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Rick Steves Europe: Tour Operator, Travel Guides & Information
https://ricksteves.com
Rick Steves is America's leading authority on European travel. Plan your own trip or take one of Rick's value-packed European tours. Everything you need is here.
https://ricksteves.com
Rick Steves Europe: Tour Operator, Travel Guides & Information
Rick Steves is America's leading authority on European travel. Plan your own trip or take one of Rick's value-packed European tour...
No 301 redirects are in place to redirect traffic to your preferred domain. Pages that load successfully both with and without www. are treated as duplicate content! Not all versions of your page point to the same URL.
ⓘ The owner has associated the following topics to the website.
ⓘ The results of our semantic analysis are shown below using the website's language.
They are the main concepts covered by ricksteves.com.
Each concept has a confidence score. The higher it is, the more important the topic is relative to the page.
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Rick Steves Confidence: 88% 
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Tour operator Confidence: 72%
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Travel plan Confidence: 71%
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✅ ricksteves.com website speed is normal. Page speed is important for visitors and search engines.
Get insights to improve your page loading time.
This domain loads at the median speed of 1.5 seconds.
ricksteves.com is faster than approximately 60 percent of the web. Your website page speed needs to be as fast as you can make it, without compromising the customer experience.
A good goal to achieve is a loading time of 2 seconds on desktop and mobile devices.
ⓘ This website is ranked #31.695 by Alexa.
This rank is traffic based. The lower the rank is, the better the domain is ranked.
| Country | Rank |
 India |
#36.703 |
 Egypt |
#17.050 |
 Turkey |
#71.134 |
 Israel |
#8.376 |
 Pakistan |
#12.025 |
 United States of America |
#11.490 |
 Iran (Islamic Republic of) |
#94.425 |
 Canada |
#26.335 |
Mobile Rendering
This website doesn't seem to be optimized for Mobile Visitors.
Phone
Tablet
A good text to HTML ratio is anywhere from 25 to 70%.
This percentage refers to the visible text ratio, as opposed to HTML elements, image tags and other non-visible information.
Great, we found headings on this page.
However, you have not defined a top level heading, or <H1>. It is used to define the most important heading.
We recommend using one top level heading to set up a semantic relationship between that heading and the remainder of the content on a page. It clearly describes to the readers and the search engines what it is about.
| 4th level heading |
| Plan your trip to europe |
| Shop |
| Today's news |
| About ricksteves |
We found 11 images on this website.
7
ALT attributes are missing on your image tags. The issue affects 2 actual different images that could be loaded more than once in your page.
| Image | Image URL | Occurrences |
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images/global/header_promo.gif | 1 |
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images/global/com_shim_20px.gif | 6 |
Alternative text allows you to add a description to an image.
Google rely on alternative text attributes to determine relevance to a search query. Alternative text also makes an image more likely to appear in a Google image search.
It looks like you're missing alternative text for 7 images on ricksteves.com. Check your website to make sure it's specified for each image on the page.
| Anchor | Type | URL |
| Travel Store | text | http://travelstore.ricksteves.com/ |
| Tours | text | http://tours.ricksteves.com/ |
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image | http://tours.ricksteves.com |
| Rick Steves' Europe Tours | text | http://tours.ricksteves.com/ |
| travel blog | text | http://blog.ricksteves.com |
| text | http://www.facebook.com/pages/rick-steves/45052217744 | |
| blogs from Europe | text | http://nicolinaart.tumblr.com/ |
| Andy Steves' WSA Europe | text | http://www.wsaeurope.com/ |
| ⓘ Domain Registrar | NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC |
| ⓘ Registration Date | 06/10/1996 28 years, 3 months ago |
| ⓘ Last Modified | 12/21/2017 6 years, 8 months, 20 days ago |
| ⓘ Expiration Date | 06/09/2021 Expired |
| Host | IP Address | Country |
| ns0.dnsmadeeasy.com | 208.94.148.2 | United States |
| ns1.dnsmadeeasy.com | 208.80.124.2 | United States |
| ns2.dnsmadeeasy.com | 208.80.126.2 | United States |
| ns3.dnsmadeeasy.com | 208.80.125.2 | United States |
| ns4.dnsmadeeasy.com | 208.80.127.2 | United States |
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