Isc.co.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
86% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
86% 
Server
97% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.46 s
File size
114.60 kB
Words
558
Media files
17
Number of links
67 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Independent Schools Council - ISC
The length of the page title is perfect. (312 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
ISC independent schools are ranked among the best in the world and educate more than 500,000 children in the UK
The length of the meta description is perfect. (710 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.isc.co.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-gb
Server location: United States of America
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

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langen-gb
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:site@ISC_schools
twitter:imagehttps://www.isc.co.uk/images/GRF_ISC_Logo.svg
og:titleHome
og:typearticle
og:urlhttps://www.isc.co.uk/
og:imagehttps://www.isc.co.uk/images/GRF_ISC_Logo.svg
og:site_nameIndependent Schools Council
og:descriptionISC independent schools are ranked among the best in the world and educate more than 500,000 children in the UK
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are 3 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: This video is hosted by YouTube, which may set cookies. Please accept ...
This page contains 558 words. That's ok.
27.1% 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.
The average number of words per sentence of 14.16 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
10 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)
Independent Schools Council
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Independent Schools Council
H2 For Schools
H2 For Parents
H2 Sign-up for the ISC Daily News Summary
H2 Find an ISC Independent School
H2 School partnerships
H2 Daily News Summary
H3 Celebrating Partnerships
H3 ISC Annual Census 2025
H3 School Bursaries
H3 ISC in the news
H3 School Partnerships
H3 The value of independent schools
H3 Cross-sector partnerships
H3 Impact of Bursaries
H3 Information
H3 Quick Links
H3 Legal
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 4 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 7 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.isc.co.uk/No Text
/member-zone/Login
https://www.isc.co.uk/about-isc/About ISC
/about-isc/objectives/Objectives
/about-isc/associations/Associations
/about-isc/board-and-committees/Board & Committees
/about-isc/isc-advisory-groups/ISC Advisory Groups
/about-isc/isc-staff/ISC Staff
/about-isc/setting-up-a-school...Setting up a School/Joining ISC
/about-isc/courses-and-events/Courses & Events
/about-isc/jobs-isc-and-the-as...Jobs: ISC & the Associations
/about-isc/iscs-50th-anniversary/ISC's 50th Anniversary
/schools/about-isc-schools/About ISC Schools
/sector-info/Sector Info
/sector-info/inclusion-and-div...Inclusion & Diversity
/sector-info/school-inspection/School Inspection
/sector-info/school-partnerships/School Partnerships
/sector-info/isc-digital-advis...ISC Digital Advisory Group
/sector-info/safeguarding/Safeguarding
/sector-info/sustainability-fo...Sustainability for Schools
/sector-info/initial-teacher-t...Initial Teacher Training
/information-for-parents/Information for Parents
https://www.isc.co.uk/research/Research
/research/annual-census/Annual Census
/research/exam-results/Exam Results
/research/independent-schools-...Economic Impact Report
/research/soft-skills-and-ment...Soft Skills & Mental Toughness
/research/durham-university-ac...Academic Value Added Research
/media-enquiries/Media
/media-enquiries/isc-blogs/ISC Blogs
/media-enquiries/news-press-re...Press releases & statements
/media-enquiries/isc-daily-new...ISC Daily News Summary
/media-enquiries/videos/Videos
/media-enquiries/publications/Publications
/media-enquiries/school-news/School News
/media-enquiries/interviews/Interviews
https://www.isc.co.uk/bursaries/Bursaries
/bursaries/what-are-scholarshi...Scholarships & Bursaries
/bursaries/applying-for-a-free...Free Places
/bursaries/charities-offering-...Charities Offering Support
/school-jobs/School Jobs
https://www.isc.co.uk/schools/Find a School
/member-zone/Member Zone
https://publuu.com/flip-book/7...External Trivial anchor text
Read More
/research/annual-census/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://www.isc.co.uk/schools/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/media-enquiries/news-press-re...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/sector-info/school-partnerships/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://www.isc.co.uk/Home
/about-isc/associations/associations
/member-zone/For Schools ISC provides research, legal, regulatory and press services and we represent our associations by coordinating campaigns on specific issues. The M...
/information-for-parents/For Parents ISC offers a school search, guidance on applying to independent schools, school fee assistance and bursary advice. We are unable to assist with c...
https://www.isc.co.uk/schools/Find an ISC Independent School Search for an ISC independent school matching your requirements for location, boarding, gender, age range, examinations, schoo...
https://www.schoolstogether.org/External Subdomain School partnerships There are thousands of partnerships between state and independent schools.
/media-enquiries/isc-daily-new...Daily News Summary 10 June 2026 Tonbridge School to admit girls for the first time Read more
https://www.isc.co.uk/No Text
https://www.facebook.com/Indep...External Subdomain IMG-ALT facebook
https://x.com/isc_schools?lang...External IMG-ALT x-twitter
https://uk.linkedin.com/compan...External Subdomain IMG-ALT linkedin
https://www.instagram.com/iscs...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Instagram
https://www.isc.co.uk/contact-us/Contact us
/private-schools-directory-for...Schools Directory
/find-private-schools-near-me/Find Schools
/teacher-training/Teacher Training
https://www.isc.co.uk/sitemap/Sitemap
https://www.schoolstogether.org/External Subdomain Schools Together
/isc-logo-download/ISC Logo Download
/school-jobs/Text duplicate School Jobs
/about-isc/jobs-isc-and-the-as...ISC Jobs
https://www.isc.co.uk/terms/Terms
/privacy-policy/Privacy Policy
/statutory-info/Statutory Info
/notifications/Notifications
/record-retention-policy/Record Retention

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.isc.co.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 of 0.46 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 (115 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 286 referring domains.
This page has 206,500 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 238 different ip addresses.

Search preview

www.isc.co.uk
Independent Schools Council - ISC
ISC independent schools are ranked among the best in the world and educate more than 500,000 children in the UK

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
School79%Check
Independent School78%Check
ISC77%Check
Schools77%Check
independent77%Check
Independent Schools77%Check
ISC independent77%Check
ISC Schools77%Check
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Independent Schools Council73%Check

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