Op.europa.eu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
90% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
60% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.26 s
File size
357.00 kB
Words
382
Media files
22
Number of links
53 internal / 31 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Publications Office of the EU
The length of the page title is perfect. (327 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Easy access to EU publications of the EU institutions and bodies
The length of the meta description is perfect. (395 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://op.europa.eu/en/
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-gb
Server location: Netherlands
The following language is defined by HTML: en-gb
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
The alternate link to the page itself is missing.
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

NameValue
viewportinitial-scale=1.0, width=device-width
site-scope-id10184
descriptionEasy access to EU publications of the EU institutions and bodies
COPYRIGHT© European Union
google-site-verificationQ9ZkFowexp10LNVVFoJhwIMWwBTKoVV-afynQ2l2uCA
WT.cg_nHome
DCSext.langen
langen-gb
og:descriptionEasy access to EU publications of the EU institutions and bodies
og:localeen_GB
og:locale:alternatesv_SE
og:site_namePublications Office of the EU
og:titleHome - Publications Office of the EU
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://op.europa.eu/en/
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
No paragraphs were detected.
There are only 382 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
22.3% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "initial-scale=1.0, width=device-width" 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 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
16 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
/documents/d/dorie/logo-ec-header-svgEuropean Commission logo
...4-f3f0-4132-6f410ec3aadc?t=1698222466258Photo of Publications Office of the European Union
...f-3d0b-0978-ba93a7fe2368?t=1698222467611Photo of Publications Office of the European Union
/documents/10184/12168739/EU_Law-50.jpg/No alt attribute provided
/documents/10184/12168739/EU_Data-50.jpg/No alt attribute provided
...uments/10184/12168739/EU_Tenders-50.jpg/No alt attribute provided
...ments/10184/12168739/EU_Research-50.jpg/No alt attribute provided
...ments/10184/12168739/EU_Whoiswho-50.jpg/No alt attribute provided
...s/10184/12168739/EU_Publications-50.jpg/No alt attribute provided
...lications/resources-icon-eu-vocabulariesNo alt attribute provided
...-publications/resources-icon-web-archiveNo alt attribute provided
...ions/resources-icon-eu-librarians-cornerNo alt attribute provided
...blications/resources-icon-eu-style-guideNo alt attribute provided
...aw-and-publications/resources-icon-dorieNo alt attribute provided
...ons/resources-icon-accessible-publishingNo alt attribute provided
...jpg/09f5dc55-5567-c898-8047-6ba32e9f06deNo alt attribute provided
...png/a30e1bf9-8598-a7f1-513f-444269be5af1No alt attribute provided
...jpg/02eacd91-feaa-e8f9-6a49-157f03611db1No alt attribute provided
...jpg/dceeb444-4992-0fa1-2d77-cad152952640No alt attribute provided
/documents/d/global/logo-op-enPublications Office of the European Union
/documents/d/global/logo-eu-enEuropean-Union

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 EU law
H2 European data
H2 EU tenders
H2 EU research results
H2 EU Whoiswho
H2 EU publications
H2 Resources
H2 Publications Office of the European Union.
H2 European Union
H3 Europe Day 2025
H3 New Collaboration Channel on data.europa.eu
H3 EU Solidarity with Ukraine
H3 Widgets: small and powerful
H3 Need help?
H3 Follow us
H3 Legal
H3 About us
H3 Resources Duplicate text
H3 Tools
H3 Contact the EU
H3 Social media
H3 EU institutions and bodies
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.
4 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (31) on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://op.europa.eu/en/homeAnchor Skip to Content
https://commission.europa.eu/i...External Subdomain IMG-ALT European Commission logo
https://european-union.europa....External Subdomain Publications Office of the European Union
IMG-ALT Photo of Publications Office of the European Union
https://op.europa.eu/enSubdomain Text duplicate Publications Office of the European Union
/en/more-search-optionsSubdomain Advanced search
/web/eu-law-and-publications/b...Browse by subject
/web/eu-law-and-publications/l...Expert Search
/en/web/eu-law-and-publication...0 Basket X Basket items X This item has been added. Qty: x € x Subtotal € x Total € 0.0 View basket Checkout
IMG-ALT thumbnail
/en/web/eu-law-and-publication...View basket
/en/web/eu-law-and-publication...Checkout
/web/about-us/faqHelp
https://op.europa.eu/en/homeSubdomain Publications Office
https://op.europa.eu/lawSubdomain EU law
https://data.europa.eu/External Subdomain European data
/en/web/public-procurement/lan...Subdomain EU tenders
https://cordis.europa.eu/External Subdomain EU research results
/web/who-is-who/Subdomain EU Whoiswho
/web/general-publications/publ...Subdomain EU publications
https://op.europa.eu/en/homeText duplicate Publications Office
A-TITLE Publications Office of the EU
/web/about-us/faqText duplicate Help
https://op.europa.eu/lawSubdomain No Text
https://op.europa.eu/lawSubdomain Text duplicate EU law
https://data.europa.eu/enExternal Subdomain No Text
https://data.europa.eu/enExternal Subdomain Text duplicate European data
/en/web/public-procurement/lan...Subdomain No Text
/en/web/public-procurement/lan...Subdomain Text duplicate EU tenders
https://cordis.europa.eu/External Subdomain No Text
https://cordis.europa.eu/External Subdomain Text duplicate EU research results
/web/who-is-whoNo Text
/web/who-is-whoText duplicate EU Whoiswho
/web/general-publications/publ...No Text
/web/general-publications/publ...Text duplicate EU publications
/web/eu-vocabulariesEU Vocabularies
/web/euwebarchiveEU Web archive
/web/librarians-cornerLibrarian's corner
https://style-guide.europa.eu/External Subdomain Interinstitutional Style Guide
https://dorie.ec.europa.eu/External Subdomain DORIE
/web/accessibility/Accessible publishing
https://europe-day.europa.eu/i...External Subdomain No Text
https://europe-day.europa.eu/i...External Subdomain Europe Day 2025
https://data.europa.eu/dashboa...External Subdomain No Text
https://data.europa.eu/dashboa...External Subdomain New Collaboration Channel on data.europa.eu
https://eu-solidarity-ukraine....External Subdomain No Text
https://eu-solidarity-ukraine....External Subdomain EU Solidarity with Ukraine
https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/...External Subdomain No Text
https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/...External Subdomain Widgets: small and powerful
https://op.europa.eu/en/homeAnchor Previous
https://op.europa.eu/en/homeAnchor Next
https://op.europa.eu/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Publications Office of the European Union
https://op.europa.eu/Text duplicate Publications Office of the European Union
/web/about-us/contact-usContact
/web/about-us/sitemapSitemap
https://x.com/EUPublicationsExternal X/Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/EULaw...External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.instagram.com/eu_p...External Subdomain Instagram
http://www.youtube.com/user/Pu...External Subdomain YouTube
/web/about-us/legal-noticesLegal notices
/web/about-us/legal-notices/co...Cookies
/web/about-us/legal-notices/ac...Accessibility
/web/about-us/about-publicatio...Our mission, vision and values
/web/general-publications/news...Newsletter
/web/accessibility/Text duplicate Accessible publishing
https://op.europa.eu/web/cellar/Cellar
/web/general-publications/eu-appsEU Apps
/web/eu-vocabularies/Text duplicate EU Vocabularies
/web/euwebarchiveEU Web Archive
https://style-guide.europa.eu/en/External Subdomain Text duplicate Interinstitutional Style Guide
/web/librarians-cornerText duplicate Librarian's corner
/web/about-us/publishing-servi...(EU staff) Publishing services
/web/webtools/Web tools
https://european-union.europa....External Subdomain IMG-ALT European-Union
https://european-union.europa....External Subdomain europa.eu.
https://european-union.europa....External Subdomain Use other telephone options
https://european-union.europa....External Subdomain Write to us via our contact form
https://european-union.europa....External Subdomain Meet us at one of the EU centres
https://european-union.europa....External Subdomain Search for EU social media channels
https://european-union.europa....External Subdomain Search all EU institutions and bodies
/web/about-us/about-publicatio...About us
/web/about-us/contact-usText duplicate Contact
/web/about-us/legal-noticesText duplicate Legal notices
/web/about-us/sitemapText duplicate Sitemap
/web/about-us/legal-notices/co...Text duplicate Cookies
https://op.europa.eu/en/homeAnchor Top
A-TITLE go to the top of the page

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://op.europa.eu/en/home"
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 excellent with 0.26 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (357 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateMon, 19 May 2025 22:19:23 GMT
content-typetext/html;charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
set-cookie143 Characters
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresThu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
cache-controlprivate, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
pragmano-cache
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
x-cache-statusMISS
content-encodingbr
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 243 referring domains.
This page has 25,754 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 216 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /
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Sitemap: https://op.europa.eu/documents/d/global/sitemap_index-xml
# === Search-Related Pages ===
# Block search results and related filters
Disallow: /*/search-centre*
Disallow: /*/search-results*
Disallow: /*/search-by-theme*
Disallow: /*/more-search-options*
Disallow: /*/browse-by-subject*
Disallow: /*/linked-data*
Disallow: /*/advanced-sparql-query-editor*
# === Private User Pages (Dashboards, Profiles, etc.) ===
# Block private user-related pages
Disallow: /*/dashboard*
Disallow: /*/saved-annotations*
Disallow: /*/user-confirmation*
Disallow: /*/my-profile*
Disallow: /*/my-personalisation-rules*
Disallow: /*/my-portal*
Disallow: /*/my-searches*
Disallow: /*/my-alerts*
Disallow: /*/my-rss-feeds*
Disallow: /*/my-publications*
Disallow: /*/my-addresses*
Disallow: /*/my-lists*
Disallow: /*/my-widgets*
Disallow: /*/my-ratings*
Disallow: /*/my-orders*
 
# === Logout and Basket Pages ===
Disallow: /c/portal/
Disallow: /*/basket
 
# === Bookshop and Private Content ===
Disallow: /new-bookshop/
Disallow: /dempubweb
 
# === RDF & WebDAV Requests ===
Disallow: *requestAction=rdf
Disallow: /webdav/*
 
# === EU Open Data Days and Staging Pages ===
Disallow: /*/web/euopendatadays*
 
# === Publication URLs and Manifestations ===
Disallow: /*prodSystem-*
Disallow: /*/publication-detail/-/publication/*/format-*
Disallow: /publication/doi/
Disallow: /publication/manifestation_identifier/
Disallow: /publication/catalogue_number/
Disallow: /lastedition/
 
# === Duplicate URLs & Redirection Rules ===
Disallow: /eu-law-and-publications/
Disallow: /*/who-is-who/person/-/person/*/
 
# === Dataset Version and Wrong URLs ===
Disallow: /*/eu-vocabularies/dataset/*version
 
# === Short URL & Redirection Blocking ===
Disallow: /s/*
Disallow: /*shortUrl$
 
# === Allow Important Public Resources ===
Allow: *SubjectFilterPortlet
 
# === Dynamic & State-Dependent Pages ===
# Block dynamic pages that contain session or state parameters
Disallow: /*p_p_id=
Disallow: /*p_p_lifecycle=
Disallow: /*p_p_state=
Disallow: /*p_p_mode=
Disallow: /*_publicationDetailsActions_
Disallow: /*_procurementDetailsActions_
Disallow: /*_eu_europa_publications_portlet_
Disallow: /*WT_mc_id=
Disallow: /*/portal/logout?*
Disallow: /*/web/public-procurement/procurement-details?*
Disallow: /*/publication-detail?*
Disallow: /*/my-widgets?*
Disallow: /*/web/eu-vocabularies/semantic-knowledge-base?*
Disallow: /*/web/eu-vocabularies/dataset?*
Disallow: /*/web/eu-vocabularies/concept?*
Disallow: /*/web/who-is-who/person?*
 
# === Specific User-Agent Rules ===
User-agent: Sogou web spider
Disallow: /
 
User-agent: PetalBot
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User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /
 
User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /
 
User-agent: Twitterbot
Disallow:

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Easy access to EU publications of the EU institutions and bodies

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