Step.worldbank.org - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
59% 
Page quality
34% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
86% 
External factors
45% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.32 s
File size
33.40 kB
Words
96
Media files
7
Number of links
1 internal / 20 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
STEP
The page title is too short. (52 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)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Canada
The following language is defined by HTML: en
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)
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
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
theme-color#1976d2
apple-mobile-web-app-capableyes
apple-mobile-web-app-titleCFW Starter Kit
apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-styleblack-translucent
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
Cache-Controlno-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
Pragmano-cache
ExpiresEmpty
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 96 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
No paragraphs were detected.
17.7% of the text are stop words.
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)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
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)
7 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
/secure/assets/images/step-logo-login.pngNo alt attribute providedStep Logo
...ure/assets/images/icon-contact-130px.pngNo alt attribute provided
/secure/assets/images/icon-plans-130px.pngNo alt attribute provided
.../assets/images/icon-guidelines-130px.pngNo alt attribute provided
.../assets/images/chatbot-icon-with-new.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ure/assets/images/icon-notices-130px.pngNo alt attribute provided
/secure/assets/images/icon-about-130px.pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Increasing Transparency, Efficiency & Openness
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Increasing Transparency, Efficiency & Openness
This page seems to be an entry page, because only very few links were found.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 20 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://projects.worldbank.org...New window External Subdomain Contract Data
https://projects.worldbank.org...New window External Subdomain Procurement Plans
https://www.worldbank.org/en/p...New window External Subdomain Procurement Guidelines / Regulations
https://www.worldbank.org/chat...New window External Subdomain Procurement Chatbot
https://projects.worldbank.org...New window External Subdomain Procurement Notices
https://www.worldbank.org/en/n...New window External Subdomain About Step
/secure/r2/en/homeSTEP Login
https://step2.worldbank.org/en...External Subdomain Contract Manager Login
https://thedocs.worldbank.org/...New window External Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Click here
http://www.worldbank.org/External Subdomain WORLD BANK GROUP
https://www.worldbank.org/en/w...External Subdomain IBRD
A-TITLE International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
http://www.worldbank.org/ida/External Subdomain IDA
A-TITLE International Development Association
http://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/con...External Subdomain IFC
A-TITLE International Finance Corporation
http://www.miga.org/External Subdomain MIGA
A-TITLE Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
https://icsid.worldbank.org/IC...External Subdomain ICSID
A-TITLE International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
https://www.worldbank.org/en/a...External Subdomain Legal
https://www.worldbank.org/en/a...External Subdomain Access to Information
https://www.worldbank.org/en/a...External Subdomain Jobs
https://www.worldbank.org/en/w...External Subdomain Site Accessibility
http://www.worldbank.org/en/ab...External Subdomain Contact
https://wbgcmsprod.microsoftcr...New window External Subdomain Report Fraud or Corruption

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://step.worldbank.org/"
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 (1.32 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 (33 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSun, 03 Aug 2025 04:38:15 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length7135
cf-ray96931fd8d840d152-CDG
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
accept-rangesbytes
content-encodinggzip
last-modifiedFri, 01 Aug 2025 07:23:38 GMT
set-cookie199 Characters
varyaccept-encoding
servercloudflare
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 15 referring domains.
This page only has 112 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 15 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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step.worldbank.org
STEP

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Step61%Check
Increasing50%Check
Transparency50%Check
Efficiency50%Check
Openness50%Check
WORLD46%Check
BANK46%Check
World Bank46%Check
World Bank Group42%Check
Available39%Check
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