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Meta information
61% 
Page quality
79% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
82% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.11 s
File size
83.40 kB
Words
551
Media files
13
Number of links
101 internal / 13 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Welcome to South Staffordshire Council - Homepage | South Staffordshire District Council
The title contains the word Welcome to! More content should be covered in the title.
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 806 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/
There is a valid canonical link 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

NameValue
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MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=2.0, user-scalable=yes
msapplication-configfavicons/browserconfig.xml
msapplication-TileColor#ffffff
theme-color#ffffff
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
This page contains 551 words. That's ok.
27.6% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
6 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 21.25 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
Multiple viewport tags are given. There should only be one.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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 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
/themes/custom/bbd_localgov/logo.svgSouth Staffordshire District Council
...30040983731.jpg?h=1bcfafaa&itok=9xCqSp5jHimley Hall
...ay-walk-012.jpg?h=c09f0a2f&itok=OknD5jiDSouth Staffordshire Railway Walk
...er-edge-010.jpg?h=37bd3153&itok=LNATqYT3Kinver Edge
...-common-023.jpg?h=c1f24dff&itok=WNwxE8piShoal Hill Common
data:[...] Base64Cllr Kath Perry MBE Resized
data:[...] Base64Scheduled work planned Perton Upper Lake boardwalk
data:[...] Base64Cllr Roger Lees and Chairman of the Board Ros Keeton with the Compton's Cafe logoCllr Roger Lees and Chairman of the Board Ros Keeton
data:[...] Base64South Staffordshire Council 50th Anniversary50th anniversary resized
...4797-9eab-b3f7986d8e10.jpg?itok=nCdRueTZDigital support workshop
.../files/2023-05/output-onlinepngtools.pngiese Certificate of Excellence Winner 2023
...ouncil_awards_gold_winner_2022_rgb_3.pngIESE Awards Gold Winner 2022 - UK Council of the Year
...files/2023-07/RTPI Award Logo - 2023.pngRTPI Planning Authority of the Year - West Midlands 2023

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Top Navigation
H2 Main navigation
H2 South Staffordshire Council elects new Leader: Cllr Kath Perry MBE
H2 Work to begin to upgrade Perton’s Upper Lake Boardwalk from Monday 9th September
H2 Local charity celebrates opening of cafe at Codsall Community Hub
H2 Nominate an individual, group or business for an award!
H2 Digital and welfare support session
H2 Was this page useful?
H2 A-Z of services
H2 Footer
H2 Was this page useful? Duplicate text
H2 Social media links
H3 Welcome to South Staffordshire Council
H3 Our council
H3 Council tax
H3 Bins and recycling
H3 Planning
H3 Housing
H3 Sports and fitness
H3 Welfare support
H3 Benefits
H3 Council news
H3 Events
H3 Stay connected
H4 Council services
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 13 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
https://southstaffs.portal.uk....External Subdomain Apply
/pay-it-1Pay
https://southstaffs.portal.uk....External Subdomain Report
https://southstaffs.portal.uk....External Subdomain Request
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/IMG-ALT South Staffordshire District Council
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/Anchor Accessibility
A-TITLE Open Accessibility
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/newsNews
https://southstaffs.portal.uk....External Subdomain My Login
/findajobNew window Subdomain Work for us
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/Council services
/baggeridge-country-parkBaggeridge Country Park
/benefitsBenefits
/bereavement-servicesBereavement services
/bins-and-recyclingBins and recycling
/south-staffordshire-business-hubBusiness Hub
/findajobSubdomain Text duplicate Work for us
/business-ratesBusiness rates
/communitiesCommunities
/council-taxCouncil tax
/environment-and-climateEnvironment and climate
/food-safetyFood safety
/housingHousing
/licensing-and-permitsLicensing and permits
/our-councilOur council
/planningPlanning
/sports-and-fitnessSports and fitness
/our-council/voting-and-electionsVoting and elections
/welfare-supportWelfare support
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/Anchor Text duplicate Accessibility
A-TITLE Open Accessibility
/baggeridge-country-park/visit...Text duplicate Baggeridge Country Park
/council-tax/council-tax-chargesCouncil tax charges 2024-25
/sports-and-fitnessLeisure Centres
/planning/The-Crooked-HouseThe Crooked House
/bins-and-recycling/view-my-co...Check your bin collection dates
/our-council/voting-and-electi...Register to vote
/planning/development-manageme...Planning applications: View and comment
https://southstaffs.portal.uk....External Subdomain Sign up to My Login to view your council tax bill
/council-servicesAll services
/our-council/council-meetings-...Council meetings and decision making
/our-council/councillors-and-mpsCouncillors and MPs
/our-council/voting-and-electionsText duplicate Voting and elections
/our-councilSee more
/council-tax/paying-your-counc...How to pay your council tax
https://services.sstaffs.gov.u...External Subdomain Tell us you're moving
https://southstaffs.portal.uk....External Subdomain Switch to online billing
/council-taxText duplicate See more
/bins-and-recycling/view-my-co...Bin collection dates
/bins-and-recycling/garden-was...Garden waste collection service
/bins-and-recycling/bins-and-bagsWhat can I put in my bin or bag?
/bins-recyclingText duplicate See more
/planning/development-manageme...Planning applications and appeals
/local-plansPlanning policy and local plan
/planning/planning-enforcement...Planning enforcement
/planningText duplicate See more
/housing/apply-housingApply for housing
/housing/housing-and-homelessn...Homelessness
/housing/housing-and-homelessn...Housing strategy
/housingText duplicate See more
/sports-and-fitnessLeisure centres
/sports-and-fitness/membership...Membership
/sports-and-fitness/south-staf...Swimming lessons
/sports-and-fitnessText duplicate See more
/welfare-support/help-cost-livingHelp with the cost of living
/welfare-support/warm-hubs-sou...Warm Hubs in South Staffordshire
/welfare-support/debts-bills-a...Support with debts and bills
/welfare-supportText duplicate See more
https://lwa.financialassessmen...External Subdomain Apply for services
/benefits/housing-benefit-and-...Housing benefit and council tax support
https://lwa.financialassessmen...External Subdomain Report a change of circumstances
/benefitsText duplicate See more
/news/2024/south-staffordshire...South Staffordshire Council elects new Leader: Cllr Kath Perry MBE At the full council meeting on Tuesday, 24th September, Cllr Kath Perry MBE was elected as...
IMG-ALT Cllr Kath Perry MBE Resized
/news/2024/work-begin-upgrade-...Work to begin to upgrade Perton’s Upper Lake Boardwalk from Monday 9th September Work to upgrade the boardwalk around Perton’s Upper Lake will commence from ...
IMG-ALT Scheduled work planned Perton Upper Lake boardwalk
/news/2024/local-charity-celeb...Local charity celebrates opening of cafe at Codsall Community Hub Compton Care, a specialist palliative and bereavement support provider, is thrilled to have...
IMG-ALT Cllr Roger Lees and Chairman of the Board Ros Keeton with the Compton's Cafe logo
/news/2024/nominate-individual...Nominate an individual, group or business for an award! Help us celebrate and recognise an individual, group or business who goes above and beyond for their ...
IMG-ALT South Staffordshire Council 50th Anniversary
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/newsAll news
/events/digital-and-welfare-su...Digital and welfare support session Are you a resident of Penkridge, Acton Trussell, Bednall & Teddesley Hay, Dunston with Coppenhall, Hatherton, or Huntingt...
IMG-ALT Digital support workshop
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/eventsAll events
/was-page-useful/node/106/2Yes
/was-page-useful/node/106/0No
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/a-z/AA
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/a-z/BB
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/a-z/CC
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/a-z/DD
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/a-z/EE
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/a-z/FF
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/a-z/GG
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/a-z/HH
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/a-z/LL
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/a-z/OO
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/a-z/PP
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/a-z/RR
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/a-z/SS
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/a-z/TT
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/a-z/UU
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/a-z/VV
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/a-z/WW
/our-council/about-councilAbout the council
/accessibility-statement-south...Accessibility statement
/contact-usContact us
/cookiesCookies
/communities/community-safety/...Modern slavery
/privacyPrivacy
/terms-conditionsTerms and conditions
/our-council/open-councilTransparency and open data
/sitemapSitemap
/was-page-useful/node/106/2Text duplicate Yes
/was-page-useful/node/106/0Text duplicate No
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/Anchor Accessibility and translation
A-TITLE Open Accessibility
https://www.sstaffs.gov.uk//
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain Youtube Channel
A-TITLE Follow us on YouTube
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain LinkedIn
A-TITLE Follow us on LinkedIn
https://www.x.com/south_staffsExternal Subdomain X
A-TITLE Follow us on Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/south...External Subdomain Facebook
A-TITLE Follow us on Facebook

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.sstaffs.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 0.11 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (83 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateSat, 28 Sep 2024 08:00:23 GMT
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varyAccept-Encoding,Cookie
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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 717 referring domains.
This page has 361,075 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 435 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

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# 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: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
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: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# 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
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Council58%Check
South58%Check
South Staffordshire57%Check
South Staffordshire Council57%Check
Staffordshire56%Check
Welcome50%Check
Council tax50%Check
South Staffordshire District Council48%Check
MBE46%Check
Perry MBE46%Check
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