Swansea.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
49% 
Page structure
92% 
Link structure
91% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.18 s
File size
42.80 kB
Words
331
Media files
13
Number of links
43 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Swansea Home - Swansea
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (245 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
langen
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:titleSwansea Home - Swansea
twitter:imagehttps://swansea.gov.uk/image/1382/Swansea-Citizen-Logo---Colour/twittercard.png?m=1640170879837
twitter:image:altSwansea Citizen Logo - Colour
og:typewebsite
og:titleSwansea Home - Swansea
og:urlhttps://swansea.gov.uk/
og:site_nameSwansea
og:imagehttps://swansea.gov.uk/image/1382/Swansea-Citizen-Logo---Colour/opengraph.png?m=1640170879837
og:image:width1200
og:image:height630

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 331 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
33.2% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 15 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" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
This page only loads 2 JavaScript files. That's good!
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 7 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
9 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
...n-Logo---Colour/logo.png?m=1640170879837No alt attribute provided
...mageBannerBackground.jpg?m=1688122713553No alt attribute provided
...-Facebook/footerIcon.png?m=1620715110853Facebook - Swansea Council : opens in new browser window or tab
...--Twitter/footerIcon.png?m=1620715987443Twitter @swanseacouncil : opens in new browser window or tab
...--Youtube/footerIcon.png?m=1620715225487Youtube - Swansea Council : opens in new browser window or tab
...Instagram/footerIcon.png?m=1620715176277Instagram - Swansea Council : opens in new browser window or tab

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Swansea Home
The H1 heading is too short (12 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
There are 26 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Swansea Home
H2 This website uses cookies
H2 Online payments will not be available from 8.00am - 4.00pm on Sunday, 14 April due to essential maintenance. We apologise for the inconvenience.
H2 What are you looking for?
H2 Do it online
H2 Residents
H2 Get involved
H2 What's on in Swansea
H2 Choose Language
H3 Pay
H3 Report
H3 Apply
H3 Request
H3 Cost of living help
H3 Jobs
H3 Recycling and rubbish
H3 Planning and building control
H3 Have your say
H3 News
H3 Councillors and meetings
H3 Environmental events
H3 Continental Street Market
H3 Wales Airshow 2024
H3 Admiral Swansea Bay 10k
H3 Croeso!
H3 Welcome!
Baselink: https://swansea.gov.uk/
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
https://swansea.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
https://swansea.gov.uk/cookiesSet cookie preferences
https://swansea.gov.uk/cookiesChange cookie preferences
https://swansea.gov.uk/Link to 'Swansea' homepage
https://www.abertawe.gov.uk/External Subdomain Cymraeg
https://swansea.gov.uk/residentsResidents
https://swansea.gov.uk/businessBusiness
https://swansea.gov.uk/councilCouncil
https://swansea.gov.uk/doitonlineDo it online
https://swansea.gov.uk/Anchor Toggle mobile menu visibility
https://swansea.gov.uk/residentsText duplicate Residents
https://swansea.gov.uk/businessText duplicate Business
https://swansea.gov.uk/councilText duplicate Council
https://swansea.gov.uk/doitonlineText duplicate Do it online
https://swansea.gov.uk/Close navigation
/article/1885/Online-payments-...Online payments will not be available from 8.00am - 4.00pm on Sunday, 14 April due to essential maintenance. We apologise for the inconvenience.
https://swansea.gov.uk/paymentsPay
https://swansea.gov.uk/reportitReport
https://swansea.gov.uk/applyforitApply
https://swansea.gov.uk/requestRequest
https://swansea.gov.uk/doitonlineSee more Do it online
/costoflivinghelpCost of living help
/swanseajobsJobs
https://swansea.gov.uk/recyclingRecycling and rubbish
https://swansea.gov.uk/planningPlanning and building control
https://swansea.gov.uk/residentsSee more Residents
/article/9744/Have-your-sayHave your say
/article/9750/NewsNews
/article/9756/Councillors-and-...Councillors and meetings
/getinvolvedSee more Get involved
/environmentaleventsEnvironmental events
/continentalstreetmarketContinental Street Market
/walesairshowWales Airshow 2024
/swanseabay10kAdmiral Swansea Bay 10k
https://swansea.gov.uk/whatsonSee more What's on in Swansea
https://www.abertawe.gov.uk/?l...External Subdomain Text duplicate Cymraeg
https://swansea.gov.uk/?lang=enEnglish
https://swansea.gov.uk/Close Choose Language
/article/20854/Contact-usContact us
https://swansea.gov.uk/cookiesCookies
https://swansea.gov.uk/privacyPrivacy
/accessibilityAccessibility
/websitefeedbackWebsite feedback
https://www.abertawe.gov.uk/External Subdomain Text duplicate Cymraeg
https://swansea.gov.uk/croesoWelsh correspondence welcome
/ModernSlaveryModern Slavery Statement
http://www.facebook.com/swanse...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Facebook - Swansea Council : opens in new browser window or tab
http://www.twitter.com/swansea...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Twitter @swanseacouncil : opens in new browser window or tab
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Youtube - Swansea Council : opens in new browser window or tab
https://www.instagram.com/swan...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Instagram - Swansea Council : opens in new browser window or tab
https://www.gossinteractive.com/New window External Subdomain Powered by GOSS
A-TITLE Digital platform technology, online self-service and web content management provided by GOSS

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://swansea.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 0.18 seconds.
This page only loads 1 CSS files. That's ok.
This page only loads 2 JavaScript files. That's good!
The file size of the HTML document is fine (43 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSun, 14 Apr 2024 09:20:15 GMT
serverApache
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionssameorigin
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
reporting-endpointscsp-endpoint="https://swansea.gov.uk/csp-reports"
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self'; report-to csp-endpoint; report-uri https://swansea.gov.uk/csp-reports;
x-ua-compatibleIE=Edge
cache-controlno-cache, no-store
content-typetext/html;charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
transfer-encodingchunked
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 4,234 referring domains.
This page has 239,805 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,868 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Allow: /

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Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
Swansea81%Check
Swansea Bay62%Check
Admiral Swansea Bay 10k51%Check
online43%Check
Pay43%Check
Council42%Check
online payments42%Check
say40%Check
looking40%Check
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