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11,909 sitesUnited Kingdom

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

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

61%
Title 31–70 characters
7,282 / 11,871
81%
Meta description
9,660 / 11,871
60%
Exactly one H1
7,100 / 11,871
74%
Canonical link
8,744 / 11,871

Title length

3.4%≤ 0
8.1%1–15
16%16–30
16%31–45
30%46–60
15%61–70
7.9%71–90
2.9%> 90

Characters · Share of 11,871 sites in the sample.

By market

MetricUnited KingdomGlobalNetherlandsItalySpainJapanLatin America
Title 31–70 characters 61%56%60%58%62%28%53%
Meta description 81%81%81%80%81%85%73%
Exactly one H1 60%54%58%50%58%58%44%
Canonical link 74%65%69%71%72%50%66%
lang attribute 90%86%91%91%92%86%89%
Mobile viewport 93%91%93%92%94%84%93%
Open Graph 45%50%42%46%46%57%48%
JSON-LD structured data 56%46%56%56%57%30%47%
hreflang links 16%22%26%28%36%7.9%10%
Homepage noindex 2.2%1.6%1.7%2.6%1.2%1.8%1.4%
Favicon 87%85%85%90%90%77%87%

Meta description length

7.7%≤ 50
7.9%51–100
25%101–140
35%141–160
13%161–200
11%> 200

Characters · Share of 9,660 sites in the sample.

H1 headings on the homepage

  1. 1 One H1 60% 7,100
  2. 2 No H1 25% 2,941
  3. 3 Two H1 7.9% 940
  4. 4 Three or more 7.5% 890

Share of 11,871 sites in the sample.

Page languages

  1. 1 English 89% 10,508
  2. 2 Vietnamese 0.3% 31
  3. 3 Arabic 0.2% 24
  4. 4 Indonesian 0.2% 23
  5. 5 Russian 0.2% 22
  6. 6 Chinese <0.1% 11
  7. 7 German <0.1% 9
  8. 8 Estonian <0.1% 7
  9. 9 gb <0.1% 7
  10. 10 French <0.1% 7
  11. 11 x- <0.1% 4
  12. 12 zx <0.1% 4

Share of 11,871 sites in the sample.

Our crawler: 11,909 sites · United Kingdom · updated 23 Oct 2026 · Methodology

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