Nibbler SEO audit for www.frontex.europa.eu
Summary
Overall9.2
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility9.6
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience9.7
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing8.5
How well marketed and popular the website is.
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Technology9.3
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 12:49 AM on May 9, 2024 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Make sure that all the pages of this website include a meta description. If you don't include one, Google will choose a sample of text from the page to appear in the search engine result. By including a meta description, you can control how your search engine result will appear. (read more)
- Consider using descriptive words or phrases (e.g. 'News', 'September 2012 financial results') in your anchor tag to benefit search engine optimization. (read more)
- Use a 301 redirect or a canonical meta tag to force search engines to see the correct version. (read more)
Meta tags3.6
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
Frontex | European Union Agency
www.frontex.europa.eu//
Frontex promotes, coordinates and develops European border management in line with the EU fundamental rights charter applying the concept of Integrated Border ...
- All pages include at least some metadata, but only 20.0% of pages have a description meta tag. The description meta data is important as it appears on Google's search result pages.
- Make sure that all the pages of this website include a meta description. If you don't include one, Google will choose a sample of text from the page to appear in the search engine result. By including a meta description, you can control how your search engine result will appear.
Meta Tags (name attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| www.frontex.europa.eu// | description | Frontex promotes, coordinates and develops European border management in line with the EU fundamental rights charter applying the concept of Integrated Border Management. |
| www.frontex.europa.eu// | keywords | Frontex, border management, cross-border crime, counter-terrorism, risk analysis, situation monitoring, external relations, coast guard, border guard, readmissions, research, innovation, training, integrated border management |
| www.frontex.europa.eu// | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.frontex.europa.eu/about-frontex/.../ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.frontex.europa.eu/about-frontex/.../ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.frontex.europa.eu/about-frontex/.../ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.frontex.europa.eu/about-frontex/.../ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| www.frontex.europa.eu// | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| www.frontex.europa.eu/about-frontex/.../ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| www.frontex.europa.eu/about-frontex/.../ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| www.frontex.europa.eu/about-frontex/.../ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| www.frontex.europa.eu/about-frontex/.../ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
Internal links7.5
- 4 links are weakly described. Common weak links include 'click here' and 'read more'. These links fail to describe the content the link points to.
- Consider using descriptive words or phrases (e.g. 'News', 'September 2012 financial results') in your anchor tag to benefit search engine optimization.
Weak link text
- Consider using descriptive words or phrases (e.g. 'News', 'September 2012 financial results') in your anchor tag to benefit search engine optimization.
- 3 links use text that is too long. Links should describe what they link to briefly. Linking a long block of text usually indicates an attempt to trick search engines into ranking those keywords highly (a strategy which does not work). Long linked blocks of text are also harder for people to scan.
- Consider shortening long anchor text.
Overly long link text
Link URL Link text Page URL www.frontex.europa.eu/.../europe-s-migratory-situation-irregular-crossings-down-12-in-first-quarter-hE2mDz The number of irregular border crossings into the European Union in the first three months of 2024 was down 12% due to a significant drop in arrivals via the Central Mediterranean, according to preliminary calculations. www.frontex.europa.eu// www.frontex.europa.eu/.../industry-day-pre-registration-solutions-for-the-entry-exit-system-0oRbZt Are you a private company developing a cutting-edge technology with impact on mobile pre-registration, facial image capturing, or web solutions for travellers? We invite you to join this online Industry Day on pre-registration solutions for the future EU Entry/Exit System. www.frontex.europa.eu// www.frontex.europa.eu/.../info-day-on-the-2024-frontex-research-grants-k0fkhI If you are a representative of a non-profit research organisation or academic institution pursuing technological research and looking for a co-funding opportunity, join our Info Day on 16 May to learn more about Frontex Research Grants in 2024. www.frontex.europa.eu//
- Consider shortening long anchor text.
- 38 links have no text describing their destination. Links on a page should describe their destination for the benefit of both screen readers and search engine spiders.
- Add meaningful anchor text that describes the link's destination. If the link contains an image, ensure you have provided alt text.
Empty link text
- Add meaningful anchor text that describes the link's destination. If the link contains an image, ensure you have provided alt text.
Amount of content9.2
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 869 words per page. The amount of content on a website has been shown to correlate with its search engine ranking.
Amount of content discovered
| Page | Characters | Words |
| www.frontex.europa.eu// | 2913 | 404 |
| www.frontex.europa.eu/about-frontex/.../ | 6123 | 887 |
| www.frontex.europa.eu/about-frontex/.../ | 5008 | 744 |
| www.frontex.europa.eu/about-frontex/.../ | 13380 | 1882 |
| www.frontex.europa.eu/about-frontex/.../ | 3289 | 428 |
Server behavior9.6
404 page
Compression
- This website handles missing pages correctly by sending a 404 HTTP status code.
- This website was served with GZIP encoding. This is very good because it reduces the loading time of a web page.
- 4 of the pages of this website follow the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect between URLs with/without trailing slashes. These pages are ideal.
- One page of this website returns page content with or without a trailing slash on its URL. Search engines might see these as separate pages with duplicate content which they could penalise for.
- Use a 301 redirect or a canonical meta tag to force search engines to see the correct version.
- This website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect from http://frontex.europa.eu to http://www.frontex.europa.eu. This is ideal.
Images9.8
10% of images have a clearly defined size
5 images are being resized by the browser
- Most images (90.0%) don't have defined sizes using width and height attributes in the HTML. These attributes are optional, but strongly recommended as they help the browser arrange the page faster.
- Add width and height attributes to all image tags. The width and height you specify should be the same as the source image. If you want to resize an image in the browser, use CSS.
Non Explicitly Sized Images
- Add width and height attributes to all image tags. The width and height you specify should be the same as the source image. If you want to resize an image in the browser, use CSS.
- 5 images are being stretched in the browser.
- The width and height you specify in an image tag should be the same as the source image. If you want to resize an image in the browser, use the CSS width and height properties.
Stretched Images
- The width and height you specify in an image tag should be the same as the source image. If you want to resize an image in the browser, use the CSS width and height properties.
Mobile10.0
- All of this website appears to be optimised for viewing on a mobile phone or a tablet.
Media specific CSS detected
Analytics10.0
100% of pages use analytics
Multiple Analytics Solutions
- Every page in this website is using some form of analytics software. This is excellent and should allow for a complete analysis of visitor behavior.
Analytics Software Found
| Software Name |
| Google Tag Manager |
| Piwik Asynchronous |
Page titles10.0
100% of pages have defined titles
0% of page titles are weak
- All pages were found to use page titles appropriately. Page titles appear in search results and at the top of the browser's window when visiting the site. Appropriate page titles are particularly important for search engine optimization.
Page titles
| Page title | Notes |
| Frontex | European Union Agency | OK |
| Tasks & Mission | OK |
| Standing corps | OK |
| Management Board | OK |
| General Information | OK |
Headings10.0
- All pages were found to use defined headings. This is excellent as it allows visitors and search engines to summarize the content of webpages quickly. Correctly defined headings aid accessibility and are particularly important for search engine optimization.
Page headings detail
Printability10.0
100% of pages are optimized for printing
- All pages of this website appear to be optimized for printing (using CSS).
Media specific CSS detected
URL format10.0
Every URL is well written
- This website uses appropriate web addresses (URLs) throughout. This is excellent and will help search engine placement, usability and the marketability of this website.
Freshness10.0
Last updated May 6, 2024
- It looks like this website was last updated on Monday, May 6, 2024. This is good because visitors perceive up-to-date websites as more credible. Websites that are updated regularly are also spidered by search engines more often.
- To find this information we used the last modified dates reported by this website's server in addition to looking for dates written on each page.
All dates found
Twitteri
This website does not appear to be associated with a Twitter account.
- There was a problem checking the Twitter accounts associated with this website.
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Nibbler tested the following pages
- https://www.frontex.europa.eu//
- https://www.frontex.europa.eu/about-frontex/who-we-are/tasks-mission/
- https://www.frontex.europa.eu/about-frontex/standing-corps/standing-corps/
- https://www.frontex.europa.eu/about-frontex/management-board/
- https://www.frontex.europa.eu/about-frontex/procurement/procurement/general-information/