Highland.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
54% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.16 s
File size
24.30 kB
Words
245
Media files
1
Number of links
41 internal / 10 external

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The Highland Council Homepage
The length of the page title is perfect. (297 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Highland Council website provides access to key services and information for local residents, businesses and visitors to the area
The length of the meta description is perfect. (818 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
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 States of America
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

NameValue
titleThe Highland Council Homepage
authorThe Highland Council
generatorhttp://www.jadu.net
revisit-after2 days
robotsindex,follow
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
dcterms.creatorThe Highland Council
dcterms.coverageUK
dcterms.formattext/html
dcterms.identifierhttps://www.highland.gov.uk/
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherThe Highland Council, Glenurquhart Road, Inverness, IV3 5NX, +44(0)1349 886606, [email protected]
dcterms.rightsHolderThis page is Copyright, The Highland Council
dcterms.descriptionThe Highland Council website provides access to key services and information for local residents, businesses and visitors to the area
dcterms.subjecthighlands, online services, jobs, recycling, planning, parking, housing, libraries, libraries, tourism, council tax, schools, rubbish, bins, councillors, council, transport, museums, events, leisure, committees, licensing, government>
dcterms.titleThe Highland Council - Tel: 01349 886606
descriptionThe Highland Council website provides access to key services and information for local residents, businesses and visitors to the area
keywordshighlands, online services, jobs, recycling, planning, parking, housing, libraries, libraries, tourism, council tax, schools, rubbish, bins, councillors, council, transport, museums, events, leisure, committees, licensing, government
langen
og:imagehttps://www.highland.gov.uk/images/mast_logo.gif

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 245 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
29.4% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
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 16 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)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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
/site/images/logo_whiteout.pngThe Highland Council logo

Page structure

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

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 The Highland Council
H2 Our new website is almost here
H2 Ready for winter and gritting
H2 Flooding advice
H2 School closures
H2 Popular links
H2 Our services
H2 Your council
H3 Capital Programme approved for Nairnshire roads 2026/27
H3 Garage rents for Dingwall and Seaforth agreed for 2026/27
H4 11 Feb 2026
H4 10 Feb 2026
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 10 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.highland.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.highland.gov.uk/The Highland Council
/readyforwinterReady for winter and gritting, read more
/info/1226/emergencies/81/floo...Flooding advice, read more
/schoolclosuresSchool closures, read more
https://www.highland.gov.uk/payPay online
/reportReport a problem
/requestRequest a service
/info/878/schools/32/school_te...School term dates
A-TITLE School term dates
https://self.highland.gov.uk/s...External Subdomain Household bin collections
A-TITLE Household bin collections
/info/701/council_taxCouncil Tax
A-TITLE Council Tax
/info/180/planning_-_applicati...Planning applications
A-TITLE Planning applications
/info/1084/jobs_and_careers/33...Job vacancies
A-TITLE Job vacancies
/info/1523/transport_and_streetsRoads and parking
A-TITLE Roads and parking
/info/1/business_and_tradeBusiness and trade
A-TITLE Business and trade
/info/283/community_life_and_l...Community life and leisure
A-TITLE Community life and leisure
/info/591/council_and_governmentCouncil and government
A-TITLE Council and government
/info/827/education_and_learningEducation and learning
A-TITLE Education and learning
/info/1210/planning_and_the_en...Environment
A-TITLE Environment
/info/917/housingHousing
A-TITLE Housing
/info/1125/licences_permits_an...Licences
A-TITLE Licences
/info/161/planning_and_buildin...Planning and building standards
A-TITLE Planning and building standards
/info/1054/rubbish_and_recyclingRubbish and recycling
A-TITLE Rubbish and recycling
/info/1347/social_care_and_healthSocial care and health
A-TITLE Social care and health
/info/1457/tourism_and_visitor...Tourism and visitor attractions
A-TITLE Tourism and visitor attractions
/info/1523/transport_and_streetsTransport and streets
A-TITLE Transport and streets
/info/695/council_information_...Meetings and minutes
A-TITLE Meetings and minutes
https://highland.public-i.tv/c...External Subdomain Webcasts
A-TITLE Webcasts
/councillorsCouncillors
A-TITLE Councillors
/info/695/council_information_...Council structure
A-TITLE Council structure
/info/695/council_information_...Council priorities
A-TITLE Council priorities
/news/article/17135/ministers_...Ministers open Inverness Castle Experience after multi-million transformation for the Highlands
/news/article/17144/capital_pr...Capital Programme approved for Nairnshire roads 2026/27
/news/article/17142/garage_ren...Garage rents for Dingwall and Seaforth agreed for 2026/27
/news/archiveNewsroom
/contactNofollow Contact Us
/myaccountNofollow Myaccount
/site_mapNofollow Site map
/a_to_zNofollow A-Z of Services
/jobsandcareersNofollow Jobs and careers
/accessibilityNofollow Accessibility
/info/591/council_and_governme...Nofollow Privacy and cookies
/gaelicNofollow Gaelic
http://www.jadu.net/External Subdomain Powered by Jadu Content Management
https://creativecommons.org/li...External Available under a Creative Commons licence
https://x.com/highlandcouncilExternal No Text
https://www.facebook.com/highl...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/high...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/user/T...External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.highland.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)
A Content Delivery Network like Google Hosted Libraries can save bandwidth for the SFW Object files.
The page response time is excellent with 0.16 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (24 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateWed, 11 Feb 2026 12:49:17 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length6242
serverWeb Server
expiresThu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
cache-controlno-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
pragmano-cache
strict-transport-securitymax-age=2592000
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
set-cookie104 Characters
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
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 382 referring domains.
This page has 73,405 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 258 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent:*
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Disallow: /javascript
Disallow: /jadu
Disallow: /blogAdmin
Disallow: /preview
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /site/scripts/google_results.php
Disallow: /healthcheck
Disallow: /statistics
Disallow: /server-status
Disallow: /site/custom_scripts
Disallow: /feedback
Disallow: /site/scripts/feedback.php

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