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Meta information
100% 
Page quality
81% 
Page structure
20% 
Link structure
66% 
Server
98% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.44 s
File size
102.90 kB
Words
683
Media files
37
Number of links
58 internal / 30 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | Centre for Cities
The length of the page title is perfect. (216 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to understanding and improving the economies of the UK's largest cities and towns.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (803 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.centreforcities.org/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
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
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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
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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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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 683 words. That's ok.
28.4% 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.
13 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 22.79 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width" 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 14 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
35 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
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

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Page structure

H1 heading
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Latest
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (6 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
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 Latest
H1 Upcoming research
H1 Current issues
H1 Cities Outlook
H1 Upcoming events
H1 Latest podcasts
H2 Partner with us
H3 Stay up to date
H4 Sign up to our newsletter
H6 City Talks
H6 City Talks Duplicate text
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.
There are 2 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (30) on this page.

Found links on this page

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/podcasts/Podcasts
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/housing/Housing
/high-streets/High streets
/transport/Transport
/skills-work/Skills & work
/about/Trivial anchor text
Read more
A-TITLE Read more
/data/how-to-deliver-fiscal-de...How to deliver fiscal devolution in six charts
/devolution/Devolution Hub →
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/blog/grant-funding-for-counci...Text duplicate Grant funding for council housebuilding should target need in cities
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/blog/five-charts-to-understan...A-TITLE Five charts to understand NEETs in English cities
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/blog/understanding-connectivi...Text duplicate Understanding connectivity and density using Centre for Cities’ data tool
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/blog/Trivial anchor text
More
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A-TITLE Minimum wage UK 2026
/housing/Text duplicate A-TITLE Housing
/housing/Text duplicate Housing
A-TITLE Housing
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/art...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE BBC News
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https://www.scotsman.com/news/...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE The Scotsman
https://www.scotsman.com/news/...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Yorkshire Post
https://www.cityam.com/london-...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE City A.M.
https://metro.co.uk/2026/01/26...New window External A-TITLE Metro
/publication/cities-outlook-2025/A-TITLE Cities Outlook 2025
/industrial-strategy/Industrial strategy
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/bu...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Daily Telegraph
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https://inews.co.uk/news/londo...New window External A-TITLE inews
https://www.independent.co.uk/...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Independent
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Daily Mirror
https://www.politico.eu/newsle...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE POLITICO London Playbook
https://www.bigissue.com/opini...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Big Issue
https://www.heraldscotland.com...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE The Herald
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/event/devolution-and-accounta...Text duplicate Devolution and accountability: who should hold mayors to account?
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A-TITLE City Talks: Labour Party Conference debrief
/about/partnerships/Find out how to partner with us
A-TITLE Find out how to partner with us
https://www.twitter.com/Centre...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Go to our X profile
https://bsky.app/profile/centr...New window External A-TITLE Go to our Bluesky profile
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Go to our LinkedIn profile
https://www.youtube.com/user/C...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Go to our Youtube channel
https://linktr.ee/CityTalksPod...New window External A-TITLE Go to our podcast platform
/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection[email protected]
/privacy-and-cookies-policy/Privacy & Cookies Policy
A-TITLE Privacy & Cookies Policy
https://www.designbysoapbox.com/New window External Subdomain Soapbox

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.centreforcities.org/"
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 0.44 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 (103 kB).

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External factors

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This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 205 referring domains.
This page has 13,592 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 170 different ip addresses.

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Home | Centre for Cities
Independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to understanding and improving the economies of the UK's largest cities and towns.

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Cities79%Check
Cities Outlook62%Check
largest cities62%Check
centre59%Check
Latest54%Check
Cities Outlook 202654%Check
Cities Outlook 202553%Check
City Centre52%Check
dedicated46%Check
improving46%Check
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