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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
58% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.23 s
File size
66.10 kB
Words
470
Media files
0
Number of links
57 internal / 3 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Driving and transport - GOV.UK
The length of the page title is perfect. (282 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Includes vehicle tax, MOT and driving licences
The length of the meta description is perfect. (285 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 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
govuk:primary-publishing-organisationGovernment Digital Service
govuk:public-updated-at2021-04-27T13:22:47+01:00
govuk:updated-at2025-03-17T17:47:58+00:00
govuk:first-published-at2015-04-08T11:48:44+01:00
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govuk:navigation-list-typecurated
govuk:navigation-page-typeBrowse level 1
descriptionIncludes vehicle tax, MOT and driving licences
govuk:components_gem_version56.3.0
theme-color#0b0c0c
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
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langen
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Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 470 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
23.6% 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 23 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 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

No media files were found.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Navigation menu
H2 Driving and transport
H2 Most viewed
H2 Topics
H2 Services and information
H2 Government activity
H2 Support links
H3 Clean air zones, emissions and electric vehicles
H3 Driving licences
H3 Vehicle tax, MOT and insurance
H3 Driving tests and learning to drive or ride
H3 Number plates, vehicle registration and log books
H3 Buy, sell or scrap a vehicle
H3 Driving with medical conditions, Blue Badges and transport for disabled people
H3 The Highway Code, road safety and vehicle rules
H3 Vehicle and driver data and information
H3 Penalty points, fines and driving bans
H3 Driving in the UK and abroad
H3 HGV, bus and coach drivers
H3 Transport and driving businesses
H3 Teaching people to drive
H3 Reporting vehicle and driving offences
H3 Parking and public transport
H3 Build or adapt a vehicle
H3 Help us improve GOV.UK
1 links don't have an anchor text.
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 3 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.gov.uk/browse/drivingAnchor Skip to main content
https://www.gov.uk/No Text
https://www.gov.uk/browseMenu
https://www.gov.uk/searchSearch GOV.UK
https://www.gov.uk/Home
/check-mot-historyCheck the MOT history of a vehicle
https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-taxTax your vehicle
/check-vehicle-taxCheck if a vehicle is taxed
/browse/driving/clean-air-zone...Clean air zones, emissions and electric vehicles
/browse/driving/driving-licencesDriving licences
/browse/driving/vehicle-tax-mo...Vehicle tax, MOT and insurance
/browse/driving/learning-to-driveDriving tests and learning to drive or ride
/browse/driving/number-plateNumber plates, vehicle registration and log books
/browse/driving/buy-sell-scrap...Buy, sell or scrap a vehicle
/browse/driving/disability-hea...Driving with medical conditions, Blue Badges and transport for disabled people
/browse/driving/highway-code-r...The Highway Code, road safety and vehicle rules
/browse/driving/vehicle-and-dr...Vehicle and driver data and information
/browse/driving/penalty-points...Penalty points, fines and driving bans
/browse/driving/driving-uk-and...Driving in the UK and abroad
/browse/driving/drivers-lorrie...HGV, bus and coach drivers
/browse/driving/businessesTransport and driving businesses
/browse/driving/teaching-peopl...Teaching people to drive
/browse/driving/driving-enforc...Reporting vehicle and driving offences
/browse/driving/parking-public...Parking and public transport
/browse/driving/manufacture-ad...Build or adapt a vehicle
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/...New window External Subdomain Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab)
/browse/benefitsBenefits
/browse/births-deaths-marriagesBirths, death, marriages and care
/browse/businessBusiness and self-employed
/browse/childcare-parentingChildcare and parenting
/browse/citizenshipCitizenship and living in the UK
https://www.gov.uk/browse/justiceCrime, justice and the law
/browse/disabilitiesDisabled people
https://www.gov.uk/browse/drivingDriving and transport
/browse/educationEducation and learning
/browse/employing-peopleEmploying people
/browse/environment-countrysideEnvironment and countryside
/browse/housing-local-servicesHousing and local services
https://www.gov.uk/browse/taxMoney and tax
https://www.gov.uk/browse/abroadPassports, travel and living abroad
/browse/visas-immigrationVisas and immigration
https://www.gov.uk/browse/workingWorking, jobs and pensions
/government/organisationsDepartments
/search/news-and-communicationsNews
/search/guidance-and-regulationGuidance and regulation
/search/research-and-statisticsResearch and statistics
/search/policy-papers-and-cons...Policy papers and consultations
/search/transparency-and-freed...Transparency
/government/how-government-worksHow government works
/government/get-involvedGet involved
https://www.gov.uk/helpHelp
/help/privacy-noticePrivacy
https://www.gov.uk/help/cookiesCookies
/help/accessibility-statementAccessibility statement
https://www.gov.uk/contactContact
/help/terms-conditionsTerms and conditions
https://www.gov.uk/cymraegRhestr o Wasanaethau Cymraeg
/government/organisations/gove...Government Digital Service
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)
The checked page does not redirect to another URL.
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.23 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (66 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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accept-rangesbytes
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 790 referring domains.
This page has 9,720 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 475 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*/print$
# Don't allow indexing of user needs pages
Disallow: /info/*
# Don't allow indexing of site search
Disallow: /search/all*
Sitemap: https://www.gov.uk/sitemap.xml

# https://ahrefs.com/robot/ crawls the site frequently
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Crawl-delay: 10

# https://www.deepcrawl.com/bot/ makes lots of requests. Ideally we'd slow it
# down rather than blocking it but it doesn't mention whether or not it
# supports crawl-delay.
User-agent: deepcrawl
Disallow: /

# Complaints of 429 'Too many requests' seem to be coming from SharePoint servers
# (https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/3ea268ed-58a6-4166-ab40-d3f4fc55fef4)
# The robot doesn't recognise its User-Agent string, see the MS support article:
# https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3019711/the-sharepoint-server-crawler-ignores-directives-in-robots-txt
User-agent: MS Search 6.0 Robot
Disallow: /

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Driving and transport - GOV.UK
Includes vehicle tax, MOT and driving licences

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Driving72%Check
driving licences62%Check
GOV60%Check
Driving tests57%Check
Driving Lessons55%Check
vehicle54%Check
transport54%Check
vehicle tax54%Check
Includes vehicle tax52%Check
tax50%Check
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