Riba.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
61% 
Page quality
49% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
32% 
Server
91% 
External factors
65% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.26 s
File size
90.10 kB
Words
669
Media files
14
Number of links
98 internal / 20 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
RIBA
The page title is too short. (46 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
The page title is only one word.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
At RIBA we want to advance architecture for all, by building the world’s greatest community of architects and we’ll do that by educating, supporting, inspiring, and championing architects everywhere; so that we can all deliver better, safer, more inclusive and sustainable places for everyone.
The meta description is too long: 1775 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.riba.org/
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
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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
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The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
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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
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
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The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
The average number of words per sentence of 41.5 words is high.
This page contains 669 words. That's ok.
29.1% of the text are stop words.
9 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.
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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)
5 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

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...t=webp&autoorient=true&v=1dc5a1c64cd42f0Caochan na Creige, a stone house set in grassy hill overlooking water
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Make the future a better place
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Make the future a better place
H2 RIBA Business Benchmarking
H2 Join now and get the rest of 2025 free
H2 Celebrating UK Disability History Month 2025
H3 Grand Designs House of the Year 2025
H4 Frequently searched
H4 Entry for UK awards 2026 open
H4 Designer of Grenfell Tower site memorial
H4 2026 CPD Expo Programme
H5 Follow us
H5 Contact us
H5 About us
H5 Quick links
H5 Standards
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.
There are 1 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are 20 external links on this page.
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https://www.riba.org/work/Text duplicate Work
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/work/insights-and-resources/p...Professional features
/work/business-tools/practice-...Practice in a Box
/work/business-tools/Business Tools
/work/my-local-riba/My local RIBA
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https://www.ribaj.com/External Subdomain RIBAJ
https://www.riba.org/learn/Learn
https://www.riba.org/learn/Text duplicate Learn
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/learn/professional-learning/Professional Learning Solutions
/learn/become-an-architect/Become an architect
/learn/public-and-school-learn...Public and school learning
https://www.riba.org/explore/Explore
https://www.riba.org/explore/Text duplicate Explore
/explore/riba-collections/Library and Collections
/explore/find-an-architect/Find an architect
/explore/awards/Awards
/explore/competitions/Competitions
/explore/exhibitions/Exhibitions
https://www.riba.org/campaigns/Campaigns
https://www.riba.org/campaigns/Text duplicate Campaigns
https://www.riba.org/campaigns/Text duplicate Campaigns
https://www.riba.org/news/News
https://www.riba.org/whats-on/What's on
https://www.ribabooks.com/New window External Subdomain Shop
/work/join-us/Text duplicate Join us
/search/?query=SustainabilitySustainability
/search/?query=ArchitectureArchitecture
/search/?query=AwardsText duplicate Awards
/search/?query=CoursesCourses
/search/?query=Upcoming eventsUpcoming events
/work/join-us/Text duplicate Join us
https://www.riba.org/work/Text duplicate Work
https://www.riba.org/work/Text duplicate Work
/work/join-us/Text duplicate Join us
/work/insights-and-resources/Text duplicate Insights and Resources
/work/insights-and-resources/p...Text duplicate Professional features
/work/business-tools/practice-...Text duplicate Practice in a Box
/work/business-tools/Text duplicate Business Tools
/work/my-local-riba/Text duplicate My local RIBA
/work/insights-and-resources/r...Text duplicate RIBA Plan of Work
https://www.ribaj.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate RIBAJ
https://www.riba.org/learn/Text duplicate Learn
https://www.riba.org/learn/Text duplicate Learn
/learn/professional-learning/r...Text duplicate RIBA CPD
/learn/professional-learning/Text duplicate Professional Learning Solutions
/learn/become-an-architect/Text duplicate Become an architect
/learn/public-and-school-learn...Text duplicate Public and school learning
https://www.riba.org/explore/Text duplicate Explore
https://www.riba.org/explore/Text duplicate Explore
/explore/riba-collections/Text duplicate Library and Collections
/explore/find-an-architect/Text duplicate Find an architect
/explore/awards/Text duplicate Awards
/explore/competitions/Text duplicate Competitions
/explore/exhibitions/Text duplicate Exhibitions
https://www.riba.org/campaigns/Text duplicate Campaigns
https://www.riba.org/campaigns/Text duplicate Campaigns
https://www.riba.org/campaigns/Text duplicate Campaigns
https://www.riba.org/news/Text duplicate News
https://www.riba.org/whats-on/Text duplicate What's on
https://www.ribabooks.com/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Shop
/work/join-us/Text duplicate Join us
/explore/awards/uk-awards/hous...Grand Designs House of the Year 2025
/explore/awards/awards-processes/Entry for UK awards 2026 open Discover how you can enter your project for an award. Entries open until 11 December 2025 Learn more
IMG-ALT Staggered staircase
/explore/awards/awards-processes/Learn more
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A-TITLE RIBA Business Benchmarking
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/explore/competitions/grenfell...Designer of Grenfell Tower site memorial The team at Freehaus has been selected to lead the design of the future memorial on the Grenfell Tower site followin...
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Read more
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/work/insights-and-resources/p...How can architects diversify and work on projects based in Europe? Learn more about working in a region identified by RIBA’s Business Benchmarking survey as ...
IMG-ALT Male executive standing in front of European flags
/work/insights-and-resources/p...What roles can Modern Methods of Construction play when it comes to helping architects design to scale? Explore how MMC can be a part of the design conversat...
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/whats-on/ai-in-practice-summi...AI in Practice Summit 2026 : Conference
/whats-on/future-leaders-2026/Future Leaders 2026
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https://www.ribabooks.com/Resi...External Subdomain Residential Retrofit: 24 Case Studies The essence of sustainability in buildings is their capability to adapt to change over time, this book presents a serie...
IMG-ALT CGI mockup of a grey book on a green speckled backdrop. Theres a small succulent plant next to the book on the right. The title of the book is Residential Re...
https://jobs.architecture.com/...New window External Subdomain Senior Architect Oxfordshire £43000 - £47000 per annum + Company Benefits
https://jobs.architecture.com/...New window External Subdomain Senior Design Architect London, South West London £55000 - £65000 per annum
https://jobs.architecture.com/...New window External Subdomain Senior Conservation Architect City of London, London £44000 - £56000 per annum
https://jobs.architecture.com/...New window External Subdomain Senior Architect City of London, London £44000 - £56000 per annum
https://jobs.architecture.com/...New window External Subdomain Architects London (Central), London (Greater) 38k-70k
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/riba/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://x.com/ribaNew window External No Text
https://www.facebook.com/RIBAa...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/user/r...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.riba.org/contact-us/Get in touch
/work/my-local-riba/Text duplicate My local RIBA
/explore/riba-collections/riba...Our library
https://www.riba.org/contact-us/Press office
https://www.riba.org/about-us/About RIBA
/about-us/governance/Governance
/about-us/work-with-us/Work with us
https://www.riba.org/news/Text duplicate News
/about-us/support-us/Support us
/about-us/accessibility-statem...Accessibility statement
https://www.ribapix.com/External Subdomain RIBApix
https://www.ribabooks.com/External Subdomain RIBA Books
https://www.ribaj.com/External Subdomain RIBA Journal
/work/business-tools/riba-pens...RIBA Pensions
/work/business-tools/riba-insu...RIBA Insurance
/work/business-tools/riba-cont...RIBA Contracts
/about-us/governance/professio...Professional standards
/about-us/governance/professio...Make a complaint
/work/join-us/Text duplicate Join us
/about-us/cookie-statement/Cookie statement
/about-us/privacy-policy/Privacy policy
/about-us/terms-of-use/Terms of use
/about-us/social-media-policy/Social media policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
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HTTP header
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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 is excellent with 0.26 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (90 kB).

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This page only has 61 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 19 different ip addresses.
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At RIBA we want to advance architecture for all, by building the world’s greatest community of architects and we’ll do that by educating, supporting, inspiring, and championing architects everywhere; so that we can all deliver better, safer, more inclusive and sustainable places for everyone.

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