Glasgowlife.org.uk - SEO Checker

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Meta information
78% 
Page quality
63% 
Page structure
54% 
Link structure
65% 
Server
70% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.70 s
File size
64.50 kB
Words
677
Media files
31
Number of links
86 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Glasgow Life - Home
The page title is too short. (189 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Get the low-down on culture, art, music, sport, libraries and events in Glasgow. Information about museums, galleries, communities and young people for residents and visitors.
The meta description is too long: 1079 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
This page contains 677 words. That's ok.
19.1% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 20.5 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
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 14 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
7 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
/static/img/logo-gl-mono.svgGlasgow Life
...&width=1600&height=900&v=1db7990282ed150External view of the front of Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum with a bright blue sky in the background with a tree and grass lawn to the front of the building
...crop&center=0.5,0.5&width=800&height=450The World Pipe Band Championships 2025
...crop&center=0.5,0.5&width=800&height=450Barrowland Ballet - Chunky Jewellery
...crop&center=0.5,0.5&width=800&height=450Summer of Fun Roadshow - Various Locations
...g?width=800&height=450&v=1dbd60586a87890A child wearing a black and white football strip, smiles with arms raised above their head. Blurred out children in the same strip can be seen in the background.
...4&width=700&height=400&v=1db7990282ed150External view of the front of Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum with a bright blue sky in the background with a tree and grass lawn to the front of the building
...g?width=700&height=400&v=1db798cad186100No alt attribute provided
...g?width=700&height=400&v=1db798dba9c0ba0Swimming pool
...g?width=700&height=400&v=1db798dbfa5def0No alt attribute provided
...8&width=700&height=400&v=1db798fef0618c0Tramway front door - a large archway with the venue name across the top
...g?width=700&height=400&v=1db7990ced6d980No alt attribute provided
...g?width=700&height=400&v=1db799000490ac0Three colourful chairs are sat around a small wooden table in Partick, with rows of full bookcases visible in the background.
...g?width=700&height=400&v=1db798f37c47df0No alt attribute provided
...5&width=700&height=400&v=1db798cc143f400Large crowd at Old Fruitmarket music venue with atmospheric lighting
...g?width=700&height=400&v=1db798f8f73b250large museum in the middle of a city square. there are grand pillars around the building
...g?width=700&height=400&v=1db798d7fdd70d0Glasgow Club Tolcross Pool
...g?width=700&height=400&v=1db798cb37fa170No alt attribute provided
...7&width=700&height=400&v=1db798fd51578c0City Halls exterior.
...g?width=700&height=400&v=1db798b31dfd7d0No alt attribute provided
...g?width=672&height=379&v=1db798d71aacc10montage of showing showing little girl in pink jacket standing next to a museum object staring straight into the camera, two men tackling each other whilst playing walking football outdoor, three women sitting at a desk reading and writing whilst another women leans over them, an older man sitting at a computer with a younger female sitting in the background, two men chatting sitting on a bench outdoors, a man standing in front of a goal & a man sitting at a computer whilst a women leans over him.
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...5&width=672&height=379&v=1db798e971d7a50Exhibition promotion poster saying Banksy Cut and Run in black spray paint effect on red writing saying GoMA Glasgow 15 Jun - 28 Aug
...5&width=700&height=400&v=1dbfbd0e913f450An image of the new Glasgow 2026 mascot a bright cheerful unicorn wearing a Glasgow 2026 t-shirt
...g?width=700&height=400&v=1dbf9b06490c090Dancers in red and white outfits form a line during a community arts, comedy, circus, dance and live music festival
...g?width=700&height=400&v=1dbf00031b3e120Swimmers do lengths in a public pool while others take part in a group activity
...g?width=700&height=400&v=1dbe5e8cb0b9970A woman with light brown hair smiles in front of a rubine background
...crop&center=0.5,0.5&width=800&height=450Free Family Play
...4,0.477631578947368&width=800&height=450Bookbug
...crop&center=0.5,0.5&width=800&height=450Saturday Art Club
/static/img/logo-gl-mono-light.svgGlasgow Life

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to Glasgow Life
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Headings
(Important)
There are 33 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 Welcome to Glasgow Life
H2 What's on across Glasgow Life
H2 Summer of Fun
H2 Glasgow Life venues
H2 Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
H2 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
H2 Glasgow Club Scotstoun
H2 The Mitchell Library
H2 Tramway
H2 Emirates Arena
H2 Partick Library
H2 Glasgow Club Bellahouston
H2 Old Fruitmarket
H2 Library at GoMA
H2 Tollcross International Swimming Centre
H2 Baillieston Library
H2 City Halls
H2 Bridgeton Library
H2 Chat - Ask us a question
H2 Our impacts
H2 Glasgow Life venue hire
H2 Glasgow Life shop
H2 Glasgow Life news
H2 Magic moment as official Glasgow 2026 mascot, Finnie, is unveiled
H2 2025 Merchant City Festival attracts 40,000 people
H2 Bellahouston Pool to reopen after significant refurbishment
H2 Glasgow Life appoints Katie Duffy as new Head of Arts and Music
H2 Family friendly events
H2 Free Family Play
H2 Bookbug
H2 Saturday Art Club
H2 Sign up for our Glasgow Life newsletter
H2 Contact us
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 7 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/IMG-ALT Glasgow Life
/whats-on/What's on
/arts-music-and-culture/Arts and music
/museums/Museums
/sport/Sport
/libraries/Libraries
/communities/Communities
/whats-on/glasgow-life-tickets/Tickets
https://shop.glasgowlife.org.uk/External Subdomain Shop
/support-us/Support us!
https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/Home
/whats-on/Text duplicate What's on
/venue-finder/Find venues
/arts-music-and-culture/Text duplicate Arts and music
/museums/Text duplicate Museums
/libraries/Text duplicate Libraries
/communities/Text duplicate Communities
/sport/Text duplicate Sport
/whats-on/glasgow-life-tickets/Text duplicate Tickets
/about-us/About us
/about-us/our-impacts/Our impacts
/about-us/what-we-do-for-glasgow/What we do for Glasgow
/support-us/Support us
/join-our-team/Join our team
https://shop.glasgowlife.org.uk/External Subdomain Text duplicate Shop
/venue-hireSubdomain Venue hire
/health-and-wellbeing/Health and wellbeing
/volunteer-with-us/Volunteer with us
/young-scot-and-national-entit...NEC and Young Scot Card
/news/News
/ask-us-a-question/Ask us a question
/contact-us/Contact us
/about-us/Text duplicate About us
/whats-on/Featured
/whats-on?channel=Arts, Music ...Arts and Music
/whats-on?channel=MuseumsText duplicate Museums
/whats-on?channel=SportText duplicate Sport
/whats-on?channel=LibrariesText duplicate Libraries
/whats-on?channel=CommunitiesCommunity
/event/1/the-world-pipe-band-c...The World Pipe Band Championships 2025
/event/5/barrowland-ballet-chu...Barrowland Ballet - Chunky Jewellery
/event/1/summer-of-fun-roadsho...Summer of Fun Roadshow - Various Locations
/summer-of-fun/Find out more
/venue-finder/View all Glasgow Life venues
/museums/venues/kelvingrove-ar...Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
/arts-music-and-culture/venues...Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
/sport/venues/glasgow-club-sco...Glasgow Club Scotstoun
/libraries/venues/the-mitchell...The Mitchell Library
/arts-music-and-culture/venues...Tramway
/sport/venues/emirates-arena/Emirates Arena
/libraries/venues/partick-libr...Partick Library
/sport/venues/glasgow-club-bel...Glasgow Club Bellahouston
/arts-music-and-culture/venues...Old Fruitmarket
/libraries/venues/library-at-g...Library at GoMA
/sport/venues/tollcross-intern...Tollcross International Swimming Centre
/libraries/venues/baillieston-...Baillieston Library
/arts-music-and-culture/venues...City Halls
/libraries/venues/bridgeton-li...Bridgeton Library
/ask-us-a-question/Chat now
/about-us/our-impacts/Text duplicate Our impacts
IMG-ALT montage of showing showing little girl in pink jacket standing next to a museum object staring straight into the camera, two men tackling each other whilst p...
/venue-hire/Glasgow Life venue hire
https://shop.glasgowlife.org.uk/External Subdomain Glasgow Life shop
IMG-ALT Exhibition promotion poster saying Banksy Cut and Run in black spray paint effect on red writing saying GoMA Glasgow 15 Jun - 28 Aug
/news/View all news
/news/magic-moment-as-official...Magic moment as official Glasgow 2026 mascot, Finnie, is unveiled
/news/2025-merchant-city-festi...2025 Merchant City Festival attracts 40,000 people
/news/bellahouston-pool-to-reo...Bellahouston Pool to reopen after significant refurbishment
/news/glasgow-life-appoints-ka...Glasgow Life appoints Katie Duffy as new Head of Arts and Music
/whats-onSubdomain Full list of what's on
/event/1/free-family-playFree Family Play
/event/20/bookbugBookbug
/event/28/saturday-art-clubSaturday Art Club
/newsletter-signup/Newsletter signup
/whats-on/Text duplicate What's on
/about-us/Text duplicate About us
/support-us/Text duplicate Support us
/join-our-team/Text duplicate Join our team
/volunteer-with-us/Text duplicate Volunteer with us
/news/Text duplicate News
/venue-hireSubdomain Text duplicate Venue hire
https://shop.glasgowlife.org.uk/External Subdomain Text duplicate Shop
/ask-us-a-question/Chat - Ask us a question
/contact-us/Text duplicate Contact us
/the-small-print/accessibility/Accessibility
/contact-us/freedom-of-informa...Freedom of Information
/privacy/Privacy
/cookie-policy/Cookie Policy
/glaschu-beo-gaelic-at-glasgow...Glaschu Beò - Gaelic at Glasgow Life
/about-us/colleague-information/Colleague information
https://www.facebook.com/glasg...External Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/glasgowlifeExternal Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/c/Glas...External Subdomain You Tube
https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Glasgow Life

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.glasgowlife.org.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)
The page response time of 0.70 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (65 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

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This page has backlinks from 276 referring domains.
This page has 15,022 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 228 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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Glasgow Life - Home
Get the low-down on culture, art, music, sport, libraries and events in Glasgow. Information about museums, galleries, communities and young people for residents and visitors.

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