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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
94% 
Page structure
64% 
Link structure
90% 
Server
91% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.31 s
File size
94.70 kB
Words
551
Media files
12
Number of links
49 internal / 4 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Gateshead Council - Gateshead Council
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (360 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
Information on Gateshead Council services and policies, including schools, leisure, libraries, Council Tax, benefits, business and more.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (826 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.gateshead.gov.uk/
There is a valid canonical link 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)
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
descriptionInformation on Gateshead Council services and policies, including schools, leisure, libraries, Council Tax, benefits, business and more.
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
langen
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:titleGateshead Council - Gateshead Council
twitter:descriptionInformation on Gateshead Council services and policies, including schools, leisure, libraries, Council Tax, benefits, business and more.
og:typewebsite
og:titleGateshead Council - Gateshead Council
og:descriptionInformation on Gateshead Council services and policies, including schools, leisure, libraries, Council Tax, benefits, business and more.
og:urlhttps://www.gateshead.gov.uk/
og:site_nameGateshead Council

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 551 words. That's ok.
38.5% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
7 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 17.79 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 11 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
/images/logo--gatesheadcouncil.svgGateshead Council logo
/images/icon--search.svgSearch
/images/logo--gatesheadcouncil.svgGateshead Council logo
...-volunteers/original.jpg?m=1748973563227Tenant volunteers
...E-RECYCLING/original.png?m=1748882238730VAPE RECYCLING
...VITS-SCHEME/original.jpg?m=1748443697513HEALTHY START VITS SCHEME
...e-600-x-400/original.jpg?m=1712055613177Image of The Tyne Bridge - restoring an icon
...ering-image/original.jpg?m=1624879156017Image of Fostering
...arbon-image/original.png?m=1621427156307Image of Climate change in Gateshead
...px-by-400px/original.png?m=1663089399013Image of Warm Spaces in Gateshead
...shead-image/original.jpg?m=1624879272753Image of Business Gateshead
/images/logo--gatesheadcouncil.svgGateshead Council logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Gateshead Council
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (17 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Gateshead Council
H1 Gateshead Council Duplicate text
H2 This website uses cookies
H2 News
H2 The Tyne Bridge - restoring an icon
H2 Fostering
H2 Climate change in Gateshead
H2 Warm Spaces in Gateshead
H2 Business Gateshead
H3 Volunteers' Week 2025: Housing service volunteers driving service improvement
H3 Residents encouraged to recycle disposable vapes following sales ban
H3 Gateshead families encouraged to claim free vitamins through NHS scheme
Baselink: https://www.gateshead.gov.uk/
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 4 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.gateshead.gov.uk/Subdomain Anchor Skip to main content
/article/3712/CookiesSubdomain Take me to settings
/article/3712/CookiesSubdomain Text duplicate Take me to settings
https://www.gateshead.gov.uk/Subdomain Anchor Toggle menu
https://www.gateshead.gov.uk/Subdomain IMG-ALT Gateshead Council logo
/article/325/SearchSubdomain IMG-ALT Search
/article/27905/Listen-and-tran...Subdomain Listen and translate
/signinSubdomain Sign in
/article/27905/Listen-and-tran...Subdomain Text duplicate Listen and translate
/signinSubdomain Text duplicate Sign in
https://www.gateshead.gov.uk/Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Gateshead Council logo
https://www.gateshead.gov.uk/paySubdomain Pay
/article/20644/Help-with-the-c...Subdomain Help with the cost of living
/article/9646/What-s-onSubdomain What's on
/article/1819/Adult-social-careSubdomain Adult social care
/article/302/BenefitsSubdomain Benefits
/article/1785/Bins-and-recyclingSubdomain Bins and recycling
/article/1834/Births-deaths-an...Subdomain Births, deaths and marriages
/article/304/Business-and-lice...Subdomain Business and licensing
/childrenandfamiliesSubdomain Children, young people and families
/article/313/Communities-safet...Subdomain Communities, safety and emergencies
/article/1776/Council-TaxSubdomain Council Tax
/education-and-schoolsSubdomain Education and schools
/article/307/Environmental-issuesSubdomain Environmental issues
/article/308/Health-and-wellbeingSubdomain Health and wellbeing
/article/309/HousingSubdomain Housing
/article/310/Jobs-and-employmentSubdomain Jobs and employment
/article/311/Leisure-and-cultureSubdomain Leisure and culture
/article/9643/LibrariesSubdomain Libraries
/article/312/Parking-roads-and...Subdomain Parking, roads and transport
/article/303/Planning-building...Subdomain Planning, building and development
/article/305/Your-council-and-...Subdomain Your council and elections
/article/1759/NewsSubdomain News
/article/32976/Volunteers-Week...Subdomain Volunteers' Week 2025: Housing service volunteers driving service improvement Within our housing service, a dedicated group of tenants volunteer their time t...
IMG-ALT Tenant volunteers
/article/32954/Residents-encou...Subdomain Residents encouraged to recycle disposable vapes following sales ban Residents are being encouraged to recycle their used disposable vapes following new legi...
IMG-ALT VAPE RECYCLING
/article/32877/Gateshead-famil...Subdomain Gateshead families encouraged to claim free vitamins through NHS scheme Families in Gateshead are being encouraged to check if they could be eligible for fre...
IMG-ALT HEALTHY START VITS SCHEME
/article/27520/The-Tyne-Bridge...Subdomain Find out more
/article/18433/FosteringSubdomain Find out more about Fostering
/article/18435/Climate-change-...Subdomain Text duplicate Find out more
/article/21633/Warm-Spaces-in-...Subdomain Find out more about Warm Spaces in Gateshead
/article/18436/Business-GatesheadSubdomain Find out more about Business Gateshead
https://www.gateshead.gov.uk/Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Gateshead Council logo
/article/1764/Gateshead-NowSubdomain Gateshead Now
A-TITLE Gateshead Now
http://www.facebook.com/gatesh...New window External Subdomain Facebook
A-TITLE Facebook : opens on new browser window or tab
https://x.com/gatesheadNew window External X
A-TITLE X : opens on new browser window or tab
http://www.youtube.com/user/Ga...New window External Subdomain YouTube
A-TITLE YouTube : opens on new browser window or tab
/article/18954/Contact-usSubdomain Contact us
/article/322/A-ZSubdomain A-Z
/article/3708/Website-terms-an...Subdomain Terms and conditions
/article/315/Privacy-PolicySubdomain Privacy Policy
/article/316/CookiesSubdomain Cookies
/accessibilitySubdomain Accessibility
http://www.gossinteractive.com/New window External Subdomain Powered by the GOSS Digital Platform
A-TITLE Web content management and Self Service provided by the GOSS Digital Platform : opens on new browser window or tab

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.gateshead.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 0.31 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (95 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlno-cache, no-store
pragmano-cache
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-encodinggzip
expires-1
varyAccept-Encoding
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
x-ua-compatibleIE=Edge
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
report-to{"group":"csp-endpoint","max_age":10886400,"endpoints":[{"url":"csp-reports"}]}
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self'; report-uri csp-reports; report-to csp-endpoint;
link<https://www.gateshead.gov.uk/>; rel="canonical"
server
x-powered-by
dateWed, 04 Jun 2025 02:29:50 GMT
content-length19253
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 326 referring domains.
This page has 136,098 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 204 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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Allow: /
Disallow: *?view=list&*
Disallow: *?view=map&*
Disallow: /media/

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Information on Gateshead Council services and policies, including schools, leisure, libraries, Council Tax, benefits, business and more.

Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
Gateshead89%Check
Gateshead Council85%Check
Council79%Check
Business Gateshead70%Check
Council Tax63%Check
Business54%Check
service50%Check
Tax46%Check
Information46%Check
Benefits46%Check
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