Portsmouth.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
60% 
Page structure
43% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.20 s
File size
141.60 kB
Words
358
Media files
3
Number of links
47 internal / 16 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Portsmouth City Council
The length of the page title is perfect. (291 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Pay your Council Tax, find your bin collection dates, renew your parking permit or find out how to contact us on the Portsmouth City Council website.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (911 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/
There is a valid canonical link 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)
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

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descriptionPay your Council Tax, find your bin collection dates, renew your parking permit or find out how to contact us on the Portsmouth City Council website.
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article:modified_time2024-10-22T23:47:34+00:00
langen-gb
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og:localeen_GB
og:typewebsite
og:titleHome
og:descriptionPay your Council Tax, find your bin collection dates, renew your parking permit or find out how to contact us on the Portsmouth City Council website.
og:urlhttps://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/
og:site_namePortsmouth City Council
x-ua-compatibleie=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 358 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 27.25 words is high.
25.4% 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.
3 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
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 amount of tags is very high (44). We recommend using a maximum of 7 tags for this page.
The following tag is repeated too often: {phrase}
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
/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/pcc-logo.svgPortsmouth City Council
...uploads/2020/10/portsmouth-guildhall.jpgPortsmouth Guildhall
...ds/2024/10/Blast-City-centre--scaled.jpgPortsmouth Christmas Lights Switch on 2023

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Home
The H1 heading contains the words Home! Use important keywords instead.
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (4 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Home
H2 Top tasks
H2 Services
H2 News
H2 Events
H2 Find low cost and FREE events and activities this month!
H3 Cost of living hub – Find advice and support to help you save money
H3 Watch the Full Cabinet meeting on Tuesday 29 October at 2pm.
H3 Bus lane usage unchanged following PHV trial
H3 Southsea Christmas Lights Switch On Party
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 16 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to content
/accessibility/Subdomain Accessibility
A-TITLE Accessibility
/a-z/Subdomain A-Z
A-TITLE A-Z
https://my.portsmouth.gov.uk/M...New window External Subdomain My Portsmouth
A-TITLE My Portsmouth
https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/Subdomain IMG-ALT Portsmouth City Council
https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/Subdomain More results...
/services/Subdomain Our services
https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/Subdomain Text duplicate More results...
/services/benefits-and-support...Subdomain Cost of living hub
https://my.portsmouth.gov.uk/e...New window External Subdomain Find bin collection dates
/services/council-tax/Subdomain Council Tax
https://ip.e-paycapita.com/AIP...New window External Subdomain Make a payment
http://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/New window External Subdomain Find a job at the council
https://ip.e-paycapita.com/AIP...New window External Subdomain Pay penalty charge notice
/services/development-and-plan...Subdomain View and comment on planning applications
https://easipermitslive.xrxpsc...New window External Subdomain Apply for or renew parking permit
/services/recycling-and-rubbis...Subdomain Book a slot at HWRC
/services/schools-learning-and...Subdomain School applications
https://democracy.portsmouth.g...New window External Subdomain View council meeting calendar
/services/parking-roads-and-tr...Subdomain View parking zones
/all-tasks/pay/Subdomain Pay
/all-tasks/report/Subdomain Report
/all-tasks/apply/Subdomain Apply
/all-tasks/Subdomain All tasks
/services/housing/Subdomain Housing
/services/parking-roads-and-tr...Subdomain Parking, roads and travel
/services/recycling-and-rubbish/Subdomain Recycling and rubbish
/services/schools-learning-and...Subdomain Schools, learning and childcare
/services/development-and-plan...Subdomain Development and planning
/services/benefits-and-support/Subdomain Benefits and support
/services/health-and-care/Subdomain Health and care
/services/libraries/Subdomain Libraries
/services/council-and-democracy/Subdomain Council and democracy
/services/licensing/Subdomain Licensing
/services/leisure/Subdomain Leisure
/services/environmental-health/Subdomain Environmental health
/services/community/Subdomain Community
/services/business/Subdomain Business
/services/council-tax/Subdomain Text duplicate Council Tax
/services/register-office/Subdomain Register office
/services/benefits-and-support...Subdomain View the cost of living hub
https://www.youtube.com/embed/...New window External Subdomain Watch the meeting online
/newsSubdomain All news
/bus-lane-usage-unchanged-foll...Subdomain Bus lane usage unchanged following PHV trial
/bus-lane-usage-unchanged-foll...Subdomain More information
/eventsSubdomain All events
/events/southsea-christmas-lig...Subdomain Southsea Christmas Lights Switch On Party
/events/southsea-christmas-lig...Subdomain Text duplicate More information
/services/benefits-and-support...New window Subdomain Find activities
https://www.facebook.com/Ports...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/portsmouth...New window External Twitter
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://vimeo.com/portsmouthci...New window External Vimeo
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.instagram.com/port...New window External Subdomain Instagram
https://public.govdelivery.com...New window External Subdomain Sign up for email updates
/services/council-and-democrac...Subdomain Contact us
/services/council-and-democrac...Subdomain Freedom of Information
/services/council-and-democrac...Subdomain Cookie and privacy policy
/services/council-and-democrac...Subdomain Data Protection privacy notice
/services/council-and-democrac...Subdomain Disclaimer
/services/council-and-democrac...Subdomain Modern slavery and human trafficking statement
https://intranet.portsmouth.go...External Subdomain Staff sign in

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.portsmouth.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 is excellent with 0.20 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (142 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateSun, 27 Oct 2024 00:52:15 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-cache-enabledTrue
link<https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/", <https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-json/wp/v2/pages/13>; rel="alternate"; title="JSON"; type="application/json", <https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/>; rel=shortlink
x-httpd1
host-header8441280b0c35cbc1147f8ba998a563a7
x-proxy-cacheHIT
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,381 referring domains.
This page has 550,255 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,530 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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Disallow: /search/

Sitemap: https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/sitemap_index.xml
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Home - Portsmouth City Council
Pay your Council Tax, find your bin collection dates, renew your parking permit or find out how to contact us on the Portsmouth City Council website.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Portsmouth73%Check
Portsmouth City67%Check
Portsmouth City Council66%Check
Council64%Check
City Council63%Check
Find59%Check
Council Tax57%Check
parking51%Check
Pay51%Check
collection51%Check
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