Southtyneside.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
75% 
Page structure
39% 
Link structure
95% 
Server
76% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.73 s
File size
28.80 kB
Words
506
Media files
4
Number of links
54 internal / 1 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - South Tyneside Council
The length of the page title is perfect. (283 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://southtyneside.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 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
descriptionEmpty
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
langen
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:titleHome - South Tyneside Council
twitter:imagehttps://southtyneside.gov.uk/image/5397/Council-Logo-1200x630/twittercard.png?m=1691673470557
twitter:image:altCouncil Logo 1200x630
og:typewebsite
og:titleHome - South Tyneside Council
og:urlhttps://southtyneside.gov.uk/
og:site_nameSouth Tyneside Council
og:imagehttps://southtyneside.gov.uk/image/5397/Council-Logo-1200x630/opengraph.png?m=1691673470557
og:image:width1200
og:image:height630

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 26.33 words is high.
This page contains 506 words. That's ok.
27.5% 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.
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.
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" 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)
4 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
...l-Logo-1200x630/logo.png?m=1691673470557No alt attribute provided
...Council/relatedimage.jpg?m=1696584773063No alt attribute provided
...estival/relatedimage.jpg?m=1688381261427No alt attribute provided
...-spaces/relatedimage.jpg?m=1665664643167No alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Home
The H1 heading contains the words Home! Use important keywords instead.
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (4 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
There are 27 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 Home
H2 Popular articles
H2 Categories
H2 Leader's blog
H2 Fostering with South Tyneside Council
H2 This is South Tyneside Festival
H2 Cost of living and welcoming places
H2 News
H2 Help us to improve this website
H3 Bins and recycling
H3 Births, deaths and marriages
H3 Business and licensing
H3 Care and health
H3 Community
H3 Council Tax and benefits
H3 Education, learning, and childcare
H3 Events, activities and things to do
H3 Housing
H3 Jobs and employment
H3 Leisure centres
H3 Libraries
H3 Parking, roads and transport
H3 Planning, building and environment
H3 The Council and elections
H3 Online services
H3 What's happening
H3 Local Plan
Baselink: https://southtyneside.gov.uk/
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.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 1 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://southtyneside.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
https://southtyneside.gov.uk/Link to "South Tyneside Council" homepage
/article/728/My-accountMy account
https://southtyneside.gov.uk/Anchor Toggle mobile menu visibility
/article/5520/Search-for-a-Cou...Search for a Council job
/article/5521/Check-bin-collec...Check bin collection dates
/article/5522/Book-a-slot-at-t...Book a slot at the tip
/article/5523/Pay-Council-TaxPay Council Tax
/article/5524/School-holiday-d...School holiday dates
/article/17551/Cost-of-Living-...Cost of Living and welcoming places
/article/935/Bins-and-recyclingBins and recycling
/article/942/Births-deaths-and...Births, deaths and marriages
/article/947/Business-and-lice...Business and licensing
/article/937/Care-and-healthCare and health
/article/944/CommunityCommunity
/article/941/Council-Tax-and-b...Council Tax and benefits
/article/939/Education-learnin...Education, learning, and childcare
/article/933/Events-activities...Events, activities and things to do
/article/936/HousingHousing
/article/934/Jobs-and-employmentJobs and employment
/article/991/Leisure-centresLeisure centres
/article/943/LibrariesLibraries
/article/948/Parking-roads-and...Parking, roads and transport
/article/940/Planning-building...Planning, building and environment
/article/949/The-Council-and-e...The Council and elections
/article/7638/Make-a-payment-o...Make a payment
/article/7729/Report-an-issueReport an issue
/article/7731/Request-a-serviceRequest a service
/article/11977/What-s-onWhat's on
/emailSign up to our email newsletter
/article/6905/Social-mediaFollow us on social media
/article/24174examination in public
/article/26693Read the Leader's blog - April 2025
/article/20086/Fostering-with-...Fostering with South Tyneside Council
/article/13497/This-is-South-T...This is South Tyneside Festival
/article/14993/Cost-of-living-...Cost of living and welcoming places
/article/26847/First-of-Three-...First of Three Children's Homes Built in South Tyneside 22 May 2025
/article/26842/Groups-Set-to-L...Groups Set to Learn New Skill as part of South Tyneside Parade 21 May 2025
/article/26825/Shaping-a-Green...Shaping a Greener Future: South Tyneside's Climate Summit Charts Path to Net Zero 19 May 2025
/article/26805/New-BMX-Pump-Tr...New BMX Pump Track Planned for South Shields Park 16 May 2025
/article/26797/New-Mayor-for-S...New Mayor for South Tyneside 15 May 2025
/article/26786/Cabinet-to-Make...Cabinet to Make Decision about Future of Tower Block 14 May 2025
/article/1624/NewsView all news News
/article/6399/Help-us-to-impro...Give us your feedback
/article/766/Contact-usContact us
/article/16808/Social-mediaSocial media
/article/18109/Sign-up-to-our-...Text duplicate Sign up to our email newsletter
/article/767/AccessibilityAccessibility
/article/1647/Terms-and-condit...Terms and conditions
/cookiesCookie policy
/article/1650/Privacy-noticePrivacy notice
/article/1651/Modern-slavery-s...Modern slavery statement
/article/5015/Payslips-for-staffPayslips for staff
/article/22103/Resetting-your-...Resetting your password for employees
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://southtyneside.gov.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
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 of 0.73 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (29 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlno-cache, no-store
pragmano-cache
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-encodinggzip
expires-1
varyAccept-Encoding
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
x-ua-compatibleIE=Edge
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
report-to{"group":"csp-endpoint","max_age":10886400,"endpoints":[{"url":"csp-reports"}]}
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self'; report-uri csp-reports; report-to csp-endpoint;
link<https://southtyneside.gov.uk/>; rel="canonical"
server
x-powered-by
dateThu, 22 May 2025 09:38:20 GMT
content-length7750
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 175 referring domains.
This page has 415 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 57 different ip addresses.

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
South68%Check
Tyneside68%Check
South Tyneside68%Check
South Tyneside Council63%Check
South Tyneside Festival60%Check
Council56%Check
South Shields52%Check
Council Tax49%Check
Plan43%Check
Local Plan42%Check
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