Lhsc.on.ca - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
74% 
Page quality
54% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
53% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.99 s
File size
47.10 kB
Words
338
Media files
17
Number of links
62 internal / 22 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Homepage | LHSC
The page title is too short. (168 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.lhsc.on.ca/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Canada
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

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MobileOptimizedwidth
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
No paragraphs were detected.
There are only 338 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
18.9% 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 8 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 7 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

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Secondary Menu
H2 Main navigation
H2 Momentum starts here: LHSC’s 2024/2025 Annual Report
H2 Our Hospitals
H2 How can we help?
H2 Top Stories
H2 Quick Links
H2 Community Links
H2 Accountability
H3 Clinical trial significantly improves detection of hidden blood clots in stroke patients
H3 Momentum starts here: LHSC’s 2024/2025 Annual Report Duplicate text
H3 Tim Hortons Smile Cookie Week
H3 Great people. Great care.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 22 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.lhsc.on.ca/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.lhsc.on.ca/give-nowGive Now
A-TITLE Donate to LHSC
/about-lhsc/media-roomMedia Room
/health-recordsSubdomain Patient Records
/about-lhsc/contact-usContact Us
https://ecard.lhsc.on.ca/patient/External Subdomain Patient e-Cards
/patients-visitors/patient-rel...Subdomain Share Feedback
/patients-visitors/finding-you...Subdomain Maps & Directions
https://www.lhsc.on.ca/IMG-ALT London Health Sciences Centre
/patients-visitorsVisiting LHSC
A-TITLE For information you might need when visiting the hospital as a patient.
/programs-servicesSubdomain Programs & Services
https://www.lhsc.on.ca/careersCareers & Volunteering
https://lhscri.ca/External Research↗
https://www.lhsc.on.ca/about-lhscSubdomain About LHSC
/patients-visitors/measels-upd...Subdomain Measles update: Care partner & visitor policy in effect
/doc/annual_report/2025/Subdomain Momentum starts here: LHSC’s 2024/2025 Annual Report
/doc/annual_report/2025/Subdomain Learn how we're evolving
/patients-visitors/visiting-in...Subdomain Victoria Hospital
IMG-ALT Location Victoria Hospital
/patients-visitors/visiting-in...Subdomain Visitor Information
/childrens-hospital/patient-fa...Subdomain Children's Hospital
IMG-ALT Location Children's Hospital
/childrens-hospital/patient-fa...Subdomain Text duplicate Visitor Information
/patients-visitors/university-...Subdomain University Hospital
IMG-ALT Location
/patients-visitors/university-...Subdomain Text duplicate Visitor Information
/patients-visitors/wait-timesSubdomain Emergency Visits
IMG-ALT Clock and Person
/patients-visitors/wait-timesSubdomain Current Wait Times
/patients-visitors/getting-aro...Subdomain Getting Around LHSC
IMG-ALT Waypoint
/patients-visitors/getting-aro...Subdomain Use MazeMap
/patients-visitors/patient-rel...Subdomain Text duplicate Share Feedback
IMG-ALT Share Feedback icon
/patients-visitors/patient-rel...Subdomain Patient Relations
https://www.lhsc.on.ca/careersSubdomain Careers and Volunteering
IMG-ALT Badge
https://www.lhsc.on.ca/careersSubdomain Join Team LHSC
/health-professionalsSubdomain Health Professionals
IMG-ALT Website with Professional
/health-professionalsSubdomain Referral Guidelines
https://invoicepayment.lhsc.on...External Subdomain Pay Your Bill
IMG-ALT Invoice
https://invoicepayment.lhsc.on...External Subdomain Electronic Payments
/news/clinical-trial-significa...IMG-ALT Dr. Sposato and Dr. Bagur reviewing a patient’s scan to identify the source of a blood clot that caused the stroke.
/news-type/research-innovationResearch & Innovation
/news/clinical-trial-significa...Clinical trial significantly improves detection of hidden blood clots in stroke patients
/news/researchers-from-lhsc-an...Researchers from LHSC and SickKids shine spotlight on dangers posed by measles to pregnant people and their babies
/news/from-the-cobalt-bomb-to-...From the Cobalt Bomb to theranostics: LHSC’s pioneering role in cancer treatment
/news/air-pollution-may-increa...Air pollution may increase epilepsy risk, new study suggests
/news/momentum-starts-here-lhs...IMG-ALT Annual report icon graphic
/news-type/lhsc-newsLHSC News
/news/momentum-starts-here-lhs...Text duplicate Momentum starts here: LHSC’s 2024/2025 Annual Report
/news/ensuring-accountability-...Ensuring accountability: A letter to our community
/news/disrupting-the-cycle-the...Disrupting the cycle: The role of psychologists in treating chronic pain
/news/lhsc-150-anniversary-cel...LHSC 150 Anniversary Celebration
/news/tim-hortons-smile-cookie...IMG-ALT Tim Hortons Smile Cookie Graphic
/news-type/donor-impactDonor Impact
/news/tim-hortons-smile-cookie...Tim Hortons Smile Cookie Week
/news/lhsc-auxiliary-looks-for...LHSC Auxiliary looks for helping hands to continue legacy of support
/news/transformational-donatio...Transformational donation will launch the Jahnke Family Paediatric Oncology Centre of Excellence at Children’s Hospital
/news/historic-20-million-doll...Historic $20 million dollar gift to transform cancer care
https://www.lhsc.on.ca/newsSee all News
/patients-visitors/great-momen...Subdomain Great Moments Recognition Program
https://ecard.lhsc.on.ca/patient/External Subdomain Send a Patient an e-Card
/coronavirusSubdomain Coronavirus Updates
A-TITLE Coronavirus (COVID-19) Updates
/patients-visitors/in-an-emerg...In an Emergency
/about-lhsc/accessibilitySubdomain Accessibility at LHSC
/childrens-hospitalText duplicate Children's Hospital
http://www.childhealth.ca/External Subdomain Children's Health Foundation
http://www.lhsf.ca/External Subdomain London Health Sciences Foundation
http://www.chri.org/External Subdomain Children's Health Research Institute
https://www.lhscri.ca/External Subdomain London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute
/about-lhsc/website-terms-and-...Terms and Conditions
/are-you-an-lhsc-employeeFor Our Employees
https://www.fanshawec.ca/External Subdomain Fanshawe College
https://healthcareathome.ca/External Home and Community Care Support Services
http://www.healthunit.com/External Subdomain Middlesex-London Health Unit
https://www.swrcp.lhsc.on.ca/a...External Subdomain South West Regional Cancer Program
http://swostroke.ca/External Southwestern Ontario Stroke Network
http://www.sjhc.london.on.ca/External Subdomain St. Joseph's Health Care London
http://thehealthline.ca/index....External thehealthline.ca
https://www.uwo.ca/External Subdomain Western University
/about-lhsc/caring-for-our-env...Subdomain Caring for our Environment
/patients-visitors/privacy-inf...Privacy
/about-lhsc/governance-and-man...Subdomain Governance and Management
/about-lhsc/executive-compensa...Executive Compensation
/about-lhsc/freedom-of-informa...Freedom of Information Requests
https://www.facebook.com/LHSCC...External Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/LHSCCanadaExternal Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/user/L...External Subdomain Youtube
https://www.instagram.com/lhsc...External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain LinkedIn

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.lhsc.on.ca/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
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 0.99 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.
This page loads 8 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 3 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (47 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateWed, 16 Jul 2025 23:05:03 GMT
serverApache/2.4.62 (Debian)
cache-controlmust-revalidate, no-cache, private
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheHIT
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN, SAMEORIGIN
expiresWed, 16 Jul 2025 23:20:30 GMT
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cacheHIT
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self';
content-length10388
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 212 referring domains.
This page has 2,573 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 183 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /search?
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /user/logout/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password/
Disallow: /index.php/user/register/
Disallow: /index.php/user/login/
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout/

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www.lhsc.on.ca
Homepage | LHSC

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
LHSC68%Check
Annual46%Check
Report46%Check
Links43%Check
Momentum43%Check
starts43%Check
stroke42%Check
Patient40%Check
Hospital40%Check
blood40%Check

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