Canterbury.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
56% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
90% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.13 s
File size
53.40 kB
Words
460
Media files
5
Number of links
79 internal / 19 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
How can we help? | Canterbury City Council
The length of the page title is perfect. (396 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.canterbury.gov.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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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MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 460 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
32.4% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 12 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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 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.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
/sites/default/files/logo.pngCanterbury City Council
...ic/2022-08/canterbury.jpeg?itok=R-_sKl_HPicture of Canterbury
...3/Canterbury Cathedral.jpg?itok=hGyygjwhView of Canterbury Cathedral and city
...4-03/Park and Ride bus.jpg?itok=jFVp9ieyPark and Ride bus outside Sturry Road bus stop
...blic/2024-03/Bus seats.jpg?itok=yKTOFeLLSeats on a bus

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to Canterbury
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to Canterbury
H2 Services menu
H2 Online mapping down
H2 Council services
H2 From the newsroom
H2 Footer
H3 Planning and building
H3 Council tax
H3 Parking and roads
H3 Bins and waste
H3 Benefits and support
H3 Housing
H3 Councillors and meetings
H3 Environmental problems
H3 Licences and permissions
H3 Business and investment
H3 Births, deaths and ceremonies
H3 Budgets and transparency
H3 Consultations and petitions
H3 Leisure and community
H3 Strategies and policies
H3 Voting and elections
H3 Local Plan 2040 consultation open for comments
H3 Park and Ride at Sturry Road returns - and it's cheaper for residents!
H3 Better bus services at heart of draft Transport Strategy
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 19 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.canterbury.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.canterbury.gov.uk/IMG-ALT Canterbury City Council
/benefits-and-supportBenefits and support
/bins-and-wasteBins and waste
/births-deaths-and-ceremoniesBirths, deaths and ceremonies
/budgets-and-transparencyBudgets and transparency
/business-and-investmentBusiness and investment
/consultations-and-petitionsConsultations and petitions
/council-taxCouncil tax
/councillors-and-meetingsCouncillors and meetings
/environmental-problemsEnvironmental problems
/housingHousing
/leisure-and-communityLeisure and community
/licences-and-permissionsLicences and permissions
/make-paymentMake a payment
/parking-and-roadsParking and roads
/planning-and-buildingPlanning and building
/strategies-and-policiesStrategies and policies
/voting-and-electionsVoting and elections
/planning-and-building/plannin...Find out if you need permission
/planning-and-building/search-...Search and comment on applications
/planningbreachReport a planning issue
/planning-and-buildingMore in planning and building
/council-tax/paying-your-counc...Pay your council tax
/council-tax/council-tax-bands...Find your council tax band
/council-tax/let-us-know-youre...Tell us you're moving home
/council-taxMore in council tax
/find-car-parkFind somewhere to park
/parking-and-roads/pay-or-chal...Pay or challenge a parking fine
/parking-and-roads/report-ille...Report illegal parking
/parking-and-roadsMore in parking and roads
/bins-and-waste/find-your-bin-...Find your bin collection dates
/report-missed-binReport a missed bin
/where-to-put-wasteFind out where to put your waste
/bins-and-wasteMore in bins and waste
/benefits-and-support/housing-...Work out what benefits you could get
/costoflivingHelp with the cost of living
/council-tax-supportClaim council tax support
/benefits-and-supportMore in benefits and support
/housing/apply-social-housingApply for council housing
/homelessGet advice about homelessness
/housingrentPay your council house rent
/housingMore in housing
https://democracy.canterbury.g...External Subdomain Search committees and meetings
https://democracy.canterbury.g...External Subdomain View upcoming meetings
https://democracy.canterbury.g...External Subdomain Find your councillors
/councillors-and-meetingsMore in councillors and meetings
/environmental-problems/report...Report a noise or nuisance
/environmental-problems/pay-fi...Pay a fixed penalty notice (FPN)
/environmental-problems/report...Report flytipping
/environmental-problemsMore in environmental problems
/personal-and-premises-licencesApply for a personal or premises licence
/business-and-investment/view-...Search the licensing register
/pavement-licensing-applicatio...Pavement licences
/licences-and-permissionsMore in licences and permissions
/licences-and-permissionsApply for a licence
/business-and-investment/your-...Pay your business rates
/register-food-businessRegister your food business
/business-and-investmentMore in business and investment
https://www.kent.gov.uk/births...External Register a birth
https://www.kent.gov.uk/births...External Register a death
https://www.kent.gov.uk/births...External Arrange a wedding or civil partnership
/births-deaths-and-ceremoniesMore in births, deaths and ceremonies
/budgets-and-transparency/free...Submit a Freedom of Information request
/budgets-and-transparency/free...See if an FOI has already been submitted
/budgets-and-transparency/stat...View our accounts
/budgets-and-transparencyMore in budgets and transparency
/consultations-and-petitions/p...Create or support a petition
https://news.canterbury.gov.uk...External Subdomain View current and previous consultations
https://democracy.canterbury.g...External Subdomain View current petitions
/consultations-and-petitionsMore in consultations and petitions
/leisure-and-community/beach-h...Beach huts
/apply-allotmentApply for an allotment
https://www.canterbury.co.uk/External Visit Canterbury
/leisure-and-communityMore in leisure and community
/localplanLocal Plan
/strategies-and-policies/corpo...Corporate Plan
https://drive.google.com/drive...External Subdomain Housing strategy
/strategies-and-policiesMore in strategies and polices
/voting-and-elections/register...Register to vote
/voting-and-elections/find-you...Find your polling station
/voting-and-elections/view-upc...View upcoming elections
/voting-and-electionsMore in voting and elections
https://news.canterbury.gov.uk...External Subdomain Local Plan 2040 consultation open for comments
https://news.canterbury.gov.uk...External Subdomain Park and Ride at Sturry Road returns - and it's cheaper for residents!
https://news.canterbury.gov.uk...External Subdomain Better bus services at heart of draft Transport Strategy
https://www.facebook.com/Cante...External No Text
https://twitter.com/canterburyccExternal No Text
https://www.youtube.com/user/c...External No Text
https://uk.linkedin.com/compan...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/cant...External No Text
/contact-usContact us
/strategies-and-policies/terms...Terms and conditions
/strategies-and-policies/acces...Accessibility statement
/strategies-and-policies/priva...Privacy notice
https://news.canterbury.gov.uk/External Subdomain News
/strategies-and-policies/cookiesCookie preferences
/jobs-and-volunteering/see-job...Job vacancies

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.canterbury.gov.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 4 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.13 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (53 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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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 2,216 referring domains.
This page has 27,989 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 792 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

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# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
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# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
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Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
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Disallow: /index.php/admin/
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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Canterbury77%Check
Canterbury City62%Check
Canterbury City Council61%Check
Council55%Check
City Council53%Check
Welcome50%Check
Council tax47%Check
Help46%Check
park46%Check
Services43%Check
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