Merthyr.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
53% 
Server
37% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.57 s
File size
8.30 kB
Words
94
Media files
1
Number of links
6 internal / 0 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Welcome to MERTHYR.GOV.UK | Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council
The title contains the word Welcome to! More content should be covered in the title.
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 657 pixels long. Optimize title
The domain is used in the page's title.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Information for Residents, Businesses and Visitors about Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council services.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (651 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.merthyr.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 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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
descriptionInformation for Residents, Businesses and Visitors about Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council services.
keywordsmerthyr council, merthyr tydfil council, mtcbc, merthyrcbc, local, authority, gov, county
authorMerthyr Tydfil County Borough Council
application-name 
msapplication-TileColor#003853
msapplication-TileImage/mstile-144x144.png
msapplication-square70x70logo/mstile-70x70.png
msapplication-square150x150logo/mstile-150x150.png
msapplication-wide310x150logo/mstile-310x150.png
msapplication-square310x310logo/mstile-310x310.png
google-site-verification8VKA1ksDqfj9FeWKDk4NtM_B_DDYuMAyEUYvCiGtRsg
msvalidate.01350CF4BB2DA59978CA28322D1D748C20
langen
twitter:cardsummary
og:titleWelcome to MERTHYR.GOV.UK
og:urlhttps://www.merthyr.gov.uk/
og:typearticle
og:site_nameMerthyr Tydfil County Borough Council
og:descriptionInformation for Residents, Businesses and Visitors about Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council services.
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 94 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
The average number of words per sentence of 35 words is high.
18.1% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
3 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 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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
/assets/img/splash/splash-logo.pngMerthyr Tydfil County Borough Council

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol Merthyr Tudful / Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol Merthyr Tudful / Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
There are too few (6) internal links on this page.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are no external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.merthyr.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
/help/cookies/View Cookie Policy
/resident/?lang=cy-GBCymraeg
/resident/?lang=en-GBEnglish
/help/privacy-notice/?lang=cy-GBHysbysiad Preifatrwydd
A-TITLE Hysbysiad Preifatrwydd
/help/privacy-notice/?lang=en-GBPrivacy Notice
A-TITLE Privacy Notice

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.merthyr.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 of 0.57 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (8 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
strict-transport-securitymax-age=63072000; includeSubDomains; preload
dateFri, 06 Sep 2024 02:48:25 GMT
content-length8500
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 876 referring domains.
This page has 13,449 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 534 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

You can find more links using Wikipedia search

Robots.txt

# robots.txt for Umbraco
User-agent: *
Sitemap: https://www.merthyr.gov.uk/sitemap
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: /help/report-page-issue/

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www.merthyr.gov.uk
Welcome to MERTHYR.GOV.UK | Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council
Information for Residents, Businesses and Visitors about Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council services.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Merthyr85%Check
Merthyr Tydfil81%Check
Merthyr Tydfil County79%Check
Merthyr Tydfil County Borough78%Check
County Borough Council75%Check
Tydfil County Borough Council75%Check
Tydfil74%Check
Merthyr Tudful68%Check
Tudful Merthyr Tydfil County67%Check
Bwrdeistref Sirol Merthyr62%Check
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