Companieshouse.blog.gov.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
59% 
Page quality
93% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
90% 
Server
94% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.51 s
File size
62.70 kB
Words
960
Media files
12
Number of links
65 internal / 19 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Companies House – We use our blog to talk about the work we’re doing, offering tips and advice on starting, running and closing a company. We also share the latest developments on the changes to UK company law.
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 1943 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
We use our blog to talk about the work we’re doing, offering tips and advice on starting, running and closing a company. We also share the latest developments on the changes to UK company law.
The meta description is too long: 1204 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
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)
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)
This page contains 960 words. That's ok.
34.2% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
13 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 16.91 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, viewport-fit=cover" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The following tag is repeated too often: read more
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)
This page uses Google authorship information without an image.
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
...-comms_960-x-640_960-x-640-1-620x413.pngA formally dressed woman smiles as she types on a laptop
...2024/03/CH-Campus-1280x853-1-620x413.jpgFour colleagues are working together around a laptop, smiling. One of the colleagues is pointing at the screen.
...24/03/Company-names-blog-1-1-620x413.pngA woman wearing glasses looks at a computer screen
...er-brand-social-blog-patrick-620x413.jpgPatrick Gilligan holds his Civil Service Award trophy and certificate
...mployer-brand-social-blog3-1-620x413.jpgA woman writes with a pen, whilst two colleagues look on in a group setting
...or-changes-to-UK-company-law-620x465.pngCheck boxes with a question mark, tick and a cross
.../Changes-to-UK-company-law-2-620x413.pngSmall business owner, surrounded by plants in her shop
...s/148/2024/01/Louise-Smyth-1-620x413.pngLouise Smyth, Registrar of Companies for England and Wales, smiling.
...2023/12/0337-ROE-social-Blog-620x413.png'Register of Overseas Entities' with a clock icon and red exclamation mark.
...s/sites/148/2023/10/ECCT-Act-620x414.pngLouise Smyth smiling. Text reads: Changes to UK company law
.../10/Lead-technical-architect-620x413.pngMike standing on a bridge.
.../sites/148/2024/03/Build-your-career.pngTwo colleagues smiling whilst working together

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Blog Companies House
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Blog Companies House
H2 Authorised Corporate Service Providers: what you need to know
H2 Authorised Corporate Service Providers: what you need to know Duplicate text
H2 Companies House Campus: sharing user-centred thinking across the organisation
H2 Our new powers to challenge and change company names
H2 From retail to Rising Star: how I built a fulfilling career in the Civil Service
H2 Build your career at Companies House
H2 Improving the accuracy of the Companies House register
H2 Get ready for changes to UK company law
H2 A new year and a new challenge for Companies House  
H2 Filing your Register of Overseas Entities update statement
H2 Changes to UK company law: a big moment for Companies House
H2 Working as a lead technical architect at Companies House
H2 Related content and links
H2 Useful links
H3 About Companies House blog
H3 Categories
H3 Changes to UK company law
H3 Jobs at Companies House
H3 Sign up and manage updates
H3 Follow Companies House
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 19 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.gov.uk/External A-TITLE Go to the GOV.UK homepage
https://www.blog.gov.uk/External Subdomain Blog
/Subdomain Companies House
https://www.gov.uk/government/...External Text duplicate Companies House
/2024/09/13/authorised-corpora...Subdomain Authorised Corporate Service Providers: what you need to know
/2024/09/13/authorised-corpora...Subdomain IMG-ALT A formally dressed woman smiles as she types on a laptop
/2024/09/13/authorised-corpora...Subdomain Text duplicate Authorised Corporate Service Providers: what you need to know
/2024/09/13/authorised-corpora...Subdomain Read more of Authorised Corporate Service Providers: what you need to know
/2024/03/28/companies-house-ca...Subdomain Companies House Campus: sharing user-centred thinking across the organisation
/author/alkistis-geropoulou-he...Subdomain Alkistis Geropoulou - Head of User-Centred Design
A-TITLE Posts by Alkistis Geropoulou - Head of User-Centred Design
/category/working-at-companies...Subdomain Working at Companies House
/2024/03/28/companies-house-ca...Subdomain Read more of Companies House Campus: sharing user-centred thinking across the organisation
/2024/03/26/our-new-powers-to-...Subdomain Our new powers to challenge and change company names
/author/alun-howells-principal...Subdomain Alun Howells - Principal Policy Advisor
A-TITLE Posts by Alun Howells - Principal Policy Advisor
/category/legislative-reform/Subdomain Changes to UK company law
/category/companies-house-tran...Subdomain Companies House transformation
/category/company-guidance/Subdomain Company guidance
/2024/03/26/our-new-powers-to-...Subdomain Read more of Our new powers to challenge and change company names
/2024/03/26/our-new-powers-to-...Subdomain Anchor 7 comments
/2024/03/11/from-retail-to-ris...Subdomain From retail to Rising Star: how I built a fulfilling career in the Civil Service
/author/patrick-gilligan-head-...Subdomain Patrick Gilligan - Head of Operations, Northern Ireland
A-TITLE Posts by Patrick Gilligan - Head of Operations, Northern Ireland
/category/working-at-companies...Subdomain Text duplicate Working at Companies House
/2024/03/11/from-retail-to-ris...Subdomain Read more of From retail to Rising Star: how I built a fulfilling career in the Civil Service
/2024/02/23/build-your-career-...Subdomain Build your career at Companies House
/author/katie-jones-recruitmen...Subdomain Katie Jones - Recruitment Manager
A-TITLE Posts by Katie Jones - Recruitment Manager
/category/working-at-companies...Subdomain Text duplicate Working at Companies House
/2024/02/23/build-your-career-...Subdomain Read more of Build your career at Companies House
/2024/02/23/build-your-career-...Subdomain Anchor 4 comments
/2024/02/14/improving-the-accu...Subdomain Improving the accuracy of the Companies House register
/author/sarah-whitehead-direct...Subdomain Sarah Whitehead - Director of Strategy, Policy and External Communications
A-TITLE Posts by Sarah Whitehead - Director of Strategy, Policy and External Communications
/category/legislative-reform/Subdomain Text duplicate Changes to UK company law
/category/companies-house-tran...Subdomain Text duplicate Companies House transformation
/2024/02/14/improving-the-accu...Subdomain Read more of Improving the accuracy of the Companies House register
/2024/02/14/improving-the-accu...Subdomain Anchor 6 comments
/2024/01/22/get-ready-for-chan...Subdomain Get ready for changes to UK company law
/author/rachael-watts-companie...Subdomain Rachael Watts - Head of Implementation Unit
A-TITLE Posts by Rachael Watts - Head of Implementation Unit
/category/legislative-reform/Subdomain Text duplicate Changes to UK company law
/category/companies-house-tran...Subdomain Text duplicate Companies House transformation
/2024/01/22/get-ready-for-chan...Subdomain Read more of Get ready for changes to UK company law
/2024/01/22/get-ready-for-chan...Subdomain Anchor 100 comments
/2024/01/03/a-new-year-and-a-n...Subdomain A new year and a new challenge for Companies House  
/author/louise-smyth/Subdomain Louise Smyth - Chief Executive and Registrar of Companies
A-TITLE Posts by Louise Smyth - Chief Executive and Registrar of Companies
/category/legislative-reform/Subdomain Text duplicate Changes to UK company law
/category/companies-house-tran...Subdomain Text duplicate Companies House transformation
/2024/01/03/a-new-year-and-a-n...Subdomain Read more of A new year and a new challenge for Companies House  
/2024/01/03/a-new-year-and-a-n...Subdomain Anchor 9 comments
/2023/12/05/filing-your-regist...Subdomain Filing your Register of Overseas Entities update statement
/author/nick-lindsay-ceo-of-el...Subdomain Nick Lindsay, CEO of Elemental
A-TITLE Posts by Nick Lindsay, CEO of Elemental
/author/tobias-latham-solicito...Subdomain Tobias Latham, Solicitor at Elemental
A-TITLE Posts by Tobias Latham, Solicitor at Elemental
/category/register-of-overseas...Subdomain Register of Overseas Entities
/2023/12/05/filing-your-regist...Subdomain Read more of Filing your Register of Overseas Entities update statement
/2023/10/26/changes-to-uk-comp...Subdomain Changes to UK company law: a big moment for Companies House
/author/louise-smyth/Subdomain Text duplicate Louise Smyth - Chief Executive and Registrar of Companies
A-TITLE Posts by Louise Smyth - Chief Executive and Registrar of Companies
/category/legislative-reform/Subdomain Text duplicate Changes to UK company law
/category/companies-house-tran...Subdomain Text duplicate Companies House transformation
/2023/10/26/changes-to-uk-comp...Subdomain Read more of Changes to UK company law: a big moment for Companies House
/2023/10/26/changes-to-uk-comp...Subdomain Anchor 35 comments
/2023/10/12/working-as-a-lead-...Subdomain Working as a lead technical architect at Companies House
/author/michael-moore-lead-tec...Subdomain Michael Moore - Lead Technical Architect
A-TITLE Posts by Michael Moore - Lead Technical Architect
/category/working-at-companies...Subdomain Text duplicate Working at Companies House
/2023/10/12/working-as-a-lead-...Subdomain Read more of Working as a lead technical architect at Companies House
/page/2/Subdomain Page 2
/page/43/Subdomain Page 43
/page/2/Subdomain Next page
/about-companies-house/Subdomain Find out more about this blog.
https://changestoukcompanylaw....External Subdomain Find out how this affects you and your company.
https://www.civilservicejobs.s...New window External Subdomain Civil Service Jobs
A-TITLE https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi
https://brand.companieshouse.g...External Subdomain Visit our careers hub
https://brand.companieshouse.g...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Two colleagues smiling whilst working together
/subscribe/Email
/feed/Subdomain Atom
http://www.linkedin.com/compan...External Subdomain Companies House on Linkedin
http://www.youtube.com/user/Th...External Subdomain Companies House on YouTube
http://www.facebook.com/Compan...External Subdomain Companies House on Facebook
http://twitter.com/CompaniesHouseExternal Companies House on Twitter
https://www.blog.gov.uk/External Subdomain All GOV.UK blogs
https://www.blog.gov.uk/all-po...External Subdomain All GOV.UK blog posts
https://www.gov.uk/External GOV.UK
https://www.gov.uk/government/...External All departments
https://www.blog.gov.uk/access...External Subdomain Accessibility statement
https://www.blog.gov.uk/cookiesExternal Subdomain Cookies
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)
This page redirects to "https://companieshouse.blog.gov.uk/"
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 0.51 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 (63 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,078 referring domains.
This page has 7,490 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 844 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

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companieshouse.blog.gov.uk
Companies House – We use our blog to talk about the work we’re doin...
We use our blog to talk about the work we’re doing, offering tips and advice on starting, running and closing a company. We also share the latest developments on the changes to UK company law.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Blog91%Check
House blog81%Check
Companies75%Check
UK company75%Check
Companies House blog75%Check
House73%Check
UK company law73%Check
Companies House72%Check
company70%Check
Changes68%Check

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