Eea.europa.eu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
74% 
Page quality
40% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
98% 
Server
89% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.43 s
File size
706.80 kB
Words
349
Media files
17
Number of links
44 internal / 19 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
European Environment Agency's home page
The length of the page title is perfect. (396 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The European Environment Agency provides sound, independent information on the environment for those involved in developing, adopting, implementing and evaluating environmental policy, and also the general public. In close collaboration with the European Environmental Information and Observation Network (Eionet) and its 32 member countries, the EEA gathers data and produces assessments on a wide range of topics related to the environment.
The meta description is too long: 2799 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.eea.europa.eu/en
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Ireland
The following language is defined by HTML: en
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
The alternate link to the page itself is missing.
A language definition is specified wrong in alternate links.
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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descriptionThe European Environment Agency provides sound, independent information on the environment for those involved in developing, adopting, implementing and evaluating environmental policy, and also the general public. In close collaboration with the European Environmental Information and Observation Network (Eionet) and its 32 member countries, the EEA gathers data and produces assessments on a wide range of topics related to the environment.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 349 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 27.5 words is high.
29.8% 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.
4 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)
The file size of the HTML document is very large (706.8 kB).
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
This page only loads 2 JavaScript files. That's good!
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
10 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
European Environment Agency's home page
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 European Environment Agency's home page
H2 Extreme weather in a changing climate: Is Europe prepared?
H2 What we do
H2 Water for people, nature and the economy
H2 At a glance
H2 EEA in numbers
H2 Our latest press releases
H3 Together with our Eionet network, we provide the knowledge and the data needed to achieve sustainability in Europe.
Baselink: /en/
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 19 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/Anchor Skip to navigation
https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/Anchor Skip to footer
https://europa.eu/european-uni...New window External See all EU institutions and bodies
https://www.eea.europa.eu/New window Subdomain European Environment Agency website
https://water.europa.eu/marineNew window External Subdomain WISE marine - Marine information system for Europe
https://water.europa.eu/freshw...New window External Subdomain WISE freshwater - Freshwater information system for Europe
https://biodiversity.europa.eu/New window External Subdomain BISE - Biodiversity information system for Europe
https://forest.eea.europa.eu/New window External Subdomain FISE - Forest information system for Europe
https://climate-adapt.eea.euro...New window External Subdomain European Climate and health observatory
https://climate-adapt.eea.euro...New window External Subdomain ClimateADAPT
https://industry.eea.europa.eu/New window External Subdomain European Industrial Emissions Portal
https://climate-energy.eea.eur...New window External Subdomain Climate and energy in the EU
https://land.copernicus.eu/enNew window External Subdomain Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
https://insitu.copernicus.eu/New window External Subdomain Copernicus InSitu
https://www.eea.europa.eu/enIMG-ALT European Environment Agency
A-TITLE Site
/en/topicsTopics
A-TITLE Topics
/en/analysisAnalysis and data
A-TITLE Analysis and data
/en/countriesCountries
A-TITLE Countries
/en/newsroomNewsroom
A-TITLE Newsroom
/en/aboutAbout us
A-TITLE About us
https://www.eea.europa.eu/enNo Text
/en/newsroom/news/extreme-weat...Read more in our press release
https://www.eea.europa.eu/enNo Text
https://www.eea.europa.eu/enNo Text
/en/about/who-we-areMore about us
https://www.eea.europa.eu/enNo Text
/en/newsroom/editorial/water-f...Read editorial by EEA Executive Director
/en/newsroom/news/anchoring-en...Leena Ylä-Mononen
https://www.eea.europa.eu/enNo Text
/en/topics/at-a-glance/state-o...State of Europe's environment
/en/topics/at-a-glance/natureNature
/en/topics/at-a-glance/healthHealth
/en/topics/at-a-glance/climateClimate
/en/topics/at-a-glance/economy...Economy and resources
/en/topics/at-a-glance/sustain...Sustainability
/en/topicsSee all topics
https://www.eea.europa.eu/enNo Text
/en/about/who-we-are/our-knowl...38 Member and cooperating countries
/en/about/key-partners600+ National partner institutions
/en/datahub200+ Datasets
/en/about/who-we-are/governanc...290+ Employees
/en/newsroom/newsSee all press releases
https://www.eea.europa.eu/Subdomain IMG-ALT EEA Logo
https://www.eionet.europa.eu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT EIONET Logo
/en/aboutText duplicate About us
/en/about/contact-us/faqsFAQs
/en/about/careersCareers
/en/about/contact-usContact us
/en/newsroom/newsletterSign up to our newsletter
/en/information-systemsExplore our environmental information systems
https://twitter.com/euenvironmentExternal No Text
https://www.facebook.com/Europ...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/user/E...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/oneh...External Subdomain No Text
https://bsky.app/profile/eea.e...External No Text
/en/privacyPrivacy statement
/en/accessibilityAccessibility
/en/legal-noticeLegal notice
/en/sitemapSitemap
https://status.eea.europa.eu/New window External Subdomain System status
/en/loginLogin

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.eea.europa.eu/en"
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 of 0.43 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 very large (707 kB).
This page only loads 2 CSS files. That's ok.
This page only loads 2 JavaScript files. That's good!

HTTP Response Header

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dateWed, 23 Jul 2025 05:43:14 GMT
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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 939 referring domains.
This page has 3,547 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 599 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

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Disallow: /XML
Disallow: /Control_Panel
Disallow: /sandbox
Disallow: /*/sandbox
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Disallow: /*login$
Disallow: /help/infocentre/enquiries
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Sitemap: https://www.eea.europa.eu/sitemap-index.xml

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www.eea.europa.eu
European Environment Agency's home page
The European Environment Agency provides sound, independent information on the environment for those involved in developing, adopting, implementing and evaluating environmental policy, and also the general public. In close collaboration with the European Environmental Information and Observation Network (Eionet) and its 32 member countries, the EEA gathers data and produces assessments on a wide range of topics related to the environment.

Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

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Environment77%Check
European Environment76%Check
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European75%Check
Agency75%Check
page62%Check
EEA60%Check
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