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Meta information
100% 
Page quality
42% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
81% 
Server
54% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.49 s
File size
256.70 kB
Words
434
Media files
42
Number of links
72 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
GatenbySanderson - We Find, Recruit and Develop Leaders
The length of the page title is perfect. (538 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
GatenbySanderson delivers world-class executive search, interim leadership and leadership development across the public sector.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (802 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.gatenbysanderson.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-gb
Server location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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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og:descriptionGatenbySanderson delivers world-class executive search, interim leadership and leadership development across the public sector.
og:urlhttps://www.gatenbysanderson.com/
og:site_nameGatenbySanderson
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 434 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
17.5% of the text are stop words.
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 18 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 16 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=5.0" 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 9 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
4 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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...Seasonal-posts-2024-2-e1743615023545.jpgClare Tsangari - Senior Marketing Executive
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...t/uploads/2023/07/team-Alex-Williams.jpgAlex Williams - Senior Consultant
...t/uploads/2023/04/team-Erin-Hannah-1.jpgErin Hannah - Senior Project Co-ordinator
...ent/uploads/2023/03/team-Matt-Malone.jpgMatt Malone - Principal Consultant
.../2023/04/logo-Nuclear-Waste-Services.pngNuclear Waste Services
.../2023/05/logo-The-Pensions-Regulator.pngThe Pensions Regulator
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...si-Cadwaladr-University-Health-Board.pngBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
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...hamptonshire-Fire-and-Rescue-Service.pngNorthamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service
.../2022/07/logo-UK-Research-Innovation.pngUK Research and Innovation
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...s/2023/03/logo-the-road-safety-trust.pngThe Road Safety Trust
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...2023/03/logo-Birmingham-City-Council.pngBirmingham City Council
...s/2023/04/logo-National-Crime-Agency.pngNational Crime Agency
...-National-Centre-for-Social-Research.pngNational Centre for Social Research
...5/05/Education-article-news-views-23.pngGatenbySanderson Hepi report
...ive-recruitment-news-views-thumbnail.pngBlended rainbow image with the words Inclusive recruitment overlaid in white
...5/05/Education-article-news-views-21.pngAlison Elton: The Future of Digital Leadership in Higher Education: Diverse Pathways and Emerging Trends
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...ation-article-news-views-17-1200x789.pngSally Wilson IIM Survey GatenbySanderson
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...uploads/2023/01/footer-logos-block-1.pngAccreditation Logos - Block Onefooter-logos-block-1
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 44 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Job search
H2 What we do
H2 Sector expertise
H2 Shaping a more diverse future
H2 Featured Jobs
H2 Head of Care & Support
H2 Chair of Group Audit, Risk & Assurance Committee
H2 Head of Customer Engagement
H2 Interim Assistant Director of Corporate Finance (deputy s151)
H2 Interim Head of Facilities Management
H2 Meet the team
H2 David Ward
H2 Kevin Gordon
H2 Alison Elton
H2 Clare Tsangari
H2 Jade Beckles
H2 Alex Williams
H2 Erin Hannah
H2 Matt Malone
H2 Clients we work with
H2 News & Views
H2 Who leads our universities? Inside the recruitment of vice-chancellors
H2 Building a barrier-free candidate experience
H2 Digital Education: Diverse Pathways and Emerging Trends
H2 PPMA 50th Anniversary – Key takeaways and award winners
H2 LGR: Embracing the future
H2 Not for Profit: who’s new and moving on?
H2 IIM Survey 2025
H2 Digital future: Building internal and Hybrid teams
H3 Associate Consultant
H3 Pan-sector
H3 Chief Executive
H3 Principal Consultant
H3 Education
H3 Senior Marketing Executive
H3 Pan-sector Duplicate text
H3 Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Manager
H3 Senior Consultant
H3 Not for Profit
H3 Senior Project Co-ordinator
H3 Health
H3 Principal Consultant Duplicate text
H3 Central Government Faith Regulation & Professional Standards
H3 Terms
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 6 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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/diversity/Subdomain Diversity
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/news-views/Subdomain News & Views
https://joingatenbysanderson.com/External Work for us
/contact/Subdomain Contact
https://www.gatenbysanderson.com/No Text
/job-search/Subdomain Search for jobs
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https://www.gatenbysanderson.com/No Text
https://www.gatenbysanderson.com/Subdomain Text duplicate Home
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/what-we-do/Subdomain Text duplicate What we do
/what-we-do/executive-search/Subdomain Text duplicate Executive Search
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/news-views/Subdomain Text duplicate News & Views
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/contact/Subdomain Text duplicate Contact
/job-search/Subdomain Job search
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/sector-expertise/Subdomain Sector expertise
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/diversity/Subdomain Shaping a more diverse future
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https://join-caredorset.co.uk/...External Text duplicate View details
/job/GSi123632/Interim-Assista...Subdomain Text duplicate View details
/job/GSi123763/Interim-Head-of...Subdomain Text duplicate View details
/job-search/View all Jobs
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/team/kevin-gordon/Subdomain Kevin Gordon Chief Executive
IMG-ALT Kevin Gordon - Chief Executive
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IMG-ALT Clare Tsangari - Senior Marketing Executive
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IMG-ALT Alex Williams - Senior Consultant
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/team/View all the team
/news-views/View all news
/web-policy/Subdomain Web Policy
/cookie-policy/Subdomain Cookie Policy
/privacy-statement/Subdomain Privacy Statement
/anti-slavery-policy/Subdomain Anti Slavery Policy
/accessibility-statement/Subdomain Accessibility Statement
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A-TITLE Follow on LinkedIn
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.gatenbysanderson.com/"
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 slow (1.49 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.
This page loads 13 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 16 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (257 kB).

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 61 referring domains.
This page has 103 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 54 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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Sector56%Check
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