Signature.org.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
45% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
76% 
Server
0% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.85 s
File size
81.20 kB
Words
651
Media files
4
Number of links
64 internal / 19 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
British Sign Language (BSL) awarding body: Signature
The length of the page title is perfect. (489 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Signature is the leading awarding body and provider of British Sign Language (BSL) and other Deaf and Deafblind qualifications in the UK.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (851 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.signature.org.uk/
There is a valid canonical link 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 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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viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
google-site-verificationwE8RoCDzWCJDyTfKb2AIvOJ7g0hdRdNwBuEMWpUwNNU
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
descriptionSignature is the leading awarding body and provider of British Sign Language (BSL) and other Deaf and Deafblind qualifications in the UK.
generatorMasterSlider 3.7.8 - Responsive Touch Image Slider
msapplication-TileImagehttps://www.signature.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Signature-round-logo-in-navy-300x300.png
article:publisherhttps://www.facebook.com/SignatureDeaf
article:modified_time2024-05-21T12:35:08+00:00
langen-gb
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:imagehttps://www.signature.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Signature-British-Sign-Language-lesson-scaled.jpg
twitter:site@SignatureDeaf
og:localeen_GB
og:typewebsite
og:titleBritish Sign Language
og:descriptionSignature is the leading awarding body and provider of British Sign Language (BSL) and other Deaf and Deafblind qualifications in the UK.
og:urlhttps://www.signature.org.uk/
og:site_nameSignature
og:imagehttps://www.signature.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Signature-British-Sign-Language-lesson-scaled.jpg
og:image:width2560
og:image:height1707
og:image:typeimage/jpeg
x-ua-compatibleie=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
The average number of words per sentence of 33.17 words is high.
This page contains 651 words. That's ok.
32.1% 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.
10 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)
This page loads 19 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, 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 13 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 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
data:[...] Base64a smiling woman fingerspells the letter "I" to her friend. The background shows a brick wall and a whiteboard.
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Find an approved Signature centre
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Find an approved Signature centre
H1 We are the leading awarding body for British Sign Language (BSL)
H2 British Sign Language (BSL)
H2 Who is Signature?
H3 Latest News and Blog
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
8 links don't have an 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 19 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.signature.org.uk/No Text
https://www.facebook.com/Signa...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/signaturedeafNew window External No Text
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/sign...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain No Text
/contact-usSubdomain Contact us
https://login.signature.org.uk/External Subdomain My Signature
https://checkout.signature.org...External Subdomain Pay Invoice
https://signature.creatiogreen...New window External Subdomain IRIS
/donateSubdomain Donate
https://www.bsl-teacher-direct...External Subdomain Teacher Directory
https://centre-finder.signatur...External Subdomain Find your local centre
/british-sign-language-qualifi...Subdomain British Sign Language
/irish-sign-language/Subdomain Irish Sign Language
/deafblind-communication/Subdomain Deafblind Communication
/deaf-and-deafblind-awareness/Subdomain Deaf and Deafblind Awareness
/lipspeaking/Subdomain Lipspeaking
/communication-support/Subdomain Communication support
/qualification-specifications/Subdomain Qualification specifications
/gcse-in-bsl/Subdomain GCSE in British Sign Language (BSL)
/study-with-signature/Subdomain Study with Signature
/british-sign-language-for-beg...Subdomain British Sign Language for beginners
/online-deaf-awareness-course/Subdomain Deaf Awareness Course Online
/ucas/Subdomain UCAS
/careers-in-deaf-communication/Subdomain Careers in deaf communication
/learning-support/Subdomain Learning Support
/student-funding/Subdomain Student Funding
/student-support/Subdomain Support and FAQs
/inspire-magazine/Subdomain Inspire Magazine
/delivering-a-signature-course/Subdomain Delivering a Signature Course
/useful-documents/Subdomain Useful Documents
/provider-support/Subdomain Text duplicate Support and FAQs
/loyalty-programme/Subdomain Signature Loyalty Programme
/becoming-a-teacher/Subdomain Becoming a teacher
/teacher-training/Subdomain Teacher training
/continuing-professional-devel...Subdomain Continuing professional development (CPD)
/teacher-resources/Subdomain Teacher resources
/teacher-support/Subdomain Text duplicate Support and FAQs
https://teachers.signature.org...External Subdomain Text duplicate Teacher Directory
/signature-who-we-are/Subdomain Who we are
/working-with-us/Subdomain Working with us
/what-is-british-sign-language...Subdomain What is BSL?
/board-of-trustees/Subdomain Board of Trustees
/funded-projects/Subdomain Funded projects
/change-making/Subdomain Change making
/give-us-a-sign-podcast/Subdomain Give us a Sign podcast
http://signatureannualawards.o...New window External Signature Annual Awards
/sign-language-week/Subdomain Sign Language Week
/deaf-awareness-week/Subdomain Deaf Awareness Week
/hall-of-fame/Subdomain Hall of Fame
/covid-19/Subdomain Covid-19
/news/Subdomain Blog/News
https://shop.signature.org.uk/...External Subdomain Shop
/qualification-specifications/Subdomain No Text
/qualification-specifications/Subdomain Qualification Specifications
/delivering-a-signature-course/Subdomain No Text
/delivering-a-signature-course/Subdomain Text duplicate Delivering a Signature Course
/study-with-signature/Subdomain No Text
/british-sign-language-for-beg...Subdomain BSL for Beginner Online Course
/becoming-a-teacher/Subdomain No Text
/becoming-a-teacher/Subdomain Become a Signature teacher
/signature-who-we-are/Subdomain No Text
/signature-who-we-are/Subdomain About Signature
https://shop.signature.org.uk/External Subdomain No Text
https://shop.signature.org.uk/External Subdomain Signature Shop
https://bda.org.uk/wp-content/...New window External Source: BDA, 2014
https://bills.parliament.uk/bi...External Subdomain URL anchor text
https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/2915
https://rnid.org.uk/about-us/r...New window External Source: RNID 2018
https://rnid.org.uk/about-us/r...New window External British Deaf Association
/what-is-bsl/Subdomain Text duplicate What is BSL?
/british-sign-language-qualifi...Subdomain Text duplicate British Sign Language
/signature-who-we-are/Subdomain Click here to read more about Signature
/ceara-toal-deaf-sportswoman-i...Subdomain No Text
/ceara-toal-deaf-sportswoman-i...Subdomain Ceara Toal: Deaf sportswoman inspiring others
/ceara-toal-deaf-sportswoman-i...Subdomain Read more...
/paul-whittaker-inspiring-word...Subdomain No Text
/paul-whittaker-inspiring-word...Subdomain Paul Whittaker: Inspiring words from a Deaf Musician
/paul-whittaker-inspiring-word...Subdomain Text duplicate Read more...
/nissan-staff-learn-bsl-to-com...Subdomain No Text
/nissan-staff-learn-bsl-to-com...Subdomain Nissan staff learn BSL to communicate with deaf colleagues:
/nissan-staff-learn-bsl-to-com...Subdomain Text duplicate Read more...
/legal-noticesLegal, Confidentiality and Company Information

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.signature.org.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (1.85 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
This page loads 25 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 19 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (81 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateFri, 20 Sep 2024 04:25:09 GMT
serverApache
link<https://www.signature.org.uk/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/", <https://www.signature.org.uk/wp-json/wp/v2/pages/6>; rel="alternate"; title="JSON"; type="application/json", <https://www.signature.org.uk/>; rel=shortlink
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
permissions-policyinterest-cohort=()
content-security-policyimg-src https: data: https:;
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-xss-protection1;mode=block
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
referrer-policysame-origin
transfer-encodingchunked
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 298 referring domains.
This page has 168,317 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 267 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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User-agent: *
Disallow:

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British Sign Language (BSL) awarding body: Signature
Signature is the leading awarding body and provider of British Sign Language (BSL) and other Deaf and Deafblind qualifications in the UK.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Signature90%Check
Sign88%Check
Sign Language77%Check
British Sign77%Check
British Sign Language74%Check
Language66%Check
British66%Check
BSL66%Check
Body Language64%Check
awarding62%Check
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