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11,322 sitesUnited Kingdom

On-page SEO statistics in the UK: titles, H1, canonical

Titles, descriptions, H1, canonical, lang and other on-page basics of homepages.

64%
Title 31–70 characters
7,197 / 11,288
83%
Meta description
9,416 / 11,288
63%
Exactly one H1
7,149 / 11,288
75%
Canonical link
8,497 / 11,288

Title length

2.4%≤ 0
7.8%1–15
16%16–30
16%31–45
33%46–60
15%61–70
7.2%71–90
2.9%> 90

Characters · Share of 11,288 sites in the sample.

By market

MetricUnited KingdomGlobalNetherlandsItalySpainJapanLatin America
Title 31–70 characters 64%56%64%58%62%27%53%
Meta description 83%81%83%80%81%86%74%
Exactly one H1 63%54%63%51%59%58%45%
Canonical link 75%66%72%71%73%50%66%
lang attribute 92%87%92%92%92%87%89%
Mobile viewport 94%91%94%94%94%85%93%
Open Graph 44%50%41%47%45%59%48%
JSON-LD structured data 58%47%60%55%56%31%48%
hreflang links 16%22%26%28%36%7.6%11%
Homepage noindex 1.2%1.5%1.3%1.2%1.3%1.1%1.1%
Favicon 87%85%87%89%90%79%88%

Meta description length

7.5%≤ 50
7.9%51–100
25%101–140
39%141–160
12%161–200
9.5%> 200

Characters · Share of 9,416 sites in the sample.

H1 headings on the homepage

  1. 1 One H1 63% 7,149
  2. 2 No H1 22% 2,527
  3. 3 Three or more 7.3% 819
  4. 4 Two H1 7% 793

Share of 11,288 sites in the sample.

Page languages

  1. 1 English 90% 10,180
  2. 2 Vietnamese 0.3% 36
  3. 3 Indonesian 0.3% 29
  4. 4 Arabic 0.2% 20
  5. 5 Russian 0.1% 15
  6. 6 Chinese <0.1% 10
  7. 7 German <0.1% 7
  8. 8 Polish <0.1% 6
  9. 9 gb <0.1% 6
  10. 10 French <0.1% 4
  11. 11 Welsh <0.1% 3
  12. 12 x- <0.1% 3

Share of 11,288 sites in the sample.

Our crawler: 11,322 sites · United Kingdom · updated 13 Nov 2026 · Methodology

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