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Meta information
100% 
Page quality
68% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
85% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.32 s
File size
43.10 kB
Words
433
Media files
9
Number of links
29 internal / 13 external

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | The Church of England
The length of the page title is perfect. (277 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Welcome to our website. We are a Church for all, online and in every community in England and across Europe.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (687 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.churchofengland.org/
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
descriptionWelcome to our website. We are a Church for all, online and in every community in England and across Europe.
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
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twitter:titleHome | The Church of England
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og:site_nameThe Church of England
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og:titleHome | The Church of England
og:descriptionWe are a Church for all, online and in every community in England and across Europe.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 433 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 29.25 words is high.
36.5% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
6 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)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 9 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
/themes/custom/cofe/logo.svgHome
..._cathedral2.jpg?h=dfba89c9&itok=r7ZFkw_9People singing in church
...ero-image_0.jpg?h=e5aec6c8&itok=ctW7rutNCanterbury CNC branding
...th-promo-v2.jpg?h=5d8cb1cf&itok=1_SauUH5Everyday Faith promo
...eb-hero-100.jpg?h=79f033a3&itok=zUdGyX5aA Service for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity - Hero
..._1753457295.jpg?h=dad44613&itok=MDVvSL20Revd Paula Griffiths, Emily Gee, Becky Payne - Commons - Jul 2025
..._ed_nix_140.jpg?h=3079d8bf&itok=9HizXHZaThe Bishop of Manchester at the House of Bishops
..._1753179136.jpg?h=2f83cd36&itok=4qbvReTFSt Bede, Bolton
Audio URL
...g1wRo8ta1mqv3SlKFQl9kcZ8KP5Nivq31euXbVDE

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
A Christian presence in your community
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 A Christian presence in your community
H2 Site Nav
H2 Footer
H2 Social
H2 Footer navigational small
H3 Quick read
H3 Commons committee urges Government to retain the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme
H3 Bishops confirm replacement of ‘Issues in Human Sexuality’ in discernment process
H3 'We doubled the size of our congregation after surveying the local community'
H3 Prayer for the Day
H4 Appointing a new Archbishop of Canterbury
H4 Develop a daily connection with God
H4 A Service for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 13 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.churchofengland.org/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.churchofengland.org/IMG-ALT Home
A-TITLE Home
https://www.churchofengland.org/The Church of England
https://www.achurchnearyou.com/External Subdomain A Church Near You
http://www.archbishopofcanterb...External Subdomain The Archbishop of Canterbury
http://www.archbishopofyork.org/External Subdomain The Archbishop of York
/search-results?keys=General S...General Synod
/search-results?keys=Lent and ...Lent and Easter
/search-results?keys=Today's p...Today's prayer
/search-results?keys=Weekly on...Weekly online services
/about/governance/national-chu...Archbishops' Council
/about/governance/national-chu...Pensions Board
/about/leadership-and-governan...Church Commissioners
https://www.chpublishing.co.uk/External Subdomain Church House Publishing
/safeguardingSafeguarding
A-TITLE Safeguarding
/about/careers-church-englandCareers
/contact-usContact Us
https://www.facebook.com/thech...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/thec...External Subdomain No Text
https://x.com/churchofenglandExternal No Text
https://www.youtube.com/thechu...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain No Text
/help/accessibility-statementAccessibility
A-TITLE Accessibility
/terms-and-conditionsPrivacy & Cookie Policy
A-TITLE Privacy & Cookie Policy
/glossaryGlossary
https://www.achurchnearyou.com/External Subdomain Find a church near you
https://www.churchofengland.org/Anchor scroll down
/about/governance/archbishops/...Learn more
/faith-life/exploring-faith/ev...Learn more and download
/prayer-and-worship/join-us-ch...Worship with us
/media/press-releases/commons-...Commons committee urges Government to retain the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme 25/07/2025
IMG-ALT Revd Paula Griffiths, Emily Gee, Becky Payne - Commons - Jul 2025
/media/press-releases/bishops-...Bishops confirm replacement of ‘Issues in Human Sexuality’ in discernment process 23/07/2025
IMG-ALT The Bishop of Manchester at the House of Bishops
/media/stories-and-features/we...'We doubled the size of our congregation after surveying the local community' 22/07/2025
IMG-ALT St Bede, Bolton
/node/1/printable/bbd_pdf_formatPDF
https://www.churchofengland.org/Anchor Share this page
https://www.facebook.com/share...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/intent/twe...New window External No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/shari...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.churchofengland.org/Anchor Email this page
/node/1/printable/printNew window Print this page
/user/registerCreate new account
A-TITLE Create a new user account.
/user/passwordRequest new password
A-TITLE Request new password via email.

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.churchofengland.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 is excellent with 0.32 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (43 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateFri, 25 Jul 2025 18:54:19 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
cache-controlmax-age=900, public
content-languageen
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modifiedFri, 25 Jul 2025 17:03:01 GMT
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
strict-transport-securitymax-age=15552000
permissions-policyinterest-cohort=()
referrer-policyno-referrer
varyAccept-Encoding,Cookie
x-cacheMiss from cloudfront
via1.1 e9e1ae0211eb8060a9bf55183ccf8788.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
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cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
servercloudflare
cf-ray964ddd7dec59faee-CDG
content-encodinggzip
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,284 referring domains.
This page has 2,497,052 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,207 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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# robots.txt
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# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

# Custom paths for CofE.
Disallow: /node/*/printable/print
Disallow: *.pdf
Disallow: *.pptx
Disallow: *.doc
Disallow: *.docx
Disallow: *.xlsx
Disallow: *.xls
Disallow: *.csv

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Home | The Church of England
Welcome to our website. We are a Church for all, online and in every community in England and across Europe.

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Local Community54%Check
Church Near53%Check
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