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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
75% 
Page quality
58% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.49 s
File size
167.80 kB
Words
544
Media files
6
Number of links
27 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
IBM
The page title is too short. (34 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)
For more than a century, IBM has been a global technology innovator, leading advances in AI, automation and hybrid cloud solutions that help businesses grow.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (979 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.ibm.com/us-en
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)
A country is specified wrong in alternate links: en-uk
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

NameValue
languageCodeen
countryCodeus
searchTitleIBM
focusAreaCross IBM SDRs
descriptionFor more than a century, IBM has been a global technology innovator, leading advances in AI, automation and hybrid cloud solutions that help businesses grow.
templatefull-width-layout
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large
langen
og:urlhttps://www.ibm.com/us-en
og:typewebsite
og:titleIBM
og:descriptionFor more than a century, IBM has been a global technology innovator, leading advances in AI, automation and hybrid cloud solutions that help businesses grow.
og:imagehttps://www.ibm.com/content/dam/connectedassets-adobe-cms/worldwide-content/creative-assets/s-migr/ul/g/18/f9/ibm_logo_pos_blue60_rgb.png/_jcr_content/renditions/cq5dam.thumbnail.1280.1280.png
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
These Typos were found:
  • cmo => com
The average number of words per sentence of 163 words is high.
This page contains 544 words. That's ok.
29.6% of the text are stop words.
8 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)
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 usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 11 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
...ents-dco-native?ts=1751036575796&dpr=offPaid media asset for DCO native ads for AI Agents launch
...te-homepage-1-1?ts=1751036576331&dpr=offMaximo real estate and facilities management 1:1
...resized_568x320?ts=1751036576886&dpr=offAbstract stack of papers with an award
...ators-ls-medium?ts=1751036577449&dpr=offAI Value Creators ebook leadspace - medium
...romotion-banner?ts=1751036581506&dpr=offOffers and discount promotion banner of a shopping bag with celebratory confetti coming out

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
AI is revolutionizing marketing growth
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 AI is revolutionizing marketing growth
H2 Developer toolkit
H2 Technology and consulting
H4 Build, learn, deploy
H4 Why IBM?
H5 Recommended for you
H5 Empty heading
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
11 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/thought-leadership/institute-...Subdomain Read the full CMO report
/consulting/marketing?lnk=hpls2usSubdomain Explore our marketing consulting services
https://newsroom.ibm.com/blog-...External Subdomain No Text
/products/maximo/real-estate-f...Subdomain No Text
/account/reg/signup?formid=urx...New window Subdomain No Text
/campaign/ai-value-creators?ln...Subdomain No Text
/granite?lnk=hpdev1usSubdomain Start building with IBM Granite® models
https://developer.ibm.com/tech...External Subdomain Explore AI courses, APIs, data sets and more
https://skillsbuild.org/?lnk=h...New window External Power your future, build your dev skills
/new/announcements/agentic-ai-...Subdomain Monitor agentic AI performance with watsonx.governance
/new/announcements/ibm-named-a...Subdomain Read why Gartner named IBM a Leader in Data Science and ML
/new/announcements/ibm-leader-...Subdomain Discover why Omdia ranked IBM a Leader in IDE Assistants
/products/watsonx-code-assista...New window Subdomain Get 25% off watsonx Code Assistant™ Essentials
/products/watsonx-ai?lnk=hpdev8usSubdomain Pick your open-source model and start building with watsonx.ai®
/products/offers-and-discounts...Subdomain Get the latest offers
/artificial-intelligence?lnk=h...Subdomain next-generation AI
/solutions/hybrid-cloudSubdomain hybrid cloud solutions
/consulting?lnk=hpfp3usSubdomain IBM Consulting®
/artificial-intelligence?lnk=h...Subdomain No Text
/granite?lnk=hpfp5usSubdomain No Text
/consulting?lnk=hpfp6usSubdomain No Text
/solutions/analytics?lnk=hpfp7usSubdomain No Text
/solutions/automation?lnk=hpfp8usSubdomain No Text
/solutions/serversSubdomain No Text
/solutions/databaseSubdomain No Text
/solutions/security?lnk=hpfp11usSubdomain No Text
/about?lnk=hpii1usSubdomain About IBM
/history?lnk=hpii1usSubdomain Our history
https://research.ibm.com/?lnk=...New window External Subdomain IBM Research
/quantum?lnk=hpii1usSubdomain Quantum computing
/careers?lnk=hpii1usSubdomain Become an IBMer
https://skillsbuild.org/?lnk=h...New window External Start learning

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.ibm.com/us-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 0.49 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 fine (168 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-security-policyupgrade-insecure-requests
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
last-modifiedMon, 30 Jun 2025 08:02:38 GMT
etagW/"29dac-638c5738dcca8-gzip"
accept-rangesbytes
content-typetext/html;charset=utf-8
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
cache-controlmax-age=600
expiresMon, 30 Jun 2025 08:19:06 GMT
x-akamai-transformed0 - 0 -
content-encodinggzip
dateMon, 30 Jun 2025 08:09:06 GMT
content-length32695
varyAccept-Encoding
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
set-cookie589 Characters
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 8,228 referring domains.
This page has 349,474 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 4,930 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /account/registration
Disallow: /account/mypro
Disallow: /account/myint
Disallow: /Admin
Disallow: /cgi-
Disallow: /contact/employees/servlets
Disallow: /data/
Disallow: /db2s
Disallow: /developerworks/*-pdf.pdf$
Disallow: /developerworks/forums/servlet
Disallow: /developerworks/forums/abuse
Disallow: /developerworks/forums/post
Disallow: /docs/api
Disallow: /fcgi-
Disallow: /fscripts
# Disallow: /homepage
Disallow: /image
Disallow: /mashupmaker
Disallow: /mysupport/s/forumshome
Disallow: /mysupport/s/forumsproduct
Disallow: /mysupport/s/forumsquestion
Disallow: /partnerworld/portal
Disallow: /portal/home
Disallow: /products/finder
Disallow: /profiles
Disallow: /scripts
Disallow: /Scripts
Disallow: /search/?
Disallow: /Search
Disallow: /smartmarket/*/productListInitial.action?
Disallow: /standards
Disallow: /support/knowledgecenter/api
Disallow: /support/knowledgecenter/v1
Disallow: /survey
Disallow: /testing
Disallow: /tmp
Disallow: /vrm/bin/sendThisPage
Disallow: /webmaster
Disallow: /zx
Disallow: /zz
Disallow: /*.ssi$
Disallow: /account/myibm/InterestsEdit.do
Disallow: /wcs
Disallow: /wcsstore
Disallow: /webapp
Disallow: /web/portal/software/websphere
Disallow: /common/austin-summit
Disallow: /link
Disallow: /links
Disallow: /web/portal/commerce 
Disallow: /industries/clients
Disallow: /standards
# Disallow: /internal
Disallow: /test
Disallow: /test-kick-tires
Disallow: /test-v1-page-template
Disallow: /product-detail
Disallow: /watson/assets/pdfs/reg
Disallow: /zprod-ease
Disallow: /zProd-ease
Disallow: /zshowcase
Disallow: /widgets-admin
Disallow: /w3

sitemap: https://www.ibm.com/homepage_sitemap.xml
sitemap: https://www.ibm.com/content/dam/adobe-cms/IBM_Adobe_Sitemap.xml
sitemap: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/sitemap.xml
sitemap: https://www.ibm.com/docs/sitemap.xml
sitemap: https://www.ibm.com/blog/sitemap_index.xml
sitemap: https://www.ibm.com/granite/playground/sitemap-index.xml
sitemap: https://www.ibm.com/granite/docs/sitemap-index.xml
sitemap: https://www.ibm.com/us-en.sitemap.new-news-sitemap.xml
sitemap: https://www.ibm.com/us-en.sitemap.think-news-news-sitemap.xml

User-agent: Fast corporate crawler
Disallow: //
Disallow: /account/registration
Disallow: /account/mypro
Disallow: /account/myint
Disallow: /Admin
Disallow: /cgi-
Disallow: /common
Disallow: /contact/employees/servlets
Disallow: /data/
Disallow: /db2s
Disallow: /developerworks
Disallow: /fcgi-
Disallow: /fscripts
Disallow: /homepage
Disallow: /i/
Disallow: /image
Disallow: /investor
Disallow: /link
Disallow: /mashupmaker
Disallow: /portal/home
Disallow: /products/finder
Disallow: /profiles
Disallow: /SametimeWebApp
Disallow: /scripts
Disallow: /Scripts
Disallow: /search/?
Disallow: /Search
Disallow: /survey
Disallow: /tmp
Disallow: /vrm/bin/sendThisPage
Disallow: /webmaster
Disallow: /zx
Disallow: /zz

User-agent: 008
Disallow: /smartmarket

# Added for IN4173782 on 7Aug2013
User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow: /connections/

# Added for IN4177562 on 8Aug2013
User-agent: magpie-crawler/1.1
Disallow: /connections/

# Added for IN4177562 on 8Aug2013
User-agent: MagpieRSS
Disallow: /connections/   

User-agent: psnsearch
Disallow: /developerworks/wikis/login.action

# Added to block site mirroring
User-agent: HTTrack
Disallow: /


User-agent: Acrolinx-bot
# Disallow: //
Disallow: /account/registration
Disallow: /account/mypro
Disallow: /account/myint
Disallow: /Admin
Disallow: /cgi-
Disallow: /contact/employees/servlets
Disallow: /data/
Disallow: /db2s
Disallow: /developerworks/*-pdf.pdf$
Disallow: /developerworks/forums/servlet
Disallow: /developerworks/forums/abuse
Disallow: /developerworks/forums/post
Disallow: /docs/api
Disallow: /fcgi-
Disallow: /fscripts
# Disallow: /homepage
Disallow: /image
Disallow: /mashupmaker
Disallow: /mysupport/s/forumshome
Disallow: /mysupport/s/forumsproduct
Disallow: /mysupport/s/forumsquestion
Disallow: /partnerworld/portal
Disallow: /portal/home
Disallow: /products/finder
Disallow: /profiles
Disallow: /scripts
Disallow: /Scripts
Disallow: /search/?
Disallow: /Search
Disallow: /smartmarket/*/productListInitial.action?
Disallow: /standards
Disallow: /support/knowledgecenter/api
Disallow: /support/knowledgecenter/v1
Disallow: /survey
Disallow: /testing
Disallow: /tmp
Disallow: /vrm/bin/sendThisPage
Disallow: /webmaster
Disallow: /zx
Disallow: /zz
Disallow: /*.ssi$
Disallow: /account/myibm/InterestsEdit.do
Disallow: /wcs
Disallow: /wcsstore
Disallow: /webapp
Disallow: /web/portal/software/websphere
Disallow: /common/austin-summit
Disallow: /link
Disallow: /links
Disallow: /web/portal/commerce 
Disallow: /industries/clients
Disallow: /standards
# Disallow: /internal
Disallow: /test
Disallow: /test-kick-tires
# Added for EI-2179 on 17Apr2020
Disallow: /test-v1-page-template
Disallow: /product-detail
Disallow: /watson/assets/pdfs/reg
# Added by JLiao for SD EI-2359,EI-2360 on 23Jun2020
Disallow: /zprod-ease
Disallow: /zProd-ease
#Added for EI-2216 on 06May2020 
Disallow: /zshowcase

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For more than a century, IBM has been a global technology innovator, leading advances in AI, automation and hybrid cloud solutions that help businesses grow.

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