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Meta information
90% 
Page quality
91% 
Page structure
66% 
Link structure
82% 
Server
31% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.48 s
File size
120.10 kB
Words
1578
Media files
12
Number of links
77 internal / 28 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Investment Bank | Barclays
The length of the page title is perfect. (244 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Barclays Investment Bank provides corporate, government and institutional clients with a full spectrum of strategic advisory, financing and risk management solutions.
The meta description is too long: 1018 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
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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: Germany
The following language is defined by HTML: en
Alternate/Hreflang Links
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There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
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The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
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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
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The character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
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No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are 3 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: In addition to the cookies we use on our website, we also use cookies ...
This page contains 1578 words. That's ok.
33.1% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
24 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 19.9 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=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 32 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Barclays Investment Bank - Home
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Barclays Investment Bank - Home
H1 2025 Shareholder Activism: resilient campaign activity and boardroom victories
H1 Q3 2025 Global Outlook: Turning the page
H1 Powering Possible
H1 Talent and trade: The new battlegrounds in AI
H2 Insights
H3 Solutions
H3 Barclays Investment Bank offers advisory, finance and risk management services that connect your ideas to capital and power possibilities.
H3 Insights Duplicate text
H3 View thought-leading perspectives from Barclays Investment Bank’s financial experts and Research analysts.
H3 News and Events
H3 Get the latest news about Barclays Investment Bank businesses, people and our work in the community, as well as our upcoming events and conferences.
H4 Weekly Insights
H4 The economic consequences of the deal
H4 Are oil markets set to heat up or burn out?
H4 Trends shaping the semiconductor industry
H4 Sign up for The Eagle Eye newsletter
H5 Follow us
H5 About Us
H5 Other IB websites
H5 Other Barclays Websites
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (28) on this page.

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A-TITLE Payments
/international-corporate-banki...Digital Banking
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A-TITLE Themes
/our-insights/themes.htmlThemes
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/our-insights/themes.htmlText duplicate Themes
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/our-insights/series.htmlText duplicate Series
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A-TITLE 3 Point Perspective
/our-insights/the-flip-side-po...The Flip Side
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https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Linkedin
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https://www.home.barclays/care...New window External Subdomain Careers
A-TITLE Careers
https://www.home.barclays/citi...New window External Subdomain Citizenship
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https://www.home.barclays/news...New window External Subdomain News
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A-TITLE Barclays Indices
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HTTP redirects
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Performance
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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 (120 kB).

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