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SEO

· 7 checks — Canonical, meta, content depth, internal links, image SEO, and hreflang rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
91
GRADE
A
FIX
0
REVIEW
1
PASS
5
INFO
1

Cross-tab audit — SEO, performance, crawlability, mobile, structured data

Checks
7
5 PASS 1 REVIEW
B
Canonical URL
Minor issues
REVIEW
Minor issues
Info::
Canonical tag present
Got: https://www.politico.eu/
Info::
Canonical is self-referencing
Info::
Canonical matches final URL after redirects
Critical::
Canonical target returns 403
Search engines cannot follow this canonical, effectively orphaning this page.
Info::
Canonical points to a different domain
Canonical URL Problem
Page URL https://politico.eu Canonical https://www.politico.eu/ Match Self-referencing (correct) Target 403

Search engines cannot follow this canonical, effectively orphaning this page.

Why this matters

Canonical URL returns a non-200 status — Google can't follow the canonical to confirm the relationship.

Source: Google Search Central

A+
Meta Tags
Title optimized
PASS
Title optimized
Info::
Page title is set
Got: POLITICO – European Politics, Policy, Government News
Info::
Title length (55 chars) is optimal
Title

"POLITICO – European Politics, Policy, Government News"

55 characters Optimal ✓
Robots: Indexable (no restrictions)
A
Content Depth
1407 words, Very Difficult
PASS
1407 words, Very Difficult
Info::
Page has 1407 words — good depth for search engines
Info::
Text-to-HTML ratio is 2%
Very low ratio suggests heavy framework overhead or boilerplate.
Info::
Reading level: Very Difficult (grade 26)
1407 words

Good depth

Reading level

Very Easy
Easy
Fairly Easy
Standard
Fairly Difficult
Difficult
Very Difficult

Grade 26

Text-to-HTML Ratio

2% text 98% HTML

9 KB / 422 KB

Very low ratio suggests heavy framework overhead or boilerplate.

Why this matters

Informational: ratio of visible text bytes to total HTML bytes. Very low ratios suggest excessive markup overhead.

A+
Image SEO
40 images, 40 descriptive filenames
PASS
40 images, 40 descriptive filenames
Info::
All images have descriptive filenames
40 descriptive
0 hash-based
0 generic
40 total
All images have descriptive filenames and proper SEO attributes.

See Accessibility tab for detailed alt text quality analysis.

A+
Schema Markup Audit
1 schema types detected
PASS

Detected schema types

WebPage json-ld
0/0 required

Missing schema opportunities

  • easy

    Article

    Page reads as an article (long body + headline) — add Article schema

    Eligible for top-stories carousel and Discover

Hreflang
0 hreflang tags
INFO
0 hreflang tags

No hreflang tags detected.

Hreflang tags are only needed for multilingual or multi-regional sites.

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