diff --git a/htdocs/index.php b/htdocs/index.php
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 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
 <head>
   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
+  <meta name="description" content="Cppcheck is an analysis tool for C/C++ code.
+It detects the types of bugs that the compilers normally fail to detect. The
+goal is no false positives." />
+  <meta name="keywords" content="Cppcheck, open source, analysis tool, C/C++,
+code, errors, bugs, compilers, bounds checking, memory leaks, obsolete functions,
+uninitialized variables, unused functions" />
   <title>Cppcheck - A tool for static C/C++ code analysis</title>
   <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/site/css/all.css" />
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