Gov.ie - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
58% 
Server
77% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.71 s
File size
66.10 kB
Words
263
Media files
6
Number of links
52 internal / 0 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
gov - Search for services or information
The length of the page title is perfect. (353 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
string
The meta description is too short. (36 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length) Optimize description
The meta description contains only one word.
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 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
google-site-verificationO_Juklz6GPKoqtfnU0SrMMBu0F10BJbQ2d67lXd1ZFw
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
descriptionstring
og:titleSearch for services or information
og:descriptionstring
langen
og:titleSearch for services or information
og:descriptionstring
X-UA-CompatibleIE=11
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 263 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
25.5% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 14 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
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 6 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
...eboot/_reboot_app/img/Icon_Hamburger.pngImage: Toggle main navigation
...c/_reboot/_reboot_app/img/Image_Logo.pnggov - Irish Government logo
.../_reboot/_reboot_app/img/Icon_Search.pngImage: Search button
...2d3400fd-9ea5-4312-9cae-00ba9f97140f.pngClimate Action Plan 2024
...51203383-6755-4e03-a0e0-dc252f3dd9f8.pngHousing for All
...48383027-85f8-44f8-a679-af72183a25cb.pngMigration and Ireland

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Search for services or information
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Search for services or information
H2 Main navigation
H2 Pinned items
H2 Featured stories
H3 Your credentials
H3 Welfare supports
H3 Working supports
H3 Becoming a parent
H3 Education
H3 Your property
H3 Additional assistance
H3 Finding public services
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.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are no external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.gov.ie/en/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.gov.ie/en/IMG-ALT gov - Irish Government logo
/en/search/?sort_by=published_...News
/en/help/departments/Departments
https://www.gov.ie/en/services/Services
https://www.gov.ie/en/?English (current)
https://www.gov.ie/ga/?Gaeilge
/en/publication/79659-climate-...Climate Action Plan 2024
/en/campaigns/dfc50-housing-fo...Housing for All
/en/campaigns/56c17-migration-...Migration and Ireland
/en/publication/32015-sell-to-...Sell to Government
/en/service/12e6de-get-a-perso...Get a Personal Public Service (PPS) Number
/en/service/make-a-public-serv...How to get a Public Services Card (PSC)
/en/service/124a70-apply-for-c...Birth, death, marriage and other certificates
/en/service/ddf6e3-illness-ben...Illness Benefit
/en/service/e6f908-state-pensi...State Pension (Contributory)
/en/service/9bba61-free-travel...Free Travel Scheme
/en/service/4eb45-additional-n...Additional Needs Payment
/en/service/1306dc-jobseekers-...Jobseeker's Allowance
/en/service/1221b0-jobseekers-...Jobseeker's Benefit
/en/service/f14140-child-benefitChild Benefit
/en/service/apply-for-maternit...Maternity Benefit
/en/service/apply-for-paternit...Paternity Benefit
/en/service/bbe97-free-online-...Free online courses with eCollege
/en/service/41eb8b-back-to-sch...Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance
/en/service/find-a-schoolFind a school
/en/service/find-an-eircodeFind an Eircode
/en/service/2a43f-local-proper...Local Property Tax
/en/service/f8f1b-vacant-prope...Vacant Property Refurbishment Grant
/en/service/08bb21-working-fam...Working Family Payment (WFP)
/en/service/df6811-disability-...Disability Allowance
/en/service/2432ba-carers-allo...Carer's Allowance
/en/service/1fc151-find-your-l...Find your local motor tax office
/en/service/40cf48-find-your-l...Find your local Intreo Centre
/en/service/b6ecfd-sign-up-for...How to sign up for MyGovID
/en/publication/79659-climate-...Text duplicate IMG-ALT Climate Action Plan 2024
/en/publication/79659-climate-...Text duplicate Climate Action Plan 2024
/en/campaigns/dfc50-housing-fo...Text duplicate IMG-ALT Housing for All
/en/campaigns/dfc50-housing-fo...Text duplicate Housing for All
/en/campaigns/56c17-migration-...Text duplicate IMG-ALT Migration and Ireland
/en/campaigns/56c17-migration-...Text duplicate Migration and Ireland
https://www.gov.ie/en/Nofollow Anchor Submit
https://www.gov.ie/en/circulars/Circulars
/en/consultations/Consultations
https://www.gov.ie/en/directory/Directory
https://www.gov.ie/en/policies/Policies
/en/publications/Publications
/en/help/about-govie/About gov.ie
/en/help/accessibility/Accessibility
/en/help/0b8e3-latest-financia...Latest financial accounts
/en/help/privacy-policy/Privacy policy
/en/help/e170a-who-does-what/Who does what

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.gov.ie/en/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.71 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (66 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSat, 20 Jul 2024 08:25:57 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
servernginx/1.26.1
varyAccept-Encoding
expiresSat, 20 Jul 2024 08:25:58 GMT
cache-controlmax-age=1
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
strict-transport-securitymax-age=3600
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
referrer-policysame-origin
set-cookie161 Characters
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

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 608 referring domains.
This page has 127,195 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 477 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

You can find more links using Wikipedia search

Robots.txt

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Allow: /

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Services66%Check
services or information66%Check
Search65%Check
information61%Check
gov56%Check
public services54%Check
supports43%Check
main40%Check
navigation40%Check
main navigation40%Check
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