Raf.mod.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
92% 
Page structure
74% 
Link structure
55% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.27 s
File size
64.80 kB
Words
671
Media files
32
Number of links
120 internal / 16 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Royal Air Force | Home
The length of the page title is perfect. (207 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The RAF provides air and space power to protect the UK and our allies in an uncertain world.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (571 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-gb
Server location: Canada
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
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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 671 words. That's ok.
27.6% 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.
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 19 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 13 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
16 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.

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The Royal Air Force
The H1 heading is too short (19 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 33 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 The Royal Air Force
H2 Air and Space Power to Protect Our Nation
H2 What we do
H2 News
H2 Global operations
H2 Our people
H2 UK Space Command
H2 RAF Cyberspace
H2 Interested in joining?
H2 Inside Air
H2 Top Guns: Inside the RAF
H2 Follow the RAF
H2 InsideAIR
H2 RAF Family
H3 Quick Reaction Alert
H3 Global operations Duplicate text
H3 Team Tempest
H3 RAF Akrotiri passenger information
H3 RAF Brize Norton Passenger information
H3 Our people Duplicate text
H3 F-35B Lightning
H3 Atlas C.1 (A400M)
H3 Typhoon FGR4
H3 Typhoon - Displays
H3 BBMF - Displays
H3 Red Arrows - Displays
H3 Easier registration and claims process for Wraparound Childcare
H3 InsideAIR podcast
H3 RAF 60 Second Update
H3 RAF F-35A marks a significant step in delivering a more lethal Integrated Force and joining NATO Nuclear Mission
H3 Exercise Atlantic Trident 2025
H3 RAF 60 Second Update Ep 50
H3 Impeccable Precision as 29 Aircraft Take to the Skies for King's Birthday Flypast!
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are 16 external links on this page.
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/aircraft/?category=heritageHeritage aircraft
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/aircraft/heritage-aircraft/hu...Hurricane
/aircraft/heritage-aircraft/la...Lancaster
/aircraft/heritage-aircraft/ch...Chipmunk
/aircraft/heritage-aircraft/da...Dakota
/aircraft/current-aircraft/lig...F-35B Lightning Discover the capabilities of this multi-role combat aircraft.
/aircraft/current-aircraft/atl...Atlas C.1 (A400M) Discover the capabilities of this transport aircraft.
/aircraft/current-aircraft/typ...Typhoon FGR4 Discover this agile and multi-role combat aircraft used in all RAF operations.
/display-teams/red-arrows/Red Arrows
/display-teams/battle-of-brita...Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
/display-teams/typhoon-display...Typhoon Display Team
/display-teams/chinook-display...Chinook Display Team
/display-teams/falcons/Falcons Display Team
/display-teams/grob-tutor-disp...Grob Tutor Display Team
/display-teams/raf-music-servi...RAF Music Services
/display-teams/raf-voluntary-b...RAF Voluntary Bands
/display-teams/royal-air-force...RAF Pipes and Drums
/display-teams/kings-colour-sq...King's Colour Squadron
/display-teams/raf-presentatio...RAF Presentation Team
/display-teams/typhoon-display...Typhoon - Displays Request a flypast of the Typhoon.
/display-teams/battle-of-brita...BBMF - Displays Upcoming UK displays of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
/display-teams/red-arrows/disp...Red Arrows - Displays Where to see the Red Arrows on display and how to request a flypast.
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/community-support/serving-fam...What to do in a family emergency
/community-support/serving-fam...HIVE Finder
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/community-support/serving-fam...Housing
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/community-support/serving-fam...Serving Parents
/community-support/serving-fam...LGBT+ Parenting
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/community-support/raf-reserve...RAF Reserves: Employers' overview
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/community-support/raf-serving...Easier registration and claims process for Wraparound Childcare Latest community news story.
/news/articles/News articles
/news/insideair/InsideAIR podcast
/news/senior-appointments/Senior Appointments
/news/insideair/InsideAIR podcast Latest episode.
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/news/articles/View more news
/what-we-do/global-operations/Global operations Engaging in a wide-range of operations and training exercises around the world and in space with our partners and allies.
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/our-organisation/our-people/?...Text duplicate Sergeant Ivory
/our-organisation/our-people/Meet some of our people from across the RAF
/what-we-do/uk-space-command/UK Space Command Protecting the UK's interests in space
/what-we-do/overview/cyberspace/RAF Cyberspace Combating cyber threats
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/news/insideair/Inside Air Listen to the RAF podcast
/what-we-do/top-guns-inside-th...Top Guns: Inside the RAF Learn about frontline missions from across the globe
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https://medium.com/@RoyalAirForceExternal IMG-ALT Medium
/news/articles/?rss=trueIMG-ALT RAF News RSS Feed
/what-we-do/insideair/Listen to the RAF podcast
https://www.raf.mod.uk/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Royal Air Force
https://www.rafa.org.uk/New window External Subdomain RAF Association
https://www.rafbf.org/New window External Subdomain RAF Benevolent Fund
https://www.rafcf.org.uk/New window External Subdomain RAF Central Fund
http://rafct.com/New window External RAF Charitable Trust
https://www.raf-ff.org.uk/New window External Subdomain RAF Families Federation
https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/New window External Subdomain RAF Museum
https://www.rafcf.org.uk/sports/New window External Subdomain RAF Sports
https://www.rafbf.org/raf-widows/New window External Subdomain RAF Widows' Association
https://www.raf.mod.uk/privacy/Privacy
/accessibility/Accessibility
https://www.raf.mod.uk/site-map/Site map
/contact-us/Contact Us
https://www.raf.mod.uk/myraf/My RAF
/contact-us/feedback/Website Feedback

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.raf.mod.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 0.27 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (65 kB).

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Royal Air Force | Home
The RAF provides air and space power to protect the UK and our allies in an uncertain world.

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