Archivesportaleurope.net - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
78% 
Page quality
23% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
36% 
Server
33% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.91 s
File size
88.10 kB
Words
5000
Media files
7
Number of links
125 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: 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 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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viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0
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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robotsindex,follow
authorArchives Portal Europe
langen
og:titleArchives Portal Europe Homepage
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og:site_nameArchives Portal Europe
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.
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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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 (5000 words). Maybe the content could be divided into several pages.
These Typos were found:
  • jaques => jacques
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.
114 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 17.11 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.
This page only loads 3 JavaScript files. That's good!
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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/uploads/footer-logos/ICTPSP_logo.pngNo alt attribute provided
/uploads/footer-logos/EU_flag.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ads/footer-logos/Connected2Europeana.pngNo alt attribute provided

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 LGBT+ History
H5 Archives of mystery
H5 Interwar fun
H5 Olympic Archives
H5 An alphabet of Extreme Climate
H5 Fake News
H5 Arts
H5 Social history
H5 Genealogy
H5 Church records and registers
H5 World War I
H5 CFP: Eogan 2025 - Energy Archives conference
H5 Public Domain Day 2025
H5 CFP: Energy Archives in Energy History
H5 Archives and Floods: material from Greece
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
/No Text
/advanced-search/Advanced search
/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
/tools/for-content-providers/s...Standards
/tools/for-content-providers/d...Data preparation
/tools/for-content-providers/s...Supporting software
/tools/ape-grants/APE Grants
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/tools/useful-links/Useful links
/tools/genealogy/Genealogy
/tools/bibliography-true/Bibliography
/news-events/News & Events
/blog/Blog
/newsletter/Newsletter
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/about-us/background/Text duplicate Background
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/tools/research-tools/Text duplicate How the portal works
/tools/crowdsourcing/Text duplicate Crowdsourcing
/tools/for-content-providers/Text duplicate For content providers
/tools/ape-grants/Text duplicate APE Grants
/tools/useful-links/Text duplicate Useful links
/tools/genealogy/Text duplicate Genealogy
/tools/bibliography-true/Text duplicate Bibliography
/blog/Text duplicate Blog
/newsletter/Text duplicate Newsletter
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/Anchor Features
/Anchor Topics
/explore/highlights/lgbt-history/LGBT+ History LGBT+ History Month is celebrated at different times in different countries, connected to the local histories of this vast and diverse communit...
/explore/highlights/archives-o...Archives of mystery A dive into the #archivesofmystery to discover studies, tales, and representations of fantastic and frightening creatures, as well as par...
/explore/highlights/interwar-fun/Interwar fun Get rid of the post-summer blues with archives: #interwarfun shows how entertainment between the two world wars evolved, offering relief from th...
/explore/highlights/olympic-ar...Olympic Archives Olympic Archives celebrates Paris 2024 with archival material about the Olympics from all over Europe 26-07-2024
/explore/highlights/an-alphabe...An alphabet of Extreme Climate An alphabetical journey through extreme natural events throughout history. Explore how societies have recorded and responded t...
/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/?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
/about-us/join-us/?tab=country...Subdomain Country Manager
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here
/blog/cfp-eogan-2025-energy-ar...CFPs CFP: Eogan 2025 - Energy Archives conference 16-01-2025
/blog/public-domain-day-2025/Exhibitions & Events Public Domain Day 2025 07-01-2025
/blog/cfp-energy-archives-in-e...CFPs CFP: Energy Archives in Energy History 10-12-2024
/blog/archives-and-floods-mate...News from the Archives Archives and Floods: material from Greece 09-12-2024
/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?
/help-topics/troubles-finding-...I have troubles finding what I am looking for
/help-topics/filters/Filters
/help-topics/multilingual-search/Multilingual search
/help-topics/highlights/Highlights
/help-topics/how-can-archives-...I need more help!
/help-topics/topic-search/Topic search
/help-topics/how-can-i-assign-...How can I assign a topic?
/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
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/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 (1.91 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.
This page loads 6 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page only loads 3 JavaScript files. That's good!
The file size of the HTML document is fine (88 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateSat, 18 Jan 2025 02:54:47 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
transfer-encodingchunked
connectionkeep-alive
set-cookie115 Characters
expiresThu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
cache-controlno-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
pragmano-cache
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
referrer-policyno-referrer-when-downgrade
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,645 referring domains.
This page has 85,625 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 842 different ip addresses.

Search preview

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.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Europe91%Check
archive or88%Check
Portal Europe84%Check
Archives Portal Europe83%Check
Archives82%Check
portal77%Check
one or76%Check
institution or74%Check
or date70%Check
family or68%Check

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