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Overview of the SEO Check

Meta information

100%

Page quality

82%

Page structure

20%

Link structure

71%

Server

100%

External factors

100%

SEO Score

SEO Score Widget

Response time

0.19 s

File size

97.40 kB

Words

520

Media files

Number of links

75 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements 5 Tasks

Remove unnecessary words like welcome messages from your H1 heading.Very important!
Only use 1 H1 Heading in your text.Very important!
The page title should be better suited to the content of the page.Important!
Use good alternative descriptions (alt attributes) for your images.Important!
Review and improve the heading structure.Tip!

Meta specifications 100% achieved

Title

(Critically important)

Port Of Dover | Official Website Of The Dover Harbour Board

The length of the page title is perfect. (545 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)

There are no duplicate words in the title

Meta Title

Meta description

(Critically important)

The UK’s busiest international ferry port – a vital connection for the movement of people and the exchange of trade.

The length of the meta description is perfect. (709 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)

Meta Description

Crawlability

(Critically important)

There are no problems in accessing the website.

Search Engine Crawlers

Canonical URL

(Important)

https://www.portofdover.com/

There is a valid canonical link specified.

Canonical Tag

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

Declaring language in HTML

Alternate/Hreflang Links

(Somewhat important)

There are no alternate links specified on this page.

Hreflang

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.

Meta Tags

Domain

(Somewhat important)

The domain is no subdomain.

The domain length is good.

The domain does not contain non-latin characters.

Domain for SEO

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.

SEO-friendly URLs

Charset encoding

(Somewhat important)

The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.

Character Encoding

Doctype

(Nice to have)

The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.

The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.

HTML Doctype

Favicon

(Nice to have)

The favicon is linked correctly.

Favicon

Meta tags

Name	Value
viewport	width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no, user-scalable=no
description	The UK’s busiest international ferry port – a vital connection for the movement of people and the exchange of trade.
robots	follow, index, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1, max-image-preview:large
msapplication-TileImage	https://www.portofdover.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/cropped-favicon-270x270.png
lang	en-gb
twitter:card	summary_large_image
twitter:title	Port Of Dover \| Official Website Of The Dover Harbour Board
twitter:description	The UK’s busiest international ferry port – a vital connection for the movement of people and the exchange of trade.
twitter:label1	Written by
twitter:data1	Nicolas Copeland
twitter:label2	Time to read
twitter:data2	1 minute
og:locale	en_GB
og:type	website
og:title	Port Of Dover \| Official Website Of The Dover Harbour Board
og:description	The UK’s busiest international ferry port – a vital connection for the movement of people and the exchange of trade.
og:url	https://www.portofdover.com/
og:site_name	Port of Dover
og:updated_time	2025-01-21T15:19:40+00:00
X-UA-Compatible	IE=Edge
charset	utf-8

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Page quality 82% achieved

Content

(Critically important)

Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content

This page contains 520 words. That's ok.

30.6% of the text are stop words.

The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.

8 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 20.33 words is good.

Content is King

Frames

(Critically important)

This page does not use a frameset.

Frames and framesets

Mobile optimization

(Somewhat important)

A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no, user-scalable=no" is provided.

At least one Apple touch icon is specified.

Mobile Optimization

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.

Strong and Bold Tags

Image SEO

(Somewhat important)

6 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.

Image SEO

There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.

Social Sharing

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.

HTTPS

Media list

URL	Alt attribute	Title
.../uploads/2023/04/pod-logo-positive-1.svg	Port of Dover
...ontent/uploads/2023/04/icon-search-2.svg	Icon Search
...2023/05/Home-ferry-image-1-1000x1060.png	Home ferry image 1	Hub - home 1
...s/2023/05/Home-ferry-image-1-700x690.png	Home ferry image 1	Hub - home 2
.../Copy-of-Untitled-Design-7-1000x1060.png	Copy of Untitled Design 7	Hub - home 3
...09/Copy-of-Untitled-Design-7-700x690.png	Copy of Untitled Design 7	Hub - home 4
...3/05/Home-sustainability-1-1000x1060.png	Home sustainability 1	Hub - home 5
...023/05/Home-sustainability-1-700x690.png	Home sustainability 1	Hub - home 6
.../2023/10/Untitled-design-1-1000x1060.png	Untitled design 1	Hub - home 7
...ds/2023/10/Untitled-design-1-700x690.png	Untitled design 1	Hub - home 8
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...ntent/uploads/2023/05/ferry_animated.svg	ferry animated	Hub - home 13
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...nt/uploads/2023/04/cruise_animated-1.svg	cruise animated 1	Hub - home 18
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...ntent/uploads/2023/04/cargo_animated.svg	cargo animated	Hub - home 22
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...tent/uploads/2023/04/marina_animated.svg	marina animated	Hub - home 27
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...nt/uploads/2023/04/Property_animated.svg	Property animated	Hub - home 31
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...s/2023/04/Working-with-us_animated-5.svg	Working with us animated 5	Hub - home 35
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
.../uploads/2023/04/Operations_animated.svg	Operations animated	Hub - home 40
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...s/2023/04/purple-icons-arrow-right-1.svg	purple icons arrow right 1	Hub - home 9
...t/uploads/2023/04/Corporate_animated.svg	Corporate animated	Hub - home 45
...tent/uploads/2023/04/logo-negative-1.svg	Port of Dover
/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Group-1036.svg	No alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/corporate-2.svg	No alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/icon-ferry.svg	Ferry
/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Group-957.svg	Cruise
/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Group-1045.svg	Cargo
...tent/uploads/2023/04/icon-marina-pod.svg	Marina
/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Group-1048.svg	Commercial
/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Group-1044.svg	Property
/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Group-1047.svg	Operations
/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/X-1.svg	No alt attribute provided
...ontent/uploads/2023/04/buttoninsta-1.svg	No alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/buttonfb-1.svg	No alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/button-1.svg	No alt attribute provided
...content/uploads/2023/04/icon-youtube.svg	YouTube

Page structure 20% achieved

H1 heading

(Critically important)

Welcome to

The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.

Too many H1 headings

The H1 heading is too short (10 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.

H1-H6 headings

Headings

(Important)

The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

H1-H6 headings

Heading structure

Heading level	Content
H1	Welcome to
H1	Port of Dover
H1	Introduction to Entry/Exit System (EES)
H1	Sustainability
H1	Port of Dover 2050
H3	Making the journey through the UK’s busiest international ferry port
H3	The premier port for international cruise lines in the Southeast
H3	Creating a UK/European hub for cargo and logistics
H3	Dover Marina the place to be
H3	Prime commercial and residential properties
H3	Discover business opportunities at the Port of Dover
H3	Navigational, operational and safety guidance for Port of Dover
H3	Leading the UK port industry on decarbonisation and sustainability
H4	Search the site

Link structure 71% achieved

Internal links

(Important)

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.

The number of internal links is ok.

None of the anchor texts is too long.

Internal Linking

External links

(Nice to have)

There are 9 external links on this page.

External Links

Found links on this page

Link	Attributes	Anchor text
https://www.portofdover.com/	Subdomain	IMG-ALT Port of Dover
https://www.portofdover.com/	Subdomain	No Text
/corporate/suppliers/	Subdomain	Suppliers
/corporate/csr/sustainability/	Subdomain	Sustainability
https://iagxme.fa.ocs.oraclecl...	External Subdomain	Join Us
/corporate/	Subdomain	Corporate
/corporate/media/?category=news	Subdomain	Media Centre
/ferry/	Subdomain	Ferry
/cruise/	Subdomain	Cruise
/cargo/	Subdomain	Cargo
/marina/	Subdomain	Marina
/commercial/	Subdomain	Work With Us
/property/	Subdomain	Property
/port-information/	Subdomain	Port Information
/ferry/	Subdomain Text duplicate	Ferry
/cruise/	Subdomain Text duplicate	Cruise
/cargo/	Subdomain Text duplicate	Cargo
/marina/	Subdomain Text duplicate	Marina
/commercial/	Subdomain Text duplicate	Work With Us
/property/	Subdomain Text duplicate	Property
/port-information/	Subdomain Text duplicate	Port Information
/corporate/suppliers/	Subdomain Text duplicate	Suppliers
/corporate/csr/sustainability/	Subdomain Text duplicate	Sustainability
https://iagxme.fa.ocs.oraclecl...	External Subdomain Text duplicate	Join Us
/corporate/	Subdomain Text duplicate	Corporate
/corporate/media/?category=news	Subdomain Text duplicate	Media Centre
/ferry/tickets/	Subdomain	Book a Ferry
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/eu...	New window External	Learn More
/corporate/csr/sustainability/	Subdomain	Find out more
/corporate/about/corporate-205...	Subdomain Text duplicate	Find out more
/ferry/arrival/how-to-get-here/	Subdomain	How to get here IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/ferry/travel-advice/	Subdomain	Latest travel advice IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/ferry/tickets/	Subdomain	Find a ferry IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/marina/explore/	New window Subdomain	Explore Dover IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/ferry/	Subdomain	Visit Ferry
/cruise-2/schedule-tickets/	Subdomain	Find a cruise IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/cruise-2/transport-links/	Subdomain	Excellent transport links IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/cruise/facilities/	Subdomain	Terminal facilities IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/marina/explore/	New window Subdomain Text duplicate	Explore Dover IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/cruise/	Subdomain	Visit Cruise
/cargo/about/	Subdomain	About Cargo IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/cargo/about/cargo-types/	Subdomain	Cargo types IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/cargo/about/development/	Subdomain	Dover Cargo Development IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/cargo/	Subdomain	Visit Cargo
/marina/about/marina-curve/	Subdomain	Experience Dover Marina IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/marina/berths-services/	Subdomain	Types of Berth IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/marina/using-the-marina/port-...	Subdomain	Using the Marina IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/marina/explore/?discover-type...	Subdomain	Upcoming Events IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/marina/	Subdomain	Visit Dover Marina
/property/commercial/	Subdomain	Commercial Property IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/property/contact/	Subdomain	Contact Property IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/property/residential/	Subdomain	Residential Property IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/property/	Subdomain	Visit Property
/commercial/opportunities/	Subdomain	Opportunities IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/commercial/advertising/	Subdomain	Advertising at Port of Dover IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/commercial/conferences-exhibi...	Subdomain	Conferences & exhibitions IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/commercial/	Subdomain	Visit Working with Us
/operations/using-the-port/acc...	Subdomain	Using the Port IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/marina/about/	Subdomain Text duplicate	Experience Dover Marina IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/operations/using-the-port/not...	Subdomain	Notices to Mariners IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/port-information/using-the-po...	Subdomain	Access Requirements IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/port-information/	Subdomain	Visit Marine & Port Information
https://iagxme.fa.ocs.oraclecl...	New window External Subdomain	Careers IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/corporate/csr/sustainability/	Subdomain	Sustainability at Port of Dover IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/corporate/about/overview/	Subdomain	About Port of Dover IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/corporate/about/history-herit...	Subdomain	History & Heritage IMG-ALT purple icons arrow right 1
/corporate/	Subdomain	Learn more about Port of Dover
https://www.portofdover.com/	Subdomain	Home
/corporate/	Subdomain Text duplicate	Corporate
/ferry/	Subdomain Text duplicate	Ferry IMG-ALT Ferry
/cruise/	Subdomain Text duplicate	Cruise IMG-ALT Cruise
/cargo/	Subdomain Text duplicate	Cargo IMG-ALT Cargo
/marina/	Subdomain Text duplicate	Marina IMG-ALT Marina
/commercial/	Subdomain Text duplicate	Work With Us IMG-ALT Commercial
/property/	Subdomain Text duplicate	Property IMG-ALT Property
/port-information/	Subdomain Text duplicate	Port Information IMG-ALT Operations
/corporate/contact/	Subdomain	Contact Us
/home/hub/privacy-policy/	Subdomain	Privacy Policy
/home/hub/cookies-policy/	Subdomain	Cookies policy
https://twitter.com/Port_of_Dover	External	No Text
https://www.instagram.com/port...	External Subdomain	No Text
https://www.facebook.com/Dover...	External Subdomain	No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...	External Subdomain	No Text
https://www.youtube.com/user/P...	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT YouTube

Server configuration 100% achieved

HTTP redirects

(Critically important)

This page redirects to "https://www.portofdover.com/"

WWW Redirect

HTTP header

(Important)

No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.

This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.

HTTP headers

Performance

(Somewhat important)

The page response time is excellent with 0.19 seconds.

The file size of the HTML document is fine (97 kB).

Page Speed

HTTP Response Header

Name	Value
server	nginx
date	Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:47:06 GMT
content-type	text/html; charset=UTF-8
vary	Accept-Encoding
strict-transport-security	max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
x-cache-enabled	True
x-content-type-options	nosniff
x-xss-protection	1; mode=block
link	<https://www.portofdover.com/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
x-httpd-modphp	1
access-control-allow-origin	https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com, https://www.google.com, https://consent.cookiebot.com, https://www.gstatic.com, https://code.jquery.com
access-control-allow-methods	GET, POST, OPTIONS
access-control-allow-headers	Authorization, Content-Type, X-Requested-With
access-control-allow-credentials	true
x-frame-options	SAMEORIGIN
referrer-policy	same-origin
feature-policy	geolocation 'self'
host-header	8441280b0c35cbc1147f8ba998a563a7
x-proxy-cache	HIT
content-encoding	gzip
statuscode	200
http_version	HTTP/2

External factors 100% achieved

Backlinks

(Critically important)

This page is referenced by wikipedia.

This website has excellent links from other websites.

This page has backlinks from 193 referring domains.

This page has 1,412 backlinks.

This page has backlinks from 148 different ip addresses.

Backlinks

Links from Wikipedia

Port of Dover

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: https://www.portofdover.com/sitemap_index.xml

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www.portofdover.com

Port Of Dover | Official Website Of The Dover Harbour Board

The UK’s busiest international ferry port – a vital connection for the movement of people and the exchange of trade.

Most important keywords

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

Keyword	Result	Recheck
Port	77%	Check
Dover	67%	Check
international ferry port	60%	Check
busiest international ferry port	57%	Check
Dover Harbour	55%	Check
Ferry	54%	Check
international	54%	Check
Port Information	54%	Check
Dover Marina	53%	Check
Dover Harbour Board	51%	Check
Dover 2050	51%	Check
busiest	50%	Check
site	50%	Check
Welcome	50%	Check
Marine Port Information	47%	Check
Sustainability	46%	Check
connection	46%	Check
vital	46%	Check
movement	46%	Check
people	46%	Check
exchange	46%	Check
trade	46%	Check
vital connection	46%	Check
Marina	42%	Check
Cargo	42%	Check

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Portofdover.com - SEO Checker

Task list of SEO Improvements 5 Tasks

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Page quality 82% achieved

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Page structure 20% achieved

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Link structure 71% achieved

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Server configuration 100% achieved

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HTTP Response Header

External factors 100% achieved

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