Classics.mit.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
66% 
Page quality
50% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
45% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.39 s
File size
6.30 kB
Words
301
Media files
9
Number of links
20 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The Internet Classics Archive: 441 searchable works of classical literature
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 661 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Home page, part of the Internet Classics Archive
The length of the meta description is perfect. (300 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Server location: United States of America
The language is not specified in the HTML markup.
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 character encoding is not specified.
The character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
No doctype markup was found.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
descriptionHome page, part of the Internet Classics Archive
keywordsclassical, literature, classics, ancient, civilization, books, great books, philosophy, history, Greek, Latin, Roman, Persian, Chinese, Greece, Rome, commentary, pictures, bookstore, CD-ROM

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
There are only 301 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
38.5% of the text are stop words.
7 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 11.38 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No viewpoint tag is provided.
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page only loads 1 JavaScript files. That's good!
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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)
The HTTPS protocol for secure data transmission is not used.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
/Images/ICA-banner-smaller.gifThe Internet Classics Archive: 441 searchable works of classical literature
/Images/browse-icon.gifBrowse a list of titles
/Images/search-icon.gifSearch texts
http://classics.mit.edu/Images/buy-icon.gifBuy books and CD-ROMs
/Images/help-icon.gifGet help
/Images/links-icon.gifView list of other resources
http://classics.mit.edu/Images/macmade.gifGo to Apple
http://classics.mit.edu/Images/wa-small.gifGo to Web Atomics

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
There are no headings specified on the page. Headings are important for search engine optimization and help to structure your content.

Heading structure

No headings were found.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Browse/index.htmlIMG-ALT Browse a list of titles
/Browse/index.htmlBrowse and Comment
/Browse/index.htmlSelect from a list of 441 works of classical literature
https://github.com/TheMITTechExternal URL anchor text
https://github.com/TheMITTech
/Search/index.htmlIMG-ALT Search texts
/Search/index.htmlSearch
/Search/index.htmlConstruct powerful queries
http://classics.mit.edu/Search/Search now!
/Buy/index.htmlIMG-ALT Buy books and CD-ROMs
/Buy/index.htmlBuy Books
/Buy/index.htmlPurchase books
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obi...External Subdomain Amazon.com
/Help/general.htmlIMG-ALT Get help
/Help/general.htmlHelp
/Help/general.htmlConsult the help pages
/other.htmlIMG-ALT View list of other resources
/other.htmlOther Links
/other.htmlConsult a list
http://classics.mit.edu/Anchor Browse
/acknowledgments.htmlAcknowledgments
/awards.htmlAwards
/infopolicy.htmlInformation and Privacy Policy
http://www.apple.com/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Go to Apple
http://webatomics.com/External IMG-ALT Go to Web Atomics
https://accessibility.mit.edu/External Subdomain MIT Accessibility

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
The checked page does not redirect to another URL.
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.39 seconds.
This page does not require any CSS files.
This page only loads 1 JavaScript files. That's good!
The file size of the HTML document is fine (6 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSat, 26 Oct 2024 10:38:44 GMT
serverApache
last-modifiedThu, 11 May 2023 00:49:58 GMT
etag"67160ce2-1941-645c3bb6"
accept-rangesbytes
content-length6465
connectionclose
content-typetext/html
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 10,734 referring domains.
This page has 261,266 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 6,722 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/

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Internet Classics65%Check
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Internet59%Check
archive59%Check
Search49%Check
classical literature48%Check
works47%Check
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