Review of booking.com
Generated on 2013-05-22 14:40:01Successfully passed 0
Room for improvement 0
Errors to fix 0
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Visitors
Traffic Estimations
We use multiple tools to estimate web traffic, including Google™ Trends and Alexa™.
Nevertheless, your analytics will provide the most accurate traffic data.
Traffic Rank
169th most visited website in the World
441th most visited website in United States
A low rank means that your website gets a lot of visitors.
Your Alexa Rank is a good estimate of the worldwide traffic to your website, although it is not 100 percent accurate.
Reviewing the most visited websites by country can give you valuable insights.
Quantcast provides similar services.
Distinctive Audience
This website tends to be popular amongst:
Relative to the general internet population, the above audience is over-represented at booking.com. This data is provided by Alexa™.
Adwords Traffic
- 45.6
- 54.4
Visitors Localization
| N° | Popular Countries (ccTLD) | Status | Expiration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | booking.us | Domain Not Available | 0 Year(s) 12 Month(s) 2 Day(s) |
| 2 | booking.it | Domain Not Available | - |
| 3 | booking.co.uk | Domain Not Available | - |
| 4 | booking.es | Domain Not Available | - |
| 5 | booking.com.br | Domain Not Available | 1 Year(s) 5 Month(s) 9 Day(s) |
| 6 | booking.de | Domain Not Available | - |
We recommend that you book the domain names for the countries where your website is popular. This will prevent potential competitors from registering these domains and taking advantage of your reputation in such countries.
Social Monitoring
Twitter™ Account
The Twitter™ Account @Booking is booked but it is not linked to your website!
Twitter is a fast-growing social network.
If possible, register a Twitter account in your brand's name now to prevent brandjacking.
Here are a few tips to help create a Twitter promotion plan. Plus, learn from today's top Twitter-using brands.
Latest Tweets
Latest tweets mentioning your website.
Mobile
Mobile Load Time
Try to load your website on a mobile device and measure the download time. If your website takes more than five seconds to download on a mobile device, you will lose 74 percent of your audience! Mobile usage is growing fast, especially in North America, where it will soon outpace desktop browsing usage. Make sure your site loads fast and that it looks nice on all types of mobile devices. Be sure to not use Flash, and keep photos and videos to a minimum. Here are two useful tips from Google™ for optimizing your mobile site speed.
Mobile Optimization
Great, your web page is super optimized for Mobile Visitors
Mobile CSS
Meta Viewport Tag
Apple Icon
Mobile Redirection
Flash content
Click each category for tips on how to optimize the mobile experience even further:
SEO Basics
WWW Resolve
Perfect! Your website with and without www redirects to the same page.
Great, your website directs www.booking.com and booking.com to the same URL.
Redirecting requests from a non-preferred domain is important because search engines consider URLs with and without "www" as two different websites.
URL Rewrite
Good, your URLs look clean. Make them even more user-friendly by removing useless extensions.
Great! You have clean (user-friendly) URLs which do not contain query strings.
Clean URLs are not only SEO-friendly but are also important for usability.
IP Canonicalization
Yes
Good, your website's IP address is forwarding to your website's domain name.
To check this for your website, enter your IP address in the browser and see if your site loads with the IP address. Ideally, the IP should redirect to your website's URL or to a page from your website hosting provider.
If it does not redirect, you should do an htaccess 301 redirect to make sure the IP does not get indexed.
robots.txt
Great, your website has a robots.txt file.
A robots.txt file allows you to restrict the access of search engine robots that crawl the web and it can prevent these robots from accessing specific directories and pages. It also specifies where the XML sitemap file is located.
Click here to check your robots.txt file for syntax errors.
XML Sitemap
Great, your website has an XML sitemap.
A sitemap lists URLs that are available for crawling and can include additional information like your site's latest updates, frequency of changes and importance of the URLs. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently.
It is also good practice to specify your sitemap's location in your robots.txt file.
Underscores in the URLs
Yes
SEO Content
Title
Booking.com: 303,059 hotels worldwide. 20+ million hotel reviews.
Length: 65 character(s)
Great, your title contains between 10 and 70 characters.
Make sure your title is explicit and contains your most important keywords.
Be sure that each page has a unique title.
Description
Big savings on hotels in destinations worldwide. Browse hotel reviews and find the guaranteed best price on hotels for all budgets.
Length: 131 character(s)
Great, your meta description contains between 70 and 160 characters (spaces included).
Meta descriptions allow you to influence how your web pages are described and displayed in search results.
Ensure that your meta description is explicit and contains your most important keywords.
Check your Google™ Webmaster Tools for any warning messages on duplicate meta descriptions.
Meta Keywords
lodging, accommodation, hotel, Hotels, special offers, packages, specials, weekend breaks, city breaks, deals, budget, cheap, discount, savings
Length: 143 character(s)
Meta keywords are used to indicate keywords that are relevant to your website's content. Because search engine spammers have abused this tag, however, it provides little to no benefit to your search rankings.
You can safely avoid the use of this tag for new web pages. For existing web pages, make sure the meta keywords do not appear to be spammy.
Headings
| H1 | H2 | H3 | H4 | H5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 4 | 28 | 6 | 0 |
- [H2] Sign in to your account
- [H2] Manage a single booking
- [H2] 303,059 properties in 183 countries worldwide
- [H2] Why use Booking.com?
- [H3] It's fast, free and secure!
- [H3] Search
- [H3] Check-in date
- [H3] Check-out date
- [H3] Rooms
- [H3] 20,040,000 reviews from real guests
- [H3] San Francisco
- [H3] San Diego
- [H3] Chicago
- [H3] Orlando
- [H3] San Antonio
- [H3] Atlanta
- [H3] Washington
- [H3] London
- [H3] Europe
- [H3] North America
- [H3] South America
- [H3] Asia
- [H3] Oceania
- [H3] Africa
- [H3] Low rates
- [H3] 303,059 properties worldwide
- [H3] Easily manage all your bookings
- [H3] Unbiased reviews
- [H3] We speak your language
- [H3] Save 50% or more with Flash Deals
- [H3] Create a Booking.com profile
- [H3] Mail-a-friend
- [H4] Destination/hotel name:
- [H4] Guests
- [H4] Rooms
- [H4] adults
- [H4] children
- [H4] See how Booking.com rates
Great, your website is structured using HTML headings (<H1> to <H6>).
Use your keywords in the headings and make sure the first level (<H1>) includes your most important keywords. Never duplicate your title tag content in your header tag.
For more effective SEO, use only one <H1> tag per page.
Images
We found 62 images on this website.
32 alt attributes are empty or missing.
Alternative text (the alt attribute) is missing for several images. Add alternative text so that search engines can better understand the content of your images.
Remember that search engine crawlers cannot actually "see" images, so the alternative text attribute allows you to assign a specific description to each image.
Alternative text describes your images so they can appear in Google™ Images search results.
Check the images on your website and make sure effective alternative text is specified for each image.
Restrict the number of characters in alt text to 150, including spaces, and minimize the size of images to optimize your website's page load times.
Text/HTML Ratio
8.46 %
This page's ratio of text to HTML code is below 15 percent, this means that your website probably needs more text content.
A ratio between 25 and 70 percent is ideal. When it goes beyond that, the page might run the risk of being considered spam.
As long as the content is relevant and gives essential information, it is a plus to have more of it.
Flash
No
Good, no Flash content has been detected on this page.
Flash should only be used for specific enhancements. Although Flash content often looks nicer, it cannot be properly indexed by search engines. Avoid full Flash websites to maximize SEO.
This advice also applies to AJAX.
Frames
No
Great, there are no frames detected on this page.
Frames can cause problems on your web page because search engines will not crawl or index the content within them.
Avoid frames whenever possible and use a NoFrames tag if you must use them.
Blog
We have not found a Blog on this website.
Your website does not have a blog.
In this tough and competitive internet marketing world content marketing rules. While publishing your content on other sites might be a good strategy, publishing it on your own site garners more benefits.
Starting a blog is a great way to boost your SEO and attract qualified visitors.
Use these great tips to boost the SEO performance of your blog.
SEO Links
In-Page Links
We found a total of 104 link(s) including 0 link(s) to files
- 0
- 4
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| 157 hotels | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
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| 8 hostels | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| 4 apartments | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
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| 122 hotels | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
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| 134 hotels | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
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| 169 hotels | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| 63 motels | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| 3 resorts | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| 1 bed and breakfast | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
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| Atlanta | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| 145 hotels | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| 9 motels | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
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| 624 hotels | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| 237 apartments | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| 206 guest houses | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
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| Best Price Guaranteed | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Sign up | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Book on the go with our mobile apps! Free download | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
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| Desert Rose Resort | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Super 8 - Las Vegas Strip Area | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Days Inn Las Vegas at Wild Wild West Gambling Hall | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Tuscany Suites & Casino | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Best Western Mardi Gras Hotel & Casino | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
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| The Milford NYC- Times Square | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
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| Hudson, A Morgans Original | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| YOTEL - Times Square | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
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| Hotel Solaire Los Angeles | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Travelodge Hotel at LAX | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Best Western Plus Suites Hotel - LAX | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Hollywood Inn Express South | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| More hotels » | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Follow @bookingcom | External Links | Passing Juice |
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| Make your next booking on mobile. Download Booking.com's free apps | Internal Links | Passing Juice |
| Extranet login | External Links | Passing Juice |
SEO Keywords
Keywords Cloud
- booking
- ago
- looking
- hotel
- reviews
- good
- hotels
- people
- score
- latest
This Keyword Cloud provides an idea of your most frequently recurring keywords. They are likely to be the keywords with the greatest probability of ranking high in the search engines.
Keywords Consistency
| Keywords | Content | Title | Description | H | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average | from | 33 | NOK | NOK | OK |
| Average | the | 31 | NOK | OK | NOK |
| Average | and | 30 | NOK | OK | OK |
| Average | booking | 28 | OK | NOK | OK |
| Average | hotels | 24 | OK | OK | NOK |
| Keywords (2 words) | Content | Title | Description | H | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average | from reviews | 16 | NOK | NOK | OK |
| Bad | latest booking | 15 | NOK | NOK | NOK |
| Bad | score from | 15 | NOK | NOK | NOK |
| Bad | ago there | 15 | NOK | NOK | NOK |
| Bad | looking this | 15 | NOK | NOK | NOK |
| Keywords (3 words) | Content | Title | Description | H | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bad | score from reviews | 15 | NOK | NOK | NOK |
| Bad | people looking this | 14 | NOK | NOK | NOK |
| Bad | ago there are | 14 | NOK | NOK | NOK |
| Bad | are people looking | 14 | NOK | NOK | NOK |
| Bad | there are people | 14 | NOK | NOK | NOK |
This table highlights the importance of being consistent with your use of keywords. To improve the chance of ranking high in search results with a specific keyword, you should use the most important keywords consistently in your content, title, description, H titles, internal links anchor text and backlinks anchor text.
Google™ Ranking
| Keywords | Rank | Trend | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| www.booking.com | 1 | 0.990.990.810.540.540.670.670.810.810.810.810.67 |
http://www.booking.com/ |
| booking | 1 | 0.990.990.990.670.670.670.670.820.670.550.550.45 |
http://www.booking.com/ |
| bookings.com | 1 | 0.990.990.820.550.550.670.670.820.990.990.990.82 |
http://www.booking.com/ |
| booking.com | 1 | 0.990.990.990.550.550.670.670.810.990.990.990.81 |
http://www.booking.com/ |
| bookings | 1 | 0.990.990.990.540.540.540.540.670.670.540.670.54 |
http://www.booking.com/ |
| booking.com extranet | 1 | 0.830.830.660.550.450.660.990.990.830.830.830.66 |
http://www.booking.com/gener.. |
| new york new york las vegas | 6 | 0.990.990.820.670.990.990.990.990.990.990.990.99 |
http://www.booking.com/hotel.. |
| sls.com | 7 | 0.990.990.990.990.990.990.990.990.990.990.990.82 |
http://www.booking.com/hotel.. |
| cosmopolitan las vegas | 9 | 0.820.820.990.550.550.670.550.670.820.820.820.82 |
http://www.booking.com/hotel.. |
| aria las vegas | 10 | 0.670.670.990.670.670.670.670.670.820.820.820.82 |
http://www.booking.com/hotel.. |
Your website ranks highest with these keywords.
This data is provided by SEMRush™.
Competitors in Google™
This is an estimation of the websites who are ranking above yours in the organic search results in Google™. You can consider that these websites are your online competitors since they are ranking high with the same keywords as yours.
We recommend that you visit these websites and conduct an in-depth analysis of them in order to understand why they are ranking high. This will help you learn about your market and your keywords.
This data is provided by SEMRush™.
SEO Authority
Indexed Pages
This is the number of pages on your website that are indexed by Google™.
The more pages that search engines index, the better, as this offers more opportunity for your website to be found.
A low number (relative to the total number of pages/URLs on your website) probably indicates that your internal link architecture needs improvement and is preventing search engines from crawling all of the pages on your website. You might want to create/check your site's XML sitemap and submit it to Google™. You must also build backlinks to your site's inside pages to help Google™ bots crawl and index your web pages.
Check Google™ Webmaster Tools under Health and Index Status, to keep track of the status of your site's indexed pages.
Domain 1st Registered
15 years 0 Month 24 Days ago
Your domain is old enough to encourage search engines to give it a higher rank.
Domain age matters to a certain extent and newer domains generally struggle to get indexed and rank high in search results for their first few months (depending on other associated ranking factors).
Domain Expiration
6 Year(s) 12 Month(s) 9 Day(s)
Do you know that you can register your domain for up to 10 years? By doing so, you will show the world that you are serious about your business.
Popular Pages
This lists your website's popular pages.
SEO Backlinks
DMOZ
Yes
Your website is listed in DMOZ, a multilingual open content directory constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors.
Make sure your company's title and description are up-to-date because search engines take DMOZ listings into account.
Usability
URL
http://booking.com
Length: 7 character(s)
Keep your URLs short and avoid long domain names when possible.
A descriptive URL is better recognized by search engines. A user should be able to look at the address bar and make an accurate guess about the content of the page before reaching it (e.g., http://www.mysite.com/en/products).
Keep in mind that URLs are also an important part of a comprehensive SEO strategy. Use clean URLs to make your site more "crawlable" by Google™.
Resource: Search for a good domain name. If no good names are available, consider a second hand domain. To prevent brand theft, you might consider trademarking your domain name.
Favicon
Yes
Great, your website has a favicon. Make sure this favicon is consistent with your brand.
Resource: Check out this amazing idea for improving the user experience with a special favicon.
404 Error Page
Great, your website has a custom 404 error page.
Take advantage of the opportunity to provide a beautiful 404 Error Page for your visitors.
Printability
We could not find a Print-Friendly CSS
This is a special CSS style sheet which ensures that unnecessary interface designs and images are left out when printing pages from your site, saving the user a lot of ink.
It is just another way to provide a rich user-experience.
If you do not have a print style sheet yet, set one up.
Conversion Forms
Great, we found a Conversion Form on this page.
There are different types of conversions, such as: getting the email address of your visitors, requesting your visitors to fill in a form or closing an online sale. Converting visitors into prospects/clients is probably the most important target for your website. So, it is important that you optimize your website to boost conversions.
Page Size
160 Kb (World Wide Web average is 600 Kb)
Two of the main reasons for an increase in page size are images and JavaScript files.
Page size affects the speed of your website; try to keep your page size below the global average.
Tip: Use images with a small size and optimize their download with gzip.
Load Time
1.01 second(s) (158.67 Kb/s)
Your website is too slow. Slow page load time is one of the biggest complaints of web users.
If the load time/Kb is short, it means your homepage is too big. If the load time/Kb is long, this could be due to a server problem, a network problem, poor code optimization (cache, Mysql queries, etc.), or a third-party issue (advertising codes, analytics codes, etc.).
Site speed is becoming an important factor for ranking high in Google™ search results.
Resources: Check out Google™'s developer tutorials for tips on how to to make your website run faster.
Monitor your server and receive SMS alerts when your website is down with a website monitoring tool.
Language
Declared: en-us
Detected: ms
The language you have specified for your website is different than the language detected by Google™. Use the META Language Attribute to declare the intended language of your website.
Tips for multilingual websites:
- Define the language of the content in each page's HTML code.
- Specify the language code in the URL as well (e.g., "mywebsite.com/fr/mycontent.html").
Microformats
We found 0 type(s) of Microformat
This page does not take advantage of Microformats.
A microformat is a technical semantic markup that can be used to better structure the data submitted to search engines.
Thanks to microformats, Google™ regularly improves its presentation of search results.
Dublin Core
Missing
This page does not take advantage of Dublin Core.
Dublin Core is a set of standard metadata elements used to describe the contents of a website. It can help with some internal search engines and it does not bloat your code.
Security
Server IP
91.206.232.220
Server location: AMSTERDAM
Your server's IP address has little impact on your SEO. Nevertheless, try to host your website on a server which is geographically close to your visitors. Search engines take the geolocation of a server into account as well as the server speed.
Use DNSstuff for comprehensive reports on your server.
Spam Block
Your IP is not Blacklisted in the Spammer Directory.
It is important that your SEO efforts are not tarnished by spammy activities. Take care to avoid forum and blog spam and use best practices when sharing your content.
In addition, if you send email campaigns or transactional emails, use professional email software to keep your IP clean and improve the deliverability of your emails.
Safe Browsing
Yes
Domain Availability
| Domains (TLD) | Status | Expiration |
|---|---|---|
| booking.net | Domain Not Available | 4 Year(s) 6 Month(s) 7 Day(s) |
| booking.org | Domain Not Available | 0 Year(s) 12 Month(s) 18 Day(s) |
| booking.info | Domain Not Available | 2 Year(s) 1 Month(s) 26 Day(s) |
| booking.biz | Domain Not Available | 1 Year(s) 11 Month(s) 2 Day(s) |
| booking.eu | Domain Not Available | - |
Register the various extensions of your domain to protect your brand from cybersquatters.
Typo Availability
Register the various typos of your domain to protect your brand from cybersquatters.
Email Privacy
Good, no email address has been found in plain text.
Malicious bots scrape the web in search of email addresses and plain text email addresses are more likely to be spammed.
Directory Browsing
No
Great! Your server prevents visitors from browsing your directory by accessing it directly, this is excellent from a security standpoint.
Server Signature
No
Good, your server signature is off. This is excellent from a security standpoint.
Technologies
Google™ Analytics
Yes
Web analytics let you measure visitor activity on your website. You should have at least one analytics tool installed. It is also good to install one extra tool to have a confirmation of the results.
Analytics Tools: Google™ Analytics, Quantcast™, SiteCatalyst™, Piwik™, chartbeat™, Clicky™, ClickTale™, etc.
Technologies
Google Analytics Analytics
jQuery JavaScript framework
Nginx Web server
Get to know the technologies used for your website. Some codes might slow down your website. Ask your webmaster to take a look at this.
W3C Validity
Invalid: 146 Errors, 3 Warning(s)
Use valid markup that contains no errors. Syntax errors can make your page difficult for search engines to index.
To fix the detected errors, run the W3C validation service.
W3C is a consortium that sets web standards.
Encoding
UTF-8
Great, language/character encoding is specified.
Specifying language/character encoding can prevent problems with the rendering of special characters.
Speed Tips
Watch out: your website’s speed could be slightly improved.
Perfect, your server is using a caching method to speed up page display.
Too bad, your website is using nested tables, which can slow down page rendering.
Too bad, your website is using inline styles.
Perfect, your website has few CSS files.
Perfect, your website has few JavaScript files.
Perfect, your website takes advantage of gzip.
Website speed has a huge effect on SEO. Speed-up your website so search engines will reward you by sending more visitors.
Also, conversion rates are far higher for websites that load faster than their slower competitors.






