Gov.ie - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
82% 
Page quality
34% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
63% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.17 s
File size
357.70 kB
Words
308
Media files
3
Number of links
53 internal / 0 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Government of Ireland: Welcome to gov.ie
The title contains the word Welcome to! More content should be covered in the title.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
gov.ie is the official website of the Government of Ireland. It serves as a central hub for accessing public services and government information
The length of the meta description is perfect. (868 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://gov.ie/en/
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
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)
The alternate link to the page itself is missing.
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
descriptiongov.ie is the official website of the Government of Ireland. It serves as a central hub for accessing public services and government information
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
langen
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:site@
twitter:titleGovernment of Ireland: Welcome to gov.ie
twitter:descriptiongov.ie is the official website of the Government of Ireland. It serves as a central hub for accessing public services and government information
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://gov.ie/en/
og:titleGovernment of Ireland: Welcome to gov.ie
og:descriptiongov.ie is the official website of the Government of Ireland. It serves as a central hub for accessing public services and government information
og:site_namegov.ie
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
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.
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 308 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
26.6% 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 20.5 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...cae-00ba9f9714.2e16d0ba.fill-720x480.pngNo alt attribute provided
...0e0-dc252f3dd9.2e16d0ba.fill-720x480.pngNo alt attribute provided
...679-af72183a25.2e16d0ba.fill-720x480.pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Search for services or information
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Search for services or information
H2 Notice: All content on gov.ie was recently migrated to a new publishing platform.
H2 Your credentials
H2 Welfare supports
H2 Working supports
H2 Becoming a parent
H2 Education
H2 Your property
H2 Additional assistance
H2 Finding public services
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
3 links don't have an anchor text.
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 no external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.gov.ie/en/No Text
https://gov.ie/en/news/News
https://gov.ie/en/departments/Departments
https://www.gov.ie/en/services/Services
https://www.gov.ie/ga/Gaeilge
https://gov.ie/en/news/Text duplicate News
https://gov.ie/en/departments/Text duplicate Departments
https://www.gov.ie/en/services/Text duplicate Services
/en/department-of-finance/camp...Budget 2025
/en/department-of-housing-loca...Housing for All
/en/department-of-the-taoiseac...Migration and Ireland
/en/department-of-public-expen...Where Your Money Goes
/en/department-of-climate-ener...Climate Action Plan 2025
/en/department-of-social-prote...Get a Personal Public Service (PPS) Number
/en/department-of-social-prote...How to get a Public Services Card (PSC)
/en/department-of-social-prote...Birth, death, marriage and other certificates
/en/department-of-social-prote...Illness Benefit
/en/department-of-social-prote...State Pension (Contributory)
/en/department-of-social-prote...Free Travel Scheme
/en/department-of-social-prote...Jobseeker's Allowance
/en/department-of-social-prote...Jobseeker's Benefit
/en/department-of-social-prote...Jobseeker's Pay-Related Benefit
/en/department-of-social-prote...Child Benefit
/en/department-of-social-prote...Maternity Benefit
/en/department-of-social-prote...Paternity Benefit
/en/department-of-further-and-...Free online courses with eCollege
/en/department-of-social-prote...Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance
/en/department-of-education/se...Find a school
/en/department-of-culture-comm...Find an Eircode
/en/department-of-housing-loca...Local Property Tax
/en/department-of-housing-loca...Vacant Property Refurbishment Grant
/en/department-of-social-prote...Working Family Payment (WFP)
/en/department-of-social-prote...Disability Allowance
/en/department-of-social-prote...Carer's Allowance
/en/department-of-transport/se...Find your local motor tax office
/en/department-of-social-prote...Find your local Intreo Centre
/en/department-of-social-prote...How to sign up for MyGovID
/en/department-of-climate-ener...No Text
/en/department-of-climate-ener...Text duplicate Climate Action Plan 2025
/en/department-of-housing-loca...No Text
/en/department-of-housing-loca...Text duplicate Housing for All
/en/department-of-the-taoiseac...No Text
/en/department-of-the-taoiseac...Text duplicate Migration and Ireland
https://www.gov.ie/en/circulars/Circulars
/en/consultations/Consultations
https://gov.ie/en/directory/Directory
https://www.gov.ie/en/policies/Policies
/en/publications/Publications
https://gov.ie/en/about-govie/About gov.ie
https://gov.ie/en/accessibility/Accessibility
/en/department-of-public-expen...Latest financial accounts
https://gov.ie/en/privacy-policy/Privacy policy
/en/govie-team/campaigns/who-d...Who Does What

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.gov.ie/en/"
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 excellent with 0.17 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (358 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
dateFri, 25 Jul 2025 21:52:14 GMT
referrer-policyno-referrer-when-downgrade
cross-origin-opener-policysame-origin
servergunicorn
cache-controls-maxage=600, stale-while-revalidate=30, public
x-frame-optionsDENY
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
content-encodingbr
varyaccept-encoding
x-cacheHit from cloudfront
via1.1 45de888accabe1a1cb5a389e8c9c1e06.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-popFRA50-C1
x-amz-cf-idF2A4NxzjehlGfgsRWpMAnKJv1jLFrpX57ANbAA3eRfTJUnxHZvHHSw==
age589
strict-transport-securitymax-age=300; includeSubDomains; preload
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 821 referring domains.
This page has 127,318 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 538 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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www.gov.ie
Government of Ireland: Welcome to gov.ie
gov.ie is the official website of the Government of Ireland. It serves as a central hub for accessing public services and government information

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
gov69%Check
Services66%Check
information62%Check
public services60%Check
Ireland58%Check
government58%Check
Search50%Check
Public50%Check
Local Government46%Check
supports43%Check
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