Leicester.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
95% 
Page quality
75% 
Page structure
45% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.18 s
File size
102.80 kB
Words
404
Media files
2
Number of links
69 internal / 20 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Leicester City Council
The length of the page title is perfect. (269 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Leicester City Council is the unitary authority serving the people, communities and businesses of Leicester, the biggest city in the East Midlands.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (888 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.leicester.gov.uk/
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
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

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titleLeicester City Council
last-updated2024-07-31
descriptionLeicester City Council is the unitary authority serving the people, communities and businesses of Leicester, the biggest city in the East Midlands.
keywordsleicester city council,Leicester
msapplication-TileColor#00aba9
theme-color#00646d
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twitter:descriptionLeicester City Council is the unitary authority serving the people, communities and businesses of Leicester, the biggest city in the East Midlands.
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:urlhttps://www.leicester.gov.uk/
twitter:titleLeicester City Council
twitter:image/images/lcc-masthead-large-trans-meta.png
og:descriptionLeicester City Council is the unitary authority serving the people, communities and businesses of Leicester, the biggest city in the East Midlands.
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://www.leicester.gov.uk/
og:titleLeicester City Council
og:image/images/lcc-masthead-large-trans-meta.png
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 404 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
29% 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.
4 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 15.2 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, shrink-to-fit=no" 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
/media/184809/sports-festival3.jpgYoung boy playing with basketballs by the clock tower
...h=1280&height=400&rnd=133579326816230000bookbus illustration

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Homepage
The H1 heading contains the words Homepage! Use important keywords instead.
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (8 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Homepage
H2 Most popular
H2 Your Council
H2 Find your councillor
H2 Latest
H3 Latest news
H3 Your Leicester
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
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.
2 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are 20 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://leicester.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to content
/your-council/how-we-work/our-...Subdomain cookie page
https://www.leicester.gov.uk/Subdomain No Text
https://my.leicester.gov.uk/External Subdomain My Account
https://leicester.gov.uk/atoz/A-Z
/atoz/?letter=ASubdomain A
/atoz/?letter=BSubdomain B
/atoz/?letter=CSubdomain C
/atoz/?letter=DSubdomain D
/atoz/?letter=ESubdomain E
/atoz/?letter=FSubdomain F
/atoz/?letter=GSubdomain G
/atoz/?letter=HSubdomain H
/atoz/?letter=ISubdomain I
/atoz/?letter=JSubdomain J
/atoz/?letter=KSubdomain K
/atoz/?letter=LSubdomain L
/atoz/?letter=MSubdomain M
/atoz/?letter=NSubdomain N
/atoz/?letter=OSubdomain O
/atoz/?letter=PSubdomain P
/atoz/?letter=QSubdomain Q
/atoz/?letter=RSubdomain R
/atoz/?letter=SSubdomain S
/atoz/?letter=TSubdomain T
/atoz/?letter=USubdomain U
/atoz/?letter=VSubdomain V
/atoz/?letter=WSubdomain W
/atoz/?letter=XSubdomain X
/atoz/?letter=YSubdomain Y
/atoz/?letter=ZSubdomain Z
/your-council/Subdomain Your council
/your-community/Subdomain Your community
/your-environment/Subdomain Your environment
/health-and-social-care/Subdomain Health and social care
/planning-and-building/Subdomain Planning and building
/business/Subdomain Business
/schools-and-learning/Subdomain Schools and learning
/transport-and-streets/Subdomain Transport and streets
/leisure-and-culture/Subdomain Leisure and culture
/contact-us/Subdomain Contact us
https://news.leicester.gov.uk/External Subdomain News
/your-community/benefits-and-o...Subdomain Cost of living support Apply for benefits or financial support, get debt and budgeting advice, manage your council benefits.
/your-community/housing/Subdomain Housing Apply for council housing, support for private tenants and landlords, help for homeowners.
/your-community/council-tax/Subdomain Council tax Pay your bill, find out about bands, discounts, exemptions and reductions.
/schools-and-learning/school-a...Subdomain Schools and colleges Find out about admissions, holidays and term dates, closures and performance.
/your-council/make-a-payment/Subdomain Pay something Pay council tax, parking tickets, bus lanes fines and other fixed penalty notices.
/your-council/our-jobs-and-car...Subdomain Jobs, apprenticeships and volunteering Find out about our latest vacancies, apprenticeship and volunteering opportunities.
/your-community/libraries-and-...Subdomain Libraries, community centres and youth centres Find your nearest facilities at your local library, community or youth centre.
/leisure-and-culture/sport-and...Subdomain Active Leicester Find sport and leisure activities, book them online, get a membership or find your nearest outdoor gym.
/leisure-and-culture/museums-a...Subdomain Museums and galleries Find a museum, visit our historic venues, browse our collections and get learning resources.
/your-environment/recycling-an...Subdomain Bins and recycling Order orange bags, arrange bulky waste collections, see collection dates and more.
/your-council/city-mayor-peter...Subdomain City Mayor - Peter Soulsby
/your-council/elections-and-vo...Subdomain Elections and voting
/your-council/councillors-and-...Subdomain Councillors and wards
/your-council/elections-and-vo...Subdomain Register to vote
/your-council/decisions-meetin...Subdomain Decisions, meetings and minutes
/your-council/consultations-an...Subdomain Consultations
/your-council/how-we-work/Subdomain How we work
/your-council/policies-plans-a...Subdomain Policies, plans and strategies
/your-council/about-us/Subdomain About us
/your-council/about-us/the-lor...Subdomain Civic Leicester
https://news.leicester.gov.uk/External Subdomain Latest news
https://news.leicester.gov.uk/...External Subdomain New study zones launched at Leicester libraries
https://news.leicester.gov.uk/...External Subdomain Road resurfacing to take place
https://news.leicester.gov.uk/...External Subdomain Still time to join free summer fun at Leicester Libraries
https://news.leicester.gov.uk/...External Subdomain Open days at allotments to inspire more people to get growing
https://news.leicester.gov.uk/...External Subdomain Resurfacing work ahead at busy Abbey Lane junction
https://news.leicester.gov.uk/...External Subdomain Adrian Mole ride celebrates work of Sue Townsend
https://news.leicester.gov.uk/...External Subdomain Celebrate National Playday at Town Hall Square
https://news.leicester.gov.uk/...External Subdomain Free pedal-powered fun at the Ride Leicester Festival
https://news.leicester.gov.uk/...External Subdomain Have your say on new air quality action plan for Leicester
https://news.leicester.gov.uk/...External Subdomain Local history project marks milestone with 350th heritage panel
/your-council/press-and-media/...Subdomain Subscribe to Your Leicester
https://leicester.gov.uk/Anchor Skip Home promotion banner
/your-community/libraries-and-...Subdomain See where we visit
https://www.facebook.com/leice...External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/Leicester_...External No Text
https://www.youtube.com/user/l...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/leic...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.visitleicester.info/External Subdomain No Text
/your-council/city-mayor-peter...Subdomain No Text
https://my.leicester.gov.uk/se...External Subdomain Found a problem with this page?
/contact-us/Subdomain Text duplicate Contact us
/your-council/how-we-work/our-...Subdomain Accessibility
/your-council/about-us/Subdomain Text duplicate About us
/your-council/how-we-work/our-...Subdomain Cookies
/your-council/how-we-work/our-...Subdomain Privacy / Disclaimer

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://leicester.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 0.18 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (103 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 22 Aug 2024 03:48:47 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
cache-controlprivate
varyUser-Agent,Accept-Encoding
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strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
permissions-policyaccelerometer=(), autoplay=(), battery=(), camera=(self), microphone=(self)
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
servercloudflare
cf-ray8b6fe3a67b339bb8-FRA
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 4,666 referring domains.
This page has 773,913 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,423 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /umbraco/
Sitemap: https://www.leicester.gov.uk/sitemap

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leicester.gov.uk
Home - Leicester City Council
Leicester City Council is the unitary authority serving the people, communities and businesses of Leicester, the biggest city in the East Midlands.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Leicester75%Check
Leicester City Council67%Check
council66%Check
Leicester City66%Check
City Council63%Check
City58%Check
Leicester libraries55%Check
Council tax52%Check
page50%Check
Homepage50%Check
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