Buckinghamshire.gov.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
58% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
90% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.60 s
File size
72.50 kB
Words
480
Media files
2
Number of links
84 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Buckinghamshire Council | Aylesbury, Chiltern, South Bucks, Wycombe
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 635 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The single unitary council that replaced Buckinghamshire County Council and Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Bucks and Wycombe District Councils in April 2020.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (995 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-gb
Server location: Netherlands
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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twitter:titleHome
twitter:descriptionEmpty
twitter:imagehttps://www.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/static/images/bc-logo-high-res.6b22d14dad18.png
fb:app_idBucksCouncil
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og:urlhttps://www.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/
og:titleHome
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og:descriptionEmpty
og:site_nameBuckinghamshire Council
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 480 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
26% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 15 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 10 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
.../images/safespaces-logo.ebf5afa3a431.pngSafe Spaces logo
/static/images/OGL_logo.50f6b3b726b7.svgOpen Government Licence logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to Buckinghamshire
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Headings
(Important)
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 Buckinghamshire
H2 Table of contents
H2 Move Together Bucks
H2 News
H2 Events
H2 Is this page useful?
H2 Help us improve Buckinghamshire Council
H2 Sign up for our e-newsletter
H3 Help with the cost of living (Helping Hand)
H3 Waste and recycling
H3 Planning and Building Control
H3 Schools and learning
H3 Council Tax
H3 Libraries
H3 Parking, roads and transport
H3 Housing and benefits
H3 Community and safety
H3 Environmental health, climate change and ecology
H3 Culture and tourism
H3 Births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships
H3 Care for children and families
H3 Care for adults
H3 Health, wellbeing and sports
H3 Council and elections
H3 Business
H3 Weekly roadworks update
H3 Future of Farnham Park Playing Fields and the South Buckinghamshire Golf Course secured with new leaseholder
H3 Help shape a safer Buckinghamshire – community safety survey now open
H3 Fostering pop-up events: August 2025 (in person)
H3 Commemorating VE | VJ Day 80 in Buckinghamshire
H3 Fostering information evening: August 2025 (online)
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 11 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to main content
/No Text
/news/change-in-service-provid...Subdomain More information about these changes
/cost-of-living/Help with the cost of living (Helping Hand)
/cost-of-living/help-with-heat...Help with heating, bills and home essentials
/cost-of-living/help-with-buyi...Help buying or accessing food
/cost-of-living/contact-helpin...Request support from Helping Hand
/waste-and-recycling/Waste and recycling
/waste-and-recycling/find-out-...Check your bin collection day
/waste-and-recycling/report-a-...Report a missed bin collection
/waste-and-recycling/garden-wa...Garden waste
/planning-and-building-control/Planning and Building Control
/planning-and-building-control...Planning applications, permission and advice
/planning-and-building-control...Building regulations and control
/planning-and-building-control...Planning policy and guidance
/schools-and-learning/Schools and learning
/schools-and-learning/schools-...Schools
/schools-and-learning/early-ye...Early years and childcare
/schools-and-learning/local-of...Local offer for SEND
/council-tax/Council Tax
/council-tax/council-tax-payme...Paying your Council Tax
/council-tax/new-residents-mov...Council Tax: new residents, moving address or change of occupants
/council-tax/manage-your-counc...View or manage your Council Tax account online
/libraries/Libraries
/libraries/information-about-l...Find a library
/libraries/renew-library-loan/Renew a library loan
/libraries/search-library-item/Search for a library item
/parking-roads-and-transport/Parking, roads and transport
/parking-roads-and-transport/c...Check for roadworks and closures
/parking-roads-and-transport/p...Parking
/parking-roads-and-transport/t...Taxis and private hire
/housing-and-benefits/Housing and benefits
/housing-and-benefits/housing/Housing
/housing-and-benefits/benefits/Benefits
/housing-and-benefits/the-debt...The Debt Respite Scheme
/community-and-safety/Community and safety
/community-and-safety/partners...Partnerships and Communities
/community-and-safety/support-...Support for refugees
/community-and-safety/safety-a...Safety and crime in your community
/environment/Environmental health, climate change and ecology
/environment/environmental-hea...Environmental health and nuisance
/environment/countryside-and-p...Countryside and public rights of way
/environment/flooding-and-floo...Flooding and flood risk management
/culture-and-tourism/Culture and tourism
/culture-and-tourism/archives/Buckinghamshire Archives
/culture-and-tourism/culture-d...Culture development
/culture-and-tourism/buckingha...Buckinghamshire Film Office
/births-deaths-marriages-and-c...Births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships
/births-deaths-marriages-and-c...Register a birth
/births-deaths-marriages-and-c...Deaths and inquests
/births-deaths-marriages-and-c...Marriages, civil partnerships and ceremonies
/care-children-and-families/Care for children and families
/care-children-and-families/ad...Adoption
/care-children-and-families/fo...Fostering
/care-children-and-families/ch...Report a concern about a child
/care-adults/Care for adults
/care-adults/support-and-care-...Support and care for adults, their families and carers
/care-adults/adult-social-care...Request an assessment from adult social care
/care-adults/adult-social-care...Adult social care factsheets
/health-wellbeing-and-sports/Health, wellbeing and sports
/health-wellbeing-and-sports/p...Parks and open spaces
/health-wellbeing-and-sports/d...Dementia toolkit
/health-wellbeing-and-sports/s...Simply Walk
/your-council/Council and elections
/your-council/contact-us/Contact the council
/your-council/elections-and-vo...Elections and voting
/your-council/spending-contrac...Spending, contracts and transparency
/business/Business
/business/business-licences-an...Business licences and permits
/business/business-rates/Business rates
/business/pay-an-invoice/Pay an invoice
https://www.activeinthecommuni...External Subdomain Ready to move together?
/news/weekly-roadworks-updates/Weekly roadworks update
/news/future-of-farnham-park-p...Future of Farnham Park Playing Fields and the South Buckinghamshire Golf Course secured with new leaseholder
/news/help-shape-a-safer-bucki...Help shape a safer Buckinghamshire – community safety survey now open
/news/More News
https://fostering.buckinghamsh...External Subdomain Fostering pop-up events: August 2025 (in person)
/events/commemorating-vj-day/Commemorating VE | VJ Day 80 in Buckinghamshire
https://fostering.buckinghamsh...External Subdomain Fostering information evening: August 2025 (online)
/events/More Events
https://enews.buckinghamshire....New window External Subdomain Subscribe
/about/About
/your-council/privacy/Privacy
/about/accessibility/Accessibility statement
/about/cookies/Cookies
/your-council/contact-us/Contact us
/community-and-safety/safety-a...Modern slavery statement
https://jobs.buckinghamshire.g...External Subdomain Jobs
/your-council/press-and-media/...Newsletter
https://www.facebook.com/Bucks...New window Nofollow External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/BucksCouncilNew window Nofollow External No Text
https://www.youtube.com/buckin...New window Nofollow External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/buck...New window Nofollow External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window Nofollow External Subdomain No Text
https://www.nationalarchives.g...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Open Government Licence v.3

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.buckinghamshire.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 0.60 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 (73 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 3,120 referring domains.
This page has 153,895 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,169 different ip addresses.

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www.buckinghamshire.gov.uk
Buckinghamshire Council | Aylesbury, Chiltern, South Bucks, Wycombe
The single unitary council that replaced Buckinghamshire County Council and Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Bucks and Wycombe District Councils in April 2020.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Buckinghamshire89%Check
Buckinghamshire Council77%Check
Council66%Check
South Bucks62%Check
Bucks61%Check
South61%Check
Buckinghamshire Council Aylesbury61%Check
Council Tax54%Check
Welcome50%Check
August43%Check

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