Westcollegescotland.ac.uk - SEO Checker

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Meta information
87% 
Page quality
83% 
Page structure
69% 
Link structure
37% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.32 s
File size
96.90 kB
Words
830
Media files
25
Number of links
118 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Welcome to West College Scotland
The title contains the word Welcome to! More content should be covered in the title.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
West College Scotland is a Further and Higher Education College with campuses and learning centres based in Clydebank, Greenock and Paisley
The length of the meta description is perfect. (900 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 name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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
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descriptionWest College Scotland is a Further and Higher Education College with campuses and learning centres based in Clydebank, Greenock and Paisley
keywordsEmpty
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langen
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
This page contains 830 words. That's ok.
25.9% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
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 19.36 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.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 17 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
/staticmedia/svg/wcs-logo.svgWest College Scotland logo
/staticmedia/svg/WCS_mast_02_L.svgpattern--left
/staticmedia/svg/WCS_mast_02_R.svgpattern--right
...arning-masthead.jpg?preset=home.carouselOnline Learning Masthead
...unding-masthead.jpg?preset=home.carouselFunding Masthead
...upport-masthead.jpg?preset=home.carouselStudent Support Masthead
...19646/browse-courses.jpg?preset=signpostBrowse Courses
...online-learning-item.jpg?preset=signpostOnline Learning Item
...9659/businesscourses.jpg?preset=signpostBusiness Courses
.../apprentice_signpost.jpg?preset=signpostApprentice _Sign Post
...160/advicesupportels.jpg?preset=signpostExtended Learning Support (1)
...-campus-solar-panels.jpg?preset=signpostPaisley Campus Solar Panels
/staticmedia/svg/panel-shapes.svgBillboard shapes
/media/214850/why-choose-wcs-item.jpgWhy Choose Wcs Item
...th=602&height=438&rnd=133707112570000000Morison's 4 Tes
...th=304&height=304&rnd=133703531600000000Scottish Games Week 2023 Education Symposium Dundee V&A 25
...th=304&height=304&rnd=133699389590000000Untitled Design (12)
...th=304&height=304&rnd=133689017920000000Industrial Action Website News Item (1)
...th=304&height=304&rnd=133627637270000000Industrial Action Website News Item
/media/215217/snap-stamp-original.pngSNAP Stamp Original
/media/214854/living-wage-employer.pngLiving Wage Employer
...ia/214852/british-council-accredited.pngBritish Council Accredited
/media/214855/showcase_college_2020.pngShowcase College 2020
/media/214853/erdf-logo.pngErdf Logo
/media/214879/dc_badge2.pngDc Badge2

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
SEARCH OUR COURSES
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (18 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 SEARCH OUR COURSES
H1 Online Learning To suit you
H1 College Administered Funding Support
H1 Advice & Support
H2 Explore West College Scotland
H2 Why choose West College Scotland?
H2 West & Morrison Construction Offer Gateway to Construction Careers
H3 Scottish Games Education Symposium 2024: Shaping the Future of Games Education
H3 Shortlist success for West at CDN College Awards 2024
H3 Strikes Suspended – Industrial Action Update
H3 INDUSTRIAL ACTION UPDATE
H4 Browse over 400 Courses
H4 Online Learning
H4 Courses for Business
H4 Foundation Apprenticeships
H4 In Your Community
H4 Renfrewshire Net Zero Workforce Development Fund (NZWDF)
H5 Information
H5 Popular pages
H5 Applications
H5 Get in touch
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.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to main content
/IMG-ALT West College Scotland logo
https://wcs.civicarems.co.uk/HomeExternal Subdomain My Applications
https://wcs.myday.cloud/New window External Subdomain MyWest
https://wcs.civicarems.co.uk/HomeExternal Subdomain Text duplicate My Applications
/courses/basket/My Basket
https://wcs.myday.cloud/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate MyWest
/courses/Courses
/courses/Courses Overview
/courses/find-a-course/Find a course
/courses/part-time-evening-cou...Part-Time & Evening Courses
/courses/online-learning/Online Learning
/courses/leadership-and-manage...Leadership and Management Courses (CMI)
/courses/learner-development-c...Learner Development Courses
/courses/foundation-apprentice...Foundation Apprenticeship
/courses/women-into-stem/Women into STEM
/courses/green-skills-courses/Green Skills Courses
/courses/schools-vocational-pr...Schools Vocational Programme
/courses/communities-and-outre...Communities and Outreach
/courses/qualification-levels-...Qualification levels explained
/courses/help-to-apply/Help to apply
/courses/student-stories/Student Stories
/students/Students Overview
/students/help-and-support/Help and Support
/students/help-and-support/Help and Support Overview
/students/help-and-support/stu...Student Advisory Services
/students/help-and-support/bri...British Sign Language (BSL)
/students/help-and-support/sqa...SQA Exams & Your National Qualifications
/students/help-and-support/com...Complaints
/students/support-services/Support Services
/students/support-services/Support Services Overview
/students/support-services/lib...Library
/students/support-services/cou...Counselling
/students/support-services/ena...Enabling Services
/students/support-services/the...The Sanctuary
/students/support-services/car...Care Experienced
/students/support-services/wel...Wellbeing Matters
/students/support-services/you...Young Carers and Unpaid Carers
/students/funding-fee-support/Funding & Fee Support
/students/graduation/Graduation
/students/students-association/Students' Association
/college/College Overview
/college/about-us/About Us
/college/about-us/About Us Overview
/college/about-us/board-of-man...Board of Management
/college/about-us/publication-...Publication & Policies
/college/about-us/complaints/Text duplicate Complaints
/college/about-us/culture-hist...Culture & History
/college/news/News
/college/our-campuses/Our Campuses
/college/performance-indicators/Performance Indicators
/college/college-calendar/College Calendar
/college/vacancies/Vacancies
/college/fundraising/Fundraising
/college/contact-us/Contact Us
/business/Business Overview
/business/training-for-business/Training for Business
/business/professional-develop...Professional Development
/business/college-local-innova...College Local Innovation Centres (CLIC)
/business/work-based-learning/Work based learning
/business/commercial-salons/Commercial Salons
/business/industry-partners/Industry Partners
/business/education-partnerships/Education partnerships
/business/renfrewshire-net-zer...Renfrewshire Net Zero Workforce Development Fund (NZWDF)
/business/james-walker-devol-a...James Walker Devol Academy
/business/james-paterson-sons-...James Paterson & Sons Academy
/Anchor Course Search
/Anchor Site Search
/courses/Browse by department
/courses/find-a-course/?query=...Sport
/courses/find-a-course/?query=...Science
/courses/find-a-course/?query=...Business
/courses/find-a-course/?query=...Engineering
/site-search-results/?query=On...Online
/site-search-results/?query=Gr...Text duplicate Graduation
/site-search-results/?query=Fu...Funding
/site-search-results/?query=Li...Text duplicate Library
/Anchor Text duplicate Course Search
/courses/Text duplicate Browse by department
/courses/find-a-course/?query=...Text duplicate Sport
/courses/find-a-course/?query=...Text duplicate Science
/courses/find-a-course/?query=...Text duplicate Business
/courses/find-a-course/?query=...Text duplicate Engineering
/students/funding-fee-support/Find out more
/students/support-services/Text duplicate Find out more
/courses/More details about Browse over 400 Courses
/courses/Text duplicate More details about Browse over 400 Courses
/courses/online-learning/More details about Online Learning
/courses/online-learning/Text duplicate More details about Online Learning
/business/professional-develop...More details about Courses for Business
/business/professional-develop...Text duplicate More details about Courses for Business
/courses/schools-vocational-pr...More details about Foundation Apprenticeships
/courses/schools-vocational-pr...Text duplicate More details about Foundation Apprenticeships
/courses/communities-and-outre...More details about In Your Community
/courses/communities-and-outre...Text duplicate More details about In Your Community
/business/renfrewshire-net-zer...More details about Renfrewshire Net Zero Workforce Development Fund (NZWDF)
/business/renfrewshire-net-zer...Text duplicate More details about Renfrewshire Net Zero Workforce Development Fund (NZWDF)
/college/about-us/More about us
https://player.vimeo.com/video...External Subdomain Play video
/college/news/2024/september/w...Read more about West & Morrison Construction Offer Gateway to Construction Careers
/college/news/2024/september/s...Read more about Scottish Games Education Symposium 2024: Shaping the Future of Games Education
/college/news/2024/september/s...Read more about Shortlist success for West at CDN College Awards 2024
/college/news/2024/august/stri...Read more about Strikes Suspended – Industrial Action Update
/college/news/2024/august/indu...Read more about INDUSTRIAL ACTION UPDATE
/college/news/View all news
/legal/accessibility/Accessibility
/legal/terms-conditions/Terms & Conditions
/legal/disclaimer/Disclaimer
/legal/copyright/Copyright
/legal/privacy/Privacy
/data-protection/Data Protection
/legal/freedom-of-information/Freedom of Information
/legal/procurement/Procurement
/legal/our-property-assets/Our Property Assets
/legal/modern-slavery-statement/Modern Slavery Statement
/courses/Text duplicate Courses
/courses/find-a-course/Text duplicate Find a course
/courses/help-to-apply/Text duplicate Help to apply
/courses/online-learning/Text duplicate Online Learning
/business/training-for-business/Text duplicate Training for Business
/college/news/Text duplicate News
/business/commercial-salons/Text duplicate Commercial Salons
https://wcs.civicarems.co.uk/HomeNew window External Subdomain Text duplicate My Applications
/college/contact-us/Contact us
https://www.facebook.com/WestC...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/WestCollScotNew window External Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/west...New window External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...New window External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://scottishlivingwage.org/New window External IMG-ALT Living Wage Employer

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.westcollegescotland.ac.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 0.32 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (97 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
dateFri, 13 Sep 2024 19:18:14 GMT
cache-controlprivate
content-encodinggzip
set-cookie96 Characters
varyAccept-Encoding
content-length16122
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
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content-security-policymanifest-src 'self'
x-permitted-cross-domain-policiesall
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http_versionHTTP/2

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 381 referring domains.
This page has 34,747 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 294 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

Sitemap: http://www.westcollegescotland.ac.uk/sitemap.xml

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Disallow: /bin/
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www.westcollegescotland.ac.uk
Welcome to West College Scotland
West College Scotland is a Further and Higher Education College with campuses and learning centres based in Clydebank, Greenock and Paisley

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
College81%Check
West College Scotland80%Check
West79%Check
Scotland79%Check
Courses58%Check
Learning58%Check
Course Search55%Check
Education54%Check
Online Learning52%Check
Online Courses52%Check
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