Uhs.nhs.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
88% 
Page structure
41% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.69 s
File size
283.60 kB
Words
1198
Media files
9
Number of links
17 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The title of the page is empty or not set.
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
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 States of America
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

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IDL:ProjectIdwebsiteProject
IDL:EntryIda12b2921-037a-4809-9e2f-0b2e8e3bcfa9
google-site-verificationJCP6FSYfIJBgnGCM3_TjVWvau9Z9_HvOm7jalnLRemQ
generatorContensis
langen
og:typewebsite
X-UA-Compatibleie=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 25.44 words is high.
This page contains 1198 words. That's ok.
35.2% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
28 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,shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 24 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 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
...b1780.jpg?w=850&h=575&crop=850,430,0,145Southampton General Hospital main entrance
...852537f.jpg?w=850&h=567&crop=850,430,0,0Princess Anne Hospital
...7de487d.jpg?w=850&h=603&crop=850,430,0,2Southampton Children's Hospital
...0933e6.jpg?w=850&h=571&crop=850,430,0,71A room at New Forest Birth Centre
...aec47e.jpg?w=850&h=566&crop=850,430,0,68Royal South Hants main entrance
...ecfafa.jpg?w=850&h=567&crop=850,430,0,69Lymington New Forest Hospital
...uhs-logo.xc64b530c.png?q=70&w=200&f=webpUHS logo
...-graphic.xaf836334.png?q=70&w=600&f=webpHelp us get your loved ones home safely and free up beds for those who need it most.
...ages/Generic-photos/SouD09.xa05a1068.jpgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Homepage
The H1 heading contains the words Homepage! Use important keywords instead.
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (8 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Homepage
H2 Hospitals
H2 Leading research
H2 Empty heading
H2 Services at Royal South Hants
H2 Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC)
H2 Getting home from hospital
H2 Our Services
H2 Trust highlights
H3 Southampton General Hospital
H3 Princess Anne Hospital
H3 Southampton Children's Hospital
H3 New Forest Birth Centre
H3 Royal South Hants Hospital
H3 Lymington New Forest Hospital
H4 Press release:
H4 News:
H4 Event:
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 12 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.uhs.nhs.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
/contact/ward-telephone-numbersWard telephone numbers
/for-visitors/southampton-gene...Parking at Southampton General Hospital
/for-patients/outpatientsYour appointment
/for-patients/find-your-consul...Find your consultant
/for-patients/your-stay-in-hos...Your stay in hospital
/for-patients/my-medical-recordMy Medical Record
/for-visitors/southampton-gene...More about this hospital
https://www.google.com/maps/pl...New window External Subdomain Map link
/for-visitors/princess-anne-ho...Text duplicate More about this hospital
https://www.google.com/maps/pl...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Map link
https://www.southamptoncrf.nih...New window External Subdomain Southampton Clinical Research Facility
A-TITLE Southampton Clinical Research Facility
https://www.southamptonbrc.nih...New window External Subdomain Biomedical Research Centre
A-TITLE Southampton Biomedical Research Centre
/for-visitors/southampton-chil...Text duplicate More about this hospital
https://goo.gl/maps/5gHCC2HRRz...New window External Text duplicate Map link
/for-visitors/new-forest-birth...Text duplicate More about this hospital
https://www.google.co.uk/maps?...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Map link
https://practiceplusgroup.com/New window External Practice Plus Group
A-TITLE Practice Plus Group
https://what3words.com/supply....New window External ///supply.modes.tower
A-TITLE What3words
https://www.southamptonutc.nhs...New window External Subdomain website
A-TITLE Southampton Urgent Treatment Centre
/for-visitors/royal-south-hantsText duplicate More about this hospital
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Map link
https://www.southernhealth.nhs...New window External Subdomain Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
A-TITLE Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust: Lymington Hospital
/for-visitors/lymington-new-fo...Text duplicate More about this hospital
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Map link
/whats-new/press-releases/sout...Southampton families helping shape the future of newborn screening
/whats-new/press-releases?cate...Clinical Research
/whats-new/news/hollywood-star...Hollywood star brings joy to patients and staff at University Hospital Southampton
/whats-new/events/annual-membe...Annual Members' Meeting 2026

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.uhs.nhs.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 0.69 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 (284 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
dateMon, 26 Oct 2026 10:00:12 GMT
etagW/"46b97-BqCaVlajefFhDQ7tMrDpw0NDOb8"
x-contensis-viewer-groups
surrogate-controlmax-age=3600
x-is-iis-fallbackfalse
request-handler-metricsrouteInfoFetch: 8 ms (nodeLookup: 3ms, getRouteInfoFetch: 4ms), generalRequestFetch: 124 ms, fallbackRequest 0 ms
x-version-no50
alt-svch3=":443";ma=60;
x-origin-serverbackend-coordinator
x-hostlive-websiteproject-uhs.cloud.contensis.com
x-grace72h
x-backend-ttl3600.000
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
x-varnish127872460 106555705
x-varnish-authenticationskip
x-age1620
cache-controlno-cache, no-store
pragmano-cache
accept-rangesbytes
content-length56924
x-server-namez-uhs-CACHE1
strict-transport-securitymax-age=15768000
x-geoip-country-codeDE
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
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 182 referring domains.
This page has 2,314 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 164 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /

Disallow: /SearchResults.aspx

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
UHS54%Check
Southampton51%Check
Forest51%Check
New51%Check
Hants51%Check
Royal51%Check
New Forest51%Check
South Hants51%Check
Royal South Hants51%Check
New Forest Hospital51%Check
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