Design-system.service.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
98% 
Page quality
61% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.03 s
File size
57.40 kB
Words
426
Media files
1
Number of links
26 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home – GOV.UK Design System
The length of the page title is perfect. (296 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Design your service using GOV.UK styles, components and patterns
The length of the meta description is perfect. (420 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://design-system.service.gov.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)
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, viewport-fit=cover
theme-color#0b0c0c
og:titleHome
descriptionDesign your service using GOV.UK styles, components and patterns
og:descriptionDesign your service using GOV.UK styles, components and patterns
langen
og:imagehttps://design-system.service.gov.uk/assets/images/govuk-opengraph-image.png
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 426 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
31.9% 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.
10 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 9.82 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 usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 9 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 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
/images/homepage-illustration.svgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Design your service using GOV.UK styles, components and patterns
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Design your service using GOV.UK styles, components and patterns
H2 Menu
H2 What’s new
H2 Styles
H2 Components
H2 Patterns
H2 Principles we follow
H2 Community
H2 Support
H2 Roadmap
H2 Support links
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 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to main content
/Design System
/sitemap/Sitemap
/get-started/Get started
/styles/Styles
/components/Components
/patterns/Patterns
/community/Community
/accessibility/Accessibility
/get-started/Text duplicate Get started
/components/footer/GOV.UK footer component
https://frontend.design-system...External Subdomain create their own JavaScript components using GOV.UK Frontend
https://github.com/alphagov/go...External full release notes
https://mailchi.mp/d484adee17c...External Sign up to get update emails about the Design System
/styles/Browse our styles
/components/Browse our components
/patterns/Browse our patterns
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/go...External Government Design Principles
https://www.gov.uk/service-manualExternal GOV.UK Service Manual
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/st...External GOV.UK style guide
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/co...External GOV.UK content design guidance
/accessibility/accessibility-s...Our accessibility strategy
/community/joining our discussions, events and co-design collaborations
/community/upcoming-components...upcoming components and patterns
/design-system-team/maintained by a team at the Government Digital Service
/get-in-touch/contact the team
/community/blogs-talks-podcasts/blog posts, video talks, and podcasts about the GOV.UK Design System and Prototype Kit
/community/roadmap/GOV.UK Design System Roadmap
/accessibility-statement/Accessibility statement
/sitemap/Text duplicate Sitemap
/cookies/Cookies
/privacy-policy/Privacy
/design-system-team/GOV.UK Design System team
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://design-system.service.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 excellent with 0.03 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (57 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
accept-rangesbytes
age151015
cache-controlpublic,max-age=0,must-revalidate
cache-status"Netlify Edge"; hit
content-encodinggzip
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
dateSat, 21 Dec 2024 13:47:12 GMT
etag"505802310da5bffaf0d717e11561b5b5-ssl-df"
serverNetlify
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
varyAccept-Encoding
x-nf-request-id01JFMQHQ11Q91Q8P3SS3XPDC8E
content-length9016
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,142 referring domains.
This page has 11,957 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 832 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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Home – GOV.UK Design System
Design your service using GOV.UK styles, components and patterns

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Design85%Check
GOV85%Check
service73%Check
Design System71%Check
GOV.UK Design68%Check
Components66%Check
Patterns66%Check
Styles66%Check
components patterns66%Check
GOV.UK Design System64%Check
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