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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
58% 
Page structure
53% 
Link structure
70% 
Server
91% 
External factors
30% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.10 s
File size
54.00 kB
Words
461
Media files
5
Number of links
20 internal / 37 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Homepage – Development Economics Group | ETH Zurich
The length of the page title is perfect. (522 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://dec.ethz.ch/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Switzerland
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_lmd2025-04-11T10:57:59.963Z
pagetypeweb
msapplication-TileColor#A7117A
theme-color#A7117A
apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style#A7117A-translucent
apple-mobile-web-app-capableyes
msapplication-TileImagehttps://ethz.ch/etc/designs/ethz/img/icons/ETH-APP-Icons-Theme-white/144-xxhdpi.png
content-languageen
apple-mobile-web-app-titleHomepage – Development Economics Group | ETH Zurich
langen
og:urlhttps://dec.ethz.ch/
og:titleHomepage
og:site_nameDevelopment Economics Group
og:imagehttps://dec.ethz.ch/_jcr_content/pageimages/image.imageformat.lightbox.365084777.jpg
og:image:altmarket
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 461 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
24.5% 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.
7 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 19.5 words is good.
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 9 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
....imageformat.contentteaser.218936586.jpgCredit: FG Trade, Stock photo ID: v2169250417, Upload date: September 05, 2024, Location: Brazil
...imageformat.contentteaser.2087510720.jpgFabio Leippert
....imageformat.contentteaser.931841399.pngLatsis Symposium - ETH4D
...imageformat.contentteaser.2105755574.jpgPhoto by Carlos Horton on Unsplash
...imageformat.contentteaser.1834010052.pngInfobrief: Private capital to create social impact - Is impact investment the future of development cooperation?

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Main content
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (12 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Main content
H1 News
H1 Additional Information
H2 Development Economics Group
H2 Gold Standards: Do Certification Schemes Deliver Transparency to Consumers?
H2 Podcast: Agroecology – Rethinking Agriculture
H2 Latsis Symposium 2025: Science for Global Development and Humanitarian Action
H2 ETH NADEL Course on Food Security: How to Measure and Improve
H2 Infobrief: Private capital to create social impact - Is impact investment the future of development cooperation?
H2 Contact
H2 Mailing List
H2 Links
H2 Footer
H3 Services
H3 Search
H3 Departments
H3 Language Selection
H3 Code of Conduct
H3 Search Duplicate text
H3 Services Duplicate text
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.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 1 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (37) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://dec.ethz.ch/Homepage
A-TITLE Directly go to the homepage
https://dec.ethz.ch/Anchor Navigation
A-TITLE Directly go to the navigation
/utils/search.htmlSubdomain Search
A-TITLE Directly go to the search
https://dec.ethz.ch/Anchor Content
A-TITLE Directly go to the content
https://dec.ethz.ch/Anchor Footer
A-TITLE Directly go to the footer
/utils/contact.htmlContact
A-TITLE Directly go to the contact
/footer/sitemap.htmlSitemap
A-TITLE Sitemap
https://ethz.ch/en.htmlExternal A-TITLE ETH Zurich homepage
https://dec.ethz.ch/Development Economics Group
A-TITLE Home
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
/utils/contact.htmlText duplicate Contact
A-TITLE Open contact information
/login/en.html?resource=/conte...Login
A-TITLE Login with ETH user account
/utils/search.htmlNo Text
https://ethz.ch/en.htmlExternal ETH Zurich
A-TITLE ETH Zurich homepage
https://gess.ethz.ch/en/External Subdomain D-GESS
A-TITLE Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences
https://dec.ethz.ch/Text duplicate Development Economics Group
https://nadel.ethz.ch/news0/ne...External Subdomain Gold Standards: Do Certification Schemes Deliver Transparency to Consumers?
https://nadel.ethz.ch/news0/ne...External Subdomain Podcast: Agroecology – Rethinking Agriculture
https://nadel.ethz.ch/news0/ne...External Subdomain Latsis Symposium 2025: Science for Global Development and Humanitarian Action
https://nadel.ethz.ch/news0/ne...External Subdomain ETH NADEL Course on Food Security: How to Measure and Improve
https://nadel.ethz.ch/news0/ne...External Subdomain Infobrief: Private capital to create social impact - Is impact investment the future of development cooperation?
https://nadel.ethz.ch/news0/ne...External Subdomain Show more news items
https://nadel.ethz.ch/External Subdomain NADEL website
https://dec.ethz.ch/about-us.htmlTrivial anchor text
Read more
https://nadel.ethz.ch/news0/ne...External Subdomain NADEL mailing list
https://eth4d.ethz.ch/External Subdomain ETH4D
https://nadel.ethz.ch/External Subdomain NADEL
https://ethz.ch/content/dam/et...New window External Download Code of Conduct (PDF, 564 KB)
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
/utils/contact.htmlText duplicate Contact
A-TITLE Open contact information
/login/en.html?resource=/conte...Text duplicate Login
A-TITLE Login with ETH user account
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.htmlPrivacy Policy
A-TITLE Privacy Policy
http://www.ethz.ch/External Subdomain Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://dec.ethz.ch/"
HTTP header
(Important)
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 is excellent with 0.10 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (54 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSat, 26 Jul 2025 05:44:22 GMT
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
content-typetext/html;charset=utf-8
cache-controlmax-age=3600
content-encodinggzip
varycookie, Accept-Encoding
vha6-originwcp-pub-csh11.ethz.ch
content-length13338
age1555
x-ratelimit-remaining20
x-powered-byETH Informatikdiensten
x-delievered-fromHoengg
strict-transport-securitymax-age=63072000
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self'
x-frame-optionssameorigin
accept-rangesbytes
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 10 referring domains.
This page only has 19 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 9 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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Development58%Check
Content56%Check
Development Economics55%Check
ETH NADEL55%Check
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