Early-years.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
73% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
70% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.18 s
File size
163.70 kB
Words
1149
Media files
20
Number of links
86 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Early Years - the organisation for young children
The length of the page title is perfect. (428 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.early-years.org/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-gb
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-gb
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
The average number of words per sentence of 25.56 words is high.
This page contains 1149 words. That's ok.
31.5% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
18 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The following tag is repeated too often: northern ireland childcare subsidy scheme
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

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...4c3a-b128-a3587153f88f/60+years+logo.pngEarly Years - the organisation for young children
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...6/PeacePlus-logo-stripes-GoI-NIE-rgb.jpgNo alt attribute provided
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...adc5eb/invest-in-people-gold-R-white.pngInvestors in people gold logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Supporting Families using Tax Free Childcare
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Supporting Families using Tax Free Childcare
H1 New Members Area
H1 The ASPIRE Project
H1 Our Work
H1 Latest News
H2 Northern Ireland Childcare Subsidy Scheme
H2 Early Years eNews
H3 1st April 2025 – 31st March 2026
H3 ADVOCACY AND RESEARCH
H3 EVIDENCE-INFORMED PRACTICE
H3 PRACTICE SUPPORT
H3 GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT
H3 LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT
H3 SUSTAINABILITY
H3 © 2025 Early Years - the organisation for young children
H3 Info
H3 Action
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
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 10 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.early-years.org/IMG-ALT Early Years - the organisation for young children
https://www.early-years.org/cartCart 0
/searchNo Text
/about-usAbout Us
https://www.early-years.org/newsNews
/work-for-usWork For Us
/membersMembers
https://www.early-years.org/shopShop
/membershipJoin now
/evidence-informed-practiceEvidence-informed practice
/aspireThe ASPIRE Project
/the-pathway-fundThe Pathway Fund
https://www.early-years.org/nicssChildcare Subsidy Scheme
/highscopeHighScope
/centres-of-excellenceCentres of Excellence (FEYC & SureStarts)
/supporting-practicePractice Support
/internationalGlobal Engagement
/specialist-support-service-20...Early Years Specialist Support Service
/early-years-centre-of-excelle...Early Years Centre Of Excellence Award
/all-party-group-on-early-educ...All Party Group on Early Education and Childcare
/salary-serviceSalary Service
/early-learning-and-care-sectorEarly Learning and Care Sector
https://www.facebook.com/early...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://x.com/earlyyearsorgNew window External No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.early-years.org/cartText duplicate Cart 0
/about-usText duplicate About Us
/our-work-1Our Work
/evidence-informed-practiceText duplicate Evidence-informed practice
/aspireText duplicate The ASPIRE Project
/the-pathway-fundText duplicate The Pathway Fund
https://www.early-years.org/nicssText duplicate Childcare Subsidy Scheme
/highscopeText duplicate HighScope
/centres-of-excellenceText duplicate Centres of Excellence (FEYC & SureStarts)
/supporting-practiceText duplicate Practice Support
/internationalText duplicate Global Engagement
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/early-years-centre-of-excelle...Text duplicate Early Years Centre Of Excellence Award
/all-party-group-on-early-educ...Text duplicate All Party Group on Early Education and Childcare
/salary-serviceText duplicate Salary Service
/early-learning-and-care-sectorText duplicate Early Learning and Care Sector
https://www.early-years.org/newsText duplicate News
/work-for-usText duplicate Work For Us
https://www.early-years.org/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Early Years - the organisation for young children
/membersText duplicate Members
https://www.early-years.org/shopText duplicate Shop
/membershipText duplicate Join now
https://www.early-years.org/nicssLearn more
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/membersSubdomain Sign in here
/membershipBecome a member now
/aspireText duplicate Learn more
/evidence-informed-practiceText duplicate Learn more
/supporting-practiceText duplicate Learn more
/internationalText duplicate Learn more
/the-pathway-fundthe Pathway Fund
https://www.early-years.org/nicssNorthern Ireland Childcare Subsidy Scheme
/aspireASPIRE
/news/nicss-for-school-aged-ch...IMG-ALT Extension of the NICSS for School Aged Childcare
/news/nicss-for-school-aged-ch...Text duplicate Extension of the NICSS for School Aged Childcare
/news/early-years-60th-anniver...IMG-ALT Early Years 60th Anniversary at Annual Conference 2025
/news/early-years-60th-anniver...Text duplicate Early Years 60th Anniversary at Annual Conference 2025
/news/greencode-day-early-year...IMG-ALT GREENCODE DAY – Early Years Multiplier Event
/news/greencode-day-early-year...Text duplicate GREENCODE DAY – Early Years Multiplier Event
/news/early-years-marks-60th-a...IMG-ALT Early Years Marks 60th Anniversary at Annual Conference
/news/early-years-marks-60th-a...Text duplicate Early Years Marks 60th Anniversary at Annual Conference
/news/highscope-virtual-instit...IMG-ALT HighScope Virtual Institute: Introduction to the Preschool Curriculum Approach
/news/highscope-virtual-instit...Text duplicate HighScope Virtual Institute: Introduction to the Preschool Curriculum Approach
/news/nicss-reduces-costs-for-...IMG-ALT Childcare Subsidy Scheme reduces costs for working families across Northern Ireland
/news/nicss-reduces-costs-for-...Text duplicate Childcare Subsidy Scheme reduces costs for working families across Northern Ireland
/news/integrating-stem-in-earl...IMG-ALT Celebrating the International Day of Play!
/news/integrating-stem-in-earl...Text duplicate Celebrating the International Day of Play!
/news/apg-220525IMG-ALT APG on Early Education and Childcare - 22/05/25
/news/apg-220525Text duplicate APG on Early Education and Childcare - 22/05/25
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https://www.early-years.org/Anchor New Members Area Coming Soon
https://www.early-years.org/Anchor What We Do
https://www.early-years.org/Anchor Text duplicate The ASPIRE Project
https://www.early-years.org/Anchor Text duplicate Our Work
https://www.early-years.org/Anchor latest news
/about-usAbout us
/evidence-informed-practiceOur work
https://www.early-years.org/newsText duplicate News
/centres-of-excellenceSubdomain Centre Of Excellence
https://www.early-years.org/shopText duplicate Shop
https://www.early-years.org/blogBlog
/contactContact
/membershipBecome a member
https://hr.moorepay.co.uk/hr/r...New window External Subdomain Jobs
/ey-sitemapSitemap Search
/privacy-policyPrivacy Policy
https://www.facebook.com/early...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://x.com/earlyyearsorgNew window External No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://diversity-mark-ni.co.uk/New window External IMG-ALT bronze_diversity_mark_white.png
https://www.investorsinpeople....New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Investors in people gold logo

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.early-years.org/"
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 excellent with 0.18 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (164 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 38 referring domains.
This page has 406 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 37 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Early74%Check
Years74%Check
Early Years74%Check
Early Years Specialist63%Check
Early Years eNews63%Check
Childcare61%Check
Support59%Check
Early Learning58%Check
Early Education57%Check
Families56%Check

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