Haircouncil.org.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
76% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
71% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.28 s
File size
86.80 kB
Words
554
Media files
21
Number of links
53 internal / 17 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The title tag is missing.
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://haircouncil.org.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-gb
Server location: United States of America
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
theme-color#ffffff
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
msapplication-TileImagehttps://haircouncil.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cropped-cropped-HC-gold-logo-trans-270x270.png
article:modified_time2025-02-04T11:46:10+00:00
langen-gb
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
og:localeen_GB
og:typewebsite
og:titleHome - Hair Council
og:urlhttps://haircouncil.org.uk/
og:site_nameHair Council
x-ua-compatibleie=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 554 words. That's ok.
39.4% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
13 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 20.5 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, shrink-to-fit=no" 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)
20 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)
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
...heme-child/assets/images/header-logo.svgNo alt attribute provided
...oads/2025/02/Hair-Council-Hero-Image.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/logo.svgNo alt attribute provided
.../2025/02/Hair-Council-About-Us-Image.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...content/uploads/2024/11/why-register.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wella.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cityguilds.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/loreal.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/kao.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/aston-f.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/tricho-care.pngNo alt attribute provided
...22/08/thumbnail_sentio-logo-Salons-2.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/colourlogo.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ploads/2023/06/We-Love-Logo-16-06-23.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GSG.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ontent/uploads/2025/02/skr_logo-new.webpNo alt attribute provided
...irdressing-apprenticeship-logo-black.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...loads/2025/02/Bumble-and-bumble-logo.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...025/02/Aveda-logo_blk-e1740406673139.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/HC_logo.pngHairdressing Council Welcomes Small Business Strategy and Urges Government to Act
/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/footer-logo.svgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The only statutory authority in Great Britain for hair and barber professionals
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 The only statutory authority in Great Britain for hair and barber professionals
H2 About us
H2 Why register?
H2 Testimonials
H2 Our sponsors
H2 Our latest news
H3 Hairdressing Council Welcomes Small Business Strategy and Urges Government to Act
H3 Invitation to contribute to Home Office research about Right to Work compliance
H3 Roundtable Discussion Viewpoints
H3 Hair & Beauty Charity Serves Up First Tennis Tournament
H4 Lesley Blair
H4 Elena Lavagni
H4 Julie Winchester
H4 Anne Veck
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 7 links with a trivial 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 17 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://haircouncil.org.uk/No Text
https://haircouncil.org.uk/Home
/policy/Policy
/public/Public
/about-us/About us
/about-us/Raising standards
/people/Anchor Committee
/people/Anchor Ambassadors
/our-sponsors/Sponsorship Opportunities
/membership/Membership
/hairdressing-council-merchand...Merchandise
https://haircouncil.org.uk/news/News
/contact/Contact
https://haircouncil.org.uk/join/Join
https://haircouncil.org.uk/login/Login
https://haircouncil.org.uk/No Text
https://haircouncil.org.uk/join/Join us
/about-us/Text duplicate About us
/about-us/Trivial anchor text
Read more
https://haircouncil.org.uk/join/Why register?
https://haircouncil.org.uk/join/Text duplicate Join us
/about-us/testimonials/Testimonials
/about-us/testimonials/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
/about-us/testimonials/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
/about-us/testimonials/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
/about-us/testimonials/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
/about-us/testimonials/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
http://www.wella.com/New window External Subdomain No Text
http://www.cityandguilds.com/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.lorealprofessionne...New window External Subdomain No Text
http://www.kaosalondivision.com/New window External Subdomain No Text
http://www.astonandfincher.co.uk/New window External Subdomain No Text
http://www.trichocare.co.uk/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://sentiosalons.co.uk/New window External No Text
https://colourstart.com/New window External No Text
https://www.welovesalons.co.uk/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.goodsalonguide.com/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.schwarzkopf.co.uk/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.fgapprenticeships....New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.bumbleandbumble.co...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.aveda.co.uk/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://haircouncil.org.uk/news/Our latest news
/hairdressing-council-welcomes...Hairdressing Council Welcomes Small Business Strategy and Urges Government to Act
/hairdressing-council-welcomes...Read more...
/invitation-to-contribute-to-h...Invitation to contribute to Home Office research about Right to Work compliance
/invitation-to-contribute-to-h...Text duplicate Read more...
/roundtable-discussion-viewpoi...Roundtable Discussion Viewpoints
/roundtable-discussion-viewpoi...Text duplicate Read more...
/hair-beauty-charity-serves-up...Hair & Beauty Charity Serves Up First Tennis Tournament
/hair-beauty-charity-serves-up...Text duplicate Read more...
https://haircouncil.org.uk/news/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
https://haircouncil.org.uk/No Text
https://haircouncil.org.uk/Text duplicate Home
/policy/Text duplicate Policy
/public/Text duplicate Public
/about-us/Text duplicate About us
/membership/Text duplicate Membership
https://haircouncil.org.uk/news/Text duplicate News
/contact/Text duplicate Contact
https://haircouncil.org.uk/join/Text duplicate Join
https://haircouncil.org.uk/login/Text duplicate Login
https://www.facebook.com/HairA...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://x.com/hairbarbcouncilNew window External No Text
https://www.instagram.com/hair...New window External Subdomain No Text
/terms-and-conditions/Terms and conditions
/cookies/Cookies
/privacy-policy/Privacy policy
/terms-and-conditions/Text duplicate Terms and conditions
/cookies/Text duplicate Cookies
/privacy-policy/Text duplicate Privacy policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://haircouncil.org.uk/"
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 (1.28 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (87 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateWed, 11 Feb 2026 23:52:53 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
link<https://haircouncil.org.uk/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
x-httpd-modphp1
host-header8441280b0c35cbc1147f8ba998a563a7
x-proxy-cacheHIT
content-encodingbr
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 237 referring domains.
This page has 400 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 80 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: * 
Crawl-delay: 20

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
hair74%Check
Hair Council68%Check
hair barber66%Check
Hair Barber Council64%Check
Hair Beauty60%Check
Council58%Check
barber55%Check
professionals55%Check
statutory55%Check
authority55%Check
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