Home.web.cern.ch - SEO Checker

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Page structure
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Link structure
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Server
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External factors
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SEO Score
Response time
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File size
154.80 kB
Words
803
Media files
3
Number of links
171 internal / 31 external

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Home | CERN
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Meta description
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CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works.
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
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https://home.cern/
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Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
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"the higgs boson, predicted six decades ago, was first observed on 4 july 2012 at cern. read more →"
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CERN Accelerating science
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H1 CERN Accelerating science
H1 Featured resources
H1 Latest News
H1 Explore CERN
H1 Upcoming events
H1 Key Achievements
H2 CERN
H2 Science
H2 Find us
H2 CERN & You
H2 General Information
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H3 Students from Estonia, Japan and the USA win ...
H3 Arts at CERN awarded European Commission’s S+...
H3 ATLAS dives deeper into di-Higgs
H3 CERN Courier Jul/Aug 2024
H3 High-Luminosity LHC images
H3 LHC Facts and Figures
H3 Breakthrough in rapid cooling for BASE antipr...
H3 AMBER releases its first results
H3 ATLAS probes uncharted territory with LHC Run...
H3 CERN and Pro Helvetia announce the artists se... Duplicate text
H3 LHCb investigates the properties of one of ph...
H3 Digital archaeology: new LEP data now availab...
H3 Less hungry magnets for the experiments of th...
H3 LHCb investigates the rare Σ+→pμ+μ- decay
H3 Going the extra mile to squeeze supersymmetry...
H3 CERN70: Green light for LEP
H3 Plan your CERN visit
H3 Take an immersive tour of CERN's accelerators
H3 Explore CERN's educational resources
H3 CERN and the environment
H3 Technology from CERN to society
H3 *** Cancelled*** Visit Point Training: LEIR/LINAC2 (no trainings/vi...
H3 Introduction to silicon pixel detectors
H3 Introduction to silicon pixel detectors Duplicate text
H3 Introduction to silicon pixel detectors Duplicate text
H3 Introduction to silicon pixel detectors Duplicate text
H3 Introductory lecture on gaseous detector in particular for Micro Pa...
H3 Visit Point Training: AD
H3 CERN openlab Summer Student Lightning Talks (1/2)
H3 Meet the authors and editors of 'New Challenges and Opportunities i...
H3 The Higgs boson
H3 The Large Hadron Collider
H3 Antimatter
H3 The birth of the Web
H3 W boson
H3 Z boson
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Some anchor texts are used more than once.
26 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (31) on this page.
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/news/news/physics/going-extra...Going the extra mile to squeeze supersymmetry...
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/news/series/cern70/cern70-gre...No Text
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https://visit.cern/External No Text
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/science/accelerators/accelera...No Text
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https://educational-resources....External Subdomain No Text
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https://indico.cern.ch/export/...New window External Subdomain No Text
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A-TITLE Visit Point Training: AD
https://indico.cern.ch/export/...New window External Subdomain No Text
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https://indico.cern.ch/export/...New window External Subdomain No Text
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/science/physics/higgs-bosonNo Text
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/science/computing/birth-webNo Text
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/science/physics/z-bosonNo Text
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https://home.web.cern.ch/contactContact us
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https://careers.cern/External Careers
https://visit.cern/External Visits
/data-privacy-protection-policyPrivacy policy
https://home.web.cern.ch/cookiesCookie Management
https://copyright.web.cern.ch/External Subdomain Copyright

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home.web.cern.ch
Home | CERN
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works.

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