Gerald.com - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
97% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
29% 
Link structure
58% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.19 s
File size
680.60 kB
Words
1669
Media files
31
Number of links
77 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Gerald Metals - Metal Trader United Kingdom | Gerald Group
The length of the page title is perfect. (543 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Gerald Group is the world’s largest independent, employee-owned metal trading house, and one of the world’s leading global commodity trading companies
The length of the meta description is perfect. (955 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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https://www.gerald.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
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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
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Language for link pointing to page itself inaccurate
Other meta tags
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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
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The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
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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
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
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The favicon is linked correctly.

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Page quality

Content
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Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 1669 words. That's ok.
27.3% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
14 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 22.82 words is good.
Frames
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This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
The file size of the HTML document is very large (680.6 kB).
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 33 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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19 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
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There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
Additional markup
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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.

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Page structure

H1 heading
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To speak to one of our specialists, please get in touch with us:
Too many H1 headings
Headings
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The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 69 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 To speak to one of our specialists, please get in touch with us:
H1 Europe & Africa
H1 North America
H1 Asia
H1 For general inquiries please email: info@gerald.com
H1 Publications
H1 Press Releases
H1 Insights and Articles
H1 https://africanbusinessmagazine.com/company-profile/gerald/gerald-group-impact-investing/
H1 Gerald Group – Leveraging expertise and exploring new opportunities
H1 For media inquiries email:
H1 media@gerald.com
H1 +44 (0) 7507 583792
H1 Collaborative expertise, driven, innovative
H1 Career enquiries: careers@gerald.com
H1
H1 We occasionally publish job vacancies on LinkedIn.
H2 WHO WE ARE
H2 WHAT WE DO
H2 ADVANCING A MORE SUSTAINABLE METALS TRADE
H2 FIND US
H2 NEWS
H2 HSEC Report 2019
H2 2022 Sustainability Report
H2 2023 Sustainability Report
H2 2024 Sustainability Report
H2 Gerald Group Brochure
H2 IMPACT INVESTING – Presentation by Frederic Lotti, Global Head of Investments, Gerald Group at Mining Indaba 2020
H2 Marampa rebuild heralds new era of co-operation
H2 Events
H2 Careers
H5 18 July 2025
H5 27 June 2025
H5 26 June 2025
H5 21 May 2025
H5 21 March 2025
H5 7 February 2025
H5 11 April 2024
H5 5 April 2024
H5 11 January 2024
H5 26 September 2023
H5 20 March 2023
H5 27 January 2023
H5 31 August 2022
H5 3 August 2022
H5 12 April 2022
H5 9 February 2022
H5 25 January 2022
H5 28 September 2021
H5 4 July 2021
H5 10 May 2021
H5 22 December 2020
H5 6 October 2020
H5 22 April 2020
H5 15 January 2020
H5 30 December 2019
H5 14 November 2019 Gerald contributes to “Logu potable water project” of the Lowa Alliance ASBL, around Alphamin’s Bisie Tin Project in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo
H5 8 October 2019 Gerald Group closes oversubscribed debut US$300 million syndicated borrowing base for North American operations
H5 31 March 2019 Statement to clarify press reports
H5 12 February 2019 SL Mining in Sierra Leone, ‘right signal’ for foreign direct investment in Sierra Leone – World Bank and IFC
H5 12 December 2018 Gerald Group signs US$225 million Revolving Credit Facility for ninth consecutive year
H5 17 October 2018 Gerald Group Awarded High Quality Service award from China Jushi Co.
H5 15 October 2018 Gerald announces new group organisational structure and re-location of global headquarters to London
H5 8 October 2018 Gerald's Bob Flynn to retire from Jan 1
H5 19 December 2017 Gerald Group successfully closes it's USD 225 million syndicated revolving credit facility(RCF) for the eighth consecutive year.
H5 11 December 2017 SL Mining Ltd’s Mining Licence Agreement unanimously ratified by Sierra Leone Parliament
H6 Countries
H6 Offices
H6 Global Regions
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Some anchor texts are used more than once.
8 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are 10 external links on this page.
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HTTP redirects
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The page response time is slow (1.19 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.
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External factors

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This page has backlinks from 42 referring domains.
This page has 113 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 39 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Gerald Metals - Metal Trader United Kingdom | Gerald Group
Gerald Group is the world’s largest independent, employee-owned metal trading house, and one of the world’s leading global commodity trading companies

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