Openpolicy.blog.gov.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
68% 
Page structure
92% 
Link structure
77% 
Server
88% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.65 s
File size
55.80 kB
Words
1051
Media files
11
Number of links
76 internal / 15 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Policy Lab – Radically improving policy making through design, innovation and people-centred approaches
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 953 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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Radically improving policy making through design, innovation and people-centred approaches
The length of the meta description is perfect. (576 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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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
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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.
Charset encoding
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
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The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
This page contains 1051 words. That's ok.
33.6% of the text are stop words.
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 15.5 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, viewport-fit=cover" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The following tag is repeated too often: read more
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
11 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
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This page uses Google authorship information without an image.
HTTPS
(Somewhat important)
This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

Page structure

H1 heading
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Blog Policy Lab
The H1 heading is too short (15 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

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H1 Blog Policy Lab
H2 Announcing the second year of MANIFEST: three new artists placed in policy teams
H2 Announcing the second year of MANIFEST: three new artists placed in policy teams Duplicate text
H2 MANIFEST: Artists, policy and the process of making change
H2 Reflecting on 10 years of design, innovation and people-centred approaches in policy
H2 Launching the Lived Experience in Policymaking Guide: Reflections on the principles, behaviours, and mindsets that underpin lived experience work
H2 Using experimental methods to reimagine decision-making for the freshwater system, post 2043
H2 Launching the Healthy System Indicators: A new way of relational working across local and national systems
H2 Introducing RegBox: using serious games in regulatory development
H2 Launching NSPARC - our new National Security Policy and Research CoLab
H2 Launching “Systemic” - A game for applying systems change thinking to policy 
H2 Shifting policy systems – a framework for what to do and how to do it.
H2 People-Centred Policy Design: free five-part course now live on FutureLearn
H2 Related content and links
H2 Useful links
H3 Policy Lab
H3 Follow us
H3 Sign up and manage updates
H3 Blogs
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 15 external links on this page.
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/"
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 of 0.65 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 (56 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 279 referring domains.
This page has 2,450 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 247 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 20 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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