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Meta information
79% 
Page quality
75% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
0% 
Server
0% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.15 s
File size
59.90 kB
Words
534
Media files
19
Number of links
2 internal / 45 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Library Collections | UBC Library Collections
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (398 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
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Library Collections About our Collections Collections – both physical and digital – are at the core of UBC Library’s mission. With more than nine million items in its digital and print collections, the Library is a vital support for research, learning and teaching excellence at UBC.
There are more than one meta descriptions on the page. Only one is allowed.
The meta description is too long: 1682 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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https://collections.library.ubc.ca/
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
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There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
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This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
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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
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
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The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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descriptionLibrary Collections About our Collections Collections – both physical and digital – are at the core of UBC Library’s mission. With more than nine million items in its digital and print collections, the Library is a vital support for research, learning and teaching excellence at UBC. Find out more about UBC Library’s collection strengths, partnerships, […]
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Content
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This page contains 534 words. That's ok.
32% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
10 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 words is good.
Frames
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This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
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This page loads 16 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 11 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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13 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
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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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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Library Collections
The H1 heading is too short (19 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
There are 27 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Library Collections
H2 About our Collections
H2 Featured Collections
H2 Collection News
H2 Partnerships and Initiatives
H3 Collection Overview
H3 Collection Development Policies
H3 The Chung Collection
H3 Uno Langman Collection
H3 Videomatica Collection
H3 BC Historical Newspapers
H3 Digital Collections
H3 Norman Colbeck Collection
H3 The Great Reads Collection
H3 cIRcle
H3 Scholarly Communications
H3 Cooperative Collecting
H4 UBC Library’s Joan Gillis Fonds is added to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s Canada Memory of the World Register
H4 UBC Library acquires extensive photography book collection
H4 UBC Library has acquired access to the digital archives of the Vancouver Sun newspaper
H4 UBC Library acquires Afghan primary source databases
H4 I Know We’ll Meet Again: Correspondence and the Forced Dispersal of Japanese Canadians
H4 William Shakespeare’s First Folio published in 1623 gifted to UBC Library
H4 Learn about UBC Library’s participation in the HathiTrust ETAS
H4 UBC Library users now able to access the most authoritative resource on world languages
H4 Colour our Collections
H4 UBC-founded publication, Fish Physiology celebrates 50 years
This page seems to be an entry page, because only very few links were found.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (45) on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://www.ubc.ca/External Subdomain The University of British Columbia
A-TITLE The University of British Columbia (UBC)
https://cdn.ubc.ca/clf/ref/apl...External Subdomain UBC - A Place of Mind
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https://www.ubc.ca/External Subdomain Text duplicate The University of British Columbia
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http://www.library.ubc.ca/External Subdomain Library
A-TITLE Library
http://www.library.ubc.ca/External Subdomain Library Home
http://about.library.ubc.ca/External Subdomain About Us
A-TITLE About Us
http://search.library.ubc.ca/External Subdomain Search collections
https://about.library.ubc.ca/2...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Joan Gillis Fonds
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https://about.library.ubc.ca/2...External Subdomain UBC Library’s Joan Gillis Fonds is added to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s Canada Memory of the World Register
https://about.library.ubc.ca/2...External Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Read More
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https://about.library.ubc.ca/2...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Extensive Photography Book Collection acquired
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Read More
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https://about.library.ubc.ca/2...External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
A-TITLE Read More
https://about.library.ubc.ca/2...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Afghan Primary Source Databases
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https://about.library.ubc.ca/2...External Subdomain UBC Library acquires Afghan primary source databases
https://about.library.ubc.ca/2...External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
A-TITLE Read More
https://about.library.ubc.ca/2...External Subdomain IMG-ALT I Know We'll Meet Again: Correspondence and the Forced Dispersal Of Japanese Canadians.
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https://about.library.ubc.ca/2...External Subdomain I Know We’ll Meet Again: Correspondence and the Forced Dispersal of Japanese Canadians
https://about.library.ubc.ca/2...External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
A-TITLE Read More
https://about.library.ubc.ca/2...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Shakespeare's First Folio
A-TITLE William Shakespeare’s First Folio published in 1623 gifted to UBC Library
https://about.library.ubc.ca/2...External Subdomain William Shakespeare’s First Folio published in 1623 gifted to UBC Library
https://about.library.ubc.ca/2...External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
A-TITLE Read More
https://about.library.ubc.ca/2...External Subdomain A-TITLE Learn about UBC Library’s participation in the HathiTrust ETAS
https://about.library.ubc.ca/2...External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn about UBC Library’s participation in the HathiTrust ETAS
https://about.library.ubc.ca/2...External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
A-TITLE Read More
https://about.library.ubc.ca/2...External Subdomain A-TITLE UBC Library users now able to access the most authoritative resource on world languages
https://about.library.ubc.ca/2...External Subdomain Text duplicate UBC Library users now able to access the most authoritative resource on world languages
https://about.library.ubc.ca/2...External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
A-TITLE Read More
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https://about.library.ubc.ca/c...External Subdomain Text duplicate Colour our Collections
https://about.library.ubc.ca/c...External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
A-TITLE Read More
https://about.library.ubc.ca/2...External Subdomain A-TITLE UBC-founded publication, Fish Physiology celebrates 50 years
https://about.library.ubc.ca/2...External Subdomain Text duplicate UBC-founded publication, Fish Physiology celebrates 50 years
https://about.library.ubc.ca/2...External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
A-TITLE Read More
/news/Subdomain Read collections news
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https://about.library.ubc.ca/2...External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
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A-TITLE No Comments
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A-TITLE The University of British Columbia (UBC)
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A-TITLE Emergency Procedures
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A-TITLE UBC Copyright
https://cdn.ubc.ca/clf/ref/acc...External Subdomain Accessibility
A-TITLE Accessibility

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HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://collections.library.ubc.ca/"
HTTP header
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The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (2.15 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.
This page loads 9 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 16 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (60 kB).

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 225 referring domains.
This page has 237 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 87 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Library Collections About our Collections Collections – both physical and digital – are at the core of UBC Library’s mission. With more than nine million items in its digital and print collections, the Library is a vital support for research, learning and teaching excellence at UBC.

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