Ibk.ethz.ch - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
59% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
83% 
Link structure
87% 
Server
45% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.10 s
File size
52.30 kB
Words
205
Media files
0
Number of links
25 internal / 27 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Homepage - IBK – Institute of Structural Engineering (IBK) | ETH Zurich
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 642 pixels long. Optimize title
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://ibk.ethz.ch/
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
format-detectiontelephone=no
SystemueberwachungETHZ
ethz_lmd2024-12-20T14:05:06.234Z
pagetypeweb
msapplication-TileColor#215CAF
theme-color#215CAF
apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style#215CAF-translucent
apple-mobile-web-app-capableyes
msapplication-TileImagehttps://ethz.ch/etc/designs/ethz/img/icons/ETH-APP-Icons-Theme-white/144-xxhdpi.png
apple-mobile-web-app-titleHomepage - IBK – Institute of Structural Engineering (IBK) | ETH Zurich
langen
og:urlhttps://ibk.ethz.ch/
og:titleHomepage - IBK
og:site_nameInstitute of Structural Engineering (IBK)
og:imagehttps://ethz.ch/etc/designs/ethz/img/header/eth_default_og.jpg
og:image:altEmpty
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 205 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
13.2% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 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

No media files were found.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The H1 heading is empty
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Empty heading
H2 Institute of Structural Engineering (IBK)
H2 Directly go to the content
H2 Footer
H3 Main Navigation
H3 Services
H3 Search
H3 Departments
H3 Language Selection
H3 Search Duplicate text
H3 Services Duplicate text
H3 Contact
H3 Departments Duplicate text
H3 Table of contents and legal
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.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (27) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://ibk.ethz.ch/Homepage
A-TITLE Directly go to the homepage
https://ibk.ethz.ch/Anchor Navigation
A-TITLE Directly go to the navigation
/utils/search.htmlSubdomain Search
A-TITLE Directly go to the search
https://ibk.ethz.ch/Anchor Content
A-TITLE Directly go to the content
https://ibk.ethz.ch/Anchor Footer
A-TITLE Directly go to the footer
https://ibk.ethz.ch/Anchor Contact
A-TITLE Directly go to the contact
/footer/sitemap.htmlSitemap
A-TITLE Sitemap
https://ethz.ch/en.htmlExternal A-TITLE ETH Zurich homepage
https://ibk.ethz.ch/Institute of Structural Engineering (IBK)
A-TITLE Home
https://ibk.ethz.ch/Text duplicate Homepage
/news_events.htmlNews & Events
/the_institute.htmlThe Institute
https://ibk.ethz.ch/research.htmlResearch
/education.htmlEducation
/publications.htmlPublications
https://ibk.ethz.ch/products.htmlSoftware and products
https://ibk.ethz.ch/intranet.htmlIBK-Wiki
https://ethz.ch/students/en.htmlExternal Student portal
https://www.alumni.ethz.ch/en/External Subdomain Alumni association
https://ethz.ch/staffnet/en.htmlExternal Staffnet
/login/en.html?resource=/conte...lock Login
A-TITLE Login with ETH user account
/utils/search.htmlsearch
https://ethz.ch/en.htmlExternal ETH Zurich
A-TITLE ETH Zurich homepage
https://baug.ethz.ch/en/External Subdomain D-BAUG
A-TITLE Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
https://ibk.ethz.ch/IBK
A-TITLE Institute of Structural Engineering
https://ethz.ch/students/en.htmlExternal Text duplicate Student portal
https://www.alumni.ethz.ch/en/External Subdomain Text duplicate Alumni association
https://ethz.ch/staffnet/en.htmlExternal Text duplicate Staffnet
/login/en.html?resource=/conte...Text duplicate lock Login
A-TITLE Login with ETH user account
https://ethz.ch/en/utils/locat...External Location location_onHIL D 36.2
https://arch.ethz.ch/enExternal Subdomain D-ARCH Architecture
https://baug.ethz.ch/en/External Subdomain D-BAUG Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
https://biol.ethz.ch/en/External Subdomain D-BIOL Biology
https://bsse.ethz.ch/External Subdomain D-BSSE Biosystems Science and Engineering
https://chab.ethz.ch/en/External Subdomain D-CHAB Chemistry and Applied Biosciences
https://eaps.ethz.ch/en/External Subdomain D-EAPS Earth and Planetary Sciences
https://gess.ethz.ch/en/External Subdomain D-GESS Humanities, Social and Political Sciences
https://hest.ethz.ch/enExternal Subdomain D-HEST Health Sciences and Technology
https://inf.ethz.ch/External Subdomain D-INFK Computer Science
https://ee.ethz.ch/External Subdomain D-ITET Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
https://math.ethz.ch/External Subdomain D-MATH Mathematics
https://mat.ethz.ch/External Subdomain D-MATL Department of Materials
https://mavt.ethz.ch/External Subdomain D-MAVT Mechanical and Process Engineering
https://mtec.ethz.ch/External Subdomain D-MTEC Management, Technology and Economics
https://www.phys.ethz.ch/External Subdomain D-PHYS Physics
https://usys.ethz.ch/en/External Subdomain D-USYS Environmental Systems Science
/footer/sitemap.htmlText duplicate Sitemap
A-TITLE Sitemap
/footer/imprint.htmlImprint
A-TITLE Imprint
/footer/accessibility-statemen...Accessibility Statement
A-TITLE Accessibility Statement
/footer/disclaimer-copyright.htmlDisclaimer & Copyright
A-TITLE Disclaimer & Copyright
/footer/data-protection.htmlData protection
A-TITLE Data protection
http://www.ethz.ch/External Subdomain Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://ibk.ethz.ch/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.10 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (52 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateWed, 01 Jan 2025 16:28:41 GMT
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
content-typetext/html;charset=utf-8
cache-controlmax-age=3600
varycookie
vha6-originwcp-pub-csh21.ethz.ch
content-length53504
age411
x-ratelimit-remaining20
x-powered-byETH Informatikdiensten
x-delievered-fromZentrum
strict-transport-securitymax-age=63072000
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self'
x-frame-optionssameorigin
accept-rangesbytes
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 79 referring domains.
This page has 852 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 64 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
IBK62%Check
ETH56%Check
IBK Institute56%Check
ETH Zurich52%Check
Institute50%Check
Structural Engineering50%Check
Engineering49%Check
Homepage46%Check
Zurich45%Check
Search43%Check
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