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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
86% 
Page quality
83% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
91% 
Server
83% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.18 s
File size
10.70 kB
Words
502
Media files
14
Number of links
39 internal / 22 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
About Switzerland
The page title is too short. (165 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
General Information about Switzerland, including facts about Administration, Cantons, Culture, Economy, Education, Geography, History, Statistics and much more.
The meta description is too long: 1004 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Server location: United States of America
The language is not specified in the HTML markup.
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
(Somewhat important)
There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
(Somewhat important)
The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
(Somewhat important)
No parameters were found in the URL.
No session ID was found in the URL.
The URL does not have too many subdirectories.
Charset encoding
(Somewhat important)
The character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype HTML 4.01 Transitional is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
keywordsSwitzerland, Confoederatio Helvetica, Administration, Canton, Kanton, Culture, Economy, Education, Food, Geography, Government, History, Holidays, Statistics
descriptionGeneral Information about Switzerland, including facts about Administration, Cantons, Culture, Economy, Education, Geography, History, Statistics and much more.
content-typetext/html;charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 502 words. That's ok.
37.8% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
9 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 12.79 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No viewpoint tag is provided.
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page does not require any JavaScript files.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 10 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
Additional markup
(Nice to have)
No additional page markup was found.
HTTPS
(Somewhat important)
This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
/images/flags/switzerland.gifSwiss Flag
/icons/administration_big.jpgThe Swiss Administration
https://about.ch/icons/cantons_big.jpgMap of Switzerland
https://about.ch/icons/culture_big.jpgA tone
https://about.ch/icons/economy_big.jpgCHF 5 coin
https://about.ch/icons/education_big.jpgETH Zürich main building
https://about.ch/icons/geography_big.jpgThe Matterhorn
https://about.ch/icons/history_big.jpgWilhelm Tell
https://about.ch/icons/statistics_big.jpgStatistical Information
https://about.ch/icons/various_big.jpgVarious Topics
https://about.ch/icons/faq_big.jpgFrequently Asked Questions
https://about.ch/images/ruler.gifSwiss horizontal ruler
https://about.ch/images/valid-html401.gifHTML 4.01 compliant
https://about.ch/images/TRAMsoft_logo.gifTRAMsoft Logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Information about Switzerland
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Information about Switzerland
H2 Switzerland at a glance:
H3 Here you can find a lot of information about Switzerland, a small but well known country in the heart of Europe. While the author takes every effort to keep this information accurate and up to date...
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 22 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://about.ch/faq/contact.htmlcontact form
/administration/index.htmlIMG-ALT The Swiss Administration
/administration/index.htmlAdministration
/cantons/index.htmlIMG-ALT Map of Switzerland
/cantons/index.htmlCantons
/culture/index.htmlIMG-ALT A tone
/culture/index.htmlCulture
/economy/index.htmlIMG-ALT CHF 5 coin
/economy/index.htmlEconomy
/education/index.htmlIMG-ALT ETH Zürich main building
/education/index.htmlEducation
/geography/index.htmlIMG-ALT The Matterhorn
/geography/index.htmlGeography
/history/index.htmlIMG-ALT Wilhelm Tell
/history/index.htmlHistory
/statistics/index.htmlIMG-ALT Statistical Information
/statistics/index.htmlText duplicate Statistical Information
/various/index.htmlIMG-ALT Various Topics
/various/index.htmlVarious
https://about.ch/faq/index.htmlIMG-ALT Frequently Asked Questions
https://about.ch/faq/index.htmlFAQ
https://via.admin.ch/shop/dash...External Subdomain webshop
http://www.bfm.admin.ch/External Subdomain Admission policies, Visa regulations and much more ...
/faq/students_faq.htmlstudent's frequently asked questions
/lookup/index.htmlkeyword index
/lookup/search.htmlsearch form
https://about.ch/lookup/toi.htmlThings of Interest Database
/administration/index.htmlmore ...
/geography/index.htmlText duplicate more ...
/geography/index.htmlText duplicate more ...
/geography/climate/index.htmlText duplicate more ...
/administration/index.htmlText duplicate more ...
/economy/index.htmlText duplicate more ...
https://about.ch/faq/index.htmlbut ...
/various/phone_numbers.htmlText duplicate more ...
/education/index.htmlText duplicate more ...
/culture/food/index.htmlmuch more ...
/history/index.htmlText duplicate more ...
/culture/languages/words_n_phr...Text duplicate more ...
/various/nationalpark/index.htmlText duplicate more ...
/statistics/index.htmlFigures and facts ...
http://www.sbb.ch/en/index.htmExternal Subdomain www.sbb.ch
http://www.rail.ch/welcomeExternal Subdomain English
http://www.sbb.ch/willkommenExternal Subdomain German
http://www.cff.ch/bienvenueExternal Subdomain French
http://www.ffs.ch/benvenutiExternal Subdomain Italian
http://tel.search.ch/External Subdomain Use this online phone book !
http://map.search.ch/External Subdomain Use this interactive map !
http://sear.ch/External sear.ch
http://search.ch/External search.ch
http://www.yoodle.ch/External Subdomain Yoodle
http://www.presence.ch/External Subdomain presence switzerland
http://www.snl.admin.ch/swissi...External Subdomain Swiss Infodesk
http://www.swissworld.org/External Subdomain swissworld
http://www.ch.ch/External Subdomain www.ch.ch
http://www.swissemb.org/External Subdomain www.swissemb.org
http://www.helloswitzerland.ch/External Subdomain www.helloswitzerland.ch
http://validator.w3.org/check/...External Subdomain IMG-ALT HTML 4.01 compliant
http://www.tramsoft.ch/index_e...External Subdomain TRAMsoft GmbH
http://www.ambuehler.ch/reto/External Subdomain reto ambühler
http://www.tramsoft.ch/index_e...External Subdomain IMG-ALT TRAMsoft Logo

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://about.ch/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.18 seconds.
This page does not require any CSS files.
This page does not require any JavaScript files.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (11 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html
content-encodinggzip
last-modifiedThu, 25 Apr 2024 21:18:14 GMT
etag"63eb7a155697da1:0"
varyAccept-Encoding
serverMicrosoft-IIS/8.5
x-powered-byASP.NET
x-powered-by-pleskPleskWin
dateMon, 06 May 2024 07:26:32 GMT
content-length10946
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,509 referring domains.
This page has 9,751 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 683 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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About Switzerland
General Information about Switzerland, including facts about Administration, Cantons, Culture, Economy, Education, Geography, History, Statistics and much more.

Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

KeywordResultRecheck
Switzerland81%Check
Information68%Check
Visiting Switzerland59%Check
General information58%Check
statistical information53%Check
Information Portal52%Check
Administration50%Check
Cantons48%Check
Culture48%Check
Economy48%Check
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