Wmca.org.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
67% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
98% 
Server
94% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.41 s
File size
29.70 kB
Words
294
Media files
5
Number of links
34 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
West Midlands Combined Authority
The length of the page title is perfect. (312 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) was set up in 2016. We want to make the West Midlands a happy, healthy, place to live.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (815 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.wmca.org.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-gb
Server location: Canada
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
keywordswest midlands, combined authority, local authorities, culture, economy, innovation, environment, energy, housing, land, communities, skills, wellbeing, transport
descriptionWest Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) was set up in 2016. We want to make the West Midlands a happy, healthy, place to live.
robotsindex, follow
apple-mobile-web-app-titleWMCA
application-nameWMCA
msapplication-TileColor#000000
msapplication-TileImagehttps://cloudcdn.wmca.org.uk/wmcabeta/config/mstile-144x144.png
theme-color#f58025
langen-gb
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:urlhttps://www.wmca.org.uk/
twitter:titleWest Midlands Combined Authority
twitter:descriptionWest Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) was set up in 2016. We want to make the West Midlands a happy, healthy, place to live.
twitter:imagehttps://www.wmca.org.uk/media/robpni5f/wmca-centenary-square-77-edited.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=750&height=500&rnd=133773524200970000
twitter:sitehttps://twitter.com/WestMids_CA
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://www.wmca.org.uk/
og:titleWest Midlands Combined Authority
og:descriptionWest Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) was set up in 2016. We want to make the West Midlands a happy, healthy, place to live.
og:imagehttps://www.wmca.org.uk/media/robpni5f/wmca-centenary-square-77-edited.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=1200&height=630&rnd=133773524200970000
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 294 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
35% 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.
4 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 23.25 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 5 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 6 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

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Building a better connected, more prosperous, fairer, greener and healthier West Midlands
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Building a better connected, more prosperous, fairer, greener and healthier West Midlands
H2 What is the Combined Authority?
H2 Who is the Mayor of the West Midlands?
H2 What we do
H2 Latest News
H3 Work to start on breathing new life into historic hotel with links to Gandhi
H3 West Midlands targets £19bn worth of regeneration through trailblazing new platform
H3 Residents ready to move into new supported living homes
H3 Milestone week keeps new Birmingham railway stations on track
H3 Stay up to date
H3 Governance
H3 Resources and support
H3 Social media
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 7 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.wmca.org.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
A-TITLE Skip to main content
https://www.wmca.org.uk/IMG-ALT West Midlands Combined Authority logo
A-TITLE West Midlands Combined Authority
/mayor-of-the-west-midlands-mo...The Mayor
/who-we-are/Who we are
/what-we-do/What we do
/in-my-area/In my area
/contact-us/Subdomain Contact us
/who-we-are/What is the Combined Authority?
/mayor-of-the-west-midlands-mo...Who is the Mayor of the West Midlands?
/what-we-doText duplicate What we do
/what-we-do/culture-and-digital/Culture and Digital
/what-we-do/economy-and-innova...Economy and Innovation
/what-we-do/environment-energy/Environment and Energy
/what-we-do/housing-property-r...Housing and Land
/what-we-do/inclusive-communit...Inclusive Communities
/what-we-do/employment-and-ski...Employment & Skills
/what-we-do/transport/Transport
/what-we-do/wellbeing/Wellbeing
/news/work-to-start-on-breathi...Work to start on breathing new life into historic hotel with links to Gandhi
/news/west-midlands-targets-19...West Midlands targets £19bn worth of regeneration through trailblazing new platform
/news/residents-ready-to-move-...Residents ready to move into new supported living homes
/news/milestone-week-keeps-new...Milestone week keeps new Birmingham railway stations on track
https://www.wmca.org.uk/newsSee all news stories
https://assets-gbr.mkt.dynamic...New window External Subdomain Sign up to updates
https://governance.wmca.org.uk/External Subdomain Committee meetings
/documents/policies/freedom-of...Freedom of information
/procurement/Procurement
/what-we-do/single-assurance-f...Single Assurance Framework
/documents/policies/policies/p...Privacy Policy
/careers-at-wmca/Careers
/media-assets/Media Assets
/documents/Documents
https://www.facebook.com/westm...New window External Subdomain URL anchor text
A-TITLE https://www.facebook.com/westmidlandsca
https://twitter.com/WestMids_CANew window External URL anchor text
A-TITLE https://twitter.com/WestMids_CA
https://www.instagram.com/west...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Instagram page for West Midlands Combined Authority
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE YouTube channel for West Midlands Combined Authority
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE LinkedIn page for West Midlands Combined Authority
/accessibility-statement/Accessibility Statement
/documents/policies/policies/p...Terms & Conditions
/documents/policies/policies/p...Policies
/documents/policies/policies/p...Cookies

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.wmca.org.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 0.41 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 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 2 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (30 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 22 May 2025 11:59:12 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-length7730
connectionkeep-alive
cf-ray943c25661c52f8c9-CDG
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
cache-controlprivate
content-encodinggzip
set-cookie161 Characters
strict-transport-securitymax-age=10886400
varyAccept-Encoding
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionssameorigin
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
servercloudflare
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 648 referring domains.
This page has 26,064 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 493 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Search preview

www.wmca.org.uk
West Midlands Combined Authority
West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) was set up in 2016. We want to make the West Midlands a happy, healthy, place to live.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
West79%Check
Midlands79%Check
West Midlands79%Check
West Midlands Combined75%Check
West Midlands Combined Authority73%Check
Combined63%Check
Authority63%Check
Combined Authority63%Check
set up52%Check
Building50%Check

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