Livingwage.org.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
95% 
Page structure
66% 
Link structure
85% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.36 s
File size
57.70 kB
Words
677
Media files
25
Number of links
64 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
For the real cost of living | Living Wage Foundation
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (451 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
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.livingwage.org.uk/
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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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 677 words. That's ok.
32.2% 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.
10 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 17.11 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=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 14 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
...ing Wage Foundation007.jpg?itok=XtOmAl2UIkea team
...025-04/LW_mercat-tours.jpg?itok=i4JlXl18A group of LWF supports hold LWF signs
...5-04/LW_event_backdrop.jpg?itok=t_aN2ZoEA speaker giving a talk at a LWF event
...25-06/A6k6laZyGezJ (2).png?itok=cQjagVLBTantrum doughnuts employees with doughnuts and living wage logo
...5-04/DSC_2895 (1).jpg.webp?itok=R10fWF9KLiving Wage, Living Pension and Living Hours employer photo
...lt/files/2025-06/Copy of Interacting.pngThree photos of Brett Mendell with white circles on a green background
...files/2025-06/Untitled design (36)_0.pngPhoto of Professor Nick Pearce
...iles/2025-06/Pro Headshot (Portrait).jpgKatharine Photiou, Managing Director, Workplace Savings, L&G
...-04/LW_Employer_0.png.webp?itok=DhExYI8cLiving Wage Employer
...25-04/LH_Employer.png.webp?itok=TnBXNaZ8Living Hours Employer
...25-04/LP_Employer.png.webp?itok=MECS_5XrLiving Pension Employer
/sites/default/files/2022-09/QMU.svg_0.svgQueen Mary University of London
/sites/default/files/2022-09/KPMG.svg_0.svgKPMG
...es/default/files/2022-09/oxfam.svg_0.svgOxfam
...s/default/files/2022-09/nestle.svg_0.svgNestle
...default/files/2022-09/Linklaters.svg.svgLinklaters
/sites/default/files/2022-09/Aviva.svg.svgAviva
/sites/default/files/2022-09/ikea.svg.svgIkea
...fault/files/2022-09/trust_london.svg.svgTrust for London
...es/2022-09/resolution_foundation.svg.svgResolution Foundation
/sites/default/files/2022-09/JRF.svg.svgJoseph Rowntree Foundation
...ult/files/2022-09/peoples_health.svg.svgPeople's Health Trust
...lt/files/2023-05/Untitled design (3).svgabrdn FFT
...efault/files/2025-04/Untitled design.svgNationwide
...elivingwage/images/lwf-logo-png-2025.pngLiving Wage Foundation logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
For the real cost of living
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 For the real cost of living
H1 Work That Works for Everyone
H2 What is the real Living Wage?
H2 £12.60
H2 £13.85
H2 16,000
H2 475,000
H2 For the real cost of living Duplicate text
H2 Become a Living Wage Employer
H2 Latest News
H2 Our accreditations
H2 @LivingWageUK
H2 Principal Partners
H3 Who pays the Living Wage?
H3 Our Mission
H3 Why pay the Living Wage?
H3 Brett Mendell awarded MBE as a champion for fairer, better work
H3 New Chair of Living Wage Commission announced
H3 Legal & General: Why the Living Pension should be an imperative for businesses
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 3 links with a trivial anchor text.
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 6 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.livingwage.org.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.livingwage.org.uk/Subdomain Living Wage Foundation
https://www.livingwage.org.uk/Home
/who-we-areWho we are
/citizens-ukCitizens UK
/advisory-council-1Advisory Council
/jobsJobs
/living-wage-commissionLiving Wage Commission
/steering-groupsSteering Groups
/our-anti-racism-commitmentOur Anti-Racism commitment
https://living-wage-foundation...External Subdomain Shop
/contact-usContact us
/support-employeesSupport for employees
/search/allSearch
/user/loginLOGIN
/join-usGET ACCREDITED
https://www.livingwage.org.uk/Text duplicate Home
/who-we-areText duplicate Who we are
/citizens-ukText duplicate Citizens UK
/jobsText duplicate Jobs
/advisory-council-1Text duplicate Advisory Council
/living-wage-commissionText duplicate Living Wage Commission
/our-anti-racism-commitmentText duplicate Our Anti-Racism commitment
/steering-groupsText duplicate Steering Groups
/what-real-living-wageWhat is the Living Wage?
/living-wage-employersAccreditation
/good-for-businessGood for Business
/good-for-peopleGood for people
/historyHistory
/living-wage-employersLiving Wage
/living-hoursLiving Hours
/living-pensionLiving Pension
/faqsFAQs
/building-sustainable-and-resp...Responsible business strategies and our accreditations
/what-do-we-doWhat do we do?
/living-wage-placesLiving Wage Places
/global-living-wageGlobal Living Wage
/recognised-service-providersRecognised Service Providers
/living-wage-fundersLiving Wage Funders
/integrated-care-system-recogn...Integrated Care System recognition
/enhancing-responsible-busines...Subdomain Responsible business practices
/accredited-living-wage-employersWho's accredited?
/accreditGet accredited
/living-wage-champion-awards-2025Champion awards
/what-good-business-charterGood Business Charter
/living-wage-weekLiving Wage Week
/principle-partnersPrincipal Partners
/newsNews
/blogBlog
/media-centreMedia centre
/researchResearch
/case-studiesCase studies
/invitations-tenderInvitations to tender
https://living-wage-foundation...External Subdomain Text duplicate Shop
/contact-usText duplicate Contact us
/support-employeesText duplicate Support for employees
/living-wage-employersFind out more
/what-real-living-wageText duplicate Find out more
/good-for-businessText duplicate Find out more
/accreditLearn more
/news/brett-mendell-awarded-mb...Trivial anchor text
Read more
/news/new-chair-living-wage-co...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
/news/legal-general-why-living...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
/our-partnersIMG-ALT Queen Mary University of London
https://www.facebook.com/Livin...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/LivingWageUKNew window External Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/livi...New window External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain LinkedIn
/privacy-policyPrivacy Policy
/accessibility-policyAccessibility Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.livingwage.org.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 is excellent with 0.36 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (58 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 2,340 referring domains.
This page has 2,307,113 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,705 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

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# you save bandwidth and server resources.
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# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
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# 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.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
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Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
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Living Wage72%Check
cost living70%Check
real Living70%Check
real Living Wage69%Check
real cost living69%Check
Wage68%Check
real66%Check
cost66%Check
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