SEO report for www.freeindex.co.uk
https://www.freeindex.co.uk/ · checked Sun, 01 Nov 2026 13:30 GMT
Fix these first
- XML sitemaphigh
No XML sitemap found at /sitemap.xml or in robots.txt.
Fix: Create an XML sitemap listing every page and submit it in Google Search Console.
- Question-led contentmedium
No headings phrased as questions.
Fix: Add headings that match real questions ("How much does…?") followed by a direct one- or two-sentence answer – an easy format for search and AI answers to quote.
- Freshness signalsmedium
No published/updated date found.
Fix: Show a 'last updated' date and add dateModified to your structured data.
- Form labelsmedium
2 of 2 form field(s) have no label.
Fix: Give every form field a <label> or aria-label (a placeholder isn't a label).
- Tap-to-contactmedium
No tel: or mailto: links.
Fix: Add a tap-to-call or tap-to-email button so phone visitors can contact you instantly.
- Entity clarityhigh
Identified as: Organization.
Fix: Add Organization or LocalBusiness JSON-LD with name, url, logo, contact details and sameAs links to your official profiles.
- Word countmedium
302 words of main content (menus and footer excluded).
Fix: Add genuinely useful content: key service pages usually need 400+ words to answer what customers ask.
- Heading structuremedium
6 headings for 302 words.
Fix: Use H2s for main sections and H3s inside them, without skipping levels.
Real-world speed Google PageSpeed
Loading Core Web Vitals from Google… this can take up to 30 seconds.
Authority & backlinks
Looking up which websites link to freeindex.co.uk…
Indexing & crawling 88%
Can search engines reach, read and index this page?
- ✓
Status codecritical
The page returned HTTP 200.
- ✓
Indexablecritical
No noindex instruction – the page can appear in search.
- ✓
robots.txthigh
robots.txt found.
Googlebot is allowed to crawl this page.
- ✗
XML sitemaphigh
No XML sitemap found at /sitemap.xml or in robots.txt.
Fix: Create an XML sitemap listing every page and submit it in Google Search Console.
- ✓
Canonical URLhigh
Canonical: https://www.freeindex.co.uk/
Points to this page (self-referencing).
- ✓
Redirectshigh
1 redirect before the page loaded.
https://freeindex.co.uk/ → https://www.freeindex.co.uk/
A single redirect to your preferred address is normal; just make sure your own links use the final address.
- ✓
www / non-wwwmedium
freeindex.co.uk redirects to www.freeindex.co.uk.
Search snippet & sharing 100%
How the page looks in Google results and when shared.
- ✓
Title tagcritical
“FreeIndex | Free UK Business Review Index”
About 393px of Google's ~580px desktop width.
- ✓
Meta descriptionhigh
94 characters, ~589px of ~990px.
Good length.
Google sometimes rewrites descriptions to match the search; a good one is still used most often.
- ✓
Faviconlow
Favicon linked (Google shows it next to results).
- ✓
Languagelow
lang="en"
Content quality 85%
Is there enough clear, useful text that matches what the page targets?
- !
Word countmedium
302 words of main content (menus and footer excluded).
Google has no minimum word count – this is a rough guide to whether the page answers the question in full.
Fix: Add genuinely useful content: key service pages usually need 400+ words to answer what customers ask.
- i
Readabilitymedium
Not enough paragraph text to score readability.
- ✓
Topic focushigh
4 of 4 title keywords appear in the main content.
- ✓
H1 headingcritical
“Get quotes from great local businesses and save yourself time , money and hassle !”
- !
Heading structuremedium
6 headings for 302 words.
1 skipped level(s), e.g. H2 → H4.
Fix: Use H2s for main sections and H3s inside them, without skipping levels.
- ✓
Text-to-code ratiolow
13% of the HTML is visible text.
AI search readiness 53%
Can ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews read, understand and cite this site?
- ✓
AI crawler accesshigh
Search and AI-search crawlers (Googlebot, Bingbot, OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot…) can read this page.
- ✓
Snippet controlshigh
No snippet restrictions – search and AI answers can quote this page.
- ✗
llms.txtlow
No /llms.txt file. It's an optional, emerging convention – few AI tools are confirmed to read it yet, so this is low priority.
Fix: Optionally add /llms.txt: a short Markdown summary of who you are with links to your key pages.
- ✗
Question-led contentmedium
No headings phrased as questions.
Fix: Add headings that match real questions ("How much does…?") followed by a direct one- or two-sentence answer – an easy format for search and AI answers to quote.
- !
Entity clarityhigh
Identified as: Organization.
1 official profile link(s) (sameAs).
Fix: Add Organization or LocalBusiness JSON-LD with name, url, logo, contact details and sameAs links to your official profiles.
- ✗
Freshness signalsmedium
No published/updated date found.
Fix: Show a 'last updated' date and add dateModified to your structured data.
- !
Trust pages (E-E-A-T)medium
Links found to about and privacy; missing contact.
Fix: Link to About, Contact and Privacy pages from every page – they help visitors, Google and AI tools see who stands behind the content.
Structured data 100%
Machine-readable facts for rich results and AI.
- ✓
JSON-LD present & validhigh
1 JSON-LD block(s): Organization, PostalAddress.
All blocks parse correctly.
- ✓
Required propertiesmedium
Key types include Google's required properties.
Links 100%
Internal linking, anchor text and broken links.
- ✓
Internal linkinghigh
56 internal and 1 external links.
- ✓
Anchor text qualitymedium
No link text points to two different pages.
- ✓
Broken links (sample)high
Checked 12 internal link(s).
No broken links found.
1 link(s) point to a redirect – link to the final address instead.
Performance 88%
Speed signals from the HTML and server. Real-user Core Web Vitals load below.
- ✓
Server response (TTFB)high
437 ms until the first response from our checker, including connection setup (Google rates TTFB good under 0.8 s, poor over 1.8 s).
- ✓
HTML sizemedium
15 kB of HTML.
- i
Compressionmedium
Couldn't be measured from our server (our fetch decodes compressed pages before we see them). Check in your browser's developer tools that HTML is sent with br or gzip.
- ✓
Render-blocking resourceshigh
0 blocking script(s) and 2 stylesheet(s) in <head>.
- ✓
Scripts & third partiesmedium
8 script tag(s); files loaded from 1 other domain(s): googletagmanager.com.
- !
Imagesmedium
3 image(s).
2 without width/height – can cause layout shift (CLS).
0 use WebP/AVIF or responsive srcset.
Fix: Give every image width and height, lazy-load images below the fold (but not the main image) and serve WebP/AVIF.
- !
Cachinglow
Cache-Control: private
Fix: Set Cache-Control so browsers and CDNs can reuse the page.
- i
HTTP/3low
Couldn't be confirmed from our server – the alt-svc header that advertises HTTP/3 isn't always visible to it. Your site is on Cloudflare, which offers HTTP/3 under Network settings.
Security 92%
Visitor safety signals that browsers and Google check.
- ✓
HTTPScritical
Secure HTTPS with no mixed content.
- ✓
HTTP → HTTPS redirecthigh
http:// redirects to https://.
- ✓
HSTSmedium
HSTS: max-age=31536000
- ✗
Security headerslow
Present: none.
Fix: Add X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy and X-Frame-Options (or a CSP).
- ✓
Server fingerprintlow
No X-Powered-By header (server: cloudflare).
Mobile & accessibility 58%
Usable on phones and by everyone – Google indexes the mobile version.
- ✓
Mobile viewportcritical
viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
- !
Image alt textmedium
1 of 3 images have no alt attribute.
Fix: Describe each meaningful image in its alt attribute (use alt="" for decorative ones).
- ✗
Form labelsmedium
2 of 2 form field(s) have no label.
Fix: Give every form field a <label> or aria-label (a placeholder isn't a label).
- ✓
Link nameslow
Every link has a readable name.
- ✗
Tap-to-contactmedium
No tel: or mailto: links.
Fix: Add a tap-to-call or tap-to-email button so phone visitors can contact you instantly.
Local SEO not scored
This site doesn't look like a local business, so these checks are shown for information and not scored.
- i
LocalBusiness markuphigh
No LocalBusiness structured data.
- i
Contact details on pagemedium
No phone number found.
No postcode found (fine for service-area businesses).
- i
Map & directionslow
No map or directions link.