Cityplym.ac.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
74% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
88% 
Server
91% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.28 s
File size
192.90 kB
Words
689
Media files
41
Number of links
112 internal / 18 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | City College Plymouth
The length of the page title is perfect. (271 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Your learning destination of choice for education in the South West. Browse our courses or find out more about our student experience.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (830 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.cityplym.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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
The average number of words per sentence of 27.71 words is high.
This page contains 689 words. That's ok.
24.1% 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.
6 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)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 14 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
11 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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
YOUR START TO A BRIGHT FUTURE
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 YOUR START TO A BRIGHT FUTURE
H1 Enrolling now!
H2 For the people of Plymouth and beyond
H2 T Level Building Development Being Completed Over Summer
H2 All You Need to Know
H2 Latest news
H2 Upcoming Events
H2 How many choose City College Plymouth?
H3 I’m looking for
H3 City College Plymouth achieves perfect score in Gatsby Career Benchmarks
H3 Outstanding Results at City’s Learning Destination of Choice
H3 Top Results for City College Plymouth’s T Level Students
H3 Year 11 Course Taster Sessions
H3 Open Day
H3 Adult Education Open Evening
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 2 links with a trivial anchor text.
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 18 external links on this page.
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/study/school-leavers/vocation...Subdomain Vocational Courses
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/study/international-students/Subdomain International Students
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/virtualft/Subdomain Courses & Apprenticeships Guide
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/college-life/sen-disabilities/Subdomain Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
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A-TITLE Success Stories
/college-life/virtual-tour/Subdomain Virtual Tour
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/information/safeguarding/Subdomain Safeguarding
A-TITLE Safeguarding
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/employers/Subdomain Employers Open submenu
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/employers/he-employers/Subdomain Education and Training for Businesses
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/information/term-dates/Subdomain Term Dates
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/information/getting-to-college/Subdomain Travel to College
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/about-us/Subdomain About Us
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/about-us/contact-us/Subdomain Contact Us
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/about-us/governance-leadership/Subdomain Governance & Leadership
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/information-and-policies/Subdomain Information & Policies
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/accountability-statement/Subdomain Accountability Statement
A-TITLE Accountability Statement
/about-us/privacy-notices/Subdomain Privacy Notices
A-TITLE Privacy Notices
/about-us/sustainability/Subdomain Sustainability
A-TITLE Sustainability
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A-TITLE E-Learning
/payment-portal/Subdomain Text duplicate ePay
A-TITLE ePay
https://studentcentral.cityply...External Subdomain Text duplicate Student Central
A-TITLE Student Central
http://onlinestore.cityplym.ac...External Subdomain Text duplicate Online Store
A-TITLE Online Store
/about-us/work-for-us/Subdomain Text duplicate Work for Us
A-TITLE Work for Us
https://www.cityplym.ac.uk/Anchor Text duplicate Accessibility Tool
A-TITLE Accessibility Tool
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/study/school-leavers/Subdomain School Leavers
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Read more
/all-you-need-to-know/Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Click here
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/news/outstanding-results-at-c...Subdomain August 22, 2024 Outstanding Results at City’s Learning Destination of Choice
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/about-us/latest-news/Subdomain Text duplicate View all news
/events/Subdomain View all events
/event/year-11-course-taster-s...Subdomain 29 October-31 October – Year 11 Course Taster Sessions
IMG-ALT Taster Sessions CCP OCT'23
/event/open-day-2/Subdomain 09 November 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Open Day
IMG-ALT Open Day - City College Plymouth
/event/adult-education-open-ev...Subdomain 15 January 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Adult Education Open Evening
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/cookies/Subdomain Cookies
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https://www.facebook.com/cityplymNew window Nofollow External Subdomain facebook
https://twitter.com/cityplymNew window Nofollow External twitter
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https://www.threads.net/@cityplymNew window Nofollow External Subdomain Threade
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Linkedin
https://www.tiktok.com/@cityplymNew window Nofollow External Subdomain TikTok
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.cityplym.ac.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.28 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (193 kB).

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 521 referring domains.
This page has 5,948 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 348 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

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www.cityplym.ac.uk
Home | City College Plymouth
Your learning destination of choice for education in the South West. Browse our courses or find out more about our student experience.

Most important keywords

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City70%Check
City College64%Check
City College Plymouth62%Check
College58%Check
Plymouth58%Check
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