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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
94% 
Page quality
86% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
75% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.10 s
File size
156.50 kB
Words
864
Media files
21
Number of links
52 internal / 30 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The Skills Network - Making learning and skills accessible
The length of the page title is perfect. (516 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Get The Skills You Need — Discover Our Free Nationally Recognised Qualifications - Enrol Today. Fully Online Courses. Find Free Online Courses With Certificates.
The meta description is too long: 1015 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://theskillsnetwork.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-gb
Server location: United States of America
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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og:titleThe Skills Network - Making learning and skills accessible
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og:updated_time2025-07-23T15:53:24+00:00

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 864 words. That's ok.
30.6% 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.
13 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 24.17 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)
Some tags are too long. With 71 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"there has never been a better time to develop your skills and learning!"
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
2 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)
Making learning and skills accessible
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Making learning and skills accessible
H2 Business or individual? no problem
H2 Develop your skills and learning today!
H2 Millions of learners
H2 Educational provider? We've got you
H2 Our Trusted Partners
H3 Keep up to date
H4 Accounting and Finance
H4 Health and Social Care
H4 Retail and Hospitality
H4 What Does Inclusive Learner Readiness Look Like in 2026?
H4 English, the New Programming Language – AI Prompt Engineering & Prototyping for Educators
H4 The Skills Network at NAMSS 2026: Putting Tutorials at the Centre of Further Education
H4 AI Skills: What Providers Are Asking for and How We’re Supporting It
H4 Ready, Set, Employment: Blended Learning That Delivers.
H4 FE Assessor Pressures: How to Protect Delivery in 2025/2026.
H4 The Skills Network and HSBC Launch Software Development Course Pilot to Support Underrepresented Talent in Tech Engineering.
H4 The Skills Network Launches Skills Bootcamp in Data Analytics in Hull and East Riding.
H4 The Skills Network launches fully funded ‘Open Doors’ course for York and North Yorkshire residents
H5 Courses
H5 Business
H5 Insights
H5 Other
H5 General
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (30) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://theskillsnetwork.com/IMG-ALT The Skills Network
/for-employers/For Employers
/for-employers/skills-bootcamp...Skills Bootcamps for employers
/our-courses/courses-overview/Courses Overview
/our-courses/Courses
/our-courses/courses-overview/Text duplicate Courses Overview
/our-courses/skills-bootcamps-...Skills Bootcamps for individuals
/for-educators-partners/functi...Functional Skills resources
https://courses.theskillsnetwo...New window External Subdomain Accounting and Finance
https://courses.theskillsnetwo...New window External Subdomain Business, Leadership and Management
https://courses.theskillsnetwo...New window External Subdomain Childcare and Education
https://courses.theskillsnetwo...New window External Subdomain Digital Courses
https://courses.theskillsnetwo...New window External Subdomain Health and Fitness
https://courses.theskillsnetwo...New window External Subdomain Health and Safety
https://courses.theskillsnetwo...New window External Subdomain Health, Social Care and Wellbeing
https://courses.theskillsnetwo...New window External Subdomain Personal Development, Employability
https://courses.theskillsnetwo...New window External Subdomain Retail and Hospitality
https://courses.theskillsnetwo...New window External Subdomain Sustainability
/for-educators-partners/For Educators & Partners
/for-educators-partners/educat...Education sector overview
/for-educators-partners/conten...Content development
/for-educators-partners/learni...Learning Resources
/for-educators-partners/functi...Text duplicate Functional Skills resources
/for-educators-partners/16-19-...16-19 curriculum solutions
/for-educators-partners/learne...Learner Management System
/equal-sigma/EQUAL Sigma
/about-us/About Us
/news-blogs/News/Blogs
/contact-us/Contact Us
https://courses.theskillsnetwo...New window External Subdomain Applicant Login
https://www.equal-online.com/New window External Subdomain EQUAL Login
https://courses.theskillsnetwo...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Applicant Login
https://www.equal-online.com/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate EQUAL Login
https://courses.theskillsnetwo...New window External Subdomain Explore our courses
https://courses.theskillsnetwo...New window External Subdomain Free courses in England
https://courses.theskillsnetwo...New window External Subdomain Free courses in Scotland
https://courses.theskillsnetwo...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Accounting and Finance
https://courses.theskillsnetwo...New window External Subdomain Health and Social Care
https://courses.theskillsnetwo...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Retail and Hospitality
/courses/courses-overview/Find a course
/contact-us/Enquire Now
/news/what-does-inclusive-lear...What Does Inclusive Learner Readiness Look Like in 2026? 26th January 2026 Why Independent Living Skills Matter More Than Ever (and why now is the moment to ...
/news/english-the-new-programm...English, the New Programming Language – AI Prompt Engineering & Prototyping for Educators 20th January 2026 No Longer Lost in Translation I’ve been working i...
/news/the-skills-network-at-na...The Skills Network at NAMSS 2026: Putting Tutorials at the Centre of Further Education 24th December 2025 NAMSS first 1-day event focusing on Tutorials withi...
/news/ai-skills-what-providers...AI Skills: What Providers Are Asking for and How We’re Supporting It 4th December 2025 AI skills are no longer a future ambition; they’re a present-day neces...
/news/ready-set-employment-ble...Ready, Set, Employment: Blended Learning That Delivers. 4th December 2025 Across the UK, skills provision is changing fast. Employers want people who are job...
/news/fe-assessor-pressures-ho...FE Assessor Pressures: How to Protect Delivery in 2025/2026. 4th December 2025 Across the UK, FE providers are entering 2025/26 with the same message echoed ...
/news/hsbc-software-developmen...The Skills Network and HSBC Launch Software Development Course Pilot to Support Underrepresented Talent in Tech Engineering. 17th October 2025 The Skills Net...
/news/the-skills-network-launc...The Skills Network Launches Skills Bootcamp in Data Analytics in Hull and East Riding. 9th October 2025 The Skills Network, one of the UK’s largest online ed...
/news/fully-funded-open-doors-...The Skills Network launches fully funded ‘Open Doors’ course for York and North Yorkshire residents 19th September 2025 The Skills Network, one of the UK’s l...
/keep-up-to-date/Sign up
https://courses.theskillsnetwo...New window External Subdomain Find a Course
/courses/courses-overview/Text duplicate Courses Overview
https://courses.theskillsnetwo...New window External Subdomain Funded Courses
/for-educators-partners/educat...Education Sector
/our-partners/Our Partners
/international/International
/for-educators-partners/learne...Text duplicate Learner Management System
/what-is-distance-learning/What is distance learning?
/payment-and-funding/Payment and funding
/career-guidance/Career Guidance
/subcontracting/Subcontracting
/terms-and-conditions/Terms and Conditions
/privacy-notice/Privacy Notice
/safeguarding/Safeguarding
https://www.careers-with-thesk...New window External Subdomain Careers
/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Ca...New window Carbon Reduction Plan
/contact-us/Text duplicate Contact Us
/about-us/Text duplicate About Us
/faqs/FAQs
/news-blogs/Blog
/keep-up-to-date/Keep up to date
https://theskillsnetwork.com/Text duplicate IMG-ALT The Skills Network
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT YouTube
https://twitter.com/SkillsNetw...New window External IMG-ALT X
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT LinkedIn
https://www.facebook.com/thesk...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/thes...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Instagram
https://www.tiktok.com/@theski...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT TikTok
/accessibility-statement/Accessibility Statement
/sitemap/Sitemap
https://www.concept4.com/External Subdomain Concept4

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://theskillsnetwork.com/"
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 0.10 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (157 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 211 referring domains.
This page has 256 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 152 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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Skills Network83%Check
skills accessible81%Check
develop skills72%Check
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