Debian.org - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
99% 
Page quality
41% 
Page structure
40% 
Link structure
81% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.08 s
File size
15.30 kB
Words
224
Media files
16
Number of links
30 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Debian -- The Universal Operating System
The length of the page title is perfect. (378 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Debian is an operating system and a distribution of Free Software. It is maintained and updated through the work of many users who volunteer their time and effort.
The meta description is too long: 1001 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: Canada
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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
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
DescriptionDebian is an operating system and a distribution of Free Software. It is maintained and updated through the work of many users who volunteer their time and effort.
GeneratorWML 2.32.0
Modified2025-08-11 19:26:53
viewportwidth=device-width
mobileoptimized300
HandheldFriendlytrue
Keywordsdebian, GNU, linux, unix, open source, free, DFSG
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 224 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
The average number of words per sentence of 40 words is high.
33.5% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
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" 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)
8 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)
This page uses Google authorship information without an image.
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
https://www.debian.org/Pics/openlogo-50.pngDebian
/Pics/debconf25_group_photo.jpgDebConf25 Group Photo
/Pics/mini-dc25-hamburg.jpgGroup photo of the MiniDebConf Hamburg 2025
/Pics/mini-dc25-maceio.jpgGroup photo of the MiniDebConf Maceió 2025
/Pics/calamares-installer.pngScreenshot from the Calamares installer
/Pics/debian-swiss-knife-hands-1024x576.jpgDebian is like a Swiss Army Knife
/Pics/debian-funny-people-1024x576.jpgDebian people at Debconf18 in Hsinchu really having fun
https://www.debian.org/Pics/users.svgNo alt attribute provided
https://www.debian.org/Pics/heartbeat.svgNo alt attribute provided
https://www.debian.org/Pics/user-plus.svgNo alt attribute provided
https://www.debian.org/Pics/list.svgNo alt attribute provided
/Pics/debian-logo-1024x576.pngDebian
https://www.debian.org/Pics/trophy.svgNo alt attribute provided
https://www.debian.org/Pics/life-ring.svgNo alt attribute provided
https://www.debian.org/Pics/security.svgNo alt attribute provided
https://www.debian.org/Pics/list.svgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Debian
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (6 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Debian
H1 The Community
H1 The Operating System
H1 Project News
H2 Debian is a Community of People!
H2 People
H2 Our Philosophy
H2 Get Involved, Contribute
H2 More...
H2 Debian is a complete Free Operating System!
H2 Why Debian
H2 User Support
H2 Security Updates
H2 More... Duplicate text
H2 News and Announcements about Debian
H3 DC25 Group Photo
H3 MiniDebConf Hamburg 2025
H3 MiniDebConf Maceió 2025
H3 Screenshot Calamares Installer
H3 Debian is like a Swiss Army Knife
H3 People have fun with Debian
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
8 links don't have an anchor text.
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 7 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.debian.org/IMG-ALT Debian
A-TITLE Debian Home
https://www.debian.org/Anchor Skip Quicknav
https://bits.debian.org/External Subdomain Blog
A-TITLE Bits from Debian
https://micronews.debian.org/External Subdomain Micronews
A-TITLE Micronews from Debian
https://planet.debian.org/External Subdomain Planet
A-TITLE The Planet of Debian
https://wiki.debian.org/External Subdomain Wiki
A-TITLE The Debian Wiki
/intro/peopleNo Text
/intro/peoplePeople
/intro/philosophyNo Text
/intro/philosophyOur Philosophy
/devel/join/No Text
/devel/join/Get Involved, Contribute
/intro/indexNo Text
/intro/indexMore...
https://cdimage.debian.org/deb...External Subdomain Download
https://www.debian.org/distribOther downloads
/intro/why_debianNo Text
/intro/why_debianWhy Debian
https://www.debian.org/supportNo Text
https://www.debian.org/supportUser Support
https://www.debian.org/security/No Text
https://www.debian.org/security/Security Updates
/intro/indexNo Text
/intro/indexText duplicate More...
/News/2025/20250809Debian 13 trixie released
/News/2025/20250803DebConf25 closes in Brest and DebConf26 announced
/News/2025/20250517Updated Debian 12: 12.11 released
/News/2024/2024083102Updated Debian 11: 11.11 released
/News/2024/20240814Security support for Bullseye handed over to the LTS team
https://www.debian.org/NewsAll the news
https://www.debian.org/News/newsRSS
https://www.debian.org/intro/cnthe default document language
https://www.debian.org/contactcontact page
https://salsa.debian.org/webma...External Subdomain available
https://www.spi-inc.org/External Subdomain SPI
https://www.debian.org/licenselicense terms
https://www.debian.org/trademarktrademark

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.debian.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.08 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (15 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-locationindex.en.html
varynegotiate,accept-language,Accept-Encoding,cookie
tcnchoice
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionssameorigin
referrer-policyno-referrer
x-xss-protection1
permissions-policyinterest-cohort=()
strict-transport-securitymax-age=15552000
last-modifiedMon, 11 Aug 2025 19:26:54 GMT
etag"3d63-63c1be7feaa72-gzip"
accept-rangesbytes
cache-controlmax-age=86400
expiresFri, 15 Aug 2025 07:55:55 GMT
content-encodinggzip
x-clacks-overheadGNU Terry Pratchett
content-length4219
content-typetext/html
content-languageen
dateThu, 14 Aug 2025 07:55:55 GMT
serverApache
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 17,130 referring domains.
This page has 19,041,833 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 10,633 different ip addresses.

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Debian is an operating system and a distribution of Free Software. It is maintained and updated through the work of many users who volunteer their time and effort.

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Debian Community68%Check
Operating66%Check
Operating System66%Check
User52%Check
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