SEO report for hessen.de
https://hessen.de/ · checked Sun, 01 Nov 2026 18:17 GMT
Fix these first
- Broken links (sample)high
Checked 12 internal link(s).
Fix: Fix or remove links that return errors, and update links that redirect.
- H1 headingcritical
4 H1 headings – one clear H1 is best practice.
Fix: Use one H1 that states the page topic with its main keyword.
- Open Graph & social cardsmedium
Open Graph title or image missing.
Fix: Add og:title, og:description, og:image (1200×630 PNG/JPG, absolute URL) and twitter:card=summary_large_image.
- 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.
- 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
No links found to about, contact or privacy pages.
Fix: Link to About, Contact and Privacy pages from every page – they help visitors, Google and AI tools see who stands behind the content.
- HTML sizemedium
980 kB of HTML – heavy for phones (we only analysed the first 1 MB).
Fix: Remove inline bloat, base64 images and unused markup.
- Imagesmedium
53 image(s).
Fix: Give every image width and height, lazy-load images below the fold (but not the main image) and serve WebP/AVIF.
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 hessen.de…
Indexing & crawling 94%
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
robots.txt found.
Googlebot is allowed to crawl this page.
- !
XML sitemaphigh
Sitemap index found at https://hessen.de/sitemap.xml listing 5 sitemaps.
Not declared in robots.txt.
Most recent lastmod: 2026-11-01T12:47:40+01:00.
Fix: Add a 'Sitemap:' line to robots.txt, list every indexable page and include accurate lastmod dates.
- ✓
Canonical URLhigh
Canonical: https://hessen.de/
Points to this page (self-referencing).
- ✓
Redirectshigh
Loads directly with no redirects.
- ✓
www / non-wwwmedium
www.hessen.de redirects to hessen.de.
- ✓
hreflangmedium
1 hreflang link(s).
All language codes are valid.
No x-default (recommended for a language picker or fallback page).
Search snippet & sharing 83%
How the page looks in Google results and when shared.
- ✓
Title tagcritical
“Startseite | HESSEN Landesregierung”
About 339px of Google's ~580px desktop width.
- ✓
Meta descriptionhigh
144 characters, ~936px 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="de"
Content quality 73%
Is there enough clear, useful text that matches what the page targets?
- ✓
Word countmedium
2,499 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.
- i
Readabilitymedium
Reading-ease scores only work for English; this page is lang="de".
- ✓
Topic focushigh
2 of 2 title keywords appear in the main content.
- !
H1 headingcritical
4 H1 headings – one clear H1 is best practice.
The H1 shares no keywords with the title.
Fix: Use one H1 that states the page topic with its main keyword.
- ✓
Heading structuremedium
19 headings for 2499 words.
Levels are in order.
- ✗
Text-to-code ratiolow
2% of the HTML is visible text.
Fix: Trim unused markup, inline scripts and builder bloat.
AI search readiness 47%
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
Identified as: GovernmentOrganization.
No sameAs links to official profiles (Google Business Profile, LinkedIn, Facebook, Companies House…).
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
No links found to about, contact or privacy pages.
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 100%
Machine-readable facts for rich results and AI.
- ✓
JSON-LD present & validhigh
1 JSON-LD block(s): GovernmentOrganization, WebSite, CollectionPage, ItemList, ListItem, NewsArticle, Article.
All blocks parse correctly.
- ✓
Required propertiesmedium
Key types include Google's required properties.
Links 50%
Internal linking, anchor text and broken links.
- ✓
Internal linkinghigh
88 internal and 33 external links.
- !
Anchor text qualitymedium
Same text used for different pages: “landesregierung”, “bild in originalgröße herunterladen”, “zu den hintergrundinformationen”, “mehr erfahren”.
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).
Broken: /leichte-sprache (429), /gebaerdensprachliche-videos (429), /erklaerung-zur-barrierefreiheit (429), /suche/seite (429), /Themen-A-Z (429).
1 link(s) point to a redirect – link to the final address instead.
Fix: Fix or remove links that return errors, and update links that redirect.
Performance 53%
Speed signals from the HTML and server. Real-user Core Web Vitals load below.
- !
Server response (TTFB)high
801 ms until the first response from our checker, including connection setup (Google rates TTFB good under 0.8 s, poor over 1.8 s).
Fix: Use page caching or a CDN (e.g. Cloudflare) so HTML is served from the edge.
- ✗
HTML sizemedium
980 kB of HTML – heavy for phones (we only analysed the first 1 MB).
Fix: Remove inline bloat, base64 images and unused markup.
- ✓
Compressionmedium
Compressed with gzip.
- !
Render-blocking resourceshigh
1 blocking script(s) and 4 stylesheet(s) in <head>.
Fix: Add defer to scripts, inline critical CSS and load the rest asynchronously.
- ✓
Scripts & third partiesmedium
1 script tag(s); files loaded from 0 other domain(s).
- ✗
Imagesmedium
53 image(s).
10 without width/height – can cause layout shift (CLS).
50 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: max-age=300
- 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 100%
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=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
- ✓
Security headerslow
Present: CSP, nosniff, Referrer-Policy, clickjacking protection.
- ✓
Server fingerprintlow
No X-Powered-By header (server: cloudflare).
Mobile & accessibility 100%
Usable on phones and by everyone – Google indexes the mobile version.
- ✓
Mobile viewportcritical
viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
- ✓
Image alt textmedium
All 53 images have alt text.
- ✓
Link nameslow
Every link has a readable name.
- ✓
Tap-to-contactmedium
One-tap contact: email.
Local SEO not scored
This site doesn't look like a local business, so these checks are shown for information and not scored.
- i
LocalBusiness markuphigh
No LocalBusiness structured data.
- ✓
Contact details on pagemedium
No phone number found.
No postcode found (fine for service-area businesses).
An email link is shown.
- i
Map & directionslow
No map or directions link.