Consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
95% 
Page quality
75% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
60% 
Server
54% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.77 s
File size
67.20 kB
Words
3491
Media files
2
Number of links
49 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
City of Edinburgh Council - Citizen Space
The length of the page title is perfect. (370 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Find and participate in consultations run by City of Edinburgh Council
The length of the meta description is perfect. (423 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is 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)
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

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viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
descriptionFind and participate in consultations run by City of Edinburgh Council
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 29.47 words is high.
This page contains 3491 words. That's ok.
43.9% 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.
60 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.
This page loads 14 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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 70 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
/os-custom-logos/edinburgh-logo.pngThe City of Edinburgh Council
/os-custom-logos/its-bsl-logos.pngTranslation services and BSL logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Consultation and Engagement Hub
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 34 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Consultation and Engagement Hub
H2 Stay updated
H2 Need a different language or format?
H2 Open activities
H2 Updates on recent activities
H2 Closed activities
H2 We Asked, You Said, We Did
H3 Actions to end poverty in Edinburgh
H3 Marionville Road walking, wheeling and cycling improvements
H3 Strategic Parking Review - Phase 1 Parking Survey 2025
H3 Community Payback Consultation 2025
H3 The City of Edinburgh Council's Community Wealth Building Plan
H3 A Fair Work Charter for Edinburgh
H3 Seafield Place Brief and Masterplan Consultation
H3 Visitor Levy for Edinburgh
H3 2025/26 Council Housing Rent Consultation
H3 Short-Term Lets 2024
H3 New Gilmerton Station Road Primary School
H3 New Granton Waterfront Primary School
H3 Proposed Lease of Common Good Property: Area of Ground adjacent to Tall Oaks Gyle Park Edinburgh EH12 8LJ
H3 Third Sector Support Review
H3 Fireworks Control Zones 2025
H3 Visitor Levy for Edinburgh Duplicate text
H3 2025/26 Council Housing Rent Consultation Duplicate text
H3 Prestonfield Road and Priestfield Road Improvements
H4 We asked
H4 You said
H4 We did
H4 We asked Duplicate text
H4 You said Duplicate text
H4 We did Duplicate text
H4 We asked Duplicate text
H4 You said Duplicate text
H4 We did Duplicate text
Baselink: https://consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/
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.
There are 12 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 5 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Subdomain Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/External Subdomain IMG-ALT The City of Edinburgh Council
/Home
/consultation_finder/Find activities
/we_asked_you_said/We asked, You said, We did
/about/Contact us
/west-edinburgh/Future of West Edinburgh
/ce/8dc31303/consultation/intro/Subdomain Join our mailing list
/bsl/Subdomain Find out how to get activities in different languages
/ce/end-poverty-edinburgh/Subdomain Actions to end poverty in Edinburgh
/ce/end-poverty-edinburgh/Subdomain Trivial anchor text
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/sfc/marionville-road-improvem...Subdomain Marionville Road walking, wheeling and cycling improvements
/sfc/marionville-road-improvem...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/sfc/strategic-parking-review-...Subdomain Strategic Parking Review - Phase 1 Parking Survey 2025
/sfc/strategic-parking-review-...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/cf/cpo25/Subdomain Community Payback Consultation 2025
/cf/cpo25/Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/ce/the-city-of-edinburgh-coun...Subdomain The City of Edinburgh Council's Community Wealth Building Plan
/ce/the-city-of-edinburgh-coun...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/sfc/fair-work-charter/Subdomain A Fair Work Charter for Edinburgh
/sfc/fair-work-charter/Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/consultation_finder/?_collect...Subdomain Anchor See all open activities
/sfc/seafield-place-brief-and-...Subdomain Seafield Place Brief and Masterplan Consultation
/sfc/seafield-place-brief-and-...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/sfc/visitor-levy/Subdomain Visitor Levy for Edinburgh
/sfc/visitor-levy/Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/sfc/2025-26-rent-consultation/Subdomain 2025/26 Council Housing Rent Consultation
/sfc/2025-26-rent-consultation/Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/sfc/short-term-lets-2024/Subdomain Short-Term Lets 2024
/sfc/short-term-lets-2024/Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/sfc/gilmertonstationroad/Subdomain New Gilmerton Station Road Primary School
/sfc/gilmertonstationroad/Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/sfc/grantonwaterfrontps/Subdomain New Granton Waterfront Primary School
/sfc/grantonwaterfrontps/Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/consultation_finder/?_collect...Subdomain Anchor See more consultations with published results
/cg/tall-oaks/Subdomain Proposed Lease of Common Good Property: Area of Ground adjacent to Tall Oaks Gyle Park Edinburgh EH12 8LJ
/bi/third-sector-support-review/Subdomain Third Sector Support Review
/sfc/firework-control-zone-2025/Subdomain Fireworks Control Zones 2025
/consultation_finder/?_collect...Subdomain Anchor See all closed activities
/we_asked_you_said/Subdomain See all outcomes
/sfc/visitor-levy/Text duplicate Visitor Levy for Edinburgh
https://democracy.edinburgh.go...External Subdomain recommended final scheme is set out in detail in the report to full Council meeting
https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/v...External Subdomain Read more information on the Edinburgh visitor levy
/sfc/2025-26-rent-consultation/Text duplicate 2025/26 Council Housing Rent Consultation
/sfc/prestonfield-priestfield/Prestonfield Road and Priestfield Road Improvements
/bslSubdomain IMG-ALT Translation services and BSL logo
/bslSubdomain get information of consultation and engagement activity in a different language or format.
/accessibility_policy/Subdomain Accessibility
/terms_and_conditions/Subdomain Terms of Use
/cookie_policy/Subdomain Cookies
/privacy_policy/Subdomain Privacy
/support/Subdomain Help / feedback
https://www.delib.net/citizen_...External Subdomain Citizen Space
https://www.delib.net/External Subdomain Delib

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.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 0.77 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 6 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 14 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (67 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateWed, 13 Aug 2025 09:06:35 GMT
serverApache
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
cache-controlno-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
expiresWed, 13 Aug 2025 09:06:20 GMT
accept-rangesbytes
age14
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
content-length15560
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 130 referring domains.
This page has 264 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 50 different ip addresses.

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consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk
City of Edinburgh Council - Citizen Space
Find and participate in consultations run by City of Edinburgh Council

Most important keywords

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Consultation79%Check
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Council68%Check
City63%Check
poverty Edinburgh61%Check
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