Heritagecouncil.ie - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
78% 
Page quality
90% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
88% 
Server
70% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.86 s
File size
45.80 kB
Words
680
Media files
20
Number of links
79 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The Heritage Council
The page title is too short. (190 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Heritage Council is a public body whose mission is to develop a wide understanding of the vital contribution that our heritage makes to our social, environmental & economic well-being.
The meta description is too long: 1157 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
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 Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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 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

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descriptionThe Heritage Council is a public body whose mission is to develop a wide understanding of the vital contribution that our heritage makes to our social, environmental & economic well-being.
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twitter:site@HeritageHubIRE
og:titleThe Heritage Council
og:site_nameThe Heritage Council
og:descriptionThe Heritage Council is a public body whose mission is to develop a wide understanding of the vital contribution that our heritage makes to our social, environmental & economic well-being.
og:imagehttps://www.heritagecouncil.ie/interface/img/logo-share.jpg
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 28 words is high.
This page contains 680 words. That's ok.
29.6% 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.
12 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.
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 14 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 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.

Page structure

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

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 The Heritage Council
H2 Featured Projects
H2 What's New
H2 Events
H2 Opportunities
H3 Adopt a Monument
H3 Heritage Maps
H3 Local Authority Biodiversity Officer Programme
H3 Heritage in Schools Scheme
H3 Puffin Rock Habitats
H3 Museum Standards Programme for Ireland
H3 Traditional Farm Buildings Grant Scheme
H3 Irish Walled Towns Network
H3 Homeowner Maintenance Advice Series
H3 Historic Towns Initiative
H3 All Ireland Heritage Skills Programme
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 5 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/ga/Subdomain As Gaeilge
/aboutSubdomain About
/newsSubdomain News and Events
/news/jobsSubdomain Jobs and Opportunities
/searchSubdomain Search
https://www.heritagecouncil.ie/Subdomain IMG-ALT The Heritage Council
A-TITLE Home
/projectsSubdomain Our Projects & Programmes
/fundingSubdomain Funding
/our-work-with-othersSubdomain Our Work With Others
/advice-and-guidanceSubdomain Advice and Guidance
/publicationsSubdomain Publications
https://www.heritagecouncil.ie/Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT The Heritage Council
A-TITLE Home
/searchSubdomain Text duplicate Search
/projectsSubdomain Text duplicate Our Projects & Programmes
/fundingSubdomain Overview
/funding/funding-schemesSubdomain Funding Schemes
/funding/on-line-grants-systemSubdomain Online Grants System
/funding/heritage-funding-oppo...Subdomain Heritage Funding Opportunities
/funding/standard-terms-and-co...Subdomain Standard Terms and Conditions of Grant Offers
/funding/acknowledging-our-fun...Subdomain Acknowledging Our Funding
/funding/the-appeals-processSubdomain The Appeals Process
/our-work-with-othersSubdomain Text duplicate Our Work With Others
/advice-and-guidanceSubdomain Text duplicate Overview
/advice-and-guidance/our-polic...Subdomain Our Policy Advice & Submissions
/advice-and-guidance/resourcesSubdomain Resources for Heritage Projects
/advice-and-guidance/land_use_...Subdomain Land Use and Planning
/advice-and-guidance/thatched-...Subdomain Thatched Properties
/advice-and-guidance/renewing-...Subdomain Renewing your Historic Town or Village
/advice-and-guidance/tradition...Subdomain Improving your traditional building
/advice-and-guidance/gardening...Subdomain Gardening for Biodiversity
/advice-and-guidance/get-adviceSubdomain Get Advice
/advice-and-guidance/get-involvedSubdomain Get Involved
/publicationsSubdomain Text duplicate Publications
/aboutSubdomain Text duplicate Overview
/about/what-we-doSubdomain What We Do
/about/what-is-heritageSubdomain What is Heritage?
/about/our-teamSubdomain Our Team
/about/the-heritage-council-hqSubdomain The Heritage Council HQ
/about/corporate-documentsSubdomain Corporate documents
/about/our-boardSubdomain Our Council Board
/newsSubdomain Text duplicate Overview
/news/news-featuresSubdomain News and Features
/news/eventsSubdomain Events and Training
/news/jobsSubdomain Text duplicate Jobs and Opportunities
/news/jobsSubdomain Jobs
/ga/Subdomain Text duplicate As Gaeilge
/projectsSubdomain More: Projects
/projects/aamSubdomain Adopt a Monument
/projects/heritage-mapsSubdomain Heritage Maps
/our-work-with-others/biodiver...Subdomain Local Authority Biodiversity Officer Programme
/projects/heritage-in-schools-...Subdomain Heritage in Schools Scheme
/our-work-with-others/puffin-rockSubdomain Puffin Rock Habitats
/projects/museum-standards-pro...Subdomain Museum Standards Programme for Ireland
/projects/traditional-farm-bui...Subdomain Traditional Farm Buildings Grant Scheme
/projects/irish-walled-towns-n...Subdomain Irish Walled Towns Network
/projects/homeowner-maintenanc...Subdomain Homeowner Maintenance Advice Series
/projects/historic-towns-initi...Subdomain Historic Towns Initiative
/our-work-with-others/all-irel...Subdomain All Ireland Heritage Skills Programme
/news/news-featuresSubdomain More: News
/news/news-features/eleven-mus...Subdomain Eleven Museums Recognised for Meeting Highest Standards in Museum Care
IMG-ALT Nano Nagle
/news/news-features/meet-the-e...Subdomain Meet the eight communities who have ‘Adopted’ their local monuments
IMG-ALT Kilshannig Church Kerry Abarta Heritage
/news/news-features/heritage-c...Subdomain Heritage Council and Teagasc Celebrate Ireland’s Grassland Biodiversity at National Event in Birr
IMG-ALT Grassland Book Launch
/news/eventsSubdomain More: Events
/news/events/reading-the-rural...Subdomain 15Jul Reading the Rural Landscape Exhibition
/news/events/national-heritage...Subdomain 16Aug National Heritage Week 2025
/news/events/community-heritag...Subdomain 27Sept Community Heritage Networking Event
/news/jobsSubdomain More: Opportunities
/news/jobs/architectural-conse...Subdomain Architectural Conservation Officer at Wexford County Council
/news/jobs/analysis-of-labour-...Subdomain Request for Quotations - Analysis of Labour Market Demand for Traditional Craftspeople in the Built Heritage Sector in Ireland
/news/jobs/accounts-payable-ex...Subdomain Accounts Payable Executive Officer at The Heritage Council
/advice-and-guidance/get-adviceSubdomain Text duplicate Get Advice
/publicationsSubdomain Publications & Reports
/fundingSubdomain Text duplicate Funding
/about/contactSubdomain Contact
/site-info/privacy-statementSubdomain Privacy Statement
/site-info/cookie-privacySubdomain Cookie Policy
/site-info/legalSubdomain Legal
/site-info/sitemapSubdomain Sitemap
https://www.facebook.com/TheHe...New window External Subdomain Follow us on: Facebook
https://twitter.com/HeritageHu...New window External Follow us on: Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/user/T...New window External Subdomain Follow us on: Youtube
https://www.instagram.com/theh...New window External Subdomain Follow us on: Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain Follow us on: Linkedin
https://www.heritagecouncil.ie/Anchor Back to top

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.heritagecouncil.ie/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.86 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (46 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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content-encodinggzip
dateThu, 31 Jul 2025 23:02:11 GMT
serverLiteSpeed
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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 299 referring domains.
This page has 467,024 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 230 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

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Search preview

www.heritagecouncil.ie
The Heritage Council
The Heritage Council is a public body whose mission is to develop a wide understanding of the vital contribution that our heritage makes to our social, environmental & economic well-being.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Heritage93%Check
Heritage Council92%Check
Council89%Check
National Heritage67%Check
Cultural Heritage65%Check
County Council63%Check
understanding46%Check
Land46%Check
News and Events45%Check
Ireland43%Check

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