Health.gov.za - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
58% 
Page quality
40% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
88% 
Server
40% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
7.18 s
File size
190.10 kB
Words
309
Media files
34
Number of links
62 internal / 30 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
National Department of Health – National Department of Health Website
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 643 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
Home
The meta description is too short. (37 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)
https://www.health.gov.za/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
robotsmax-image-preview:large
generatorPowered by Slider Revolution 6.6.20 - responsive, Mobile-Friendly Slider Plugin for WordPress with comfortable drag and drop interface.
descriptionHome
langen-us
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
No paragraphs were detected.
There are only 309 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
8.1% of the text are stop words.
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 Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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)
19 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
...loads/2024/03/Internet-header-Banner.pngNational Department of Health logo and South African Flag
...oads/2019/07/DepartmentOfHealth_Logo.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...revslider/public/assets/assets/dummy.pngSlideHome
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...revslider/public/assets/assets/dummy.pngNo alt attribute provided
...024/07/Minister_Aaron-Motsoaledi-web.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...24/07/Minister-Dr-Joe-Phaahla-scaled.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Dr-Sandile2.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...uploads/2020/12/CovidAlertAppLabel-1.pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H4 Ministry
H4 Stay Connected
H4 Provincial Health Links
H4 Public Entities
H4 Statutory Bodies (Health Professional Councils)
H4 Services and Links
H4 Copyright © 2024 National Department of Health Terms and conditions
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 1 links with a trivial 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 too many external links (30) on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://wa.me/27600123456?text=HiExternal WHATSAPP NUMBER: 0600 123 456
http://www.health.gov.za/Subdomain IMG-ALT National Department of Health logo and South African Flag
https://www.health.gov.za/Subdomain HOME
/aboutus/Subdomain ABOUT US
https://www.health.gov.za/hifm/Subdomain Health Infrastructure and Facilities Management
/food-control-home/Subdomain Food Control
/uniform-patient-fee-schedule/Subdomain Uniform Patient Fee Schedule
/hiv-and-aids/Subdomain HIV and AIDS
/maternal-womans-health/Subdomain Maternal & Woman’s Health
https://www.health.gov.za/nagi/Subdomain National Advisory Group on Immunisation
/tuberculosis/Subdomain Tuberculosis
https://www.health.gov.za/nhi/Subdomain National Health Insurance
/communicable-diseases/Subdomain Communicable Diseases
/environmental-health-informat...Subdomain Environmental Health & Port Health
/health-promotion-and-nutrition/Subdomain Health Promotion and Nutrition
/immunization/Subdomain Immunization
/mental-health/Subdomain Mental Health
/non-communicable-diseases/Subdomain Non-Communicable Diseases
/contact-us/Subdomain Contact Us
/tenders/Subdomain TENDERS
/documents/Subdomain DOCUMENTS
/annual-reports/Subdomain Annual Reports
https://www.health.gov.za/forms/Subdomain Forms
/icd-10-master-industry-table/Subdomain ICD-10 Master Industry Table
/mac-advisories/Subdomain MAC Advisories
/policies-and-guidelines/Subdomain Policies and Guidelines
/promotion-of-access-to-inform...Subdomain Promotion of Access to Information Act
/strategic-documents/Subdomain Strategic Documents
/strategic-plans/Subdomain Strategic Plans
/press-statement/Subdomain Press Statements
/speeches/Subdomain Speeches
/health-calendar/Subdomain Health Calendar
/vacancies/Subdomain VACANCIES
/notices/Subdomain NOTICES
/general-notices/Subdomain General Notices
/outbreaks-cholera/Subdomain Cholera
/outbreaks-covid/Subdomain Covid
/foodborne-disease/Subdomain Foodborne Disease
/outbreaks-hpv/Subdomain HPV
/outbreaks-influenza/Subdomain Influenza
/outbreaks-listeriosis/Subdomain Listeriosis
/outbreaks-malaria/Subdomain Malaria
/outbreaks-measles/Subdomain Measles
/outbreaks-mpox/Subdomain Mpox
/outbreaks-rabies/Subdomain Rabies
/outbreaks-typhoid/Subdomain Typhoid
https://www.health.gov.za/Subdomain No Text
https://www.health.gov.za/Anchor No Text
https://g20.org/track/health/External More Information
https://www.health.gov.za/nhi/Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://www.healthestablishmen...New window External Subdomain PHC Facilities and Services
/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/He...New window 2025 Health Awareness Calendar
/minister-of-health/Subdomain View Profile
/deputy-minister-of-health/Subdomain Text duplicate View Profile
/director-general/Subdomain Text duplicate View Profile
https://www.facebook.com/HealthZANew window External Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/HealthZANew window External X-twitter
https://wa.me/27600123456?text=HiNew window External Whatsapp
https://sacoronavirus.co.za/co...External No Text
http://www.echealth.gov.za/External Subdomain Eastern Cape
https://www.health.fs.gov.za/External Subdomain Free State
https://www.gauteng.gov.za/Dep...External Subdomain Gauteng
http://www.kznhealth.gov.za/External Subdomain KwaZulu Natal
https://www.ldoh.gov.za/External Subdomain Limpopo
http://www.mpuhealth.gov.za/External Subdomain Mpumalanga
http://health.nwpg.gov.za/External Subdomain North West
http://www.northern-cape.gov.z...External Subdomain Northern Cape
https://www.westerncape.gov.za...External Subdomain Western Cape
https://www.medicalschemes.com/External Subdomain Council for Medical Schemes
https://www.nhls.ac.za/External Subdomain National Health Laboratory Services
https://www.nicd.ac.za/External Subdomain National Institute for Communicable Diseases
https://ohsc.org.za/External Subdomain Office of Health Standards Compliance
https://www.sahpra.org.za/External Subdomain South African Health Product Regulatory Authority
https://www.samrc.ac.za/External Subdomain South African Medical Research Council
https://ahpcsa.co.za/External Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa
https://www.hpcsa.co.za/External Subdomain Health Professions Council of South Africa
/nhrec-home/Subdomain National Health Research Ethics Council
https://sadtc.org.za/External Subdomain South African Dental Technicians Council
https://www.sanc.co.za/External Subdomain South African Nursing Council
https://www.pharmcouncil.co.za/External Subdomain South African Pharmacy Council
https://www.health.gov.za/nhi/Subdomain Text duplicate National Health Insurance
/bursary/Subdomain Bursary Contact Details
/ccod-home/Subdomain Compensation Commissioner for Occupational Diseases
/foreign-workforce-management/Subdomain Foreign Workforce Management
https://www.idealhealthfacilit...External Subdomain Ideal Health Facility
https://www.health.gov.za/icsp/Subdomain Internship and Community Service Programme (ICSP)
/licensing-home/Subdomain Licensing Unit
/mac-advisories/Subdomain Text duplicate MAC Advisories
/momconnect/Subdomain MomConnect
https://www.sanc.co.za/External Subdomain Nursing Colleges
http://www.sidebyside.co.za/External Subdomain Side by Side
/terms-and-conditions/Terms and conditions

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.health.gov.za/"
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)
The page response time is very slow (7.18 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (190 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
dateThu, 22 May 2025 10:50:37 GMT
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
set-cookie124 Characters
content-length194630
x-ms-middleware-request-id00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
x-powered-byPHP/7.4.30
link<https://www.health.gov.za/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 277 referring domains.
This page has 4,818 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 249 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
health70%Check
National Health62%Check
Health National Department60%Check
Health Services55%Check
Department54%Check
National Department53%Check
Mental Health53%Check
Health Information53%Check
Health Professions53%Check
Health Insurance53%Check

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