Gceducationandskills.ac.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
77% 
Page quality
83% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
90% 
Server
36% 
External factors
21% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.14 s
File size
52.00 kB
Words
1248
Media files
21
Number of links
33 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
GC Education & Skills | Apprenticeships, Courses and Higher Education
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 643 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Explore apprenticeships, courses and higher education opportunities across Greater Manchester and beyond.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (673 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 name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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=1.0
descriptionExplore apprenticeships, courses and higher education opportunities across Greater Manchester and beyond.
keywordsEmpty
langen
og:urlhttp://www.gceducationandskills.ac.uk/
og:titleGC Education & Skills | Apprenticeships, Courses and Higher Education
og:site_nameGC Education and Skills
og:descriptionExplore apprenticeships, courses and higher education opportunities across Greater Manchester and beyond.
og:imagehttp://www.gceducationandskills.ac.uk/media/1088/gc_ed_skills_landscape-small.png
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 1248 words. That's ok.
43% 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.
24 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 23.14 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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 25 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
21 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)
The HTTPS protocol for secure data transmission is not used.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
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...idth=740&height=400&quality=65&mode=cropNo alt attribute provided
...idth=740&height=400&quality=65&mode=cropNo alt attribute provided
...idth=740&height=400&quality=65&mode=cropNo alt attribute provided
...idth=740&height=400&quality=65&mode=cropNo alt attribute provided
...idth=740&height=400&quality=65&mode=cropNo alt attribute provided
...idth=740&height=400&quality=65&mode=cropNo alt attribute provided
...idth=740&height=400&quality=65&mode=cropNo alt attribute provided
...idth=740&height=400&quality=65&mode=cropNo alt attribute provided
...ider-badge-2024.jpg?width=179&height=125No alt attribute provided
/media/1016/group-4_01.gifNo alt attribute provided
/media/1916/symca-logo_rgb_primary.pngNo alt attribute provided
/media/1022/group-4_07.gifNo alt attribute provided
/media/1023/group-4_08.gifNo alt attribute provided
/media/1337/recognised-centre-logo.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/media/1444/iso.pngNo alt attribute provided
/media/2100/forum-member-badges-4.pngNo alt attribute provided
/media/2101/forum-member-badges-5.pngNo alt attribute provided
/media/2102/forum-member-badges.pngNo alt attribute provided
/media/2103/forum-member-badges-1.pngNo alt attribute provided
/media/2152/image-1.pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
GC Education and Skills
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 GC Education and Skills
H4 Apprenticeships
H4 Courses for 16-18 year olds
H4 Higher Education
H4 Adult courses
H4 Support for Businesses
H4 From Fashion Graduate to Senior Marketing Role: How an Apprenticeship Helped Megan Build Her Confidence
H4 Dyslexia Awareness Week: Supporting Learners to Achieve Their Potential
H4 Investing in the Future: Peyman's Path to a BSc in Business Management
H4 Students Celebrate Graduation Success at Bolton Town Hall
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 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Logo
A-TITLE Go to home page
/apprenticeship-vacancies/Apprenticeship Vacancies
/courses/Courses
/higher-education/Higher Education
/adult-courses/Adult Courses
/news/News
/about-us/About Us
/contact-us/Contact Us
/employer-website/Employer Website
/term-dates-and-events/Term Dates and Events
/courses-for-young-people/Courses for Young People
/course-search/?section=7f90bd...New window Anchor View Courses
/apprenticeship-vacancies/Apprenticeships
/courses/Courses for 16-18 year olds
/higher-education/Text duplicate Higher Education
/adult-courses/Adult courses
https://employers.gceducationa...New window External Subdomain Support for Businesses
/terms-of-use/New window Terms and Conditions
A-TITLE Terms of use
/privacy-policy/New window Privacy Policy.
A-TITLE Privacy Policy
/news/from-fashion-graduate-to...New window From Fashion Graduate to Senior Marketing Role: How an Apprenticeship Helped Megan Build Her Confidence
/news/dyslexia-awareness-week-...New window Dyslexia Awareness Week: Supporting Learners to Achieve Their Potential
/news/investing-in-the-future-...New window Investing in the Future: Peyman's Path to a BSc in Business Management
/news/students-celebrate-gradu...New window Students Celebrate Graduation Success at Bolton Town Hall
https://employers.gceducationa...External Subdomain Find out more about how GC Education and Skills can support your business.
A-TITLE Visit our Employer website.
/course-search/?section=7f90bd...Business and Professional programmes
/for-business/Find out more about how GC Education and Skills can support your business
https://employers.gceducationa...External Subdomain For Employers
/contact-us/Text duplicate Contact Us
/safeguarding-and-inclusion/Safeguarding and Inclusion
http://careers.growthco.uk/hom...External Subdomain The Growth Company Vacancies
https://www.facebook.com/GCEdu...External Subdomain A-TITLE follow us on Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/gc_e...External Subdomain A-TITLE follow us on Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain A-TITLE follow us on LinkedIn
/policies-and-procedures/Policies & Procedures
/privacy-policy/Privacy Policy
/cookie-policy/Cookie Policy
/accessibility-statement/Accessiblity Statement
/terms-of-use/Terms of use
/policies-and-procedures/slave...Slavery and Human Trafficking
https://www.growthco.uk/External Subdomain Growth Company
/Trivial anchor text
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A-TITLE Homepage

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "http://www.gceducationandskills.ac.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.14 seconds.
This page only loads 3 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (52 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
set-cookie74 Characters
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
strict-transport-securitymax-age=10886400; preload
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
dateFri, 23 Oct 2026 01:03:13 GMT
content-length53251
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 7 referring domains.
This page only has 11 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 6 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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GC Education & Skills | Apprenticeships, Courses and Higher Edu...
Explore apprenticeships, courses and higher education opportunities across Greater Manchester and beyond.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Education89%Check
Education Skills83%Check
GC Education83%Check
GC Education Skills80%Check
Higher Education77%Check
Skills73%Check
Skills Courses70%Check
Courses65%Check
apprenticeships62%Check
Higher61%Check
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