Carersuk.org - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
68% 
Page quality
70% 
Page structure
33% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
31% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.06 s
File size
117.30 kB
Words
1100
Media files
26
Number of links
268 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
UK | Carers UK
The page title is too short. (138 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.carersuk.org/
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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og:titleCarers UK homepage
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og:urlhttps://www.carersuk.org/
og:descriptionWe’re here for unpaid carers with expert information, advice & support and also campaign to make life better for carers.
og:site_nameCarers UK
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
The average number of words per sentence of 28.8 words is high.
This page contains 1100 words. That's ok.
30.7% of the text are stop words.
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.
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 22 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
20 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.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
/media/ygvlmgyc/carersuk.pngCarers UK
/media/ygvlmgyc/carersuk.pngCarers UK
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...th=255&height=255&rnd=132974502410270000No alt attribute provided
...th=255&height=255&rnd=133148131864370000A group of people talking around a table at a carers centre,
...th=255&height=255&rnd=133147992680400000A man and a woman looking at a tablet together,
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/media/ygvlmgyc/carersuk.pngCarers UK
/media/am1iuqwe/cc-logo.pngNo alt attribute provided
/media/ucqdi5gc/fr-logo.pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Caring for a family member or someone else close to you?
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Caring for a family member or someone else close to you?
H1 State of Caring 2025
H2 Get help and advice
H2 Get help and advice Duplicate text
H2 Get involved
H2 Get involved Duplicate text
H2 Campaign with us
H2 Campaign with us Duplicate text
H2 Connect with carers
H2 Connect with carers Duplicate text
H2 Latest updates
H2 Become a member
H3 Joining Carers UK is free and takes just a few minutes
H3 Quick links
H6 Carers Scotland Employment Conference 2025
H6 Carers UK reaction to third reading of the Universal Credit Bill
H6 Tackling Poverty Amongst Unpaid Carers in Northern Ireland
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.carersuk.org/Anchor Skip to the content
/umbraco/Surface/Navigation/Se...UK
/umbraco/Surface/Navigation/Se...NI
/umbraco/Surface/Navigation/Se...Scotland
/umbraco/Surface/Navigation/Se...Wales
https://www.carersuk.org/English
/help-and-advice/Help and advice
/get-involved/Get involved
/news-and-campaigns/News and campaigns
/policy-and-research/Policy and research
/about-us/About us
/for-professionals/For professionals
/help-and-advice/financial-sup...Financial support
/help-and-advice/practical-sup...Practical support
/help-and-advice/helpline-and-...Helpline and other support
/help-and-advice/your-health-a...Your health and wellbeing
/help-and-advice/work-and-career/Work and career
/help-and-advice/guides-and-to...Guides and tools
/help-and-advice/technology-an...Technology and equipment
/help-and-advice/covid-19-guid...COVID-19 guidance
/help-and-advice/support-where...Support where you live
/help-and-advice/financial-sup...Carer's Allowance
/help-and-advice/financial-sup...Benefits calculator
/help-and-advice/financial-sup...Benefits if you are disabled, ill or injured
/help-and-advice/financial-sup...Benefits for carers who are working age
/help-and-advice/financial-sup...Benefits for carers who are pension age
/help-and-advice/financial-sup...Help with bills and household costs
/help-and-advice/financial-sup...Help with health and care costs
/help-and-advice/practical-sup...Having a carer's assessment
/help-and-advice/practical-sup...Having a needs assessment
/help-and-advice/practical-sup...Your rights as a carer
/help-and-advice/practical-sup...Arranging care and support for someone
/help-and-advice/practical-sup...Coming out of hospital
/help-and-advice/practical-sup...Managing someone's affairs
/help-and-advice/your-health-a...Looking after yourself
/help-and-advice/your-health-a...Taking a break
/help-and-advice/your-health-a...Getting enough sleep
/help-and-advice/your-health-a...Online meetups
/help-and-advice/your-health-a...Carers Active Hub
/help-and-advice/work-and-care...Your rights in work
/help-and-advice/work-and-care...Requesting flexible working
/help-and-advice/work-and-care...Taking time off
/get-involved/ways-to-give/Ways to give
/get-involved/fundraise-for-us/Fundraise for us
/get-involved/join-us/Join us
/news-and-campaigns/our-campai...Campaign with us
/get-involved/partner-with-us/Partner with us
https://carersuk.enthuse.com/c...New window External Subdomain Anchor Donate
/wales/get-involved/ways-to-gi...Pay in your donations
/get-involved/ways-to-give/don...Donate in memory
/get-involved/ways-to-give/don...Donate in celebration
/get-involved/ways-to-give/lea...Leave a gift in your will
/get-involved/ways-to-give/pay...Payroll giving
/get-involved/ways-to-give/sup...Support us with a major gift
/get-involved/ways-to-give/oth...Other ways to donate
/get-involved/fundraise-for-us...Collect for Carers UK
/get-involved/fundraise-for-us...At work
/get-involved/fundraise-for-us...With family and friends
/get-involved/fundraise-for-us...Fundraising ideas and tips
/get-involved/take-part-in-an-...Take part in a challenge event
/get-involved/fundraise-for-us...In your local area
/get-involved/fundraise-for-us...Stay safe and legal
/get-involved/volunteer-with-u...Apply to volunteer
/get-involved/volunteer-with-u...Community Connector
/get-involved/volunteer-with-u...Events Volunteer
/get-involved/volunteer-with-u...Insight Volunteer
/get-involved/volunteer-with-u...Online Awareness Raiser
/get-involved/volunteer-with-u...Workplace Champion Volunteer
/get-involved/partner-with-us/...Trusts and foundations
/get-involved/partner-with-us/...Corporate and strategic partners
/news-and-campaigns/our-campai...Our campaigns
/news-and-campaigns/general-el...General Election 2024
/news-and-campaigns/our-campai...Carer Poverty Coalition
/news-and-campaigns/our-campai...Carers Week
/news-and-campaigns/our-campai...Carers Rights Day
/news-and-campaigns/carers-sto...Carers' stories
/news-and-campaigns/media-centre/Media centre
/news-and-campaigns/news-stories/News stories
/news-and-campaigns/press-rele...Press releases
/policy-and-research/policy-li...Policy and research library
/policy-and-research/what-we-d...What we do in Parliament
/policy-and-research/state-of-...State of Caring
/policy-and-research/key-facts...Key facts and figures
/policy-and-research/our-areas...Our areas of policy work
/about-us/why-we-re-here/Why we're here
/about-us/what-we-do/What we do
/about-us/who-we-are/Who we are
/about-us/support-across-the-uk/Support across the UK
/about-us/60-years-of-carers-uk/60 years of Carers UK
/about-us/agm-members-conference/AGM and Members' Conference
/about-us/hire-our-venue/Hire our venue
/about-us/working-for-carers-uk/Working for Carers UK
/about-us/what-we-do/annual-re...Annual Report
/about-us/what-we-do/our-missi...Our mission, vision and values
/about-us/what-we-do/vision-2025/Vision 2025
/about-us/what-we-do/our-charter/Our charter
/about-us/who-we-are/our-staff/Our staff
/about-us/who-we-are/our-trust...Our trustees
/about-us/who-we-are/our-vice-...Our vice presidents
/about-us/who-we-are/our-patrons/Our patrons
/about-us/60-years-of-carers-u...Interactive timeline
/about-us/60-years-of-carers-u...Carers UK Awards
/for-professionals/support-for...Support for employers
/for-professionals/digital-pro...Digital products and services
/for-professionals/join-our-pr...Join our professionals network
/for-professionals/support-for...Support for health and care professionals
/for-professionals/support-for...Employers for Carers
/for-professionals/support-for...Carer Confident
/for-professionals/support-for...Carer's Leave Act support
/get-involved/join-us/become-a...Text duplicate Join us
https://www.carersuk.org/login/Login
https://forum.carersuk.org/External Subdomain Forum
/news-and-campaigns/media-centre/Media enquiries
https://www.carersuk.org/IMG-ALT Carers UK
/umbraco/Surface/Navigation/Se...Text duplicate UK
/umbraco/Surface/Navigation/Se...Text duplicate NI
/umbraco/Surface/Navigation/Se...Text duplicate Scotland
/umbraco/Surface/Navigation/Se...Text duplicate Wales
https://www.carersuk.org/Text duplicate English
https://forum.carersuk.org/External Subdomain Text duplicate Forum
/news-and-campaigns/media-centre/Text duplicate Media enquiries
/get-involved/join-us/become-a...Text duplicate Join us
https://www.carersuk.org/login/Already a member? Login
https://www.carersuk.org/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Carers UK
/help-and-advice/Text duplicate Help and advice
/help-and-advice/financial-sup...Text duplicate Financial support
/help-and-advice/financial-sup...Text duplicate Carer's Allowance
/help-and-advice/financial-sup...Text duplicate Benefits calculator
/help-and-advice/financial-sup...Text duplicate Benefits if you are disabled, ill or injured
/help-and-advice/financial-sup...Text duplicate Benefits for carers who are working age
/help-and-advice/financial-sup...Text duplicate Benefits for carers who are pension age
/help-and-advice/financial-sup...Text duplicate Help with bills and household costs
/help-and-advice/financial-sup...Text duplicate Help with health and care costs
/help-and-advice/practical-sup...Text duplicate Practical support
/help-and-advice/practical-sup...Text duplicate Having a carer's assessment
/help-and-advice/practical-sup...Text duplicate Having a needs assessment
/help-and-advice/practical-sup...Text duplicate Your rights as a carer
/help-and-advice/practical-sup...Text duplicate Arranging care and support for someone
/help-and-advice/practical-sup...Text duplicate Coming out of hospital
/help-and-advice/practical-sup...Text duplicate Managing someone's affairs
/help-and-advice/helpline-and-...Text duplicate Helpline and other support
/help-and-advice/your-health-a...Text duplicate Your health and wellbeing
/help-and-advice/your-health-a...Text duplicate Looking after yourself
/help-and-advice/your-health-a...Text duplicate Taking a break
/help-and-advice/your-health-a...Text duplicate Getting enough sleep
/help-and-advice/your-health-a...Text duplicate Online meetups
/help-and-advice/your-health-a...Text duplicate Carers Active Hub
/help-and-advice/work-and-career/Text duplicate Work and career
/help-and-advice/work-and-care...Text duplicate Your rights in work
/help-and-advice/work-and-care...Text duplicate Requesting flexible working
/help-and-advice/work-and-care...Text duplicate Taking time off
/help-and-advice/guides-and-to...Text duplicate Guides and tools
/help-and-advice/technology-an...Text duplicate Technology and equipment
/help-and-advice/covid-19-guid...Text duplicate COVID-19 guidance
/help-and-advice/support-where...Text duplicate Support where you live
/get-involved/Text duplicate Get involved
/get-involved/ways-to-give/Text duplicate Ways to give
/wales/get-involved/ways-to-gi...Text duplicate Pay in your donations
/get-involved/ways-to-give/don...Text duplicate Donate in memory
/get-involved/ways-to-give/don...Text duplicate Donate in celebration
/get-involved/ways-to-give/lea...Text duplicate Leave a gift in your will
/get-involved/ways-to-give/pay...Text duplicate Payroll giving
/get-involved/ways-to-give/sup...Text duplicate Support us with a major gift
/get-involved/ways-to-give/oth...Text duplicate Other ways to donate
/get-involved/fundraise-for-us/Text duplicate Fundraise for us
/get-involved/fundraise-for-us...Text duplicate Collect for Carers UK
/get-involved/fundraise-for-us...Text duplicate At work
/get-involved/fundraise-for-us...Text duplicate With family and friends
/get-involved/fundraise-for-us...Text duplicate Fundraising ideas and tips
/get-involved/take-part-in-an-...Text duplicate Take part in a challenge event
/get-involved/fundraise-for-us...Text duplicate In your local area
/get-involved/fundraise-for-us...Text duplicate Stay safe and legal
/get-involved/volunteer-with-us/Volunteer with us
/get-involved/volunteer-with-u...Text duplicate Apply to volunteer
/get-involved/volunteer-with-u...Text duplicate Community Connector
/get-involved/volunteer-with-u...Text duplicate Events Volunteer
/get-involved/volunteer-with-u...Text duplicate Insight Volunteer
/get-involved/volunteer-with-u...Text duplicate Online Awareness Raiser
/get-involved/volunteer-with-u...Text duplicate Workplace Champion Volunteer
/get-involved/join-us/Text duplicate Join us
/news-and-campaigns/our-campai...Text duplicate Campaign with us
/get-involved/partner-with-us/Text duplicate Partner with us
/get-involved/partner-with-us/...Text duplicate Trusts and foundations
/get-involved/partner-with-us/...Text duplicate Corporate and strategic partners
https://carersuk.enthuse.com/c...External Subdomain Anchor Text duplicate Donate
/news-and-campaigns/Text duplicate News and campaigns
/news-and-campaigns/our-campai...Text duplicate Our campaigns
/news-and-campaigns/general-el...Text duplicate General Election 2024
/news-and-campaigns/our-campai...Text duplicate Carer Poverty Coalition
/news-and-campaigns/our-campai...Text duplicate Carers Week
/news-and-campaigns/our-campai...Text duplicate Carers Rights Day
/news-and-campaigns/carers-sto...Text duplicate Carers' stories
/news-and-campaigns/media-centre/Text duplicate Media centre
/news-and-campaigns/news-stories/Text duplicate News stories
/news-and-campaigns/press-rele...Text duplicate Press releases
/policy-and-research/Text duplicate Policy and research
/policy-and-research/policy-li...Text duplicate Policy and research library
/policy-and-research/what-we-d...Text duplicate What we do in Parliament
/policy-and-research/state-of-...Text duplicate State of Caring
/policy-and-research/key-facts...Text duplicate Key facts and figures
/policy-and-research/our-areas...Text duplicate Our areas of policy work
/about-us/Text duplicate About us
/about-us/why-we-re-here/Text duplicate Why we're here
/about-us/what-we-do/Text duplicate What we do
/about-us/what-we-do/annual-re...Text duplicate Annual Report
/about-us/what-we-do/our-missi...Text duplicate Our mission, vision and values
/about-us/what-we-do/vision-2025/Text duplicate Vision 2025
/about-us/what-we-do/our-charter/Text duplicate Our charter
/about-us/who-we-are/Text duplicate Who we are
/about-us/who-we-are/our-staff/Text duplicate Our staff
/about-us/who-we-are/our-trust...Text duplicate Our trustees
/about-us/who-we-are/our-vice-...Text duplicate Our vice presidents
/about-us/who-we-are/our-patrons/Text duplicate Our patrons
/about-us/support-across-the-uk/Text duplicate Support across the UK
/about-us/60-years-of-carers-uk/Text duplicate 60 years of Carers UK
/about-us/60-years-of-carers-u...Text duplicate Interactive timeline
/about-us/60-years-of-carers-u...Text duplicate Carers UK Awards
/about-us/agm-members-conference/Text duplicate AGM and Members' Conference
/about-us/hire-our-venue/Text duplicate Hire our venue
/about-us/working-for-carers-uk/Text duplicate Working for Carers UK
/for-professionals/Text duplicate For professionals
/for-professionals/support-for...Text duplicate Support for employers
/for-professionals/support-for...Text duplicate Employers for Carers
/for-professionals/support-for...Text duplicate Carer Confident
/for-professionals/support-for...Text duplicate Carer's Leave Act support
/for-professionals/digital-pro...Text duplicate Digital products and services
/for-professionals/join-our-pr...Text duplicate Join our professionals network
/for-professionals/support-for...Text duplicate Support for health and care professionals
https://carersuk.enthuse.com/c...New window External Subdomain Anchor Text duplicate Donate
/about-us/Find out more
A-TITLE About us
/policy-and-research/state-of-...Text duplicate Find out more
A-TITLE State of Caring survey
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r...External Subdomain Take part today
/help-and-advice/your-health-a...Share and Learn
/help-and-advice/financial-sup...Text duplicate Financial support
/help-and-advice/practical-sup...Text duplicate Practical support
/help-and-advice/helpline-and-...Text duplicate Helpline and other support
/get-involved/join-us/Text duplicate Join us
/get-involved/volunteer-with-us/Text duplicate Volunteer with us
/get-involved/fundraise-for-us/Text duplicate Fundraise for us
/get-involved/Text duplicate Get involved
/policy-and-research/what-we-d...Text duplicate What we do in Parliament
/policy-and-research/key-facts...Text duplicate Key facts and figures
/policy-and-research/Text duplicate Policy and research
/news-and-campaigns/our-campai...Text duplicate Our campaigns
/help-and-advice/your-health-a...Care for a Cuppa
/get-involved/join-us/our-forum/Carers Connect
/help-and-advice/your-health-a...Text duplicate Share and Learn
/help-and-advice/your-health-a...Text duplicate Online meetups
/news/carers-scotland-employme...Read
/press-releases/carers-uk-reac...Text duplicate Read
/reports/tackling-poverty-amon...Text duplicate Read
/get-involved/join-us/become-a...Text duplicate Join us
/help-and-advice/financial-sup...Text duplicate Carer's Allowance
/help-and-advice/financial-sup...Attendance Allowance
/help-and-advice/financial-sup...Personal Independence Payment
/help-and-advice/financial-sup...Disability Living Allowance
/help-and-advice/technology-an...Text duplicate Technology and equipment
/get-involved/Text duplicate Get involved
/news-and-campaigns/our-campai...Text duplicate Our campaigns
/about-us/working-for-carers-uk/Text duplicate Working for Carers UK
/help-and-advice/Text duplicate Help and advice
/get-involved/Text duplicate Get involved
/news-and-campaigns/Text duplicate News and campaigns
/policy-and-research/Text duplicate Policy and research
/about-us/Text duplicate About us
/for-professionals/Text duplicate For professionals
/contact-us/Contact us
https://www.carersuk.org/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Carers UK
https://www.facebook.com/carersukNew window External Subdomain Facebooks
https://www.instagram.com/care...New window External Subdomain Instagram
https://twitter.com/CarersUKNew window External Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/user/C...New window External Subdomain Youtube
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain LinkedIn
/terms-and-conditions/Terms & conditions
/privacy-policy/Privacy
/cookie-policy/Cookies
/media/lgxn0ntc/complimentscom...Complaints
/about-us/working-for-carers-uk/Work for us
https://www.carersuk.org/Anchor Back to top

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.carersuk.org/"
HTTP header
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The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.06 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 (117 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
set-cookie74 Characters
dateFri, 25 Jul 2025 20:13:08 GMT
content-length120074
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,181 referring domains.
This page has 12,929 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,275 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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carers66%Check
Caring56%Check
member54%Check
Carer Poverty51%Check
family50%Check
unpaid carers50%Check
Carers Scotland50%Check
Help44%Check
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