Home-assistant.io - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
88% 
Page quality
90% 
Page structure
68% 
Link structure
67% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.24 s
File size
36.40 kB
Words
850
Media files
18
Number of links
49 internal / 45 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home Assistant
The page title is too short. (142 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a...
The length of the meta description is perfect. (992 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.home-assistant.io/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
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)
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 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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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 850 words. That's ok.
37.6% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
13 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 14.09 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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 17 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

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Awaken your home
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (16 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Awaken your home
H1 Recent Blog Posts
H1 Alexa, turn on the lights
H1 Ok Google, turn off the AC
H1 Join The Community
H2 Features
H2 In the press
H2 The Home Assistant project is sponsored by
H3 Join us and contribute!
H3 System status
H3 Companion apps
H3 Governance
H3 Follow us
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 1 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (45) on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.home-assistant.io/No Text
/blog/2025/02/05/release-20252/2025.2.1
A-TITLE Latest version 2025.2.1 released February 7, 2025
/installation/Getting started
/docs/Documentation
/installation/Installation
/docs/automation/Automations
/dashboards/Dashboards
/voice_control/Voice assistants
/docs/organizing/Device organization
/docs/energy/Energy management
/docs/configuration/Advanced configuration
/integrations/Integrations
/blog/Blog
/help/Need help?
/installation/Get started
https://demo.home-assistant.io/New window External Subdomain View live demos
/integrations/Browse 3000+ integrations
https://github.blog/news-insig...New window External Anchor Top open source project by contributors in 2024
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https://demo.home-assistant.io/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Home Assistant screenshot
/blog/2025/02/05/release-20252/2025.2: Iterating on backups
/blog/2025/01/03/3-2-1-backup/3...2...1... Backup
/blog/2025/01/03/release-20251/2025.1: Backing Up into 2025!
/blog/2024/12/19/voice-preview...The era of open voice assistants has arrived
https://www.openhomefoundation...External Subdomain We are a non-profit and can't be sold or acquired. Home Assistant is a project by the Open Home Foundation.
/blog/2016/01/19/perfect-home-...Read our founder's vision for the perfect home automation
/cloud/Learn more
/cloud/Text duplicate Learn more
https://community.home-assista...External Subdomain Forums
/join-chat/Chat
/newsletter/Newsletter
/voice-pe/Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition Bring choice to voice - the best way to get started with voice
/green/Home Assistant Green The easy-to-use, versatile, and trustworthy smart home hub for everyone.
/connectzbt1/Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 Best way to add Zigbee and Thread to Home Assistant
/yellow/Home Assistant Yellow Home Assistant Yellow is your Matter-ready, upgradeable, and extendable smart home hub. You won't need anything else.
/home-energy-management/Home Energy Management Monitor your energy usage, transition to sustainable energy and save money
/blog/2024/04/24/state-of-the-...State of the Open Home 2024 Learn about our progress so far and also the roadmap for this year.
/voice_control/Control your home with Assist Our private, insanely fast, voice assistant running on affordable hardware. Now supporting wake words.
https://home-assistant-store.c...External Subdomain Join the Home Assistant t-shirt revolution! Look sharp in blue, black or gray. Wearing a HA t-shirt is okay.
/integrationsEXPLORE INTEGRATIONS
/docs/automationEXPLORE AUTOMATIONS
/dashboardsEXPLORE DASHBOARDS
/voice_control/EXPLORE ASSIST
/addonsEXPLORE ADD-ONS
https://companion.home-assista...New window External Subdomain DOWNLOAD APPS
/home-energy-management/LEARN MORE
/blog/2019/08/06/home-assistan...Text duplicate LEARN MORE
/blog/2020/09/15/home-assistan...Text duplicate LEARN MORE
https://www.theverge.com/2021/...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT The Verge logo
https://arstechnica.com/inform...New window External IMG-ALT ArsTechnica.com logo
https://tweakers.net/reviews/8...New window External IMG-ALT Tweakers.net logo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Linus Tech Tips logo
https://www.troyhunt.com/iot-u...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Troy Hunt logo
https://www.tomshardware.com/n...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Tom's Hardware logo
https://www.producthunt.com/po...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT ProductHunt.com logo
https://www.linux.com/news/hom...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Linux.com logo
https://opensource.com/article...New window External IMG-ALT OpenSource.com logo
http://www.linux-magazine.com/...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Linux Magazine logo
https://www.heise.de/select/ct...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Ct logo
https://www.nabucasa.com/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Nabu Casa logo
https://www.openhomefoundation...External Subdomain Open Home Foundation
https://www.nabucasa.com/External Subdomain Nabu Casa
https://github.com/home-assist...External GitHub repo
https://developers.home-assist...External Subdomain Developers Portal
https://design.home-assistant.io/External Subdomain Design Portal
https://data.home-assistant.io/External Subdomain Data Science Portal
https://community.home-assista...External Subdomain Community Forum
/help/reporting_issues/Reporting issues
https://home-assistant-store.c...External Subdomain Community Merch Store
https://alerts.home-assistant.io/External Subdomain Integration Alerts
/security/Security Alerts
https://status.home-assistant.io/External Subdomain System Status
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/...External Subdomain iOS and Apple devices
https://play.google.com/store/...External Subdomain Android and Wear OS
https://companion.home-assista...External Subdomain ...and more!
/privacy/Privacy Notices
/developers/cla/Contributor License Agreement
/tos/Terms of Service
/code_of_conduct/Code of Conduct
/developers/credits/Credits
/developers/license/License
https://building.open-home.io/External Subdomain Anchor Sign up for our newsletter
https://youtube.com/@home_assi...New window External A-TITLE YouTube
https://reddit.com/r/homeassis...New window External A-TITLE Reddit
https://github.com/home-assist...New window External A-TITLE GitHub
https://fosstodon.org/@homeass...New window External A-TITLE Mastodon
https://bsky.app/profile/home-...New window External A-TITLE Bluesky
https://x.com/home_assistantNew window External A-TITLE X
https://www.facebook.com/homea...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/home...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE LinkedIn
/cdn-cgi/l/email-protectionTrivial anchor text
here
https://jekyllrb.com/External Jekyll
https://github.com/coogie/osca...External Oscailte theme
https://www.netlify.com/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Deploys by Netlify Badge

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.home-assistant.io/"
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 is excellent with 0.24 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (36 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 10,126 referring domains.
This page has 874,485 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 7,366 different ip addresses.

Search preview

www.home-assistant.io
Home Assistant
Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a...

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Assistant63%Check
Open54%Check
source54%Check
Open Source54%Check
Assistant project54%Check
community50%Check
Source Project50%Check
Awaken50%Check
Assistant Yellow49%Check
voice assistant49%Check

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