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Overview of the SEO Check

Meta information

100%

Page quality

52%

Page structure

45%

Link structure

25%

Server

100%

External factors

100%

SEO Score

SEO Score Widget

Response time

0.19 s

File size

46.10 kB

Words

492

Media files

Number of links

86 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements 3 Tasks

Avoid internal links with dynamic URL parameters.Very important!
Only use 1 H1 Heading in your text.Very important!
Remove duplicate heading texts.Important!

Meta specifications 100% achieved

Title

(Critically important)

HSE: Information about health and safety at work

The length of the page title is perfect. (441 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)

There are no duplicate words in the title

Meta Title

Meta description

(Critically important)

Advice, guidance, news, templates, tools, legislation, publications from Great Britain's independent regulator for work-related health, safety and illness; HSE

The length of the meta description is perfect. (959 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)

Meta Description

Crawlability

(Critically important)

There are no problems in accessing the website.

Search Engine Crawlers

Canonical URL

(Important)

No canonical link is specified.

Canonical Tag

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

Declaring language in HTML

Alternate/Hreflang Links

(Somewhat important)

There are no alternate links specified on this page.

Hreflang

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.

Meta Tags

Domain

(Somewhat important)

The domain is no subdomain.

The domain length is good.

The domain does not contain non-latin characters.

Domain for SEO

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.

SEO-friendly URLs

Charset encoding

(Somewhat important)

The character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.

The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.

Character Encoding

Doctype

(Nice to have)

The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.

The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.

HTML Doctype

Favicon

(Nice to have)

The favicon is linked correctly.

Favicon

Meta tags

Name	Value
viewport	width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Description	Advice, guidance, news, templates, tools, legislation, publications from Great Britain's independent regulator for work-related health, safety and illness; HSE
ahrefs-site-verification	1b61c6fd16bc46bf2dda15eae176768ef6df4dd724533046da8d0708dd979a54
lang	en
X-UA-Compatible	IE=edge
charset	utf-8

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Page quality 52% achieved

Content

(Critically important)

There are only 492 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.

The average number of words per sentence of 50 words is high.

29.3% 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.

3 paragraphs were found on this page.

No placeholders texts or images were found.

There are no duplicates on the site.

Content is King

Frames

(Critically important)

This page does not use a frameset.

Frames and framesets

Mobile optimization

(Somewhat important)

A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.

At least one Apple touch icon is specified.

Mobile Optimization

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.

Strong and Bold Tags

Image SEO

(Somewhat important)

Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.

Image SEO

There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.

Social Sharing

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.

HTTPS

Media list

URL	Alt attribute	Title
/assets/homepage/hero-business.jpg	Woman in a workshop holding a tape measure, with safety glasses on her head, ear defenders around her neck and wearing gloves, talking to a man
/assets/homepage/images/sarah-albon.jpg	Sarah Albon
/assets/homepage/images/sarah-newton.jpg	Sarah Newton
/assets/homepage/images/mission.jpg	Person pointing at diagram on a whiteboard
/assets/homepage/images/careers.jpg	Four people around a table talking

Page structure 45% achieved

H1 heading

(Critically important)

Health and Safety Executive

Too many H1 headings

H1-H6 headings

Headings

(Important)

Some headings occur twice on the page.

There are 29 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

H1-H6 headings

Heading structure

Heading level	Content
H1	Health and Safety Executive
H1	Do you own a small business?
H2	Popular
H2	Industries A to Z
H2	Topics A to Z
H2	News
H2	Company and director fined after worker fractures skull
H2	Council fined after worker loses finger
H2	Explosives manufacturer fined £670,000 after worker dies
H2	Information and services
H2	About HSE
H2	Footer links
H3	Search HSE.GOV.UK
H3	Industries
H3	Topics
H3	About HSE Duplicate text
H3	Building Safety Regulator
H3	RIDDOR
H3	The law
H3	Manage risk
H3	Vulnerable workers
H3	Apply, notify or report
H3	Sarah Albon
H3	Sarah Newton
H3	Our mission
H3	Careers
H3	Industries Duplicate text
H3	Topics Duplicate text
H3	About HSE Duplicate text

Link structure 25% achieved

Internal links

(Important)

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.

Internal Linking

External links

(Nice to have)

There are 8 external links on this page.

External Links

Found links on this page

Link	Attributes	Anchor text
https://www.hse.gov.uk/	Anchor	Skip to content
https://www.hse.gov.uk/index.htm		No Text
/construction/index.htm		Construction
/healthservices/index.htm		Health and social care services
/pesticides/index.htm		Pesticides
/gas/domestic/index.htm		Domestic gas
/services/index.htm		Public services
/agriculture/index.htm		Agriculture
/entertainment/index.htm		Entertainment
/waste/index.htm		Waste management and recycling
/mvr/index.htm		Motor vehicle repair
/offshore/index.htm		Offshore oil and gas
/guidance/industries.htm		Industries A to Z
/simple-health-safety/index.htm		Health and safety made simple
/riddor/index.htm		RIDDOR
/coshh/index.htm		COSHH
/msd/dse/index.htm		Display screen equipment (DSE)
/asbestos/index.htm		Asbestos
/work-equipment-machinery/inde...		Work equipment and machinery
/stress/index.htm		Stress and mental health
/electricity/faq-portable-appl...		PAT testing (portable appliance testing)
/work-at-height/index.htm		Work at height
/comah/index.htm		COMAH
/guidance/topics.htm		Topics A to Z
/news/index.htm		News
/contact/index.htm		Contact us
https://books.hse.gov.uk/	External Subdomain	Books and products
/news/subscribe/index.htm		Free updates
/aboutus/our-mission-and-prior...		Our mission and priorities
https://careers.hse.gov.uk/	External Subdomain	Careers
/languages/index.htm		Information in other languages
/simple-health-safety/index.ht...		Find out more - about basic health and safety steps for your small business.
/simple-health-safety/risk/ind...		Risk assessment
/temperature/employer/index.ht...		Working in hot temperatures
/statistics/index.htm?utm_sour...		Health and safety statistics
/stress/index.htm?utm_source=h...	Text duplicate	Stress and mental health
/asbestos/index.htm?utm_source...	Subdomain Text duplicate	Asbestos
/construction/cdm/2015/index.h...		The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015
/guidance/industries.htm?utm_s...		Go to the Industries A to Z
/guidance/topics.htm?utm_sourc...		Go to the Topics A to Z
https://press.hse.gov.uk/2024/...	External Subdomain	Company and director fined after worker fractures skull
https://press.hse.gov.uk/2024/...	External Subdomain	Council fined after worker loses finger
https://press.hse.gov.uk/2024/...	External Subdomain	Explosives manufacturer fined £670,000 after worker dies
/news/index.htm?utm_source=hse...		Latest news
/building-safety/regulator.htm...		Building Safety Regulator
/riddor/index.htm?utm_source=h...	Text duplicate	RIDDOR
/simple-health-safety/law/inde...		The law
/simple-health-safety/risk/ind...		Manage risk
/vulnerable-workers/index.htm?...		Vulnerable workers
/contact/index.htm?utm_source=...		Apply, notify or report
/aboutus/our-management.htm		Sarah Albon
/aboutus/our-management.htm		Sarah Newton
/aboutus/our-mission-and-prior...		Our mission
https://careers.hse.gov.uk/?ut...	External Subdomain Text duplicate	Careers
/aboutus/our-management.htm?ut...		Our management
/construction/index.htm	Text duplicate	Construction
/healthservices/index.htm	Text duplicate	Health and social care services
/pesticides/index.htm	Text duplicate	Pesticides
/gas/domestic/index.htm	Text duplicate	Domestic gas
/services/index.htm	Text duplicate	Public services
/agriculture/index.htm	Text duplicate	Agriculture
/entertainment/index.htm	Text duplicate	Entertainment
/waste/index.htm	Text duplicate	Waste management and recycling
/mvr/index.htm	Text duplicate	Motor vehicle repair
/offshore/index.htm	Text duplicate	Offshore oil and gas
/guidance/industries.htm	Text duplicate	Industries A to Z
/simple-health-safety/index.htm	Text duplicate	Health and safety made simple
/riddor/index.htm	Text duplicate	RIDDOR
/coshh/index.htm	Text duplicate	COSHH
/msd/dse/index.htm	Text duplicate	Display screen equipment (DSE)
/asbestos/index.htm	Text duplicate	Asbestos
/work-equipment-machinery/inde...	Text duplicate	Work equipment and machinery
/stress/index.htm	Text duplicate	Stress and mental health
/electricity/faq-portable-appl...	Text duplicate	PAT testing (portable appliance testing)
/work-at-height/index.htm	Text duplicate	Work at height
/comah/index.htm	Text duplicate	COMAH
/guidance/topics.htm	Text duplicate	Topics A to Z
/news/index.htm	Text duplicate	News
/contact/index.htm	Text duplicate	Contact us
https://books.hse.gov.uk/	External Subdomain Text duplicate	Books and products
/news/subscribe/index.htm	Text duplicate	Free updates
/aboutus/our-mission-and-prior...	Text duplicate	Our mission and priorities
https://careers.hse.gov.uk/	External Subdomain Text duplicate	Careers
/languages/index.htm	Text duplicate	Information in other languages
/search/search-results.htm		Search
/a-z/index.htm		A-Z
/help/acronyms.htm		Acronyms
/help/copyright.htm		Copyright
/help/cookies.htm		Cookies
/help/privacy.htm		Privacy
/help/accessibility.htm		Accessibility
/foi/index.htm		Disclosure of information
/help/report-vulnerability.htm		Vulnerability disclosure
/help/copyright.htm		Government Licence v3.0

Server configuration 100% achieved

HTTP redirects

(Critically important)

This page redirects to "https://www.hse.gov.uk/"

WWW Redirect

HTTP header

(Important)

No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.

This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.

HTTP headers

Performance

(Somewhat important)

The page response time is excellent with 0.19 seconds.

The file size of the HTML document is fine (46 kB).

Page Speed

HTTP Response Header

Name	Value
date	Sat, 20 Jul 2024 03:55:07 GMT
content-type	text/html
last-modified	Thu, 18 Jul 2024 14:24:08 GMT
vary	Accept-Encoding
cf-cache-status	DYNAMIC
server	cloudflare
cf-ray	8a600388bac93a7f-FRA
content-encoding	gzip
alt-svc	h3=":443"; ma=86400
statuscode	200
http_version	HTTP/2

External factors 100% achieved

Blacklists

(Nice to have)

This website is not classified "for adult only".

Blacklist

Backlinks

(Critically important)

This page is referenced by wikipedia.

This website has excellent links from other websites.

This page has backlinks from 36,031 referring domains.

This page has 3,945,731 backlinks.

This page has backlinks from 20,354 different ip addresses.

Backlinks

Facebook popularity

(Somewhat important)

The page has 3037 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

You can find more links using Wikipedia search

Robots.txt

User-agent: * 

#Last modified: 03/11/2022
#Last modified by: Dave Walker

# Disallows with nested allows. The allow is always listed first.


# Specific simple disallow sites listed alphabetically
# Most to are avoid dual entry with Upper and lower case variants

Disallow: /COMAH
Disallow: /data
Disallow: /FALLS
Disallow: /foi/bpcorrespondence
Disallow: /OPSUNIT
Disallow: /OSHCR
Disallow: /pubns/priced
Disallow: /PUBNS/PRICED
Disallow: /PUBNS
Disallow: /PRESS
Disallow: /RESEARCH
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /user-research-testing
Disallow: /ux-demonstration

Disallow: /research/

Disallow: /*.pdf
Disallow: /*.xls
Disallow: /*.doc
Disallow: /*.ppt
Disallow: /*.jpg
Disallow: /*.png
Disallow: /*.gif

# Specific page disallows
Disallow: /prosecutions/case/case_details.asp?SF=CN&SV=4157835
Disallow: /notices/notices/notice_list.asp?PN=20&ST=N&rdoNType=&NT=&SN=&SO=DNIS

# Google specific directive - allows indexing, but not displaying in search results.

Sitemap: https://www.hse.gov.uk/sitemap.xml

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HSE: Information about health and safety at work

Advice, guidance, news, templates, tools, legislation, publications from Great Britain's independent regulator for work-related health, safety and illness; HSE

Most important keywords

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

Keyword	Result	Recheck
safety	78%	Check
Health and Safety	78%	Check
HSE	77%	Check
Health safety	76%	Check
Health	73%	Check
Work	66%	Check
Building Safety	59%	Check
Health Services	56%	Check
Mental Health	54%	Check
or report	54%	Check
Information	50%	Check
News	50%	Check
Executive	50%	Check
Regulator	50%	Check
GOV	50%	Check
Guidance	46%	Check
Sarah	46%	Check
Public	46%	Check
worker	43%	Check
Industries	43%	Check
Topics	43%	Check
fined	43%	Check
Latest News	42%	Check
page	41%	Check
mission	40%	Check

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Hse.gov.uk - SEO Checker

Task list of SEO Improvements 3 Tasks

Meta specifications 100% achieved

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Page quality 52% achieved

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Media list

Page structure 45% achieved

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Heading structure

Link structure 25% achieved

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Found links on this page

Server configuration 100% achieved

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External factors 100% achieved

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Links from Wikipedia

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