Civil-service-careers.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
73% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
95% 
Server
54% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.45 s
File size
1,892.00 kB
Words
703
Media files
11
Number of links
46 internal / 13 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | Civil Service Careers
The length of the page title is perfect. (258 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Discover rewarding careers in government- the Civil Service offers an inclusive and innovative workplace, flexible working, and opportunities for growth and development. Find your ideal fit with our Career Matcher tool.
The meta description is too long: 1337 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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 name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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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googlenositelinkssearchbox
msapplication-TileColor#ffffff
msapplication-TileImage/ms-icon-144x144.png
theme-color#ffffff
robotsmax-image-preview:large
descriptionDiscover rewarding careers in government- the Civil Service offers an inclusive and innovative workplace, flexible working, and opportunities for growth and development. Find your ideal fit with our Career Matcher tool.
langen-us
og:descriptionDiscover rewarding careers in government- the Civil Service offers an inclusive and innovative workplace, flexible working, and opportunities for growth and development. Find your ideal fit with our Career Matcher tool.
og:urlhttps://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/
og:imagehttps://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/CSC-Home-centred-1-1200x630.png
og:image:width1200
og:image:height630
x-ua-compatibleie=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 703 words. That's ok.
39.3% 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.
10 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 14.95 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
The file size of the HTML document is very large (1892 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 usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 14 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
9 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
...t/mu-plugins/header//src/assets/logo.pngLogo
/wp-content/uploads/CSC-Home-centred.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ontent/uploads/Career-Matcher-scaled.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ds/Screenshot-2023-11-27-at-09.16.31.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/people-2557396_1280.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ds/Screenshot-2023-11-28-at-09.04.29.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ds/Screenshot-2023-11-24-at-09.47.40.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ds/Screenshot-2023-11-28-at-09.29.36.pngNo alt attribute provided
...tent/uploads/open-government-licence.pngNo alt attribute provided
...scape_Black.editedpng-e1728641563451.pngNo alt attribute provided
Video URLWidthHeight
...ube.com/embed/BpNtYBH7wDo?feature=oembed640360

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Find your fit in the Civil Service
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Find your fit in the Civil Service
H2 Cookies on Civil Service Careers Site
H2 We’re always looking for brilliant people to join the Civil Service
H2 This map shows some of our current job vacancies
H2 Where will a Career in the Civil Service take you?
H3 Departments
H3 Professions
H3 Locations
H3 Application Guidance
H3 Apprenticeships
H3 Life at the Civil Service
H3 Entry Routes
H3 Application Guidance Duplicate text
H3 Supported Schemes
H3 Follow Us
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 13 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to main content
/cookies-setView cookies
/cookies-setchange your cookie settings
/cookies-setText duplicate change your cookie settings
/Subdomain IMG-ALT Logo
/departments/Subdomain Departments
/professionsProfessions
/career-matcher/Try our career matcher
https://www.civilservicejobs.s...External Subdomain Apply for jobs
A-TITLE Visit the Civil Service job site to find and apply for jobs
/career-matcher/Text duplicate Try our career matcher
https://www.civilservicejobs.s...External Subdomain Text duplicate Apply for jobs
A-TITLE Visit the Civil Service job site to find and apply for jobs
/career-matcherSubdomain Try our Career Matcher
/civil-service-employee-benefits/Subdomain Read more about Benefits
/departments/Subdomain Find out more
/professions/Subdomain Text duplicate Find out more
/our-locations/Subdomain Text duplicate Find out more
https://www.civilservicejobs.s...New window External Subdomain Civil Service Jobs
/how-to-apply/Subdomain Learn about the Application Process
/apprenticeships/Subdomain Explore Apprenticeships in the Civil Service
https://www.civilservicejobs.s...External Subdomain See all vacancies on Civil Service Jobs
/Subdomain Home
/departments/Subdomain Text duplicate Departments
/professions/Subdomain Text duplicate Professions
/our-locations/Subdomain Our Locations
/about-us/Subdomain What is the Civil Service
/workingforthecivilservice/Subdomain Working for the Civil Service
/civil-service-employee-benefits/Subdomain Employee Benefits
/civil-service-networks/Subdomain Civil Service Networks
/apprenticeships/Subdomain Apprenticeships
/civil-service-care-leavers-in...Subdomain Care Leavers Internship
/fast-stream/Subdomain Civil Service Fast Stream
/executive-leadershipSubdomain Executive Leadership
/publicsectorresourcing/Subdomain Contracting Opportunities
/secondments/Subdomain Civil Service Secondments
/how-to-apply/Subdomain About the application process
/a-guide-to-civil-service-succ...Subdomain Civil Service Success Profiles
/behaviours/Subdomain Civil Service Behaviours
/how-to-write-your-cv/Subdomain How to write your CV
/how-to-write-your-ps/Subdomain How to write your Personal Statement
/assessments-and-interviews/Subdomain Assessments and Interviews
/reasonable-adjustments/Subdomain Reasonable Adjustments
https://www.civilservicejobs.s...New window External Subdomain Civil Service Jobs Support
/great-place-to-work-for-veter...Subdomain Great place to work for Veterans
/prison-leaver-recruitment/Subdomain Prison Leaver Recruitment
/disability-confident-scheme/Subdomain Disability Confident Scheme
/about-gfie/Subdomain Going Forward into Employment
https://en-gb.facebook.com/ukc...External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/ukci...External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://x.com/UKCivilServiceExternal X
/Anchor Back to top
/cookies/Subdomain Cookies
/privacy-notice/Subdomain Privacy Notice
https://www.gov.uk/government/...New window External Disability Confident
http://civilservicecommission....New window External Subdomain Civil Service Commission
/accessibility-statement/Subdomain Accessibility Statement
/terms-and-conditions/Subdomain Terms and conditions
https://www.nationalarchives.g...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Open Government Licence v3.0
https://www.nationalarchives.g...New window Nofollow External Subdomain © Crown copyright

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.civil-service-careers.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 0.45 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 (1,892 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateTue, 20 May 2025 11:39:56 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
set-cookie178 Characters
serverApache
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
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 129 referring domains.
This page has 319 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 115 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk
Home | Civil Service Careers
Discover rewarding careers in government- the Civil Service offers an inclusive and innovative workplace, flexible working, and opportunities for growth and development. Find your ideal fit with our Career Matcher tool.

Most important keywords

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Civil91%Check
Service91%Check
Civil Service91%Check
Civil Service Careers87%Check
career79%Check
Careers75%Check
Civil Service Jobs74%Check
career matcher65%Check
Civil servants64%Check
Find62%Check
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