Nationalcareers.service.gov.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
59% 
Page quality
44% 
Page structure
50% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
33% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.60 s
File size
35.80 kB
Words
490
Media files
18
Number of links
28 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Careers advice - job profiles, information and resources | National Careers Service
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 739 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-gb
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-gb
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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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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viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
langen-gb
og:imagehttps://cdn.nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/nationalcareers_toolkit/images/govuk-opengraph-image-tudor-crown.png
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 490 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
36.5% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
4 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 13.31 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 4 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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 10 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
9 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
...edia/headers/homepage-desktop-header.pngWoman sat at a laptop and wearing a headset in an office.
...media/headers/homepage-mobile-header.pngWoman sat at a laptop and wearing a headset in an office.
...areers.service.gov.uk/media/checkbox.svgNo alt attribute provided
...careers.service.gov.uk/media/compass.svgNo alt attribute provided
...ervice.gov.uk/media/magnifying-glass.svgNo alt attribute provided
...areers.service.gov.uk/media/checkbox.svgNo alt attribute provided
...careers.service.gov.uk/media/compass.svgNo alt attribute provided
...ervice.gov.uk/media/magnifying-glass.svgNo alt attribute provided
...ice.gov.uk/media/speak-to-an-adviser.svgNo alt attribute provided
.../seasonal-jobs-2024-featured-desktop.pngNo alt attribute provided
...r/seasonal-jobs-2024-featured-mobile.pngA man and woman in a field of christmas trees, wearing wintery clothes and smiling at the camera.
...ice.gov.uk/media/speak-to-an-adviser.svgNo alt attribute provided
....uk/nationalcareers_toolkit/images/x.svgX
...ionalcareers_toolkit/images/facebook.svgFacebook
...ionalcareers_toolkit/images/linkedin.svgLinkedIn
...onalcareers_toolkit/images/instagram.svgInstagram
...tionalcareers_toolkit/images/youtube.svgYoutube

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to the National Careers Service
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to the National Careers Service
H2 There is a problem
H2 There is a problem Duplicate text
H2 Get relevant careers advice
H2 Take a skills assessment
H2 Explore careers
H2 Find a course
H2 Take a skills assessment Duplicate text
H2 Explore careers Duplicate text
H2 Find a course Duplicate text
H2 Speak to an adviser
H2 Meet warehouse worker Lauren
H2 Seasonal work advice
H2 Speak to an adviser Duplicate text
H2 Website information
H2 Other UK career services
H3 Keep in touch
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 11 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to main content
/National Careers Service
/explore-careersExplore careers
/skills-assessmentSkills assessment
/find-a-courseFind a course
/careers-adviceCareers advice
/contact-usContact us
https://dferesearch.fra1.qualt...New window External Subdomain feedback
/Anchor Select your education or work status
/Anchor Select your stage
/Anchor Select your situation
/skills-assessmentTake a skills assessment
/explore-careersText duplicate Explore careers
/find-a-courseText duplicate Find a course
/skills-assessmentText duplicate Take a skills assessment
/explore-careersText duplicate Explore careers
/find-a-courseText duplicate Find a course
/contact-uscontact us
/webchat/chatuse webchat
/job-profiles/warehouse-workerwarehouse worker
/seasonal-workSubdomain seasonal work advice
/contact-usSubdomain Text duplicate contact us
/webchat/chatText duplicate use webchat
https://x.com/NationalCareersExternal Follow on
IMG-ALT X
https://www.facebook.com/Natio...External Subdomain Text duplicate Follow on
IMG-ALT Facebook
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain Text duplicate Follow on
IMG-ALT LinkedIn
https://www.instagram.com/nati...External Subdomain Text duplicate Follow on
IMG-ALT Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain Text duplicate Follow on
IMG-ALT Youtube
/about-usAbout us
/helpHelp
/help/cookiesPrivacy and cookies
/help/accessibilityAccessibility statement
/help/terms-and-conditionsTerms and conditions
/help/information-sourcesInformation sources
https://www.myworldofwork.co.uk/External Subdomain Scotland
https://careerswales.gov.wales/External Subdomain Wales
https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/ca...External Subdomain Northern Ireland
https://www.nationalarchives.g...New window External Subdomain Open Government Licence v3.0
https://www.nationalarchives.g...New window External Subdomain © Crown copyright

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://nationalcareers.service.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 0.60 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.
This page loads 4 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 1 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (36 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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x-content-type-optionsnosniff
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
x-frame-optionsSameOrigin
x-xss-protection0
feature-policysync-xhr 'self'
expect-ctmax-age=86400, enforce
x-permitted-cross-domain-policiesnone
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 9,539 referring domains.
This page has 630,532 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 5,902 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /alerts/
Disallow: /ab/
Disallow: /webchat/
Disallow: /find-a-course/details*
Disallow: /find-a-course/course-details*
Disallow: /find-a-course/tdetails*
Disallow: /find-a-course/tlevels*
Allow: /
Sitemap: https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/find-a-course/sitemap.xml

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Careers79%Check
National Careers Service79%Check
Service78%Check
National74%Check
Careers advice66%Check
advice54%Check
Welcome50%Check
information49%Check
job48%Check
get advice48%Check

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