Nso.gov.mt - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
60% 
Page quality
86% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
48% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.48 s
File size
189.40 kB
Words
1004
Media files
47
Number of links
121 internal / 13 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
NSO Malta - Producing high-quality statistics and analysis for better decision making in Malta
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 830 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://nso.gov.mt/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: Canada
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
There are no alternate links specified on this page.
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 markup is not in the first line of your HTML document. There must be no white spaces before the doctype markup.
The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
google-site-verificationDAQqmOywxhycBsJW5MQA3UUdUbpZhCcNMlUBAJiKvA0
generatorElementor 3.21.8; features: e_optimized_assets_loading, e_optimized_css_loading, e_font_icon_svg, additional_custom_breakpoints; settings: css_print_method-external, google_font-enabled, font_display-swap
article:publisherhttps://www.facebook.com/nsomalta/
article:modified_time2025-06-13T12:59:54+00:00
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@NSOMALTA
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleHome - NSO Malta
og:urlhttps://nso.gov.mt/
og:site_nameNSO Malta
og:imagehttps://nso.gov.mt/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/home-finance-service-bg.jpg
og:image:width1920
og:image:height857
og:image:typeimage/jpeg
content-typetext/html;charset=UTF-8
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 27.82 words is high.
This page contains 1004 words. That's ok.
26.3% 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.
11 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.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 20 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
17 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.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
/wp-content/themes/nso/images/logo.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/themes/nso/images/logo.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/themes/nso/images/logo.pngNo alt attribute provided
...epress-multilingual-cms/res/flags/en.pngNo alt attribute provided
...epress-multilingual-cms/res/flags/mt.pngNo alt attribute provided
...t/uploads/RemoteTelephoneinterviewer.gifTransport Statistics Portal
...tent/uploads/shutterstock_1903297243.jpgRegistered Employment: January 2025
...ent/uploads/shutterstock_2272711773.webpJob Vacancy Survey: Q1/2025
...ntent/uploads/shutterstock_695475301.jpgLabour Force Survey: Q1/2025
...ntent/uploads/shutterstock_519502300.jpgResidential Property Transactions: May 2025
...tent/uploads/shutterstock_1341095657.jpgIndex of Industrial Production: April 2025
...ntent/uploads/shutterstock_526625740.jpgInternational Trade in Goods: April 2025
...tent/uploads/shutterstock_2144900281.jpgInbound Tourism: April 2025
...ent/uploads/shutterstock_593995922-2.jpgRegistered Unemployment: April 2025
...ntent/uploads/shutterstock_160814246.jpgGovernment Finance Data: January-April 2025
...ntent/uploads/shutterstock_365396963.jpgGross Domestic Product: Q1/2025
...ploads/shutterstock_161675378-scaled.jpgIndustrial Producer Price Indices: April 2025
/wp-content/uploads/database.webpNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/database_hover.webpNo alt attribute provided
...tent/uploads/Statistical_indicators.webpNo alt attribute provided
...ploads/statistical_indicators_hover.webpNo alt attribute provided
...ntent/uploads/historical_statistics.webpNo alt attribute provided
...uploads/historical_statistics_hover.webpNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/portal@4x.webpNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/portal_hover_1@4x.webpNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/SDGs-indicators@4x.webpNo alt attribute provided
...nt/uploads/SDGs-indicators_hover@4x.webpNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/news-ESCOP-scaled.webp20th anniversary of the ESCoP
.../uploads/Work-programme-News-scaled.webpWork Programme 2026-2028
...ntent/uploads/news_Transport-scaled.webpTransport Statistics Portal
/wp-content/uploads/Cover-01.webpQuality Management Framework 2025
...nt/uploads/FOR-WEB-ITGS-2024-scaled.webpInternational Trade in Goods Statistics MALTA 2024 (reference years 2018-2023)
/wp-content/uploads/FRONT-1-scaled.webpRegional Statistics MALTA 2024 Edition
/wp-content/uploads/Front-01-scaled.webpMalta Skills Survey: Final Report
...-Protection-Front-home-page--scaled.webpSocial Protection 2024 (reference years 2018-2022)
...oss-Domestic-Product-Q1-2025-scaled.webpGross Domestic Product: Q1/2025
...overnment-Debt-2024-01-01-01-scaled.webpStructure of General Government Debt 2024
...loads/SDG-Labour-Day-2025-01-scaled.webpInternational Workers Day
.../070_Gov-Debt-and-Deficit-01-scaled.webpGovernment Debt and Deficit under the Maastricht Treaty 2024
/wp-content/uploads/RPT_Updated-scaled.webpResidential Property Transactions: March 2025
...ds/Social-protection-2023-01-scaled.webpSocial Protection Expenditure: 2023
...48_EU-SILC-Wellbeing-2023-03-scaled.webpEU-SILC 2023: Well-being, Social and Health Indicators
/wp-content/uploads/HBS-1.webpHousehold Budget Survey
/wp-content/themes/nso/images/logo.pngNSO
...epress-multilingual-cms/res/flags/en.pngNo alt attribute provided
...epress-multilingual-cms/res/flags/mt.pngNo alt attribute provided
...kie-compliance/dist/images/gdpr-logo.pngNSO Malta

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.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H5 Help us serve you better!
H5 Registered Employment: January 2025
H5 LATEST NEWS RELEASES
H5 LATEST NEWS AND EVENTS
H5 MAPS BY THEME
H5 LATEST PUBLICATIONS
H5 Latest Infographics
H5 Are you taking part in a survey?
H5 Household Budget Survey
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
12 links don't have an anchor text.
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 13 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://forms.office.com/Pages...New window External Subdomain Click here!
https://nso.gov.mt/No Text
https://nso.gov.mt/Subdomain Home
https://nso.gov.mt/who-we-are/Subdomain Who we are
/organisation-structure/Organisation Structure
/annual-reports/Subdomain Annual reports
/work_programme/Subdomain Work Programme
https://nso.gov.mt/policies/Subdomain Policies
https://nso.gov.mt/legislation/Subdomain Legislation
https://nso.gov.mt/our-partners/Subdomain Our Partners
/how-to-find-us/Subdomain How to find us
https://nso.gov.mt/faqs/Subdomain FAQs
https://statdb.nso.gov.mt/New window External Subdomain Database
/selected-indicators/Subdomain Selected Indicators
https://sdgindicators.nso.gov.mt/External Subdomain SDG Indicators
/special-data-dissemination/National Summary Data Page
/statistical-databases-from-ot...Subdomain Statistical Databases from other International Organisations
/malta-blue-books/Subdomain Historical Statistics
/access-and-re-use-of-data/Subdomain Access and Re-use of Data
/access-to-microdata/Subdomain Access to Microdata
/census-of-population-and-hous...Subdomain Census of Population and Housing
/malta-skills-survey/Subdomain Malta Skills Survey
/taking-part-in-a-survey/Other NSO Surveys
https://nso.gov.mt/themes/Subdomain Themes
https://nso.gov.mt/calendars/Calendars
https://nso.gov.mt/news-releases/News Releases
/archived-news-releases/Subdomain Archived News Releases
/published-publications/Publications
https://nso.gov.mt/visualisation/Subdomain Visualisations
https://nso.gov.mt/maps/Subdomain Maps
/statistical-reports/Subdomain Statistical Reports
https://metadata.nso.gov.mt/External Subdomain Metadata
/commitment-on-confidence/Subdomain Commitment on Confidence
/peer-review-report/Subdomain Peer Review
/code-of-practice/Subdomain Code of Practice
/wp-content/uploads/MQ-POL-001...Subdomain Quality Policy
/wp-content/uploads/QMF-2025-D...Subdomain Quality Management Framework
/statistical-system-general-in...Subdomain General Information
/european-statistical-system/Subdomain European Statistical System
/statistical-system-maltas-sta...Subdomain Malta’s Statistical System
https://nso.gov.mt/Subdomain English
https://nso.gov.mt/mt/Subdomain Malti
/casual-part-time-remote-telep...Subdomain IMG-ALT Transport Statistics Portal
/labour-market/registered-empl...Subdomain Trivial anchor text
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/labour-market/job-vacancy-sur...Subdomain IMG-ALT Job Vacancy Survey: Q1/2025
A-TITLE Job Vacancy Survey: Q1/2025
/labour-market/job-vacancy-sur...Subdomain Text duplicate Job Vacancy Survey: Q1/2025
A-TITLE Job Vacancy Survey: Q1/2025
/labour-market/labour-force-su...Subdomain IMG-ALT Labour Force Survey: Q1/2025
A-TITLE Labour Force Survey: Q1/2025
/labour-market/labour-force-su...Subdomain Text duplicate Labour Force Survey: Q1/2025
A-TITLE Labour Force Survey: Q1/2025
/property/residential-property...Subdomain IMG-ALT Residential Property Transactions: May 2025
A-TITLE Residential Property Transactions: May 2025
/property/residential-property...Subdomain Text duplicate Residential Property Transactions: May 2025
A-TITLE Residential Property Transactions: May 2025
/short-term-business/index-of-...Subdomain IMG-ALT Index of Industrial Production: April 2025
A-TITLE Index of Industrial Production: April 2025
/short-term-business/index-of-...Subdomain Text duplicate Index of Industrial Production: April 2025
A-TITLE Index of Industrial Production: April 2025
/international-trade/internati...Subdomain IMG-ALT International Trade in Goods: April 2025
A-TITLE International Trade in Goods: April 2025
/international-trade/internati...Subdomain Text duplicate International Trade in Goods: April 2025
A-TITLE International Trade in Goods: April 2025
/tourism/inbound-tourism-april...Subdomain IMG-ALT Inbound Tourism: April 2025
A-TITLE Inbound Tourism: April 2025
/tourism/inbound-tourism-april...Subdomain Text duplicate Inbound Tourism: April 2025
A-TITLE Inbound Tourism: April 2025
/labour-market/registered-unem...Subdomain IMG-ALT Registered Unemployment: April 2025
A-TITLE Registered Unemployment: April 2025
/labour-market/registered-unem...Subdomain Text duplicate Registered Unemployment: April 2025
A-TITLE Registered Unemployment: April 2025
/public-finance/government-fin...Subdomain IMG-ALT Government Finance Data: January-April 2025
A-TITLE Government Finance Data: January-April 2025
/public-finance/government-fin...Subdomain Text duplicate Government Finance Data: January-April 2025
A-TITLE Government Finance Data: January-April 2025
/national-accounts/gross-domes...Subdomain IMG-ALT Gross Domestic Product: Q1/2025
A-TITLE Gross Domestic Product: Q1/2025
/national-accounts/gross-domes...Subdomain Text duplicate Gross Domestic Product: Q1/2025
A-TITLE Gross Domestic Product: Q1/2025
/short-term-business/industria...Subdomain IMG-ALT Industrial Producer Price Indices: April 2025
A-TITLE Industrial Producer Price Indices: April 2025
/short-term-business/industria...Subdomain Text duplicate Industrial Producer Price Indices: April 2025
A-TITLE Industrial Producer Price Indices: April 2025
https://statdb.nso.gov.mt/External Subdomain Database Database
/selected-indicators/Subdomain Selected Indicators Selected Indicators
/malta-blue-books-2/Subdomain Historical Statistics Historical Statistics
/transport-portal/Subdomain Transport Portal Transport Portal
/sustainable-development-goals/Subdomain SDGs Indicators SDGs Indicators
/events/20th-anniversary-of-th...Subdomain IMG-ALT 20th anniversary of the ESCoP
A-TITLE 20th anniversary of the ESCoP
/events/20th-anniversary-of-th...Subdomain Text duplicate 20th anniversary of the ESCoP
/events/work-programme-2026-2028/Subdomain IMG-ALT Work Programme 2026-2028
A-TITLE Work Programme 2026-2028
/events/work-programme-2026-2028/Subdomain Text duplicate Work Programme 2026-2028
/events/transport-statistics-p...Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Transport Statistics Portal
A-TITLE Transport Statistics Portal
/events/transport-statistics-p...Subdomain Text duplicate Transport Statistics Portal
/industry-and-services/Subdomain Industry and services
/population-and-social-conditi...Subdomain Population and Social Conditions
/environment-energy-and-transp...Subdomain Environment, Energy and Transport
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/s...External Subdomain Text duplicate Census of Population and Housing
/spatial-divisions-for-malta/Subdomain Spatial Divisions for MALTA
/themes_publications/quality-m...Subdomain No Text
/themes_publications/quality-m...Subdomain View more
/themes_publications/internati...Subdomain No Text
/themes_publications/internati...Subdomain Text duplicate View more
/themes_publications/regional-...Subdomain No Text
/themes_publications/regional-...Subdomain Text duplicate View more
/themes_publications/malta-ski...Subdomain No Text
/themes_publications/malta-ski...Subdomain Text duplicate View more
/themes_publications/social-pr...Subdomain No Text
/themes_publications/social-pr...Subdomain Text duplicate View more
/themes_infographics/gross-dom...Subdomain No Text
/themes_infographics/gross-dom...Subdomain Text duplicate View more
/themes_infographics/structure...Subdomain No Text
/themes_infographics/structure...Subdomain Text duplicate View more
/themes_infographics/internati...Subdomain No Text
/themes_infographics/internati...Subdomain Text duplicate View more
/themes_infographics/governmen...Subdomain No Text
/themes_infographics/governmen...Subdomain Text duplicate View more
/themes_infographics/residenti...Subdomain No Text
/themes_infographics/residenti...Subdomain Text duplicate View more
/themes_infographics/social-pr...Subdomain No Text
/themes_infographics/social-pr...Subdomain Text duplicate View more
/themes_infographics/eu-silc-2...Subdomain No Text
/themes_infographics/eu-silc-2...Subdomain Text duplicate View more
/taking-part-in-a-survey/Subdomain Go to surveys
https://nso.gov.mt/hbs/Subdomain IMG-ALT Household Budget Survey
https://nso.gov.mt/IMG-ALT NSO
https://www.facebook.com/nsoma...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/NSOMALTANew window External No Text
https://www.instagram.com/nsom...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://nso.gov.mt/who-we-are/About NSO
/Jobopportunities/Job opportunities
https://nso.gov.mt/contact-us/Contact us
https://nso.gov.mt/media/Media
/wp-content/uploads/Quality-Se...Subdomain Quality Service Charter
https://workflow.gov.mt/Runtim...External Subdomain Data requests
/nsos-business-register/NACE Queries
https://nso.gov.mt/news-releases/News releases
/published-publications/Text duplicate Publications
https://nso.gov.mt/calendars/Text duplicate Calendars
https://nso.gov.mt/procurement/Subdomain Procurement
https://nso.gov.mt/accessibbilta/Subdomain Accessibility
/privacy-policy/Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://nso.gov.mt/terms-of-use/Subdomain Terms of use
/freedom-of-information-act/Subdomain Freedom of Information
/inflation-calculator/Inflation Calculator
https://nso.gov.mt/calendars/New window News releases calendar
https://workflow.gov.mt/Runtim...New window External Subdomain Request for Information
/nsos-business-register/NACE Code queries
https://nso.gov.mt/Subdomain Text duplicate English
https://nso.gov.mt/mt/Subdomain Text duplicate Malti
https://nso.gov.mt/Anchor Skip to content
https://wordpress.org/plugins/...New window External Powered by GDPR Cookie Compliance

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://nso.gov.mt/"
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 (1.48 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 (189 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateTue, 17 Jun 2025 08:01:03 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
access-control-allow-originhttps://nso.gov.mt
varyOrigin,Accept-Encoding
access-control-allow-methodsGET, POST, OPTIONS
access-control-allow-headersOrigin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept, Authorization
access-control-allow-credentialstrue
set-cookie99 Characters
referrer-policyunsafe-url
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
servercloudflare
cf-ray95110442a96f9e5d-CDG
content-encodinggzip
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 543 referring domains.
This page has 741 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 196 different ip addresses.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
NSO61%Check
NSO Malta55%Check
statistics49%Check
better49%Check
Malta48%Check
Quality48%Check
high-quality statistics48%Check
better decision48%Check
Producing high-quality statistics47%Check
better decision making47%Check

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