====== W3C ======

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===== Definition =====

**W3C** is an acronym for **W**orld **W**ide **W**eb **C**onsortium.

The W3C was founded 1994 in the USA develops and regulates the worldwide web (incl. [[HTML]] and [[XML]]. Its goal is to unify the technical specifications and it's composed of 

research institutes and IT companies. 

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===== Importance for SEO =====

A W3C validated website will be displayed correctly in up-to-date browsers. Analyze your website to make sure there are no problems with your source code (e.g. remove empty tags and store 

[[JavaScript]] in external files). This will render the website correctly, improve the loading time and is [[crawler]]- and user-friendly.