Npg.org.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
78% 
Page structure
97% 
Link structure
90% 
Server
91% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.37 s
File size
63.70 kB
Words
556
Media files
22
Number of links
60 internal / 15 external

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - National Portrait Gallery
The length of the page title is perfect. (288 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
National Portrait Gallery, London. Open daily from 10.30. Free admission. We look after the world’s greatest collection of portraits.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (798 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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No canonical link is 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
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There are no alternate links specified on this page.
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.
Domain
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The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
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Favicon
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The favicon is linked correctly.

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 33 words is high.
This page contains 556 words. That's ok.
24.6% 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.
9 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
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This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
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A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The following tag is repeated too often: booking now open
Image SEO
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Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
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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

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Page structure

H1 heading
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The National Portrait Gallery
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
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There are 26 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

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H1 The National Portrait Gallery
H2 Current exhibitions
H2 Upcoming exhibitions
H2 Entries open: 2025 Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award
H2 Explore the Collection
H2 Become a Member
H2 Support us
H2 Explore from home
H2 Stay in touch
H3 Francis Bacon: Human Presence
H3 Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024
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H3 Edvard Munch Portraits
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H3 Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award 2025
H3 Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World
H3 Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2025
H3 Primary Collection
H3 Photographs
H3 Prints and drawings
H3 Shop with us
H3 Gift vouchers
H3 Membership
H3 National Lottery 30 Years of Game Changing Moments
H3 Watch our channel​
H3 Explore our blog
Baselink: https://www.npg.org.uk/
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Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are 15 external links on this page.
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https://www.npg.org.uk/shop/Shop
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/whatson/exhibitions/2024/tayl...Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024 14 November 2024 – 23 February 2025
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/whatson/exhibitions/2025/face...The Face Magazine: Culture Shift 20 February – 18 May 2025 Booking now open
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/whatson/exhibitions/2025/edva...Edvard Munch Portraits 13 March – 15 June 2025 Booking now open
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/whatson/exhibitions/2025/jenn...Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting 20 June – 7 September 2025
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/whatson/exhibitions/2025/hsf-...Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award 2025 10 July – 12 October 2025 Call for entries now open
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/whatson/exhibitions/2025/ceci...Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World 9 October 2025 – 11 January 2026
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/whatson/exhibitions/2025/tayl...Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2025 13 November 2025 – 8 February 2026
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/collections/about/primary-col...Primary Collection Discover over 11,000 portrait paintings, drawings, miniatures and sculptures
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/collections/about/photographs...Photographs Explore 250,000 photographs and negatives ranging from the 1840s to the present day
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/collections/about/reference-c...Prints and drawings Our Reference Collection contains over 80,000 prints, drawings and caricatures
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/collections/search/portrait-l...Subdomain Clocks
/collections/search/group/1072...Subdomain Poets
/collections/search/advanced-s...Advanced search
https://www.npg.org.uk/members/Join now
https://npgshop.org.uk/External Shop with us Browse our unique range of books, prints, accessories and gifts. Every purchase supports the Gallery
IMG-ALT Shop with us
https://my.npg.org.uk/gift/vou...External Subdomain Gift vouchers Give the gift of choice with an NPG gift voucher, which can be used towards tickets for exhibitions and events or towards Membership
IMG-ALT Gift vouchers
https://www.npg.org.uk/members/Membership Members enjoy access to special events, discounts in the Gallery shop, free exhibition entry and much more
IMG-ALT Membership
/whatson/30-years-game-changin...National Lottery 30 Years of Game Changing Moments This digital exhibition of photographs by Thomas Duke marks the 30th year of The National Lottery, highlig...
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https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain Watch our channel​ View a wide collection of video content on our YouTube channel including behind the scenes exclusives
IMG-ALT Watch our channel​
https://www.npg.org.uk/blog/Explore our blog Discover behind the scenes stories
IMG-ALT Explore our blog
https://my.npg.org.uk/account/...External Subdomain Sign up
https://www.facebook.com/natio...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.twitter.com/NPGLon...New window External Subdomain X (Twitter)
https://instagram.com/national...New window External Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/natpor...New window External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.tiktok.com/@nation...New window External Subdomain TikTok
https://www.npg.org.uk/about/About the Gallery
https://www.npg.org.uk/about/faq/FAQs
https://www.npg.org.uk/blog/Stories
/about/jobs/Work with us
https://www.npg.org.uk/beyond/National and International
/visit/accessibility/Access
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/support/join-us/patrons/Patrons
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/collections/research/Research & Conservation
/collections/research/programmes/Research programmes
/collections/research/archive/Heinz Archive and Library
/collections/research/programm...Conservation
/collections/loans/Collection loans
/about/contactus/Contact us
/business/publications/Publications
/business/imagesCopyright and re-use
/about/pressPress
/business/filmingFilming
/business/venuehire/Venue hire
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https://www.twitter.com/NPGLon...New window External Subdomain No Text
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https://www.youtube.com/natpor...New window External Subdomain No Text
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/footer/accessibilityAccessibility statement
/footer/privacy-cookies/Privacy notice
/footer/privacy-cookies/cookie...Cookies
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/about/gallery-planning-and-po...Other policies
/about/gallery-planning-and-po...Our policies

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
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This page redirects to "https://www.npg.org.uk/"
HTTP header
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The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
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Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.37 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (64 kB).

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External factors

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This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 15,104 referring domains.
This page has 3,952,443 backlinks.
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www.npg.org.uk
Home - National Portrait Gallery
National Portrait Gallery, London. Open daily from 10.30. Free admission. We look after the world’s greatest collection of portraits.

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