Schoolsearch.co.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
66% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
79% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.37 s
File size
27.70 kB
Words
434
Media files
0
Number of links
55 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Independent Schools Guide UK | John Catt's School Search
The length of the page title is perfect. (535 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Best guide to UK independent schools. Read profiles of top schools; expert advice, information and articles on independent education, including help with fees.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (974 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
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)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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viewportwidth=1200
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X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 434 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
33.9% 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.
5 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 17.09 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 8 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=1200" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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

No media files were found.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
John Catt's School Search
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 John Catt's School Search
H1 Independent schools in the UK – search here!
H2 SchoolSearch.co.uk will close at the end of the year
H3 schoolsearch.co.uk
H3 Schools – are your details correct?
H3 Where to find us online
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 6 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.schoolsearch.co.uk/John Catt's School Search
https://www.schoolsearch.co.uk/Home
http://www.schoolsearch.co.uk/Independent schools
http://www.internationalschool...External Subdomain International Schools
http://www.ibyb.org/External Subdomain IB World Schools
https://www.specialneedsguide....External Subdomain Special schools
https://www.schoolsearch.co.uk/Advice, guides and info
/john-catt-school-guidebooksSchool guidebooks
/john-catt-school-guidebooks-d...School guide e-Books
/open-day-calendar-jan-mar-2025Open Days (Jan – Mar)
/open-day-calendar-apr-jun-2025Open Days (Apr – Jun)
/open-day-calendar-jul-sep-2025Open Days (Jul – Sep)
/open-day-calendar-oct-dec-2025Open Days (Oct – Dec)
/independent-school-associationsInitial advice – associations
/news/category/Choosing a schoolThe questions you should ask
/examinations-and-qualificationsExams and qualifications
/news/category/School fees pla...Help with school fees
/newsNews
/schoolsearchcouk-will-close-a...Find out more
http://www.schoolsearch.co.uk/www.schoolsearch.co.uk
/boarding-schools-in-the-ukboarding schools
/boys-schools-in-the-ukboys' schools
/girls-schools-in-the-ukgirls' schools
/find-the-best-preparatory-sch...prep schools
/find-and-compare-secondary-sc...senior schools
/independent-schools-in-englandEngland
/independent-schools-in-scotlandScotland
/independent-schools-in-walesWales
/independent-schools-in-northe...Northern Ireland
/independent-schools-in-the-we...West of England
/independent-schools-in-the-ea...East of England
/independent-schools-in-the-ea...East Midlands
/independent-schools-in-greate...Greater London
/independent-schools-in-london...London
/independent-schools-in-the-no...the North-East
/independent-schools-in-the-no...the North-West
/independent-schools-in-the-so...the South-East
/independent-schools-in-the-so...the South-West
/independent-schools-in-the-we...West Midlands
/independent-schools-in-yorksh...Yorkshire & Humberside
/search-for-independent-school...search by postcode area
/newslatest news and feature articles
/open-days-at-independent-schoolscheck open days
/independent-school-associationsindependent school associations
/examinations-and-qualificationsexaminations and qualifications
/news/category/School fees pla...finding school fees
/news/category/Choosing a schoolChoosing a school
/news/category/BoardingBoarding
/news/category/Single-sex educ...Single-sex education
/news/category/CurriculumCurriculum
/news/category/Prep Schools GuidePrep schools
/news/category/School fees pla...School fees planning
/news/category/School NewsNews stories from schools
/newsnews and features page
https://www.johncattbookshop.c...New window External Subdomain Which School?
/independent-schools-in-london...Which London School? & the South-East
/find-the-best-preparatory-sch...New window The Hachette Learning Guide to Preparatory Schools
/disclaimerDisclaimer
/privacy-policyPrivacy Policy
http://twitter.com/johncattedExternal Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/johnc...External Subdomain Facebook

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.schoolsearch.co.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)
This page loads 7 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 8 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.37 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (28 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateFri, 19 Jun 2026 09:16:51 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
set-cookie42 Characters
content-encodinggzip
x-envoy-upstream-service-time171
x-volterra-locationfr4-fra
servervolt-adc
transfer-encodingchunked
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 29 referring domains.
This page has 112 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 24 different ip addresses.

Search preview

www.schoolsearch.co.uk
Independent Schools Guide UK | John Catt's School Search
Best guide to UK independent schools. Read profiles of top schools; expert advice, information and articles on independent education, including help with fees.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
School90%Check
School Search87%Check
schools82%Check
Search81%Check
Independent School76%Check
Independent Schools Guide UK74%Check
Independent Schools73%Check
Schools Guide71%Check
guide UK71%Check
school fees68%Check

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