Arl.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
93% 
Page structure
72% 
Link structure
77% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
3.06 s
File size
106.80 kB
Words
875
Media files
18
Number of links
90 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Association of Research Libraries
The length of the page title is perfect. (372 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.arl.org/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
(Somewhat important)
There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
(Somewhat important)
The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
(Somewhat important)
No parameters were found in the URL.
No session ID was found in the URL.
The URL does not have too many subdirectories.
Charset encoding
(Somewhat important)
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 875 words. That's ok.
17.7% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
7 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 20.63 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 18 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
Additional markup
(Nice to have)
No additional page markup was found.
HTTPS
(Somewhat important)
This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

Media list

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...y-lorenzo-de-gregorio-edited-500x800.pngDiversity, Equity & Inclusion
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 28 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Search Filters
H3 Topics
H3 Advocacy & Public Policy
H3 Data & Analytics
H3 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
H3 Learning at ARL
H3 Scholars & Scholarship
H3 News
H3 Upcoming Events
H3 Jobs
H3 ARL Celebrates Pride Month 2024
H3 Recap, Slides, Video: Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) Webinar
H3 ARL Libraries Remember Juneteenth
H3 Canadian ARL Libraries Celebrate National Indigenous History Month
H3 Stay Informed
H4 Advancing an equitable, enduring, research information environment
H4 ARL Seeks Researcher in Residence–Artificial Intelligence for Full-Time 6-Month Position
H4 ARL Seeks Events Manager for Full-Time 12-Month Position
H4 Save the Date: ARL President’s Institute 2025—Ignite Collaboration: Thriving Multigenerational Libraries
H4 Title II and Research Libraries: Community Call
H4 Association Meeting, Fall 2024 (Invitation Only)
H4 2024 Library Assessment Conference
H4 Librarian and Curator, Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies
H4 Data and Immersive Visualization Librarian
H4 Supervisory Librarian (Section Head Africa Section)
H4 Metadata Specialist
H4 Affiliates
H4 Association of Research Libraries
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 6 external links on this page.
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https://www.arl.org/Subdomain IMG-ALT Association of Research Libraries
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https://www.arl.org/who-we-are/Subdomain Who We Are
/arls-2023-year-in-review/Subdomain ARL’s 2023 Year in Review
/category/who-we-are/arl-benef...Subdomain ARL Benefits
/category/who-we-are/board-of-...Subdomain Board of Directors
https://www.arl.org/who-we-are/Subdomain Anchor Code of Conduct Policy and Protocol
/category/who-we-are/committee...Subdomain Committees, Task Forces & Working Groups
/category/who-we-are/member-in...Subdomain Member Institutions
/category/who-we-are/staff/Subdomain Staff
/category/who-we-are/visiting-...Subdomain Visiting Program Officers
/history-of-arl/Subdomain History of ARL
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/category/sponsorship-opportun...Subdomain Scholarship Fund Opportunity
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/news-category/arl-news/Subdomain ARL News
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/category/day-in-review/Subdomain Day in Review
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/category/our-priorities/advoc...Subdomain Public Policy Briefing
/arl-terms/statements/Subdomain Statements
/publications-a-resources/Subdomain Resources
/arl-terms/arl-annual-salary-s...Subdomain ARL Annual Salary Survey
/arl-terms/arl-statistics/Subdomain ARL Statistics
/category/blog/Subdomain ARL Views Blog
/arl-terms/issue-briefs/Subdomain Issue Briefs
/know-your-copyrights/Subdomain Know Your Copyrights
/arl-terms/rlif-practice-brief...Subdomain Library Impact Practice Briefs and Reports
/arl-terms/reports/Subdomain Reports
/arl-terms/research-library-is...Subdomain Research Library Issues
/arl-terms/spec-kits/Subdomain SPEC Kits
/category/toolkits/Subdomain Toolkits
/arl-terms/webcasts/Subdomain Webinars
/resources/publications-orderi...Subdomain Publications Ordering Information
https://www.arl.org/event/Events
https://www.arl.org/events/list/Upcoming Events List
/events/list/?tribe_paged=1&tr...Past Events List
/future-membership-meetings/Subdomain Future Semiannual Association Meetings
https://www.arl.org/jobs/Subdomain Jobs
/jobs/job-listings/Subdomain Job/Residency/Internship Listings
https://www.arl.org/jobs/start/Subdomain Post a Job
/jobs/rl-position-description-...Subdomain Research Libraries Position Description Bank
/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http...Subdomain Text duplicate Member Login
/category/our-priorities/advoc...Subdomain Advocacy & Public Policy ARL is the collective voice for research libraries and archives… Read More
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IMG-ALT Data & Analytics
/category/our-priorities/diver...Subdomain Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Research libraries work to advance access to economic and social… Read More
IMG-ALT Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
/category/our-priorities/learn...Subdomain Learning at ARL ARL member libraries and archives employ more than 35,000 people.… Read More
IMG-ALT Learning at ARL
/category/our-priorities/schol...Subdomain Scholars & Scholarship Our priority is to align library strategy, staffing, and spending… Read More
IMG-ALT Scholars & Scholarship
/news/arl-seeks-researcher-in-...Subdomain IMG-ALT photo of a AI robot standing against a wall in an alley in Tokyo
/news/arl-seeks-researcher-in-...Subdomain ARL Seeks Researcher in Residence–Artificial Intelligence for Full-Time 6-Month Position
/news/arl-seeks-researcher-in-...Subdomain Read more...
/news/arl-seeks-events-manager...Subdomain No Text
/news/arl-seeks-events-manager...Subdomain ARL Seeks Events Manager for Full-Time 12-Month Position
/news/arl-seeks-events-manager...Subdomain Text duplicate Read more...
/news/save-the-date-arl-presid...Subdomain IMG-ALT President's Institute logo
/news/save-the-date-arl-presid...Subdomain Save the Date: ARL President’s Institute 2025—Ignite Collaboration: Thriving Multigenerational Libraries
/news/save-the-date-arl-presid...Subdomain Text duplicate Read more...
https://www.arl.org/news/Subdomain View All
/event/title-ii-and-research-l...Subdomain Title II and Research Libraries: Community Call
/event/association-meeting-fal...Subdomain Association Meeting, Fall 2024 (Invitation Only)
/event/2024-library-assessment...Subdomain 2024 Library Assessment Conference
https://www.arl.org/events/Subdomain Text duplicate View All
/jobs/job-listings/a0IPn000001...Subdomain Librarian and Curator, Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies
/jobs/job-listings/a0IPn000001...Subdomain Data and Immersive Visualization Librarian
/jobs/job-listings/a0IPn000001...Subdomain Supervisory Librarian (Section Head Africa Section)
/jobs/job-listings/a0IPn000001...Subdomain Metadata Specialist
/jobs/job-listings/Subdomain Text duplicate View All
/blog/pride2024/Subdomain IMG-ALT ARL Celebrates Pride Month 2024
/blog/pride2024/Subdomain Text duplicate ARL Celebrates Pride Month 2024
/blog/recap-slides-video-globa...Subdomain IMG-ALT Recap, Slides, Video: Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) Webinar
/blog/recap-slides-video-globa...Subdomain Text duplicate Recap, Slides, Video: Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) Webinar
/blog/arl-libraries-remember-j...Subdomain IMG-ALT ARL Libraries Remember Juneteenth
/blog/arl-libraries-remember-j...Subdomain Text duplicate ARL Libraries Remember Juneteenth
/blog/canadian-arl-libraries-c...Subdomain IMG-ALT Canadian ARL Libraries Celebrate National Indigenous History Month
/blog/canadian-arl-libraries-c...Subdomain Text duplicate Canadian ARL Libraries Celebrate National Indigenous History Month
https://www.arl.org/blog/Subdomain Text duplicate View All
http://www.cni.org/External Subdomain IMG-ALT CNI
http://www.librarycopyrightall...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Library Copyright Alliance
http://iarla.org/External IMG-ALT IARLA
/copyright-statement/Subdomain © Association of Research Libraries
/accessibility-policy/Accessibility
/privacy-policy/Subdomain Privacy
/land-acknowledgment/Subdomain Land Acknowledgment
https://www.arl.org/contact-us/Subdomain Text duplicate Contact Us
https://twitter.com/ARLnewsExternal A-TITLE Follow us on Twitter
http://www.youtube.com/ARLvideoExternal Subdomain A-TITLE Follow us on YouTube
http://www.facebook.com/associ...External Subdomain A-TITLE Follow us on Facebook

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.arl.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (3.06 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (107 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 4,662 referring domains.
This page has 323,404 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,948 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Robots.txt

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