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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
90% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.37 s
File size
24.90 kB
Words
166
Media files
19
Number of links
33 internal / 3 external

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Hampshire County Council | Hampshire County Council
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (495 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Hampshire County Council homepage. Education and learning. Social care and health. Jobs. Waste prevention and recycling. Transport and roads.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (931 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.hants.gov.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-gb
Server location: Canada
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
titleHampshire County Council
keywordshampshire, county, council, hcc, hants, website, homepage, home
descriptionThe Hampshire County Council homepage. Education and learning. Social care and health. Jobs. Waste prevention and recycling. Transport and roads.
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format-detectiontelephone=no
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google-site-verificationHajqys3ccsvE-glKUfhOJ0sX9y6ut_YGZcsgFJKz98Y
facebook-domain-verification162rj7njsnv18qj52oxw4mgd9nyils
langen-gb
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:site@hantsconnect
og:titleHampshire County Council
og:typewebsite
og:descriptionEmpty
og:url/
og:imagehttps://www.hants.gov.uk/-/media/logos/hcc-logo-colour.gif
og:image:altEmpty

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 166 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
31.3% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 15 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "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 6 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
...Site-images/hcc-full-colour-reversed.pngHampshire County Council
...00&hash=1E85B9EA1BF6D913978E29F1A8895100Close-up of hands holding a mobile phone
...00&hash=DB53FD1DB06F905C004A58901FAED1EDOn the left, a photo of Westminster. On the right, a photo of Hampshire County Council's E2 Court.
...00&hash=534944745BA69E0F333CEC236D24335FThree people talking at a table with hot drinks
...omepage/homepage-icons-births-deaths.svgIcon - Certificate
...edia/homepage/homepage-icons-economy.svgIcon - Stacks of coins
...ia/homepage/homepage-icons-community.svgIcon - Two people
...ia/homepage/homepage-icons-education.svgIcon - Mortarboard and diploma
/-/media/homepage/homepage-icons-jobs.svgIcon - Council buildings
...omepage/homepage-icons-land-planning.svgIcon - Map pin on a piece of land
...ge/homepage-icons-libraries-archives.svgIcon - Books
...omepage/homepage-icons-social-health.svgIcon - Heart with a heart rate monitor line through it
...homepage/homepage-icons-things-to-do.svgIcon - Signpost pointing in different directions
...epage/homepage-icons-transport-roads.svgIcon - Bicycle on a road
...epage/homepage-icons-waste-recycling.svgIcon - Recycling bin
...omepage/homepage-icons-about-council.svgIcon - Council buildings
...35&hash=C594E9A0AF6AA682363767C6D2820B21Solo female business owner learning via a Digital Marketing Skills Bootcamps course, working on a laptop in a classroom setting
...00&hash=677BD1369EB140585A0C042BEC210644Hampshire County Council Chairman, Councillor Mark CooperHampshire County Council Chairman 2025-26, Councillor Mark Cooper
...40&hash=B95C903FE053FE2011D421A1A3AA1647Pay and display

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Hampshire County Council
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Hampshire County Council
H2 Our services
H2 Latest news
H3 Find us on
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
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.
There are 3 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.hants.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.hants.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to section navigation
https://www.hants.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to footer
/aboutthecouncil/accessibilityAccessibility
https://www.hants.gov.uk/Subdomain IMG-ALT Hampshire County Council
https://staff.hants.gov.uk/External Subdomain Employee
/signin?returnurl=/Callback.as...Subdomain Customer
/business/suppliers/signin?ret...Subdomain Suppliers
https://www.hants.gov.uk/popularPopular
https://www.hants.gov.uk/reportReport
https://www.hants.gov.uk/applyApply
/pay-an-invoicePay
/aboutthecouncil/haveyoursayHave your say Take part in our consultations, provide a comment or make a complaint
IMG-ALT Close-up of hands holding a mobile phone
/aboutthecouncil/governmentinh...Devolution and local government reorganisation Find out what devolution and local government reorganisation will mean for Hampshire.
IMG-ALT On the left, a photo of Westminster. On the right, a photo of Hampshire County Council's E2 Court.
/community/yourhampshireSubscribe to Your Hampshire Receive news from Hampshire direct to your inbox
IMG-ALT Three people talking at a table with hot drinks
/birthsdeathsandceremoniesBirths, deaths and ceremonies
IMG-ALT Icon - Certificate
https://www.hants.gov.uk/businessBusiness, economy and consumers
IMG-ALT Icon - Stacks of coins
/communityCommunity support
IMG-ALT Icon - Two people
/educationandlearningEducation and learning
IMG-ALT Icon - Mortarboard and diploma
https://www.hants.gov.uk/jobsJobs, careers and volunteering
IMG-ALT Icon - Council buildings
/landplanningandenvironmentLand, planning and environment
IMG-ALT Icon - Map pin on a piece of land
/librariesandarchivesLibraries and archives
IMG-ALT Icon - Books
/socialcareandhealthSocial care and health
IMG-ALT Icon - Heart with a heart rate monitor line through it
/thingstodoThings to do in Hampshire
IMG-ALT Icon - Signpost pointing in different directions
/transportTransport and roads
IMG-ALT Icon - Bicycle on a road
/wasteandrecyclingWaste prevention and recycling
IMG-ALT Icon - Recycling bin
/aboutthecouncilAbout the council
IMG-ALT Icon - Council buildings
/News/20250522SkillsBootcamps£7 million awarded to Hampshire for another 12 months of fast-track employment training
IMG-ALT Solo female business owner learning via a Digital Marketing Skills Bootcamps course, working on a laptop in a classroom setting
/News/20250522HCCChairmanelectedHampshire County Council elects new Chairman at annual meeting
IMG-ALT Hampshire County Council Chairman, Councillor Mark Cooper
/News/19052025KeyhavenParkingParking charges set to be introduced at Keyhaven seafront to tackle overnight and anti-social parking
IMG-ALT Pay and display
https://www.hants.gov.uk/NewsSubdomain More news and features
https://www.facebook.com/hants...Nofollow External Subdomain A-TITLE Facebook
https://www.twitter.com/hantsc...Nofollow External Subdomain A-TITLE X @hantsconnect
/aboutthecouncil/accessibilitySubdomain Text duplicate Accessibility
A-TITLE Accessibility
/aboutthecouncil/privacySubdomain Privacy
A-TITLE Privacy caption
/aboutthecouncil/disclaimerSubdomain Disclaimer

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.hants.gov.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 excellent with 0.37 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (25 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSat, 24 May 2025 07:50:22 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
cache-controlprivate
set-cookie44 Characters
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self'
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
accept-chSec-CH-UA-Full-Version-List,Sec-CH-UA-Platform-Version,Sec-CH-UA-Arch,Sec-CH-UA-Model,Sec-CH-UA-Bitness
ntcoent-length25542
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
varyaccept-encoding
servercloudflare
cf-ray944b33a3a8cef015-CDG
content-encodinggzip
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 1,008 referring domains.
This page has 111,984 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 503 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /

Sitemap: https://www.hants.gov.uk/sitemap.xml

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Hampshire County Council | Hampshire County Council
The Hampshire County Council homepage. Education and learning. Social care and health. Jobs. Waste prevention and recycling. Transport and roads.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Hampshire79%Check
Council79%Check
County Council78%Check
Hampshire County78%Check
Hampshire County Council78%Check
recycling50%Check
Waste Recycling49%Check
Education48%Check
learning48%Check
Jobs48%Check
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