Child-maintenance.service.gov.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
0% 
Page quality
65% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
91% 
Server
100% 
External factors
14% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.10 s
File size
18.60 kB
Words
443
Media files
0
Number of links
11 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Apply for help arranging child maintenance - GOV.UK
The length of the page title is perfect. (476 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
This site is blocked from indexing.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Germany
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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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, viewport-fit=cover
theme-color#0b0c0c
robotsnoindex
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 443 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 29.75 words is high.
44.5% 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.
9 paragraphs were found on this page.
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)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, viewport-fit=cover" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
This page only loads 3 JavaScript files. That's good!
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 9 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)
Apply for help arranging child maintenance
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Apply for help arranging child maintenance
H2 Before you start
H2 If you’re worried about contacting the other parent
H2 If you will be receiving child maintenance payments
H2 If you will be paying child maintenance
H2 Related content
H2 Support links
H2 Your application will be closed soon
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.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/apply/cookieschange your cookie settings
/apply/cookiesText duplicate change your cookie settings
/apply/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weatherExternal Subdomain Hide this page Emergency exit
https://www.gov.uk/External No Text
/apply/Apply for help arranging child maintenance
/apply/?lang=cyCymraeg
/apply/contact-child-maintenan...New window contact the Child Maintenance Service (opens in a new tab).
/get-help-arranging-child-main...Subdomain Get Help Arranging Child Maintenance
https://www.gov.uk/apply-natio...External National Insurance number
https://www.gov.uk/child-benefitExternal claim child benefit.
/apply/eligibility/live-in-ukStart now
https://www.gov.uk/making-chil...External Arranging child maintenance yourselves
https://www.gov.uk/report-dome...External Where to report domestic abuse
https://www.gov.uk/child-maint...External Manage an existing child maintenance case
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weatherExternal Subdomain Text duplicate Hide this page Emergency exit
/apply/cookiesCookies
/apply/accessibility-statementAccessibility
https://www.gov.uk/government/...External Privacy
https://www.communities-ni.gov...External Subdomain Northern Ireland Privacy
https://www.nationalarchives.g...External Subdomain Open Government Licence v3.0
https://www.nationalarchives.g...External Subdomain © Crown copyright
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://child-maintenance.service.gov.uk/apply/"
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 0.10 seconds.
This page only loads 2 CSS files. That's ok.
This page only loads 3 JavaScript files. That's good!
The file size of the HTML document is fine (19 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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cache-controlno-store
expires0
x-robots-tagnoindex, nofollow
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cross-origin-opener-policysame-origin
cross-origin-resource-policysame-origin
origin-agent-cluster?1
referrer-policyno-referrer-when-downgrade
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-dns-prefetch-controloff
x-download-optionsnoopen
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-permitted-cross-domain-policiesnone
x-xss-protection0
content-languageen
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varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
content-length5896
dateTue, 01 Jul 2025 04:55:06 GMT
connectionkeep-alive
set-cookie211 Characters
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 3 referring domains.
This page only has 3 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 3 different ip addresses.
This page is referenced by wikipedia.

Search preview

child-maintenance.service.gov.uk › apply
Apply for help arranging child maintenance - GOV.UK

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
child72%Check
child maintenance72%Check
maintenance70%Check
arranging child maintenance70%Check
help arranging child maintenance69%Check
Apply68%Check
Child Maintenance Service63%Check
help62%Check
arranging62%Check
Maintenance Service56%Check

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