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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
61% 
Page quality
50% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
81% 
External factors
21% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.79 s
File size
70.10 kB
Words
439
Media files
13
Number of links
31 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
REF 2029
The page title is too short. (92 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
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://2029.ref.ac.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-gb
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-gb
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
robotsmax-image-preview:large
msapplication-TileImagehttps://2029.ref.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/ref2028/favicon.png
langen-gb
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 439 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 40.25 words is high.
34.2% 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.
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)
Some tags are too long. With 121 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"securing a world-class, dynamic and responsive research base across the full academic spectrum within ..."
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 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
.../ref2028/assets/images/REF-2029-Logo.svgResearch Excellence Framework 2029 logo
...028/assets/images/arrow-circle-right.svgClick to follow link
...028/assets/images/arrow-circle-right.svgClick to follow link
...028/assets/images/arrow-circle-right.svgClick to follow link
...028/assets/images/arrow-circle-right.svgClick to follow link
...028/assets/images/arrow-circle-right.svgClick to follow link
...028/assets/images/arrow-circle-right.svgClick to follow link
...028/assets/images/arrow-circle-right.svgClick to follow link
...028/assets/images/arrow-circle-right.svgClick to follow link
...2024/07/[email protected]No alt attribute provided
...8/assets/images/ukri_re-logo_horiz-w.pngResearch England
...ref2028/assets/images/sfc-logo_white.pngScottish Funding Council
...s/ref2028/assets/images/economy-logo.gifDepartment for the Economy (Northern Ireland)

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Research Excellence Framework
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Research Excellence Framework
H2 What is the REF’s purpose?
H2 Latest news
H2 Quick links
H3 REF 2029 main panel and sub-panel recruitment to launch in December
H3 Launch of submission size survey
H3 Membership confirmed for REF advisory panels
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 12 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://2029.ref.ac.uk/Hidden button
https://2029.ref.ac.uk/REF 2029
https://2029.ref.ac.uk/2021REF 2021
https://2029.ref.ac.uk/2014REF 2014
https://webarchive.nationalarc...External Subdomain RAE 2008
https://www.ref.ac.uk/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Research Excellence Framework 2029 logo
https://2029.ref.ac.uk/Subdomain Home
https://2029.ref.ac.uk/news/Subdomain Newsnews
/publications/Subdomain Publicationspublication
https://www.ref.ac.uk/guidance/External Subdomain Guidance
https://2029.ref.ac.uk/panels/Subdomain Panelspanels
https://2029.ref.ac.uk/about/Subdomain Aboutabout
https://2029.ref.ac.uk/contacts/Subdomain Contactcontacts
/about/how-to-get-involved/Subdomain Get involved
https://www.ref.ac.uk/people-c...External Subdomain People, Culture and Environment (PCE)
https://www.ref.ac.uk/about/ti...External Subdomain Timetable
https://2029.ref.ac.uk/20142014
https://2029.ref.ac.uk/20212021
https://2029.ref.ac.uk/panels/Subdomain Read more about our expert panels
https://2029.ref.ac.uk/about/Subdomain About the REF
https://2029.ref.ac.uk/news/Subdomain View all news
/news/main-panel-and-sub-panel...Subdomain REF 2029 main panel and sub-panel recruitment to launch in December
/news/launch-of-submission-siz...Subdomain Launch of submission size survey
/news/membership-confirmed-for...Subdomain Membership confirmed for REF advisory panels
https://2029.ref.ac.uk/about/Subdomain Text duplicate About the REF
https://www.ref.ac.uk/guidance...External Subdomain OA consultation
https://2029.ref.ac.uk/panels/Subdomain Panels
/publications/Subdomain Publications
https://2029.ref.ac.uk/contacts/Subdomain Contact REF
https://www.ref.ac.uk/about/ti...External Subdomain Text duplicate Timetable
/about/logo-guidelines/Subdomain Logo guidelines
/about/faqs/Subdomain FAQs
https://www.medr.cymru/External Subdomain No Text
https://re.ukri.org/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Research England
https://www.sfc.ac.uk/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Scottish Funding Council
https://www.economy-ni.gov.uk/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Department for the Economy (Northern Ireland)
https://2029.ref.ac.uk/contacts/Subdomain Text duplicate Contact REF
https://2029.ref.ac.uk/copyright/Subdomain © 2024 Copyright UKRI
/disclaimer/Subdomain Disclaimer
https://www.ukri.org/who-we-ar...New window External Subdomain UKRI Privacy Notice
/cookie-policy/Subdomain Cookie policy
/accessibility-statement/Subdomain Accessibility statement
https://2029.ref.ac.uk/vacancies/Subdomain Vacancies

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
The checked page does not redirect to another URL.
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 0.79 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 (70 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSat, 16 Nov 2024 15:48:15 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
servernginx
link<https://2029.ref.ac.uk/>; rel=shortlink
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 7 referring domains.
This page only has 10 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 6 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
REF72%Check
REF 202970%Check
REF 2029 main60%Check
Research56%Check
REF team55%Check
Research Excellence Framework53%Check
Excellence52%Check
Framework52%Check
UK higher46%Check
panel43%Check
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