SEO report for www.eui.eu
https://www.eui.eu/en/home · checked Sun, 01 Nov 2026 15:00 GMT
Fix these first
- Redirectshigh
4 redirects before the page loaded – a chain slows visitors and wastes crawl budget.
Fix: Link straight to the final address and make each redirect go to its destination in one hop.
- LocalBusiness markuphigh
No LocalBusiness structured data.
Fix: Add LocalBusiness JSON-LD with address or areaServed, telephone, geo, opening hours and url.
Also fixes: Entity clarity
- JSON-LD present & validhigh
No JSON-LD structured data.
Fix: Add JSON-LD describing the business and the page (Organization/LocalBusiness, WebSite, WebPage or Article, BreadcrumbList).
- Render-blocking resourceshigh
3 blocking script(s) and 5 stylesheet(s) in <head>.
Fix: Add defer to scripts, inline critical CSS and load the rest asynchronously.
- H1 headingcritical
27 H1 headings – one clear H1 is best practice.
Fix: Use one H1 that states the page topic with its main keyword.
- Readabilitymedium
Flesch reading ease 29 (difficult), about 16 words per sentence.
Fix: Use shorter sentences and everyday words – aim for a score of 50+ for customer-facing pages.
- Heading structuremedium
39 headings for 1333 words – a lot for the amount of text.
Fix: Use H2s for main sections and H3s inside them, without skipping levels.
- Question-led contentmedium
No headings phrased as questions.
Fix: Add headings that match real questions ("How much does…?") followed by a direct one- or two-sentence answer – an easy format for search and AI answers to quote.
Real-world speed Google PageSpeed
Loading Core Web Vitals from Google… this can take up to 30 seconds.
Authority & backlinks
Looking up which websites link to eui.eu…
Indexing & crawling 75%
Can search engines reach, read and index this page?
- ✓
Status codecritical
The page returned HTTP 200.
- ✓
Indexablecritical
No noindex instruction – the page can appear in search.
- !
robots.txthigh
No robots.txt found (HTTP 404) – crawlers may read everything.
Googlebot is allowed to crawl this page.
Fix: Add a robots.txt that allows crawling and lists your sitemap.
- !
XML sitemaphigh
Sitemap found at https://www.eui.eu/sitemap.xml with 2,659 URLs.
Not declared in robots.txt.
This page is NOT listed in it.
Most recent lastmod: 2026-10-29T15:11:51.0000000Z.
Fix: Add a 'Sitemap:' line to robots.txt, list every indexable page and include accurate lastmod dates.
- ✓
Canonical URLhigh
Canonical: https://www.eui.eu/en/home
Points to this page (self-referencing).
- ✗
Redirectshigh
4 redirects before the page loaded – a chain slows visitors and wastes crawl budget.
https://eui.eu/ → https://www.eui.eu// → http://www.eui.eu/ → https://www.eui.eu/ → https://www.eui.eu/en/home
Fix: Link straight to the final address and make each redirect go to its destination in one hop.
- ✓
www / non-wwwmedium
eui.eu redirects to www.eui.eu.
Search snippet & sharing 100%
How the page looks in Google results and when shared.
- ✓
Title tagcritical
“European University Institute”
About 256px of Google's ~580px desktop width.
- ✓
Meta descriptionhigh
122 characters, ~752px of ~990px.
Good length.
Google sometimes rewrites descriptions to match the search; a good one is still used most often.
- ✓
Faviconlow
Favicon linked (Google shows it next to results).
- ✓
Languagelow
lang="en-GB"
Content quality 57%
Is there enough clear, useful text that matches what the page targets?
- ✓
Word countmedium
1,333 words of main content (inside <main>).
Google has no minimum word count – this is a rough guide to whether the page answers the question in full.
- ✗
Readabilitymedium
Flesch reading ease 29 (difficult), about 16 words per sentence.
Fix: Use shorter sentences and everyday words – aim for a score of 50+ for customer-facing pages.
- ✓
Topic focushigh
3 of 3 title keywords appear in the main content.
- !
H1 headingcritical
27 H1 headings – one clear H1 is best practice.
Fix: Use one H1 that states the page topic with its main keyword.
- ✗
Heading structuremedium
39 headings for 1333 words – a lot for the amount of text.
3 skipped level(s), e.g. H2 → H4.
Fix: Use H2s for main sections and H3s inside them, without skipping levels.
- ✓
Text-to-code ratiolow
12% of the HTML is visible text.
AI search readiness 38%
Can ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews read, understand and cite this site?
- ✓
AI crawler accesshigh
Search and AI-search crawlers (Googlebot, Bingbot, OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot…) can read this page.
- ✓
Snippet controlshigh
No snippet restrictions – search and AI answers can quote this page.
- ✗
llms.txtlow
No /llms.txt file. It's an optional, emerging convention – few AI tools are confirmed to read it yet, so this is low priority.
Fix: Optionally add /llms.txt: a short Markdown summary of who you are with links to your key pages.
- ✗
Question-led contentmedium
No headings phrased as questions.
Fix: Add headings that match real questions ("How much does…?") followed by a direct one- or two-sentence answer – an easy format for search and AI answers to quote.
- ✗
Entity clarityhigh
No Organization / LocalBusiness structured data – search engines and AI have to guess who runs this site.
Fix: Add Organization or LocalBusiness JSON-LD with name, url, logo, contact details and sameAs links to your official profiles.
- ✗
Freshness signalsmedium
No published/updated date found.
Fix: Show a 'last updated' date and add dateModified to your structured data.
- ✗
Trust pages (E-E-A-T)medium
Links found to about; missing contact and privacy.
Fix: Link to About, Contact and Privacy pages from every page – they help visitors, Google and AI tools see who stands behind the content.
Structured data 0%
Machine-readable facts for rich results and AI.
- ✗
JSON-LD present & validhigh
No JSON-LD structured data.
Fix: Add JSON-LD describing the business and the page (Organization/LocalBusiness, WebSite, WebPage or Article, BreadcrumbList).
Links 88%
Internal linking, anchor text and broken links.
- ✓
Internal linkinghigh
69 internal and 18 external links.
- !
Anchor text qualitymedium
No link text points to two different pages.
1 vague link(s) like “click here” or “read more”.
Fix: Make every link text describe its destination, e.g. “logo design prices” instead of “click here”.
- ✓
Broken links (sample)high
Checked 12 internal link(s).
No broken links found.
1 link(s) point to a redirect – link to the final address instead.
Performance 57%
Speed signals from the HTML and server. Real-user Core Web Vitals load below.
- ✓
Server response (TTFB)high
48 ms until the first response from our checker, including connection setup (Google rates TTFB good under 0.8 s, poor over 1.8 s).
- ✓
HTML sizemedium
93 kB of HTML.
- ✓
Compressionmedium
Compressed with gzip.
- ✗
Render-blocking resourceshigh
3 blocking script(s) and 5 stylesheet(s) in <head>.
Fix: Add defer to scripts, inline critical CSS and load the rest asynchronously.
- !
Scripts & third partiesmedium
12 script tag(s); files loaded from 2 other domain(s): fonts.googleapis.com, kit.fontawesome.com.
Fix: Remove unused tracking and widget scripts; every third party adds connection time.
- ✗
Imagesmedium
18 image(s).
18 without width/height – can cause layout shift (CLS).
15 image(s) after the first three aren't lazy-loaded.
0 use WebP/AVIF or responsive srcset.
Fix: Give every image width and height, lazy-load images below the fold (but not the main image) and serve WebP/AVIF.
- !
Cachinglow
Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store
Fix: Set Cache-Control so browsers and CDNs can reuse the page.
- i
HTTP/3low
Couldn't be confirmed from our server – the alt-svc header that advertises HTTP/3 isn't always visible to it. Your site is on Cloudflare, which offers HTTP/3 under Network settings.
Security 96%
Visitor safety signals that browsers and Google check.
- ✓
HTTPScritical
Secure HTTPS with no mixed content.
- ✓
HTTP → HTTPS redirecthigh
http:// redirects to https://.
- ✓
HSTSmedium
HSTS: max-age=15768000
- !
Security headerslow
Present: nosniff, Referrer-Policy.
Fix: Add X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy and X-Frame-Options (or a CSP).
- ✓
Server fingerprintlow
No X-Powered-By header (server: cloudflare).
Mobile & accessibility 67%
Usable on phones and by everyone – Google indexes the mobile version.
- ✓
Mobile viewportcritical
viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- ✗
Image alt textmedium
4 of 18 images have no alt attribute.
Fix: Describe each meaningful image in its alt attribute (use alt="" for decorative ones).
- ✓
Form labelsmedium
All 5 form fields are labelled.
- ✓
Link nameslow
Every link has a readable name.
- ✗
Tap-to-contactmedium
No tel: or mailto: links.
Fix: Add a tap-to-call or tap-to-email button so phone visitors can contact you instantly.
Local SEO 17%
Signals that help you appear in Google Maps and 'near me' searches.
- ✗
LocalBusiness markuphigh
No LocalBusiness structured data.
Fix: Add LocalBusiness JSON-LD with address or areaServed, telephone, geo, opening hours and url.
- ✗
Contact details on pagemedium
No phone number found.
No postcode found (fine for service-area businesses).
Fix: Show the same business name, area and phone/email as your Google Business Profile.
- ✓
Map & directionslow
Links to or embeds a map.