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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
77% 
Page quality
82% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
77% 
Server
40% 
External factors
72% 
SEO Score
Response time
9.79 s
File size
69.90 kB
Words
696
Media files
18
Number of links
56 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Society of Garden and Landscape Designers
The length of the page title is perfect. (401 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Create your dream garden with the Society of Garden and Landscape Designers. Our registered designers handle all projects from small courtyards to urban parks. Get in touch today!
The meta description is too long: 1126 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://sgld.org.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
descriptionCreate your dream garden with the Society of Garden and Landscape Designers. Our registered designers handle all projects from small courtyards to urban parks. Get in touch today!
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article:modified:time2025-07-23T13:39Z
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twitter:titleHome
twitter:urlhttps://sgld.org.uk/
twitter:descriptionCreate your dream garden with the Society of Garden and Landscape Designers. Our registered designers handle all projects from small courtyards to urban parks. Get in touch today!
twitter:cardsummary
og:titleHome
og:site:nameSociety of Garden and Landscape Designers
og:urlhttps://sgld.org.uk/
og:descriptionCreate your dream garden with the Society of Garden and Landscape Designers. Our registered designers handle all projects from small courtyards to urban parks. Get in touch today!
og:typewebsite
og:localeen-GB
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 696 words. That's ok.
33.3% 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.
12 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 18.39 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 "user-scalable=no, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1.0, 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 14 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
4 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
...ces/images/silhouettes/silhouette-40.svgNo alt attribute provided
/_resources/images/logo.svgHome
/_resources/images/icons/login-icon.svgNo alt attribute provided
/_resources/images/icons/search-icon.svgNo alt attribute provided
...ces/images/silhouettes/silhouette-41.svgNo alt attribute provided
...ages/images/about/phil-hirst-cropped.jpgphil-hirst-cropped
...es/images/find/Denise Cadwallader 2.jpegDenise Cadwallader 2
...page/lorenzo-soprani-volpini-photo-2.jpglorenzo-soprani-volpini-photo-2
...shot-2015-05-05-at-095135crop525x290.pngscreen-shot-2015-05-05-at-095135crop525x290
/_userfiles/pages/images/career.jpgcareer
...ages/awards2024750x420536x300527x295.jpgawards2024750x420536x300527x295
...92ACCFB04903ABA1A641F6183358276CAA1A.jpg**NEW** Bitesize Planting: Choosing plants for sunny, well drained soil with Anna Ribo - 06 Aug 2025
...426670B7B88AEBA7FE5F2E01B478F90C0CD3.jpg**NEW** Managing your Finance with Neil Stead - 18 August 2025
...AA633CF02BC8EF9806B310F6A247EE1E51E6.jpgHow to Design Resilient Plant Communities in a Changing Climate w/Anna Ribo -19 Aug
...786F0FD44AA769A30015BCB577EAA2175C8D.jpgBitesize Planting CPD: Choosing Plants for Cottage Garden Planting with Anna Ribo - 20 August 2025
/_userfiles/pages/images/shop.jpgshop
/_userfiles/pages/images/resources.jpgresources
...ges/images/gdj/fanimagecovers500x295.jpgfanimagecovers500x295

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Follow us on Instagram for all of the latest news
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Follow us on Instagram for all of the latest news
H2 Our members represent the very best in garden and landscape design, from small courtyards and roof gardens to country estates and urban parks.
H2 Find a designer
H2 Join Us
H2 What's on
H2 Members
H3 Sustainability
H3 Courses & Careers
H3 Awards
H3 **NEW** Bitesize Planting: Choosing plants for sunny, well drained soil with Anna Ribo - 06 Aug 2025
H3 **NEW** Managing your Finance with Neil Stead - 18 August 2025
H3 How to Design Resilient Plant Communities in a Changing Climate w/Anna Ribo -19 Aug
H3 Bitesize Planting CPD: Choosing Plants for Cottage Garden Planting with Anna Ribo - 20 August 2025
H3 Regional Volunteers
H3 Resources for designers
H3 Garden Design Journal
H4 Website Cookies
H4 Cookie Preferences
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 4 links with a trivial 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 6 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/cookiepolicy.aspxcookies page
/cookiepolicy.aspxcookies policy
https://sgld.org.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
https://sgld.org.uk/IMG-ALT Home
/find-a-designer/search-for-a-...Find a designer
https://sgld.org.uk/join-us/Join us
/events/default/What's on
https://sgld.org.uk/login.aspxNo Text
/find-a-designer/search-for-a-...Text duplicate Find a designer
https://sgld.org.uk/join-us/Text duplicate Join us
/events/default/Text duplicate What's on
/courses-and-careers/landing/Courses and Careers
/garden-design-journal/garden-...Garden Design Journal
/members/sustainability/Sustainability
/find-an-affiliate/affiliates/Find an Affiliated Supplier
/find-an-affiliate/supplier-op...Supplier Opportunities
https://sgld.org.uk/resources/Resources
https://sgld.org.uk/about/About Us
/events/awards/Awards
/members/members-area/Members Area
/members/pathway/Pathway
https://sgld.org.uk/members/shop/Shop
/about/contact/Contact Us
/find-a-designer/search-for-a-...Find a Designer
/join-us/default.aspxText duplicate Join us
/members/sustainabilityText duplicate Sustainability
/courses-and-careers/Courses & Careers
/events/awards/default.aspxText duplicate Awards
/events/calendar/1828/new-bite...**NEW** Bitesize Planting: Choosing plants for sunny, well drained soil with Anna Ribo - 06 Aug 2025
/events/calendar/1828/new-bite...Trivial anchor text
Read more
/events/calendar/1828/new-bite...Book now
/events/calendar/1811/new-mana...**NEW** Managing your Finance with Neil Stead - 18 August 2025
/events/calendar/1811/new-mana...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
/events/calendar/1811/new-mana...Text duplicate Book now
/events/calendar/1856/how-to-d...How to Design Resilient Plant Communities in a Changing Climate w/Anna Ribo -19 Aug
/events/calendar/1856/how-to-d...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
/events/calendar/1856/how-to-d...Text duplicate Book now
/events/calendar/1862/bitesize...Bitesize Planting CPD: Choosing Plants for Cottage Garden Planting with Anna Ribo - 20 August 2025
/events/calendar/1862/bitesize...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
/events/calendar/1862/bitesize...Text duplicate Book now
/events/calendarAll events
/members/regional-coordinators...Regional Volunteers
https://sgld.org.uk/resourcesResources for designers
/garden-design-journal/garden-...Text duplicate Garden Design Journal
https://www.instagram.com/the_...External Subdomain Follow us on Instagram for all of the latest news
https://sgld.org.uk/loginLog in
/courses-and-careers/landing/Text duplicate Courses and Careers
/garden-design-journal/garden-...Text duplicate Garden Design Journal
/members/sustainability/Text duplicate Sustainability
/find-an-affiliate/affiliates/Text duplicate Find an Affiliated Supplier
/find-an-affiliate/supplier-op...Text duplicate Supplier Opportunities
https://sgld.org.uk/resources/Text duplicate Resources
/privacy-policy/Privacy
/terms-conditions/Terms
https://sgld.org.uk/cookiepolicy/Cookies
/equality-diversity/Equality & Diversity Policy
https://sgld.org.uk/login/Login
https://www.instagram.com/the_...New window External Subdomain Instagram
A-TITLE Instagram
https://en-gb.facebook.com/soc...New window External Subdomain Facebook
A-TITLE Facebook
https://twitter.com/the_sgd?la...New window External X / Twitter
A-TITLE X / Twitter
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain LinkedIn
A-TITLE LinkedIn
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain YouTube
A-TITLE YouTube

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://sgld.org.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (9.79 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (70 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate,no-store
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
serverC13
set-cookie74 Characters
x-powered-bywww.light-media.co.uk
referrer-policyno-referrer-when-downgrade
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-xss-protection1
dateFri, 01 Aug 2025 06:15:04 GMT
content-length71551
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 24 referring domains.
This page only has 34,133 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 22 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *

Disallow: /admin/

Disallow: /_userfiles/pages/images/secure

Disallow: /_userfiles/pages/files/secure

Disallow: /*ReturnUrl=*

Disallow: /*returnurl=*

Sitemap: https://sgld.org.uk/sitemap.xml

Disallow: /_resources/js/master/pages.js #404 page automatically added

Disallow: /modules/modulefindamember/_resources/css/ajax-loader.gif #404 page automatically added

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sgld.org.uk
Society of Garden and Landscape Designers
Create your dream garden with the Society of Garden and Landscape Designers. Our registered designers handle all projects from small courtyards to urban parks. Get in touch today!

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Design68%Check
Garden68%Check
Garden Design68%Check
Landscape Design66%Check
designer65%Check
Garden Designer65%Check
Landscape and Garden65%Check
Landscape Designer65%Check
new63%Check
landscape62%Check
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