Uhsussex.nhs.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
58% 
Page structure
38% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
91% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.34 s
File size
89.30 kB
Words
590
Media files
12
Number of links
215 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
The length of the page title is perfect. (453 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.uhsussex.nhs.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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viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
google-site-verificationEmpty
msapplication-TileColor#da532c
theme-color#ffffff
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
article:modified_time2024-07-26T15:31:08+00:00
langen-gb
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
og:localeen_GB
og:typewebsite
og:titleUniversity Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
og:urlhttps://www.uhsussex.nhs.uk/
og:site_nameUniversity Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
og:imagehttps://www.uhsussex.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/website-home-page-banner-3.jpg
og:image:width1600
og:image:height900
og:image:typeimage/jpeg
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 70 words is high.
This page contains 590 words. That's ok.
24.1% 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.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" 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 12 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...nt/themes/karabiner/assets/imgs/logo.svgUniversity Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust logo
...mages/2643/Group-4@2x-800x600-f50_50.pngWork for us
...mages/2644/Group-8@2x-800x600-f50_50.pngVideo consultations
...mages/2642/Group-2@2x-800x600-f50_50.pngPatient leaflets
...mages/2641/Group-6@2x-800x600-f50_50.pngGet involved
...g-for-patient-on-ward-706x470-f50_50.jpgNurse caring for patient on ward
...nt/themes/karabiner/assets/imgs/logo.svgExcellence as our standard
...ets/imgs/icons/social-facebook-white.svgVisit us on Facebook
...ner/assets/imgs/icons/social-x-white.svgVisit us on Twitter
...ts/imgs/icons/social-instagram-white.svgVisit us on Instagram
...sets/imgs/icons/social-youtube-white.svgVisit us on YouTube
...ets/imgs/icons/social-linkedin-white.svgVisit us on Linkedin

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to UHSussex
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)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 28 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to UHSussex
H2 Our hospitals
H2 In this section
H2 Find a service
H2 Find a consultant
H2 Our hospitals Duplicate text
H2 In this section Duplicate text
H2 Find a service Duplicate text
H2 Find a consultant Duplicate text
H2 Our hospitals Duplicate text
H2 Popular pages
H2 Work for us
H2 Video consultations
H2 Patient leaflets
H2 Get involved
H2 Latest news
H2 Wards welcome team of tobacco dependency advisors
H2 Healthcare hero helping patients stub out smoking
H2 Best of UHSussex newsletter, Summer 2025
H2 Putting patients at the heart of all we do
H2 Quick links
H2 Trust headquarters
H2 Switchboard
H3 Can’t make your appointment?
H3 Can’t make your appointment? Duplicate text
H3 Help us recognise and reward our most outstanding people
H3 New Sussex health and care research strategy to help improve health and care
H3 Be vigilant of scam parking messages
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.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.uhsussex.nhs.uk/Anchor Skip navigation
https://www.uhsussex.nhs.uk/Subdomain IMG-ALT University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust logo
A-TITLE University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust Homepage
/contact/Subdomain Contact
/about/Subdomain About us
https://www.uhsussex.nhs.uk/news/Subdomain News
/resources/Subdomain Resources
/professionals/Subdomain Professionals
/careers/Subdomain Careers
https://www.myuhsussex.org/External Subdomain Charity Site
https://www.uhsussex.nhs.uk/Subdomain Home
/hospitals/Subdomain Hospitals
/hospitals/royal-sussex-county...Subdomain Royal Sussex County Hospital
/hospitals/royal-alexandra-chi...Subdomain Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital
/hospitals/sussex-eye-hospital/Subdomain Sussex Eye Hospital
/hospitals/princess-royal-hosp...Subdomain Princess Royal Hospital
/hospitals/st-richards-hospital/Subdomain St Richard’s Hospital
/hospitals/southlands-hospital/Subdomain Southlands Hospital
/hospitals/worthing-hospital/Subdomain Worthing Hospital
/patients-and-visitors/Subdomain Patients and visitors
/services/accident-emergency/Is it an emergency?
/patients-and-visitors/appoint...Subdomain Appointments
/patients-and-visitors/video-a...Subdomain Video consultations
/patients-and-visitors/staying...Subdomain Staying with us
/resources/?search&location=al...Subdomain Information leaflets
/patients-and-visitors/patient...Subdomain Information for visitors
/patients-and-visitors/digital...Subdomain Digital communication
/patients-and-visitors/patient...Subdomain Patient transport
/patients-and-visitors/support/Subdomain Help and support
/patients-and-visitors/waiting/Subdomain Waiting times
/patients-and-visitors/records/Subdomain Access to health records
/patients-and-visitors/get-inv...Subdomain Get involved
/patients-and-visitors/volunteer/Subdomain Volunteering
/patients-and-visitors/returni...Subdomain Returning medical equipment
/patients-and-visitors/overseas/Subdomain Overseas patients
/patients-and-visitors/private/Subdomain Private patients
/services/Subdomain Services
/services/?filter_letter=ASubdomain A
/services/?filter_letter=BSubdomain B
/services/?filter_letter=CSubdomain C
/services/?filter_letter=DSubdomain D
/services/?filter_letter=ESubdomain E
/services/?filter_letter=FSubdomain F
/services/?filter_letter=GSubdomain G
/services/?filter_letter=HSubdomain H
/services/?filter_letter=ISubdomain I
/services/?filter_letter=KSubdomain K
/services/?filter_letter=LSubdomain L
/services/?filter_letter=MSubdomain M
/services/?filter_letter=NSubdomain N
/services/?filter_letter=OSubdomain O
/services/?filter_letter=PSubdomain P
/services/?filter_letter=RSubdomain R
/services/?filter_letter=SSubdomain S
/services/?filter_letter=TSubdomain T
/services/?filter_letter=USubdomain U
/services/?filter_letter=VSubdomain V
/services/?filter_letter=WSubdomain W
/services/?filter_letter=XSubdomain X
/services/?filter_letter=YSubdomain Y
/patients-and-visitors/appoint...Subdomain Change or cancel an appointment
/consultants/Subdomain Consultants
/consultants/?filter_letter=ASubdomain Text duplicate A
/consultants/?filter_letter=BSubdomain Text duplicate B
/consultants/?filter_letter=CSubdomain Text duplicate C
/consultants/?filter_letter=DSubdomain Text duplicate D
/consultants/?filter_letter=ESubdomain Text duplicate E
/consultants/?filter_letter=FSubdomain Text duplicate F
/consultants/?filter_letter=GSubdomain Text duplicate G
/consultants/?filter_letter=HSubdomain Text duplicate H
/consultants/?filter_letter=ISubdomain Text duplicate I
/consultants/?filter_letter=JSubdomain J
/consultants/?filter_letter=KSubdomain Text duplicate K
/consultants/?filter_letter=LSubdomain Text duplicate L
/consultants/?filter_letter=MSubdomain Text duplicate M
/consultants/?filter_letter=NSubdomain Text duplicate N
/consultants/?filter_letter=OSubdomain Text duplicate O
/consultants/?filter_letter=PSubdomain Text duplicate P
/consultants/?filter_letter=QSubdomain Q
/consultants/?filter_letter=RSubdomain Text duplicate R
/consultants/?filter_letter=SSubdomain Text duplicate S
/consultants/?filter_letter=TSubdomain Text duplicate T
/consultants/?filter_letter=USubdomain Text duplicate U
/consultants/?filter_letter=VSubdomain Text duplicate V
/consultants/?filter_letter=WSubdomain Text duplicate W
/consultants/?filter_letter=YSubdomain Text duplicate Y
/consultants/?filter_letter=ZSubdomain Z
/research-and-innovation/Subdomain Research and innovation
https://www.uhsussex.nhs.uk/Subdomain Text duplicate Home
/hospitals/royal-sussex-county...Subdomain Text duplicate Royal Sussex County Hospital
/hospitals/royal-alexandra-chi...Subdomain Text duplicate Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital
/hospitals/sussex-eye-hospital/Subdomain Text duplicate Sussex Eye Hospital
/hospitals/princess-royal-hosp...Subdomain Text duplicate Princess Royal Hospital
/hospitals/st-richards-hospital/Subdomain Text duplicate St Richard’s Hospital
/hospitals/southlands-hospital/Subdomain Text duplicate Southlands Hospital
/hospitals/worthing-hospital/Subdomain Text duplicate Worthing Hospital
/hospitals/Subdomain Browse Hospitals
/services/accident-emergency/Text duplicate Is it an emergency?
/patients-and-visitors/appoint...Subdomain Text duplicate Appointments
/patients-and-visitors/video-a...Subdomain Text duplicate Video consultations
/patients-and-visitors/staying...Subdomain Text duplicate Staying with us
/resources/?search&location=al...Subdomain Text duplicate Information leaflets
/patients-and-visitors/patient...Subdomain Text duplicate Information for visitors
/patients-and-visitors/digital...Subdomain Text duplicate Digital communication
/patients-and-visitors/patient...Subdomain Text duplicate Patient transport
/patients-and-visitors/support/Subdomain Text duplicate Help and support
/patients-and-visitors/waiting/Subdomain Text duplicate Waiting times
/patients-and-visitors/records/Subdomain Text duplicate Access to health records
/patients-and-visitors/get-inv...Subdomain Text duplicate Get involved
/patients-and-visitors/volunteer/Subdomain Text duplicate Volunteering
/patients-and-visitors/returni...Subdomain Text duplicate Returning medical equipment
/patients-and-visitors/overseas/Subdomain Text duplicate Overseas patients
/patients-and-visitors/private/Subdomain Text duplicate Private patients
/patients-and-visitors/Subdomain Browse Patients and visitors
/services/?filter_letter=ASubdomain Text duplicate A
/services/?filter_letter=BSubdomain Text duplicate B
/services/?filter_letter=CSubdomain Text duplicate C
/services/?filter_letter=DSubdomain Text duplicate D
/services/?filter_letter=ESubdomain Text duplicate E
/services/?filter_letter=FSubdomain Text duplicate F
/services/?filter_letter=GSubdomain Text duplicate G
/services/?filter_letter=HSubdomain Text duplicate H
/services/?filter_letter=ISubdomain Text duplicate I
/services/?filter_letter=KSubdomain Text duplicate K
/services/?filter_letter=LSubdomain Text duplicate L
/services/?filter_letter=MSubdomain Text duplicate M
/services/?filter_letter=NSubdomain Text duplicate N
/services/?filter_letter=OSubdomain Text duplicate O
/services/?filter_letter=PSubdomain Text duplicate P
/services/?filter_letter=RSubdomain Text duplicate R
/services/?filter_letter=SSubdomain Text duplicate S
/services/?filter_letter=TSubdomain Text duplicate T
/services/?filter_letter=USubdomain Text duplicate U
/services/?filter_letter=VSubdomain Text duplicate V
/services/?filter_letter=WSubdomain Text duplicate W
/services/?filter_letter=XSubdomain Text duplicate X
/services/?filter_letter=YSubdomain Text duplicate Y
/patients-and-visitors/appoint...Subdomain Text duplicate Change or cancel an appointment
/services/Subdomain Browse Services
/consultants/?filter_letter=ASubdomain Text duplicate A
/consultants/?filter_letter=BSubdomain Text duplicate B
/consultants/?filter_letter=CSubdomain Text duplicate C
/consultants/?filter_letter=DSubdomain Text duplicate D
/consultants/?filter_letter=ESubdomain Text duplicate E
/consultants/?filter_letter=FSubdomain Text duplicate F
/consultants/?filter_letter=GSubdomain Text duplicate G
/consultants/?filter_letter=HSubdomain Text duplicate H
/consultants/?filter_letter=ISubdomain Text duplicate I
/consultants/?filter_letter=JSubdomain Text duplicate J
/consultants/?filter_letter=KSubdomain Text duplicate K
/consultants/?filter_letter=LSubdomain Text duplicate L
/consultants/?filter_letter=MSubdomain Text duplicate M
/consultants/?filter_letter=NSubdomain Text duplicate N
/consultants/?filter_letter=OSubdomain Text duplicate O
/consultants/?filter_letter=PSubdomain Text duplicate P
/consultants/?filter_letter=QSubdomain Text duplicate Q
/consultants/?filter_letter=RSubdomain Text duplicate R
/consultants/?filter_letter=SSubdomain Text duplicate S
/consultants/?filter_letter=TSubdomain Text duplicate T
/consultants/?filter_letter=USubdomain Text duplicate U
/consultants/?filter_letter=VSubdomain Text duplicate V
/consultants/?filter_letter=WSubdomain Text duplicate W
/consultants/?filter_letter=YSubdomain Text duplicate Y
/consultants/?filter_letter=ZSubdomain Text duplicate Z
/consultants/Subdomain Browse Consultants
/research-and-innovation/Subdomain Text duplicate Research and innovation
/contact/Subdomain Text duplicate Contact
/about/Subdomain Text duplicate About us
https://www.uhsussex.nhs.uk/news/Subdomain Text duplicate News
/resources/Subdomain Text duplicate Resources
/professionals/Subdomain Text duplicate Professionals
/careers/Subdomain Text duplicate Careers
https://www.myuhsussex.org/External Subdomain Text duplicate Charity Site
/patients-and-visitors/patient...Subdomain Visiting our hospitals
/services/accident-emergency/Subdomain Text duplicate Is it an emergency?
/hospitals/worthing-hospital/Subdomain Text duplicate Worthing Hospital
/hospitals/royal-sussex-county...Subdomain Text duplicate Royal Sussex County Hospital
/hospitals/royal-alexandra-chi...Subdomain Text duplicate Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital
/hospitals/st-richards-hospital/Subdomain Text duplicate St Richard’s Hospital
/hospitals/princess-royal-hosp...Subdomain Text duplicate Princess Royal Hospital
/hospitals/southlands-hospital/Subdomain Text duplicate Southlands Hospital
/patients-and-visitors/patient...Subdomain Visiting times
/services/children-and-young-p...Subdomain Children and young people
/services/maternity/Subdomain Maternity
/services/blood-tests/Subdomain Blood tests
/patients-and-visitors/patient...Subdomain Text duplicate Patient transport
/careers/Subdomain Work for us
/patients-and-visitors/video-a...Subdomain Text duplicate Video consultations
/resources/?search&location=al...Subdomain Patient leaflets
/patients-and-visitors/get-inv...Subdomain Text duplicate Get involved
/news/wards-welcome-team-of-to...Subdomain Wards welcome team of tobacco dependency advisors
/news/?cat=our-peopleSubdomain Our people
/news/?cat=trust-news-announce...Subdomain Trust news and announcements
/news/healthcare-hero-helping-...Subdomain Healthcare hero helping patients stub out smoking
/news/?cat=innovation-and-impr...Subdomain Innovation and improvement
/news/?cat=our-peopleSubdomain Text duplicate Our people
/news/?cat=trust-news-announce...Subdomain Text duplicate Trust news and announcements
/news/best-of-uhsussex-newslet...Subdomain Best of UHSussex newsletter, Summer 2025
/news/?cat=innovation-and-impr...Subdomain Text duplicate Innovation and improvement
/news/?cat=our-peopleSubdomain Text duplicate Our people
/news/?cat=patient-storiesSubdomain Patient stories
/news/help-us-recognise-and-re...Subdomain Help us recognise and reward our most outstanding people
/news/new-sussex-health-and-ca...Subdomain New Sussex health and care research strategy to help improve health and care
/news/be-vigilant-of-scam-park...Subdomain Be vigilant of scam parking messages
https://www.uhsussex.nhs.uk/news/Subdomain See all news
/about/trust/patient-first/Subdomain Read more about Patient First
https://www.uhsussex.nhs.uk/Subdomain IMG-ALT Excellence as our standard
A-TITLE Excellence as our standard
/patients-and-visitors/appoint...Subdomain Text duplicate Appointments
/patients-and-visitors/digital...Subdomain NHS App
/patients-and-visitors/support...Subdomain Send feedback or make a complaint
https://forms.office.com/e/j4d...External Subdomain Request a website update (staff only)
https://intranet.uhsussex.nhs.uk/External Subdomain Staff hub intranet
https://nhs.sharepoint.com/sit...External Subdomain Emergency planning (staff only)
https://www.facebook.com/UHSussexExternal Subdomain IMG-ALT Visit us on Facebook
https://twitter.com/uhsussexExternal IMG-ALT Visit us on Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/uhsu...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Visit us on Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Visit us on YouTube
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Visit us on Linkedin
/contact/Subdomain Text duplicate Contact
/freedom-of-information/Subdomain Freedom of Information
/contact/press-media/Subdomain Press and media
/accessibility/Subdomain Accessibility
/privacy/Subdomain Privacy
/privacy/cookies/Subdomain Cookie policy
/terms-conditions/Subdomain Terms and conditions
/publication-scheme/Subdomain Publication scheme
https://www.mixd.co.uk/External Subdomain Mixd

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.uhsussex.nhs.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 is excellent with 0.34 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (89 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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servercloudflare
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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 303 referring domains.
This page has 4,067 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 251 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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# START YOAST BLOCK
# ---------------------------
User-agent: *
Disallow:

Sitemap: https://www.uhsussex.nhs.uk/sitemap_index.xml
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Sussex81%Check
Hospitals Sussex NHS69%Check
UHSussex68%Check
University Hospitals Sussex NHS65%Check
Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation65%Check
Sussex NHS Foundation Trust62%Check
NHS61%Check
West Sussex59%Check
Sussex County59%Check
Hospitals56%Check
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