Grantsoffice.ethz.ch - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
50% 
Page structure
91% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
91% 
External factors
27% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.12 s
File size
46.00 kB
Words
246
Media files
4
Number of links
16 internal / 13 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Homepage – Grants Office | ETH Zurich
The length of the page title is perfect. (356 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
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://grantsoffice.ethz.ch/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Switzerland
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)
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
format-detectiontelephone=no
SystemueberwachungETHZ
ethz_lmd2025-07-31T10:05:07.237Z
pagetypeweb
msapplication-TileColor#215CAF
theme-color#215CAF
apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style#215CAF-translucent
apple-mobile-web-app-capableyes
msapplication-TileImagehttps://ethz.ch/etc/designs/ethz/img/icons/ETH-APP-Icons-Theme-white/144-xxhdpi.png
content-languageen
apple-mobile-web-app-titleHomepage – Grants Office | ETH Zurich
langen
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:siteEmpty
twitter:titleHomepage
twitter:imagehttps://ethz.ch/etc/designs/ethz/img/header/eth_default_og.jpg
twitter:image:altEmpty
og:urlhttps://grantsoffice.ethz.ch/
og:titleHomepage
og:site_nameGrants Office
og:imagehttps://ethz.ch/etc/designs/ethz/img/header/eth_default_og.jpg
og:image:altEmpty
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 246 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
28.5% 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.
3 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 20 words is good.
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)
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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The H1 heading is empty
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Empty heading
H2 Grants Office
H2 Directly go to the content
H2 ETH news on research
H2 Networks and partners
H2 Footer
H3 Search
H3 Departments
H3 Language Selection
H3 Do you want to freeze a cloud? Desert dust might help
H3 A fully liquid Earth’s core also generates a magnetic field
H3 On track to produce better lab-grown burgers
H3 Recommended links
H3 Search Duplicate text
H3 Follow us
H3 Contact
H3 Table of contents and legal
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an 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://grantsoffice.ethz.ch/Homepage
A-TITLE Directly go to the homepage
https://grantsoffice.ethz.ch/Anchor Navigation
A-TITLE Directly go to the navigation
/utils/search.htmlSubdomain Search
A-TITLE Directly go to the search
https://grantsoffice.ethz.ch/Anchor Content
A-TITLE Directly go to the content
https://grantsoffice.ethz.ch/Anchor Footer
A-TITLE Directly go to the footer
https://grantsoffice.ethz.ch/Anchor Contact
A-TITLE Directly go to the contact
/footer/sitemap.htmlSitemap
A-TITLE Sitemap
https://ethz.ch/en.htmlExternal A-TITLE ETH Zurich homepage
https://grantsoffice.ethz.ch/Grants Office
A-TITLE Home
/utils/search.htmlNo Text
https://ethz.ch/en.htmlExternal ETH Zurich
A-TITLE ETH Zurich homepage
https://grantsoffice.ethz.ch/GrantsOffice - GO!
https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev...External Do you want to freeze a cloud? Desert dust might help
https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev...External A fully liquid Earth’s core also generates a magnetic field
https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev...External On track to produce better lab-grown burgers
https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev...External See more news
https://www.euresearch.ch/en/h...External Subdomain IMG-ALT To Euresearch
https://www.euraxess.ch/External Subdomain IMG-ALT To EURAXESS
https://brancoweissfellowship....External IMG-ALT To The Branco Weiss Fellowship
https://www.science-stories.ch/External Subdomain Science Stories
A-TITLE Science Stories
/archiv-to-be-deleted/internal...Login staff GO!
A-TITLE Login staff GO!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gr...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Homepage on LinkedIn
A-TITLE Homepage on LinkedIn
https://ethz.ch/content/associ...External vCard Download
A-TITLE V-Card
/footer/sitemap.htmlText duplicate Sitemap
A-TITLE Sitemap
/footer/imprint.htmlImprint
A-TITLE Imprint
/footer/accessibility-statemen...Accessibility Statement
A-TITLE Accessibility Statement
/footer/disclaimer-copyright.htmlDisclaimer & Copyright
A-TITLE Disclaimer & Copyright
/footer/data-protection.htmlData protection
A-TITLE Data protection
http://www.ethz.ch/External Subdomain Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://grantsoffice.ethz.ch/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.12 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (46 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSun, 03 Aug 2025 11:50:56 GMT
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
content-typetext/html;charset=utf-8
cache-controlmax-age=3600
content-encodinggzip
varycookie, Accept-Encoding
age1189
x-ratelimit-remaining18
x-powered-byETH Informatikdiensten
x-delievered-fromZentrum
strict-transport-securitymax-age=63072000
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self'
x-frame-optionssameorigin
accept-rangesbytes
content-length12829
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 9 referring domains.
This page only has 43 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 8 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Search preview

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
ETH63%Check
Grants63%Check
Office63%Check
Grants Office63%Check
Homepage Grants Office58%Check
ETH Zurich55%Check
Homepage48%Check
GrantsOffice48%Check
Zurich46%Check
Content44%Check

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