.gov.wales/coronavirusSubdomain Coronavirus (COVID-19)
https://www.gov.wales/digitalSubdomain Digital
/education-skillsSubdomain Education and skills
/employment-workSubdomain Employment and work
/environment-climate-changeSubdomain Environment and climate change
/equality-human-rightsSubdomain Equality and human rights
/farming-countrysideSubdomain Farming and countryside
/health-social-careSubdomain Health and social care
https://www.gov.wales/housingSubdomain Housing
/international-euSubdomain International and EU
/justice-and-lawSubdomain Justice and law
/marine-fisheriesSubdomain Marine and fisheries
/public-sectorSubdomain Public sector
https://www.gov.wales/transportSubdomain Transport
/welsh-languageSubdomain Welsh language
/90-million-low-interest-loans...Subdomain £90 million in low-interest loans to boost affordable housing and improve existing homes
/welsh-governments-789-million...Subdomain Welsh Government's £789 million investment package approved by Senedd
/record-funding-flood-protecti...Subdomain Record funding for flood protection to benefit over 4,600 homes and businesses
/announcementsSubdomain View more announcements
/announcements/searchSubdomain Announcements
/consultationsSubdomain Consultations
/publicationsSubdomain Publications
/statistics-and-researchSubdomain Statistics and research
/organisations269 organisations including:
/welsh-revenue-authoritySubdomain Welsh Revenue Authority
/transport-walesSubdomain Transport for Wales
/welsh-language-commissionerSubdomain Welsh Language Commissioner
/qualifications-walesSubdomain Qualifications Wales
/cafcass-cymruSubdomain Cafcass Cymru
/organisationsSubdomain View all organisations
/help-cost-livingSubdomain Get help with the cost of living
https://www.gov.wales/ukraineSubdomain Wales stands with Ukraine
/welsh-government-budgetsSubdomain Welsh Budgets
/welsh-government-blogsSubdomain Welsh Government blogs
https://www.gov.wales/about-usSubdomain About us
/cabinet-secretaries-and-minis...Subdomain Cabinet
https://www.gov.wales/vacanciesJobs
/our-prioritiesSubdomain Our priorities
https://twitter.com/intent/twe...External Share this page via X
https://www.facebook.com/share...External Subdomain Share this page via Facebook
https://www.gov.wales/Anchor Back to top
https://www.gov.wales/contact-usSubdomain Contact us
/accessibility-statement-govwalesSubdomain Accessibility
/copyright-statementSubdomain Copyright statement
/help/cookiesSubdomain Cookies
/website-privacy-policySubdomain Privacy
/terms-and-conditionsSubdomain Terms and conditions
/welsh-government-modern-slave...Subdomain Modern slavery statement
/alternative-languagesSubdomain Alternative languages
https://www.gov.wales/Subdomain Text duplicate Home

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.gov.wales/"
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 (31 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
dateWed, 19 Mar 2025 18:40:31 GMT
servernginx
cache-controlmax-age=300, public, stale-if-error=10800, stale-while-revalidate=600
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheHIT
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modifiedWed, 19 Mar 2025 18:40:31 GMT
etagW/"1742409631"
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strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding,Cookie
x-cacheMiss from cloudfront
via1.1 59d5785a1d012a54118141e7e216a492.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-popFRA56-P2
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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 17,242 referring domains.
This page has 2,319,065 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 8,783 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /*simple-view$
Disallow: /bydtermcymru/search/term/

Sitemap: https://gov.wales/sitemap.xml

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Home | GOV.WALES
The Welsh Government is the devolved Government for Wales

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
GOV91%Check
WALES87%Check
Welsh56%Check
Government56%Check
Welsh Government56%Check
Local Government47%Check
Welsh language47%Check
page38%Check
organisations38%Check
Share38%Check
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