Leicester.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
95% 
Page quality
72% 
Page structure
45% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
88% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.11 s
File size
104.90 kB
Words
404
Media files
3
Number of links
70 internal / 20 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Leicester City Council
The length of the page title is perfect. (267 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Leicester City Council is the unitary authority serving the people, communities and businesses of Leicester, the biggest city in the East Midlands.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (886 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.leicester.gov.uk/
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
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

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viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, shrink-to-fit=no
titleLeicester City Council
last-updated2025-11-18
descriptionLeicester City Council is the unitary authority serving the people, communities and businesses of Leicester, the biggest city in the East Midlands.
keywordsleicester city council,Leicester
msapplication-TileColor#00aba9
theme-color#00646d
langen
twitter:descriptionLeicester City Council is the unitary authority serving the people, communities and businesses of Leicester, the biggest city in the East Midlands.
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:urlhttps://www.leicester.gov.uk/
twitter:titleLeicester City Council
twitter:image/images/lcc-masthead-large-trans-meta.png
og:descriptionLeicester City Council is the unitary authority serving the people, communities and businesses of Leicester, the biggest city in the East Midlands.
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://www.leicester.gov.uk/
og:titleLeicester City Council
og:image/images/lcc-masthead-large-trans-meta.png
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 404 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
28% 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.
4 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 15.2 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 8 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, shrink-to-fit=no" 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 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 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)
The HTTPS protocol for secure data transmission is not used.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
/media/184809/sports-festival3.jpgYoung boy playing with basketballs by the clock tower
...h=1280&height=400&rnd=134079593355800000Christmas in Leicester
...h=1280&height=400&rnd=133965488230700000No alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Homepage
The H1 heading contains the words Homepage! Use important keywords instead.
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (8 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Homepage
H2 Most popular
H2 Your Council
H2 Find your councillor
H2 Latest
H3 Latest news
H3 Your Leicester
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
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.
2 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are 20 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
http://leicester.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to content
/your-council/how-we-work/our-...cookie page
https://www.leicester.gov.uk/No Text
https://my.leicester.gov.uk/External Subdomain My Account
http://leicester.gov.uk/atoz/A-Z
/atoz/?letter=AA
/atoz/?letter=BB
/atoz/?letter=CC
/atoz/?letter=DD
/atoz/?letter=EE
/atoz/?letter=FF
/atoz/?letter=GG
/atoz/?letter=HH
/atoz/?letter=II
/atoz/?letter=JJ
/atoz/?letter=KK
/atoz/?letter=LL
/atoz/?letter=MM
/atoz/?letter=NN
/atoz/?letter=OO
/atoz/?letter=PP
/atoz/?letter=QQ
/atoz/?letter=RR
/atoz/?letter=SS
/atoz/?letter=TT
/atoz/?letter=UU
/atoz/?letter=VV
/atoz/?letter=WW
/atoz/?letter=XX
/atoz/?letter=YY
/atoz/?letter=ZZ
/your-council/Your council
/your-community/Your community
/your-environment/Your environment
/health-and-social-care/Health and social care
/planning-and-building/Planning and building
/business/Business
/schools-and-learning/Schools and learning
/transport-and-streets/Transport and streets
/leisure-and-culture/Leisure and culture
/contact-us/Contact us
https://news.leicester.gov.uk/External Subdomain News
/your-community/benefits-and-o...Cost of living support Apply for benefits or financial support, get debt and budgeting advice, manage your council benefits.
/your-community/housing/Housing Apply for council housing, support for private tenants and landlords, help for homeowners.
/your-community/council-tax/Council tax Pay your bill, find out about bands, discounts, exemptions and reductions.
/schools-and-learning/school-a...Schools and colleges Find out about admissions, holidays and term dates, closures and performance.
/your-council/make-a-payment/Pay something Pay council tax, parking tickets, bus lanes fines and other fixed penalty notices.
/your-council/our-jobs-and-car...Jobs, apprenticeships and volunteering Find out about our latest vacancies, apprenticeship and volunteering opportunities.
/your-community/libraries-and-...Libraries, community centres and youth centres Find your nearest facilities at your local library, community or youth centre.
/leisure-and-culture/sport-and...Active Leicester Find sport and leisure activities, book them online, get a membership or find your nearest outdoor gym.
/leisure-and-culture/museums-a...Museums and galleries Find a museum, visit our historic venues, browse our collections and get learning resources.
/your-environment/recycling-an...Bins and recycling Order orange bags, arrange bulky waste collections, see collection dates and more.
/your-council/city-mayor-peter...City Mayor - Peter Soulsby
/your-council/elections-and-vo...Elections and voting
/your-council/councillors-and-...Councillors and wards
/your-council/elections-and-vo...Register to vote
/your-council/decisions-meetin...Decisions, meetings and minutes
/your-council/consultations-an...Consultations
/your-council/how-we-work/How we work
/your-council/policies-plans-a...Policies, plans and strategies
/your-council/about-us/About us
/your-council/about-us/the-lor...Civic Leicester
https://news.leicester.gov.uk/External Subdomain Latest news
https://news.leicester.gov.uk/...External Subdomain Authorities launch joint plan to get more people working
https://news.leicester.gov.uk/...External Subdomain Urgent safety check for 85,000 tumble dryers
https://news.leicester.gov.uk/...External Subdomain Free and low-cost fun in Leicester this Christmas
https://news.leicester.gov.uk/...External Subdomain Waste collection changes over Christmas and New Year
https://news.leicester.gov.uk/...External Subdomain Winners of the Leicester Open announced
https://news.leicester.gov.uk/...External Subdomain Plan your journey to Leicester city centre this Christmas
https://news.leicester.gov.uk/...External Subdomain Light Up Leicester festival wins second national award
https://news.leicester.gov.uk/...External Subdomain Winter shelter to offer more emergency accommodation
https://news.leicester.gov.uk/...External Subdomain Community champions remembered in new heritage panel
https://news.leicester.gov.uk/...External Subdomain Festive events coming up at Leicester’s Guildhall
/your-council/press-and-media/...Subscribe to Your Leicester
http://leicester.gov.uk/Anchor Skip Home promotion banner
/shortcut-pages/external/chris...Find out more
/leisure-and-culture/museums-a...Text duplicate Find out more
https://www.facebook.com/leice...External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/Leicester_...External No Text
https://www.youtube.com/user/l...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/leic...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.visitleicester.info/External Subdomain No Text
/your-council/city-mayor-peter...No Text
https://my.leicester.gov.uk/se...External Subdomain Found a problem with this page?
/contact-us/Text duplicate Contact us
/your-council/how-we-work/our-...Accessibility
/your-council/about-us/Text duplicate About us
/your-council/how-we-work/our-...Cookies
/your-council/how-we-work/our-...Privacy / Disclaimer

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
The checked page does not redirect to another URL.
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 8 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.11 seconds.
This page only loads 2 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (105 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSat, 13 Dec 2025 15:42:39 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
transfer-encodingchunked
connectionkeep-alive
cache-controlprivate
varyUser-Agent,Accept-Encoding
content-security-policydefault-src *;frame-ancestors 'self' *.leicester.gov.uk;form-action 'self' *.leicester.gov.uk;script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' *.leicester.gov.uk *.googleapis.com *.googletagmanager.com *.google-analytics.com cdn-assets.rapidspike.com *.googlecode.com *.google.com stamen-maps.a.ssl.fastly.net unpkg.com ; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' *.leicester.gov.uk *.googleapis.com *.jsdelivr.net unpkg.com github.com *.cloudflare.com ; img-src * data:;
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
permissions-policyaccelerometer=(), autoplay=(), battery=(), camera=(self), microphone=(self)
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
servercloudflare
cf-ray9ad6929598fbdbb1-FRA
content-encodinggzip
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 288 referring domains.
This page has 448 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 138 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

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leicester.gov.uk
Home - Leicester City Council
Leicester City Council is the unitary authority serving the people, communities and businesses of Leicester, the biggest city in the East Midlands.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Leicester82%Check
Leicester City72%Check
Leicester City Council70%Check
council66%Check
City Council64%Check
City62%Check
Up Leicester60%Check
Homepage55%Check
Council tax53%Check
page51%Check
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