Brusselstimes.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
95% 
Page quality
58% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
63% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.84 s
File size
305.80 kB
Words
42
Media files
1
Number of links
16 internal / 2 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The Brussels Times
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)
The Brussels Times - News and analysis on politics, Brussels, EU Affairs, business, world, national news, and more.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (714 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.brusselstimes.com/
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)
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 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
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
msapplication-TileImageassets/favicons/cropped-TBT-Favicon-270x270.jpg
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large
titleThe Brussels Times
descriptionThe Brussels Times - News and analysis on politics, Brussels, EU Affairs, business, world, national news, and more.
authorThe Brussels Times
keywordsEmpty
langen
twitter:titleThe Brussels Times
twitter:descriptionThe Brussels Times - News and analysis on politics, Brussels, EU Affairs, business, world, national news, and more.
twitter:imagehttps://www.brusselstimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/TBT-Logo.jpg
twitter:site@BrusselsTimes
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:domainwww.brusselstimes.com
og:titleThe Brussels Times
og:descriptionThe Brussels Times - News and analysis on politics, Brussels, EU Affairs, business, world, national news, and more.
og:authorThe Brussels Times
og:typewebsite
og:imagehttps://www.brusselstimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/TBT-Logo.jpg
og:image:secure_urlhttps://www.brusselstimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/TBT-Logo.jpg
og:urlhttps://www.brusselstimes.com/
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 42 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
16.7% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
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)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
/assets/img/cover-xs.jpg?v=winter_2025_2026The Brussels Times Magazine

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 Latest News
H2 Most Read
H2 Opinions
H3 Debates
Baselink: /
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 2 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/magazineIMG-ALT The Brussels Times Magazine
https://www.brusselstimes.com/No Text
/magazineMagazine
/brusselsBrussels
/belgiumBelgium
/businessBusiness
/art-cultureArt & Culture
/eu-affairsEU Affairs
/worldWorld
/belgium-unlockedBelgium Unlocked
https://jobjob.eu/jobs/New window External Jobs
https://www.brusselstimes.com/No Text
https://event.brusselstimes.co...New window External Subdomain Debates
/opinionsOpinions
/advertiseAdvertise
/privacy-policyPrivacy Policy
/careersCareers
/about-usAbout Us

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.brusselstimes.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.84 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (306 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx/1.18.0
dateTue, 09 Dec 2025 16:35:43 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
x-powered-byExpress
clear-site-data*
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
via1.1 google
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000
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 271 referring domains.
This page has 3,123 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 239 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /tag
Disallow: /tags

Sitemap: https://www.brusselstimes.com/sitemap-index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.brusselstimes.com/google-news-sitemap.xml

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The Brussels Times
The Brussels Times - News and analysis on politics, Brussels, EU Affairs, business, world, national news, and more.

Most important keywords

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Times76%Check
Brussels Times76%Check
Times News65%Check
Times Magazine58%Check
News55%Check
Business51%Check
Affairs51%Check
World51%Check
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