Careers.merckgroup.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
75% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
90% 
Server
57% 
External factors
9% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.44 s
File size
1,400.50 kB
Words
823
Media files
16
Number of links
4 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Careers | Merck
The page title is too short. (143 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Start your career journey with Merck. Search jobs and apply now!
The length of the meta description is perfect. (401 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://careers.merckgroup.com/global/en/home
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
The alternate link to the page itself is missing.
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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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

NameValue
layoutsite-layout
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
descriptionStart your career journey with Merck. Search jobs and apply now!
keywordsmerck careers, merck jobs, jobs at Merck, job opportunities, jobs in the healthcare field, careers at Merck, career opportunities, careers, Jobs in Electronics, Jobs in Life Science, Jobs in Healthcare, Jobs in Data and Digital jobs, application for employment, job vacancy, job application, job apply application, job portal, health science jobs
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langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
twitter:creator@Careers - Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
twitter:imagehttps://cdn.phenompeople.com/CareerConnectResources/MQAMKDGLOBAL/images/workyourmagic-1024x512-1716797512608.png
twitter:titleCareers at Merck | Merck jobs
twitter:descriptionhome
fb:adminsEmpty
og:typewebsite
og:imagehttps://cdn.phenompeople.com/CareerConnectResources/MQAMKDGLOBAL/images/workyourmagic-1200x600-1702283579762.png
og:site_nameMerck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
og:urlhttps://careers.merckgroup.com/global/en/home
og:titleCareers at Merck | Merck jobs
og:descriptionhome
og:image:width200
og:image:height200
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge, chrome=1
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 823 words. That's ok.
38.2% 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.
15 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 15.29 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
The file size of the HTML document is very large (1400.5 kB).
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The amount of tags is very high (22). We recommend using a maximum of 16 tags for this page.
The following tag is repeated too often: explore more
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

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...BAL/images/family-icon-1702029522496.jpgimg1
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...ges/EdwardShober_Image-1702310721605.jpgimg1
...MaggieLester_Headshot1-1721034213784.jpgMaggie Lester, Head of Corporate Benefits
.../PortraitClose_3_bearb-1721034216133.jpgMelanie Drechsler, Director Market Access & Pricing, Merck Healthcare
...ages/Headshot_HongChow-1721034212027.jpgHong Chow, Executive Vice President, Head of China & International, Merck Healthcare
...p/assets/images/v-1734934966620-Logo.pngfooter logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
START YOUR JOURNEY WITH US
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 START YOUR JOURNEY WITH US
H2 Lorem Ipsum
H3 DISCOVER MORE ABOUT US
H3 EXPLORE SOME OF OUR WORK AREAS
H3 WORK YOUR MAGIC WITH US!
H3 WHAT WE OFFER
H3 Role models @ merck
H4 Work Areas
H4 Students & Graduates
H4 Diversity & Inclusion
There are too few (4) internal links on this page.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 6 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/global/search-resultsSearch results
/global/graduate-programsExplore More
https://unity-sc.com/unity-sc_...New window External Trivial anchor text
click here
/global/en/inhouse-consultingNew window Subdomain Learn more
/global/en/inhouse-consultingNew window Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more
https://www.merckgroup.com/en/...External Subdomain Personal Information
A-TITLE Personal Information
https://www.merckgroup.com/en/...New window External Subdomain SITEMAP
https://www.merckgroup.com/en/...New window External Subdomain LEGAL DISCLAIMER
https://www.merckgroup.com/en/...New window External Subdomain PRIVACY STATEMENT
https://www.merckgroup.com/en/...New window External Subdomain TERMS OF USE

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://careers.merckgroup.com/global/en"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.44 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is very large (1,401 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
dateSun, 09 Mar 2025 14:25:07 GMT
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
set-cookie232 Characters
cache-controlno-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
access-control-allow-originhttps://careers.merckgroup.com
x-permitted-cross-domain-policiesmaster-only
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
pragmano-cache
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
strict-transport-securitymax-age=63072000; includeSubDomains; preload
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
x-cacheMiss from cloudfront
via1.1 6278ee254a7d35c23aae5e936b5a56ee.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
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statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 3 referring domains.
This page only has 20,910 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 3 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

disallow: */cn/zh
disallow: */tw/zh
disallow: */es/es
disallow: */kr/ko
disallow: */jp/ja
disallow: */fr/fr
Disallow: */lifeatphenom
Disallow: */workingatphenom
Disallow: */chatbot
Disallow: */pxhomelead
Disallow: */pxhomeapplicant
Disallow: */pxhomequalifiedlead
Disallow: */pxhomevisitor
Disallow: */pxhomestranger


Sitemap: https://careers.merckgroup.com/tw/zh/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://careers.merckgroup.com/global/en/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://careers.merckgroup.com/kr/ko/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://careers.merckgroup.com/cn/zh/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://careers.merckgroup.com/es/es/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://careers.merckgroup.com/fr/fr/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://careers.merckgroup.com/jp/ja/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://careers.merckgroup.com/de/de/sitemap_index.xml

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Careers | Merck
Start your career journey with Merck. Search jobs and apply now!

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Merck74%Check
career65%Check
Career Journey63%Check
START62%Check
JOURNEY62%Check
re looking57%Check
Merck Business56%Check
career opportunities50%Check
Work49%Check
CAREERS48%Check
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