Crew.ac.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
61% 
Page quality
33% 
Page structure
66% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
0% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.56 s
File size
45.80 kB
Words
157
Media files
11
Number of links
24 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
CREW | Scotland's Centre of Expertise for Waters | Connecting water policy and science
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 794 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.crew.ac.uk/
There is a valid canonical link 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
langen
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 157 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
These Typos were found:
  • goverment => government
22.9% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No viewpoint tag is provided.
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 43 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
4 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
/sites/all/themes/crew/logo.pngNo alt attribute provided
...hemes/crew/images/twitter-logo-black.pngFollow Us on Twitter
...ic/CREW-home-slider-02.jpg?itok=MNqS6Ra9No alt attribute provided
...tremes coasts risk (2).jpg?itok=h_DsEz7zNo alt attribute provided
...er_resource_management.jpg?itok=zE3VCYQILand and Water Resource ManagementLand and Water Resource Management
...ter_quality_and_health.jpg?itok=exRi-4jFWater Quality and HealthWater Quality and Health
...age for news article_0.png?itok=XXIYRYmSNo alt attribute provided
...r_image_Nikki_Baggaley.jpg?itok=VN-NdtydSwollen river with sediment. Photograph courtesy of Nikki BaggaleySwollen river with sediment. Photograph courtesy of Nikki Baggaley
...default/files/inline-images/linkedin.jpgCREW - Scotland's centre of expertise for watersCREW - Scotland's centre of expertise for waters on Linkedin
...l/themes/crew/images/jhi-colour-logo.pngThe James Hutton Institute Logo
...k/files/images/SG_master_logo_online.jpgScottish Goverment Logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Centre of Expertise for Waters
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Centre of Expertise for Waters
H1 Welcome to Crew
H2 Search form
H2 Hydrological Extremes, Coasts and Risk Management
H2 Land and Water Resource Management
H2 Water Quality and Health
H2 Latest Update
H2 Footer Social Logos
H3 Our previous areas of research funded between 2016 and 2022 are still available to view.
H3 Centre of Expertise for Waters Duplicate text
H4 Water Scarcity in Scotland: Future Impact for Distilleries and Agriculture
H4 Assessing the socio-economic impacts of soil degradation on Scotland’s water environment
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.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 6 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.crew.ac.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.crew.ac.uk/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.crew.ac.uk/A-TITLE Home
https://www.crew.ac.uk/aboutAbout
https://www.crew.ac.uk/about/faqFAQ
https://www.crew.ac.uk/newsSubdomain News
A-TITLE News
https://www.crew.ac.uk/about/teamOur People
https://www.crew.ac.uk/our-workOur work
/our-work/call-for-proposalsCall for Proposals
A-TITLE Call for Proposals
/themes-2022-2027Themes
https://www.crew.ac.uk/projectsProjects
https://www.crew.ac.uk/newsText duplicate News
/publicationsPublications
https://register.crew.ac.uk/New window External Subdomain Register of Expertise
A-TITLE CREW Register of Expertise - will open in a new window
https://twitter.com/CREW_watersNew window External IMG-ALT Follow Us on Twitter
A-TITLE Follow us on Twitter
https://www.crew.ac.uk/Text duplicate Home
https://www.crew.ac.uk/projects/still available to view
https://www.crew.ac.uk/newsLatest Update
/news/water-scarcity-scotland-...No Text
/news/water-scarcity-scotland-...Water Scarcity in Scotland: Future Impact for Distilleries and Agriculture
/publication/socio-economic-im...Assessing the socio-economic impacts of soil degradation on Scotland’s water environment
https://www.crew.ac.uk/projectsAll Projects
/publicationsAll Publications
/user/login?destination=node/11Content editor login
/cookie-policyCookie Policy
/privacy-noticePrivacy Notice
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT CREW - Scotland's centre of expertise for waters
https://twitter.com/CREW_water...External Follow @CREW_waters
https://www.hutton.ac.uk/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT The James Hutton Institute Logo
A-TITLE The James Hutton Institute
https://www.gov.scot/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Scottish Goverment Logo
A-TITLE The Scottish Government Website

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.crew.ac.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (1.56 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 43 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A Content Delivery Network like Bootstrap CDN can save bandwidth for Bootstrap front-end component library.
This page does not require any CSS files.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (46 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateMon, 23 Sep 2024 12:05:36 GMT
serverApache
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
cache-controlno-cache, must-revalidate
content-languageen
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
link<https://www.crew.ac.uk/>; rel="canonical",<https://www.crew.ac.uk/>; rel="shortlink"
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
referrer-policyno-referrer-when-downgrade
feature-policy-report-onlygeolocation 'none'; midi 'none'; camera 'none'; usb 'none'; magnetometer 'none'; accelerometer 'none'; vr 'none'; speaker 'none'; ambient-light-sensor 'none'; gyroscope 'none'; microphone 'none'
x-generatorEtch A Sketch
x-powered-byMilk and Chocolate Cookies
content-security-policy-report-onlydefault-src 'none'; script-src 'self' *.twitter.com *.google.com *.google-analytics.com *.recaptcha.net *.googletagmanager.com *.google-analytics.com https://region1.google-analytics.com *.googleapis.com *.jsdelivr.net *.gstatic.com http://region1.analytics.google.com *.analytics.google.com; img-src *;
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
transfer-encodingchunked
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 171 referring domains.
This page has 880 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 141 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /misc/*.css$
Allow: /misc/*.css?
Allow: /misc/*.js$
Allow: /misc/*.js?
Allow: /misc/*.gif
Allow: /misc/*.jpg
Allow: /misc/*.jpeg
Allow: /misc/*.png
Allow: /modules/*.css$
Allow: /modules/*.css?
Allow: /modules/*.js$
Allow: /modules/*.js?
Allow: /modules/*.gif
Allow: /modules/*.jpg
Allow: /modules/*.jpeg
Allow: /modules/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /themes/*.css$
Allow: /themes/*.css?
Allow: /themes/*.js$
Allow: /themes/*.js?
Allow: /themes/*.gif
Allow: /themes/*.jpg
Allow: /themes/*.jpeg
Allow: /themes/*.png
# Directories
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips/
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /user/logout/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Expertise70%Check
Centre70%Check
water68%Check
Crew68%Check
Waters68%Check
Land60%Check
Scotland58%Check
Water Quality55%Check
Connecting water55%Check
water policy55%Check
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