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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
85% 
Page quality
71% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
63% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.07 s
File size
173.00 kB
Words
566
Media files
1
Number of links
9 internal / 2 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
IBM - United States
The page title is too short. (177 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
For more than a century, IBM has been a global technology innovator, leading advances in AI, automation and hybrid cloud solutions that help businesses grow.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (980 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.ibm.com/
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
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 alternate link to the page itself is missing.
A country is specified wrong in alternate links: en-uk
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

NameValue
languageCodeen
countryCodeus
searchTitleIBM - United States
focusAreaCross IBM - All
descriptionFor more than a century, IBM has been a global technology innovator, leading advances in AI, automation and hybrid cloud solutions that help businesses grow.
templatefull-width-layout
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large
langen
og:urlhttps://www.ibm.com/
og:typewebsite
og:titleIBM - United States
og:descriptionFor more than a century, IBM has been a global technology innovator, leading advances in AI, automation and hybrid cloud solutions that help businesses grow.
og:imagehttps://www.ibm.com/content/dam/connectedassets-adobe-cms/worldwide-content/creative-assets/s-migr/ul/g/18/f9/ibm_logo_pos_blue60_rgb.png/_jcr_content/renditions/cq5dam.web.1280.1280.png
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
The average number of words per sentence of 28.25 words is high.
This page contains 566 words. That's ok.
30.7% of the text are stop words.
10 paragraphs were found on this page.
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)
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 11 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)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Technology & Consulting
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
There are too few (9) internal links on this page.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 2 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/granite?lnk=devSubdomain Start building with IBM Granite 3.0 models
https://developer.ibm.com/tech...External Subdomain Explore AI courses, APIs, data sets and more
/products/watsonx-code-assista...Subdomain Accelerate software development with watsonx Code Assistant
/watsonx/developer/?lnk=devSubdomain Check out the watsonx.ai Developer Toolkit
/thought-leadership/institute-...Subdomain Read the CEO's guide to generative AI
/think/reports/ai-in-action?ln...Subdomain Read the AI in Action report
/products/watsonx-orchestrate/...Subdomain Deploy an AI agent for HR with watsonx Orchestrate
https://skillsbuild.org/adult-...External Power up your AI skills for free
/artificial-intelligence?lnk=P...Subdomain next-generation AI
/hybrid-cloud?lnk=ProdCSubdomain hybrid cloud solutions
/consulting?lnk=ProdCSubdomain IBM Consulting

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.ibm.com/us-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 slow (1.07 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (173 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-security-policyupgrade-insecure-requests
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
last-modifiedSun, 17 Nov 2024 19:27:21 GMT
etag"2b1a1-62720c9faed49-gzip"
accept-rangesbytes
content-typetext/html;charset=utf-8
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
cache-controlmax-age=600
expiresSun, 17 Nov 2024 20:54:54 GMT
x-akamai-transformed9 28886 0 pmb=mTOE,2
content-encodinggzip
dateSun, 17 Nov 2024 20:44:54 GMT
content-length29107
varyAccept-Encoding
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
set-cookie557 Characters
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 6,488 referring domains.
This page has 300,431 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 4,343 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

You can find more links using Wikipedia search

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /account/registration
Disallow: /account/mypro
Disallow: /account/myint
Disallow: /Admin
Disallow: /cgi-
Disallow: /contact/employees/servlets
Disallow: /data/
Disallow: /db2s
Disallow: /developerworks/*-pdf.pdf$
Disallow: /developerworks/forums/servlet
Disallow: /developerworks/forums/abuse
Disallow: /developerworks/forums/post
Disallow: /docs/api
Disallow: /fcgi-
Disallow: /fscripts
# Disallow: /homepage
Disallow: /image
Disallow: /mashupmaker
Disallow: /mysupport/s/forumshome
Disallow: /mysupport/s/forumsproduct
Disallow: /mysupport/s/forumsquestion
Disallow: /partnerworld/portal
Disallow: /portal/home
Disallow: /products/finder
Disallow: /profiles
Disallow: /scripts
Disallow: /Scripts
Disallow: /search/?
Disallow: /Search
Disallow: /smartmarket/*/productListInitial.action?
Disallow: /standards
Disallow: /support/knowledgecenter/api
Disallow: /support/knowledgecenter/v1
Disallow: /survey
Disallow: /testing
Disallow: /tmp
Disallow: /vrm/bin/sendThisPage
Disallow: /webmaster
Disallow: /zx
Disallow: /zz
Disallow: /*.ssi$
Disallow: /account/myibm/InterestsEdit.do
Disallow: /wcs
Disallow: /wcsstore
Disallow: /webapp
Disallow: /web/portal/software/websphere
Disallow: /common/austin-summit
Disallow: /link
Disallow: /links
Disallow: /web/portal/commerce 
Disallow: /industries/clients
Disallow: /standards
# Disallow: /internal
Disallow: /test
Disallow: /test-kick-tires
Disallow: /test-v1-page-template
Disallow: /product-detail
Disallow: /watson/assets/pdfs/reg
Disallow: /zprod-ease
Disallow: /zProd-ease
Disallow: /zshowcase
Disallow: /widgets-admin
Disallow: /w3

sitemap: https://www.ibm.com/homepage_sitemap.xml
sitemap: https://www.ibm.com/content/dam/adobe-cms/IBM_Adobe_Sitemap.xml
sitemap: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/sitemap.xml
sitemap: https://www.ibm.com/docs/sitemap.xml
sitemap: https://www.ibm.com/blog/sitemap_index.xml
sitemap: https://www.ibm.com/granite/playground/sitemap-index.xml
sitemap: https://www.ibm.com/granite/docs/sitemap-index.xml


User-agent: Fast corporate crawler
Disallow: //
Disallow: /account/registration
Disallow: /account/mypro
Disallow: /account/myint
Disallow: /Admin
Disallow: /cgi-
Disallow: /common
Disallow: /contact/employees/servlets
Disallow: /data/
Disallow: /db2s
Disallow: /developerworks
Disallow: /fcgi-
Disallow: /fscripts
Disallow: /homepage
Disallow: /i/
Disallow: /image
Disallow: /investor
Disallow: /link
Disallow: /mashupmaker
Disallow: /portal/home
Disallow: /products/finder
Disallow: /profiles
Disallow: /SametimeWebApp
Disallow: /scripts
Disallow: /Scripts
Disallow: /search/?
Disallow: /Search
Disallow: /survey
Disallow: /tmp
Disallow: /vrm/bin/sendThisPage
Disallow: /webmaster
Disallow: /zx
Disallow: /zz

User-agent: 008
Disallow: /smartmarket

# Added for IN4173782 on 7Aug2013
User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow: /connections/

# Added for IN4177562 on 8Aug2013
User-agent: magpie-crawler/1.1
Disallow: /connections/

# Added for IN4177562 on 8Aug2013
User-agent: MagpieRSS
Disallow: /connections/   

User-agent: psnsearch
Disallow: /developerworks/wikis/login.action

# Added to block site mirroring
User-agent: HTTrack
Disallow: /


User-agent: Acrolinx-bot
# Disallow: //
Disallow: /account/registration
Disallow: /account/mypro
Disallow: /account/myint
Disallow: /Admin
Disallow: /cgi-
Disallow: /contact/employees/servlets
Disallow: /data/
Disallow: /db2s
Disallow: /developerworks/*-pdf.pdf$
Disallow: /developerworks/forums/servlet
Disallow: /developerworks/forums/abuse
Disallow: /developerworks/forums/post
Disallow: /docs/api
Disallow: /fcgi-
Disallow: /fscripts
# Disallow: /homepage
Disallow: /image
Disallow: /mashupmaker
Disallow: /mysupport/s/forumshome
Disallow: /mysupport/s/forumsproduct
Disallow: /mysupport/s/forumsquestion
Disallow: /partnerworld/portal
Disallow: /portal/home
Disallow: /products/finder
Disallow: /profiles
Disallow: /scripts
Disallow: /Scripts
Disallow: /search/?
Disallow: /Search
Disallow: /smartmarket/*/productListInitial.action?
Disallow: /standards
Disallow: /support/knowledgecenter/api
Disallow: /support/knowledgecenter/v1
Disallow: /survey
Disallow: /testing
Disallow: /tmp
Disallow: /vrm/bin/sendThisPage
Disallow: /webmaster
Disallow: /zx
Disallow: /zz
Disallow: /*.ssi$
Disallow: /account/myibm/InterestsEdit.do
Disallow: /wcs
Disallow: /wcsstore
Disallow: /webapp
Disallow: /web/portal/software/websphere
Disallow: /common/austin-summit
Disallow: /link
Disallow: /links
Disallow: /web/portal/commerce 
Disallow: /industries/clients
Disallow: /standards
# Disallow: /internal
Disallow: /test
Disallow: /test-kick-tires
# Added for EI-2179 on 17Apr2020
Disallow: /test-v1-page-template
Disallow: /product-detail
Disallow: /watson/assets/pdfs/reg
# Added by JLiao for SD EI-2359,EI-2360 on 23Jun2020
Disallow: /zprod-ease
Disallow: /zProd-ease
#Added for EI-2216 on 06May2020 
Disallow: /zshowcase

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IBM - United States
For more than a century, IBM has been a global technology innovator, leading advances in AI, automation and hybrid cloud solutions that help businesses grow.

Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
IBM63%Check
IBM Consulting51%Check
technology50%Check
IBM history49%Check
business46%Check
solutions46%Check
Automation46%Check
cloud46%Check
Businesses46%Check
help46%Check
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