Sepa.org.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
50% 
Page structure
67% 
Link structure
83% 
Server
45% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.22 s
File size
24.10 kB
Words
345
Media files
5
Number of links
73 internal / 32 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)
The length of the page title is perfect. (499 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) are Scotland’s principal environmental regulator, protecting and improving Scotland’s environment.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (933 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
Server location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
format-detectiontelephone=no
keywordsregulation,environment,flooding,SEPA,Scottish Environment Protection Agency,One Planet Prosperity,protect environment scotland,environmental regulator,
descriptionThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) are Scotland’s principal environmental regulator, protecting and improving Scotland’s environment.
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 345 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
19.4% 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 21 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 7 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
/acc/images/SEPA_Logo.svgSEPA
.../flood-warnings/flood-warnings-alert.gifNo alt attribute provided
...lood-warnings/flood-warnings-warning.gifNo alt attribute provided
...flood-warnings/flood-warnings-severe.gifNo alt attribute provided
/acc/images/SEPA-Full-Logo.svgScottish Environment Protection Agency

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to SEPA
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
The H1 heading is too short (15 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to SEPA
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 too many external links (32) on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.sepa.org.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.sepa.org.uk/IMG-ALT SEPA
A-TITLE Return to the homepage
https://beta.sepa.scot/news/External Subdomain Media centre
https://www.sepa.org.uk/jobs/Jobs
https://beta.sepa.scot/about-s...External Subdomain FAQs
https://beta.sepa.scot/about-s...External Subdomain Pay my account
https://www.sepa.org.uk/Home
/regulations/Regulations
/regulations/how-we-regulate/How we regulate
/regulations/authorisations-an...Authorisations and permits
/regulations/environmental-per...Environmental Performance Assessment Scheme
/regulations/consultations/Consultations
/regulations/air/Air
/regulations/chemicals/Chemicals
/regulations/climate-change/Climate change
/regulations/enforcement/Enforcement
/regulations/land/Land
/regulations/pollution-prevent...Pollution prevention and control
/regulations/radioactive-subst...Radioactive substances
/regulations/waste/Waste
/regulations/water/Water
/regulations/View all Regulations
/environment/water/flooding/Flooding
/environment/water/flooding/li...Live flood updates
/environment/water/flooding/fl...Floodline
/environment/water/flooding/sc...Scottish Flood Forecast
/environment/water/flooding/fl...Flood maps
/environment/water/flooding/ch...Check your flood risk
/environment/water/flooding/na...National Flood Risk Assessment 2018
/environment/water/flooding/fl...Flood Risk Management Plans
/environment/water/flooding/fo...Forecasting flooding
/environment/water/flooding/de...Developing our knowledge
/environment/water/flooding/ed...Education and Engagement
/environment/water/flooding/fl...Flood Warning Development Framework
/environment/water/flooding/View all Flooding
/environment/Environment
/environment/air/Text duplicate Air
/environment/biodiversity/Biodiversity
/environment/energy/Energy
/environment/environmental-data/Environmental data
/environment/land/Text duplicate Land
/environment/radioactive-subst...Text duplicate Radioactive substances
/environment/waste/Text duplicate Waste
/environment/water/Text duplicate Water
/environment/View all Environment
https://www.sepa.org.uk/about-us/About us
/about-us/who-we-are/Who we are
/about-us/how-we-work/How we work
/about-us/access-to-information/Access to information
/about-us/online-payments/Online payments
/about-us/cyber-attack/Cyber-attack
/about-us/our-board/Our board
/about-us/our-research/Our research
https://www.sepa.org.uk/about-us/View all About us
https://www.sepa.org.uk/contact/Contact
https://beta.sepa.scot/news/External Subdomain Text duplicate Media centre
https://www.sepa.org.uk/jobsText duplicate Jobs
/about-us/about-sepa/faqs/Text duplicate FAQs
/about-us/welcome-to-online-pa...Pay your account
https://flood.sepa.org.uk/External Subdomain View live flood updates
A-TITLE View live flood updates
https://flood.sepa.org.uk/External Subdomain Text duplicate Live flood updates
/environment/water/flooding/fl...Sign up to Floodline
https://scottishfloodforecast....External Subdomain Text duplicate Scottish Flood Forecast
/environment/water/flooding/fl...Text duplicate Flood maps
https://reportaflood.sepa.org.uk/External Subdomain Report flooding to SEPA
https://map.sepa.org.uk/floodmapsExternal Subdomain Check an area's long term flood risk
https://consultation.sepa.org....External Subdomain Consultation on Potentially Vulnerable Areas (PVAs)
https://www2.sepa.org.uk/frmpl...External Subdomain FRM Plans
/environment/water/flooding/de...Technical information
https://beta.sepa.scot/floodin...External Subdomain Prepare for flooding
https://beta.sepa.scot/floodin...External Subdomain Responsibilities for flooding
https://waterlevels.sepa.org.uk/External Subdomain Water level information
https://www2.sepa.org.uk/Envir...External Subdomain Report an environmental incident
/regulations/water/septic-tank...Septic tank / private sewage treatment system
https://www2.sepa.org.uk/Septi...External Subdomain Check if your septic tank is registered
/regulations/waste/waste-carri...Waste carriers and brokers
/regulations/authorisations-an...Application forms
/regulations/waste/special-waste/Purchase special waste consignment notes
/regulations/authorisations-an...Public Register
/regulations/environmental-per...Text duplicate Environmental Performance Assessment Scheme
https://beta.sepa.scot/about-s...External Subdomain About our BETA website
/environment/water/bathing-wat...Bathing Waters
/environment/water/water-scarc...Water scarcity
https://beta.sepa.scot/local-e...External Subdomain Mossmorran and Braefoot Bay complexes
https://beta.sepa.scot/local-e...External Subdomain Grangemouth
https://beta.sepa.scot/local-e...External Subdomain ENVA Composting Site
https://beta.sepa.scot/local-e...External Subdomain Daldowie Fuel Plant, Uddingson
https://beta.sepa.scot/local-e...External Subdomain Material Recovery Facility, Bargeddie
https://www.netregs.org.uk/External Subdomain NetRegs
https://beta.sepa.scot/about-s...External Subdomain Access to Information
https://beta.sepa.scot/External Subdomain BETA website
https://beta.sepa.scot/about-s...External Subdomain feedback
A-TITLE Provide us feedback about our new website
http://twitter.com/ScottishEPAExternal X Twitter
http://www.facebook.com/pages/...External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.youtube.com/user/S...External Subdomain YouTube
https://uk.linkedin.com/compan...External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.sepa.org.uk/Text duplicate Home
/help/site-map/Site Map
/help/privacy-policy/Privacy Policy
/help/cookies/Cookies
/help/external-links/External Links
/help/accessibility/Accessibility
https://beta.sepa.scot/about-s...External Subdomain Text duplicate Access to Information
https://beta.sepa.scot/about-s...External Subdomain Complaints
https://www.sepa.org.uk/IMG-ALT Scottish Environment Protection Agency
A-TITLE Return to the homepage

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.sepa.org.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.22 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (24 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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strict-transport-securitymax-age=2592000
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x-frame-optionsSameOrigin
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
dateThu, 29 May 2025 21:32:48 GMT
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 705 referring domains.
This page has 19,942 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 576 different ip addresses.

Search preview

www.sepa.org.uk
Home | Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) are Scotland’s principal environmental regulator, protecting and improving Scotland’s environment.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
SEPA88%Check
Environment59%Check
Scottish59%Check
Protection59%Check
Protection Agency59%Check
Scottish Environment Protection Agency59%Check
Welcome50%Check
Environmental46%Check
Scotland46%Check
flood36%Check

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