Housing.southtyneside.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
57% 
Page structure
43% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
90% 
External factors
3% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.41 s
File size
27.70 kB
Words
447
Media files
4
Number of links
46 internal / 4 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - South Tyneside Council Housing Services
The length of the page title is perfect. (445 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://housing.southtyneside.gov.uk/
There is a valid canonical link 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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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
descriptionEmpty
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
langen
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:titleHome - South Tyneside Council Housing Services
twitter:imagehttps://housing.southtyneside.gov.uk/image/4200/STH-Logo/twittercard.png?m=1730452924423
twitter:image:altSTH Logo
og:typewebsite
og:titleHome - South Tyneside Council Housing Services
og:urlhttps://housing.southtyneside.gov.uk/
og:site_nameSouth Tyneside Council Housing Services
og:imagehttps://housing.southtyneside.gov.uk/image/4200/STH-Logo/opengraph.png?m=1730452924423
og:image:width1200
og:image:height630

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 447 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
31.8% 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.
9 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 18.5 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 9 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
4 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
...e/4200/STH-Logo/logo.png?m=1730452924423No alt attribute provided
...as-tree/relatedimage.jpg?m=1669905006777No alt attribute provided
.../Houses/relatedimage.jpg?m=1669741774737No alt attribute provided
...es-logo/relatedimage.jpg?m=1730446305557No alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Home
The H1 heading contains the words Home! Use important keywords instead.
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (4 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Home
H2 Popular pages
H2 Categories
H2 Christmas opening times
H2 Rent free weeks this Christmas
H2 Company strike-off application
H2 News
H2 Help us to improve this website
H2 About Housing Services
H3 Your home
H3 Complaints and feedback
H3 Home safety
H3 Getting involved
H3 Repairs and improvements
H3 Independent living (over 55s)
H3 Support and benefits
H3 Mutual exchanges
H3 Crime and community safety
H3 On the Council website
H3 What's happening
H3 In focus
Baselink: https://housing.southtyneside.gov.uk/
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.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 4 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Subdomain Anchor Skip to main content
/Subdomain Link to "South Tyneside Council Housing Services" homepage
/article/9257/Log-in-REDIRECTSubdomain Log in to MyHome
/Subdomain Anchor Toggle mobile menu visibility
/article/9316/Search-and-bid-o...Subdomain Search and bid on homes
/article/9290/Job-vacanciesSubdomain Job vacancies
/article/8849/Contact-usSubdomain Contact us
/article/9503/Report-a-repairSubdomain Report a repair
/article/9315/Paying-your-rentSubdomain Paying your rent
/article/8848/Your-homeSubdomain Your home
/article/8850/Complaints-and-f...Subdomain Complaints and feedback
/article/8851/Home-safetySubdomain Home safety
/article/8852/Getting-involvedSubdomain Getting involved
/article/8853/Repairs-and-impr...Subdomain Repairs and improvements
/article/8855/Independent-livi...Subdomain Independent living (over 55s)
/article/8857/Support-and-bene...Subdomain Support and benefits
/article/8858/Mutual-exchangesSubdomain Mutual exchanges
/article/8859/Crime-and-commun...Subdomain Crime and community safety
https://www.southtyneside.gov....External Subdomain Bin collections
https://www.southtyneside.gov....External Subdomain Council Tax and benefits
https://www.southtyneside.gov....External Subdomain What's on in South Tyneside
/article/8849/Contact-usSubdomain Anchor Follow us on social media
/article/20960/Council-Housing...Subdomain Housing transition
/article/23820/Important-polic...Subdomain Policies and documents
/article/21064/Who-is-my-Housi...Subdomain Find your housing officer
/article/16126/Christmas-openi...Subdomain Christmas opening times
/article/25714/Rent-free-weeks...Subdomain Rent free weeks this Christmas
/article/29025/Company-strike-...Subdomain Company strike-off application
/article/28961/Council-Reinfor...Subdomain Council Reinforces Commitment to Quality Homes with Proposed New Repairs Policy 02 December 2025
/article/26494/Sustainable-Soc...Subdomain Sustainable Social Housing set for South Tyneside 25 March 2025
/article/24919/Housing-Transfe...Subdomain Housing Transfer Due For Completion 23 October 2024
/article/22187/Housing-Stock-T...Subdomain Housing Stock To Be Brought Back In-House 13 March 2024
/article/22169/Council-To-Cons...Subdomain Council To Consider Bringing Housing Stock Back In-House 11 March 2024
/article/21821/Tenants-Reminde...Subdomain Tenants Reminded To Have Their Say on Council Housing 21 February 2024
/article/9264/NewsSubdomain View all news News
/article/27566/Feedback?page=8846Subdomain Give us your feedback
/article/9289/About-usSubdomain About us
/article/8849/Contact-usSubdomain Text duplicate Contact us
/article/9290/Job-vacanciesSubdomain Text duplicate Job vacancies
/article/9271/AccessibilitySubdomain Accessibility
/article/9272/Data-protectionSubdomain Data protection
/article/17900/Terms-and-condi...Subdomain Terms and conditions
/article/9273/Freedom-of-infor...Subdomain Freedom of information
/article/9274/Modern-slavery-s...Subdomain Modern slavery statement
/article/9275/Privacy-notice-f...Subdomain Privacy notice
/article/9276/Cookie-policySubdomain Cookie policy
/article/9277/Environmental-In...Subdomain Environmental Information Regulations
/article/9278/LanguagesSubdomain Languages
/article/9279/Payslips-for-staffSubdomain Payslips for staff
https://www.gossinteractive.com/New window External Subdomain Powered by GOSS
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://housing.southtyneside.gov.uk/"
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 0.41 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 (28 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSat, 03 Jan 2026 12:16:43 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
cache-controlno-cache, no-store
pragmano-cache
set-cookie304 Characters
expires-1
varyAccept-Encoding
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
x-ua-compatibleIE=Edge
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
report-to{"group":"csp-endpoint","max_age":10886400,"endpoints":[{"url":"csp-reports"}]}
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self'; report-uri csp-reports; report-to csp-endpoint;
link<https://housing.southtyneside.gov.uk/>; rel="canonical"
servercloudflare
x-powered-by
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
content-encodinggzip
cf-ray9b826dcdff418c46-FRA
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 1 referring domains.
This page only has 1 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 1 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Housing68%Check
South64%Check
Tyneside64%Check
South Tyneside64%Check
Housing Services62%Check
South Tyneside Council Housing62%Check
South Tyneside Council61%Check
Council Housing61%Check
Tyneside Council Housing Services61%Check
Council55%Check
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