Falkirk.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
67% 
Page quality
65% 
Page structure
92% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
74% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.31 s
File size
39.90 kB
Words
326
Media files
8
Number of links
35 internal / 17 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Falkirk Council
The page title is too short. (131 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
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
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
apple-mobile-web-app-titleFalkirk
htmx-config{"selfRequestsOnly":false,"allowScriptTags":true,"indicatorClass":"htmx-indicator","historyCacheSize":0,"refreshOnHistoryMiss":true,"withCredentials":false,"defaultFocusScroll":false,"getCacheBusterParam":false,"globalViewTransitions":false,"antiForgery":{"formFieldName":"__RequestVerificationToken","headerName":"RequestVerificationToken","requestToken":"CfDJ8KMFDAXXe_1MqkAqWI5KK1Aw5-KHMBUB4y_a7HZVwatTKyJjMKYzUCWCeqYKVn-M4ms5KO1jEZ_MebWQPCE13JVqNyPWWTVZmAtCFf_pbVtkpIB2ndQr4d9quZF9CDkx6_E_Rw9GgZZ8TVXW_IZqdJg"}}
forgeindex
langen
og:typewebsite
og:logo/img/social-logo.png
og:titleFalkirk Council
og:descriptionWe are a local government organisation providing a wide range of services to residents, businesses and visitors across the Falkirk Council area.
og:imagehttps://www.falkirk.gov.uk/img/banner-standard.jpg
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 326 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
23.6% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
3 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 20.75 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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 7 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
4 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/img/spinner.svgNo alt attribute provided
https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/img/spinner.svgNo alt attribute provided
https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/img/spinner.svgNo alt attribute provided
/img/leisure/feel-falkirk-logo.svgFeel Falkirk logo
/img/leisure/hippodrome.jpgPhoto of Hippodrome
/img/leisure/helix.jpgPhoto of Helix Park
/img/leisure/swimming.jpgPhoto of swimmers
https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/img/spinner.svgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Falkirk Council
The H1 heading is too short (15 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Falkirk Council
H2 Services
H2 Welcome
H2 Services Duplicate text
H2 Local to you
H2 Latest news
H2 Feel Falkirk
H2 Committees
H3 Council and democracy
H3 Schools
H3 Councillors
H3 Learn to swim!
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 17 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to contents
https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/Falkirk Council
https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/helpHelp using this website
https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/payPay for it
/requestRequest it
https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/reportReport it
https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/findFind it
https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/payText duplicate Pay for it
/requestText duplicate Request it
https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/reportText duplicate Report it
https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/findText duplicate Find it
https://my.falkirk.gov.uk/New window External Subdomain MyFalkirk
A-TITLE Click to access your MyFalkirk account
/service/bins-rubbish-and-recy...Bins, rubbish and recycling
/service/births-deaths-and-mar...Births, deaths and marriages
/service/business-and-investmentBusiness and investment
/service/children-and-familiesChildren and families
/service/council-and-democracyCouncil and democracy
/service/crime-and-antisocial-...Crime and antisocial behaviour
/service/environmentEnvironment
/service/fees-chargesFees and charges
/service/help-and-supportGetting help and support
/servicesAll services
https://recycling.falkirk.gov.uk/External Subdomain Recycling
https://streets.falkirk.gov.uk/External Subdomain Streets
https://maps.falkirk.gov.uk/External Subdomain Maps
https://events.falkirk.gov.uk/External Subdomain Events
https://x.com/FalkirkCouncilExternal Twitter
A-TITLE x.com
https://www.facebook.com/falki...External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/fthThe new Falkirk Town Hall
/news/councilCouncil news
/news/employeesEmployee news
/news/council-leader-updatesCouncil Leader
https://www.falkirkleisureandc...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Feel Falkirk logo
https://www.falkirkleisureandc...New window External Subdomain Feel Falkirk
https://www.falkirkleisureandc...New window External Subdomain What's on
https://www.hippodromecinema.c...New window External Subdomain Hippodrome Cinema
https://www.thehelix.co.uk/New window External Subdomain Helix Park
https://www.falkirkleisureandc...New window External Subdomain Sign up today
/councillors-and-decision-makingCommittees
https://www.youtube.com/@falki...New window External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/Anchor ↑
A-TITLE Scroll to the top of this page
/help/accessibilityAccessibility
/contact-usContact us
/help/cookiesCookies
/privacyPrivacy
/sitemapSitemap
/help/terms-and-conditionsTerms
https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/newsNews
/employeesEmployees
https://www.youtube.com/Falkir...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate YouTube
A-TITLE YouTube
https://www.facebook.com/falki...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Facebook
A-TITLE Facebook
https://x.com/FalkirkCouncilNew window External 𝕏 Twitter
A-TITLE Twitter (X)

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
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)
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.31 seconds.
This page only loads 1 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (40 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
dateTue, 03 Mar 2026 02:27:14 GMT
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
cache-controlno-cache, no-store
content-encodingbr
pragmano-cache
set-cookie226 Characters
transfer-encodingchunked
varyAccept-Encoding
strict-transport-securitymax-age=2592000
access-control-allow-private-networktrue
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-powered-byASP.NET
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 318 referring domains.
This page has 3,740 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 210 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cache
Disallow: /shortcuts
Sitemap: https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/sitemap.xml

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Falkirk86%Check
Falkirk Council78%Check
Council70%Check
new Falkirk Town Hall52%Check
Services47%Check
news43%Check
schools43%Check
local43%Check
Latest News43%Check
councillors43%Check
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