Mygov.scot - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.09 s
File size
23.90 kB
Words
287
Media files
3
Number of links
33 internal / 3 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Access to public services in Scotland - mygov.scot
The length of the page title is perfect. (450 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
mygov.scot is the place for people in Scotland to access public services that are easy to find and simple to use.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (681 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.mygov.scot/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Germany
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

NameValue
dc.titleAccess to public services in Scotland
dc.descriptionmygov.scot is the place for people in Scotland to access public services that are easy to find and simple to use.
dc.subjectmygovscot
descriptionmygov.scot is the place for people in Scotland to access public services that are easy to find and simple to use.
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
msapplication-TileColor#0065bd
theme-color#ffffff
facebook-domain-verificationptwgwetrd28vbmwyjq7h2fen8phaub
google-site-verificationvSrfYRrCbfMqGoggpdhADL9rvDQm70LtAHalmFmZ4wE
langen
og:urlhttps://www.mygov.scot/
og:typewebsite
og:titleAccess to public services in Scotland
og:descriptionmygov.scot is the place for people in Scotland to access public services that are easy to find and simple to use.
og:imagehttps://www.mygov.scot/binaries/content/gallery/mygov/mygov-png
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 287 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
24.4% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 18.33 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 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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
...2750203715/assets/images/logos/mygov.svgmygov.scot
...752750203715/assets/images/logos/ogl.svgOpen Government License
...mages/logos/scottish-government--min.svggov.scot

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Access to public services in Scotland
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Access to public services in Scotland
H2 Information
H2 Popular on mygov.scot:
H2 Benefits
H2 Housing and local services
H2 Health, social care and wellbeing
H2 Working, jobs and careers
H2 Driving and transport
H2 Living in and visiting Scotland
H2 Education and training
H2 Business
H2 Births, deaths and family
H2 Crime, justice and the law
H2 Money and tax
H2 Environment, farming and marine
H2 Passports, travel and living abroad
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 3 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.mygov.scot/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.mygov.scot/cookiescookies
https://www.mygov.scot/cookiesSet cookie preferences
https://www.mygov.scot/cookieschange your cookie settings
https://www.mygov.scot/IMG-ALT mygov.scot
/browse/benefitsBenefits: disability, child, heating
https://www.mygov.scot/myaccountmyaccount: sign in online
/contact-social-security-scotlandWebchat: Social Security Scotland
/browse/benefits/emergency-and...Crisis Grants: emergency payment
/uploading-your-documentsSend documents: Social Security Scotland
/apply-blue-badgeBlue Badge: disabled parking
/organisations150 organisations
/organisationsA-Z of Scotland's organisations
/browse/benefitsBenefits
/browse/housing-local-servicesHousing and local services
/browse/health-social-careHealth, social care and wellbeing
/browse/working-jobsWorking, jobs and careers
/browse/driving-transportDriving and transport
/browse/living-visiting-scotlandLiving in and visiting Scotland
/browse/education-trainingEducation and training
/browse/businessBusiness
/browse/birth-death-familyBirths, deaths and family
/browse/crime-justice-lawCrime, justice and the law
/browse/money-and-taxMoney and tax
/browse/environment-farm-marineEnvironment, farming and marine
/browse/passports-living-abroadPassports, travel and living abroad
https://www.mygov.scot/Anchor Back to top
/about-mygovscotAbout
https://www.mygov.scot/myaccountmyaccount
/accessibilityAccessibility statement
https://www.mygov.scot/cookiesCookies
/give-feedbackFeedback
https://www.mygov.scot/privacyPrivacy
https://www.nationalarchives.g...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Open Government License
https://www.nationalarchives.g...External Subdomain Open Government Licence v3.0
https://www.gov.scot/External Subdomain IMG-ALT gov.scot
A-TITLE The Scottish Government

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.mygov.scot/"
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 0.09 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (24 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html;charset=UTF-8
dateThu, 24 Jul 2025 04:52:54 GMT
cache-controlpublic, max-age=300, s-maxage=60
content-encodinggzip
permissions-policyaccelerometer=(), autoplay=(), camera=(), clipboard-read=(), clipboard-write=(), cross-origin-isolated=(), document-domain=(), encrypted-media=(), fullscreen=(), geolocation=(), gyroscope=(), magnetometer=(), microphone=(), midi=(), payment=(), picture-in-picture=(), publickey-credentials-get=(), screen-wake-lock=(), sync-xhr=(), usb=(), xr-spatial-tracking=()
referrer-policyno-referrer, strict-origin-when-cross-origin
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-cache-statusEXPIRED
varyAccept-Encoding
x-cacheHit from cloudfront
via1.1 9bca546700a965c9c77ef5b8dbe65cc4.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-popFRA6-C1
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
x-amz-cf-idBELJ0eIomsBOGV3L7xONSxpR_fiSHILgkWZ07mbcODDBctRLzZPr4w==
age15
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 197 referring domains.
This page has 1,391 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 143 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*.pdf$
Disallow: /search$
Disallow: /search?
Disallow: /binaries/
Disallow: /assets/
Sitemap: https://www.mygov.scot/sitemap.xml

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mygov.scot is the place for people in Scotland to access public services that are easy to find and simple to use.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
scot93%Check
Scotland77%Check
services77%Check
public services77%Check
mygov76%Check
Access public services76%Check
Access73%Check
Living43%Check
Living Abroad42%Check
abroad38%Check
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