Website Review: bdc.ca
Generated on October 12 2026 06:45 AM
The score is 59/100
SEO Content
Title
BDC - The Bank for Canadian Entrepreneurs
Length : 41
Great, your title tag's length is between 40 and 70 characters. Title tag length between 50 and 70 characters is optimal for SEO.
Description
We are BDC, the Business Development Bank of Canada and the financial institution devoted to Canadian entrepreneurs. We help create and develop strong Canadian businesses through financing, advisory services and capital, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises.
Length : 272
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Keywords
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Og Meta Properties
Good, your page takes advantage of Open Graph Properties. Open Graph properties can help with indexing.
| Property | Content |
|---|---|
| type | website |
| site_name | BDC.ca |
| url | https://www.bdc.ca/en |
| image | https://www.bdc.ca/globalassets/digizuite/18203-default_bdc.jpg |
| locale | en_CA |
| locale:alternate | fr_CA |
| title | BDC - The Bank for Canadian Entrepreneurs |
| description | We are BDC, the Business Development Bank of Canada and the financial institution devoted to Canadian entrepreneurs. We help create and develop strong Canadian businesses through financing, advisory services and capital, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises. |
Headings
| H1 | H2 | H3 | H4 | H5 | H6 |
| 1 | 18 | 30 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
- [H1] We are the bank for Canadian entrepreneurs
- [H2] Your privacy
- [H2] Financing
- [H2] Consulting
- [H2] Solutions
- [H2] Resources
- [H2] Financing
- [H2] Consulting
- [H2] Solutions
- [H2] Resources
- [H2] Dedicated to entrepreneurs
- [H2] Tools to help weather economic uncertainty
- [H2] The resources you need to thrive
- [H2] A business bank for all
- [H2] Entrepreneurs and partners
- [H2] Quick links
- [H2] Contact us
- [H2] Subscribe
- [H2] Follow us
- [H3] Business loans Business loans
- [H3] Investments Investments
- [H3] Featured
- [H3] Consulting services Consulting services
- [H3] Tailored advice Tailored advice
- [H3] Featured
- [H3] Specialized support Specialized support
- [H3] Strategic opportunities Strategic opportunities
- [H3] Featured
- [H3] Challenges Challenges
- [H3] Toolkit Toolkit
- [H3] Featured
- [H3] Business loans Business loans
- [H3] Investments Investments
- [H3] Featured
- [H3] Consulting services Consulting services
- [H3] Tailored advice Tailored advice
- [H3] Featured
- [H3] Specialized support Specialized support
- [H3] Strategic opportunities Strategic opportunities
- [H3] Featured
- [H3] Challenges Challenges
- [H3] Toolkit Toolkit
- [H3] Featured
- [H3] Financing
- [H3] Consulting
- [H3] Capital
- [H3] Black entrepreneurs
- [H3] Indigenous entrepreneurs
- [H3] Women entrepreneurs
- [H4] What is the difference between a line of credit and a working capital loan?
- [H4] Business plan template
- [H4] Newsletter: In Business
- [H4] What is the difference between a line of credit and a working capital loan?
- [H4] How to get a business loan in Canada
- [H4] How to find a good business idea
- [H4] Business plan template
- [H4] AI that pays off: Where to start for real results
- [H4] Guide to getting a business loan
- [H4] Newsletter: In Business
- [H4] 4 Key Trends Shaping The Future of Canada’s Businesses
- [H4] Tariffs are raising the stakes for Canadian businesses
- [H4] Stay informed
- [H4] Subscribe to our newsletter
Images
We found 32 images on this web page.
10 image alt attributes were missing. Please add alt text to all images to help search engines better understand the content of your images.
Text/HTML Ratio
Ratio : 0%
This page's ratio of text to HTML code is below 20 percent, this means that your website probably needs more text content in order to do well in search engines. Note: This may also result from a false reading due to your server blocking external scripts from accessing the home page.
Iframe
Awesome, there are no Iframes found on this page.
SEO Links
URL Rewrite
Good. Your links look SEO friendly and are easy to crawl!
Underscores in the URLs
Great! No underscores found in your URLs.
In-page links
We found a total of 49 links including 1 link(s) to files
| Anchor | Type | Juice |
|---|---|---|
| Policy on confidentiality | Internal | Passing Juice |
| FR | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Business loans | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Investments | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Consulting services | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Learn about our solutions | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Challenges | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Toolkit | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Industries | Internal | Passing Juice |
| About | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Careers | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Contact us | Internal | Passing Juice |
| What is the difference between a line of credit and a working capital loan? | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Business plan template | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Newsletter: In Business | Internal | Passing Juice |
| How to get a business loan in Canada | Internal | Passing Juice |
| How to find a good business idea | Internal | Passing Juice |
| AI that pays off: Where to start for real results | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Guide to getting a business loan | Internal | Passing Juice |
| 4 Key Trends Shaping The Future of Canada’s Businesses | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Tariffs are raising the stakes for Canadian businesses | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Black entrepreneurs | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Indigenous entrepreneurs | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Women entrepreneurs | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Young (18-39) | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Newcomers | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Technology | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Professionals | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Suppliers | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Small Business Loan | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Business loan calculator | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Ratio calculators | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Glossary | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Manage your subscriptions | Internal | Passing Juice |
| BDC ViewPoints panel | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Internal | Passing Juice | |
| Business centre | Internal | Passing Juice |
| External | Passing Juice | |
| External | Passing Juice | |
| External | Passing Juice | |
| YouTube | External | Passing Juice |
| Accessibility | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Supported applications | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Site map | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Terms of use | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Security | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Transparency | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Privacy Policy | External | Passing Juice |
| term of Service | External | Passing Juice |
SEO Keywords
Keywords Cloud
Keywords Consistency
| Keyword | Content | Title | Keywords | Description | Headings |
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Usability
Url
Domain : bdc.ca
Length : 6
Favicon
Great, your website has a favicon.
Language
Good. Your declared language is en.
Document
Doctype
HTML 5
Encoding
Great. Your declared charset is UTF-8.
Email Privacy
Warning! At least one email address has been found in plain text. Consider using an image or a form to hide email from spammers.
Deprecated HTML
Great! We haven't found deprecated HTML tags in your HTML.
Speed Tips
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Not great, your website is using inline styles. This is not optimal. |
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Great, your website has few CSS files. |
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This website has an excessive amount of Javascript files (more than 6). |
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This website does not take advantage of GZIP optimization. GZIP compression means your site loads faster for your visitors and improves the user's experience. |
Mobile
Mobile Optimization
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Apple Icon |
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Meta Viewport Tag |
Optimization
XML Sitemap
Great, your website has an XML sitemap.
| https://www.bdc.ca/sitemap.xml |
Robots.txt
http://bdc.ca/robots.txt
Great, your website has a robots.txt file.
Analytics
Missing
Unverified
AI Search Readiness
AI Crawlers
AI search crawlers are allowed, so the site can be shown and cited in AI answers (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity).
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OAI-SearchBot | ChatGPT search | AI search |
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ChatGPT-User | ChatGPT (user requests) | AI search |
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Claude-SearchBot | Claude search | AI search |
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Claude-User | Claude (user requests) | AI search |
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PerplexityBot | Perplexity | AI search |
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GPTBot | OpenAI training | AI training |
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ClaudeBot | Anthropic training | AI training |
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Google-Extended | Google Gemini training | AI training |
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Applebot-Extended | Apple AI training | AI training |
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CCBot | Common Crawl | AI training |
Blocking AI training crawlers is a common choice and doesn't affect the score. Only the AI search crawlers count.
Structured Data
The homepage describes itself with schema.org structured data, which helps search engines and AI tools understand it: Organization, PostalAddress, ContactPoint, WebSite, SearchAction
Canonical Tag
The homepage has a canonical tag, which tells search engines which URL is the main version of the page.
llms.txt
No llms.txt file. It's an emerging convention: a short Markdown summary of the site for AI tools. Optional, so it doesn't affect the score.
Security
HTTPS
The site loads over HTTPS, so connections are encrypted. Browsers and search engines expect this.
HSTS
The site sends a Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers always use HTTPS for it.
Security Headers
0 of 5 common security headers found. At least 2 are needed to pass.
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Content-Security-Policy |
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X-Content-Type-Options |
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X-Frame-Options |
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Referrer-Policy |
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Permissions-Policy |
Domain Info
bdc.ca was registered on 12 Nov 2000 with (Funio) - Miss Group Canada Inc and expires on 20 Jul 2027. It accepts email and has both SPF and DMARC records.
Registration
| Registrar | (Funio) - Miss Group Canada Inc |
| Registered | 12 Nov 2000 (25 years ago) |
| Expires | 20 Jul 2027 |
| Last changed | 16 Apr 2026 |
| Nameservers | ns10.dnsmadeeasy.com, ns11.dnsmadeeasy.com, ns12.dnsmadeeasy.com, ns13.dnsmadeeasy.com, ns14.dnsmadeeasy.com |
| DNSSEC | Not signed |
Hosting
| IPv4 address | 217.114.94.2 |
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IPv6 support |
Email Security
Mail servers: bdc-ca.mail.protection.outlook.com
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SPF record |
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DMARC record (policy: quarantine) |
PageSpeed Insights
Device
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