Look through the key statistics analysis before diving in deeper into our report:
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Meta title | Scottish Official Highland Dancing Association Home page | As meta title is a ranking factor, it's quite important to stick to search engine recommended length of aroun 50-60 characters. This website's meta title is 56 characters long. |
Description | The Scottish Official Highland Dancing Association (S.O.H.D.A) being the oldest remaining “specialist” association of its kind in Scotland, was formed in 1947 by a few well-known teachers and dancers of that decade and has since developed into a strong body of technically-minded Dancers, Teachers, Associate Teachers, Adjudicators, Examiners, Lecturers and Dance Schools. During the 1950's and 60's the dances that were performed in competition were the Highland Fling, Sword Dance, Shean Truibhais, Reel, Sailors’ Hornpipe and Irish Jig. Then, in the early 70's national dances like Flora MacDonald’s Fancy, Scottish Lilt, Highland Laddie and Barracks Johnnie started to appear on the dancing programmes and now all 10 dances are a regular feature on our syllabus. Over the past couple of decades our experienced technical committee have delved into the archives of our beloved art and unearthed at least three dozen Hebridean Dances / Lesser Known Dances which our teachers are passing on to their pupils as a pleasant change from the standard dances and they are proving very popular with all. So popular, in fact, that we now hold an Annual National Dance Championship where the program consists of 10 of these so-called lesser-known dances. The popular monthly indoor competitions are held from September to May in prominent centres throughout Scotland, most of them culminating at the end of each season in the respective championships, for example The City of Edinburgh Championships, The City of Discovery, Dundee Trident Championships, The Scottish Championships, The British Open Professional Championships, The British National Championships, The Stirling Bridge Championships etc. During the summer months the SOHDA help organise the dancing events at many of the top Highland Games, where dancers from ALL dancing organisations are more than welcome to come along and compete. This underlines our motto All Dancers Welcome. Over the past few decades the SOHDA has been spreading its wings throughout the globe and has affiliated in friendly harmony with similar free-thinking dancing organisations in the Northern and Southern hemispheres. In Australia, the Victorian Scottish Union (VSU) and the Highland and National Dancers of Australia (H&NDA) have linked up with us and we regularly exchange dances, ideas, videos, cassettes, etc., on our mutual hobby, and similarly in Sweden, the Stockholm Caledonian Dance Circle (SCDC) has also affiliated with us, and all concerned are learning more and more about the histories and dances. | This meta description is 2548 characters in length. Google suggests up to 320 characters at the very most to make sure the whole meta description is visible in search results page. |
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Site speed | Around 0.1315 seconds | The website load speed is rather good. |
Links on homepage | Around 19 links | This is a well-judged amount of links for a homepage. |
Backlinks amount | Approximately 23 | The number of backlinks seems awfully low. If possible, the webmaster should work towards building more through quality content and public awareness. |
HTML size | 31.8KB | A very good result, this. Remember, search engines such as Google place a lot of their website ratings on its speed. |
Website host server overview | Server status: online. Server IP address for this website is 81.21.75.97. | We apologize, but for some reason we were unable to gather enough data to provide a detailed insight at this time. |
If the basic information we presented you with above is not enough, get ready to dive in much deeper!
Now that the numbers are taken care of, we can go deeper and try to analyse the website from a user's perspective. More specifically, let's see if we can identify the target audience as well as a few related websites and categories.
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Alternative websites | toeandheel.com thistledancersandpipers.weebly.com perthhighlandgames.co.uk fusta.us sobhd.net |
These websites fall into the same categories as sohda.org.uk, more or less. By extension, they compete with the analysed website for the same target audience. |
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What follows is certainly very geeky, but informative for the knowing. Dig in:
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