Hse.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
39% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.22 s
File size
31.80 kB
Words
486
Media files
17
Number of links
47 internal / 16 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
HSE: Information about health and safety at work
The length of the page title is perfect. (441 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Advice, guidance, news, templates, tools, legislation, publications from Great Britain's independent regulator for work-related health, safety and illness; HSE
The length of the meta description is perfect. (959 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
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-gb
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-gb
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
DescriptionAdvice, guidance, news, templates, tools, legislation, publications from Great Britain's independent regulator for work-related health, safety and illness; HSE
ahrefs-site-verification1b61c6fd16bc46bf2dda15eae176768ef6df4dd724533046da8d0708dd979a54
langen-gb
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 486 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 122 words is high.
29.2% 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.
6 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
This page only loads 3 JavaScript files. That's good!
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 10 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
16 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
...s/v4-homepage/images/asbestos-mobile.pngblack and white image of exposed asbestos fibres
/assets/v4-homepage/carousel/lawposter.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ts/v4-homepage/carousel/stats-poster.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ts/v4-homepage/carousel/coshh-poster.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/assets/v4-homepage/carousel/hsg65.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/assets/v4-homepage/carousel/hsg210.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...v4-homepage/carousel/basic-first-aid.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/assets/v4-homepage/carousel/l22.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...omepage/carousel/msd-assessment-tool.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...s/v4-homepage/carousel/accident-book.jpgNo alt attribute provided
.../v4-homepage/carousel/near-miss-book.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...page/carousel/coshh-essentials-etool.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...epage/carousel/stress-indicator-tool.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...omepage/carousel/stress-climate-tool.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/assets/v4-homepage/carousel/l153.jpgNo alt attribute provided
.../v4-homepage/carousel/stress-posters.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...v4-homepage/carousel/stress-workbook.jpgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Health and Safety Executive
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Health and Safety Executive
H2 Popular
H2 Protect yourself and others from asbestos
H2 Information and services
H2 News
H2 Bestsellers
H2 Solutions from HSE
H2 Footer links
H3 Guidance: health and safety
H3 Chemicals, fumes and dust
H3 The basics for your business
H3 Apply, notify or report
H3 Manage risk
H3 Construction
H3 RIDDOR
H3 The law
H3 Asbestos
H3 Safety notice: Manufacture, storage and carriage of thermites
H3 April is Stress Awareness Month
H3 Stay safe around cattle this Easter
H3 Registration of the Building Control Profession – transitional arrangements
H3 HSE publishes annual work-related ill health and injury statistics for 2022 to 2023
H3 Safety notice: concerns with design of vapour recovery unit
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 16 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.hse.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.hse.gov.uk/index.htmHealth and Safety Executive
https://www.hse.gov.uk/index.htmHome
/news/index.htmNews
/guidance/index.htmGuidance
/aboutus/index.htmAbout HSE
https://books.hse.gov.uk/External Subdomain Books
/news/subscribe/index.htmFree updates
/contact/index.htmContact
/simple-health-safety/risk/ind...Risk assessment
/temperature/employer/index.ht...Temperature in the workplace
/statistics/?utm_source=hse.go...Health and safety statistics
/stress/index.htm?utm_source=h...Subdomain Stress and mental health
/msd/dse/?utm_source=hse.gov.u...Display screen equipment (DSE)
/construction/cdm/2015/index.h...The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015
/asbestos/?utm_source=hse.gov....Subdomain Protect yourself and others from asbestos
IMG-ALT black and white image of exposed asbestos fibres
/guidance/index.htm?utm_source...Guidance: health and safety
/coshh/index.htm?utm_source=hs...Chemicals, fumes and dust
/simple-health-safety/index.ht...The basics for your business
/contact/index.htm?utm_source=...Apply, notify or report
/simple-health-safety/risk/ind...Manage risk
/construction/index.htm?utm_so...Construction
/riddor/index.htm?utm_source=h...RIDDOR
A-TITLE Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013
/simple-health-safety/law/inde...The law
A-TITLE Health and safety at work: criminal and civil law
/asbestos/?utm_source=hse.gov....Asbestos
A-TITLE Asbestos: Why it's dangerous, removal, licensed contractors and training
/safetybulletins/manufacture-s...Subdomain Safety notice: Manufacture, storage and carriage of thermites
https://press.hse.gov.uk/2024/...External Subdomain April is Stress Awareness Month
https://press.hse.gov.uk/2024/...External Subdomain Stay safe around cattle this Easter
https://press.hse.gov.uk/2024/...External Subdomain Registration of the Building Control Profession – transitional arrangements
https://press.hse.gov.uk/2023/...External Subdomain HSE publishes annual work-related ill health and injury statistics for 2022 to 2023
/safetybulletins/vapour-recove...Safety notice: concerns with design of vapour recovery unit
/news/index.htmMore news
/pubns/books/lawposter.htm?utm...Health and Safety Law Poster
https://books.hse.gov.uk/produ...External Subdomain Vital Statistics poster 2023
/pubns/chemicals-poster.htm?ut...COSHH Handling of Chemicals Poster
/pubns/books/hsg65.htm?utm_sou...Managing For Health And Safety
/pubns/books/hsg210.htm?utm_so...Asbestos Essentials
/pubns/indg347.htm?utm_source=...Basic Advice on First Aid at Work
/pubns/books/l22.htm?utm_sourc...Subdomain Safe use of work equipment
https://books.hse.gov.uk/MSD-A...External Subdomain MSD Online Assessment Tool
/pubns/books/accident-book.htm...Accident Book
https://books.hse.gov.uk/books...External Subdomain Near-miss Book
/coshh/essentials/index.htm?ut...COSHH Essentials e-tool
https://books.hse.gov.uk/books...External Subdomain Stress Indicator Tool (SIT)
https://books.hse.gov.uk/books...External Subdomain Safety Climate Tool (SCT)
/pubns/books/l153.htm?utm_sour...Subdomain Managing Health and Safety in Construction
https://books.hse.gov.uk/Poste...External Subdomain Workplace Stress Posters
/pubns/wbk01.htm?utm_source=hs...Tackling Stress Workbook
https://books.hse.gov.uk/External Subdomain HSE books
https://books.hse.gov.uk/?utm_...External Subdomain Publications and Products - goes to our HSE books site
https://www.hsl.gov.uk/trainin...External Subdomain Training and Events - goes to our sister site
https://www.hsl.gov.uk/testing...External Subdomain Testing and Monitoring - goes to our sister site
https://www.hsl.gov.uk/researc...External Subdomain Research and Consultancy - goes to our sister site
/search/search-results.htmSearch
/a-z/index.htmA-Z
/acronym/index.htmAcronyms
/copyright.htmCopyright
/cookies.htmCookies
/privacy.htmPrivacy
/accessibility.htmAccessibility
/foi/index.htmDisclosure of information
/report-vulnerability.htmVulnerability disclosure
/languages/index.htmInformation in other languages

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.hse.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 0.22 seconds.
This page only loads 1 CSS files. That's ok.
This page only loads 3 JavaScript files. That's good!
The file size of the HTML document is fine (32 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateWed, 24 Apr 2024 14:42:56 GMT
content-typetext/html
last-modifiedFri, 12 Apr 2024 11:04:35 GMT
varyAccept-Encoding
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
servercloudflare
cf-ray8796dcdd9df69b70-FRA
content-encodinggzip
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
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 36,031 referring domains.
This page has 3,945,731 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 20,354 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 3009 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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#Last modified: 03/11/2022
#Last modified by: Dave Walker

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# Specific simple disallow sites listed alphabetically
# Most to are avoid dual entry with Upper and lower case variants

Disallow: /COMAH
Disallow: /data
Disallow: /FALLS
Disallow: /foi/bpcorrespondence
Disallow: /OPSUNIT
Disallow: /OSHCR
Disallow: /pubns/priced
Disallow: /PUBNS/PRICED
Disallow: /PUBNS
Disallow: /PRESS
Disallow: /RESEARCH
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /user-research-testing
Disallow: /ux-demonstration

Disallow: /research/

Disallow: /*.pdf
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# Specific page disallows
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Disallow: /notices/notices/notice_list.asp?PN=20&ST=N&rdoNType=&NT=&SN=&SO=DNIS

# Google specific directive - allows indexing, but not displaying in search results.

Sitemap: https://www.hse.gov.uk/sitemap.xml

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HSE: Information about health and safety at work
Advice, guidance, news, templates, tools, legislation, publications from Great Britain's independent regulator for work-related health, safety and illness; HSE

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Health and Safety78%Check
Health77%Check
HSE77%Check
Safety76%Check
Health Safety76%Check
Safety Work70%Check
work-related health65%Check
Managing Health Safety64%Check
work62%Check
Safety notice59%Check
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