Channel4.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
93% 
Link structure
0% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.14 s
File size
13.70 kB
Words
1
Media files
0
Number of links
0 internal / 0 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Channel 4 | Stream & Watch Live TV
The length of the page title is perfect. (327 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Watch your favourite shows online, from Channel 4, E4 and Walter Presents
The length of the meta description is perfect. (467 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.channel4.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: 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
msapplication-TileColor#aaff89
theme-color#aaff89
apple-itunes-appapp-id=432494037
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, user-scalable=1, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=3
descriptionWatch your favourite shows online, from Channel 4, E4 and Walter Presents
langen
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 1 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
No paragraphs were detected.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, user-scalable=1, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=3" 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)
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

No media files were found.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Channel 4
The H1 heading is too short (9 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Channel 4
This page seems to be an entry page, because only very few links were found.
There are no external links on this page.

Found links on this page

No internal links were found.

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.channel4.com/"
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 is excellent with 0.14 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (14 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
x-dns-prefetch-controloff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-download-optionsnoopen
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
cache-controlno-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
etagW/"2888-4r6Js/cVAZvEDqUE8BkvpaQUiQw"
varyAccept-Encoding
x-akamai-transformed9 3545 0 pmb=mRUM,2
content-encodinggzip
dateWed, 23 Jul 2025 05:45:03 GMT
content-length5328
set-cookie94 Characters
server-timingcdn-cache; desc=MISS
link<https://static.channel4.com>;rel="preconnect",<https://cdn.optimizely.com>;rel="preconnect",<https://static.c4assets.com>;rel="preconnect",<https://cdn-pci.optimizely.com>;rel="preconnect",<https://all4nav.channel4.com>;rel="preconnect",<https://snippet.maze.co>;rel="preconnect"
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
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 3,757 referring domains.
This page has 127,991 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,288 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

Crawl-delay: 5
Sitemap: https://www.channel4.com/news/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.channel4.com/sitemap.xml

User-agent: TurnitinBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /news/?*
Disallow: /news/*/?*
Disallow: /press/unregistered-image-search?*
Disallow: /press/content-search?*

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-Agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-Agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexAdditional
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot
Disallow: /

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www.channel4.com
Channel 4 | Stream & Watch Live TV
Watch your favourite shows online, from Channel 4, E4 and Walter Presents

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Channel85%Check
Watch23%Check
Stream Watch Live15%Check
Watch Live TV15%Check
Stream Watch Live TV14%Check
Stream11%Check
Live11%Check
favourite11%Check
shows11%Check
online11%Check
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