Doncaster.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
42% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
54% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
4.06 s
File size
1,688.80 kB
Words
410
Media files
7
Number of links
75 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
City of Doncaster Council
The length of the page title is perfect. (229 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Providing online services & information about Doncaster Council & the wider borough for locals, tourists and the business community.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (819 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 States of America
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
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
authorDoncaster Council
application-nameDMBC
msapplication-TileColor#FFCE00
msapplication-TileImage/tileicon.png
apple-mobile-web-app-capableyes
apple-mobile-web-app-titleDMBC
generatorOrchard
descriptionProviding online services & information about Doncaster Council & the wider borough for locals, tourists and the business community.
og:descriptionProviding online services & information about Doncaster Council & the wider borough for locals, tourists and the business community.
og:typearticle
og:imagehttp://www.doncaster.gov.uk/Themes/DMBC.Theme2/Content/images/template/facebook-card.png
langen
twitter:descriptionProviding online services & information about Doncaster Council & the wider borough for locals, tourists and the business community.
twitter:site@mydoncaster
twitter:creator@mydoncaster
twitter:imagehttp://www.doncaster.gov.uk/Themes/DMBC.Theme2/Content/images/template/twitter-card.png
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:titleCity of Doncaster Council
fb:pages136464303105256
og:urlhttps://www.doncaster.gov.uk/
og:titleCity of Doncaster Council
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
No paragraphs were detected.
There are only 410 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
27.1% 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 (1688.8 kB).
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" 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 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)
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
....Theme2/Content/images/template/logo.pngDoncaster Council
...m Only/icons/business-licensing-icon.svgNo alt attribute provided
...onsive/Webteam Only/icons/coins-thin.pngCoins in a stack
...sive/Webteam Only/visit-doncaster250.pngVisit Doncaster
...ontent/images/template/bus-doncaster.pngBusiness Doncaster
...heme2/Content/images/template/gov-uk.pngGov.uk
.../Webteam Only/your-life-doncaster250.pngyourlifedoncaster.co.uk

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Good morning, How can we help you today?
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Good morning, How can we help you today?
H2 Latest News
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.doncaster.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.doncaster.gov.uk/IMG-ALT Doncaster Council
/ProfileSign In / Up
https://www.doncaster.gov.uk/Home
https://www.doncaster.gov.uk/Resident
https://www.doncaster.gov.uk/Business
https://www.doncaster.gov.uk/Visitors
https://www.doncaster.gov.uk/newsNews
/mayor/mayor-homeMayor & Cabinet
https://doncaster.moderngov.co...External Subdomain Council Chamber
/Search/AtoZ/Index/AA
/Search/AtoZ/Index/BB
/Search/AtoZ/Index/CC
/Search/AtoZ/Index/DD
/Search/AtoZ/Index/EE
/Search/AtoZ/Index/FF
/Search/AtoZ/Index/GG
/Search/AtoZ/Index/HH
/Search/AtoZ/Index/II
/Search/AtoZ/Index/JJ
/Search/AtoZ/Index/KK
/Search/AtoZ/Index/LL
/Search/AtoZ/Index/MM
/Search/AtoZ/Index/NN
/Search/AtoZ/Index/OO
/Search/AtoZ/Index/PP
/Search/AtoZ/Index/QQ
/Search/AtoZ/Index/RR
/Search/AtoZ/Index/SS
/Search/AtoZ/Index/TT
/Search/AtoZ/Index/UU
/Search/AtoZ/Index/VV
/Search/AtoZ/Index/WW
/Search/AtoZ/Index/XX
/Search/AtoZ/Index/YY
/Search/AtoZ/Index/ZZ
/apply-for-itApply for it
/report-itReport it
/pay-for-itPay for it
/track-itTrack it
/services/adult-social-careAdult Social Care
/services/animal-welfare-pests...Animal welfare, pests & pollution
/services/bins-recycling-wasteBins, recycling & waste
/services/births-marriages-dea...Births, marriages, deaths & nationality
/services/business-investmentBusiness & licensing
/services/schoolsChildren, young people & families
/services/council-tax-benefits...Cost of Living
IMG-ALT Coins in a stack
/services/the-council-democracyCouncil & democracy
/services/council-tax-benefitsCouncil Tax & benefits
/services/crime-anti-social-be...Crime, anti-social behaviour & nuisance
/services/culture-leisure-tourismCulture, leisure & tourism
/services/emergenciesEmergencies
/services/environmentalEnvironment
/services/get-in-touchGet in touch
/services/health-wellbeingHealth & wellbeing (incl. public health)
/services/housingHousing
/services/librariesLibraries
/services/planningPlanning
/services/transport-streets-pa...Transport, streets & parking
/services/work-jobs-trainingWork, jobs & training
/News/doncaster-s-first-ever-t...Doncaster’s First Ever Tree of the Year Competition Is Launched – We Want To Hear About Your Favourite Tree! 15 April 2026 City of Doncaster Council have lau...
/News/new-awards-launch-to-cel...New Awards Launch to Celebrate Hexthorpe in Bloom 14 April 2026 Hexthorpe residents are being encouraged to take pride in their local area and put themselves...
https://www.doncaster.gov.uk/newsMore updates
/services/council-tax-benefits...Council Tax
/services/bins-recycling-wasteBins, recycling and waste
/services/bins-recycling-waste...Household Waste Recycling Centres
/services/planning/planning-ap...Planning applications
/services/schools/school-admis...School admissions
/services/schools/school-holid...School holidays and term dates
/services/work-jobs-training/w...Council jobs
/cookiesCookies
/disclaimerDisclaimer
/services/the-council-democrac...Privacy
/accessibilityAccessibility
/Eforms/BusGenEform/Index/391Website feedback
https://goo.gl/maps/PdML18aUhn...New window External Find us on Google Maps
/services/get-in-touch/contact...Contact the Council
https://x.com/MyDoncasterNew window External Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/MyDon...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/mydo...New window External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.tiktok.com/@doncas...New window External Subdomain TikTok
https://www.visitdoncaster.com/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Visit Doncaster
https://www.businessdoncaster....New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Business Doncaster
https://www.gov.uk/New window External IMG-ALT Gov.uk
https://www.yourlifedoncaster....New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT yourlifedoncaster.co.uk

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.doncaster.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 is very slow (4.06 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is very large (1,689 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 16 Apr 2026 23:49:34 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
cache-controlprivate
set-cookie127 Characters
varyAccept-Encoding
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
x-frame-optionssameorigin
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
referrer-policyno-referrer-when-downgrade
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
content-encodinggzip
servercloudflare
cf-ray9ed71644ddcb30cf-FRA
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 349 referring domains.
This page has 82,858 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 215 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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City of Doncaster Council
Providing online services & information about Doncaster Council & the wider borough for locals, tourists and the business community.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Doncaster78%Check
Doncaster Council71%Check
Council64%Check
Good55%Check
morning55%Check
help55%Check
today55%Check
Business54%Check
City51%Check
information51%Check
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