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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
56% 
Page structure
67% 
Link structure
91% 
Server
97% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.45 s
File size
35.00 kB
Words
316
Media files
7
Number of links
63 internal / 4 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Institute of Financial Accountants
The length of the page title is perfect. (295 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Institute of Financial Accountants (IFA) is an internationally recognised professional accountancy membership body whose members work for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), or run or work in small and medium-sized accounting practices (SMPs) that advise SMEs.
The meta description is too long: 1735 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
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: Canada
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
keywordsAccounting; Financial; IFA; Financial Accountants; SME; SMP; Accounting practice; Tax; HMRC; Setting up in practice; practising certificate
descriptionThe Institute of Financial Accountants (IFA) is an internationally recognised professional accountancy membership body whose members work for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), or run or work in small and medium-sized accounting practices (SMPs) that advise SMEs.
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 316 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
29.1% 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 14.33 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
2 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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
/media/722148/IFA_Logo_Master_HR.pngIFA Logo Master HR
...-june-hero-image-2025-335.jpg?width=1000The IFA Awards 2025
...ference-online-home-page-.png?width=1000IFA International conference online 2025
..._1012x585-ifa-direct-2022.jpg?width=1000IFA Direct
/media/1979159/blank-350-x-225.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...022/ifa-direct-home-page-media-image.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...e?w=e9ba8736-ede5-4d80-8734-bc4b57a791fcLive Chat

Page structure

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

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 The IFA Awards 2025
H2 IFA International conference online 2025
H2 IFA Direct
H2 IFA membership
H2 IFA CPD
H2 IFA learning
H2 Contact us
H2 About the IFA
H2 Acting in the public interest
H2 Setting up in practice with IFA Direct
H2 About the IFA Duplicate text
H2 Acting in the public interest Duplicate text
H2 Setting up in practice with IFA Direct Duplicate text
H3 SEARCH
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
3 links don't have an anchor text.
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 4 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.ifa.org.uk/IMG-ALT IFA Logo Master HR
/portal/loginLOGIN
/find-an-accountantNew window FIND AN ACCOUNTANT
https://www.facebook.com/insti...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/user/I...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/thei...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.ifa.org.uk/about-usAbout us
/about-us/newsNews
/about-us/who-we-areWho we are
/about-us/leadership-teamsLeadership teams
/about-us/publicinterestActing in the public interest
/about-us/find-a-financial-acc...Find a financial accountant
/about-us/annualreviews-annual...Integrated annual reports
/about-us/complaints-against-t...Complaints against the IFA or IFA staff
/about-us/contactContact us
https://www.ifa.org.uk/joinusJoin us
/joinus/routesGrades and routes to membership
/joinus/how-to-joinHow to join
/joinus/our-feesOur fees
/joinus/memberbenefitsMember benefits
https://www.ifa.org.uk/membersMembers
/members/nominations-for-the-i...Nominations for the IPA Group Board of Directors
/members/ifa-renewals-2025-are...IFA renewals 2025 are now closed
/members/membershipgradesMembership grades
/members/memberfirmMember firm membership
/members/membership,-firm,-aff...Membership, firm, affiliate and practising certificate fees
/members/practisingcertificateIFA practising certificates & CAA-ATOL returns licence
/members/membership-administra...Membership administration
/members/cpd-requirementsCPD requirements
/members/ifa-member-regulationsIFA member regulations
/members/readmission-to-ifa-me...Readmission to IFA membership
/technical-resourcesTechnical Resources
/technical-resources/aml-hubAML hub
/technical-resources/business-hubBusiness hub
https://www.ifa.org.uk/learningLearning
/learning/ifadirectIFA Direct: online education programme
/learning/msc-in-accountancy-a...MSc in Accountancy and Financial Management through WINC/University of Bolton
/learning/athe-qualifications-...ATHE qualifications levels 3, 4, 5 and 7
/learning/dipifrsThe IFA Diploma in IFRS for Accounting Professionals
/learning/ifa-endorsed-programmesIFA endorsed programmes
/learning/embeddedBecome a university embedded student
https://www.ifa.org.uk/cpdCPD Events
/cpd/webinarsWebinars
/cpd/face-to-faceFace to face
/cpd/cpdondemandCPD on demand
/cpd/cpd-requirementsCPD Requirements
/cpd/search-all-eventsSearch all events
/cpd/ifa-regional-ambassadorsIFA regional ambassadors
/about-us/contactText duplicate Contact us
/cpd/face-to-face/the-ifa-awardsMeet the winners
/cpd/webinars/intconfBook my place
/learning/ifadirectIMG-ALT IFA Direct
/learning/ifadirectFind out more
A-TITLE IFA Direct
https://www.ifa.org.uk/joinusAPPLY NOW
https://www.ifa.org.uk/cpdSearch Now
https://www.ifa.org.uk/learningLEARN NOW
/about-us/contactContact now
/about-us/news/ifa-announces-s...IFA announces strategic partnerships with Equals Money and EB Now
/about-us/news/rssNo Text
/about-the-ifaNo Text
/about-us/publicinterestText duplicate Find out more
/setting-up-in-practice-with-i...No Text
https://www.ifa.org.uk/sitemapSitemap
A-TITLE Sitemap
/about-us/contactContact
A-TITLE Contact Us
/dataprotectionDisclaimer & Privacy
A-TITLE Privacy Policy
/terms-of-useTerms of use
A-TITLE Terms of Use

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.ifa.org.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 0.45 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 (35 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateTue, 29 Jul 2025 07:22:51 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
cache-controlprivate
x-frame-optionssameorigin
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
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referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
server-timingcfCacheStatus;desc="DYNAMIC"
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content-encodingzstd
servercloudflare
cf-ray966ade1818ef7240-CDG
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 254 referring domains.
This page has 45,401 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 182 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cpd/search-all-events/
Disallow: /search

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www.ifa.org.uk
Institute of Financial Accountants
The Institute of Financial Accountants (IFA) is an internationally recognised professional accountancy membership body whose members work for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), or run or work in small and medium-sized accounting practices (SMPs) that advise SMEs.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
IFA64%Check
financial58%Check
Institute58%Check
Accountants58%Check
Financial Accountants58%Check
International54%Check
practice54%Check
IFA membership54%Check
membership50%Check
International Conference48%Check
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