Blood.co.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
84% 
Page structure
94% 
Link structure
77% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.28 s
File size
47.80 kB
Words
641
Media files
16
Number of links
66 internal / 32 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - NHS Blood Donation
The length of the page title is perfect. (257 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Register to be a blood donor, give blood and save lives. Find out more about blood donation.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (566 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.blood.co.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Canada
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
descriptionRegister to be a blood donor, give blood and save lives. Find out more about blood donation.
robotsFOLLOW, INDEX
apple-itunes-appapp-id=534496135
google-play-appapp-id=com.savant.mobile.nhs.nhsgiveblood
google-site-verificationZjQWZAs8b4Q2b4NMuOlVGKcEDpBxrUfqf5c3_PYAN6U
langen
twitter:siteEmpty
twitter:titleHome
twitter:descriptionRegister to be a blood donor, give blood and save lives. Find out more about blood donation.
twitter:imagehttps://nhsbtdbe.blob.core.windows.net/umbraco-assets-corp/30869/2324-0114-gt_041-blood-16x9-min.jpg
og:titleHome
og:typewebsite
og:url/
og:imagehttps://nhsbtdbe.blob.core.windows.net/umbraco-assets-corp/30869/2324-0114-gt_041-blood-16x9-min.jpg
og:descriptionRegister to be a blood donor, give blood and save lives. Find out more about blood donation.
og:site_nameNHS Blood Donation
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 641 words. That's ok.
36.5% 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.
6 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 13 words is good.
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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 13 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
13 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Give blood
The H1 heading is too short (10 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Give blood
H2 Blood stocks are critically low
H2 Your city centre venues need lifesavers
H2 Who can give blood?
H2 Explore donation
H2 We need more plasma donors
H2 Want to donate blood for the first time?
H2 We need more donors of Black heritage
H3 Getting an appointment to give blood
H3 Get the NHS Give Blood app
H3 Contact us
H4 Become a blood donor
H4 Become a plasma donor
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.
There are too many external links (32) on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
http://www.google.co.uk/New window External Subdomain Download
https://www.blood.co.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
http://www.nhsbt.nhs.uk/External Subdomain IMG-ALT NHSBT Corporate Logo
http://www.nhsbt.nhs.uk/who-we...External Subdomain Who we are
http://www.nhsbt.nhs.uk/what-w...External Subdomain What we do
http://www.nhsbt.nhs.uk/how-we...External Subdomain How we help
https://www.nhsbt.nhs.uk/how-y...External Subdomain How you can help
https://careers.nhsbt.nhs.uk/External Subdomain Careers
http://www.nhsbt.nhs.uk/news/External Subdomain News
https://www.blood.co.uk/IMG-ALT Give Blood logo
https://my.blood.co.uk/your-ac...External Subdomain No Text
https://my.blood.co.uk/your-ac...External Subdomain Your account
https://my.blood.co.uk/your-ac...External Subdomain Appointments
https://my.blood.co.uk/your-ac...External Subdomain About you
https://my.blood.co.uk/your-ac...External Subdomain Log in / Book an appointment
https://my.blood.co.uk/your-ac...External Subdomain Text duplicate Your account
https://my.blood.co.uk/your-ac...External Subdomain Text duplicate Appointments
https://my.blood.co.uk/your-ac...External Subdomain Text duplicate About you
https://my.blood.co.uk/your-ac...External Subdomain Text duplicate Log in / Book an appointment
https://my.blood.co.uk/your-ac...External Subdomain Sign up to donate
https://www.blood.co.uk/Home
https://www.blood.co.uk/plasma/Plasma
https://www.blood.co.uk/plasma/Text duplicate Plasma
/plasma/what-is-plasma/What is plasma?
/plasma/who-can-donate-plasma/Who can donate plasma
/plasma/who-can-donate-plasma/...Plasma donors and disability
/plasma/where-to-donate-plasma/Where to donate plasma
/plasma/how-to-donate-plasma/How to donate plasma
/plasma/why-we-need-plasma-don...Why we need plasma donors
/stem-cell-donor-registry/Stem cells
/stem-cell-donor-registry/Text duplicate Stem cells
/stem-cell-donor-registry/abou...About stem cells
/stem-cell-donor-registry/dona...Donating stem cells
/stem-cell-donor-registry/join...Joining the register
/stem-cell-donor-registry/join...Matching process
/why-give-blood/Why give blood
/why-give-blood/Text duplicate Why give blood
/why-give-blood/demand-for-dif...Demand for different blood types
/why-give-blood/blood-types/Blood types
/why-give-blood/how-blood-is-u...How blood is used
/why-give-blood/who-you-could-...Who you could help
/who-can-give-blood/Who can give blood
/who-can-give-blood/Text duplicate Who can give blood
/who-can-give-blood/can-i-give...Can I give blood?
/who-can-give-blood/getting-an...Getting an appointment
/who-can-give-blood/health-and...Health and Eligibility
/who-can-give-blood/travel-con...Travel considerations
/who-can-give-blood/occupation...Occupation considerations
/who-can-give-blood/men-who-ha...Men who have sex with men
/who-can-give-blood/donors-and...Donors and disability
/the-donation-process/The donation process
/the-donation-process/Text duplicate The donation process
/the-donation-process/giving-b...Giving blood for the first time
/the-donation-process/register...Registering online
/the-donation-process/preparin...Preparing to give blood
/the-donation-process/what-hap...What happens on the day
/the-donation-process/after-yo...After your donation
/the-donation-process/about-ou...About our donation venues
/the-donation-process/children...Children at donation venues
/the-donation-process/further-...Further information
/the-donation-process/recognis...Recognising donors
/where-to-donate/Where to donate
/news-and-campaigns/News and campaigns
/news-and-campaigns/Text duplicate News and campaigns
/news-and-campaigns/coronavirus/Coronavirus
/news-and-campaigns/news-and-s...News and statements
/news-and-campaigns/campaigns/Campaigns
/news-and-campaigns/the-donor/The Donor
/news-and-campaigns/campaigns/...Text duplicate How you can help
https://my.blood.co.uk/your-ac...External Subdomain Sign up to give blood
A-TITLE Blood sign up
https://my.blood.co.uk/your-ac...External Subdomain Sign up to donate plasma
A-TITLE Plasma sign up
/the-donation-process/about-ou...Your city centre venues need lifesavers We urgently need you to give blood. The NHS needs 3 blood donations every minute to handle emergencies, childbirth, a...
/who-can-give-blood/Who can give blood? As long as you are fit and healthy, you should be able to give blood. Check if you meet the requirements to donate. Discover if you're el...
https://www.blood.co.uk/plasma/We need more plasma donors Whether you’ve given blood before, or you’re new to donation, you could donate plasma to make lifesaving medicines. We need more p...
/the-donation-process/giving-b...Want to donate blood for the first time? We always need new donors. Let us take you through the steps to becoming a blood donor and the process of getting th...
/why-give-blood/demand-for-dif...We need more donors of Black heritage Sickle cell is more prevalent in people of Black heritage. Donors of African and African Caribbean backgrounds are 10 t...
/who-can-give-blood/getting-an...Getting an appointment to give blood Find out how our appointment system works and discover tips on finding an appointment.
/the-donation-process/the-nhsg...Get the NHS Give Blood app Once you've got an account, download our app to book and manage your appointments.
https://my.blood.co.uk/Home/Co...External Subdomain Contact us If you've got a question, get in touch. You can do this here online or by calling 0300 123 23 23.
https://www.blood.co.uk/Anchor Back to top
https://my.blood.co.uk/Home/Co...External Subdomain Contact us
A-TITLE Contact us
/accessibility/Accessibility statement
A-TITLE Accessibility statement
https://www.blood.co.uk/cookies/Cookies
A-TITLE Cookies
https://www.nhsbt.nhs.uk/privacy/New window External Subdomain Privacy
A-TITLE Privacy
/terms-and-conditions/Terms and conditions
A-TITLE Terms and conditions
/using-your-online-account/Using your online account
A-TITLE Using your online account
https://www.blood.co.uk/site-map/Site map
A-TITLE Site map
https://www.facebook.com/giveb...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE NHS Blood Donation Facebook page - this link will open in a new window
https://twitter.com/GiveBloodNHSNew window External A-TITLE NHS Blood Donation X account - this link will open in a new window
https://www.instagram.com/give...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE NHS Blood Donation Instagram account - this link will open in a new window
https://www.youtube.com/user/N...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE NHS Blood Donation YouTube channel - this link will open in a new window
https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/New window External Subdomain Organ Donation
http://platelets.blood.co.uk/New window External Subdomain Platelet Donation
/stem-cell-donor-registry/New window NHS Stem Cell Donor Registry
https://www.nhsbt.nhs.uk/what-...New window External Subdomain Tissue Donation
http://www.nhsbt.nhs.uk/cord-b...New window External Subdomain Cord blood bank
http://www.transfusionguidelin...New window External Subdomain Blood transfusion
https://www.blood.co.uk/Text duplicate IMG-ALT NHSBT Corporate Logo

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.blood.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)
The page response time is slow (1.28 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (48 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
dateTue, 06 May 2025 00:17:28 GMT
access-control-expose-headersRequest-Context
cache-controlno-cache
content-encodinggzip
expires-1
pragmano-cache
set-cookie122 Characters
varyAccept-Encoding
request-contextappId=cid-v1:7f012ca5-35d3-49a7-8b51-1ba94bd30a49
x-cdnImperva
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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 1,377 referring domains.
This page has 190,873 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 928 different ip addresses.

Search preview

www.blood.co.uk
Home - NHS Blood Donation
Register to be a blood donor, give blood and save lives. Find out more about blood donation.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
blood91%Check
give blood80%Check
Blood Donor73%Check
give70%Check
NHS Blood Donation66%Check
give blood section63%Check
donation62%Check
Donate Blood62%Check
Blood stocks62%Check
Blood Bank60%Check

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