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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
88% 
Page quality
26% 
Page structure
72% 
Link structure
47% 
Server
0% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.31 s
File size
43.30 kB
Words
398
Media files
9
Number of links
92 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Apple Developer
The page title is too short. (149 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
There’s never been a better time to develop for Apple platforms.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (390 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://developer.apple.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Germany
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

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twitter:urlhttps://developer.apple.com/
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og:site_nameApple Developer
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og:urlhttps://developer.apple.com/
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
No paragraphs were detected.
There are only 398 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
15.8% of the text are stop words.
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.
This page loads 15 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, viewport-fit=cover" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
9 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)
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
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.../tile-ipados-26/ipados-26-large_2x.png?1No alt attribute provided
...es/tile-macos-26/macos-26-large_2x.png?1No alt attribute provided
...ages/tile-tvos-26/tvos-26-large_2x.png?1No alt attribute provided
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...ments/icons/sdk-26/sdk-26-128x128_2x.pngNo alt attribute provided
/assets/elements/icons/symbols/person-3.svgNo alt attribute provided

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.
There are 28 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Get started with Pathways
H2 What’s new for Apple developers
H2 Apple Developer Program
H2 Developer Footer
H3 Quick Links
H3 Platforms
H3 Tools
H3 Topics & Technologies
H3 Resources
H3 Support
H3 Account
H3 Programs
H3 Events
H4 WWDC25 is happening now.
H4 Apple Design Awards
H4 Meet with Apple
H4 iOS 26
H4 iPadOS 26
H4 macOS 26
H4 tvOS 26
H4 visionOS 26
H4 watchOS 26
H5 Join us online for a week of technology and creativity.
H5 Congratulations to this year's winners and finalists.
H5 Explore worldwide activities.
H5 Your first step to creating for Apple platforms. All you need is a Mac and an idea.
H5 Discover even more new and updated technologies across Apple platforms, so you can create your best apps yet.
H5 Join the Apple Developer Program to reach customers around the world on the App Store for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro. You’ll also get access to beta software, ad...
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.
13 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://developer.apple.com/Anchor Global Nav Open Menu
https://developer.apple.com/Apple Developer
/search/Search Cancel
https://developer.apple.com/Text duplicate Apple Developer
https://developer.apple.com/news/News
/discover/Discover
/design/Design
/develop/Develop
/distribute/Distribute
/support/Support
/account/Account
/search/No Text
/wwdc25/?cid=ht-wwdc25-largeNo Text
/design/awards/?cid=ht-ada25No Text
/events/view/upcoming-events?c...No Text
/pathways/?cid=ht-pathwaysNo Text
https://developer.apple.com/ios/No Text
/ipados/No Text
/macos/No Text
https://developer.apple.com/tvos/No Text
/visionos/No Text
/watchos/No Text
/whats-new/No Text
/programs/No Text
/download/Subdomain Downloads Get the latest SDKs and beta operating systems for all Apple platforms. Download resources
/documentation/Documentation Browse the latest documentation including API reference, articles, and sample code. Read documentation
/videos/Videos Learn about the latest technologies presented at Apple developer events. Watch videos
/forums/Forums Ask questions and discuss development topics with Apple engineers and other developers. View forums
https://developer.apple.com/Anchor Open Menu
https://developer.apple.com/ios/iOS
/ipados/iPadOS
/macos/macOS
https://developer.apple.com/tvos/tvOS
/visionos/visionOS
/watchos/watchOS
https://developer.apple.com/Anchor Text duplicate Open Menu
/swift/Swift
/swiftui/SwiftUI
/swift-playground/Swift Playground
/testflight/TestFlight
/xcode/Xcode
/xcode-cloud/Xcode Cloud
/sf-symbols/SF Symbols
https://developer.apple.com/Anchor Text duplicate Open Menu
/accessibility/Accessibility
/accessories/Accessories
/app-extensions/App Extensions
/app-store/App Store
/audio/Audio & Video
/augmented-reality/Augmented Reality
/design/Text duplicate Design
/distribute/Distribution
/education/Education
/fonts/Fonts
/games/Games
/health-fitness/Health & Fitness
/in-app-purchase/In-App Purchase
/localization/Localization
https://developer.apple.com/maps/Maps & Location
/machine-learning/Machine Learning
https://opensource.apple.com/External Subdomain Open Source
/security/Security
/safari/Safari & Web
https://developer.apple.com/Anchor Text duplicate Open Menu
/documentation/Documentation
/learn/Tutorials
/download/Downloads
/forums/Forums
/videos/Videos
https://developer.apple.com/Anchor Text duplicate Open Menu
/support/articles/Support Articles
/contact/Contact Us
/bug-reporting/Bug Reporting
/system-status/System Status
https://developer.apple.com/Anchor Text duplicate Open Menu
/account/Text duplicate Apple Developer
https://appstoreconnect.apple....External Subdomain App Store Connect
/account/ios/certificate/Certificates, IDs, & Profiles
https://feedbackassistant.appl...External Subdomain Feedback Assistant
https://developer.apple.com/Anchor Text duplicate Open Menu
/programs/Apple Developer Program
/programs/enterprise/Apple Developer Enterprise Program
/app-store/small-business-prog...App Store Small Business Program
https://mfi.apple.com/External Subdomain MFi Program
/programs/news-partner/News Partner Program
/programs/video-partner/Video Partner Program
/security-bounty/Security Bounty Program
/programs/security-research-de...Security Research Device Program
https://developer.apple.com/Anchor Text duplicate Open Menu
/events/Meet with Apple
/events/developer-centers/Apple Developer Centers
/app-store/app-store-awards/App Store Awards
/design/awards/Apple Design Awards
/academies/Apple Developer Academies
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/WWDC
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/...External Subdomain Apple Developer app
https://www.apple.com/External Subdomain Apple Inc.
https://www.apple.com/legal/in...External Subdomain Terms of Use
https://www.apple.com/legal/pr...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
/support/terms/Agreements and Guidelines

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://developer.apple.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 14 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 15 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.31 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (43 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
serverApple
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x-content-type-optionsnosniff
cache-controlmax-age=60, public
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
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x-cachehit-fresh, hit-fresh
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connectionkeep-alive
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 6,640 referring domains.
This page has 97,044 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 5,022 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

# robots.txt for http://developer.apple.com/
User-agent: *
Disallow: /click/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /survey/
Disallow: /temp/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /unsubscribe/
Disallow: /reference/

# Rules for Developer Forums

Disallow: /forums/create/question
Disallow: /forums/login
Disallow: /forums/preferences
Disallow: /forums/profile
Disallow: /forums/*?view

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