Studentfinancewales.co.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
78% 
Page quality
63% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
81% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.18 s
File size
40.70 kB
Words
494
Media files
7
Number of links
28 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | Student Finance Wales
The length of the page title is perfect. (277 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.studentfinancewales.co.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 name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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
google-site-verificationTJMKmhg07VkI3mzG-P1KGr2Iu1t3RUA8spC8O2ZHWAk
viewportwidth=device-width, height=device-height, initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0
descriptionEmpty
keywordsX
authorStudent Finance Wales
langen-gb
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:siteStudent Finance Wales
twitter:creatorStudent Finance Wales
og:typewebsite
og:titleHome | Student Finance Wales
og:imagehttps://www.studentfinancewales.co.uk/assets/images/sfw-logo_black.png
og:urlhttps://www.studentfinancewales.co.uk/
og:descriptionEmpty
og:site_nameStudent Finance Wales
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 494 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
36.6% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
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 21.22 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, height=device-height, initial-scale=1.0,minimum-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 10 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
/media/0lmng5tm/sfw-logo_white-1.pngStudent Finance Wales Logo
...th=570&height=316&rnd=133870437009800000No alt attribute provided
...th=570&height=316&rnd=133832330469270000No alt attribute provided
...th=570&height=316&rnd=133832330488500000No alt attribute provided
/media/0lmng5tm/sfw-logo_white-1.pngStudent Finance Wales Logo
/media/yolhqqpr/wales_government_funded.svgArennir gan Lywodraeth Cymru
Video URLWidthHeight
...ed/tN3MvQ1kZa0?enablejsapi=1&disablekb=1480270

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Student Finance Wales
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Student Finance Wales
H2 What's happening now
H2 Latest news
H2 Latest on YouTube
H2 There's extra help for students with a disability
H2 Was this page helpful?
H2 Help us improve
H3 Full-time undergraduate applications are open!
H3 ‘How to’ guide
H3 When and how to submit evidence
H3 Apply now for full-time student finance!
H3 Applications for full-time undergraduate student finance for 2025 to 2026 will open by late March.
H3 2024 to 2025: You can now apply for EMA and WGLG FE online!
H3 Discover Student Finance
H3 DSA for undergraduate courses
H3 DSA for postgraduate courses
H3 Need to speak with someone?
There are 1 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 12 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to main content
/IMG-ALT Student Finance Wales Logo
https://logon.slc.co.uk/cas/lo...New window External Subdomain Sign in
/further-education-funding/Further Education funding
/undergraduate-finance/Undergraduate finance
/postgraduate-finance/Postgraduate finance
/loan-repayment/Loan Repayment
/news/News
/contact/Contact
https://logon.slc.co.uk/cas/lo...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Sign in
https://secured.studentfinance...External Subdomain Create an account
/discover-student-finance/Full-time undergraduate applications are open!
/how-to-guide/‘How to’ guide
/evidence-guidance/When and how to submit evidence
/news/2025-to-2026-apply-now-f...Apply now for full-time student finance!
/news/get-ready-to-apply-for-f...Applications for full-time undergraduate student finance for 2025 to 2026 will open by late March.
/news/2024-to-2025-you-can-now...2024 to 2025: You can now apply for EMA and WGLG FE online!
/news/Trivial anchor text
Read more
/undergraduate-finance/full-ti...DSA for full-time study
/undergraduate-finance/part-ti...DSA for part-time study
/postgraduate-finance/master-s...DSA for Master's courses
/postgraduate-finance/doctoral...DSA for Doctoral courses
https://policies.google.com/pr...New window External Subdomain Privacy Policy
A-TITLE Google Privacy Policy
https://policies.google.com/termsNew window External Subdomain Terms of Service
A-TITLE Google Terms
https://www.facebook.com/SFWalesNew window External Subdomain A-TITLE Like us on Facebook
https://x.com/SF_WalesNew window External A-TITLE Follow us on X
https://www.youtube.com/user/S...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Subscribe on YouTube
/contact/Contact us
A-TITLE Contact
https://www.facebook.com/SFWalesNew window External Subdomain Text duplicate A-TITLE Like us on Facebook
https://x.com/SF_WalesNew window External Text duplicate A-TITLE Follow us on X
https://www.youtube.com/user/S...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate A-TITLE Subscribe on YouTube
/sitemap/Sitemap
/accessibility/Accessibility
/search/Search
/practitioners/Practitioners
/terms-of-use/Terms of use
/complaints-and-appeals/Complaints and appeals
/terms-and-conditions/Terms and conditions
/e-privacy/E-Privacy
https://gov.wales/student-fina...External Welsh Language Compliance

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.studentfinancewales.co.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.18 seconds.
This page only loads 2 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (41 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
set-cookie74 Characters
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000;includeSubDomains
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
feature-policysync-xhr 'self'
server
dateThu, 10 Apr 2025 18:48:23 GMT
content-length12048
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 1,172 referring domains.
This page has 10,976 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 765 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /aspnet_client/
Disallow: /bin/
Disallow: /config/
Disallow: /umbraco/
Disallow: /views/
Sitemap: https://www.studentfinancewales.co.uk/sitemap-xml/

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Home | Student Finance Wales

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Student Finance Wales80%Check
finance79%Check
Student79%Check
Student Finance79%Check
Wales77%Check
undergraduate student finance67%Check
undergraduate student finance 202561%Check
student finance 2025 202661%Check
full-time undergraduate student54%Check
Apply44%Check
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