Localdigital.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
95% 
Page quality
57% 
Page structure
98% 
Link structure
98% 
Server
70% 
External factors
81% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.85 s
File size
49.80 kB
Words
485
Media files
8
Number of links
40 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | Local Digital
The page title is too short. (179 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Local Digital is a team within the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government that provides digital and cyber support to local government.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (922 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.localdigital.gov.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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
descriptionLocal Digital is a team within the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government that provides digital and cyber support to local government.
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article:modified_time2024-10-16T13:48:56+00:00
langen-gb
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@LDGovUK
og:localeen_GB
og:typewebsite
og:titleHome | Local Digital
og:descriptionLocal Digital is a team within the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government that provides digital and cyber support to local government.
og:urlhttps://www.localdigital.gov.uk/
og:site_nameLocal Digital
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 485 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
27.4% 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.
7 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 18.55 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" 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 10 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
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
...dist/images/department_crest_white_n.pngGovernment crest
...tarter-localdigital/dist/images/logo.pngNo alt attribute provided
...52/Newsletter-featured-image-150x150.pngSubscribe to the Local Digital Newsletter image
...153257/Coloured-background-3-150x150.pngRead the Local Digital CAF Newsletter image
...52/Newsletter-featured-image-150x150.pngSubscribe to the Local Digital Newsletter image
...12110103/Coloured-background-150x150.pngNo alt attribute provided
...6/10094354/500x80-SPSC26-Tra-150x150.pngNo alt attribute provided
...22/12/06104703/Digital-planning-logo.jpgDigital Planning

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Local DigitalALPHA
The H1 heading is too short (18 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Local DigitalALPHA
H2 Feature items
H2 The Local Digital Newsletter, 10 June 2026
H2 Local Digital CAF Newsletter, 21 May 2026
H2 The Local Digital Newsletter, 19 May 2026
H2 Introducing CAF Support to help councils accelerate cyber resilience
H2 GDS spotlight webinar: Sovereign AI
H2 techUK: AI in local government – trends and opportunities
H2 UK Authority: Smart Places and Smart Communities 2026
H2 Digital Planning
H3 The Local Digital Declaration
H3 Data and API standards
H3 Cyber Assessment Framework
H3 Latest news
H3 Upcoming events
H3 About Local Digital
H3 About this website
H3 Follow us
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 7 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.localdigital.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to content
/about/About us
A-TITLE About us
/news/News
A-TITLE News
/programme-evaluation/Programme evaluation
A-TITLE Programme evaluation
/cyber/cyber-assessment-framew...Assess and manage cyber resilience
A-TITLE Assess and manage cyber resilience
/cyber/defend-as-one/Respond to cyber threats
A-TITLE Respond to cyber threats
/data-standards/Apply data standards
A-TITLE Apply data standards
/resources/Access practical resources
A-TITLE Access practical resources
/use-ai-to-improve-local-servi...Use AI to improve local services
A-TITLE Use AI to improve local services
/playbook/Local Government Reorganisation Digital and Cyber Playbook
A-TITLE Local Government Reorganisation Digital and Cyber Playbook
/get-involved/Get involved with Local Digital
A-TITLE Get involved with Local Digital
/about-the-declaration/Local Digital Declaration
A-TITLE Local Digital Declaration
/get-involved/share-a-case-study/Share a case study
A-TITLE Share a case study
/get-involved/user-research/Take part in research
A-TITLE Take part in research
/contact/Contact us
A-TITLE Contact us
https://www.localdigital.gov.uk/Local Digital
/feedbackALPHA
/about/Learn more about us
/what-is-the-declaration/Learn more about the Declaration
/data-standards/Learn more about data standards
/cyber/cyber-assessment-framew...Learn more about the CAF
https://preview.mailerlite.io/...External Subdomain The Local Digital Newsletter, 10 June 2026
https://preview.mailerlite.io/...External Subdomain Local Digital CAF Newsletter, 21 May 2026
https://preview.mailerlite.io/...External Subdomain The Local Digital Newsletter, 19 May 2026
/news/introducing-caf-support-...Introducing CAF Support to help councils accelerate cyber resilience
/news/View more news
/event/gds-spotlight-webinar-s...GDS spotlight webinar: Sovereign AI
/event/techuk-ai-in-local-gove...techUK: AI in local government – trends and opportunities
/event/uk-authority-smart-plac...UK Authority: Smart Places and Smart Communities 2026
/events/View more events
/digital-planning/Learn about Digital Planning
/newsletter/Get updates by email
/about/About
/news/Text duplicate News
/cyber/Cyber
/data-standards/Data standards
/learning-resources/Resources
/fund/Local Digital Fund
/future-councils/Future Councils
/terms-conditions/Terms & conditions
/privacy-cookies/Privacy & cookie policy
/accessibility-statement/Website Accessibility Statement
/feedback/Give feedback on this site
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/vu...External Vulnerability disclosure policy
https://twitter.com/LDgovUKExternal Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain LinkedIn

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.localdigital.gov.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.85 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.
A Content Delivery Network like Google Hosted Libraries can save bandwidth for the JQuery files.
A Content Delivery Network like Bootstrap CDN can save bandwidth for Bootstrap front-end component library.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (50 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 11 Jun 2026 17:57:23 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
servercloudflare
last-modifiedWed, 16 Oct 2024 14:48:56
link<https://www.localdigital.gov.uk>; rel=shortlink
x-powered-by-
varyAccept-Encoding
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set-cookie67 Characters
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
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content-encodingzstd
cf-raya0a27f75ec7723f0-CDG
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is very well linked from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 27 referring domains.
This page has 55 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 27 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /page/*/?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /?rest_route=

User-agent: AdsBot
Disallow: /

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www.localdigital.gov.uk
Home | Local Digital
Local Digital is a team within the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government that provides digital and cyber support to local government.

Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
digital97%Check
Local Digital95%Check
Local93%Check
Local Digital team79%Check
Local Digital Declaration76%Check
provides digital76%Check
Digital Planning74%Check
Local Government73%Check
cyber59%Check
cyber support58%Check
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