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Meta information
98% 
Page quality
83% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
90% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.18 s
File size
64.00 kB
Words
508
Media files
12
Number of links
60 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The House of Commons Library
The length of the page title is perfect. (286 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The House of Commons Library is a research and information service based in the UK Parliament.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (605 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://commonslibrary.parliament.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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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.
This page contains 508 words. That's ok.
30.7% 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.
13 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 19.15 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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 10 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

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...ads/2020/08/local-government-568x426.jpgHistory of local government in English towns and cities
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...rodskyi-syuhhPwu-hk-unsplash-568x426.jpgThe conflict in Ukraine
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...system/dist/assets/svg/logo_ukp-post.svgUK Parliament POST

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Impartial research and information
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Impartial research and information
H2 Featured research
H2 Constituency casework
H2 Data
H2 UK Parliament research services
H2 Quick Links
H2 By Topic
H2 By Type
H2 Mailing List
H3 Research for Commons business
H3 The geopolitics of trade tariffs: The new Trump presidency
H3 Greenland: Moves to independence and new international relations
H3 History of local government in English towns and cities
H3 Middle East instability in 2023-25
H3 The conflict in Ukraine
H3 Leasehold reform in England and Wales: What’s happening and when?
H3 Eligibility for home fee status and student support in England
H3 The EU Entry/Exit system and EU travel authorisation system
H3 Local areas
H3 Parliament and elections
H3 UK economy
H3 Follow us:
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 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.parliament.uk/External Subdomain Visit the UK Parliament website
/Subdomain House of Commons Library
/Home
/research/Subdomain Research
/resources/Subdomain Resources
/training-and-events/Subdomain Training and events
/about-us/Subdomain About
/subscribeSubscribe
/?sSearch
https://www.parliament.uk/External Subdomain UK Parliament
/research-for-commons-business/Subdomain Research for Commons business
/the-geopolitics-of-trade-tari...Subdomain The geopolitics of trade tariffs: The new Trump presidency
/topic/economy-business/busine...Subdomain International trade
/research-briefings/cbp-10234/Subdomain Greenland: Moves to independence and new international relations
/topic/world-affairs/americas/Subdomain Americas
/topic/world-affairs/europe/Subdomain Europe
/topic/world-affairs/instituti...Subdomain International law
/research-briefings/cbp-10233/Subdomain History of local government in English towns and cities
/topic/parliament-and-election...Subdomain Local government
/middle-east-instability-in-20...Subdomain Middle East instability in 2023-25
/the-conflict-in-ukraine/Subdomain The conflict in Ukraine
/research/Subdomain Browse more research
/leasehold-reform-in-england-a...Subdomain Leasehold reform in England and Wales: What’s happening and when?
/topic/social-policy/housing/h...Subdomain Home ownership
/topic/social-policy/housing/Subdomain Housing and planning
/eligibility-for-home-fee-stat...Subdomain Eligibility for home fee status and student support in England
/topic/social-policy/education/Subdomain Education
/topic/social-policy/education...Subdomain Higher education
/topic/social-policy/Subdomain Social policy
/the-eu-entry-exit-system-and-...Subdomain The EU Entry/Exit system and EU travel authorisation system
/topic/world-affairs/europe/Subdomain Text duplicate Europe
/topic/home-affairs/immigration/Subdomain Immigration
/topic/world-affairs/europe/th...Subdomain The EU
/constituency-casework/Subdomain Browse more articles
/data-tools-and-resources/loca...Subdomain Local areas
/data-tools-and-resources/parl...Subdomain Parliament and elections
/data-tools-and-resources/econ...Subdomain UK economy
/data-tools-and-resources/Subdomain View all data
/Subdomain IMG-ALT UK Parliament Commons
https://lordslibrary.parliamen...External Subdomain IMG-ALT UK Parliament Lords
https://post.parliament.uk/External Subdomain IMG-ALT UK Parliament POST
/about-us/Subdomain Text duplicate About
/about-us/work-with-us/Subdomain Work with us
/editorial-policy/Subdomain Editorial policy
/public-feedback-and-complaint...Subdomain Feedback and complaints
/research-for-commons-business/Subdomain Text duplicate Research for Commons business
/economy-business/Subdomain Economy, business and transport
/home-affairs/Subdomain Home affairs
/parliament-elections/Subdomain Text duplicate Parliament and elections
/science/Subdomain Science, environment and technology
/social-policy/Subdomain Text duplicate Social policy
/world-affairs/Subdomain World affairs
/research/full-topic-list/Subdomain Full topic list
/type/research-briefing/Subdomain Research Briefings
/type/debate-pack/Subdomain Debate Packs
/research/insights/Subdomain Insights
/data-tools-and-resources/Subdomain Data
/constituency-casework/Subdomain Constituency casework
/research/all-research/Subdomain Research archive
/resources/Subdomain Text duplicate Resources
/training-and-events/Subdomain Text duplicate Training and events
/subscribeText duplicate Subscribe
https://twitter.com/commonslib...External Twitter
https://www.parliament.uk/site...External Subdomain Open Parliament Licence
/privacy-policy/Subdomain Privacy notice
https://www.parliament.uk/site...External Subdomain Cookie policy
https://www.parliament.uk/site...External Subdomain Accessibility statement

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/"
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 0.18 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (64 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

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This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 19,433 referring domains.
This page has 921,827 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 10,680 different ip addresses.

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