Gloucester.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
77% 
Page quality
73% 
Page structure
83% 
Link structure
87% 
Server
36% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.32 s
File size
50.70 kB
Words
631
Media files
7
Number of links
33 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Gloucester City Council | Gloucester City Council
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (438 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
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 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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

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descriptionEmpty
keywordsEmpty
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are 3 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: Do not include personal or financial information like your name, conta...
This page contains 631 words. That's ok.
32.6% 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.
15 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 17.81 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 7 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 13 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
5 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
...gcc-white-tag-logo.svg?v=1da9bb477bf5f60Gloucester City Council homepage logoGloucester City Council homepage logo
.../kbujsaic/gw-bin-3.jpg?v=1db4a4b3b80eff0No alt attribute provided
...s-karola-g-5882531.jpg?v=1dc7035e34faee0No alt attribute provided
...ia/ekrbed0p/jigsaw.jpg?v=1dc4330f8c9acd0No alt attribute provided
...son-smiling-laptop.jpg?v=1dad78d9a1551e0person smiling laptop
...kqqm/purpleflagpic.jpg?v=1dbc5df51a5f090No alt attribute provided
...lvbgqwx/masterplan.png?v=1dd5b0afef3bd10No alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Gloucester City Council
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 31 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 Gloucester City Council
H2 Garden Waste Subscription
H2 Go Paperless – Get Your Council Tax Bills by Email
H2 Find all the latest on Local Government Reorganisation in Gloucestershire
H2 Watch our meetings online
H2 Gloucester is a Purple Flag City
H2 Gloucester city masterplan
H2 Quick links
H2 Planning & Development
H2 Council Tax
H2 Environment, waste & recycling
H2 Parking, Transport and Streets
H2 About us
H2 Housing
H2 Jobs and careers
H2 Leisure and culture
H2 Licensing and regulations
H2 Community and living
H2 Business and economy
H2 Benefits and support
H2 Is this page helpful?
H2 Bad Feedback
H2 Okay Feedback
H2 Good Feedback
H2 Thank you for your feedback.
H2 Contact Info
H2 About Gloucester
H2 Navigation Links
H2 Using our site
H2 Navigation Links Duplicate text
H3 Follow us
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 12 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://gloucester.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.gloucester.gov.uk/IMG-ALT Gloucester City Council homepage logo
/about-the-council/contact-us/Contact us
https://gloucester-self.achiev...External Subdomain My Gloucester
/news/2026-news/News
https://public.govdelivery.com...External Subdomain Subscribe
/environment-waste-recycling/w...Garden Waste
/council-tax/paperless-billing...More information
https://futuregloucestershire....New window External Find out more on the Future Gloucestershire website
https://www.youtube.com/@Glouc...New window External Subdomain Link to watch our meetings
/news/2026-news/gloucester-ret...Find out how we’re making our city safer
/about-the-council/consultatio...Share your thoughts, ideas and priorities for the city.
https://publicaccess.glouceste...New window External Subdomain Search planning applications
/community-living/cost-of-living/Cost of living
/environment-waste-recycling/w...Check your bin day
/council-tax/pay-your-council-...Pay Council Tax
/environment-waste-recycling/w...Report it
/pay-for-it/Make a payment
https://rebate.gloucester.gov....External Subdomain Register for Council Tax
/environment-waste-recycling/w...Waste & Recycling Updates
/about-the-council/consultatio...Have your say
/environment-waste-recycling/w...Order recycling containers
/planning-development/Planning & Development Apply for planning permission, comment or appeal an existing application, or see our building regulations and conservation policy.
/council-tax/Council Tax Get help with Council Tax, make payments, Council Tax bands, tell us you're moving, or find out about discounts and exemptions.
/environment-waste-recycling/Environment, waste & recycling Latest information, bulky item collection and find out more about recycling.
/parking-transport-and-streets/Parking, Transport and Streets Find a car park, apply for a blue badge ANPR parking, pay or appeal a parking fine or just find out about Gloucester's roads.
/about-the-council/About us Information on elections, committees and meetings, see council strategies, view financial information and find out who's your councillor.
/housing/Housing Apply for social housing, homelessness, private tenants and landlords, housing benefits and improvements and repairs.
https://careers.gloucester.gov...External Subdomain Jobs and careers Work for the council, search and apply for jobs, graduate and apprenticeship schemes or find out about volunteering.
/culture-leisure/Leisure and culture Sports and leisure, museums, events, things to do in Gloucester, tourism, parks and open spaces.
/licensing-regulations/Licensing and regulations Different business licences and registers, street trading, health and safety and things that may impact on pavements and roads.
/community-living/Community and living Information about community living, facilities, groups and organisations and events in your area.
/business-economy/Business and economy Get support for your business, pay business rates, find land or property for sale or to let and doing business with the council.
/benefits-and-support/Benefits and support Get help with council tax support, housing benefit, make a new claim, report a change, or debt advice.
https://www.facebook.com/Glouc...External Subdomain URL anchor text
https://www.facebook.com/GloucesterCityCouncil/
A-TITLE https://www.facebook.com/GloucesterCityCouncil/
https://twitter.com/Gloucester...External URL anchor text
https://twitter.com/GloucesterCity
A-TITLE https://twitter.com/GloucesterCity
http://visitgloucester.co.uk/New window External Visit Gloucester
http://democracy.gloucester.go...New window External Subdomain Find your councillor
https://www.gloucesterlottery....New window External Subdomain Gloucester Lottery
/about-the-council/data-protec...How we use your information
/sitemap/Sitemap
/accessibility/Accessibility
/cookies/Cookies
/about-the-council/consultatio...Make a comment, complaint or compliment
/about-the-council/consultatio...Customer Charter

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://gloucester.gov.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.32 seconds.
This page only loads 1 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (51 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
transfer-encodingchunked
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
access-control-allow-origin*
permissions-policyfullscreen=(), geolocation=(), camera=()
referrer-policysame-origin
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionssameorigin
dateWed, 14 Oct 2026 23:07:05 GMT
set-cookie126 Characters
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 264 referring domains.
This page has 435 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 112 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /umbraco
Sitemap: /sitemap.xml
crawl-delay: 10

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Most important keywords

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Gloucester86%Check
Gloucester City80%Check
Gloucester City Council78%Check
Council74%Check
City74%Check
City Council74%Check
Council Tax61%Check
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Waste47%Check
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