Solihull.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
95% 
Server
45% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.21 s
File size
67.00 kB
Words
312
Media files
9
Number of links
58 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Homepage | Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
The length of the page title is perfect. (449 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.solihull.gov.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-gb
Server location: Canada
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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MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
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langen-gb
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 312 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
27.6% 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 19 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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)
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
/themes/custom/lgd/logo.pngSolihull Metropolitan Borough Council
...public/2022-06/Comp 19.jpg?itok=CQwG_Zoephoto of lake in Solihull from commonwealth games photo competition
...ser/public/2025-08/Sun.jpg?itok=RPcuMiaSSun
...e photo cropped 110825.jpg?itok=0oHlCWAqFamily Links foster caring
...25-06/sun-3588618_1280.jpg?itok=IR_2YweAThe sun shining, with a blue sky
...25-07/h2h-feature-tile.png?itok=W1HpuyrEHere2help icon
..._web tile_0.png?h=e751eaae&itok=9OsQjmO9carers image icon
...-new-tile_0.png?h=d2ce6a4f&itok=Z6U4L5ZPsummer fun icon tile
...-homepage_0.png?h=039a8693&itok=5qei0oAdmap of Solihull tile

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to Solihull
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
The H1 heading is too short (19 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to Solihull
H2 Main navigation
H2 Services menu
H2 Popular tasks
H2 Council services
H2 Latest news
H2 Featured services
H2 Find my nearest
H2 Safeguarding
H2 My account
H2 Stay connected
H2 Was this helpful?
H2 Footer
H3 Subscribe to garden waste collections
H3 Find school term dates
H3 Search planning applications
H3 Pay online
H3 Search library items
H3 Book in at Bickenhill HWRC
H3 Heat health alert upgraded to Amber warning
H3 Family Links – new fostering service supporting disabled Solihull children
H3 Yellow heat health alert issued
H3 Here2Help
H3 Support for unpaid carers
H3 Summer fun in Solihull
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 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.solihull.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.solihull.gov.uk/IMG-ALT Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
/my-accountsMy accounts
https://www.solihull.gov.uk/newsNews
/about-solihullAbout Solihull
A-TITLE Things to do, Solihull area history and local statistics
/about-councilAbout the Council
/adult-social-careAdult Social Care
A-TITLE Find out how to get help from Adult Social Care
/arts-and-cultureArts and culture
A-TITLE Solihull has a developing and creative arts and culture scene
/births-marriages-deaths-cemet...Births marriages deaths and citizenship
A-TITLE Register births and deaths, arrange a marriage or civil partnership and British citizenship ceremonies
/businessBusiness
/children-and-familiesChildren and families
A-TITLE Search our Family Information Service Directory, apply for early education funding, report a child at risk and find out how to become a foster carer
/communitiesCommunities
A-TITLE Communities
/council-tax-and-benefitsCouncil tax and benefits
A-TITLE Pay your Council Tax, how to apply for benefits and tell us if youʼre moving.
/councillors-and-democracyCouncillors and democracy
/crime-and-safetyCrime and safety
A-TITLE How you can report or find support if you have been affected by crime.
/environment-and-animalsEnvironment and animals
/health-and-wellbeingHealth and wellbeing
/housingHousing
A-TITLE Apply for a home with Solihull Community Housing, homelessness and rough sleeping, advice on renting and housing options.
/jobs-and-trainingJobs and training
A-TITLE Work for Solihull Council, help find work and teaching careers
/LibrariesLibraries
/ParkingParking
A-TITLE Parking
/parks-and-open-spacesParks and open spaces
/planning-and-building-controlPlanning and building control
/roads-pavements-and-streetcareRoads pavements and streetcare
/rubbish-and-recyclingRubbish and recycling
A-TITLE Rubbish and recycling in Solihull
/schools-and-learningSchools and learning
A-TITLE Find schools, apply for school, pay school absence fines and get support for your child at school and outside of school.
/sports-and-fitnessSports and fitness
A-TITLE Find sport and leisure facilities, keep fit and healthy with Solihull Active and where to walk or cycle in Solihull.
/tell-usTell us
A-TITLE Ways to get in touch
/your-future-solihullYour future Solihull
/rubbish-and-recycling/garden-...Subscribe to garden waste collections
/schools-and-learning/school-t...Find school term dates
/planning-and-building-control...Search planning applications
/pay-onlinePay online
/libraries/join-library/search...Search library items
/rubbish-and-recycling/bickenh...Book in at Bickenhill HWRC
/rubbish-and-recyclingText duplicate Rubbish and recycling
/council-tax-and-benefitsCouncil Tax and benefits
/ParkingText duplicate Parking
/schools-and-learningText duplicate Schools and learning
/jobs-and-trainingText duplicate Jobs and training
/births-marriages-deaths-cemet...Births, deaths and marriages
/planning-and-building-controlText duplicate Planning and building control
/here2helpHere2Help
/LibrariesText duplicate Libraries
/servicesMore services
/news/2025/heat-health-alert-u...Heat health alert upgraded to Amber warning
/news/2025/family-links-new-fo...Family Links – new fostering service supporting disabled Solihull children
/news/2025/yellow-heat-health-...Yellow heat health alert issued
https://www.solihull.gov.uk/newsMore news from Solihull
/here2help-familiesHere2Help Families this Summer’
/adult-social-care/support-off...Support for carers
https://visitsolihull.co.uk/su...External Summer fun
/online-mapsFind my nearest
/report-safeguardingReport safeguarding
/my-accounts/customer-services...Customer services account
https://public.govdelivery.com...New window External Subdomain Sign up (opens in a new window)
https://www.facebook.com/solih...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://x.com/solihullcouncilNew window External No Text
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain No Text
/website-privacy-policyPrivacy
/site-informationAbout our site
/accessibility-statement-wwwso...Accessibility statement
/tell-us/contact-usContact

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.solihull.gov.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.21 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (67 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 317 referring domains.
This page has 4,006 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 185 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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# robots.txt
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# 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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Solihull81%Check
Solihull Metropolitan66%Check
Solihull Metropolitan Borough60%Check
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council58%Check
Council51%Check
Borough Council50%Check
Welcome50%Check
Metropolitan48%Check
help44%Check
new44%Check
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