Londoncouncils.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
60% 
Page quality
45% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.09 s
File size
48.70 kB
Words
418
Media files
6
Number of links
20 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
London Councils is the collective of local government in London | London Councils – Home
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 812 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/
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
robotsmax-image-preview:none
GeneratorDrupal 10 (LocalGov Drupal | https://localgovdrupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
msapplication-configfavicons/browserconfig.xml
msapplication-TileColor#ffffff
theme-color#ffffff
langen
og:imagehttps://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2024-05/tate_modern_2.jpg
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 418 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
There are 6 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate 1: Statement from Cllr Grace Williams, London Councils’ Executive Member ...
  • Duplicate 2: Find out about the One World Living Single-Use Plastics Pledge, an ini...
  • Duplicate 3: Although the investment in affordable housing is a "potential gamechan...
33% 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.
8 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 14.55 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 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
/themes/custom/bbd_localgov/logo.svgLondon Councils – Home
.../default/files/2024-05/tate_modern_2.jpgPicture of the Tate Modern and Millennium Bridge in London on a sunny day
...5-06/iStock-1406936113.jpg?itok=yYIYNCwoNo alt attribute provided
...ublic/2025-06/dsc_9024.jpg?itok=i1zsF-EmNo alt attribute provided
...25-02/iStock-928445788.jpg?itok=gXvJpDzyNo alt attribute provided
...tes/default/files/2024-10/London map.jpgStylised map of London

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
London Councils is the collective of local government in London
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 London Councils is the collective of local government in London
H2 Main navigation
H2 Latest updates
H2 Spotlight
H2 Quick links
H2 Help improve the site by giving feedback
H2 Follow us
H2 Utility
H3 Statement on the eighth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire
H3 Launch of the Single-Use Plastics Pledge
H3 Housebuilding boost ‘hugely welcome’ but funding reform now ‘make or break’ for borough budgets
H3 London local government directory
H3 Contact us
H3 Our address
H3 Accessibility and feedback
H3 Sign up to our newsletter
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to main content
/IMG-ALT London Councils – Home
/who-we-areWho we are
/our-shared-ambitionsOur shared ambitions
/servicesOur services
/contact-usContact us
/who-we-are/about-usFind out more
/news-and-press-releasesView all news
/news-and-press-releases/2025/...Housing 14 June 2025 Press release Statement from Cllr Grace Williams, London Councils’ Executive Member for Housing & Regeneration on the anniversary of the...
/news-and-press-releases/2025/...Environment 13 June 2025 News item Find out about the One World Living Single-Use Plastics Pledge, an initiative launched by the London Councils Climate Team...
/news-and-press-releases/2025/...Finance Housing 11 June 2025 Press release Although the investment in affordable housing is a "potential gamechanger", London boroughs still face an “extreme...
/london-directoryLondon local government directory Browse our directory of London Local government for information and contact details for London's Mayors, Leaders and Counci...
IMG-ALT Stylised map of London
/who-we-are/leadership-and-com...Leadership and committees Find out about our leadership team.
/contact-usContact us Contact the London Councils team.
/who-we-are/work-london-councilsWork at London Councils Find out about working for London Councils.
https://policies.google.com/pr...New window External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://policies.google.com/termsNew window External Subdomain Terms of Service
/contact-informationContact Information
/complaintsComplaints
/who-we-are/information-disclo...accessibility statement
/who-we-are/information-disclo...Text duplicate Privacy Policy
https://twitter.com/londoncoun...External twitter
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain linkedin
https://www.youtube.com/user/l...External Subdomain youtube
/who-we-are/information-disclo...Data protection and privacy notice

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/"
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 0.09 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (49 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
dateTue, 17 Jun 2025 03:49:26 GMT
servernginx
cache-controlmax-age=1800, public
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
content-languageen
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modifiedMon, 16 Jun 2025 23:03:30 GMT
x-drupal-cacheHIT
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
strict-transport-securitymax-age=63072000; includeSubdomains; preload
permissions-policyinterest-cohort=()
referrer-policyno-referrer
content-encodinggzip
etagW/"1750115010"
varyAccept-Encoding,Cookie
x-cacheHit from cloudfront
via1.1 0263e7e10b506a4542a1515f73f15568.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
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age1470
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 273 referring domains.
This page has 2,434 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 222 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

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