Bathnes.gov.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
61% 
Page quality
54% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
45% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.18 s
File size
38.10 kB
Words
119
Media files
2
Number of links
31 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Welcome to Bath & North East Somerset Council | www.bathnes.gov.uk
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 639 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the 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.bathnes.gov.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Language defined in HTTP-Equiv meta tag: en-gb
Server location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
There are different language information within the page markup.
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

NameValue
geo.placenameBath and North East Somerset
geo.regionGB-BAS
icbm51.377962675155906, -2.3593826368719513
geo.position51.377962675155906, -2.3593826368719513
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
content-languageen-GB
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 119 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
No paragraphs were detected.
31.9% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
Additional markup
(Nice to have)
The HTML has georegion information: Bath and North East Somerset
The HTML has geoname information: GB-BAS
The HTML has geoposition information: 51.377962675155906, -2.3593826368719513
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
...mages/logos/banes-logo-withstrapline.pngBath & North East Somerset Council Logo
...8/images/logos/BATHNES_IPL_LOGO_MONO.pngBath & North East Somerset Council Mono Logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
How can we help you?
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 How can we help you?
H2 Header menu
H2 Services
H2 Follow us on social media
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 8 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.bathnes.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.bathnes.gov.uk/IMG-ALT Bath & North East Somerset Council Logo
https://www.bathnes.gov.uk/Home
/servicesServices
/service-disruptions-pageService updates
/pay-for-itPay for it
/report-itReport it
/whats-onWhat's on
/have-your-sayHave your say
https://app.bathnes.gov.uk/web...External Subdomain Find my nearest
/contact-usContact us
/parking-and-travelGetting around in B&NES
/paying-your-council-taxPay your Council Tax
https://app.bathnes.gov.uk/web...External Subdomain Check your bin collection days
https://app.bathnes.gov.uk/web...External Subdomain Search planning applications
/report-itText duplicate Report it
/have-your-sayText duplicate Have your say
/pay-for-itText duplicate Pay for it
/support-ukraineSupport Ukraine
/job-and-careersJob and careers
/council-tax-and-benefitsCouncil Tax and benefits
/planning-and-building-controlPlanning and building control
/library-and-information-servicesLibrary and information services
/schools-colleges-and-learningSchools, colleges and learning
/cost-living-crisisCost of living crisis
/liveable-neighbourhoodsLiveable Neighbourhoods
/rubbish-and-recyclingRubbish and recycling
/servicesView more services
https://newsroom.bathnes.gov.uk/External Subdomain For the latest news visit our newsroom
/accessibilityAccessibility
/contact-usContact Us
/privacy-policyPrivacy Policy
/disclaimerDisclaimer
/use-ai-technologiesUse of AI technologies
/cookiesCookies
https://www.facebook.com/bathnes/External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/bathnesExternal No Text
https://www.youtube.com/user/B...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/bath...External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.bathnes.gov.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 excellent with 0.18 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (38 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheHIT
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modifiedFri, 20 Jun 2025 20:11:24 GMT
etag"1750450284"
access-control-allow-originhttps://beta.bathnes.gov.uk
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
accept-rangesbytes
dateFri, 20 Jun 2025 22:59:18 GMT
age10074
x-served-bycache-lhr-egll1980090-LHR, cache-fra-etou8220130-FRA
x-cacheHIT, HIT
x-cache-hits3, 1
x-timerS1750460359.602629,VS0,VE1
varyCookie
cache-controlno-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0
content-length39020
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 214 referring domains.
This page has 1,523 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 183 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# 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.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /user/logout/
# 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/

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Bath61%Check
NES58%Check
Bath North East52%Check
Bath North East Somerset51%Check
help50%Check
North48%Check
East48%Check
Somerset48%Check
North East48%Check
North East Somerset Council48%Check

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