Bcpcouncil.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
90% 
Page quality
89% 
Page structure
54% 
Link structure
82% 
Server
88% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.65 s
File size
146.60 kB
Words
565
Media files
1
Number of links
66 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Welcome to BCP Council | BCP
The title contains the word Welcome to! More content should be covered in the title.
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
The best place to find information, support and services as a Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole resident, business, partner or visitor.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (838 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.bcpcouncil.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 Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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

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twitter:site@bcpcouncil
twitter:titleWelcome to BCP Council
twitter:descriptionThe best place to find information, support and services as a Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole resident, business, partner or visitor.
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og:titleWelcome to BCP Council
og:descriptionThe best place to find information, support and services as a Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole resident, business, partner or visitor.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 565 words. That's ok.
27.8% 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.
7 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 23.83 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 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)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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
...ine.svg?bdacb4aee6bc66077541088e5ee2d87eBCP Council Logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to BCP Council
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 31 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to BCP Council
H2 Trial for increased parking fines and penalty charge notices (PCN)
H2 Popular searches
H2 Topics
H2 Topics Duplicate text
H2 Quick Links
H3 Search
H3 About the council
H3 Adult social care and health
H3 Beaches and seafront
H3 Benefits support and advice
H3 Bins, waste and recycling
H3 Births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships
H3 Business
H3 Campaigns and programmes
H3 Children, young people and families
H3 Communities
H3 Contact us
H3 Council Tax
H3 Elections and voting
H3 Environment
H3 Housing
H3 Jobs and training
H3 Leisure, culture and local heritage
H3 Libraries
H3 Parking
H3 Parks, nature and green spaces
H3 Planning and building control
H3 Roads and travel
H3 Schools and learning
H3 Have you encountered a problem with this page?
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 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/Skip to main content
/parking/trial-for-increased-p...trialling higher parking fines and penalty charge notices (PCN)
A-TITLE Trial for increased parking fines and penalty charge notices (PCN)
/parking/trial-for-increased-p...New window View more
https://www.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/BCP Council
/my-account/my-bcp-council-acc...Account
/bins-waste-and-recycling/chec...Check your bin day
/parking/find-a-car-parkFind a car park
/parking/trial-for-increased-p...Trial for increased parking fines and penalty charge notices (PCN)
/about-the-councilAbout the council
/adult-social-care-and-healthAdult social care and health
/beaches-and-seafrontBeaches and seafront
/benefits-support-and-adviceBenefits support and advice
/bins-waste-and-recyclingBins, waste and recycling
/births-deaths-marriages-and-c...Births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships
/businessBusiness
/campaigns-and-programmesCampaigns and programmes
/children-young-people-and-fam...Children, young people and families
/communitiesCommunities
/contact-usContact us
/council-taxCouncil Tax
/elections-and-votingElections and voting
/environmentEnvironment
/housingHousing
/jobs-and-trainingJobs and training
/leisure-culture-and-local-her...Leisure, culture and local heritage
/librariesLibraries
/parkingParking
/parks-nature-and-green-spacesParks, nature and green spaces
/planning-and-building-controlPlanning and building control
/roads-and-travelRoads and travel
/schools-and-learningSchools and learning
/about-the-councilText duplicate About the council
/adult-social-care-and-healthText duplicate Adult social care and health
/beaches-and-seafrontText duplicate Beaches and seafront
/benefits-support-and-adviceText duplicate Benefits support and advice
/bins-waste-and-recyclingText duplicate Bins, waste and recycling
/births-deaths-marriages-and-c...Text duplicate Births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships
/businessText duplicate Business
/campaigns-and-programmesText duplicate Campaigns and programmes
/children-young-people-and-fam...Text duplicate Children, young people and families
/communitiesText duplicate Communities
/contact-usText duplicate Contact us
/council-taxText duplicate Council Tax
/elections-and-votingText duplicate Elections and voting
/environmentText duplicate Environment
/housingText duplicate Housing
/jobs-and-trainingText duplicate Jobs and training
/leisure-culture-and-local-her...Text duplicate Leisure, culture and local heritage
/librariesText duplicate Libraries
/parkingText duplicate Parking
/parks-nature-and-green-spacesText duplicate Parks, nature and green spaces
/planning-and-building-controlText duplicate Planning and building control
/roads-and-travelText duplicate Roads and travel
/schools-and-learningText duplicate Schools and learning
/applyApply
https://www.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/payPay
/reportReport
/news-hub/news-articlesNews articles
/news-sign-upNews sign up
/advertise-with-usAdvertise with us
/my-account/my-bcp-council-acc...My BCP Council account
/accessibilityAccessibility
/privacyPrivacy
/cookiesCookies
/disclaimerDisclaimer
https://www.facebook.com/mybcp...External Subdomain A-TITLE BCP council on Facebook
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain A-TITLE BCP council on Linkedin
https://twitter.com/bcpcouncilExternal A-TITLE BCP council on Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/mybc...External Subdomain A-TITLE BCP council on Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain A-TITLE BCP council on YouTube
https://www.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/IMG-ALT BCP Council Logo

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.bcpcouncil.gov.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)
The page response time of 0.65 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (147 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,591 referring domains.
This page has 146,378 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 748 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *

Disallow: /assets/
Disallow: /documents/
Disallow: /documents-old/
Disallow: /image-library/
Disallow: /virtual-hub/
Disallow: /test-area/
Disallow: /z-archive/
Disallow: /forms/
Disallow: /*.pdf$ #Do not allow URLs ending in PDF extension
Disallow: /*.doc$ #Do not allow URLs ending in doc extension
Disallow: /*.docx$ #Do not allow URLs ending in docx extension
Disallow: /*.otd$ #Do not allow URLs ending in otd extension
Disallow: /*.xls$ #Do not allow URLs ending in xls extension
Disallow: /*.csv$ #Do not allow URLs ending in csv extension
Disallow: /*.xml$ #Do not allow URLs ending in xml extension
Disallow: /*.html$ #Do not allow any URLs ending in .html
Disallow: /*.php$ #Do not allow any URLs ending in .php
Sitemap: https://www.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/sitemap.xml #Pointing to absolute URL for all robots

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Welcome to BCP Council | BCP
The best place to find information, support and services as a Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole resident, business, partner or visitor.

Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
Council81%Check
BCP Council81%Check
BCP77%Check
Welcome62%Check
Council Tax61%Check
partner or54%Check
services as52%Check
support50%Check
business50%Check
partner50%Check
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