Valuationtribunal.gov.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
78% 
Page quality
75% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
71% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.40 s
File size
62.80 kB
Words
451
Media files
2
Number of links
79 internal / 3 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Valuation Tribunal Service
The length of the page title is perfect. (304 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
We are a statutory and independent organisation that provides administrative services to the Valuation Tribunal for England (VTE). The VTE is a legal body. Together we are known as the Valuation Tribunal.
The meta description is too long: 1263 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://valuationtribunal.gov.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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 451 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
22.8% 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.
4 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 15.67 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" 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 9 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
...dist/img/vts-win-irrv-innovation-321.pngIRRV Performance Awards 2022 - Excellence in innovation (service delivery) - Winner
...-21/dist/img/vts-win-irrv-rating-321.pngIRRV Performance Awards 2022 - Excellence in rating and / or valuation - Highly Commended

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.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Council Tax appeals
H2 Business Rates appeals
H2 Current appeal timeframes
H3 Council tax appeals Council tax appeals
H3 Business rate appeals Business rate appeals
H3 Useful info Useful info
H3 About VTS About VTS
H3 Contact
H3 Search
H3 Empty heading
H3 If you do not know what kind of appeal you need to make, start here:
H3 If you know which appeal type is relevant to you:
H3 What you can appeal:
H3 For agents:
H3 If you know which appeal type is relevant to you: Duplicate text
H3 Council tax timeframes 9 months
H3 Business rate timeframes 9 months
H3 Council tax appeals Council tax appeals Duplicate text
H3 Business rate appeals Business rate appeals Duplicate text
H3 Useful info Useful info Duplicate text
H3 About VTS About VTS Duplicate text
H3 Publications & FOI Publications & FOI
H3 Contact Duplicate text
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 3 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://valuationtribunal.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
https://valuationtribunal.gov.uk/Valuation Tribunal Service homepage
https://appealsearch.valuation...New window External Subdomain Appeal & decisions search
/council-tax-appeals/Council tax appeals
/business-rate-appeals/Business rate appeals
/about-vts/About VTS
/contact-vts/Contact VTS
/council-tax-appeals/Overview of council tax appeals
/council-tax-appeals/council-t...Council tax banding
/council-tax-appeals/council-t...Council tax liability
/council-tax-appeals/council-t...Council tax reduction
/council-tax-appeals/completio...Completion notice
/council-tax-appeals/invalidit...Invalidity notice
/council-tax-appeals/penalty-n...Penalty notice
/business-rate-appeals/Overview of business rate appeals
/business-rate-appeals/ratings...Rateable value
/business-rate-appeals/complet...Text duplicate Completion notice
/business-rate-appeals/penalty...Text duplicate Penalty notice
/business-rate-appeals/transit...Transitional certificate
/about-vts/guidance-booklets/Appeal guidance booklets
/how-remote-hearings-work/How remote hearings work
/remote-hearing-faqs/Remote hearing FAQs
/general-faqs/General FAQs
/vte-guidance/VTE guidance
/about-vts/Text duplicate About VTS
/about-vts/what-we-do/What we do
/about-vts/vts-board-managemen...Our board, management and team
/about-vts/vts-vacancies/Vacancies
/about-vts/latest-news/Latest news
/contact-vts/Contact form
https://twitter.com/VTSgovukNew window External Twitter
/about-vts/independent
/council-tax-appeals/council tax
/business-rate-appeals/business rates.
/about-vts/Learn more about our role
/app/uploads/2024/04/Consolida...New window Current Consolidated Practice Statements
/app/uploads/2024/04/Explanato...New window Current Consolidated Practice Statements - Explanatory Note April 2024
/council-tax-appeals/See what you can appeal
/council-tax-appeals/council-t...Text duplicate Council tax banding
/council-tax-appeals/council-t...Text duplicate Council tax liability
/council-tax-appeals/council-t...Text duplicate Council tax reduction
/council-tax-appeals/completio...Text duplicate Completion notice
/council-tax-appeals/invalidit...Text duplicate Invalidity notice
/council-tax-appeals/penalty-n...Text duplicate Penalty notice
/business-rate-appeals/Text duplicate Business rate appeals
/business-rate-appeals/ratings...Text duplicate Rateable value
/business-rate-appeals/complet...Text duplicate Completion notice
/business-rate-appeals/penalty...Text duplicate Penalty notice
/business-rate-appeals/transit...Text duplicate Transitional certificate
/council-tax-appeals/Text duplicate Overview of council tax appeals
/council-tax-appeals/council-t...Text duplicate Council tax banding
/council-tax-appeals/council-t...Text duplicate Council tax liability
/council-tax-appeals/council-t...Text duplicate Council tax reduction
/council-tax-appeals/completio...Text duplicate Completion notice
/council-tax-appeals/invalidit...Text duplicate Invalidity notice
/council-tax-appeals/penalty-n...Text duplicate Penalty notice
/business-rate-appeals/Text duplicate Overview of business rate appeals
/business-rate-appeals/ratings...Text duplicate Rateable value
/business-rate-appeals/complet...Text duplicate Completion notice
/business-rate-appeals/penalty...Text duplicate Penalty notice
/business-rate-appeals/transit...Text duplicate Transitional certificate
/about-vts/guidance-booklets/Text duplicate Appeal guidance booklets
/how-remote-hearings-work/Text duplicate How remote hearings work
/remote-hearing-faqs/Text duplicate Remote hearing FAQs
/general-faqs/Text duplicate General FAQs
/vte-guidance/Text duplicate VTE guidance
/about-vts/Text duplicate About VTS
/about-vts/what-we-do/Text duplicate What we do
/about-vts/vts-board-managemen...Text duplicate Our board, management and team
/about-vts/vts-vacancies/Text duplicate Vacancies
/about-vts/latest-news/Text duplicate Latest news
/about-vts/corporate-publicati...Corporate publications
/about-vts/valuation-in-practice/Valuation in Practice
/about-vts/freedom-of-informat...Freedom of information requests
/subscribe-to-updates/Subscribe to email updates
/contact-vts/Text duplicate Contact form
https://twitter.com/VTSgovukNew window External Text duplicate Twitter
/accessibility/Accessibility
/privacy-notice/Privacy notice
/terms-of-use/Terms of use
/copyright/Copyright
/privacy-notice/Privacy Notice

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://valuationtribunal.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 0.40 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (63 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 634 referring domains.
This page has 4,266 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 387 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

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valuationtribunal.gov.uk
Home - Valuation Tribunal Service
We are a statutory and independent organisation that provides administrative services to the Valuation Tribunal for England (VTE). The VTE is a legal body. Together we are known as the Valuation Tribunal.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Valuation73%Check
Valuation Tribunal72%Check
Tribunal71%Check
Valuation Tribunal Service68%Check
Service59%Check
know54%Check
Business47%Check
rate47%Check
Business rate47%Check
VTE46%Check

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