Explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
75% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
95% 
Server
91% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.17 s
File size
18.40 kB
Words
372
Media files
0
Number of links
14 internal / 13 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Explore our statistics and data - Explore education statistics - GOV.UK
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 628 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Find, download and explore official Department for Education (DfE) statistics and data in England.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (599 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Netherlands
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)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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titleExplore our statistics and data
descriptionFind, download and explore official Department for Education (DfE) statistics and data in England.
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twitter:descriptionFind, download and explore official Department for Education (DfE) statistics and data in England.
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og:descriptionFind, download and explore official Department for Education (DfE) statistics and data in England.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 372 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
35.8% 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.
6 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 15.75 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
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 7 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

No media files were found.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Explore our statistics and data
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Explore our statistics and data
H2 Important update
H2 Find statistics and data
H2 Create your own tables
H2 Supporting information
H2 Related services
H2 Contact us
H2 Is this page useful?
H2 Support links
H3 Statistics release calendar
H3 Data catalogue
H3 Methodology
H3 Glossary
H3 Statistics at DfE
H3 Compare school and college performance
H3 Get information about schools
H3 Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool
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.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 13 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.gov.uk/External No Text
/Explore education statistics
https://forms.office.com/Pages...New window External Subdomain feedback
/data-catalogue?dataSetType=apiview them in the data catalogue
https://api.education.gov.uk/s...External Subdomain API documentation
/Home
/find-statisticsExplore
/data-tablesCreate
https://www.gov.uk/search/rese...External Statistics release calendar
/data-catalogueData catalogue
/methodologyMethodology
/glossaryGlossary
https://www.gov.uk/government/...External Statistics at DfE
https://www.gov.uk/school-perf...External Compare school and college performance
https://www.get-information-sc...External Subdomain Get information about schools
https://financial-benchmarking...External Subdomain Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool
/cookiesCookies
https://www.gov.uk/government/...External Privacy notice
/contact-usContact us
/accessibility-statementAccessibility statement
/glossaryText duplicate Glossary
/help-supportHelp and support
https://www.gov.uk/government/...External Department for Education
https://osr.statisticsauthorit...External Subdomain Office for Statistics Regulation
https://www.nationalarchives.g...External Subdomain Open Government Licence v3.0
https://www.nationalarchives.g...External Subdomain © Crown copyright

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.17 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (18 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 133 referring domains.
This page has 213 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 99 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

# *
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /data-tables/fast-track/
Disallow: /data-tables/permalink/
Disallow: /subscriptions/

# Host
Host: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk

# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/server-sitemap.xml

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explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk
Explore our statistics and data - Explore education statistics - GO...
Find, download and explore official Department for Education (DfE) statistics and data in England.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
statistics94%Check
Explore statistics93%Check
Explore90%Check
Explore education statistics87%Check
data77%Check
education73%Check
data catalogue60%Check
gov56%Check
Schools and Colleges51%Check
Find50%Check

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