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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
94% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.09 s
File size
86.30 kB
Words
807
Media files
24
Number of links
84 internal / 19 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Start your journey at City College Norwich
The length of the page title is perfect. (374 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
A leading college in the heart of Norwich providing A Levels and career-focused courses for school leavers, along with university-level and adult study.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (920 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: United States of America
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
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
generatorSilverstripe CMS 5.4
descriptionA leading college in the heart of Norwich providing A Levels and career-focused courses for school leavers, along with university-level and adult study.
langen-gb
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:titleStart your journey at City College Norwich
twitter:descriptionA leading college in the heart of Norwich providing A Levels and career-focused courses for school leavers, along with university-level and adult study.
twitter:sitenorwichcollege
og:titleStart your journey at City College Norwich
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://www.ccn.ac.uk/home/
og:imagehttps://www.ccn.ac.uk/apple-touch-icon.png
og:image:typeimage/png
og:descriptionA leading college in the heart of Norwich providing A Levels and career-focused courses for school leavers, along with university-level and adult study.
og:site_nameCity College Norwich
og:localeen_GB
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 807 words. That's ok.
35.8% 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.
11 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 17.04 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.
This page only loads 2 JavaScript files. That's good!
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 72 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"we suggest having a backup option and applying for at least two courses."
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
Video URLWidthHeight
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
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
H2 Thinking about studying A Levels?
H2 How to apply
H2 My shortlist
H2 My shortlist Duplicate text
H2 Already started an application?
H2 Start your journey
H2 Explore our courses for school leavers
H2 Download our prospectus
H2 Attend our Open Events
H2 Find the perfect course for you!
H2 Student Finance
H2 University-level study
H2 Teacher Training
H3 {{ item.title }}
H3 Add another course?
Baselink: https://www.ccn.ac.uk/
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 19 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/news-events/events/ccn-a-leve...Secure your place
https://www.ccn.ac.uk/Skip to content
https://www.ccn.ac.uk/City College Norwich
/contact-city-college-norwich/...Jobs
https://homepage.ccn.ac.uk/External Subdomain Student and Staff Links
/news-events/News and Events
https://learner-hub.ccn.ac.uk/External Subdomain My Application
/news-events/events/ccn-a-leve...A Level Taster Day - book your place
https://www.ccn.ac.uk/16-18/16-18
https://www.ccn.ac.uk/adults/Adults
https://he.ccn.ac.uk/New window External Subdomain Degrees
/apprenticeships/apprenticeshi...Apprenticeships
/16-18/course-types/apprentice...Apprenticeships We Offer
/16-18/course-types/apprentice...Apprenticeship Vacancies
/apprenticeships/how-to-find-a...How to find an Apprenticeship
/apprenticeships/taking-on-an-...Taking on an Apprentice
/apprenticeships/apprenticeshi...Apprenticeship Growth and Skills Levy
/apprenticeships/enquire-about...Enquire About Apprenticeships
/apprenticeships/apprenticeshi...Apprenticeship Grants and Initiatives
/apprenticeships/apprentice-su...Apprentice Success Stories
/apprenticeships/our-apprentic...Hear from our Apprentice Employers
https://www.ccn.ac.uk/employers/Employers
/employers/attend-our-events/Attend our Events
/employers/employer-sponsored-...Employer Sponsored Degrees and Higher Education Courses
https://360.articulate.com/rev...External Subdomain Inclusive Toolkit for Employers
/employers/mint/Mint
/employers/cpd-and-training/Professional Development, CPD and Training
/employers/submit-a-job-vacancy/Submit a Job Vacancy
/employers/support-our-students/Support our Students
/employers/t-levels/T Levels
https://ccn.theskillsnetwork.com/New window External Subdomain Online Short Courses
/our-college/welcome-to-city-c...Our College
/our-college/welcome-to-city-c...Welcome from our Principal
/our-college/why-choose-city-c...Why Choose City College Norwich?
/our-college/prospectus/Request our 2027 Prospectus
/our-college/city-college-norw...Our Campus
/our-college/city-college-norw...Term Dates
/our-college/safeguarding-at-c...Safeguarding
/our-college/equality-diversit...Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
/our-college/students-union/Students' Union
/our-college/debut/Debut Restaurant
/our-college/services-for-the-...Services for the Public
/our-college/city-college-norw...City College Norwich Nursery
/our-college/ofsted/Ofsted
/our-college/college-of-sanctu...College of Sanctuary
/our-college/city-college-norw...College Strategy
/our-college/senior-management...Senior Management Team
/our-college/city-college-norw...Corporation and Governance
/our-college/history-of-city-c...History of City College Norwich
/support-and-advice/informatio...Support and Advice
/support-and-advice/informatio...Information for Applicants
/support-and-advice/study-opti...Your Study Options
/support-and-advice/travel-guide/Travel Guide
/support-and-advice/student-fi...Student Finance
/support-and-advice/career-adv...Careers Advice
/support-and-advice/special-ed...Special Educational Needs and Local Offer
/support-and-advice/industry-p...Work and Industry Placements
/support-and-advice/students/Information for Students
/support-and-advice/parents-an...Information for Parents and Carers
/support-and-advice/internatio...International Students
/support-and-advice/student-jo...Student Job Vacancies
/contact-city-college-norwich/Contact Us
/contact-city-college-norwich/Contact Details
/contact-city-college-norwich/...Ask a Question
/contact-city-college-norwich/...Advice Shop
/contact-city-college-norwich/...Accessibility Information
/contact-city-college-norwich/...Compliments, Concerns and Complaints
/contact-city-college-norwich/...Text duplicate Jobs
https://homepage.ccn.ac.uk/External Subdomain Text duplicate Student and Staff Links
/news-events/Text duplicate News and Events
https://learner-hub.ccn.ac.uk/External Subdomain Text duplicate My Application
https://www.ccn.ac.uk/courses/Find Your Course
/news-events/latest-news/?cate...Make this my first choice
https://www.ccn.ac.uk/courses/Add another course?
https://www.ccn.ac.uk/apply/Apply Now
https://www.ccn.ac.uk/courses/Text duplicate Find Your Course
https://www.ccn.ac.uk/my-ccn/Login
https://www.ccn.ac.uk/courses/View all courses
https://www.ccn.ac.uk/coursesApply online now
https://www.ccn.ac.uk/16-18/Explore our courses for school leavers
/our-college/prospectus/Download our prospectus
/news-events/events/Attend our Open Events
https://www.ccn.ac.uk/courses/Create a course shortlist
https://learner-hub.ccn.ac.uk/New window External Subdomain Login/Register
https://learner-hub.ccn.ac.uk/New window External Subdomain Submit an application
https://www.ccn.ac.uk/16-18/New window Take a look
/support-and-advice/student-fi...Text duplicate Student Finance
https://he.ccn.ac.uk/External Subdomain University-level study
/adults/teacher-training/Teacher Training
https://www.facebook.com/cityc...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://linkedin.com/school/ci...New window External No Text
https://www.instagram.com/city...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.easton.ac.uk/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT easton white
https://www.paston.ac.uk/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT paston sixth
https://www.he.ccn.ac.uk/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT ccn he white
https://policies.google.com/pr...New window External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://policies.google.com/termsNew window External Subdomain Terms of Service
/contact-city-college-norwich/...Talk to the Principal
/home/freedom-of-informationFreedom of Information (FOI)
/privacy-and-cookies/Text duplicate Privacy Policy
/website-accessibility/Website Accessibility
https://homepage.ccn.ac.uk/New window External Subdomain Staff and Student Links
/transparency-data/New window OfS Transparency Data 2023

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.ccn.ac.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 (1.09 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.
This page only loads 1 CSS files. That's ok.
This page only loads 2 JavaScript files. That's good!
The file size of the HTML document is fine (86 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSat, 17 Oct 2026 20:49:01 GMT
serverApache
varyX-Forwarded-Protocol,Accept-Encoding
cache-controlno-cache, must-revalidate
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
upgradeh2
connectionUpgrade
x-mod-pagespeed1.13.35.2-0
content-encodinggzip
x-ua-compatibleIE=Edge,chrome=1
content-length12642
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 211 referring domains.
This page has 5,629 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 181 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Sitemap: https://www.ccn.ac.uk/sitemap.xml
Disallow: /search

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Start your journey at City College Norwich
A leading college in the heart of Norwich providing A Levels and career-focused courses for school leavers, along with university-level and adult study.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
College61%Check
College Norwich60%Check
course59%Check
Norwich58%Check
City College Norwich56%Check
Courses55%Check
City College55%Check
course shortlist51%Check
Levels50%Check
Level50%Check
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