Site Report

This tab shows search engine guideline violations, and pages that don't follow search optimization best practices.

Status	Summary
	Google Search Guidelines - Some pages violate these guidelines.
	Bing Search Guidelines - Some pages violate these guidelines.
	Yahoo Search Guidelines - Some pages violate these guidelines.
	Robots.txt Guidelines - No issues found.
	Search Best Practices - Some pages could rank higher in search engines.

Priority	Description and URL	Guideline and Line#	Count
Priority 1 3 issues on 20 pages
	Do not stuff alt text with keywords that users are unlikely to view. This may result in search engine penalties.	Google Bing	3 pages
	https://www.wa.gov.au/government/announcements/wa-businesses-recognised-powering-global-trade	Line 2765
	https://www.wa.gov.au/government/royal-commission-violence-abuse-neglect-and-exploitation-of-people-disability	Line 2698
	https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/department-of-water-and-environmental-regulation/projects-delivered-through-the-pilbara-environmental-offsets-fund	Line 2920
	The rel=canonical tag probably redirects to the wrong page.	Best Practice	1 pages
	The canonical tag redirects to a page with a different title and different number of links. Pages with incorrect canonical tags eventually disappear from search results which can have a very negative impact on search traffic.
	https://www.wa.gov.au/government/consultations	Line 16
	This page has no h1 element, which violates Bing webmaster guidelines.	Bing	16 pages
	Add an h1 element just before the main content describing the page.
	https://www.wa.gov.au/media/27053	Line 99
	https://www.wa.gov.au/media/29754	Line 99
	https://www.wa.gov.au/media/31913	Line 99
	https://www.wa.gov.au/media/34017	Line 99
	https://www.wa.gov.au/media/35168	Line 99
	https://www.wa.gov.au/media/36234	Line 99
	https://www.wa.gov.au/media/37246	Line 99
	https://www.wa.gov.au/media/41934	Line 99
	https://www.wa.gov.au/media/41943	Line 99
	https://www.wa.gov.au/media/41948	Line 99
	https://www.wa.gov.au/media/42954	Line 99
	https://www.wa.gov.au/media/43225	Line 99
	https://www.wa.gov.au/media/46094	Line 99
	https://www.wa.gov.au/media/46910	Line 99
	https://www.wa.gov.au/media/5149	Line 99
	https://www.wa.gov.au/media/9708	Line 99
Priority 2 2 issues on 1576 pages
	title element is too long for Bing. Bing recommends using titles up to 65 characters long.	Bing	1582 pages
	The major search engines all have different limits for title length, and these limits have changed over time. Avoid title lengths close to the limits to prevent problems when the limits change again, and note that the W3C recommends a maximum length of 64 characters.
	The title is 76 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/government/announcements/huge-funding-boost-support-family-and-domestic-violence-victim-survivors	Line 68
	The title is 102 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/government/announcements/immunisationhealthwagovau-helping-the-wa-community-stay-informed-vaccine-preventable-diseases	Line 70
	The title is 68 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service	Line 33
	The title is 82 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/aboriginal-affairs/aboriginal-cultural-heritage/access-the-storylines-aboriginal-history-database	Line 87
	The title is 91 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/aboriginal-affairs/aboriginal-health-services/find-metropolitan-aged-care-services-aboriginal-people	Line 70
	The title is 93 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/aboriginal-affairs/aboriginal-health-services/find-metropolitan-counselling-services-aboriginal-people	Line 78
	The title is 98 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/aboriginal-affairs/aboriginal-health-services/find-metropolitan-drug-and-alcohol-services-aboriginal-people	Line 78
	The title is 88 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/aboriginal-affairs/aboriginal-health-services/find-metropolitan-health-services-aboriginal-people	Line 76
	The title is 95 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/aboriginal-affairs/aboriginal-health-services/find-metropolitan-mental-health-services-aboriginal-people	Line 76
	The title is 87 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/aboriginal-affairs/aboriginal-health-services/find-metropolitan-youth-services-aboriginal-people	Line 76
	The title is 75 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/building-utilities-and-essential-services	Line 41
	The title is 68 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/building-utilities-and-essential-services/energy-supply/search-power-outage-information	Line 79
	The title is 68 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/business-support/business-registration-and-licensing	Line 41
	The title is 73 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/education-and-training/vocational-education/developing-western-australias-workforce	Line 91
	The title is 76 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/employment/employment-and-industrial-relations-matters	Line 41
	The title is 72 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/environment/conservation/apply-community-stewardship-grant	Line 104
	The title is 69 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/government-administration-management	Line 41
	The title is 75 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/government-administration-management/facilities-fleet-and-equipment-management	Line 41
	The title is 69 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/natural-resources/water-resources/gingin-surface-water-allocation-plan	Line 77
	The title is 70 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/transport/passenger-services/book-transwa-coach-or-train-journey	Line 104
	This issue was found on another 1562 pages. You can change the number of pages shown for each issue using the Options menu command in the desktop edition or the Edit Scan button in the OnDemand edition.
	title element is too long for Yahoo. Yahoo recommends limiting your page title to 67 characters.	Yahoo	1433 pages
	The major search engines all have different limits for title length, and these limits have changed over time. Avoid title lengths close to the limits to prevent problems when the limits change again, and note that the W3C recommends a maximum length of 64 characters.
	The title is 76 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/government/announcements/huge-funding-boost-support-family-and-domestic-violence-victim-survivors	Line 68
	The title is 102 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/government/announcements/immunisationhealthwagovau-helping-the-wa-community-stay-informed-vaccine-preventable-diseases	Line 70
	The title is 82 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/aboriginal-affairs/aboriginal-cultural-heritage/access-the-storylines-aboriginal-history-database	Line 87
	The title is 91 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/aboriginal-affairs/aboriginal-health-services/find-metropolitan-aged-care-services-aboriginal-people	Line 70
	The title is 93 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/aboriginal-affairs/aboriginal-health-services/find-metropolitan-counselling-services-aboriginal-people	Line 78
	The title is 98 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/aboriginal-affairs/aboriginal-health-services/find-metropolitan-drug-and-alcohol-services-aboriginal-people	Line 78
	The title is 88 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/aboriginal-affairs/aboriginal-health-services/find-metropolitan-health-services-aboriginal-people	Line 76
	The title is 95 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/aboriginal-affairs/aboriginal-health-services/find-metropolitan-mental-health-services-aboriginal-people	Line 76
	The title is 87 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/aboriginal-affairs/aboriginal-health-services/find-metropolitan-youth-services-aboriginal-people	Line 76
	The title is 75 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/building-utilities-and-essential-services	Line 41
	The title is 89 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/building-utilities-and-essential-services/energy-supply/apply-energy-rebate-or-register-concession-card	Line 78
	The title is 79 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/building-utilities-and-essential-services/waste-management/waste-and-recycling-reporting-requirements-faq	Line 73
	The title is 72 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/building-utilities-and-essential-services/water-supply/pay-your-aqwest-bunbury-water-account	Line 83
	The title is 73 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/education-and-training/vocational-education/developing-western-australias-workforce	Line 91
	The title is 76 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/employment/employment-and-industrial-relations-matters	Line 41
	The title is 72 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/environment/conservation/apply-community-stewardship-grant	Line 104
	The title is 69 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/government-administration-management	Line 41
	The title is 75 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/government-administration-management/facilities-fleet-and-equipment-management	Line 41
	The title is 69 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/natural-resources/water-resources/gingin-surface-water-allocation-plan	Line 77
	The title is 70 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/transport/passenger-services/book-transwa-coach-or-train-journey	Line 104
	This issue was found on another 1413 pages. You can change the number of pages shown for each issue using the Options menu command in the desktop edition or the Edit Scan button in the OnDemand edition.
Priority 3 6 issues on 1229 pages
	A keyword related to gambling, porn, meds, or payday loans was found in the URL. Make sure these links are marked with rel=nofollow to avoid affecting your Google ranking.	Google Bing	4 pages
	Link: https://www.osr.wa.gov.au/bettingtaxenquiry https://www.wa.gov.au/government/publications/betting-tax	Line 3505 3565 3573 3581
	Link: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wa.gov.au%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fbetting-tax-tc https://www.wa.gov.au/government/publications/betting-tax-tc	Line 3760 3768 3776
	Link: https://www.wa.gov.au/government/government-initiatives-and-projects/perth-casino-royal-commission https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/department-of-the-premier-and-cabinet/perth-casino-royal-commission-wa-government-response-2023	Line 2705 2711 2717 2723 2729 ...
	Link: https://www.osr.wa.gov.au/bettingtaxenquiry https://www.wa.gov.au/service/sport-and-recreation/gaming-industry-control/make-betting-tax-enquiry	Line 2860 2920 2928 2936
	Meta description tag is too long for Bing. Bing recommends keeping the description text under 160 characters in length.	Bing	1079 pages
	The major search engines all have different limits for meta description length, and these limits have changed over time. Avoid descriptions close to the limits to avoid problems when the limits change again.
	The description is 252 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/government/publications/vulnerability-disclosure-policy	Line 24
	The description is 180 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/government-of-western-australia/about-the-servicewa-app	Line 24
	The description is 179 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/government-of-western-australia/servicewa-app-contact-us	Line 24
	The description is 176 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/aboriginal-affairs/aboriginal-cultural-heritage/aboriginal-culture	Line 24
	The description is 209 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/aboriginal-affairs/aboriginal-heritage-conservation/program-murujuga-rock-art	Line 24
	The description is 237 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/building-utilities-and-essential-services/integrated-essential-services/dwer-policy-framework	Line 24
	The description is 219 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/building-utilities-and-essential-services/integrated-essential-services/dwer-regulatory-documents	Line 24
	The description is 181 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/building-utilities-and-essential-services/integrated-essential-services/guideline-industry-regulation-guide-licensing	Line 24
	The description is 281 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/building-utilities-and-essential-services/public-land-management/find-cemetery-the-metropolitan-area	Line 24
	The description is 173 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/building-utilities-and-essential-services/waste-management/e-waste-landfill-ban-wa	Line 24
	The description is 171 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/building-utilities-and-essential-services/waste-management/waste-and-recycling-reporting-requirements-faq	Line 24
	The description is 182 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/community-services/community-support	Line 16
	The description is 179 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/community-services/emergency-services	Line 16
	The description is 174 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/community-services/social-justice-and-equity	Line 16
	The description is 165 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/education-and-training/school-education	Line 16
	The description is 232 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/education-and-training/vocational-education/developing-western-australias-workforce	Line 24
	The description is 243 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/environment/conservation/apply-community-stewardship-grant	Line 24
	The description is 215 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/justice/local-laws-and-ordinances/local-government	Line 24
	The description is 274 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/service/natural-resources/water-resources/gingin-surface-water-allocation-plan	Line 24
	The description is 244 characters long. https://www.wa.gov.au/terms-of-use	Line 16
	This issue was found on another 1059 pages. You can change the number of pages shown for each issue using the Options menu command in the desktop edition or the Edit Scan button in the OnDemand edition.
	No meta description tag found. Use a description tag that accurately describes the contents of a web page.	Yahoo Google Bing	8 pages
	A well-written meta description attracts more clicks in search results than an irrelevant or missing description.
	https://www.wa.gov.au/agency	Line 1
	https://www.wa.gov.au/government/announcements	Line 1
	https://www.wa.gov.au/government/consultations	Line 1
	https://www.wa.gov.au/government/management-of-government	Line 1
	https://www.wa.gov.au/government/publications	Line 1
	https://www.wa.gov.au/government/service-support	Line 1
	https://www.wa.gov.au/search-results.html	Line 1
	https://www.wa.gov.au/service	Line 1
	Search engines may penalize invisible text where text is too small to be seen.	Google Yahoo Bing	155 pages
	https://www.wa.gov.au/	Line 293
	https://www.wa.gov.au/accessibility	Line 511
	https://www.wa.gov.au/contact-us	Line 511
	https://www.wa.gov.au/search-results.html	Line 497
	https://www.wa.gov.au/service	Line 497
	https://www.wa.gov.au/service/aboriginal-affairs	Line 505
	https://www.wa.gov.au/service/aboriginal-affairs/aboriginal-cultural-heritage	Line 505
	https://www.wa.gov.au/service/aboriginal-affairs/aboriginal-health-services	Line 505
	https://www.wa.gov.au/service/aboriginal-affairs/aboriginal-heritage-conservation	Line 505
	https://www.wa.gov.au/service/aboriginal-affairs/aboriginal-reconciliation	Line 505
	https://www.wa.gov.au/service/aboriginal-affairs/aboriginal-welfare	Line 505
	https://www.wa.gov.au/service/building-utilities-and-essential-services	Line 505
	https://www.wa.gov.au/service/building-utilities-and-essential-services/energy-supply	Line 505
	https://www.wa.gov.au/service/building-utilities-and-essential-services/integrated-essential-services	Line 505
	https://www.wa.gov.au/service/building-utilities-and-essential-services/public-housing	Line 505
	https://www.wa.gov.au/service/building-utilities-and-essential-services/public-land-management	Line 505
	https://www.wa.gov.au/service/building-utilities-and-essential-services/regional-development	Line 505
	https://www.wa.gov.au/service/building-utilities-and-essential-services/transport-network-maintenance	Line 505
	https://www.wa.gov.au/service/building-utilities-and-essential-services/waste-management	Line 505
	https://www.wa.gov.au/service/building-utilities-and-essential-services/water-supply	Line 505
	This issue was found on another 135 pages. You can change the number of pages shown for each issue using the Options menu command in the desktop edition or the Edit Scan button in the OnDemand edition.
	Syntax errors in the head of the document prevent reliable extraction of meta tags and page titles.	Google	1 pages
	The HTML 5 parsing algorithm specifies that unexpected characters or non-head elements like img or div end the head element and start the body element meaning some meta data may be ignored. Unclosed title elements cause similar problems.
	https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/department-of-communities/casework-practice-manual	Line 3072
	Using rel=nofollow on internal links dilutes PageRank flow through your site.	Google	2 pages
	PageRank is distributed between all outgoing links on a page (including the nofollow links), so PageRank flowing to internal nofollow links vanishes.
	https://www.wa.gov.au/service/natural-resources/land-use-management/acquiring-statutory-planning-map-dataset	Line 2701
	https://www.wa.gov.au/service/security/law-enforcement/apply-replacement-copy-of-your-personal-statements	Line 2645
Informative These messages are for information only and do not indicate errors
	No search keywords are set in SortSite, so no keyword optimization rules have been run.	Best Practice	1 pages
	If you want to check keyword optimization, set the keywords using the Scan Options command.
	https://www.wa.gov.au/	Line 1
	Search engines will not follow links from this page because it has a nofollow meta tag.	Robots.txt	2 pages
	https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/government-of-western-australia/servicewa-mobile-app	Line 30
	https://www.wa.gov.au/service/environment/built-environment/planning-services	Line 28
	Search engines will not index this page because it has a noindex meta tag.	Robots.txt	3 pages
	https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/government-of-western-australia	Line 28
	https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/government-of-western-australia/servicewa-mobile-app	Line 30
	https://www.wa.gov.au/service/environment/built-environment/planning-services	Line 28
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