Colchester.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
77% 
Page quality
47% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
47% 
Server
92% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.56 s
File size
116.10 kB
Words
417
Media files
11
Number of links
101 internal / 18 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home · Colchester City Council
The length of the page title is perfect. (282 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
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-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 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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

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viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
google-site-verification0_bh327yA-LdhKsagI50xdXAbbnuGF6jxnOrh4CsyTk
langen-us
twitter:site@yourcolchester
twitter:titleColchester City Council
twitter:imagehttps://cbccrmdata.blob.core.windows.net/noteattachment/CBC-null-preview-image-cbc-sharing-image-min.jpg
twitter:image:width512
twitter:image:height512
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
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og:image:width512
og:image:height512
og:titleColchester City Council
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 417 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
22.5% 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.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 17 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=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...com/resource/powerappsportal/img/web.pngweb
...m/resource/powerappsportal/img/close.pngclose
...azurewebsites.net/assets/images/logo.svgcolchester.gov.uk logo
...azurewebsites.net/assets/images/logo.svgNo alt attribute provided
...ites.net/assets/images/icon-facebook.svgFacebook
...ites.net/assets/images/icon-linkedin.svgLinkedIn
...sites.net/assets/images/icon-twitter.svgTwitter
...sites.net/assets/images/icon-youtube.svgYouTube
...stomer-Service-Excellence-Logo-White.svgCustomer Service Excellence
...hment/CBC-null-footer-logo-full logo.svgNorth East Essex Health and Wellbeing alliance
...hment/CBC-null-AFC-Logo-AFC-Logo (1).pngArmed Forces Covenant

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to Colchester City Council
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to Colchester City Council
H2 Services
H2 Information
H2 Your account
H2 Empty heading
H2 Services Duplicate text
H2 Latest news
H2 Devolution and Local Government Reorganisation (LGR)
H2 Subscribe
H2 Information Duplicate text
H2 Contact
H3 Cost of living support
H3 Recycling and rubbish
H3 Planning
H3 Council Tax
H3 Business services
H3 Benefits and support
H3 Make a payment
H3 Housing
H3 Elections
H3 Your local community
H3 Environmental Protection
H3 Parking and travel
H3 Leisure, events and museums
H3 Jobs
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 4 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 18 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.colchester.gov.uk/Colchester City Council
IMG-ALT colchester.gov.uk logo
/council-servicesView all our services by A-Z
/businessBusiness
/our-councilYour Council
/latest-news/Latest News
/service-signin/Sign in / Register
/planning/Planning
/building-controlBuilding control
/local-land-chargesLocal land charges
/recycling-and-rubbishRecycling and rubbish
/council-taxCouncil Tax
/housing-benefit-and-lcts/Benefits and support
/make-a-payment/Make a payment
/elections/Elections
/housingHousing
/our-communityYour local community
/parking-and-travelParking and travel
/environmental-protection/Environmental Protection
https://www.visitcolchester.com/External Subdomain Leisure, events and museums
/businessText duplicate Business
/our-councilText duplicate Your Council
/report-a-problemReport a problem
/latest-news/Latest news
/service-signin/Sign In
/service-signin/Register
/council-servicesText duplicate View all our services by A-Z
/council-services(View our services A-Z)
/cost-of-living-support/Cost of living support
/cost-of-living-support/?id&pa...Warm welcoming spaces
/cost-of-living-support/?id&pa...urgent financial assistance
/supporting-colchester/busines...support for businesses
/recycling-and-rubbish/Text duplicate Recycling and rubbish
/missed-bins/Missed collections
/your-recycling-calendar/your recycling calendar
/recycling-containers/order recycling containers and plastic sacks
/planning/Text duplicate Planning
/planning/Text duplicate Planning
/building-controlBuilding Control
/local-land-charges/Text duplicate Local land charges
/local-plan/Colchester Local Plan
/council-tax/Text duplicate Council Tax
/council-tax/register-for-coun...Register for Council Tax
/make-a-payment/council-tax/pay your Council Tax
/council-tax/discounts and exemptions
/EvidenceUpload/upload evidence
/business/Business services
/business-rates/Business rates
/business-waste/business waste
/licensing/licensing
/supporting-colchester/busines...funding and support
/housing-benefit-local-council...Text duplicate Benefits and support
/housing-benefit-local-council...Make a claim
/evidenceuploadText duplicate upload evidence
/housing-benefit-local-council...information for landlords
https://online.colchester.gov....External Subdomain sign in to your account
/make-a-payment/Text duplicate Make a payment
/make-a-payment/council-tax/Pay your Council Tax
/newest-make-a-payment/busines...pay your business rates
/newest-make-a-payment/housing...make a housing benefit overpayment
/newest-make-a-payment/housing...pay your housing rent and service charges
/housing/Text duplicate Housing
http://www.cbhomes.org.uk/appl...External Subdomain Apply for housing
/evidenceuploadText duplicate upload evidence
http://www.cbhomes.org.uk/serv...External Subdomain Colchester Borough Homes
/private-sector-housing/Private Sector Housing
/elections/Text duplicate Elections
https://www.gov.uk/register-to...External Register to vote
/our-community/Text duplicate Your local community
/StreetCleaningRequest/Street cleaning
/recycling-and-rubbish/fly-tip...report fly-tipping
/info/cbc-article/?catid=find-...pay a fixed penalty notice
/environmental-protection/Text duplicate Environmental Protection
/environmental-protection/book...Pest control
/environmental-protection/repo...report a noise nuisance
/environmental-protection/repo...report a stray dog
/parking-and-travel/Text duplicate Parking and travel
http://www1.parkingpartnership...External Subdomain Parking permits
/parking-and-travel/car parks
/parking-and-travel/apply/road closures
http://www.essexhighways.org/T...External Subdomain Park and Ride
https://www.visitcolchester.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Leisure, events and museums
https://colchesterleisureworld...External Leisure World
https://www.aqua-springs.co.uk/External Subdomain Aqua Springs
https://colchester-events.co.uk/External Colchester Events
https://cimuseums.org.uk/External Museums
/jobs/Jobs
/jobs/apprenticeships-work-exp...Apprenticeships, completing work experience, and/or volunteering
/jobs/things-you-need-to-know/Things you need to know when making an application
/council-servicesView all our services A-Z
/latest-news/(View all)
/info/cbc-article/?catid=lates...Trivial anchor text
Read more
/info/cbc-article/?catid=lates...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
/info/cbc-article/?catid=lates...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
/devolution-and-local-governme...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
https://pages.comms.colchester...External Subdomain Subscribe
/jobsText duplicate Jobs
/council-data/foi/Freedom of information
/compliments-and-complaintsHelp us get it right
/customer-service-standardCustomer Service Standards
http://www.colchesteramphora.com/External Subdomain Colchester Commercial Holdings Ltd
/coronavirusCoronavirus (COVID-19)
/sustainabilitySustainability
/info/cbc-article/?catid=our-c...Fraud
/strategic-plan/Strategic plan
/report-a-problemText duplicate Report a problem
/council-servicesContact our services
https://www.facebook.com/enjoy...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Facebook
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain IMG-ALT LinkedIn
https://twitter.com/yourcolche...External IMG-ALT Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/user/C...External Subdomain IMG-ALT YouTube
/info/cbc-article/?catid=lates...IMG-ALT Customer Service Excellence
/health-alliance/IMG-ALT North East Essex Health and Wellbeing alliance
/armed-forces-home/IMG-ALT Armed Forces Covenant
/helpHelp
/privacy-policyPrivacy policy
/cookie-policyCookie policy
/accessibility-policyAccessibility policy
/termsTerms and conditions
/disclaimerDisclaimer and copyright

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.colchester.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 0.56 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 (116 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
dateWed, 13 Aug 2025 18:24:59 GMT
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access-control-allow-methodsGET, OPTIONS
access-control-allow-originhttps://cbcliveb2c.b2clogin.com
cache-controlno-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
content-encodinggzip
expires-1
pragmano-cache
set-cookie258 Characters
varyAccept-Encoding
content-length29479
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
x-ms-request-id80658c70-625f-4b40-b50b-abab208b4724
x-ms-portal-appsite-d40aeee5-a782-45ad-8f5a-540d634ba4ad-EUn
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
server-timingresponse-code; desc=200
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 253 referring domains.
This page has 7,742 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 159 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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www.colchester.gov.uk
Home · Colchester City Council

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Colchester75%Check
Colchester City Council69%Check
Council66%Check
City Council65%Check
Colchester Events57%Check
Council Tax54%Check
service51%Check
Welcome50%Check
Services47%Check
Local47%Check
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