Ukbiobank.ac.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
77% 
Page quality
87% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
91% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.27 s
File size
85.10 kB
Words
708
Media files
13
Number of links
57 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Health research data for the world - UK Biobank
The length of the page title is perfect. (427 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
We follow the lives of half a million volunteers to learn who falls ill and why, so scientists around the world can create better ways to diagnose, prevent and treat diseases for everyone, everywhere.
The meta description is too long: 1202 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 25.71 words is high.
This page contains 708 words. That's ok.
35.7% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
11 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 14 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
8 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Health research data for the world
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Health research data for the world
H2 News
H2 Our impact
H2 About our data
H2 Are you a UK Biobank participant? Find out how you can help today
H2 Contact us
H2 Website policies
H2 Follow us
H3 Who can use it?
H3 How can I access it?
H3 Who are our participants?
H3 Participants
H3 Researchers
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 9 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/IMG-ALT UK BioBank
/about-us/contact-us/Contact
https://ams.ukbiobank.ac.uk/ams/External Subdomain Researchers
https://biobank.ndph.ox.ac.uk/...External Subdomain Participants
https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/Home
/about-us/About us
/about-us/who-we-are/Who we are
/about-us/how-we-work/How we work
/about-us/people-and-governance/People and governance
/about-us/our-funding/Our funding
/about-us/our-future/Our future
/about-us/our-history/Our history
/about-us/careers/Careers
/about-us/contact-us/Contact us
/about-our-data/About our data
/about-our-data/our-participants/Our participants
/about-our-data/biological-sam...Biological samples
/about-our-data/types-of-data/Types of data
/about-our-data/data-releases/Data releases
/about-our-data/protecting-the...Protecting the data
/about-our-data/global-use-of-...Global use of our data
/use-our-data/Use our data
/use-our-data/eligibility/Eligibility
/use-our-data/research-analysi...Research Analysis Platform
/projectsExisting projects
/use-our-data/fees/Fees
/researcher-training/Training and support
/use-our-data/engagement-and-e...Engagement and events
/use-our-data/apply-for-access/Apply for access
/discoveries-and-impact/Discoveries and impact
/discoveries-and-impact/major-...Major achievements
/research-stories/Research stories
/publicationsPublications
/taking-part/Taking part
/taking-part/participant-oppor...Participant opportunities
/taking-part/your-contribution/Your contribution
/taking-part/our-agreement-wit...Our agreement with you
/taking-part/how-we-involve-you/How we involve you
/taking-part/stay-up-to-date/Stay up to date
https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/news/News
/about-our-data/Text duplicate About our data
/about-us/Text duplicate About us
/news/why-gp-patient-data-shou...Why GP patient data should excite us all
/news/major-milestone-for-heal...Major milestone for health research as UK Government decision enables access to UK Biobank volunteers’ GP patient data
/news/uk-biobank-unveils-winne...UK Biobank unveils winner of the Scientific Impact Awards 2025 at annual conference
https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/news/All news
/research-stories/polygenic-ri...Polygenic risk scores explained
/research-stories/why-one-of-t...Why one of the world’s most common viruses may have lifelong consequences for you
/research-stories/Read more research stories
/about-us/how-we-work/access-t...Access to UK Biobank data
/use-our-data/Text duplicate Use our data
/about-our-data/our-participants/Text duplicate Our participants
/taking-part/Text duplicate Taking part
/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection[email protected]
https://community.ukbiobank.ac...External Subdomain Submit a request
/privacy-policy/Privacy policy
/cookie-policy/Cookie policy
/terms-and-conditions/Terms and conditions
/accessibility-statement/Accessibility statement
https://www.youtube.com/@uk_bi...External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.instagram.com/ukbi...External Subdomain Instagram
https://x.com/uk_biobankExternal X
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.facebook.com/UKBio...External Subdomain Facebook
https://bsky.app/profile/ukbio...External BlueSky

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.ukbiobank.ac.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 is excellent with 0.27 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (85 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,577 referring domains.
This page has 201,473 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,013 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

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www.ukbiobank.ac.uk
Health research data for the world - UK Biobank
We follow the lives of half a million volunteers to learn who falls ill and why, so scientists around the world can create better ways to diagnose, prevent and treat diseases for everyone, everywhere.

Most important keywords

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

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