Consult.communities.gov.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
76% 
Page quality
87% 
Page structure
78% 
Link structure
82% 
Server
86% 
External factors
45% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.27 s
File size
36.60 kB
Words
826
Media files
1
Number of links
26 internal / 4 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government - Citizen Space
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 652 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Find and participate in consultations run by Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
The length of the meta description is perfect. (619 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
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
Server location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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
descriptionFind and participate in consultations run by Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 826 words. That's ok.
33.9% 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.
15 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 22.93 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 17 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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
/os-custom-logos/mhclg_blk_master_aw.pngMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Consultations
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (13 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Consultations
H2 Open consultations
H2 Closed consultations
H3 Local Government Pension Scheme in England and Wales - Access and Fairness
H3 Fair Funding Review 2.0
H3 Consultation on how to implement Social Rent convergence
H3 Building Control Independent Panel call for evidence
H3 Private Parking Code of Practice Consultation
H3 Improving the Energy Efficiency of Socially Rented Homes in England
H3 A Reformed Decent Homes Standard for Social and Privately Rented Homes Consultation
H3 Modernising and improving the administration of council tax
H3 Consultation: Changing the way government allocates Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) funding to local authorities in England
H3 Consultation on Proposals for Local Government Reorganisation in Surrey
H3 Homes for Ukraine data migration survey
H3 Reform of planning committees: technical consultation
H3 Planning Reform Working Paper: Reforming Site Thresholds
H3 Planning Reform Working Paper: Speeding Up Build Out
Baselink: https://consult.communities.gov.uk/
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
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.
There are 4 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Subdomain Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.gov.uk/government/...External IMG-ALT Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
/Home
/consultation_finder/Find activities
/building-safety-consultations/Building Safety
/set_language?lang=en&came_fro...Subdomain English
/set_language?lang=cy&came_fro...Subdomain Cymraeg
https://www.gov.uk/government/...External Text duplicate Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
/local-government-pensions/loc...Subdomain Local Government Pension Scheme in England and Wales - Access and Fairness
/local-government-finance/loca...Subdomain Fair Funding Review 2.0
/social-rents/consultation-soc...Subdomain Consultation on how to implement Social Rent convergence
/building-control-profession/b...Subdomain Building Control Independent Panel call for evidence
/off-road-parking-team/private...Subdomain Private Parking Code of Practice Consultation
/social-housing/srs-mees-consu...Subdomain Improving the Energy Efficiency of Socially Rented Homes in England
/decent-homes-team/a-reformed-...Subdomain A Reformed Decent Homes Standard for Social and Privately Rented Homes Consultation
/local-government-finance/mode...Subdomain Modernising and improving the administration of council tax
/home-adaptations-policy/dfg-f...Subdomain Consultation: Changing the way government allocates Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) funding to local authorities in England
/consultation_finder/?_collect...Subdomain Anchor See all open consultations
/local-government-reorganisati...Subdomain Consultation on Proposals for Local Government Reorganisation in Surrey
/digital-delivery/homes-for-uk...Subdomain Homes for Ukraine data migration survey
/planning/reform-of-planning-c...Subdomain Reform of planning committees: technical consultation
/planning/reforming-site-thres...Subdomain Planning Reform Working Paper: Reforming Site Thresholds
/housing-markets-and-strategy/...Subdomain Planning Reform Working Paper: Speeding Up Build Out
/consultation_finder/?_collect...Subdomain Anchor See all closed consultations
/accessibility_policy/Subdomain Accessibility
/cookie_policy/Subdomain Cookies
/privacy_policy/Subdomain Privacy
/support/Subdomain Help / feedback
https://www.delib.net/citizen_...External Subdomain Citizen Space
https://www.delib.net/External Subdomain Delib

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://consult.communities.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)
This page loads 5 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.27 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (37 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateThu, 07 Aug 2025 22:25:05 GMT
serverApache
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
cache-controlno-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
expiresThu, 07 Aug 2025 22:24:45 GMT
accept-rangesbytes
age20
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
content-length8023
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 15 referring domains.
This page only has 21 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 12 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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consult.communities.gov.uk
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government - Citizen Space
Find and participate in consultations run by Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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

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Communities Local71%Check
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Consultations66%Check
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Housing59%Check
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