Studentfinance.campaign.gov.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
81% 
Page quality
51% 
Page structure
42% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
84% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.73 s
File size
47.00 kB
Words
388
Media files
6
Number of links
16 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
SFE - Student Finance England
The length of the page title is perfect. (285 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
SFE full-time and part-time undergraduate applications are open. If you're starting uni or college in September 2024 apply today!
There are more than one meta descriptions on the page. Only one is allowed.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://studentfinance.campaign.gov.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
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)
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
(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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, viewport-fit=cover
theme-color#0b0c0c
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
descriptionEmpty
facebook-domain-verification4obhemkkgonbjyxt1galyqxmc8gxnz
article:publisherhttps://www.facebook.com/SFEngland
article:modified_time2024-08-15T11:08:53+00:00
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:titleStudent Finance England
twitter:descriptionSFE full-time and part-time undergraduate applications are open. If you're starting uni or college in September 2024 apply today!
twitter:imagehttps://studentfinance.campaign.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/188/2024/02/MicrosoftTeams-image-4.jpg
twitter:site@SF_England
og:localeen_US
og:typeimage/png
og:titleStudent Finance England
og:descriptionEmpty
og:urlhttps://studentfinance.campaign.gov.uk/
og:site_nameStudent Finance England
og:imagehttps://studentfinance.campaign.gov.uk/wp-content/themes/campaign-2.0/templates/static/img/favicon/govuk-opengraph-image.png
og:image:width1800
og:image:height1200
og:image:typeimage/jpeg
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
There are only 388 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
40.7% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
7 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 16.08 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 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
4 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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
SFE
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (3 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 SFE
H1 Welcome to Student Finance England
H1 Apply today!
H1 Applications for 2024 to 2025 are now open!
H2 Tell us whether you accept cookies
H2 Expecting your first student finance payment?
H2 Missed the deadline?
H2 Need to change your university, college or course details?
H2 Student Finance Explained
H2 Follow us on social media!
H2 Footer menu
H3 Already got an account and need help?
H3 Thinking of starting uni in 2026?
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 12 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to main content
/cookie-settings/Subdomain Set cookie preferences
https://www.gov.uk/External GOV.UK
/Subdomain Student Finance England
/Subdomain Home
/currently-a-student/Subdomain Currently a student?
/student-toolkit/Subdomain Student Toolkit
/student-timeline/Subdomain Student Timeline
/lifelong-learning-entitlement/Subdomain Lifelong Learning Entitlement
https://www.gov.uk/student-fin...External Sign into your account
/student-toolkit/New window Subdomain student toolkit
/student-timeline/New window Subdomain student timeline
https://www.gov.uk/apply-onlin...External Apply now!
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ge...External Payment page
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ho...External Find out more
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/gu...External Clearing page
/currently-a-student/New window Subdomain Already got an account and need help?
/lifelong-learning-entitlement/New window Subdomain Thinking of starting uni in 2026?
https://www.facebook.com/SFEng...External Subdomain Follow on Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/stud...External Subdomain Follow on Instagram
https://twitter.com/SF_EnglandExternal Follow on X
https://www.youtube.com/user/S...External Subdomain Follow on YouTube
/accessibility-statement/Subdomain Accessibility statement
/privacy-notice/Subdomain Privacy Notice
/cookie-notice/Subdomain Cookie Notice
/cookie-settings/Subdomain Cookie Settings
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://studentfinance.campaign.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 0.73 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 (47 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
dateSat, 05 Oct 2024 10:40:31 GMT
servernginx
cache-controlpublic, must-revalidate, max-age=900, s-maxage=900
expiresSat, 05 Oct 2024 10:55:31 GMT
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
content-encodinggzip
x-cacheMiss from cloudfront
via1.1 00746b020527dcdbeca0dab6f6de299a.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-popFRA60-P1
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
x-amz-cf-idp9KKdZpBYFvN9DeUuuFcrCXQvRqIe_UBFYI91J8NE3UE1Z0mvvYOVQ==
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 308 referring domains.
This page has 2,175 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 273 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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User-agent: *
Disallow:

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Search preview

studentfinance.campaign.gov.uk
SFE - Student Finance England
SFE full-time and part-time undergraduate applications are open. If you're starting uni or college in September 2024 apply today!

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Student68%Check
Finance68%Check
Student Finance68%Check
Student Finance England63%Check
Student Finance Explained59%Check
Apply55%Check
uni or college55%Check
uni54%Check
starting uni54%Check
apply today52%Check

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