Derby.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
53% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
91% 
Server
27% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.24 s
File size
70.40 kB
Words
401
Media files
12
Number of links
51 internal / 15 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Derby City Council homepage
The length of the page title is perfect. (270 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
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)
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)
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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
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
viewportwidth=device-width,initial-scale=1,shrink-to-fit=no
authorDerby City Council, Council House, Corporation Street, Derby, DE1 2FS
google-site-verificationWT4vkQ4NjlK7xMGv4witie08FcDNhL3vSLmFDBHrPok
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 401 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
33.9% 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.
4 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 15.57 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 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width,initial-scale=1,shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
2 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
...tyleassets/images/hero/derby-aerial2.jpgarial photo of Derby
...ntent/images/homepage/cost-of-living.jpgcost of living
.../images/homepage/devolution-call-out.jpgOutline of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire on blue background.
...ges/homepage/Care-for-Derby-homepage.jpgCare for Derby
...l/content/images/homepage/ballot-box.jpgBallot box
...cil/content/images/homepage/irongate.jpgIron Gate
...e/parents/breastfeeding-pr-newsroom2.pngNo alt attribute provided
...news/environment/stoney-lane-fly-tip.pngBags of rubbish and old tyres found dumped off a lane in Spondon
...mages/news/transport/CarClubNewsroom.pngCllr Swan and Storm Baines in front of a car club car
...cation/Derby-Promise-launch-newsroom.pngDerby Promise leaders with apprentices from Rolls-Royce Nuclear Skills Academy
...-stakeholders-main-entrance-08-02-24.pngPartners come together to celebrate the opening of the Derby Racecourse Hub
.../councillors/Hardyal-kingdom-673x447.jpgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Derby City Council homepage
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Derby City Council homepage
H2 Services Menu
H2 Help with the cost of living
H2 OUR DERBY STORY
H2 Sign up for news updates
H3 East Midlands Devolution
H3 Care for Derby
H3 Register to Vote
H3 Shaping a stronger and healthier Derby: A year in review
H3 Failure to check who’s taking their rubbish away costs resident almost £600
H3 Leading the charge to net zero: A year in review
H3 Derby Promise will build a brighter future for the city’s next generation
H3 Cleaner streets, and kick off for the Derby Racecourse Hub: A year in review
H3 Over 400 fines issued by Kingdom during first month of enforcement
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
2 links don't have an 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 15 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://derby.gov.uk/Nofollow Anchor Skip to content
/site-info/cookies/cookies
https://myaccount.derby.gov.uk/External Subdomain myAccount
https://www.derby.gov.uk/Subdomain No Text
https://myaccount.derby.gov.uk/External Subdomain Text duplicate myAccount
/advice-and-benefits/Advice and benefits
https://derby.gov.uk/business/Business
/community-and-living/Community and living
/council-and-democracy/Council and democracy
/education-and-learning/Education and learning
/environment-and-planning/Environment and planning
/health-and-social-care/Health and social care
https://derby.gov.uk/housing/Housing
/leisure-and-culture/Leisure and culture
https://derby.gov.uk/licensing/Licensing
https://maps.derby.gov.uk/External Subdomain Maps
/trading-standards-environment...Trading Standards and environmental health
/transport-and-streets/Transport and streets
/jobs-and-careers/Jobs and careers
https://derby.gov.uk/news/News
https://derby.gov.uk/apply/Apply
https://derby.gov.uk/book-it/Book
https://derby.gov.uk/pay-it/Pay
https://derby.gov.uk/report-it/Report
https://derby.gov.uk/apply/Text duplicate Apply
https://derby.gov.uk/book-it/Text duplicate Book
https://derby.gov.uk/pay-it/Text duplicate Pay
https://derby.gov.uk/report-it/Text duplicate Report
/education-and-learning/Education
/advice-and-benefits/council-tax/Council Tax
/environment-and-planning/recy...Recycling and waste
/advice-and-benefits/Benefits
/environment-and-planning/plan...Planning
/our-services/All services
/advice-and-benefits/council-t...Pay Council Tax
https://secure.derby.gov.uk/bi...New window External Subdomain Check your bin day
https://eplanning.derby.gov.uk...New window External Subdomain View online planning register
/jobs-and-careers/Search job vacancies
https://www.communityactionder...New window External Subdomain Help with the cost of living Support is available to help you with the cost of living this winter
IMG-ALT cost of living
https://www.eastmidlandsdevolu...External Subdomain East Midlands Devolution
IMG-ALT Outline of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire on blue background.
/jobs-and-careers/care-for-derby/Care for Derby
IMG-ALT Care for Derby
https://www.gov.uk/register-to...External Register to Vote
IMG-ALT Ballot box
/council-and-democracy/your-co...OUR DERBY STORY Watch our Derby story, told by local poet Jamie Thrasivoulou
IMG-ALT Iron Gate
/news/2024/may/shaping-a-stron...17 May 2024 Shaping a stronger and healthier Derby: A year in review
/news/2024/may/failure-to-chec...17 May 2024 Failure to check who’s taking their rubbish away costs resident almost £600
IMG-ALT Bags of rubbish and old tyres found dumped off a lane in Spondon
/news/2024/may/leading-the-cha...16 May 2024 Leading the charge to net zero: A year in review
IMG-ALT Cllr Swan and Storm Baines in front of a car club car
/news/2024/may/derby-promise-w...15 May 2024 Derby Promise will build a brighter future for the city’s next generation
IMG-ALT Derby Promise leaders with apprentices from Rolls-Royce Nuclear Skills Academy
/news/2024/may/cleaner-streets...15 May 2024 Cleaner streets, and kick off for the Derby Racecourse Hub: A year in review
IMG-ALT Partners come together to celebrate the opening of the Derby Racecourse Hub
/news/2024/may/400-fines-issue...14 May 2024 Over 400 fines issued by Kingdom during first month of enforcement
https://derby.gov.uk/news/More News
https://www.derby.gov.uk/Subdomain No Text
/site-info/accessibility/Accessibility
/site-info/terms-conditions/Terms
/contact-the-council/Contact
/site-info/cookies/Cookies
/site-info/privacy-notices/Privacy
/site-info/terms-conditions/Language
/jobs-and-careers/Jobs
https://maps.derby.gov.uk/External Subdomain Text duplicate Maps
https://derby4.sharepoint.com/...External Subdomain Staff Access
http://twitter.com/derbyccNew window External Link to X (formerly known as Twitter) account
http://www.facebook.com/derbyccNew window External Subdomain Link to Facebook account
http://www.youtube.com/derbyccNew window External Subdomain Link to YouTube account
https://www.instagram.com/derb...New window External Subdomain Link to Instagram account
https://www.jadu.net/New window External Subdomain Jadu
/site-info/cookies/New window Text duplicate cookies

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://derby.gov.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 7 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.24 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (70 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlmax-age=5000
content-typetext/html
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
x-powered-byASP.NET
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge
dateSat, 18 May 2024 00:49:55 GMT
content-length72083
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 3,564 referring domains.
This page has 289,969 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,540 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 125 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /apps/
Disallow: /hidden/
Disallow: /news/index.html
Disallow: /banner-further-information/

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Derby78%Check
Derby City72%Check
Derby City Council69%Check
City68%Check
City Council67%Check
Derby City Council homepage67%Check
City Council Homepage66%Check
Council63%Check
Council Homepage63%Check
DERBY STORY56%Check
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