Mygov.scot - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
56% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.15 s
File size
31.00 kB
Words
430
Media files
3
Number of links
36 internal / 3 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Access to public services in Scotland - mygov.scot
The length of the page title is perfect. (452 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
mygov.scot is the place for people in Scotland to access public services that are easy to find and simple to use.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (682 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.mygov.scot/
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
dc.titleAccess to public services in Scotland
dc.descriptionmygov.scot is the place for people in Scotland to access public services that are easy to find and simple to use.
dc.subjectmygovscot
descriptionmygov.scot is the place for people in Scotland to access public services that are easy to find and simple to use.
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
msapplication-TileColor#0065bd
theme-color#ffffff
facebook-domain-verificationptwgwetrd28vbmwyjq7h2fen8phaub
google-site-verificationvSrfYRrCbfMqGoggpdhADL9rvDQm70LtAHalmFmZ4wE
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:titleAccess to public services in Scotland
twitter:descriptionmygov.scot is the place for people in Scotland to access public services that are easy to find and simple to use.
twitter:imagehttps://www.mygov.scot/binaries/content/gallery/mygov/mygov-png
twitter:domainEmpty
twitter:urlhttps://www.mygov.scot/
og:urlhttps://www.mygov.scot/
og:typewebsite
og:titleAccess to public services in Scotland
og:descriptionmygov.scot is the place for people in Scotland to access public services that are easy to find and simple to use.
og:imagehttps://www.mygov.scot/binaries/content/gallery/mygov/mygov-png
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 430 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
There are 3 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: Your feedback helps us to improve this website. Do not give any person...
31.4% 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.
6 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 13.09 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 9 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
...9080216546/assets/images/logos/mygov.svgmygov.scot
...729080216546/assets/images/logos/ogl.svgOpen Government License
...mages/logos/scottish-government--min.svggov.scot

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Access to public services in Scotland
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Access to public services in Scotland
H2 Information
H2 Information Duplicate text
H2 Popular on mygov.scot:
H2 Benefits
H2 Housing and local services
H2 Health, social care and wellbeing
H2 Cost of living
H2 Support for Ukrainians in Scotland
H2 Working, jobs and careers
H2 Driving and transport
H2 Living in and visiting Scotland
H2 Education and training
H2 Business
H2 Births, deaths and family
H2 Crime, justice and the law
H2 Money and tax
H2 Environment, farming and marine
H2 Passports, travel and living abroad
H2 There is a problem
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
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.mygov.scot/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.mygov.scot/browsersupgrade your browser
https://www.mygov.scot/cookiescookies
https://www.mygov.scot/cookiesSet cookie preferences
https://www.mygov.scot/cookieschange your cookie settings
https://www.mygov.scot/IMG-ALT mygov.scot
/browse/benefitsBenefits: disability, child, heating
https://www.mygov.scot/myaccountmyaccount: sign in online
/contact-social-security-scotlandWebchat: Social Security Scotland
/browse/benefits/emergency-and...Crisis Grants: emergency payment
/uploading-your-documentsSend documents: Social Security Scotland
/apply-blue-badgeBlue Badge: disabled parking
/organisations150 organisations
/organisationsA-Z of Scotland's organisations
/browse/benefitsBenefits
/browse/housing-local-servicesHousing and local services
/browse/health-social-careHealth, social care and wellbeing
/browse/cost-of-living-supportCost of living
/browse/support-ukrainians-sco...Support for Ukrainians in Scotland
/browse/working-jobsWorking, jobs and careers
/browse/driving-transportDriving and transport
/browse/living-visiting-scotlandLiving in and visiting Scotland
/browse/education-trainingEducation and training
/browse/businessBusiness
/browse/births-deaths-marriagesBirths, deaths and family
/browse/crime-justice-lawCrime, justice and the law
/browse/money-and-taxMoney and tax
/browse/environment-farm-marineEnvironment, farming and marine
/browse/passports-and-living-a...Passports, travel and living abroad
https://www.mygov.scot/Anchor Back to top
/about-mygovscotAbout
https://www.mygov.scot/myaccountmyaccount
/accessibilityAccessibility statement
https://www.mygov.scot/cookiesCookies
/give-feedbackFeedback
https://www.mygov.scot/privacyPrivacy
https://www.nationalarchives.g...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Open Government License
https://www.nationalarchives.g...External Subdomain Open Government Licence v3.0
https://www.gov.scot/External Subdomain IMG-ALT gov.scot
A-TITLE The Scottish Government

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.mygov.scot/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.15 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (31 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html;charset=UTF-8
dateFri, 18 Oct 2024 13:03:54 GMT
permissions-policyaccelerometer=(), autoplay=(), camera=(), clipboard-read=(), clipboard-write=(), cross-origin-isolated=(), document-domain=(), encrypted-media=(), fullscreen=(), geolocation=(), gyroscope=(), magnetometer=(), microphone=(), midi=(), payment=(), picture-in-picture=(), publickey-credentials-get=(), screen-wake-lock=(), sync-xhr=(), usb=(), xr-spatial-tracking=()
referrer-policyno-referrer, strict-origin-when-cross-origin
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-cache-statusHIT
cache-controlpublic, max-age=300, s-maxage=60
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
x-cacheHit from cloudfront
via1.1 41f60102fc29156bc5001d6646f75c02.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-popFRA2-C1
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
x-amz-cf-idtg1ZB82IuZC6Wu3nsB0r8NrgCVDq1sFz6YK8cSY_1ffmNmzZKV2sCw==
age59
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 6,448 referring domains.
This page has 738,840 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 3,712 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*.pdf$
Disallow: /search$
Disallow: /search?
Disallow: /binaries/
Disallow: /assets/
Sitemap: https://www.mygov.scot/sitemap.xml

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Access to public services in Scotland - mygov.scot
mygov.scot is the place for people in Scotland to access public services that are easy to find and simple to use.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
scot93%Check
Scotland77%Check
services77%Check
public services77%Check
mygov76%Check
Access public services76%Check
Access73%Check
us improve46%Check
living43%Check
Information43%Check
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