northyorks.gov.uk | Website SEO Review

Response time

0.29 s

File size

39.50 kB

Words

482

Media files

4

Number of links

62 internal / 6 external

Meta specifications 100% achieved

Title

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Home | North Yorkshire Council

The length of the page title is perfect. (283 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)

There are no duplicate words in the title

Meta Title

Meta description

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Apply, book, pay, report 24/7 – do it online! Jobs, school admissions, libraries, tips, roads, park and ride, births, marriages, blue badge, planning and more.

The length of the meta description is perfect. (950 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)

https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/

There is a valid canonical link 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

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There are no alternate links specified on this page.

Hreflang

Other meta tags

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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.

There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.

Meta Tags

Domain

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The domain is no subdomain.

The domain length is good.

The domain does not contain non-latin characters.

Domain for SEO

Page URL

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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

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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
description	Apply, book, pay, report 24/7 – do it online! Jobs, school admissions, libraries, tips, roads, park and ride, births, marriages, blue badge, planning and more.
abstract	Apply, book, pay, report 24/7 – do it online! Jobs, school admissions, libraries, tips, roads, park and ride, births, marriages, blue badge, planning and more.
msapplication-TileColor	#005489
theme-color	#ffffff
favicon-generator	Drupal responsive_favicons + realfavicongenerator.net
Generator	Drupal 10 (LocalGov Drupal \| https://localgovdrupal.org)
MobileOptimized	width
HandheldFriendly	true
viewport	width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
lang	en
twitter:card	summary
twitter:description	Apply, book, pay, report 24/7 – do it online! Jobs, school admissions, libraries, tips, roads, park and ride, births, marriages, blue badge, planning and more.
twitter:url	https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/home
twitter:image:alt	North Yorkshire Council
og:site_name	North Yorkshire Council
og:type	web page
og:url	https://www.northyorks.gov.uk
og:title	Home
og:description	Apply, book, pay, report 24/7 – do it online! Jobs, school admissions, libraries, tips, roads, park and ride, births, marriages, blue badge, planning and more.
charset	utf-8

Page quality 75% achieved

Content

(Critically important)

There are only 482 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.

30.3% 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.

14 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 18.5 words is good.

Content is King

Frames

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This page does not use a frameset.

Frames and framesets

Mobile optimization

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A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.

At least one Apple touch icon is specified.

Mobile Optimization

Bold and strong tags

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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

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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

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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
/themes/custom/northyorks_base/logo.svg	North Yorkshire Council
...P-Fostering-campsite 1.jpg?itok=jz4Cv2yt	Three boys in the entrance to a tent
...4-10/Inclusion event 1.JPG?itok=pMv2ef0x	Three people sat at a table talking during an inclusion event
...-10/changingplace-0539.jpg?itok=oMw3Q4zv	Ripon Disability Forum trustee, Daniel Abel, changing places supporter Mike Chambers MBE, Disability Forum trustee, Lynette Barnes, Cllr Andrew Williams, Disability Forum trustee, Stewart Aitkin, and Cllr Gareth Dadd.

Page structure 95% achieved

H1 heading

(Critically important)

Council services

The H1 heading is too short (16 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.

H1-H6 headings

Headings

(Important)

There are 26 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	Council services
H2	Planning and conservation
H2	Bins, recycling and waste
H2	Leisure, tourism and culture
H2	Roads, parking and travel
H2	Education and learning
H2	Council tax
H2	Jobs and careers
H2	Your council
H2	Business and economy
H2	Housing and homelessness
H2	Environment and neighbourhoods
H2	Adult care
H2	Birth, deaths and marriages
H2	Children and families
H2	Licensing and registration
H2	Benefits
H2	Community and volunteering
H2	Healthy living
H2	Latest news
H2	A to Z of council services
H2	Extra links
H2	Social media
H3	Collaborative fostering film does ‘everything’ to make a difference
H3	Schools in North Yorkshire leading the way to inclusion, not exclusion
H3	Ripon toilets reopen to provide improved disabled facilities

Link structure 100% achieved

Internal links

(Important)

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.

Internal Linking

External links

(Nice to have)

There are 6 external links on this page.

External Links

Found links on this page

Link	Attributes	Anchor text
https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/	Anchor	Skip to main content
https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/		IMG-ALT North Yorkshire Council
/planning-and-conservation/vie...		View planning applications
/council-tax		Find out about council tax
/bins-recycling-and-waste/chec...		Check your bin dates
/roads-parking-and-travel/road...		Report a highway problem
/roads-parking-and-travel/park...		Apply for or renew a blue badge
/your-council/get-touch/subscr...		Our digital newsletter
/planning-and-conservation		Planning and conservation
/bins-recycling-and-waste		Bins, recycling and waste
/leisure-tourism-and-culture		Leisure, tourism and culture
/roads-parking-and-travel		Roads, parking and travel
/education-and-learning		Education and learning
/council-tax		Council tax
/jobs-and-careers		Jobs and careers
/your-council		Your council
/business-and-economy		Business and economy
/housing-and-homelessness		Housing and homelessness
/environment-and-neighbourhoods		Environment and neighbourhoods
/adult-care		Adult care
/births-deaths-marriages		Birth, deaths and marriages
/children-and-families		Children and families
/licensing-and-registration		Licensing and registration
/benefits		Benefits
/community-and-volunteering		Community and volunteering
/healthy-living		Healthy living
/north-yorkshire-council-news		Latest news
/news/2024/collaborative-foste...		Collaborative fostering film does ‘everything’ to make a difference
/news/2024/schools-north-yorks...		Schools in North Yorkshire leading the way to inclusion, not exclusion
/news/2024/ripon-toilets-reope...		Ripon toilets reopen to provide improved disabled facilities
/glossary/a		A
/glossary/b		B
/glossary/c		C
/glossary/d		D
/glossary/e		E
/glossary/f		F
/glossary/g		G
/glossary/h		H
/glossary/i		I
/glossary/j		J
/glossary/k		K
/glossary/l		L
/glossary/m		M
/glossary/n		N
/glossary/o		O
/glossary/p		P
/glossary/q		Q
/glossary/r		R
/glossary/s		S
/glossary/t		T
/glossary/u		U
/glossary/v		V
/glossary/w		W
/glossary/x		X
/glossary/y		Y
/glossary/z		Z
/your-council/get-touch		Get in touch
/your-council/websites-and-med...		Accessibility
/your-council/transparency-fre...		Privacy
/your-council/websites-and-med...		Cookies
/your-council/websites-and-med...		Terms and conditions
https://www.gov.uk/	External	GOV.UK
https://www.facebook.com/north...	External Subdomain	Facebook
https://twitter.com/northyorksc	External	Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/nort...	External Subdomain	Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...	External Subdomain	LinkedIn
https://www.youtube.com/@north...	External Subdomain	YouTube
/your-council/websites-and-med...		More social channels

Server configuration 100% achieved

HTTP redirects

(Critically important)

This page redirects to "https://www.northyorks.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 0.29 seconds.

The file size of the HTML document is fine (40 kB).

Page Speed

HTTP Response Header

Name	Value
content-type	text/html; charset=UTF-8
server	nginx
cache-control	max-age=900, public
date	Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:04:40 GMT
x-drupal-dynamic-cache	MISS
content-language	en
x-content-type-options	nosniff
x-frame-options	SAMEORIGIN
expires	Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modified	Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:04:40 GMT
etag	W/"1729209880"
x-generator	Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cache	HIT
content-encoding	gzip
vary	Accept-Encoding,Cookie
x-cache	Miss from cloudfront
via	1.1 ae80ccab7109b5d2f1c1ee784af203a6.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-pop	FRA56-P9
x-amz-cf-id	BBNC7dT_8nXnIxYdWLlsJu7gcE6oR6LMwZFsGANd7crV1LVBkAv2VQ==
statuscode	200
http_version	HTTP/2

External factors 100% achieved

Backlinks

(Critically important)

This page is referenced by wikipedia.

This website has excellent links from other websites.

This page has backlinks from 4,674 referring domains.

This page has 1,175,212 backlinks.

This page has backlinks from 2,183 different ip addresses.

Backlinks

Links from Wikipedia

You can find more links using Wikipedia search

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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www.northyorks.gov.uk

Home | North Yorkshire Council

Apply, book, pay, report 24/7 – do it online! Jobs, school admissions, libraries, tips, roads, park and ride, births, marriages, blue badge, planning and more.

Most important keywords

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

Keyword	Result	Recheck
council	68%	Check
North	65%	Check
North Yorkshire Council	63%	Check
Yorkshire Council	61%	Check
Council services	61%	Check
North Yorkshire	59%	Check
services	54%	Check
council tax	54%	Check
planning	50%	Check
school	50%	Check
Roads	50%	Check
Jobs	50%	Check
marriages	50%	Check
School Admissions	48%	Check
Report	46%	Check
blue	46%	Check
badge	46%	Check
Apply	46%	Check
pay	46%	Check
libraries	46%	Check
tips	46%	Check
births	46%	Check
book	46%	Check
blue badge	46%	Check
fostering	40%	Check

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Page quality 75% achieved

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Media list

Page structure 95% achieved

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Heading structure

Link structure 100% 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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