Iow.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
50% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
70% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.31 s
File size
18.60 kB
Words
41
Media files
2
Number of links
2 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home
The title contains the word Home! More content should be covered in the title.
The page title is too short. (52 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
The page title is only one word.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Isle of Wight Council - The best place to find local government services and information
The length of the meta description is perfect. (563 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 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

NameValue
descriptionThe Isle of Wight Council - The best place to find local government services and information
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
twitter:titleHomepage
twitter:descriptionThe Isle of Wight Council
twitter:site@iwight
twitter:creator@iwight
og:descriptionInformation from Isle of Wight Council about our services including council tax, schools, parking, jobs, registrars, bins and recycling, children’s services, adult care, libraries, planning, licensing, regeneration and leisure.
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://www.iow.gov.uk/Home
og:site_nameIsle of Wight Council
X-UA-COMPATIBLEIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 41 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
No paragraphs were detected.
29.3% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 14 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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)
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
...ent/Iwc.Website.Core/images/iwc_logo.svgIsle of Wight Council logo
...ebsite.Core/images/fa_instagram_icon.svgInstagram icon

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to the Isle of Wight Council
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to the Isle of Wight Council
Baselink: /
This page seems to be an entry page, because only very few links were found.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://iow.gov.uk/IMG-ALT Isle of Wight Council logo
A-TITLE Back to homepage
https://iow.gov.uk/homeHome
https://www.facebook.com/isleo...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/iwightNew window External No Text
https://www.youtube.com/user/I...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/iowc...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Instagram icon
https://www.nationalarchives.g...External Subdomain Open Government Licence v3.0
A-TITLE OGL Licence

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://iow.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)
This page loads 5 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 14 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.31 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (19 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlno-cache, no-store, max-age=0
transfer-encodingchunked
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-encodingbr
varyAccept-Encoding
strict-transport-securitymax-age=15984000; includeSubDomains; preload
referrer-policystrict-origin
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsDENY
cross-origin-resource-policysame-site
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
content-security-policydefault-src 'none'; object-src 'none'; form-action 'self' https://sbsctest.e-paycapita.com:443/scp/scpws https://sbs.e-paycapita.com/scp/scpws/scpClient ; base-uri 'self'; connect-src 'self' *.google-analytics.com wss://iow.gov.uk/ wss://www.iow.gov.uk/ wss://external-test.iow.gov.uk/ https://a.eu.silktide.com; img-src 'self' data: https: www.googletagmanager.com www.gstatic.com; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' www.google.com www.gstatic.com https://www.googletagmanager.com https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js www.googletagmanager.com https://www.gstatic.com/recaptcha/releases/NZrMWHVy58-S9gVvad9HVGxk/recaptcha__en.js https://browser-update.org/update.min.js https://browser-update.org https://widget.surveymonkey.com https://content.govdelivery.com https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/UKIOW/widgets/UKIOW_WIDGET_1.js https://analytics.silktide.com;style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' https://external-test.iow.gov.uk/; frame-src www.google.com https://iwc.maps.arcgis.com/ https://www.youtube.com/ https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/ https://app.powerbi.com/ https://widget.surveymonkey.com https://lookinglocal.cdn.spotlightr.com ; font-src 'self' https://external-test.iow.gov.uk/; upgrade-insecure-requests
permissions-policyaccelerometer=(), camera=(), geolocation=(), gyroscope=(), magnetometer=(), microphone=(), payment=(), usb=()
feature-policyaccelerometer 'none';autoplay 'none';camera 'none';display-capture 'none';encrypted-media 'none';gyroscope 'none';magnetometer 'none';microphone 'none';midi 'none';payment 'none';picture-in-picture 'none';publickey-credentials-get 'none';sync-xhr 'none';usb 'none';xr-spatial-tracking 'none';
dateThu, 31 Jul 2025 08:46:19 GMT
set-cookie71 Characters
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 799 referring domains.
This page has 1,220 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 170 different ip addresses.

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