Networkrail.co.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
58% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
89% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.44 s
File size
141.20 kB
Words
216
Media files
0
Number of links
56 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Network Rail – we run, look after and improve Britain's railway
The length of the page title is perfect. (553 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
We work round-the-clock to provide a safe, reliable experience for the millions using Europe’s fastest-growing railway each and every day.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (847 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.networkrail.co.uk/
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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google-site-verificationfWIlW0o7ZsWQi5QFF0YQarpNY8aOws1wZ9842zHu-oE
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
descriptionWe work round-the-clock to provide a safe, reliable experience for the millions using Europe’s fastest-growing railway each and every day.
tec-api-versionv1
tec-api-originhttps://www.networkrail.co.uk
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generatorNitroPack
article:publisherhttps://www.facebook.com/networkrail/
article:modified_time2025-07-18T15:03:01+00:00
langen-gb
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@networkrail
og:localeen_GB
og:typewebsite
og:titleNetwork Rail – we run, look after and improve Britain's railway
og:descriptionWe work round-the-clock to provide a safe, reliable experience for the millions using Europe’s fastest-growing railway each and every day.
og:urlhttps://www.networkrail.co.uk/
og:site_nameNetwork Rail
x-ua-compatibleie=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 216 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
25.9% of the text are stop words.
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 12 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, 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 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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

No media files were found.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Network Rail homepage
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Network Rail homepage
H2 Stories around our network
H4 Find us on X
H4 Find us on Facebook
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 12 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.networkrail.co.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.networkrail.co.uk/No Text
/who-we-are/Subdomain Who we are
/sustainability/Subdomain Sustainability
/who-we-are/publications-and-r...Subdomain Publications and resources
/who-we-are/our-approach-to-sa...Subdomain Our approach to safety
/who-we-are/transparency-and-e...Subdomain Transparency and ethics
/who-we-are/equity-diversity-a...Subdomain Equity, diversity and inclusion
/who-we-are/our-history/Subdomain Our history
/stories/Subdomain Our stories
/running-the-railway/Subdomain Running the railway
/running-the-railway/our-regions/Subdomain Our regions
/running-the-railway/our-routes/Subdomain Our routes
/running-the-railway/looking-a...Subdomain Looking after the railway
/running-the-railway/the-timet...Subdomain The timetable
/running-the-railway/long-term...Subdomain Long-term planning
/running-the-railway/railway-u...Subdomain Railway Upgrade Plan
/who-we-are/our-approach-to-sa...Subdomain Keeping our workforce safe
/running-the-railway/gsm-r-com...Subdomain GSM-R: the railway’s mobile communication system
/running-the-railway/train-ope...Subdomain Train operating companies
/careers/Subdomain Careers
/careers/careers-search/Subdomain Careers search
/careers/early-careers/Subdomain Early Careers
/careers/life-at-network-rail/Subdomain Life at Network Rail
/careers/how-we-recruit/Subdomain How we recruit
/communities/Subdomain Communities
/communities/contact-usSubdomain Contact us
/communities/passengers/Subdomain Passengers
/communities/living-by-the-rai...Subdomain Living by the railway
/communities/safety-in-the-com...Subdomain Safety in the community
/communities/community-rail/Subdomain Community Rail
/communities/railway-enthusiasts/Subdomain Railway enthusiasts
/communities/social-performance/Subdomain Social performance
/communities/charities-and-vol...Subdomain Charities and volunteering
/industry-and-commercial/Subdomain Industry & commercial
/industry-and-commercial/rail-...Subdomain Rail freight
/industry-and-commercial/netwo...Subdomain Network Rail Property
/industry-and-commercial/infor...Subdomain Information for operators
/industry-and-commercial/third...Subdomain Third party investors
/industry-and-commercial/suppl...Subdomain Supply chain
/industry-and-commercial/effic...Subdomain Efficient and dependable partner
/industry-and-commercial/resea...Subdomain Research, development and innovation
/industry-and-commercial/consu...Subdomain Consulting
/industry-and-commercial/insig...Subdomain insight – using AI to run a reliable railway
https://www.networkrailmediace...External Subdomain Media
https://www.networkrailmediace...External Subdomain National & regional news
https://www.networkrailmediace...External Subdomain Pictures & videos
https://www.networkrailmediace...External Subdomain Contact the press team
/storiesSubdomain More stories
https://twitter.com/networkrailNew window External Visit us on X
https://www.facebook.com/netwo...New window External Subdomain Visit us on Facebook
https://www.networkrail.co.uk/Subdomain Home
/who-we-are/Subdomain Text duplicate Who we are
/communities/passengers/stayin...Subdomain Staying safe and secure
https://www.networkrailmediace...External Subdomain Text duplicate Media
/communities/contact-us/Subdomain Text duplicate Contact us
/communities/passengers/rail-o...Subdomain Rail Ombudsman
/footer/privacy-notice/Subdomain Privacy notice
/footer/cookie-policy/Subdomain Cookies
/terms-and-conditions/Subdomain Terms & conditions
/accessibility/Subdomain Accessibility statement
/who-we-are/transparency-and-e...Subdomain Modern Slavery Statement
/sitemap_index.xmlSubdomain Site Map
https://www.facebook.com/netwo...External Subdomain A-TITLE Network Rail on Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/netw...External Subdomain A-TITLE Network Rail on Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain A-TITLE Network Rail on Linkedin
https://www.twitter.com/networ...External Subdomain A-TITLE Network Rail on Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/networ...External Subdomain A-TITLE Network Rail on Youtube

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.networkrail.co.uk/"
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 0.44 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 (141 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
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accept-chSec-CH-UA-Mobile
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x-nitro-cacheHIT
x-nitro-cache-fromdrop-in
x-nitro-revac84bb3
link<https://www.networkrail.co.uk/nitropack_static>; rel=preconnect
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
feature-policymicrophone 'none'; vibrate none; geolocation none;
referrer-policyno-referrer-when-downgrade
strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
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x-powered-byWP Engine
x-cacheableSHORT
cache-controlmax-age=600, must-revalidate
x-cacheHIT: 18
x-cache-groupnormal
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
set-cookie287 Characters
servercloudflare
cf-ray962f74e0bca6dacb-CDG
content-encodingbr
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 2,120 referring domains.
This page has 228,493 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,628 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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User-Agent: *
Disallow: /digital-support-form/?
Disallow: /blocks-reference-guide/?$
Disallow: /coronavirus-information-for-our-staff/?$
Disallow: /welfare-and-wellbeing-taskforce/?$

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www.networkrail.co.uk
Network Rail – we run, look after and improve Britain's railway
We work round-the-clock to provide a safe, reliable experience for the millions using Europe’s fastest-growing railway each and every day.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Rail85%Check
Network Rail83%Check
Network77%Check
Rail Freight60%Check
Community Rail60%Check
railway56%Check
homepage50%Check
Find us48%Check
safe46%Check
run46%Check
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