Consult.defra.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Meta information
94% 
Page quality
73% 
Page structure
72% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
74% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.44 s
File size
37.70 kB
Words
1266
Media files
1
Number of links
25 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Defra - Citizen Space
The page title is too short. (194 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
This site contains consultations that are run by Defra.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (328 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)
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
descriptionThis site contains consultations that are run by Defra.
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are 2 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: Natural England is seeking views on proposals that will restrict publi...
This page contains 1266 words. That's ok.
39.7% 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.
26 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 21.36 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 25 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
/os-custom-logos/defra-logo-green.png-1Defra main page on GOV.UK

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Consultation Hub
The H1 heading is too short (16 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Consultation Hub
H2 Open Consultations
H2 Closed Consultations
H2 We Asked, You Said, We Did
H3 Open access restriction at Seal Sands Industrial Complex (case number 2014087356)
H3 Open access restriction at North Tees Mudflats (case number 2018038613)
H3 Survey for the UK Best Available Techniques (UK BAT) in the Surface Treatment of Metals and Plastics Sector
H3 Consultation on updating the Guaranteed Standards Scheme (GSS)
H3 Consultation on UK REACH
H3 Survey for the UK Best Available Techniques (UK BAT) in the Smitheries & Foundries Sector
H3 Survey for the UK Best Available Techniques (UK BAT) in the Ceramics Sector
H3 Survey for the UK Best Available Techniques (UK BAT) in the Slaughterhouses and Animal Byproducts Sector
H3 Food and Drink Assimilated Law Consultation
H3 Wildlife Licence Charges Update
H3 East Marine Plan Statement of Public Participation
H3 Permitting regimes for the recreational targeting of bluefin tuna in UK waters
H4 We asked
H4 You said
H4 We did
H4 We asked Duplicate text
H4 You said Duplicate text
H4 We did Duplicate text
H4 We asked Duplicate text
H4 You said Duplicate text
H4 We did Duplicate text
Baselink: https://consult.defra.gov.uk/
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://consult.defra.gov.uk/Subdomain Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://consult.defra.gov.uk/Subdomain IMG-ALT Defra main page on GOV.UK
https://consult.defra.gov.uk/Home
/consultation_finder/Find Activities
/we_asked_you_said/We Asked, You Said, We Did
http://www.defra.gov.uk/New window External Subdomain Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
/natural-england/open-access-r...Subdomain Open access restriction at Seal Sands Industrial Complex (case number 2014087356)
/natural-england/copy-of-open-...Subdomain Open access restriction at North Tees Mudflats (case number 2018038613)
/uk-bat/uk-bat-stm-industry/Subdomain Survey for the UK Best Available Techniques (UK BAT) in the Surface Treatment of Metals and Plastics Sector
/water-affordability-and-consu...Subdomain Consultation on updating the Guaranteed Standards Scheme (GSS)
/consultation_finder/?_collect...Subdomain Anchor See All Open Consultations
/reach-policy/atrm-consultation/Subdomain Consultation on UK REACH
/uk-bat/uk-bat-smitheries-foun...Subdomain Survey for the UK Best Available Techniques (UK BAT) in the Smitheries & Foundries Sector
/uk-bat/uk-bat-ceramics-industry/Subdomain Survey for the UK Best Available Techniques (UK BAT) in the Ceramics Sector
/uk-bat/sa-industry/Subdomain Survey for the UK Best Available Techniques (UK BAT) in the Slaughterhouses and Animal Byproducts Sector
/defra-retained-eu-law-consult...Subdomain Food and Drink Assimilated Law Consultation
/consultation_finder/?_collect...Subdomain Anchor See All Closed Consultations
/we_asked_you_said/Subdomain See all outcomes
/natural-england/wildlifelicen...Wildlife Licence Charges Update
/mmo/east-marine-plan-spp/East Marine Plan Statement of Public Participation
https://www.gov.uk/government/...New window External marine planning webpages
/recreational-aquaculture-and-...Permitting regimes for the recreational targeting of bluefin tuna in UK waters
https://www.gov.uk/government/...External GOV.UK.
/accessibility_policy/Subdomain Accessibility
/terms_and_conditions/Subdomain Terms of Use
/cookie_policy/Subdomain Cookies
/privacy_policy/Subdomain Privacy
/support/Subdomain Help / feedback
https://www.delib.net/citizen_...External Subdomain Citizen Space
https://www.delib.net/External Subdomain Delib

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://consult.defra.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 is slow (1.44 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
This page loads 5 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (38 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSat, 07 Sep 2024 14:42:40 GMT
serverApache
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
cache-controlno-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
expiresSat, 07 Sep 2024 14:42:39 GMT
accept-rangesbytes
age0
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
content-length8497
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,850 referring domains.
This page has 23,649 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,864 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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Disallow: */view_respondent

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