Joburg.org.za - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
71% 
Page quality
66% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
63% 
Server
6% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.87 s
File size
124.10 kB
Words
664
Media files
29
Number of links
65 internal / 13 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
City of Johannesburg
The page title is too short. (191 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.joburg.org.za/
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-za
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-za
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

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X-UA-CompatibleIE=10
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 664 words. That's ok.
14.9% 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 15.43 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 13 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
20 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.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
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https://joburg.org.za/SiteAssets/1.pngNo alt attribute provided
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https://joburg.org.za/SiteAssets/1.pngThe City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality is a metropolitan municipality that manages the local governance of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is divided into several branches and departments in order to expedite services for the city.
...ngImages/2026-News-Images/Ipfi photo.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ges/2026-News-Images/JM & NW Farmers.JPGNo alt attribute provided
...ages/2026-News-Images/KHAYA DUBE JFF.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ngImages/2026-News-Images/Mari Rabie.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...-News-Images/46TH EO COUNCIL MEETING.pngNo alt attribute provided
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
City Power engineer earns global certification in energy management
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 City Power engineer earns global certification in energy management
H1 Joburg Market supports knowledge sharing at NWU Farmers Day
H1 Budding filmmaker Khaya Dube is making waves in Joburg
H1 Thousands take stride at the JP Morgan Corporate Challenge in Johannesburg
H1 WATCH: Speaker convenes 46th Extraordinary Council Meeting
H2 Content Editor
H3 Help & Support
H3 Other
H3 Stay Connected
H3 General Queries
Anchor text is an URL
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
6 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 5 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 13 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://joburg.org.za/IMG-ALT The City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality is a metropolitan municipality that manages the local governance of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is divi...
https://joburg.org.za/HomeCurrently selected
/about-the-cityAbout the City
/city-servicesCity Services
/work-in-joburgWork in Joburg
/play-in-joburgPlay in Joburg
/key-documentsKey Documents
https://joburg.org.za/media_Media
/Pages/A-Z.aspxA-Z
https://joburg.org.za/City of Johannesburg
https://www.facebook.com/Cityo...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.twitter.com/Cityof...New window External Subdomain Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/city...New window External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/user/g...New window External Subdomain YouTube
http://www.linkedin.com/compan...New window External Subdomain LinkedIn
/Pages/Weather-widget.aspxNew window Weather
/Pages/E-Services.aspxE-Services
/Pages/campaigns.aspxCampaigns
/Pages/Priorities.aspxPriorities
/Pages/procurement.aspxProcurement
https://joburg.org.za/RecentCurrently selected
/Pages/Herman.aspxHerman
/Pages/A-Z.aspxText duplicate A-Z
/Pages/Privacy-Policy.aspxPrivacy Policy
/Pages/Terms-and-Conditions.aspxTerms and Conditions
/Pages/Notices.aspxNotices
/Pages/Feasibility-Study-for-....Feasibility Study for Alternative Waste Treatment
/Pages/Hometest.aspxHometest
/Pages/homepageUAT.aspxhomepageUAT
/Pages/TestTwitter.aspxTestTwitter
/Pages/TwitterTest.aspxTwitterTest
/Pages/Weather-widget.aspxWeather widget
/Pages/homepage.htmlWWW REDIRECT
/Pages/2024-25-IDP-Medium-Term...2024/25 Integrated Development Plan (IDP) Medium Term Budget, Draft Rates, Tariffs & Public Meetings
/Pages/Support-Needs-and-Pay-P...Invitation to NPOs on the City's database to submit proposals supporting Social Development
/media_/Newsroom/Pages/2026-Ne...Subdomain No Text
/media_/Newsroom/Pages/2026-Ne...Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Read More
/media_/Newsroom/Pages/2026-Ne...Subdomain No Text
/media_/Newsroom/Pages/2026-Ne...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/media_/Newsroom/Pages/2026-Ne...Subdomain No Text
https://joburgfilmfestival.co....External Young Voices Award at the Joburg Fi...
/media_/Newsroom/Pages/2026-Ne...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/media_/Newsroom/Pages/2026-Ne...Subdomain No Text
/media_/Newsroom/Pages/2026-Ne...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/media_/Newsroom/Pages/2026-Ne...Subdomain No Text
/https&...</p><div class=No Text
/media_/Newsroom/Pages/2026-Ne...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://joburg.org.za/Anchor Previous
https://joburg.org.za/Anchor Next
/PublishingImages/e services12...www.joburg.org.za/PublishingImages/Tiles%20images/E%20SERVICE.png
https://www.e-joburg.org.za/External Subdomain /Joburg E-Joburg
/PublishingImages/vacancies3.png/PublishingImages/vacancies3.png
/work_/Pages/Work in Joburg/Va.../vacancies
/PublishingImages/notices6.pngESP
/services_/Pages/Debt-Relief-P...Text duplicate ESP
/PublishingImages/procurement6.../PublishingImages/procurement6.png
/work_/Pages/Work in Joburg/Te.../procurement
/PublishingImages/CBP.jpgPublishingImages/CBP.jpg
/services_/Pages/General-Valua...Community Based Planning (CBP)​
/PublishingImages/Tiles images...URL anchor text
https://www.joburg.org.za/PublishingImages/Tiles%20images/CAMPAIGNSASA.png
https://share.hsforms.com/18UO...External Subdomain Spatial Data Portal (ISDP)
/PublishingImages/Tiles images...URL anchor text
https://joburg.org.za/PublishingImages/Tiles%20images/e%20service1.jpg
https://isdp.joburg.org.za/por...External Subdomain Anchor URL anchor text
https://isdp.joburg.org.za/portal/apps/sites/#/isdp-data-site
/PublishingImages/Tiles images...URL anchor text
https://joburg.org.za/PublishingImages/Tiles%20images/priorities1.jpg
https://epetitioncoj.gauteng.g...External Subdomain Anchor URL anchor text
https://epetitioncoj.gauteng.gov.za/index.html#/login
/PublishingImages/Tiles images...URL anchor text
https://joburg.org.za/PublishingImages/Tiles%20images/PRIORITIES.png
/about_/government/Pages/Counc...URL anchor text
https://joburg.org.za/about_/government/Pages/Council/Council.aspx
/about_/Pages/About the City/P...Public access to information act
/Pages/A-Z.aspxText duplicate A-Z
/documents_/By-Laws/Pages/By-L...By-Laws
/Pages/2018 Notices/City Notic...Public notices
/documents_/Pages/Key Document...Key documents
/services_/Pages/default.aspxCity services
https://www.facebook.com/Cityo...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Facebook
https://www.twitter.com/Cityof...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Twitter
https://plus.google.com/113141...New window External Subdomain Google+
/Pages/Terms-and-Conditions.aspxTerms of use
/Pages/Privacy-Policy.aspx| Privacy Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://joburg.org.za/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (2.87 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
This page loads 10 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (124 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 327 referring domains.
This page has 37,271 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 161 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
City63%Check
Joburg59%Check
City Power57%Check
Johannesburg52%Check
energy50%Check
Power50%Check
engineer50%Check
Energy Management50%Check
City Services50%Check
Joburg Market50%Check
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