Electoralcommission.org.uk - SEO Checker

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Meta information
77% 
Page quality
80% 
Page structure
60% 
Link structure
83% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.22 s
File size
125.40 kB
Words
742
Media files
8
Number of links
91 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home Page | Electoral Commission
The length of the page title is perfect. (318 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)
https://www.electoralcommission.org.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)
The specified alternate links have no errors.
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 name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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 742 words. That's ok.
33.4% 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.
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 19.18 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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 15 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 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
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Home Page
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (9 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Home Page
H1 Welcome to the Electoral Commission
H2 Language selection
H2 Voter ID
H2 Key resources
H2 Find out about elections in your area
H2 Search the political finance database
H2 You might be interested in
H2 Latest news
H2 Footer Content
H2 Empty heading
H3 Information for voters
H3 Guidance for electoral administrators
H3 Latest reports and research
H3 Voter ID at the 2024 UK general election
H3 Campaigning for your vote
H3 Elections Act
H3 Political parties accept £55.5m in donations in second quarter of 2024
H3 Electoral Commission calls for improvements to voter ID accessibility
H3 UK political parties’ financial accounts published
H3 Electoral Commission concludes investigations into two political parties (August 2024)
H3 Quick links
H3 Follow us
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
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/No Text
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/searchNo Text
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/about-usAbout us
/about-usText duplicate About us
/about-us/our-role-and-respons...Our role and responsibilities
/about-us/our-plans-priorities...Our plans, priorities and spending
/about-us/our-commissioners-an...Our Commissioners and teams
/about-us/how-we-make-decisionsHow we make decisions
/about-us/working-usWorking for us
/about-us/contact-usContact us
/work-us/contractsProcurement
/about-us/freedom-informationFreedom of Information
/our-guidanceOur guidance
/our-guidanceText duplicate Our guidance
/our-guidance/electoral-admini...Electoral Administrator
/our-guidance/candidate-or-agentCandidate or agent
/our-guidance/political-partyPolitical party
/our-guidance/campaignerCampaigner
/our-guidance/other-regulated-...Other regulated individuals and organisations
/our-guidance/single-point-con...Police election SPOC (Single Point of Contact)
/voting-and-electionsVoting and elections
/voting-and-electionsText duplicate Voting and elections
/voting-and-elections/campaign...Campaigning for your vote
/i-am-a/voter/your-election-in...Elections in your area
/voting-and-elections/voter-idVoter ID
/voting-and-elections/who-can-...Who can vote
/voting-and-elections/ways-voteWays to vote
/voting-and-elections/how-elec...How elections work
/voting-and-elections/report-e...Reporting electoral fraud
/voting-and-elections/ways-get...Ways to get involved in democracy
/voting-and-elections/observin...Observing elections and referendums
/voting-and-elections/work-ele...Work at elections
/research-reports-and-dataResearch, reports and data
/research-reports-and-dataText duplicate Research, reports and data
/research-reports-and-data/our...Our reports and data on past elections and referendums
/research-reports-and-data/ele...Electoral registration research
/research-reports-and-data/pub...Public attitudes
/research-reports-and-data/mod...Modernising voting: flexible voting feasibility studies
/research-reports-and-data/pil...Pilot evaluations
/research-reports-and-data/ele...Electoral fraud data
/research-reports-and-data/ref...Referendum question research
/political-registration-and-re...Political registration and regulation
/political-registration-and-re...Text duplicate Political registration and regulation
/political-registration-and-re...Political party registration
/political-registration-and-re...Financial reporting
/political-registration-and-re...Our enforcement work
/political-registration-and-re...Imprints
/news-and-viewsNews and views
/news-and-viewsText duplicate News and views
/news-and-views/media-centreMedia centre
/news-and-views/elections-actElections Act
/news-and-views/our-priorities...Our priorities for reforming elections
/news-and-views/parliamentary-...Parliamentary briefings
/news-and-views/key-correspond...Key correspondence
/news-and-views/our-consultationsOur consultations
/news-and-views/our-responses-...Our responses to consultations
/resourcesResources
/resourcesText duplicate Resources
/resources/resources-young-peopleResources for young people
/resources/resources-educatorsResources for educators
/resources/democratic-engageme...Democratic engagement resources
/about-usFind out more
/i-am-a/voter/voter-id/applyin...Subdomain Apply for free voter ID now
/voting-and-elections/voter-idText duplicate Find out more
/voting-and-electionsInformation for voters
/our-guidance/electoral-admini...Guidance for electoral administrators
/research-reports-and-dataLatest reports and research
/i-am-a/voter/your-election-in...Text duplicate Search
http://search.electoralcommiss...External Subdomain Start your search
/research-reports-and-data/our...Voter ID at the 2024 UK general election Read our report on voter ID at the UK general election in July 2024
/voting-and-elections/campaign...Campaigning for your vote Find out more about the rules around campaigning
/news-and-views/elections-actElections Act Find out more about the UK Government's Elections Act and what it means for voting and campaigning
/media-centre/political-partie...Political parties accept £55.5m in donations in second quarter of 2024 Date published: 12 September 2024
/media-centre/electoral-commis...Electoral Commission calls for improvements to voter ID accessibility Date published: 10 September 2024
/media-centre/uk-political-par...UK political parties’ financial accounts published The financial accounts of political parties and accounting units with income or expenditure over £250,000 ...
/media-centre/electoral-commis...Electoral Commission concludes investigations into two political parties (August 2024) Investigations into two political parties have closed over the last mo...
/about-us/contact-usText duplicate Contact us
/news-and-views/media-centreText duplicate Media centre
/about-us/working-usText duplicate Working for us
/resources/welcome-your-voteLearning resources
/about-us/freedom-informationFreedom of information
/accessibilityAccessibility
/privacy-policyPrivacy policy
/our-publication-schemePublication scheme
/resources/democratic-engageme...Text duplicate Democratic engagement resources
/work-us/contractsText duplicate Procurement
/Anchor Cookie settings
https://twitter.com/ElectoralC...External Follow us onX.com
https://www.instagram.com/elec...External Subdomain Follow us onInstagram
https://www.facebook.com/ukele...External Subdomain Follow us onFacebook
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain Follow us onLinkedIn
/blogFollow us onBlog

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.electoralcommission.org.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 0.22 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (125 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 7,201 referring domains.
This page has 313,559 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 4,507 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
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Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
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Allow: /profiles/*.css$
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