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Meta information
73% 
Page quality
69% 
Page structure
66% 
Link structure
73% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.87 s
File size
40.20 kB
Words
959
Media files
17
Number of links
49 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
UK Data Service
The page title is too short. (149 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
A comprehensive resource funded by the ESRC to support researchers, teachers and policymakers who depend on high-quality social and economic data.
There are more than one meta descriptions on the page. Only one is allowed.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
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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twitter:creator@ukdataservice
fb:pages343661395740977
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og:description%
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og:authorUK Data Service
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content-typetext/html;charset=UTF-8
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
The average number of words per sentence of 27.04 words is high.
This page contains 959 words. That's ok.
33.5% 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.
17 paragraphs were found on this page.
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.
This page only loads 1 JavaScript files. That's good!
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 19 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
13 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
.../ukds/dist/images/ukds-logo-col-grey.pngUK Data Service Logo
...finance-surveys-user-conference-2025.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...hutterstock_1548988871_health-blocks.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/app/uploads/code-anxiety-club.jpgNo alt attribute provided
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...s/kaitlyn-baker-vZJdYl5JVXY-unsplash.jpgA laptop being used.
/app/uploads/DSC_4738-scaled.jpgNo alt attribute provided
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/app/uploads/wind-farm.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/app/uploads/deposit.jpegNo alt attribute provided
/app/uploads/health_survey_main_01.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...spiske-2sZiklfv_0M-unsplash-1-scaled.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ads/dissertation-award-tile-1024x683.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/app/uploads/podcastimage_homepage.jpgsilver microphone and headphones
/app/themes/ukds/dist/images/ukri-logo.pngUKRI Logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to the UK Data Service
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Headings
(Important)
There are 27 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 the UK Data Service
H2 Highlights
H2 Upcoming training and events
H2 Our impact
H2 Seamless access to key data: explore by themes, types, and teaching datasets
H2 Watch our data skills training webinars
H2 Ignite discovery: elevate your research with data deposits
H2 Latest news
H2 Who makes us special?
H3 This site uses cookies
H3 Necessary cookies
H3 Cookies that measure website use
H3 What we learned from the Family Finance Surveys User Conference 2025
H3 Latest GP Patient Survey results now available
H3 Join the UK Data Service Code Anxiety Club
H3 Safe Researcher Training
H3 SecureLab drop-in sessions
H3 Computational social science drop-in
H3 No progress: breaking the cycle of long-term insecure work
H3 How are children’s social, emotional and behavioural outcomes impacted by poverty?
H3 The Good Childhood Report 2023
H3 Subscribe to our YouTube channel
H3 Introduction to effective and practical research data management
H3 How to become a computational social scientist
H3 UK Data Service Newsletter – July 2025 – views sought on the Health Survey for England and population health surveys
H3 Vacancy: Data Access and Use Assistant
H3 Celebrating this year’s winners of the UK Data Service Dissertation Award
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/cookie-policy/Cookie notice
https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/Anchor Skip to content
https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/IMG-ALT UK Data Service Logo
https://beta.ukdataservice.ac....External Subdomain Login
/find-data/Find data
A-TITLE Find data
/deposit-data/Deposit data
A-TITLE Deposit data
/learning-hub/Learning Hub
A-TITLE Learning Hub
/training-events/Training and events
A-TITLE Training and events
/about/About
A-TITLE About
https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/news/News
A-TITLE News
/impact/Impact
A-TITLE Impact
https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/help/Help
A-TITLE Help
/contact/Contact
A-TITLE Contact
/searchSite search
https://beta.ukdataservice.ac....External Subdomain Text duplicate Login
/find-data/Text duplicate Find data
A-TITLE Find data
/deposit-data/Text duplicate Deposit data
A-TITLE Deposit data
/learning-hub/Text duplicate Learning Hub
A-TITLE Learning Hub
/training-events/Text duplicate Training and events
A-TITLE Training and events
/about/Text duplicate About
A-TITLE About
https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/news/Text duplicate News
A-TITLE News
/impact/Text duplicate Impact
A-TITLE Impact
https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/help/Text duplicate Help
A-TITLE Help
/contact/Text duplicate Contact
A-TITLE Contact
https://beta.ukdataservice.ac....External Subdomain Text duplicate Login
/2025/07/14/what-we-learned-fr...What we learned from the Family Finance Surveys User Conference 2025 On 9 July, we were pleased to organise the Family Finance Surveys User Conference 2025. ...
/2025/07/12/latest-gp-patient-...Latest GP Patient Survey results now available The GP Patient Survey is a large-scale push-to-web survey run by Ipsos on behalf of NHS England. This year the...
/2025/05/20/join-the-uk-data-s...Join the UK Data Service Code Anxiety Club Are you interested in learning how to code, but struggling to know where to start? Join our Code Anxiety Club, tak...
/events/safe-researcher-traini...Safe Researcher Training
/training-events/New window Text duplicate Training and events
/events/securelab-drop-in-sess...SecureLab drop-in sessions
/training-events/New window Text duplicate Training and events
/events/computational-social-s...Computational social science drop-in
/training-events/New window Text duplicate Training and events
https://blog.ukdataservice.ac....External Subdomain No progress: breaking the cycle of long-term insecure work In this Data Impact blog post, Rebecca Florisson, from the Work Foundation, discusses the issue of...
/case-study/impacts-of-poverty...How are children’s social, emotional and behavioural outcomes impacted by poverty? This case study looks at the importance of social factors in mitigating di...
/case-study/the-good-childhood...The Good Childhood Report 2023 The Children’s Society’s Good Childhood Reports provide an annual overview of the current state of children’s subjective well-...
/find-data/browse/Find data by theme
https://youtube.com/ukdataserviceExternal Subscribe to our YouTube channel Watch and learn all the latest data skills from our free webinars, training and video tutorials.
https://youtu.be/FtB8lJKrkfcExternal Introduction to effective and practical research data management An introductory workshop designed to help participants understand the basics of managing res...
https://youtu.be/IV03BW3Z1fIExternal How to become a computational social scientist This workshop is an introduction to computational social science. A chance to understand and discuss what comp...
/deposit-data/Text duplicate Deposit data
/2025/07/24/julynewsletter/UK Data Service Newsletter – July 2025 – views sought on the Health Survey for England and population health surveys Feedback needed for consultation on the ...
/2025/07/22/vacancy-data-acces...Vacancy: Data Access and Use Assistant University of Essex, UK Data Archive, Faculty of Social Sciences The UK Data Archive is seeking to appoint a Data Acce...
/2025/07/21/ukdissertationaward/Celebrating this year’s winners of the UK Data Service Dissertation Award The UK Data Service is delighted to announce the winners of this year’s UK Data Ser...
https://open.spotify.com/show/...External Subdomain Listen now
/accessibility/Accessibility
A-TITLE Accessibility
/cookie-policy/Cookies
A-TITLE Cookies
/privacy-policy/Privacy
A-TITLE Privacy
/sitemap/Sitemap
A-TITLE Sitemap
/terms-and-conditions/Terms and conditions
A-TITLE Terms and conditions
/about/Text duplicate About
A-TITLE About
/contact/Text duplicate Contact
A-TITLE Contact
https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/help/Text duplicate Help
A-TITLE Help
/impact/Text duplicate Impact
A-TITLE Impact
https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/news/Text duplicate News
A-TITLE News
https://bsky.app/profile/ukdat...External Bluesky
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.youtube.com/user/U...External Subdomain YouTube
/website-feedback/Website feedback

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://ukdataservice.ac.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)
The page response time of 0.87 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.
This page only loads 2 CSS files. That's ok.
This page only loads 1 JavaScript files. That's good!
The file size of the HTML document is fine (40 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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servernginx
dateThu, 24 Jul 2025 17:48:05 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
transfer-encodingchunked
connectionkeep-alive
set-cookie86 Characters
link<https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
content-encodinggzip
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 588 referring domains.
This page has 4,697 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 381 different ip addresses.

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ukdataservice.ac.uk
UK Data Service
A comprehensive resource funded by the ESRC to support researchers, teachers and policymakers who depend on high-quality social and economic data.

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UK Data Service Dissertation75%Check
UK Data Service Newsletter74%Check
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