Royce.ac.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
70% 
Page structure
50% 
Link structure
57% 
Server
74% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.30 s
File size
112.70 kB
Words
855
Media files
28
Number of links
112 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Henry Royce Institute
The length of the page title is perfect. (265 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Henry Royce Institute is the UK's National Institute for Advanced Materials Research and Innovation. Collaborate with us to innovate.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (843 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.royce.ac.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 Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 855 words. That's ok.
30.1% 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.
14 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 24 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 12 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no" 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 17 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
22 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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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The UK's National Centre for Research and Innovation in Advanced Materials
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 The UK's National Centre for Research and Innovation in Advanced Materials
H1 National Materials Innovation Strategy
H2 Our Mission
H2 Latest News
H2 IOM3 Awards 2025: Royce-Sponsored Technician Award Recipients Announced
H2 Royce Hydrogen Accelerator Partners with Converge to Power Scotland’s Hydrogen Innovation
H2 Royce Welcomes Recognition of Advanced Materials in UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy
H2 Latest Events
H2 First MS4DE External Community Workshop
H2 Royce Training: Electron Microscopy & Analysis Workshop
H2 DMEx Workshop: Introduction to Ceramic Matrix Composites
H2 Want to stay up to date?
H2 About
H2 Research
H2 Services
H2 Equipment
H4 Academia
H4 Industry
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 6 external links on this page.
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/about/technician-commitment/Subdomain Technician Commitment
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/our-people/Subdomain Our People
/programmes/Subdomain Our Programmes
/our-strategy/Subdomain Our Strategy
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https://www.royce.ac.uk/services/Subdomain Services
https://www.royce.ac.uk/services/Subdomain Our Services
/services/academia/Subdomain Services for Academia
/services/industry/Subdomain Services for Industry
https://www.royce.ac.uk/training/Subdomain Training & Skills
https://www.royce.ac.uk/students/Subdomain Student Engagement
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https://www.royce.ac.uk/funding/Subdomain Funding Calls
/access-schemes/Subdomain Access Schemes
/services/data-curation/Subdomain Data Curation
https://www.royce.ac.uk/outreach/Subdomain Public Engagement and Outreach
/equipment-and-facilities/Subdomain Equipment
/equipment-and-facilities/Subdomain Equipment & Facilities
/equipment-and-facilities/Subdomain Our Equipment
/technology-platforms/Subdomain Text duplicate Technology Platforms
https://www.royce.ac.uk/funding/Subdomain Funding Opportunities
/access-schemes/Subdomain Text duplicate Access Schemes
https://www.royce.ac.uk/news/Subdomain News
https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/Subdomain Events
https://www.royce.ac.uk/contact/Subdomain Contact
https://www.royce.ac.uk/Subdomain No Text
https://www.royce.ac.uk/about/Subdomain Text duplicate About
https://www.royce.ac.uk/about/Subdomain Text duplicate About Royce
https://www.royce.ac.uk/partners/Subdomain Text duplicate Our Partners
/our-people/Subdomain Text duplicate Our People
/programmes/Subdomain Text duplicate Our Programmes
/our-strategy/Subdomain Text duplicate Our Strategy
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/about/vacancies/Subdomain Text duplicate Vacancies
https://www.royce.ac.uk/research/Subdomain Text duplicate Research
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/research/research-areas/Subdomain Text duplicate Research Areas
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https://www.royce.ac.uk/services/Subdomain Text duplicate Services
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https://www.royce.ac.uk/training/Subdomain Text duplicate Training & Skills
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/technology-platforms/Subdomain Text duplicate Technology Platforms
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https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/Subdomain Text duplicate Events
https://www.royce.ac.uk/contact/Subdomain Text duplicate Contact
https://www.royce.ac.uk/about/Subdomain Text duplicate About Royce
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https://www.royce.ac.uk/funding/Subdomain Text duplicate Funding Calls
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/technology-platforms/Subdomain Text duplicate Technology Platforms
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https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/Subdomain Text duplicate Events
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.royce.ac.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)
This page loads 5 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 12 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.30 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (113 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 167 referring domains.
This page has 2,206 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 151 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

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The Henry Royce Institute is the UK's National Institute for Advanced Materials Research and Innovation. Collaborate with us to innovate.

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