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Meta information
71% 
Page quality
71% 
Page structure
98% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
82% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.47 s
File size
17.30 kB
Words
410
Media files
2
Number of links
48 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Legislation.gov.uk
The page title is too short. (162 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
The domain is used in the page's title.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The official home of UK legislation, revised and as enacted 1267-present. This website is managed by The National Archives on behalf of HM Government. Publishing all UK legislation is a core part of the remit of His Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO), part of The National Archives, and the Office of the King's Printer for Scotland.
The meta description is too long: 2038 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
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
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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.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 410 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
33.7% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
3 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 17.73 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 8 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=0.1, user-scalable=1" 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 8 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
/images/chrome/site_logo_legislation.giflegislation.gov.uk homepage call-to-action widget
/images/chrome/ogl-symbol.gifOGL logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
legislation.gov.uk
The H1 heading is too short (18 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 legislation.gov.uk
H2 Search Legislation
H2 Welcome
H2 United Kingdom
H2 Scotland
H2 Wales
H2 Northern Ireland
H2 Legislation originating from the EU
H2 New Legislation
H2 Legislation published recently
H2 Finding your way around legislation.gov.uk
H2 Understanding Legislation
H2 More help
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to navigation
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/legislation.gov.uk
http://www.nationalarchives.go...External Subdomain URL anchor text
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
/cy/Cymraeg
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/Home
/browseExplore our Collections
/newNew Legislation
/helpHelp and Guidance
/changesChanges to Legislation
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/Anchor Search Legislation
/searchAdvanced Search
/browse/ukBrowse UK Legislation
http://www.parliament.uk/External Subdomain UK Parliament website
/browse/scotlandBrowse Scotland Legislation
http://www.scottish.parliament...New window External Subdomain Scottish Parliament website
/browse/walesBrowse Wales Legislation
http://www.senedd.wales/New window External Subdomain Welsh Parliament
/browse/niBrowse Northern Ireland Legislation
http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/New window External Subdomain Northern Ireland Assembly
/browse/euBrowse legislation originating from the EU
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/home...New window External Subdomain EUR-Lex website
/understanding-legislationFind out more
http://www.parliament.uk/New window External Subdomain UK Parliament
http://services.parliament.uk/...New window External Subdomain Parliamentary Business, Bills & Legislation
/newBrowse new legislation
/new/nisrNorthern Ireland Statutory Rule (1)
/new/uksiUK Statutory Instrument (1)
/new/wsiWales Statutory Instrument (1)
/understanding-legislationlegislation we publish
/understanding-legislationhow we apply amendments
/understanding-legislationwhat legislation we update
/helpwhere you can obtain copies of legislation we don’t hold
/understanding-legislationhow legislation works
/browsebrowse by legislation type and category
/searchour advanced search
/understanding-legislationHow legislation works
/understanding-legislationHow parliaments have changed over time and created different legislation types
/understanding-legislationHow legislation is numbered and cited
/understanding-legislationHow legislation can extend and apply to different parts of the UK
/understanding-legislationHow legislation comes into force
/understanding-legislationOur editorial practice and timescales for incorporating changes
/understanding-legislationLegislation originating from the EU
/helpFAQs
/helpGlossary of Terms
/helpGuide to Revised Legislation
/helpStatutory Instrument Practice
/new-designNew site design
/helpHelp
/aboutusAbout Us
/sitemapSite Map
/accessibilityAccessibility
/contactusContact Us
/privacynoticePrivacy Notice
/cookiepolicyCookies
http://www.nationalarchives.go...New window External Subdomain Open Government Licence v3.0
/contributorsotherwise stated
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/lega...New window External Subdomain Commission Decision 2011/833/EU
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/cont...New window External Subdomain EUR-Lex public statement on re-use

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.legislation.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 of 0.47 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.
This page loads 4 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 8 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (17 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 63,110 referring domains.
This page has 4,831,073 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 33,644 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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Sitemap: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/sitemap-uksi.xml 
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Sitemap: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/sitemap-wsi.xml 
Sitemap: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/sitemap-nisr.xml 
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Legislation.gov.uk
The official home of UK legislation, revised and as enacted 1267-present. This website is managed by The National Archives on behalf of HM Government. Publishing all UK legislation is a core part of the remit of His Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO), part of The National Archives, and the Office of the King's Printer for Scotland.

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