Northlanarkshire.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
82% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
81% 
Link structure
98% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.14 s
File size
31.50 kB
Words
497
Media files
9
Number of links
58 internal / 15 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Welcome to North Lanarkshire Council | North Lanarkshire Council
The title contains the word Welcome to! More content should be covered in the title.
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 595 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
Homepage of North Lanarkshire Council website
The length of the meta description is perfect. (300 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
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 name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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
descriptionHomepage of North Lanarkshire Council website
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GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org); Commerce 2
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 497 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 45.5 words is high.
28.2% 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.
4 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
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 10 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 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
...ic/2021-03/Snowdrops-2.jpg?itok=e0PgMJEwSnow drops
...y priorities 600x400px.jpg?itok=rga4YpJMPeople walking on a high street.
...on for council website.png?itok=1_dDLLq_Promotional graphic for North Lanarkshire Half Marathon
...2026-03/Election Box 2.png?itok=QqBWnGCdScottish Parliament Election, Thursday 7 May 2026
...unotter Ave drone view.jpg?itok=HyVmNFkHDunotter Ave drone view
...an Inspection Report 2.jpg?itok=4akmZQGVGlencryan School inspection report
...ite/nlc_chatbot/img/chat-launch-icon.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ite/north_lanarkshire/assets/svg/nlc.svgNorth Lanarkshire Council logo
...north_lanarkshire/assets/svg/tagline.svgLive, learn, work, invest, visit

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
North Lanarkshire Council
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
There are 34 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 North Lanarkshire Council
H2 Our services
H2 Bins and recycling
H2 Housing
H2 Council tax
H2 Benefits and money
H2 Schools and learning
H2 Your council
H2 Planning and building
H2 Roads, parking and active travel
H2 Leisure, parks and culture
H2 Jobs and training
H2 Social care and health
H2 Licences and permits
H2 Pests and pollution
H2 Regeneration and investment
H2 Business
H2 Your community
H2 Births, marriages and deaths
H2 Announcements
H2 Latest news
H2 X
H2 Chat with us
H2 Newsletter
H2 Services
H2 External sites
H2 Social media
H2 Email alerts
H2 Footer
H3 Community Priorities Consultation
H3 North Lanarkshire Half Marathon
H3 Scottish Parliament Election, Thursday 7 May 2026
H3 Coatbridge housing developments take shape
H3 Inspectors praise Glencryan School’s inclusive and caring culture
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 15 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to main content
/NORTH LANARKSHIRE COUNCIL
/your-accountMy Account
/your-business-accountBusiness Account
/bin-collection-datesCheck your bin day
/schools-and-learning/school-h...School term dates
/pay-billPay a bill
/planning-and-building/plannin...Planning applications
/schools-and-learning/school-m...School meal payments
/bins-and-recycling/household-...Garden waste permit
/bins-and-recyclingBins and recycling Bin collection dates, request a special uplift, report an issue and more
/housingHousing Report a housing repair, find a home, paying your rent and more
/council-taxCouncil tax Apply for a reduction, pay your council tax, view your account online and more
/benefits-and-moneyBenefits and money Council tax support, housing benefits, money advice and more
/schools-and-learningSchools and learning Find a school or nursery, term dates, school meals and payments
/your-councilYour council Elections, your councillor, complaints, NEC Card, strategies and plans
/planning-and-buildingPlanning and building View and comment on planning applications, apply for permission
/roads-parking-and-active-travelRoads, parking and active travel Report a problem, roadworks, road fees, road permits, construction consents and more.
/leisure-parks-and-cultureLeisure, parks and culture Find out about leisure activities, local parks and more
/jobs-and-trainingJobs and training Current vacancies, Modern Apprenticeships and working for the council
/social-care-and-healthSocial care and health Find out about local health and social care services
/licences-and-permitsLicences and permits Apply or renew licences and permits
/pests-and-pollutionPests and pollution Report a pest problem, air pollution, dogs and public health
/regeneration-and-investmentRegeneration and investment Town and community hubs, housing investment and more
/businessBusiness Business support, Trading Standards, food safety and property for sale
/your-communityYour community Consultations, community planning and community grants
/births-marriages-and-deathsBirths, marriages and deaths Registration services, historical searches and cemeteries
/your-community/working-commun...IMG-ALT People walking on a high street.
/your-community/working-commun...Community Priorities Consultation
/north-lanarkshire-half-marath...IMG-ALT Promotional graphic for North Lanarkshire Half Marathon
/north-lanarkshire-half-marath...North Lanarkshire Half Marathon
/your-council/elections-and-vo...IMG-ALT Scottish Parliament Election, Thursday 7 May 2026
/your-council/elections-and-vo...Text duplicate Scottish Parliament Election, Thursday 7 May 2026
/news/coatbridge-housing-devel...IMG-ALT Dunotter Ave drone view
/news/coatbridge-housing-devel...Coatbridge housing developments take shape
/news/inspectors-praise-glencr...IMG-ALT Glencryan School inspection report
/news/inspectors-praise-glencr...Inspectors praise Glencryan School’s inclusive and caring culture
/newsView all
https://twitter.com/nlcpeople?...External Posts by North Lanarkshire Council
/bins-and-recyclingBins and recycling
/births-marriages-and-deathsBirths, marriages and deaths
/businessBusiness
/council-taxCouncil tax
/housingHousing
/jobs-and-trainingJobs and training
/leisure-parks-and-cultureLeisure, parks and culture
/licences-and-permitsLicenses and permits
/pests-and-pollutionPests and pollution
/planning-and-buildingPlanning and building
/regeneration-and-investmentRegeneration and investment
/roads-parking-and-active-travelRoads, streetlighting and parking
/schools-and-learningSchools and learning
/social-care-and-healthSocial care and health
/your-communityYour community
/your-councilYour council
https://culturenl.co.uk/External Culture NL
https://www.nlleisure.co.uk/External Subdomain ActiveNL
https://www.visitlanarkshire.com/External Subdomain Visit Lanarkshire
https://www.nhslanarkshire.sco...External Subdomain NHS Lanarkshire
https://www.scotland.police.uk/External Subdomain Police Scotland
https://www.firescotland.gov.uk/External Subdomain Scottish Fire and Rescue Service
https://www.gov.scot/External Subdomain Scottish Government
https://www.gov.uk/External GOV.UK
http://www.facebook.com/nlcpeopleExternal Subdomain Facebook
http://www.twitter.com/nlcpeopleExternal Subdomain Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/c/Nort...External Subdomain Youtube
https://www.instagram.com/nlcp...External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain Linkedin
https://www.tiktok.com/@nlcpeopleExternal Subdomain Tiktok
/your-council/contact-usContact us
/your-council/communication-an...Accessibility
/your-council/communication-an...Privacy and cookies
/your-community/equalities/our...BSL

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.northlanarkshire.gov.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 0.14 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (32 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 558 referring domains.
This page has 4,495 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 300 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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# 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
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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
# 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
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

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Homepage of North Lanarkshire Council website

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North Lanarkshire97%Check
NORTH LANARKSHIRE COUNCIL93%Check
COUNCIL86%Check
Council tax66%Check
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