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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
77% 
Page quality
81% 
Page structure
72% 
Link structure
91% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.20 s
File size
71.80 kB
Words
859
Media files
18
Number of links
84 internal / 25 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
EPFL
The page title is too short. (49 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
The page title is only one word.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Based in Lausanne (Switzerland), EPFL is a university whose three missions are education, research and innovation.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (719 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.epfl.ch/en/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-gb
Server location: Switzerland
The following language is defined by HTML: en-gb
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
Language for link pointing to page itself inaccurate
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

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robotsmax-image-preview:large
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descriptionBased in Lausanne (Switzerland), EPFL is a university whose three missions are education, research and innovation.
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twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:titleHome
twitter:descriptionBased in Lausanne (Switzerland), EPFL is a university whose three missions are education, research and innovation.
twitter:imagehttps://www.epfl.ch/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/EPFL-vue-aerienne.jpg
fb:app_id966242223397117
og:typewebsite
og:site_nameEPFL
og:titleHome
og:descriptionBased in Lausanne (Switzerland), EPFL is a university whose three missions are education, research and innovation.
og:urlhttps://www.epfl.ch/en/
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og:localeen_GB
og:locale:alternatede_DE
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 859 words. That's ok.
27.7% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
12 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 17.52 words is good.
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 amount of tags is very high (26). We recommend using a maximum of 17 tags for this page.
The following tag is repeated too often: conferences – seminars
Some tags are too long. With 208 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"curators: prof. sarah kenderdine, epfl em+ / epfl pavilions prof. martin rohrmeier, epfl dcml prof. pa..."
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
5 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
...s/wp-theme-2018/assets/svg/epfl-logo.svgLogo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
actu.epfl.ch/image/154567/1440x810.jpgTo achieve its energy targets, Switzerland must massively expand photovoltaics and wind energy. © Anastasija Radenkovic / iStock
actu.epfl.ch/image/154574/768x432.jpg© 2025 EPFL/ Daryl Jeker© 2025 EPFL/ Daryl Jeker
actu.epfl.ch/image/154446/768x432.jpgAlumnus Daniel Yanisse, CEO and co-founder of Checkr. © 2025 CheckrAlumnus Daniel Yanisse, CEO and co-founder of Checkr. © 2025 Checkr
actu.epfl.ch/image/154424/768x432.jpgMaléna Bastien Masse - 2025 EPFL/Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0Maléna Bastien Masse - 2025 EPFL/Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0
...-magazine-16-IA-generative-1920x1080.jpgCouverture du 16e numéro du magazine Dimensions. Sur la couverture, un renard, de face, dessiné à la main
/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/EPFL-logo.pngLogo of the EPFL
/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Facultes.pngSchools and Colleges
/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Campus.pngRolex Learning Center
memento.epfl.ch/image/30512/509x286.jpgNo alt attribute provided
memento.epfl.ch/image/30565/509x286.jpgNo alt attribute provided
memento.epfl.ch/image/28433/509x286.jpgNo alt attribute provided
memento.epfl.ch/image/29624/509x286.jpgNo alt attribute provided
memento.epfl.ch/image/30101/509x286.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Education.pngA person reading a book
/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Recherche.pngAn atom
/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Innovation.pngA rocket
...ue-aerienne-Jamani-Caillet-1920x1080.jpgVue aérienne de l'EPFL © Jamani Caillet / EPFL, 2022

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
EPFL
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (4 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 EPFL
H2 Latest news
H2 Profiles
H2 Highlights
H2 About
H2 EPFL Memento
H2 Missions
H3 Where power will come from in 2050
H3 Appointment of EPFL professors
H3 Staking out a path to trustworthy AI
H3 “In these controversial times, how should we deal with truth?”
H3 "Europe and Switzerland need more innovation and tech companies"
H3 “Plenty more women deserved to be in this exhibition!”
H3 Taming generative AI
H3 Towards a Sustainable Space: Addressing the Challenges of the Final Frontier
H3 Visit EPFL
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 1 links with a trivial 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 25 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.epfl.ch/en/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.epfl.ch/en/Subdomain IMG-ALT Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
https://www.epfl.ch/about/Subdomain About
https://www.epfl.ch/education/Subdomain Education
https://www.epfl.ch/research/Subdomain Research
https://www.epfl.ch/innovation/Subdomain Innovation
https://www.epfl.ch/schools/Subdomain Schools
https://www.epfl.ch/campus/Subdomain Campus
https://www.epfl.ch/fr/Subdomain FR
https://www.epfl.ch/de/Subdomain DE
https://www.epfl.ch/about/Subdomain Text duplicate About
https://www.epfl.ch/education/Subdomain Text duplicate Education
https://www.epfl.ch/research/Subdomain Text duplicate Research
https://www.epfl.ch/innovation/Subdomain Text duplicate Innovation
https://www.epfl.ch/schools/Subdomain Text duplicate Schools
https://www.epfl.ch/campus/Subdomain Text duplicate Campus
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/pro-...External Subdomain Campus Situation
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/wher...External Subdomain Read moresur Tech Transfer.
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/wher...External Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Read more
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/appo...External Subdomain Appointment of EPFL professors 22.05.25NewsEPFL The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment of professors at EPFL.
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/stak...External Subdomain Staking out a path to trustworthy AI 21.05.25NewsResearch Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) suffers from several types of biases that reflect human ...
https://actu.epfl.ch/search/en...External Subdomain All news
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/in-t...External Subdomain “In these controversial times, how should we deal with truth?” 21.05.25Research Oleksandr Sushynskyi is a Ukrainian researcher, art historian, and theorist i...
IMG-ALT © 2025 EPFL/ Daryl Jeker
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/euro...External Subdomain "Europe and Switzerland need more innovation and tech companies" 19.05.25EPFL EPFL alumnus Daniel Yanisse is the CEO and co-founder of Checkr, the first auto...
IMG-ALT Alumnus Daniel Yanisse, CEO and co-founder of Checkr. © 2025 Checkr
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/plen...External Subdomain “Plenty more women deserved to be in this exhibition!” 15.05.25Events "Queens of Structure" is a traveling exhibition celebrating the work of over 20 leading...
IMG-ALT Maléna Bastien Masse - 2025 EPFL/Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0
https://actu.epfl.ch/search/pe...External Subdomain View all profile articles
/about/news-and-media/dimensio...Subdomain Read the magazine
/about/news-and-media/dimensio...Subdomain Text duplicate Read the magazine
https://www.epfl.ch/about/Subdomain Overview
https://www.epfl.ch/schools/Subdomain Schools and Colleges
https://www.epfl.ch/campus/Subdomain Discover life on campus
https://memento.epfl.ch/event/...External Subdomain Towards a Sustainable Space: Addressing the Challenges of the Final Frontier Sustainability Series with Christophe Bonnal, Space Debris and Launcher Expert, ...
https://memento.epfl.ch/event/...External Subdomain LATSIS SYMPOSIUM 2025 : "Shaping microbial life in a changing environment" 08-07-202510-07-2025 With: List of speakers Place and room: SV 1717 Category: Conf...
https://memento.epfl.ch/event/...External Subdomain Musica ex Machina: Machines Thinking Musically 20-09-202429-06-2025 With: Curators: Prof. Sarah Kenderdine, EPFL eM+ / EPFL Pavilions Prof. Martin Rohrmeier,...
https://memento.epfl.ch/event/...External Subdomain Visite guidée du samedi — Musica ex Machina 20-09-202429-06-2025 Place and room: EPFL Pavilions, Pavilion B Category: Exhibitions
https://memento.epfl.ch/event/...External Subdomain Automated Induction for Proving Program Equivalence 26-05-202526-05-2025 With: Dragana MILOVANCEVIC Place and room: BC 420 Category: Thesis defenses
https://memento.epfl.ch/epflExternal Subdomain See all events
https://www.epfl.ch/education/Subdomain Our training courses
https://www.epfl.ch/research/Subdomain Research at EPFL
https://www.epfl.ch/innovation/Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
/campus/visitors/Subdomain Maps and directions
/campus/visitors/Subdomain Text duplicate Maps and directions
/about/overview/Subdomain Who we are
https://www.epfl.ch/about/campus/Subdomain Associated Campuses
https://www.epfl.ch/about/facts/Subdomain Facts
/about/presidency/Subdomain Presidency
/about/vice-presidencies/Subdomain Vice Presidencies
/about/working/Subdomain Working at EPFL
/about/recruiting/Subdomain Recruiting EPFL Talents
/about/news-and-media/Subdomain News & Media
/about/sustainability/Subdomain Sustainability
/about/equality/Subdomain Equality & Diversity
/about/respect/Subdomain Respect
/about/philanthropy/Subdomain Philanthropy
https://www.epflalumni.ch/New window External Subdomain EPFL Alumni
/education/bachelor/Subdomain Bachelor
/education/master/Subdomain Master
/education/phd/Subdomain Doctorate
/education/continuing-education/Subdomain Continuing Education
/education/international/en/Subdomain International
/education/teaching/Subdomain Teaching
/education/admission/Subdomain Admission
/education/studies/en/Subdomain Study Management
/education/educational-initiat...Subdomain Educational Initiatives
/education/education-and-scien...Subdomain Education & Science Outreach
/research/domains/Subdomain Research Domains
/research/faculty-members/Subdomain Faculty Members
/research/awards/Subdomain Awards & Prizes
/research/collaborate/Subdomain Collaborate With Our Researchers
/research/facilities/Subdomain EPFL Research Facilities
/research/access-technology/Subdomain Access Our Technologies
/research/ethic-statement/Subdomain Research Ethics
/research/experimentation-rese...Subdomain Research With Animals
/research/meet-the-support-uni...Subdomain Meet the Support Units For Research
/research/services/Subdomain Services to EPFL Laboratories
/research/open-science/Subdomain Open Science
/innovation/domains/Subdomain Innovation Initiatives
/innovation/industry/Subdomain Industry Collaboration
/innovation/startup/Subdomain Startup Launchpad
/campus/services/en/Subdomain Services & Resources
/campus/library/Subdomain Library
/campus/restaurants-shops-hotels/Subdomain Restaurants, Shops & Hotels
/campus/security-safety/en/Subdomain Security, Prevention & Health
/campus/sports/en/Subdomain Sports
/campus/community/Subdomain Community & Support
/campus/spiritual-care/en/Subdomain Chaplaincy
/campus/events/Subdomain Events
/campus/art-culture/Subdomain Arts & Culture
/campus/associations/Subdomain Associations
/campus/visitors/Subdomain Visit EPFL
/campus/mobility/Subdomain Mobility & Travel
https://www.epfl.ch/schools/enac/Subdomain School of Architecture, Civil & Environmental Engineering ENAC
https://www.epfl.ch/schools/sb/Subdomain School of Basic Sciences SB
https://sti.epfl.ch/External Subdomain School of Engineering STI
https://www.epfl.ch/schools/ic/Subdomain School of Computer & Communication Sciences IC
https://www.epfl.ch/schools/sv/Subdomain School of Life Sciences SV
https://www.epfl.ch/schools/cdm/Subdomain College of Management of Technology CDM
https://www.epfl.ch/schools/cdh/Subdomain College of Humanities CDH
/campus/services/en/Subdomain Text duplicate Services & Resources
/about/contact-en/Subdomain Contact
https://map.epfl.ch/?lang=enExternal Subdomain Map
https://www.facebook.com/epflc...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Follow us on Facebook
https://instagram.com/epflcampusNew window Nofollow External Follow us on Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Follow us on LinkedIn
https://x.com/epfl_enNew window Nofollow External Follow us on X
https://www.youtube.com/user/e...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Follow us on Youtube
/about/overview/regulations-an...Subdomain Accessibility
/about/overview/regulations-an...Subdomain Disclaimer
https://go.epfl.ch/privacy-pol...External Subdomain Privacy policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.epfl.ch/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 is slow (1.20 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (72 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 3,084 referring domains.
This page has 230,587 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,002 different ip addresses.

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