Icarus.mpg.de - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
80% 
Server
97% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.45 s
File size
228.00 kB
Words
184
Media files
8
Number of links
43 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Homepage - Animal Sensors Website
The length of the page title is perfect. (332 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Icarus uses satellite and miniature transmitter techniques to track animals around the globe. It will not only enable scientists to monitor animal migration, but also to gain more knowledge about the state of our planet.
The meta description is too long: 1317 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.icarus.mpg.de/en
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
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)
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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keywordsicarus, tracking, animals, migration, sensors
descriptionIcarus uses satellite and miniature transmitter techniques to track animals around the globe. It will not only enable scientists to monitor animal migration, but also to gain more knowledge about the state of our planet.
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og:titleHomepage - Animal Sensors Website
og:descriptionIcarus uses satellite and miniature transmitter techniques to track animals around the globe. It will not only enable scientists to monitor animal migration, but also to gain more knowledge about the state of our planet.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 184 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
22.3% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 14.25 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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 6 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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 ICARUS returns to space
H2 ICARUS
H2 Quick Links
H3 Projects
H3 Animal Tracker App
H3 Knowledge
H3 Movebank
H3 Technology
H3 News
H3 News Duplicate text
H4 Icarus returns to space
H4 A New Global Network for the Study of Animal Movement
H4 Bats surf storm fronts during continental migration
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
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.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.icarus.mpg.de/enNo Text
https://www.icarus.mpg.de/deDeutsch
/28056/about-icarusWho we are
/103830/privacy-policyPrivacy Policy
/103842/open-source-policyOpen Source Policy
/128990/knowledgeNew window Knowledge
/142519/icarus-a-historyICARUS: a history
/130058/icarus-internet-of-ani...The Internet of animals
/129553/conservation-tracking-...Conservation
/129581/healthy-animals-health...Disease
/129610/animals-warning-sensorsNatural Disasters
/129652/projectsProjects
/4146/technologyNew window Technology
/28874/sensor-animals-trackingTransmitter
/28939/data-transmission-trackingData transmission
/28987/iss-receivers-sensorsReceivers in space
/29033/movebank-tracking-animalsData analysis
/4171/citizen-scienceCitizen science
/29143/animal-tracker-appAnimal Tracker App
/from-the-researchNews
/45529/videosVideos
https://www.icarus.mpg.de/deText duplicate Deutsch
/126426/news_publication_25661...ICARUS returns to space The pioneering system of global wildlife tracking resumes after three-year pause
IMG-ALT GENA-OT launch on Falcon 9 rocket
/28056/about-icarusICARUS ICARUS stands for International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space. Scientists taking part in the ICARUS initiative are working together to s...
IMG-ALT Elephant aereas
/129652/projectsIMG-ALT Cheetah Namibia
/129652/projectsText duplicate Projects
/29143/animal-tracker-appText duplicate IMG-ALT Animal Tracker App
/29143/animal-tracker-appText duplicate Animal Tracker App
/128990/knowledgeText duplicate IMG-ALT Knowledge
/128990/knowledgeText duplicate Knowledge
https://www.movebank.org/cms/m...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT movebank
https://www.movebank.org/cms/m...New window External Subdomain Movebank
/4146/technologyIMG-ALT Satellite
/4146/technologyText duplicate Technology
/from-the-researchIMG-ALT Soyus launch 2018
/from-the-researchText duplicate News
/126426/news_publication_25661...Icarus returns to space
/126821/news_publication_25664...A New Global Network for the Study of Animal Movement
/123113/news_publication_23893...Bats surf storm fronts during continental migration
https://www.icarus.mpg.de/enAnchor Top
https://www.mpg.de/enNew window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.mpg.de/enNew window External Subdomain Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
/2603/imprintImprint
/34156/data-collection-informa...Text duplicate Privacy Policy
/125737/declaration-on-accessi...Accessibility
/2579/sitemapSitemap
/en?print=yesNofollow Open in new window
https://icarus.iedit.mpg.de/24...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Go to Editor View
A-TITLE https://icarus.iedit.mpg.de/2482/en

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.icarus.mpg.de/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 0.45 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 (228 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
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set-cookie421 Characters
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status200 OK
varyAccept-Encoding
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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 167 referring domains.
This page has 999 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 130 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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User-agent: *
Sitemap: https://www.icarus.mpg.de/sitemap.xml

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www.icarus.mpg.de
Homepage - Animal Sensors Website
Icarus uses satellite and miniature transmitter techniques to track animals around the globe. It will not only enable scientists to monitor animal migration, but also to gain more knowledge about the state of our planet.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Animal72%Check
Icarus65%Check
Knowledge56%Check
ICARUS returns56%Check
migration55%Check
animals51%Check
Transmitter51%Check
Scientists51%Check
Page51%Check
space47%Check
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