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Overview of the SEO Check

Meta information

73%

Page quality

73%

Page structure

66%

Link structure

73%

Server

80%

External factors

100%

SEO Score

SEO Score Widget

Response time

0.82 s

File size

40.80 kB

Words

998

Media files

Number of links

49 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements 6 Tasks

Remove duplicate or additional meta description tags!Very important!
Remove unnecessary words like welcome messages from your H1 heading.Very important!
Improve the text of the meta description.Important!
The H1 heading should suit better to the page content. (Words from the heading are rarely used in the text)Important!
Use good alternative descriptions (alt attributes) for your images.Important!
Improve the page response time.Tip!

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Meta specifications 73% achieved

Title

(Critically important)

UK Data Service

The page title is too short. (149 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title

There are no duplicate words in the title

Meta Title

Meta description

(Critically important)

A comprehensive resource funded by the ESRC to support researchers, teachers and policymakers who depend on high-quality social and economic data.

There are more than one meta descriptions on the page. Only one is allowed.

Meta Description

Crawlability

(Critically important)

There are no problems in accessing the website.

Search Engine Crawlers

Canonical URL

(Important)

https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/

There is a valid canonical link specified.

Canonical Tag

Language

(Somewhat important)

Language detected in text: en

Language defined in HTML: en-us

Server location: United States of America

The following language is defined by HTML: en-us

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
format-detection	telephone=no
HandheldFriendly	True
description	%
author	UK Data Service
apple-mobile-web-app-title	UK Data Service
application-name	UK Data Service
msapplication-TileColor	#942F9A
theme-color	#942F9A
robots	index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
generator	WordPress 6.8.1
msapplication-TileImage	https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/ukds-favicon.jpeg
article:modified_time	2025-05-15T12:47:05+00:00
lang	en-us
twitter:card	summary_large_image
twitter:url	https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/
twitter:title	UK Data Service
twitter:description	A comprehensive resource funded by the ESRC to support researchers, teachers and policymakers who depend on high-quality social and economic data.
twitter:image	https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/2020/09/splash.png
twitter:site	@ukdataservice
twitter:creator	@ukdataservice
fb:pages	343661395740977
og:type	website
og:url	https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/
og:title	Homepage - UK Data Service
og:image	https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/2020/09/splash.png
og:description	%
og:site_name	UK Data Service
og:author	UK Data Service
og:locale	en_US
content-type	text/html;charset=UTF-8
X-UA-Compatible	IE=edge,chrome=1
charset	UTF-8

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Page quality 73% achieved

Content

(Critically important)

Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.

This page contains 998 words. That's ok.

34.1% 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.

18 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 23.89 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" is provided.

At least one Apple touch icon is specified.

This page only loads 1 JavaScript files. That's good!

Mobile Optimization

Bold and strong tags

(Somewhat important)

The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 20 tags for this page.

Strong and Bold Tags

Image SEO

(Somewhat important)

13 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
.../ukds/dist/images/ukds-logo-col-grey.png	UK Data Service Logo
...-archief-rp_fWFrecTg-unsplash-scaled.jpg	No alt attribute provided
/app/uploads/april-newsletter.jpg	No alt attribute provided
/app/uploads/notebooks-569121_1280.jpg	No alt attribute provided
/app/uploads/man-597178_1280.jpg	No alt attribute provided
...mpact_ben-wicks-iDCtsz-INHI-unsplash.jpg	No alt attribute provided
/app/uploads/against-light-7572922_1280.jpg	No alt attribute provided
...s/kaitlyn-baker-vZJdYl5JVXY-unsplash.jpg	A laptop being used.
/app/uploads/DSC_4738-scaled.jpg	No alt attribute provided
...terstock_751835410_dandilions-scaled.jpg	No alt attribute provided
...tterstock_2284848389_citylake-scaled.jpg	No alt attribute provided
/app/uploads/deposit.jpeg	No alt attribute provided
...on-tyson-BELycSEckCc-unsplash-scaled.jpg	No alt attribute provided
...on-tyson-BELycSEckCc-unsplash-scaled.jpg	No alt attribute provided
/app/uploads/april-newsletter-1024x576.jpg	No alt attribute provided
/app/uploads/podcastimage_homepage.jpg	silver microphone and headphones
/app/themes/ukds/dist/images/ukri-logo.png	UKRI Logo

Page structure 66% achieved

H1 heading

(Critically important)

Welcome to the UK Data Service

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

H1-H6 headings

Headings

(Important)

There are 27 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

H1-H6 headings

Heading structure

Heading level	Content
H1	Welcome to the UK Data Service
H2	Highlights
H2	Upcoming training and events
H2	Our impact
H2	Seamless access to key data: explore by themes, types, and teaching datasets
H2	Watch our data skills training webinars
H2	Ignite discovery: elevate your research with data deposits
H2	Latest news
H2	Who makes us special?
H3	This site uses cookies
H3	Necessary cookies
H3	Cookies that measure website use
H3	Harnessing the power of VCSE data - with your insights
H3	Our April 2025 UK Data Service newsletter is live
H3	UK Data Service introductory training series: Spring 2025
H3	Making a Secure Data application
H3	SecureLab drop-in sessions
H3	Computational social science drop-in
H3	No progress: breaking the cycle of long-term insecure work
H3	How are children’s social, emotional and behavioural outcomes impacted by poverty?
H3	The Good Childhood Report 2023
H3	Subscribe to our YouTube channel
H3	Introduction to anonymisation techniques for social sciences research data
H3	Data in the spotlight: Census and population studies
H3	Latest data collections and new editions 16 May 2025
H3	Latest data collections and new editions 2 May 2025
H3	April 2025 UK Data Service newsletter

Link structure 73% achieved

Internal links

(Important)

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.

Internal Linking

External links

(Nice to have)

There are 11 external links on this page.

External Links

Found links on this page

Link	Attributes	Anchor text
/cookie-policy/		Cookie notice
https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/	Anchor	Skip to content
https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/		IMG-ALT UK Data Service Logo
https://beta.ukdataservice.ac....	External Subdomain	Login
/find-data/		Find data A-TITLE Find data
/deposit-data/		Deposit data A-TITLE Deposit data
/learning-hub/		Learning Hub A-TITLE Learning Hub
/training-events/		Training and events A-TITLE Training and events
/about/		About A-TITLE About
https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/news/		News A-TITLE News
/impact/		Impact A-TITLE Impact
https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/help/		Help A-TITLE Help
/contact/		Contact A-TITLE Contact
/search		Site search
https://beta.ukdataservice.ac....	External Subdomain Text duplicate	Login
/find-data/	Text duplicate	Find data A-TITLE Find data
/deposit-data/	Text duplicate	Deposit data A-TITLE Deposit data
/learning-hub/	Text duplicate	Learning Hub A-TITLE Learning Hub
/training-events/	Text duplicate	Training and events A-TITLE Training and events
/about/	Text duplicate	About A-TITLE About
https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/news/	Text duplicate	News A-TITLE News
/impact/	Text duplicate	Impact A-TITLE Impact
https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/help/	Text duplicate	Help A-TITLE Help
/contact/	Text duplicate	Contact A-TITLE Contact
https://beta.ukdataservice.ac....	External Subdomain Text duplicate	Login
/2025/04/23/vcsedata/		Harnessing the power of VCSE data - with your insights Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) organisations that work across the UK collect a wealt...
/2025/04/30/april-2025-uk-data...		Our April 2025 UK Data Service newsletter is live In this issue we are delighted to announce our re-accreditation by the UK Statistics Authority, for the pro...
/2025/02/10/uk-data-service-in...		UK Data Service introductory training series: Spring 2025 To help you get the most from our resources, we run a free introductory training series every sprin...
/events/secure-data-applicatio...		Making a Secure Data application
/training-events/	New window Text duplicate	Training and events
/events/securelab-drop-in-sess...		SecureLab drop-in sessions
/training-events/	New window Text duplicate	Training and events
/events/computational-social-s...		Computational social science drop-in
/training-events/	New window Text duplicate	Training and events
https://blog.ukdataservice.ac....	External Subdomain	No progress: breaking the cycle of long-term insecure work In this Data Impact blog post, Rebecca Florisson, from the Work Foundation, discusses the issue of...
/case-study/impacts-of-poverty...		How are children’s social, emotional and behavioural outcomes impacted by poverty? This case study looks at the importance of social factors in mitigating di...
/case-study/the-good-childhood...		The Good Childhood Report 2023 The Children’s Society’s Good Childhood Reports provide an annual overview of the current state of children’s subjective well-...
/find-data/browse/		Find data by theme
https://youtube.com/ukdataservice	External	Subscribe to our YouTube channel Watch and learn all the latest data skills from our free webinars, training and video tutorials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...	External Subdomain	Introduction to anonymisation techniques for social sciences research data This session is designed to equip researchers with the essential knowledge and ski...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...	External Subdomain	Data in the spotlight: Census and population studies We introduce you to the UK Census, the data held by the UK Data Service, and how to use the web interfac...
/deposit-data/	Text duplicate	Deposit data
/2025/05/16/latest-data-collec...		Latest data collections and new editions 16 May 2025 An update of our latest data releases. The following new datasets have been released: SN 9372 Mental Hea...
/2025/05/02/latest-data-collec...		Latest data collections and new editions 2 May 2025 An update of our latest data releases. The following new datasets have been released: SN 9370 Dietary Int...
/2025/04/30/april-2025-uk-data...		April 2025 UK Data Service newsletter Read the full stories in our April 2025 Newsletter. In this issue of the UK Data Service Newsletter, we are delighted t...
https://open.spotify.com/show/...	External Subdomain	Listen now
/accessibility/		Accessibility A-TITLE Accessibility
/cookie-policy/		Cookies A-TITLE Cookies
/privacy-policy/		Privacy A-TITLE Privacy
/sitemap/		Sitemap A-TITLE Sitemap
/terms-and-conditions/		Terms and conditions A-TITLE Terms and conditions
/about/	Text duplicate	About A-TITLE About
/contact/	Text duplicate	Contact A-TITLE Contact
https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/help/	Text duplicate	Help A-TITLE Help
/impact/	Text duplicate	Impact A-TITLE Impact
https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/news/	Text duplicate	News A-TITLE News
https://bsky.app/profile/ukdat...	External	Bluesky
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...	External Subdomain	LinkedIn
https://www.youtube.com/user/U...	External Subdomain	YouTube
/website-feedback/		Website feedback

Server configuration 80% achieved

HTTP redirects

(Critically important)

This page redirects to "https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/"

WWW Redirect

HTTP header

(Important)

No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.

The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.

HTTP headers

Performance

(Somewhat important)

The page response time of 0.82 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.

This page only loads 2 CSS files. That's ok.

This page only loads 1 JavaScript files. That's good!

The file size of the HTML document is fine (41 kB).

Page Speed

HTTP Response Header

Name	Value
server	nginx
date	Sun, 18 May 2025 07:09:31 GMT
content-type	text/html; charset=UTF-8
transfer-encoding	chunked
connection	keep-alive
set-cookie	86 Characters
link	<https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
content-encoding	gzip
statuscode	200
http_version	HTTP/1.1

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 402 referring domains.

This page has 4,527 backlinks.

This page has backlinks from 347 different ip addresses.

Backlinks

Links from Wikipedia

Entrevista abierta

You can find more links using Wikipedia search

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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ukdataservice.ac.uk

UK Data Service

A comprehensive resource funded by the ESRC to support researchers, teachers and policymakers who depend on high-quality social and economic data.

Most important keywords

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

Keyword	Result	Recheck
Data	85%	Check
Service	81%	Check
UK Data Service	81%	Check
2025 UK Data Service	72%	Check
UK Data Service newsletter	72%	Check
research data	68%	Check
April 2025 UK Data	63%	Check
latest data	62%	Check
Find data	59%	Check
data catalogue	59%	Check
data skills	59%	Check
Latest data collections	55%	Check
social	54%	Check
Search	54%	Check
research	54%	Check
social research	54%	Check
UK Statistics Authority	51%	Check
Site Search	48%	Check
economic	46%	Check
support	46%	Check
Social Enterprise	46%	Check
newsletter	44%	Check
Impact	44%	Check
April	44%	Check
cookies	43%	Check

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Ukdataservice.ac.uk - SEO Checker

Task list of SEO Improvements 6 Tasks

Meta specifications 73% achieved

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Page quality 73% achieved

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Page structure 66% achieved

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Heading structure

Link structure 73% achieved

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Found links on this page

Server configuration 80% achieved

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HTTP Response Header

External factors 100% achieved

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