Citizens-initiative.europa.eu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
85% 
Page structure
43% 
Link structure
95% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.17 s
File size
59.70 kB
Words
742
Media files
8
Number of links
45 internal / 23 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | European Citizens' Initiative
The length of the page title is perfect. (319 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/_en
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)
The specified alternate links have no errors.
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

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MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 28.81 words is high.
This page contains 742 words. That's ok.
32.9% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
12 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.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 298 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"get a greater say in the policies that affect your life. the european citizens' initiative is a unique..."
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Home
The H1 heading contains the words Home! Use important keywords instead.
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (4 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Home
H2 Latest news
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 23 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/_enAnchor Skip to main content
https://european-union.europa....External Subdomain IMG-ALT European Union flag
/_enSubdomain English
/home_enHome
/find-initiative_enFind initiative
/find-initiative/eci-lifecycle...ECI lifecycle statistics
/find-initiative_enSee all
/how-it-works_enHow it works
/how-it-works_enStep by step
/how-it-works/how-to-start_enLaunch your initiative
/how-it-works/online-collectio...Online collection system
/how-it-works/regulatory-frame...Regulatory framework
/how-it-works/data-protection_enData protection
/how-it-works/privacy-policy_enPrivacy policy
/how-it-works/implementation-n...Implementation at national level
/how-it-works/history_enHistory
/how-it-works/faq_enFAQ
/how-it-works_enText duplicate See all
/news_enNews
/news_enLatest news
https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/...External Subdomain ECI newsletter
/newsletter/subscribe_enSubscribe to newsletter
https://ec.europa.eu/info/even...External Subdomain Calendar of events
/news_enText duplicate See all
/spread-word_enSpread the word
/spread-word/communication-mat...Communication material
/spread-word/eci-ambassadors_enEuropean Citizens’ Initiative Ambassadors
/spread-word/citizencentral-po...CitizenCentral Podcast
/spread-word/eu-institutions-p...EU institutions’ pages on the ECI
/spread-word_enText duplicate See all
/eci-school_enFor schools
/schools/eci-educational-toolk...ECI educational toolkit
/eci-school_enText duplicate See all
/eci-forum_enECI Forum
/organiser-account_enOrganiser account
/how-it-works_enSubdomain See how it works step by step
https://citizens-initiative-fo...External Subdomain Text duplicate ECI Forum
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/...External Subdomain call for evidence
/save-cruelty-free-cosmetics-c...Subdomain Save Cruelty-Free Cosmetics – Commit to a Europe without animal testing
https://single-market-economy....External Subdomain October 2024
https://single-market-economy....External Subdomain European Commission’s announcement
/initiatives/details/2024/0000...Subdomain ‘ECI for a Water-Smart and Resilient Europe'
/initiatives/details/2024/0000...Subdomain ‘PsychedeliCare'
https://ec.europa.eu/commissio...External Subdomain European Commission press release
/initiatives/details/2024/0000...Subdomain Stop Cruelty Stop Slaughter
/initiatives/details/2024/0000...Subdomain Stop Fake Food: Origin on Label
https://ec.europa.eu/commissio...External Subdomain Text duplicate European Commission press release
/news_enSee more news
https://ec.europa.eu/info/even...External Subdomain Check the calendar
https://citizens-initiative-fo...External Subdomain Join the Forum
/_enSubdomain European Citizens' Initiative
/accessibility-statement_enAccessibility
/contact_enContact us
/newsletter/subscribe_enText duplicate Subscribe to newsletter
/sitemap_enSitemap
/privacy-policyText duplicate Privacy policy
https://register.eci.ec.europa...External Subdomain Text duplicate Organiser account
https://european-union.europa....External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT European Union flag
https://europa.eu/External europa.eu
https://european-union.europa....External Subdomain Use other telephone options
https://european-union.europa....External Subdomain Write to us via our contact form
https://european-union.europa....External Subdomain Meet us at one of the EU centres
https://european-union.europa....External Subdomain Search for EU social media channels
https://european-union.europa....External Subdomain Languages on our websites
https://european-union.europa....External Subdomain Text duplicate Privacy policy
https://european-union.europa....External Subdomain Legal notice
https://european-union.europa....External Subdomain Cookies
https://european-union.europa....External Subdomain Search all EU institutions and bodies

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/_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 is excellent with 0.17 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (60 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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feature-policy
last-modifiedFri, 08 Nov 2024 13:53:02 GMT
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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 92 referring domains.
This page has 16,101 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 90 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

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# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

Search preview

citizens-initiative.europa.eu › _en
Home | European Citizens' Initiative

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Initiative60%Check
Citizens Initiative59%Check
Citizens58%Check
European Citizens Initiative57%Check
European Citizens55%Check
European52%Check
new47%Check
EU institutions47%Check
European Commission46%Check
register two European citizens45%Check

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