Stevenage.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
65% 
Page structure
51% 
Link structure
85% 
Server
88% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.40 s
File size
749.00 kB
Words
536
Media files
3
Number of links
47 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home
The title contains the word Home! More content should be covered in the title.
The page title is too short. (55 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
The page title is only one word.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Stevenage Borough Council homepage to access council services and information.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (512 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
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
(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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descriptionStevenage Borough Council homepage to access council services and information.
keywordsStevenage; Stevenage Council; SBC
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DC.Date.created2019-02-27
dc.descriptionStevenage Borough Council homepage to access council services and information.
DC.Formattext/html
DC.languageEnglish
DC.publisherStevenage Borough Council, Daneshill house, Danestrete, Stevenage SG1 1HN
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are 8 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate 1: Nominate your friend, colleague or a group you feel are worthy of an a...
  • Duplicate 2: Our Housing team is consulting on a Lettable Standard, an Aids and Ada...
  • Duplicate 3: Committee meetings taking place in September include the Planning and ...
  • Duplicate 4: Sign up to our digital newsletter. They’re sent out three times a year...
This page contains 536 words. That's ok.
30% of the text are stop words.
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.
The average number of words per sentence of 20 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
The file size of the HTML document is very large (749 kB).
A viewport "width=device-width,initial-scale=1,shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 11 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.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
...der.svg?e4fe551cc2fa589d6a9abe0b82c87b7aSearch site
...put.svg?ab9e23ce204755819f6021ea756bfaceSubmit search
...put.svg?52553b7aae7ffe13a88f0ebae491f167Submit search

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Stevenage
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (9 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Stevenage
H2 Managing the cost of living
H2 Brand-new Stevenage Together Awards 2024
H2 Have your say...
H2 Committee Meetings
H2 Get the latest news to your inbox
H2 Managing the cost of living Duplicate text
H2 Brand-new Stevenage Together Awards 2024 Duplicate text
H2 Have your say... Duplicate text
H2 Committee Meetings Duplicate text
H2 Get the latest news to your inbox Duplicate text
H2 Managing the cost of living Duplicate text
H2 Proposed relocation of Stevenage Indoor Market
H2 Taxi fares and tariffs consultation – 2024 Annual Review
H2 Help for pensioners
H2 Pop-up art gallery comes to Stevenage
H2 Market Square improvements set to continue
H2 Bidding open for the 2024 Community Chest Fund
H2 Rate this page
H2 Services and information
H2 Your council
H2 Follow us
H3 News and events
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.stevenage.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.stevenage.gov.uk/Stevenage Borough Council
https://www.stevenage.gov.uk/payPay
/your-accountsYour Accounts
https://jobs.stevenage.gov.uk/...New window External Subdomain Job vacancies - opens new window
/welcome-to-stevenageWelcome to Stevenage
/housing/council-housingCouncil Housing
/council-tax/manage-your-counc...Manage your Council Tax account online
/waste-and-recycling/missed-binsMissed Bin Collections
/report-onlineReport Online
/housing/council-housing/repai...Report a Repair
/planning-and-building-control...Find a Planning Application
https://www.stevenage.gov.uk/findFind your refuse and recycling dates and your local councillors
/environment/street-care-and-c...Graffiti
/find-a-car-parkFind a Car Park
/housing/homelessness-and-hous...Homelessness and Housing Advice
/working-for-usWorking for Us
/council-and-democracyCouncil and Democracy
/town-and-community/stevenage-...Stevenage Works
/tradewasteTrade Waste
/housing/specialist-support-se...Care Connect 24/7
/benefits/help-to-manage-the-c...Managing the cost of living Information and support to help you manage to rising cost of living
/news-and-events/news/brand-ne...Brand-new Stevenage Together Awards 2024 Nominate your friend, colleague or a group you feel are worthy of an award by Tuesday 1 October 2024
/have-your-sayHave your say... Our Housing team is consulting on a Lettable Standard, an Aids and Adaptations policy, a Responsive Repair and Maintenance policy, and a pro...
/council-and-democracy/decisio...Committee Meetings Committee meetings taking place in September include the Planning and Development Committee and Joint CCTV Executive.
https://public.govdelivery.com...New window External Subdomain Get the latest news to your inbox Sign up to our digital newsletter. They’re sent out three times a year and include information about your local area, inclu...
/benefits/help-to-manage-the-c...Text duplicate Managing the cost of living Information and support to help you manage to rising cost of living
/news-and-events/news/brand-ne...Text duplicate Brand-new Stevenage Together Awards 2024 Nominate your friend, colleague or a group you feel are worthy of an award by Tuesday 1 October 2024
/have-your-sayText duplicate Have your say... Our Housing team is consulting on a Lettable Standard, an Aids and Adaptations policy, a Responsive Repair and Maintenance policy, and a pro...
/council-and-democracy/decisio...Text duplicate Committee Meetings Committee meetings taking place in September include the Planning and Development Committee and Joint CCTV Executive.
https://public.govdelivery.com...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Get the latest news to your inbox Sign up to our digital newsletter. They’re sent out three times a year and include information about your local area, inclu...
/benefits/help-to-manage-the-c...Text duplicate Managing the cost of living Information and support to help you manage to rising cost of living
/news-and-eventsView all news and events
/news-and-events/news/proposed...News Proposed relocation of Stevenage Indoor Market Is the Indoor Market about to move? Find out a little more about the possible relocation.
/news-and-events/news/taxi-far...News Taxi fares and tariffs consultation – 2024 Annual Review Give us your feedback on this annual review by 18 September.
/news-and-events/news/help-for...News Help for pensioners Do you know a pensioner with a low income who could do with some extra financial help?
/news-and-events/news/pop-up-a...News Pop-up art gallery comes to Stevenage Come and see some amazing art and performances and improve your creative skills at the same time.
/news-and-events/news/market-s...News Market Square improvements set to continue Improvement work at Market Place will continue throughout the autumn.
/news-and-events/news/bidding-...News Bidding open for the 2024 Community Chest Fund Community groups and volunteers can bid for a share of a pot of money for upcoming projects. Bidding clos...
https://websurveys2.govmetric....External Subdomain A-TITLE Rate this page as Good
https://websurveys2.govmetric....External Subdomain A-TITLE Rate this page as Average
https://websurveys2.govmetric....External Subdomain A-TITLE Rate this page as Poor
https://www.stevenage.gov.uk/Stevenage Borough Council Home
/benefitsBenefits
/businessBusiness and Commercial
/council-taxCouncil Tax
/council-and-democracyText duplicate Council and Democracy
/housingHousing
/waste-and-recyclingWaste and Recycling
/contact-usContact us
https://services.stevenage.gov...New window External Subdomain Pay Online - opens new window
https://en-gb.facebook.com/ste...New window External Subdomain Facebook - Opens in a new window
https://www.instagram.com/stev...New window External Subdomain Instagram - Opens in a new window
https://twitter.com/StevenageBCNew window External Twitter - Opens in a new window
https://www.youtube.com/user/S...New window External Subdomain YouTube - Opens in a new window
/accessibilityAccessibility
/cookiesCookies
/about-the-council/access-to-i...Privacy Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.stevenage.gov.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The file size of the HTML document is very large (749 kB).
The page response time is excellent with 0.40 seconds.

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,110 referring domains.
This page has 350,648 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 649 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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Sitemap: https://www.stevenage.gov.uk/sitemap.xml
Allow: /
Disallow: /static

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KeywordResultRecheck
Stevenage77%Check
Stevenage Borough63%Check
Stevenage Borough Council59%Check
Council50%Check
Information50%Check
services50%Check
Borough Council48%Check
News and Events46%Check
Council Tax44%Check
news43%Check
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