Archivesportaleurope.net - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
68% 
Page quality
23% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
36% 
Server
40% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.82 s
File size
88.30 kB
Words
5013
Media files
7
Number of links
127 internal / 36 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Archives Portal Europe Homepage
The length of the page title is perfect. (311 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Archives Portal Europe is the largest online archives catalogue in the world, a digital service that allows users to search through millions of records from hundreds of institutions in Europe and beyond.
The meta description is too long: 1225 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
Language defined in HTML: es
Server location: United States of America
The given language es does not conform with the detected language en.
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 name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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 charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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og:descriptionArchives Portal Europe is the largest online archives catalogue in the world, a digital service that allows users to search through millions of records from hundreds of institutions in Europe and beyond.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
The content of this page is too large (5013 words). Maybe the content could be divided into several pages.
There are 52 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate 1: You can filter results by selecting where your search terms appears sp...
  • Duplicate 2: The name can be the full name of a person, family or organisation as w...
  • Duplicate 3: The identifier is used internally by the institution or refers to (int...
  • Duplicate 4: The place can be the place of birth (or foundation), the place of deat...
  • Duplicate 5: The mandate is a law, directive or charter that establishes and define...
  • Duplicate 6: A church or religious archive holds the records of church parishes or ...
  • Duplicate 7: A media archive holds audiovisual or sound records, e.g. a film archiv...
  • Duplicate 8: A national archive holds the records of a country's administrative bod...
  • Duplicate 9: A private person or family archive holds the records forming the legac...
  • Duplicate 10: A specialised governmental archive holds records of public bodies, oft...
  • Duplicate 11: A specialised non-governmental archive or archive of another cultural ...
  • Duplicate 12: A university archive or archive of another research organisation holds...
  • Duplicate 13: Political parties, popular/labour movements and other non-governmental...
  • Duplicate 14: You can also combine this filter with other filters. Your filter selec...
  • Duplicate 15: You can filter results based on the language in which the material is ...
  • Duplicate 16: You can also combine this filter with other filters. Your selection wi...
  • Duplicate 17: This object is in the public domain, but has been digitised as the out...
  • Duplicate 18: This object has been identified as an Orphan Work in the country of fi...
  • Duplicate 19: You are free to use this object in any way that is permitted by the co...
  • Duplicate 20: This object is in the public domain, but is subject to known legal res...
  • Duplicate 21: This object is currently in copyright. Please contact the providing in...
  • Duplicate 22: The copyright status of this object has not been evaluated yet. Please...
  • Duplicate 23: You are free to use this object in any way that is permitted by the co...
  • Duplicate 24: This object is currently in copyright and the rights holder(s) have al...
  • Duplicate 25: Please contact the providing institution for more information and in o...
  • Duplicate 26: This object is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons ...
41.3% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
113 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 17.14 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on this page.
The following tag is repeated too often: name
Some tags are too long. With 74 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"this filter concentrates on the earliest dates mentioned in the materials."
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
7 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The history of Europe - one click away
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 33 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 The history of Europe - one click away
H2 Explore our highlights and topics
H2 Do you know our research tools?
H2 Join Archives Portal Europe
H2 Find out more and stay up to date
H2 Learn more about us
H2 Archives Portal Europe help guide
H3 Choose a help topic
H4 Start your search
H4 Not sure what to search?
H5 Sections
H5 Spelling
H5 Topics
H5 Kafkaesque
H5 Police Forces
H5 Fake News
H5 Mór Jókai
H5 Lord Byron
H5 Carnival
H5 Arts
H5 Social history
H5 Genealogy
H5 Church records and registers
H5 World War I
H5 International Conference on decolonisation
H5 Second round of the research grant now open
H5 European Jewish Heritage Grants
H5 Eogan annual conference at TotalEnergies
H5 Introduction
H5 Search & Find
H5 Topics Duplicate text
H5 Glossary
H5 Troubleshooting
Baselink: https://www.archivesportaleurope.net/
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 1 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are too many external links (36) on this page.
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/No Text
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/find-an-institution/Find an institution
/explore/Explore
/about-us/About us
/about-us/the-portal/The portal
/about-us/who-we-are/Who we are
/about-us/background/Background
/about-us/join-us/Join us
/about-us/our-media-kit/Our media kit
/tools/Tools
/tools/research-tools/How the portal works
/tools/crowdsourcing/Crowdsourcing
/tools/for-content-providers/For content providers
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/tools/ape-grants/APE Grants
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/tools/useful-links/Useful links
/tools/genealogy/Genealogy
/tools/bibliography-true/Bibliography
/tools/jobs/Jobs
/news-events/News & Events
/blog/Blog
/newsletter/Newsletter
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/about-us/background/Text duplicate Background
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/tools/crowdsourcing/Text duplicate Crowdsourcing
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/tools/useful-links/Text duplicate Useful links
/tools/genealogy/Text duplicate Genealogy
/tools/bibliography-true/Text duplicate Bibliography
/tools/jobs/Text duplicate Jobs
/blog/Text duplicate Blog
/newsletter/Text duplicate Newsletter
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/Anchor Highlights
/Anchor Topics
/explore/highlights/kafkaesque/Kafkaesque #Kafkaesque honours one of the most beloved European writer of all time, who died 100 years ago on the 3rd June 2024 03-06-2024
/explore/highlights/police-for...Police Forces 2024 marks the 200th anniversary of the Spanish “Policia Nacional”, and 25th years of Europol – #policeforces celebrates the establishment of p...
/explore/highlights/fake-news/Fake News #fakenews dwells into the role of archives into debunking, or on the contrary in supporting, fake news, propaganda, conspiracy theories, and other ...
/explore/highlights/mór-jókai/Mór Jókai Mór Jókai (1825-1904) is an outstanding figure in the history of Hungarian literature. In the occasion of the 120th anniversary of his death, #MorJ...
/explore/highlights/lord-byron/Lord Byron And now for the most Romantic of the Romantics, the progenitor of the species: we celebrate #LordByron in the bicentennial of his death 15-04-2024
/explore/highlights/carnival/Carnival Carnival around the world and in history, to inspire new customes 01-02-2024
/explore/?tab=documentsView all highlights
/explore/topics/arts/Arts Records on all types of arts, creative production, artists
/explore/topics/social-history/Social history Documents that relate to the everyday life of the population, living and working conditions, welfare; collections related to historians of soc...
/explore/topics/genealogy/Genealogy Documents related to the study of families, ancestors, and lineage
/explore/topics/church-records...Church records and registers Documents from church archives. This topic is currently a stub
/explore/topics/world-war-i/World War I Documents related to the First World War (1914-18)
/explore/?tab=topicsView all topics
/tools/research-tools/Subdomain View our research tools
/about-us/join-us/?tab=registe...Subdomain Registered user
/about-us/join-us/?tab=content...Subdomain Content Provider
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here
/blog/international-conference...Conferences & Workshops International Conference on decolonisation 05-06-2024
/blog/second-round-of-the-rese...Grants Second round of the research grant now open 05-06-2024
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/blog/eogan-annual-conference-...Conferences & Workshops Eogan annual conference at TotalEnergies 04-06-2024
/about-us/Subdomain Text duplicate About us
/tools/Subdomain Our tools
https://www.facebook.com/archi...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/ArchivesPo...New window External No Text
https://www.instagram.com/arch...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain No Text
/tools/New window Text duplicate Tools
/help/Help
https://github.com/archivespor...New window External GitHub
https://ec.europa.eu/cip/ict-p...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://ec.europa.eu/info/inde...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.europeana.eu/enNew window External Subdomain No Text
/about-us/who-we-are/New window Archives Portal Europe Foundation
/about-us/background/New window European Commission
/contact-us/Contact us
/terms-of-use/Terms of use
/cookie-policy/Cookie Policy
/metadata-usage-guidelines/Archives Portal Europe Metadata Usage Guidelines
https://www.gelstudios.co.uk/New window External Subdomain GEL Studios
/help-topics/introduction/Introduction
/help-topics/search-and-find/Search & Find
/help-topics/topics/Text duplicate Topics
/help-topics/glossary/Glossary
/help-topics/troubleshooting/Troubleshooting
/help-topics/what-is-archives-...What is Archives Portal Europe?
/help-topics/how-can-i-help/How can I help?
/help-topics/what-can-i-find-i...What can I find in Archives Portal Europe?
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/help-topics/filters/Filters
/help-topics/multilingual-search/Multilingual search
/help-topics/highlights/Text duplicate Highlights
/help-topics/how-can-archives-...I need more help!
/help-topics/topic-search/Topic search
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/help-topics/why-do-some-topic...Why do some topics only connect to a few documents?
/help-topics/what-is-a-stub/What is a stub?
/help-topics/archival-landscape/Archival landscape
/help-topics/collection/Collection
/help-topics/content-provider/Content provider
/help-topics/country-manager/Text duplicate Country Manager
/help-topics/dashboard/Dashboard
/help-topics/dpt/Data Preparation Tool (DPT)
/help-topics/descriptive-unit/Descriptive unit
/help-topics/digital-archival-...Digital archival object
/help-topics/finding-aid/Finding aid
/help-topics/fonds/Fonds
/help-topics/holdings-guide/Holdings guide
/help-topics/institution-manager/Institution Manager
/help-topics/metadata/Metadata
/help-topics/source-guide/Source guide
/help-topics/i-saved-the-url-o...I saved the URL of a finding aid but I cannot retrieve the page
/help-topics/i-click-on-the-li...I click on the link to the digital object but it does not work
/help-topics/i-need-the-digita...I need the digital object but it is not linked to Archives Portal Europe
/help-topics/i-cannot-find-the...I cannot find the name I need on the portal
/help-topics/i-know-what-i-am-...I know what I am looking for is in APE, but I cannot find it
/help-topics/Return to help topics
/cookie-policy/Cookie policy
/tools/research-tools/New window Research Tools here
/advanced-search/New window Text duplicate Advanced search
https://viaf.org/External Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)
/tools/research-tools/New window Research Tools
/help-topics/finding-aid/New window Finding Aid
/help-topics/holdings-guide/New window Holdings Guide
/help-topics/source-guide/New window Text duplicate Source guide
/help-topics/finding-aid/New window Text duplicate Finding aid
/help-topics/fonds/New window Text duplicate Fonds
/tools/research-tools/New window Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
here
/explore/topics/New window Topics page
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.archivesportaleurope.net/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (1.82 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (88 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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pragmano-cache
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referrer-policyno-referrer-when-downgrade
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http_versionHTTP/2

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 1,495 referring domains.
This page has 101,145 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 868 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Robots.txt

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Sitemap: https://www.archivesportaleurope.net/Dashboard/sitemap.action?type=sg
Sitemap: https://www.archivesportaleurope.net/sitemap.xml
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www.archivesportaleurope.net
Archives Portal Europe Homepage
Archives Portal Europe is the largest online archives catalogue in the world, a digital service that allows users to search through millions of records from hundreds of institutions in Europe and beyond.

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