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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
83% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
70% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.55 s
File size
66.00 kB
Words
883
Media files
9
Number of links
72 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - UK Government Security - Beta
The length of the page title is perfect. (355 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
This website is where people across the UK government can find security-related strategies, standards, and guidance, along with the organisations involved in the security profession.
The meta description is too long: 1121 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.security.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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og:site_nameUK Government Security - Beta
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 883 words. That's ok.
31.7% 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.
11 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.
The average number of words per sentence of 22.17 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 usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 18 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
7 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
...themes/gsfc/public/images/logo-white.pngGovernment Security Homepage
...7_CO_Government-Security_Icons_Cyber.pngNo alt attribute provided
..._Government-Security_Icons_Personnel.pngNo alt attribute provided
...O_Government-Security_Icons_Physical.pngNo alt attribute provided
..._Government-Security_Icons_Technical.pngNo alt attribute provided
...311d-ad77-4498-addf-9ba02f52f6b4-1-1.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...nt/uploads/2024/12/star-5756420_1280.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...content/uploads/2024/11/Bella_Powell.pngBella Powell - Cyber Director, UK Government Security Group
/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Image-B.pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 31 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Policy, Standards & Guidance
H2 In this section
H2 Latest Topics
H2 Services & Resources
H2 In this section Duplicate text
H2 Latest Topics Duplicate text
H2 Government Security Profession
H2 In this section Duplicate text
H2 Latest Jobs
H2 News & Events
H2 In this section Duplicate text
H2 Next Event
H2 Latest News
H2 Government Security
H2 Government security consists of four areas
H2 Next Event Duplicate text
H2 Annual Government Cyber Security Conference
H2 Latest News (See all)
H2 Stay Safe and Secure this Festive Season
H2 Calling all cyber security professionals
H2 Share With Care
H2 Newly added content
H2 GovAssure Cyber Lexicon
H2 How to store and share your assessment securely
H2 Create your improvement and implementation plan
H2 Sign up to UK Government Security
H2 Support links
H3 Cyber
H3 Personnel
H3 Physical
H3 Technical
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
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 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/cookie-policy/Some of these cookies are essential to how the site functions and others are optional
/preference-centre/Subdomain Set cookie preferences
/preference-centre/Subdomain change your cookie settings
/preference-centre/Subdomain Text duplicate change your cookie settings
https://www.security.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.security.gov.uk/Subdomain IMG-ALT Government Security Homepage
https://www.security.gov.uk/Subdomain Home
/about-us/Subdomain About Us
/policy-and-guidance/Subdomain Policy, Standards & Guidance
/services-resources/Subdomain Services & Resources
/careers-and-learning/Subdomain Government Security Profession
/news-and-events/Subdomain News & Events
/search/Subdomain Search
/contact/Subdomain Contact
/auth/loginSign in
/policy-and-guidance/Subdomain Search Policy, Standards & Guidance All Policy, Standards and Guidance
/policy-and-guidance/strategy/Strategy
/policy-and-guidance/policy/Subdomain Policy
/policy-and-guidance/standards/Subdomain Standards
/policy-and-guidance/guidance-2/Subdomain Guidance
/policy-and-guidance/govassure/Subdomain GovAssure
/policy-and-guidance/secure-by...Subdomain Secure by Design
/policy-and-guidance/gsec-inte...Subdomain Travel advice - GSeC International
/policy-and-guidance/departmen...Subdomain Departmental Security Health Check (DSHC)
/policy-and-guidance/cyber-ass...Subdomain Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) for local government
/policy-and-guidance/govassure...Subdomain GovAssure Cyber Lexicon
/policy-and-guidance/cyber-ass...Subdomain How to store and share your assessment securely
/policy-and-guidance/cyber-ass...Subdomain Create your improvement and implementation plan
/policy-and-guidance/cyber-ass...Subdomain Arrange independent assurance
/policy-and-guidance/cyber-ass...Subdomain About the independent assurance process
/policy-and-guidance/cyber-ass...Subdomain Create an executive presentation
/services-resources/Subdomain Search Services & Resources All Services and Resources
/services-resources/gsecs/Subdomain Government Security Centres (GSeCs)
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/New window External Subdomain National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
https://cddo.cabinetoffice.gov...New window External Subdomain Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO)
https://www.gov.uk/government/...New window External UKSV
/services-resources/rosa-servi...Subdomain Rosa Service Organisation (RSO)
/services-resources/government...Subdomain Government Cyber Coordination Centre (GC3)
/policy-and-guidance/contracti...Subdomain Contracting securely
/services-resources/gsecs/secu...Subdomain Share with care
/services-resources/security-i...Subdomain Security Induction Videos
/services-resources/government...Subdomain Government Cyber Security Academy
/services-resources/rosa-servi...Subdomain Text duplicate Rosa Service Organisation (RSO)
/services-resources/government...Subdomain Text duplicate Government Cyber Coordination Centre (GC3)
/services-resources/organisati...Subdomain Organisations
/careers-and-learning/Subdomain Search Government Security Profession All Government Security Profession
/government-security-profession/Subdomain About the Government Security Profession
/government-security-professio...Subdomain Careers
/government-security-professio...Subdomain Learning Academy
/government-security-professio...Subdomain Cyber Resourcing Hub
/services-resources/government...Subdomain Text duplicate Government Cyber Security Academy
/jobs/government-cyber-advisor...Subdomain Government Cyber Advisory Board – expressions of interest
/news-and-events/Subdomain Search News & Events All News and Events
/news/annual-government-cyber-...New window Subdomain Annual Government Cyber Security Conference 29 January 2025
/events/annual-government-cybe...Subdomain Annual Government Cyber Security Conference
/stay-safe-and-secure-this-fes...Subdomain Stay Safe and Secure this Festive Season
/calling-all-cyber-security-pr...Subdomain Calling all cyber security professionals
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/...New window External Subdomain feedback
/policy-and-guidance/?taxonomi...Subdomain Cyber Protecting information systems, the data on them and the services they provide, from unauthorised access, harm or misuse:
/policy-and-guidance/?taxonomi...Subdomain Personnel Mitigating the risk of our trusted people exploiting their legitimate access to an organisation’s assets for unauthorised purposes:
/policy-and-guidance/?taxonomi...Subdomain Physical Protecting physical assets, including people, services, infrastructure, systems, places, equipment and networks:
/policy-and-guidance/?taxonomi...Subdomain Technical Holistically protecting sensitive information and technology from close access acquisition by hostile threat actors, as well as from any other form...
/events/annual-government-cybe...Subdomain Text duplicate Annual Government Cyber Security Conference
/news-and-events/(See all)
/stay-safe-and-secure-this-fes...Subdomain Text duplicate Stay Safe and Secure this Festive Season
/calling-all-cyber-security-pr...Subdomain Text duplicate Calling all cyber security professionals
/share-with-care/Subdomain Share With Care
/policy-and-guidance/govassure...Subdomain Text duplicate GovAssure Cyber Lexicon
/policy-and-guidance/cyber-ass...Subdomain Text duplicate How to store and share your assessment securely
/policy-and-guidance/cyber-ass...Subdomain Text duplicate Create your improvement and implementation plan
https://security.us21.list-man...New window External Subdomain Sign up now
https://www.security.gov.uk/helpSubdomain Help
/privacySubdomain Privacy
/cookie-policy/Subdomain Cookie policy
/accessibility-statementSubdomain Accessibility statement
/contactSubdomain Text duplicate Contact
/terms-and-conditionsSubdomain Terms and conditions
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/...New window External Subdomain Feedback
https://www.nationalarchives.g...External Subdomain Open Government Licence v3.0
https://www.nationalarchives.g...External Subdomain © Crown copyright

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.security.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 very slow (1.55 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (66 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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expiresThu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
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referrer-policyno-referrer-when-downgrade
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cross-origin-resource-policysame-origin
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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 94 referring domains.
This page has 411 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 88 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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Government Security75%Check
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Government70%Check
Government Security Profession68%Check
Government Cyber Security65%Check
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