Whatworksgrowth.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
86% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
60% 
Server
91% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.14 s
File size
53.40 kB
Words
738
Media files
23
Number of links
99 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - What Works Growth
The length of the page title is perfect. (251 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
We help local and central government organisation make local growth policy more cost-effective, through better use of evidence and evaluation.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (882 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://whatworksgrowth.org/
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are 2 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: Find out more about What Works Growth, our organisational goals, and t...
This page contains 738 words. That's ok.
32.8% 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.
10 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 19.46 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=5.0" 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 15 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
10 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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 We help to make local growth policy more cost-effective.
H2 Latest post
H3 Empty heading
H3 How we can help
H3 Lessons and recommendations from What Works Growth’s evaluations of local growth policies
H3 Recent posts
H3 Sign up to our monthly newsletter
H4 How to evaluate – Ask for help
H4 Partners
H4 Funders
H5 What we do
H5 Evidence topics
H5 Resources
H5 Policy challenges
H5 About us
H5 What we do Duplicate text
H5 Evidence topics Duplicate text
H5 Resources Duplicate text
H5 Policy challenges Duplicate text
H5 About us Duplicate text
H5 Read more >>
H5 How to evaluate – Ask for help Duplicate text
H5 Are we too harsh on enterprise zones?
H5 Making use of logic models: practical training for local economic growth – 16th June 2025
H6 FEATURED
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 8 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://whatworksgrowth.org/Anchor Skip to content
/what-we-do/What we do
/what-we-doOverview
/our-support/Evaluation support
/resources/Resources
/training/Training
/evidence-topics/Evidence topics
/evidence-topics/Text duplicate Overview
/resource-library/access-to-fi...Access to finance
/resource-library/apprenticesh...Apprenticeships
/resource-library/area-based-i...Area based initiatives
/resource-library/broadband/Broadband
/resource-library/business-adv...Business advice
/resource-library/employment-t...Employment training
/resource-library/estate-renewal/Estate renewal
/resource-library/innovation/Innovation
/resource-library/sport-and-cu...Sport and culture
/resource-library/transport/Transport
/resources/Text duplicate Resources
/resources/All resources
/resource-library/Resource library
/resource-library/how-to-evalu...How to evaluate
/resource-library/how-to-use-e...How to use evidence
/policy-challenges/Policy challenges
/policy-challenges/Text duplicate Overview
/resource-library/policy-chall...Local growth plans
/resource-library/policy-chall...Supporting local business investment
/resource-library/policy-chall...Local economies and net zero
/resource-library/policy-chall...Economic inactivity, skills and good jobs
/resource-library/developing-a...Local industrial strategy
/resource-library/evidence-bas...Disadvantaged places
/about-us/About us
/about-us/Text duplicate Overview
/meet-our-team/Our team
/careers/Careers
https://whatworksgrowth.org/faqs/FAQs
/latest/Latest
/what-we-do/Text duplicate What we do
/what-we-doText duplicate Overview
/our-support/Text duplicate Evaluation support
/resources/Text duplicate Resources
/training/Text duplicate Training
/evidence-topics/Text duplicate Evidence topics
/evidence-topics/Text duplicate Overview
/resource-library/access-to-fi...Text duplicate Access to finance
/resource-library/apprenticesh...Text duplicate Apprenticeships
/resource-library/area-based-i...Text duplicate Area based initiatives
/resource-library/broadband/Text duplicate Broadband
/resource-library/business-adv...Text duplicate Business advice
/resource-library/employment-t...Text duplicate Employment training
/resource-library/estate-renewal/Text duplicate Estate renewal
/resource-library/innovation/Text duplicate Innovation
/resource-library/sport-and-cu...Text duplicate Sport and culture
/resource-library/transport/Text duplicate Transport
/resources/Text duplicate Resources
/resources/Text duplicate All resources
/resource-library/Text duplicate Resource library
/resource-library/how-to-evalu...Text duplicate How to evaluate
/resource-library/how-to-use-e...Text duplicate How to use evidence
/policy-challenges/Text duplicate Policy challenges
/policy-challenges/Text duplicate Overview
/resource-library/policy-chall...Text duplicate Local growth plans
/resource-library/policy-chall...Text duplicate Supporting local business investment
/resource-library/policy-chall...Text duplicate Local economies and net zero
/resource-library/policy-chall...Text duplicate Economic inactivity, skills and good jobs
/resource-library/developing-a...Text duplicate Local industrial strategy
/resource-library/evidence-bas...Text duplicate Disadvantaged places
/about-us/Text duplicate About us
/about-us/Text duplicate Overview
/meet-our-team/Text duplicate Our team
/careers/Text duplicate Careers
https://whatworksgrowth.org/faqs/Text duplicate FAQs
/latest/Text duplicate Latest
/contact/Contact
/resources/Text duplicate Resources
/terms-and-conditions/Terms and Conditions
/privacy-policy/Privacy Policy
/accessibility/Accessibility
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/whatworksg...New window External No Text
http://www.youtube.com/@whatwo...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://whatworksgrowth.org/Find out more
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/insights/how-to-evaluate-ask-...How to evaluate – Ask for help
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/insights/how-to-evaluate-ask-...Text duplicate How to evaluate – Ask for help
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/insights/are-we-too-harsh-on-...Are we too harsh on enterprise zones?
/insights/are-we-too-harsh-on-...Text duplicate Find out more
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/training/logic-models-160625/Making use of logic models: practical training for local economic growth – 16th June 2025
/training/logic-models-160625/Text duplicate Find out more
/latest/View all
http://eepurl.com/cLRHMDNew window External Sign up to our monthly newsletter
/contact/Text duplicate Contact
/resources/Text duplicate Resources
/terms-and-conditions/Text duplicate Terms and Conditions
/privacy-policy/Text duplicate Privacy Policy
/accessibility/Text duplicate Accessibility
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/whatworksg...New window External No Text
http://www.youtube.com/@whatwo...New window External Subdomain No Text
/privacy-policy/Text duplicate Privacy Policy
https://wordpress.org/plugins/...New window External Powered by GDPR Cookie Compliance

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://whatworksgrowth.org/"
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 0.14 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (53 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 159 referring domains.
This page has 16,881 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 79 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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Search preview

whatworksgrowth.org
Home - What Works Growth
We help local and central government organisation make local growth policy more cost-effective, through better use of evidence and evaluation.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Growth81%Check
Works Growth75%Check
Local growth68%Check
Works65%Check
make local growth63%Check
local growth policy63%Check
economic growth61%Check
make local growth policy61%Check
LOCAL ECONOMIC GROWTH59%Check
Local54%Check

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