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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
67% 
Page quality
80% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
42% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.35 s
File size
39.50 kB
Words
536
Media files
3
Number of links
74 internal / 23 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
marine.gov.scot
The page title is too short. (142 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 meta description is missing.
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

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GeneratorDrupal 7 (http://drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 8.86 words is low.
This page contains 536 words. That's ok.
21.6% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
6 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
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)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 21 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 11 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
/sites/default/files/MSI_logo2.pngHome
...ult/files/SG_Dual_linear_RGB_SE_grey.pngHome
https://marine.gov.scot/misc/feed.pngSubscribe to marine.gov.scot RSS

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.
There are 40 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Search form
H2 Welcome to marine.gov.scot
H2 Recent Content
H2 News and Blogs
H3 NMPi - maps.marine.gov.scot - Layer updates - 5 April 2024
H4 Administrative
H4 Basemaps
H4 Clean and Safe
H4 Climate Change
H4 Healthy and Biologically Diverse
H4 Monitoring
H4 National Marine Plan
H4 Physical Characteristics
H4 Productive
H4 Projects
H4 Regions
H4 ESRI Layer Package
H4 External Interactive Maps or Portals
H4 Google Earth KMZ/KML
H4 Map Layers (NMPi)
H4 Web Map Services (Third party)
H4 Code
H4 Data Portals
H4 Datasets
H4 Documents
H4 Galleries or Images
H4 MS-00010688
H4 Reports
H4 Scotland's Marine Atlas
H4 Video
H4 Web link
H4 Marine Scotland Data
H4 Marine Scotland Maps
H4 Scotland's Environment
H4 Scotland's Aquaculture
H4 Scotland's Noise
H4 Scotland's Soils
H4 NBN Atlas Scotland
H4 Air Quality in Scotland
H4 Marine Scotland Assessment
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 23 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://marine.gov.scot/Anchor Jump to navigation
https://marine.gov.scot/IMG-ALT Home
A-TITLE Home
https://marine.gov.scot/Anchor Welcome
https://marine.gov.scot/Anchor Information
https://marine.gov.scot/Anchor Maps
https://marine.gov.scot/Anchor Data
https://marine.gov.scot/Anchor Quicklinks
/www.gov.scot/marine-and-fishe...Scottish Government's
https://www.gov.scot/marine-an...New window External Subdomain Marine Directorate
https://marine.gov.scot/searchsearch
http://maps.marine.gov.scot/New window External Subdomain maps.marine.gov.scot
http://data.marine.gov.scot/New window External Subdomain data.marine.gov.scot
https://marine.gov.scot/sma/New window Subdomain Scotland's Marine Assessment 2020
https://www.environment.gov.scot/New window External Subdomain part of the Scotland’s Environment platform
/themes/administrativeAdministrative
/themes/basemapsBasemaps
/themes/clean-and-safeClean and Safe
/themes/climate-changeClimate Change
/themes/healthy-and-biological...Healthy and Biologically Diverse
/themes/monitoringMonitoring
/themes/national-marine-planNational Marine Plan
/themes/physical-characteristicsPhysical Characteristics
/themes/productiveProductive
/themes/projectsProjects
/themes/regionsRegions
/maps/esri-layer-packageESRI Layer Package
/maps/embedded-web-mapsExternal Interactive Maps or Portals
/maps/google-earth-kmzkmlGoogle Earth KMZ/KML
https://marine.gov.scot/maps/nmpiMap Layers (NMPi)
/maps/map-servicesWeb Map Services (Third party)
https://marine.gov.scot/data/codeCode
/data-source-types/data-portalsData Portals
/data/datasetsDatasets
/data/documentsDocuments
/data/galleries-or-imagesGalleries or Images
/data/ms-00010688MS-00010688
/data-source/reportsReports
/data-source-types/scotlands-m...Scotland's Marine Atlas
/data/videoVideo
/data-source/web-linkWeb link
http://data.marine.gov.scot/New window External Subdomain Marine Scotland Data
http://maps.marine.gov.scot/New window External Subdomain Marine Scotland Maps
http://environment.gov.scot/New window External Subdomain Scotland's Environment
http://aquaculture.scotland.go...New window External Subdomain Scotland's Aquaculture
https://noise.environment.gov....New window External Subdomain Scotland's Noise
http://soils.environment.gov.s...New window External Subdomain Scotland's Soils
https://scotland.nbnatlas.org/New window External Subdomain NBN Atlas Scotland
http://www.scottishairquality....New window External Subdomain Air Quality in Scotland
https://marine.gov.scot/sma/New window Subdomain Marine Scotland Assessment
https://marine.gov.scot/Text duplicate Home
/content/partnersPartners
/contributorsOriginators
A-TITLE Organisations that have contributed maps and data.
https://marine.gov.scot/searchSearch
https://marine.gov.scot/Marine Licence Details
/marine-licence-applicationsApplications
/marine-projectsMarine Projects
/mslot-all-application-and-pro...All Documentation
/ml-advisory-groupsAdvisory Groups
https://marine.gov.scot/cfwg-viewCommercial Fisheries Working Groups
/content/transfer-and-delegati...Subdomain Transfer and Delegation
/content/transfer-and-delegati...Subdomain Application Hub
/content/transfer-and-delegati...Subdomain Enquiries
/content/transfer-and-delegati...Subdomain Expression of Interest
/content/transfer-and-delegati...Subdomain Business Case Stage
/content/transfer-and-delegati...Subdomain General Guidance
/content/transfer-and-delegati...Subdomain Privacy Notice
https://marine.gov.scot/Text duplicate Quicklinks
http://maps.marine.gov.scot/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Marine Scotland Maps
http://data.marine.gov.scot/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Marine Scotland Data
http://environment.gov.scot/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Scotland's Environment
http://aquaculture.scotland.go...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Scotland's Aquaculture
https://scotland.nbnatlas.org/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate NBN Atlas Scotland
https://noise.environment.gov....New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Scotland's Noise
http://soils.environment.gov.s...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Scotland's Soils
http://www.scottishairquality....New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Air Quality in Scotland
/information/aquaculture-marin...Aquaculture Marine Planning Zones
/information/fisheries-managem...Fisheries Management and Mitigation Strategy (“FMMS”) Consultation
/node/24311Communication of Knowledge Strength in Sea Lice Dispersal Modelling - Technical Working Group
/information/carbon-capture-an...Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage - Leases
/information/marine-protected-...Marine Protected Area (MPA) network
/information/names-fishing-gro...Names of fishing grounds and features in Scottish sea (label stack)
/information/power-cablesPower Cables
/information/aerial-survey-lat...Aerial survey - latest available digital aerial photography
/information/base-and-backgrou...Base and background layers
/information/broad-scale-predi...Broad-Scale Predictive Habitat Map - EUSeaMap2 - EUNIS
https://marine.gov.scot/Anchor Marine Scotland Blog
https://marine.gov.scot/Anchor Scotland's Environment Blog
https://blogs.gov.scot/marine-...External Subdomain Marine Directorate appoints Chief Scientific Adviser 
/aggregator/sources/1Trivial anchor text
More
A-TITLE View this feed's recent news.
/node/24642NMPi - maps.marine.gov.scot - Layer updates - 5 April 2024
https://marine.gov.scot/rss.xmlIMG-ALT Subscribe to marine.gov.scot RSS
A-TITLE Subscribe to marine.gov.scot RSS
/content/aboutAbout
/content/contact-marine-direct...Contact
https://marine.gov.scot/copyrightCopyright
https://marine.gov.scot/privacyPrivacy and Content Disclaimer
http://gov.scot/New window External No Text
http://www.environment.gov.scot/New window External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://marine.gov.scot/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 21 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.35 seconds.
This page does not require any CSS files.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (40 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 17 Oct 2024 15:34:31 GMT
serverApache/2.4.41 (Win64) OpenSSL/1.1.1c PHP/7.4.27
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-powered-byPHP/7.4.27
x-drupal-cacheHIT
etag"1729174183-1"
content-languageen
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge
x-generatorDrupal 7 (http://drupal.org)
cache-controlpublic, max-age=86400
last-modifiedThu, 17 Oct 2024 14:09:43 GMT
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
varyCookie,Accept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
transfer-encodingchunked
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 720 referring domains.
This page has 8,707 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 459 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /misc/*.css$
Allow: /misc/*.css?
Allow: /misc/*.js$
Allow: /misc/*.js?
Allow: /misc/*.gif
Allow: /misc/*.jpg
Allow: /misc/*.jpeg
Allow: /misc/*.png
Allow: /modules/*.css$
Allow: /modules/*.css?
Allow: /modules/*.js$
Allow: /modules/*.js?
Allow: /modules/*.gif
Allow: /modules/*.jpg
Allow: /modules/*.jpeg
Allow: /modules/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /themes/*.css$
Allow: /themes/*.css?
Allow: /themes/*.js$
Allow: /themes/*.js?
Allow: /themes/*.gif
Allow: /themes/*.jpg
Allow: /themes/*.jpeg
Allow: /themes/*.png
# Directories
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips/
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /user/logout/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/

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Marine Scotland58%Check
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