Cityoflondon.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
95% 
Page quality
38% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
76% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.59 s
File size
818.10 kB
Words
183
Media files
2
Number of links
26 internal / 20 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Things to do - City of London
The length of the page title is perfect. (260 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Visit the City of London - Things to see and do from iconic attractions to hidden gems and explore green spaces both inside of and outside the Square Mile.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (952 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
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
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facebook-domain-verificationmsc65lq1e60kt58y2jkbo2flkhvm4a
descriptionVisit the City of London - Things to see and do from iconic attractions to hidden gems and explore green spaces both inside of and outside the Square Mile.
google-site-verificationwtB5tu6CqLHJuvhFnVDSIspGqOo571EfJdLJxMqatWQ
og:site_nameCity of London
og:titleThings to do
og:descriptionVisit the City of London - Things to see and do from iconic attractions to hidden gems and explore green spaces both inside of and outside the Square Mile.
og:urlwww.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do
og:imagewww.cityoflondon.gov.uk/image-library/system-images/Corporation-Crest-Tweet-Card2.x8704d018.jpg?w=1200&q=70
og:typewebsite
langen
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:site@cityoflondon
twitter:creator@cityoflondon
twitter:titleThings to do
twitter:descriptionVisit the City of London - Things to see and do from iconic attractions to hidden gems and explore green spaces both inside of and outside the Square Mile.
twitter:urlwww.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do
twitter:imagewww.cityoflondon.gov.uk/image-library/system-images/Corporation-Crest-Tweet-Card2.x8704d018.jpg?w=1200&q=70
og:typewebsite
X-UA-Compatibleie=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 183 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
22.4% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
The file size of the HTML document is very large (818.1 kB).
A viewport "width=device-width,initial-scale=1,shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The amount of tags is very high (9). We recommend using a maximum of 6 tags for this page.
The following tag is repeated too often: about this website
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
/static/img/top-site-q2-2025.png2025 Q2/UK Local Government
/static/img/top-site-q2-2025.png2025 Q2/UK Local Government

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome, What do you want to do?
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome, What do you want to do?
H2 Upcoming events
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 20 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to content
/things-to-doThings to do
/servicesServices
/supporting-businessesSupporting businesses
https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Visit homepage
/services/getting-help-with-th...Getting help with the cost of living
/footer/contact-the-city-corpo...Contact the City Corporation
/about-usAbout us
/eventsEvents
/footer/accessibilityAccessibility statement
/about-us/councillors-committe...Councillors, committees and meetings
https://mycity.cityoflondon.go...External Subdomain Report, Pay, Apply
https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Text duplicate Visit homepage
/eventsView all
https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Text duplicate Visit homepage
https://www.websitecarbon.com/...New window External Subdomain -g of CO2/view
https://www.websitecarbon.com/New window External Subdomain Website Carbon
https://sitemorse.com/index/re...New window External Visit 2025 Q2/UK Local Government
IMG-ALT 2025 Q2/UK Local Government
A-TITLE 2025 Q2/UK Local Government - Opens in a new tab - Opens in a new tab
/footer/cookiesCookies
/footer/legal-noticesLegal Notices
/footer/privacy-noticePrivacy Notice
/supporting-businesses/tenders...Modern Slavery Statement
/footer/accessibility-toolbarAccessibility toolbar
/footer/consultationsConsultations
/footer/feedbackFeedback
/footer/interactive-map-layersInteractive maps
https://shop.cityoflondon.gov.uk/External Subdomain Shop
https://www.theglobalcity.uk/New window External Subdomain The Global City
A-TITLE undefined - Opens in a new tab
/services/environmental-health...Climate action
https://careers.cityoflondon.g...External Subdomain JobsGo to Jobs
https://careers.cityoflondon.g...External Subdomain Entry level talent
https://careers.cityoflondon.g...External Subdomain Roles
https://careers.cityoflondon.g...External Subdomain Search & Apply
https://careers.cityoflondon.g...External Subdomain Who we are
https://careers.cityoflondon.g...External Subdomain Working here
https://news.cityoflondon.gov.uk/External Subdomain News and mediaGo to News and media
/about-us/filmingFilming
https://news.cityoflondon.gov....External Subdomain Media library
/footer/social-mediaSocial Media
https://ssl.cmadvantage.co.uk/...New window External Subdomain eShot
A-TITLE undefined - Opens in a new tab
https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Text duplicate Visit homepage
https://www.facebook.com/Cityo...New window External Subdomain Facebook
A-TITLE Facebook - Opens in a new tab
https://twitter.com/cityoflondonNew window External Twitter
A-TITLE Twitter - Opens in a new tab
https://www.websitecarbon.com/...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate -g of CO2/view
https://www.websitecarbon.com/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Website Carbon
https://sitemorse.com/index/re...New window External Text duplicate Visit 2025 Q2/UK Local Government
IMG-ALT 2025 Q2/UK Local Government
A-TITLE 2025 Q2/UK Local Government - Opens in a new tab - Opens in a new tab

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.cityoflondon.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 0.59 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 very large (818 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateWed, 23 Jul 2025 07:08:33 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
x-contensis-viewer-groups
surrogate-controlmax-age=3600
x-backendbackend_3043
x-origin-lbapp_server_02
x-hostlive.cityoflondon.contensis.cloud
x-grace72h
x-backend-ttl3600.000
server-timingcfCacheStatus;desc="DYNAMIC"
varyAccept-Encoding
x-varnish150915731 151526195
x-varnish-authenticationskip
x-age385
cache-controlno-cache, no-store
pragmano-cache
x-server-namez-cityoflondon-CACHE1
strict-transport-securitymax-age=15768000
x-geoip-country-codeFR
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
content-encodingbr
servercloudflare
cf-ray963958e3ba4cc72b-CDG
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,144 referring domains.
This page has 236,535 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 618 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

You can find more links using Wikipedia search

Robots.txt

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User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Barkrowler
Disallow: /

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www.cityoflondon.gov.uk
Things to do - City of London
Visit the City of London - Things to see and do from iconic attractions to hidden gems and explore green spaces both inside of and outside the Square Mile.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
City69%Check
London69%Check
Things58%Check
spaces51%Check
Welcome50%Check
Visit46%Check
action46%Check
media39%Check
News39%Check
Website39%Check
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