Softwareadvice.co.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
99% 
Page quality
58% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.50 s
File size
40.20 kB
Words
462
Media files
26
Number of links
29 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Business Software Reviews and Insights | SoftwareAdvice™ UK
The length of the page title is perfect. (574 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Software Advice helps businesses in the UK find the best software with confidence. Compare software options and learn more from our research and user reviews.
The meta description is too long: 1001 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.softwareadvice.co.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)
The specified alternate links have no errors.
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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viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
descriptionSoftware Advice helps businesses in the UK find the best software with confidence. Compare software options and learn more from our research and user reviews.
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og:urlhttps://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/
og:site_nameSoftwareAdvice
og:titleWe’ve simplified software selection
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og:descriptionSoftware Advice helps businesses in the UK find the best software with confidence. Compare software options and learn more from our research and user reviews.
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 462 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
38.5% 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.
6 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 12.56 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 9 tags for this page.
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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
We help businesses in the UK find the right software
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 We help businesses in the UK find the right software
H2 We've helped 800,000 people find software
H2 Browse most popular software categories
H2 Have questions?
H2 Narrow down your search and make a confident choice
H3 Are you trying to sell me something?
H3 Are your reviews written by real people?
H3 What is the best pricing plan / subscription for a listed software?
H3 Can you help me shortlist the best software for my needs?
H3 Can I list my product on your website?
H4 Select your country:
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 1 links with a trivial anchor text.
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 10 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/IMG-ALT SoftwareAdvice
A-TITLE Software Advice
/directorySubdomain All Categories
https://www.gartner.com/en/dig...External Subdomain For vendors
/company/aboutAbout us
/directorySubdomain All categories
https://www.gartner.com/en/dig...External Subdomain Text duplicate For vendors
/company/aboutText duplicate About us
/directory/1630/it-ticketing/s...IT Ticketing Systems Software
IMG-ALT Laptop
/directory/1694/auto-call-dist...Automatic Call Distribution Systems Software
IMG-ALT Headphones
/directory/3606/account-manage...Account Management Software
IMG-ALT User icon close to a gear
/directory/246/demand-planning...Demand Planning Software
IMG-ALT Geometry
/directory/2165/restaurant-man...Restaurant Management Software
IMG-ALT Calendar
/directory/1412/task-managemen...Task Management Software
IMG-ALT Folder
/directory/270/bookkeeping/sof...Bookkeeping Software
IMG-ALT Calculator
/directory/3433/email-tracking...Email Management Software
IMG-ALT Envelope
/directory/1867/hcm/softwareHuman Capital Management Software
IMG-ALT Human
/directory/2025/retail-managem...Retail Management Software
IMG-ALT Store
/directory/2089/stock-control/...Inventory Control Software
IMG-ALT Checklist
/directoryBrowse all categories
https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/Anchor Are you trying to sell me something?
https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/Anchor Are your reviews written by real people?
https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/Anchor What is the best pricing plan / subscription for a listed software?
https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/Anchor Can you help me shortlist the best software for my needs?
https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/Anchor Can I list my product on your website?
https://www.gartner.com/en/dig...External Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Click here
/directoryBrowse our categories
/company/aboutText duplicate About us
/company/helpHelp
/blogBlog
/legal/general-vendor-termsGeneral vendor terms
/legal/privacy-policyPrivacy policy
https://www.gartner.com/en/dig...New window External Subdomain Get Listed
/legal/cookie-policySubdomain Trivial anchor text
click here
https://www.softwareadvice.com...Nofollow External Subdomain Australia (English)
IMG-ALT English
https://www.softwareadvice.de/Nofollow External Subdomain Deutschland (Deutsch)
IMG-ALT Deutsch
https://www.softwareadvice.fr/Nofollow External Subdomain France (Français)
IMG-ALT Français
https://www.softwareadvice.ie/Nofollow External Subdomain Ireland (English)
IMG-ALT English
https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/Nofollow External Subdomain New Zealand (English)
IMG-ALT English
https://www.softwareadvice.com/Nofollow External Subdomain United States (English)
IMG-ALT English

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.50 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 (40 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateMon, 07 Apr 2025 12:57:46 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
cache-controlmax-age=0, private, must-revalidate
set-cookie246 Characters
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self'
link<https://lcsites-sylar-prod-use1-assets.dmbx.aws.gartner.com/css/software_advice-ae28cf6410d57ad17170d38b51ac0edf.css>; rel=preload; as=style, <https://lcsites-sylar-prod-use1-assets.dmbx.aws.gartner.com/js/software_advice-32c8a02d5cb56d9b56df3ef2135a7f11.js>; rel=preload; as=script, <https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net>; rel=preconnect; crossorigin
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
varyaccept-encoding
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-download-optionsnoopen
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-permitted-cross-domain-policiesnone
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
servercloudflare
cf-ray92c9b14fc9e1bb87-CDG
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 542 referring domains.
This page has 34,924 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 453 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

# Blocks crawlers that are kind enough to obey robots
User-agent: msnbot
Crawl-delay: 10
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: UbiCrawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: BUbiNG
Disallow: /
User-agent: DOC
Disallow: /
User-agent: Zao
Disallow: /
User-agent: sitecheck.internetseer.com
Disallow: /
User-agent: Zealbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: MSIECrawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: SiteSnagger
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebStripper
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebCopier
Disallow: /
User-agent: Fetch
Disallow: /
User-agent: Offline Explorer
Disallow: /
User-agent: Teleport
Disallow: /
User-agent: TeleportPro
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebZIP
Disallow: /
User-agent: linko
Disallow: /
User-agent: HTTrack
Disallow: /
User-agent: Microsoft.URL.Control
Disallow: /
User-agent: Xenu
Disallow: /
User-agent: larbin
Disallow: /
User-agent: libwww
Disallow: /
User-agent: ZyBORG
Disallow: /
User-agent: Download Ninja
Disallow: /
User-agent: wget
Disallow: /
User-agent: grub-client
Disallow: /
User-agent: k2spider
Disallow: /
User-agent: NPBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebReaper
Disallow: /
User-agent: psbot
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User-agent: Exabot
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User-agent: Speedy
Disallow: /
User-agent: dotbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Bloglines/3.1
Disallow: /
User-agent: Jyxobot/1
Disallow: /
User-agent: cityreview
Disallow: /
User-agent: CrazyWebCrawler-Spider
Disallow: /
User-agent: Domain Re-Animator Bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SemrushBot-SA
Disallow: /
User-agent: Vegi
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User-agent: rogerbot
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User-agent: MauiBot
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User-agent: Linguee
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User-agent: PetalBot
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User-agent: BLEXBot
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User-agent: Yandex
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User-agent: YandexBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SeekportBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: BrandVerity
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
#allow digested assets
Allow: /*?vsn=d$
#allow paginated sitemaps
Allow: /sitemap/*?page=
#allow paginated category pages
Allow: /directory/*?page=
#allow paginated spotlight pages
Allow: /software/*?page=
#allow paginated blog homepage
Allow: /blog?page=
#pages with query strings
Disallow: /*?*
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/
Disallow: /x/*
Disallow: /sem/

Search preview

www.softwareadvice.co.uk
Business Software Reviews and Insights | SoftwareAdvice™ UK
Software Advice helps businesses in the UK find the best software with confidence. Compare software options and learn more from our research and user reviews.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
software90%Check
Software Advice79%Check
find software78%Check
Business Software77%Check
UK find76%Check
Software Reviews74%Check
best software72%Check
Business Software Reviews69%Check
software search68%Check
help66%Check

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