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Meta information
83% 
Page quality
43% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
70% 
Server
81% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.61 s
File size
72.30 kB
Words
472
Media files
9
Number of links
86 internal / 4 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Historic UK - The History Magazine & Heritage Accommodation Guide
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 623 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Historic UK is your guide to the history and heritage of Britain, featuring thousands of historic places to stay and a monthly magazine full of history.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (897 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.historic-uk.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-gb
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-gb
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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MobileOptimized320
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og:site_nameHistoric UK
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
There are only 472 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 27.5 words is high.
28.6% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
5 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, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=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 9 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
9 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
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...nt/uploads/2020/10/castle-hotels-cta.jpgNo alt attribute provided
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...oads/2020/10/country-house-hotel-cta.jpgNo alt attribute provided
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...025/07/margaret-douglas-top-1024x527.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...uploads/2025/06/abdul-karim-1024x527.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...025/06/prehistoric-cornwall-1024x527.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...nt/uploads/2025/06/chindits-1024x527.jpgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 The History Magazine and Accommodation Guide
H2 History Magazine
H3 Search Historic Breaks
H3 Castle Hotels
H3 Holiday Cottages
H3 Country House Hotels
H3 Anne Vane, Royal Mistress
H3 Margaret Douglas: The Women Who Defied Henry VIII – Twice!
H3 Queen Victoria and Abdul Karim
H3 Prehistoric Penwith
H3 The Chindits: Unique Burma Jungle Force
H3 Popular searches
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 5 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 4 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.historic-uk.com/Historic UK
http://www.twitter.com/historicukNew window External Subdomain No Text
http://www.facebook.com/Histor...New window External Subdomain No Text
/AdvertiseWithUs/Advertise with us
https://www.historic-uk.com/Blog/Blog
/ContactUs/Contact Us
https://www.historic-uk.com/Anchor No Text
/AccommodationGuide/Historic Accommodation
/AccommodationGuide/Accommodation Type
/BedBreakfasts/Bed and Breakfasts
/CastleHotels/Castle Hotels
/CountryHouseHotels/Country House Hotels
/HolidayCottages/Historic Holiday Cottages
/Boats/House Boats
/AccommodationGuide/Location
/England/England
/Scotland/Scotland
/Wales/Wales
/Channel-Islands/Channel Islands
/Unusual-Holidays-Places-To-Stay/Unusual Holidays
/AccommodationGuide/CastleBreaks/Castle Breaks
/RentCastle/Castles to Rent
/CottagesbytheSea/Cottages by the Sea
/CottageswithHotTubs/Cottages with Hot Tubs
/CottageswithPools/Cottages with Pools
/LargeCottages/Large Cottages
/QuirkyUnusualCottages/Quirky Cottages
/HistoryUK/History Magazine
/HistoryUK/The History Magazine
/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/History of England
/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/History of Scotland
/HistoryUK/HistoryofWales/History of Wales
/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/History of Britain
/CultureUK/Culture UK
/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/Destinations UK
/HistoryUK/KingsQueensofBritain/Kings & Queens of Britain
/LivingHistory/Living History Guide
/LivingHistory/TradersMarket/Trader’s Market
/LivingHistory/EventsDiary/Events Diary
/LivingHistory/ReenactorsDirec...Reenactors Directory
/LivingHistory/PhotoGallery/Living History Photo Gallery
/Family-History/Family History
/AboutHistoricUK/About Historic UK
/ContactUs/Text duplicate Contact Us
https://www.historic-uk.com/Anchor Search
/CastleHotels/Castle Hotels Live the fairytale and stay in a castle.
/HolidayCottages/Holiday Cottages Historic self catering cottages across the UK
/CountryHouseHotels/Country House Hotels A directory of the most historic hotels in Britain
/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/An...Anne Vane, Royal Mistress Anne Vane was the archetypal ‘scarlet woman’. She scandalised Georgian society with her affairs, most notably with Frederick, Princ...
/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/An...Trivial anchor text
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/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Ma...Margaret Douglas: The Women Who Defied Henry VIII – Twice! Margaret Douglas was a formidable figure in Tudor history. A cousin of Queen Elizabeth I, her posi...
/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Ma...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
read more
/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Qu...Queen Victoria and Abdul Karim The 2017 film ‘Victoria and Abdul’ highlights the real-life relationship between Queen Victoria and her Indian Muslim servant,...
/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Qu...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
read more
/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsU...Prehistoric Penwith Penwith is where Britain ends. It is the final strip of land before the sea, stretching out a small finger into the ocean as though reach...
/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsU...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
read more
/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Ch...The Chindits: Unique Burma Jungle Force One of the most controversial, eccentric individuals of the Second World War was Major-General Orde Wingate, leader o...
/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Ch...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
read more
/AccommodationGuide/Text duplicate Historic Accommodation
/BedBreakfasts/Text duplicate Bed and Breakfasts
/CastleHotels/Text duplicate Castle Hotels
/CountryHouseHotels/Historic Hotels
/HolidayCottages/Text duplicate Historic Holiday Cottages
/LargeCottages/Large Holiday Cottages
/CottageswithPools/Cottages with Private Pools
/WeddingEventVenues/Historic Wedding & Event Venues
/HistoryUK/Text duplicate History Magazine
/HistoryUK/KingsQueensofBritain/Kings and Queens
/CultureUK/British Culture
/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/Historic Destinations
/LivingHistory/EventsDiary/Text duplicate Events Diary
/LivingHistory/ReenactorsDirec...Text duplicate Reenactors Directory
/LivingHistory/TradersMarket/Text duplicate Trader’s Market
/AboutHistoricUK/Text duplicate Historic UK
/AboutHistoricUK/About Us
/AdvertiseWithUs/Advertise
/ContactUs/Text duplicate Contact Us
/HistoryMagazine/WriteforUs/Write for Historic UK
/Sitemap/Sitemap
/TermsConditions/Terms & Conditions
/CookiePolicy/Privacy & Cookie Policy
https://www.historic-uk.com/Blog/Text duplicate Blog
http://www.twitter.com/historicukNew window External Subdomain No Text
http://www.facebook.com/Histor...New window External Subdomain No Text
/CastleHotels/Text duplicate Castle Hotels
/CottagesbytheSea/Coastal Cottages
/CottageswithPools/Text duplicate Cottages with Pools
/HistoryUK/KingsQueensofBritain/Text duplicate Kings and Queens
/ContactUs/Text duplicate Contact Us
https://www.historic-uk.com/Anchor No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.historic-uk.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
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 0.61 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 (72 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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varyAccept-Encoding
x-powered-byWP Engine
link<https://www.historic-uk.com/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
x-cacheableSHORT
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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 136 referring domains.
This page has 656 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 123 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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Allow: /wp-includes/
Allow: /assets/
Disallow: /*?
Disallow: /out/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /PropertySearch/
Disallow: /black-friday/
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Allow: /PropertySearch/Hever-Castle-Luxury-Bed-Breakfast-Edenbridge/
Allow: /PropertySearch/Swinton-Park-Ripon/
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Allow: /PropertySearch/Lumley-Castle-Hotel-Durham/
Allow: /PropertySearch/The-Castle-at-Taunton-Taunton/

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Historic UK - The History Magazine & Heritage Accommodation Guide
Historic UK is your guide to the history and heritage of Britain, featuring thousands of historic places to stay and a monthly magazine full of history.

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Historic UK77%Check
History66%Check
Magazine66%Check
History Magazine66%Check
Historic Hotels62%Check
Guide61%Check
Historic Wedding58%Check
Accommodation Guide56%Check
Family History52%Check
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