Torbay.gov.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
78% 
Page structure
77% 
Link structure
86% 
Server
87% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.53 s
File size
60.00 kB
Words
434
Media files
2
Number of links
92 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Torbay Council
The length of the page title is perfect. (204 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Your local authority delivering services to visitors and residents of Brixham, Paignton and Torquay.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (601 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.torbay.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
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
descriptionYour local authority delivering services to visitors and residents of Brixham, Paignton and Torquay.
DC.identifierhttps://www.torbay.gov.uk/
authorTorbay Council
apple-mobile-web-app-titleTorbay Council
application-nameTorbay Council
msapplication-confighttps://www.torbay.gov.uk/icons/browserconfig.xml
theme-color#2a3e85
google-site-verificationcJXCpafwfURwGAWOCMo5cCA1TWNsDAAOkC_3rJbmG4M
langen
og:titleHome
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://www.torbay.gov.uk/
og:imagehttps://www.torbay.gov.uk/media/14034/tc-card.png
og:descriptionYour local authority delivering services to visitors and residents of Brixham, Paignton and Torquay.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 434 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
33.9% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
6 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 20.86 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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 9 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
/media/2059/tc-logo-white.pngTorbay Council
/media/13315/geopark.pngUNESCO English Riveira Geopark

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The H1 heading is empty
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 32 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Empty heading
H2 Council Services
H2 Council Tax
H2 Bins and recycling
H2 Benefits and Support
H2 Housing
H2 Births, deaths and marriages
H2 Parking
H2 Roads and travel
H2 Planning and building control
H2 Schools and learning
H2 Children and families
H2 About the council
H2 Leisure, sports and community
H2 ASB, environment and nuisance
H2 Business and licensing
H2 Adult Social Care
H2 Public health
H2 Emergencies and safety
H2 Safer Torbay
H2 My Bay
H2 Local Government Reorganisation
H2 Featured
H2 News
H2 Was this page helpful?
H2 Information and services
H2 Social media
H3 Help with the cost of living
H3 Staying safe in hot weather
H3 Local Government Reorganisation Duplicate text
H3 Torbay’s parks celebrate Green Flag Awards again
H3 Torbay Energy Advice Centre welcomes its first local residents
H3 Work starts on college relocation
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 7 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/website-help/accessibility/Accessibility
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/A-TITLE Torbay Council Homepage
https://torbay.gov.uk/registerMy Torbay
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/searchSearch
https://torbay.gov.uk/registerText duplicate My Torbay
https://torbay.gov.uk/onetorbaySign up to email updates
https://itouchvision.app/porta...New window External report it to SWISCo
/council-tax/Council Tax
A-TITLE Council Tax
/recycling/Bins and recycling
A-TITLE Bins and recycling
/benefits/Benefits and Support
A-TITLE Benefits and Support
/housing/Housing
A-TITLE Housing
/registrar/Births, deaths and marriages
A-TITLE Births, deaths and marriages
/parking/Parking
A-TITLE Parking
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/roads/Roads and travel
A-TITLE Roads and travel
/planning-and-building-control/Planning and building control
A-TITLE Planning and building control
/schools-and-learning/Schools and learning
A-TITLE Schools and learning
/children-and-families/Children and families
A-TITLE Children and families
/council/About the council
A-TITLE About the council
/leisure-sports-and-community/Leisure, sports and community
A-TITLE Leisure, sports and community
/asb-environment-and-nuisance/ASB, environment and nuisance
A-TITLE ASB, environment and nuisance
/business/Business and licensing
A-TITLE Business and licensing
/adult-social-care/Adult Social Care
A-TITLE Adult Social Care
/public-health/Public health
A-TITLE Public health
/emergencies/Emergencies and safety
A-TITLE Emergencies and safety
/safer-torbay/Safer Torbay
A-TITLE Safer Torbay
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/my-bay/My Bay
A-TITLE My Bay
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/lgr/Local Government Reorganisation
A-TITLE Local Government Reorganisation
/benefits/cost-of-living/Help with the cost of living Information for Torbay residents who are struggling to pay for their energy, water, food, or other essential items.
A-TITLE Help with the cost of living
/public-health/staying-safe-in...Staying safe in hot weather Find out how to protect yourself and others in the summer months.
A-TITLE Staying safe in hot weather
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/lgr/Local Government Reorganisation Find out about Local Government Reorganisation and what it means for Torbay.
A-TITLE Local Government Reorganisation
/news/pr9342/Torbay’s parks celebrate Green Flag Awards again 25 July 2025 Seven of Torbay’s parks have once again been recognised among the best in the country, earning ...
A-TITLE Torbay’s parks celebrate Green Flag Awards again
/news/pr9431/Torbay Energy Advice Centre welcomes its first local residents 23 July 2025 ECOE Advice has opened an Energy Advice Centre in Torbay to help local people red...
A-TITLE Torbay Energy Advice Centre welcomes its first local residents
/news/pr9340/Work starts on college relocation 23 July 2025 Work starts next week on the refurbishment of the MyPlace building, located at Parkfield, to get it ready for ...
A-TITLE Work starts on college relocation
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/news/More News
/news-rssNews RSS Feed
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/a-z/a/A
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/a-z/b/B
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/a-z/c/C
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/a-z/d/D
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/a-z/e/E
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/a-z/f/F
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/a-z/g/G
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/a-z/h/H
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/a-z/i/I
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/a-z/j/J
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/a-z/k/K
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/a-z/l/L
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/a-z/m/M
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/a-z/n/N
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/a-z/o/O
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/a-z/p/P
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/a-z/q/Q
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/a-z/r/R
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/a-z/s/S
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/a-z/t/T
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/a-z/u/U
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/a-z/v/V
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/a-z/w/W
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/a-z/x/X
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/a-z/y/Y
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/a-z/z/Z
/council-tax/Text duplicate Council Tax
/recycling/Recycling
/benefits/Text duplicate Benefits and Support
/housing/Text duplicate Housing
/registrar/Registrar
/parking/Text duplicate Parking
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/roads/Roads
/planning-and-building-control/Text duplicate Planning and building control
/schools-and-learning/Schools and Learning
/children-and-families/Children and Families
/council/Council
/leisure-sports-and-community/Leisure, Sports and Community
/asb-environment-and-nuisance/ASB, Environment and Nuisance
/business/Business
/adult-social-care/Text duplicate Adult Social Care
/public-health/Public Health
/emergencies/Emergencies
/safer-torbay/Text duplicate Safer Torbay
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/my-bay/Text duplicate My Bay
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/lgr/LGR
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/jobs/Jobs
https://www.facebook.com/torba...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/torb...New window External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.youtube.com/user/t...New window External Subdomain YouTube
/council/get-in-touch/rss/RSS Feeds
/council/get-in-touch/social-m...More about social media
/council/get-in-touch/Contact Us
/website-help/Website Help
/complaints-and-compliments/Complaints
/website-help/accessibility/Text duplicate Accessibility
/website-help/disclaimerDisclaimer
/website-help/privacyPrivacy Statement
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/cookiesCookies
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/IMG-ALT Torbay Council
http://www.englishrivierageopa...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT UNESCO English Riveira Geopark
https://www.englishriviera.co.uk/External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.torbay.gov.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)
The page response time of 0.53 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.
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 3 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (60 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSun, 27 Jul 2025 13:08:15 GMT
serverTorbay Council
cache-controlprivate
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
access-control-allow-origin*
content-length19242
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 492 referring domains.
This page has 3,653 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 272 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Search preview

www.torbay.gov.uk
Home - Torbay Council
Your local authority delivering services to visitors and residents of Brixham, Paignton and Torquay.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Torbay70%Check
Torbay Council63%Check
Council56%Check
Local54%Check
Services54%Check
residents50%Check
Local Government48%Check
Local Government Reorganisation46%Check
re doing46%Check
Social43%Check

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