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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
77% 
Page quality
38% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.19 s
File size
30.10 kB
Words
221
Media files
13
Number of links
33 internal / 13 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
By the People Home
The page title is too short. (184 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Crowdsourcing project By the People invites anyone to become a Library of Congress virtual volunteer. Explore, transcribe, review, and tag digital collections to improve search and readability and open new avenues of research.
The meta description is too long: 1397 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
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
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
descriptionCrowdsourcing project By the People invites anyone to become a Library of Congress virtual volunteer. Explore, transcribe, review, and tag digital collections to improve search and readability and open new avenues of research.
langen
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 221 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
24.9% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 19 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
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)
9 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
/static/img/LoC-logo.1288e533ae91.svgLibrary of Congress logo
.../img/logo-by-the-people.ba91a0786bea.svgNo alt attribute provided
...tic/img/homepage-search.7a2837bcc140.svgNo alt attribute provided
...tic/img/homepage-pencil.92cfe9fce9cb.svgNo alt attribute provided
.../img/homepage-checkmark.d3de0193e75c.svgNo alt attribute provided
...usel-slides/BartonChallengeCarousel1.jpgA collage of three images, the first is a WWI era recruiting poster for the Red Cross, the second is a photograph of a young Clara Barton and the third is one of her handwritten letters
....gov/carousel-slides/OlmstedCarousel.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...v/carousel-slides/Carousel_Arendt_v2.jpgBlack and white 1951 U.S. Naturalization card for Hannah Arendt. Includes a photograph of Arendt, a middle-aged woman with short dark hair. The rest of the card is printed and typed text including her address in New York City.
...slides/GarfieldCWtoCongress_carousel.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...usel-slides/2018751240_0003_carousel.jpgDeed executed in the city of Antequera on February 3, 1572, whereby Garci Ponce de León claims that he is a "Hijodalgo" of the city and therefore should be exempt from payment of the taxes on meat and fish.
...nails/EDITED-NEW-HERENCIA-CAMP-IMAGE.pngNo alt attribute provided
...umbnails/MusicalTheaterCampaignImg-1.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ov/campaign-thumbnails/CAMP_image_v1.jpgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
By The People
The H1 heading is too short (13 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 By The People
H2 Be a virtual volunteer!
H2 Happy Birthday Clara Barton!
H2 New Olmsted addition
H2 Hannah Arendt
H2 Elect Garfield!
H2 Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents
H2 Surprise me!
H2 Campaigns: Choose which collections to explore and transcribe
H2 Follow Us
H3 Get started
H3 Transcribe
H3 Review
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 13 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.loc.gov/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Library of Congress logo
A-TITLE Library of Congress
https://crowd.loc.gov/By The People
A-TITLE By the People
https://crowd.loc.gov/about/About
/campaigns-topics/Campaigns
/campaigns-topics/All Campaigns
/campaigns/completed/Completed Campaigns
/help-center/Nofollow How-To
/get-started/Nofollow Get Started
/get-started/how-to-transcribe/Nofollow Transcribe
/get-started/how-to-review/Nofollow Review
/get-started/how-to-tag/Nofollow Tag
https://crowd.loc.gov/resources/Resources
https://historyhub.history.gov...New window External Subdomain Discuss
/account/login/?next=/Nofollow Login
/account/register/Nofollow Register
/account/login/?next=/Nofollow Text duplicate Login
/account/register/Nofollow Text duplicate Register
/get-started/Get started Learn how to volunteer. Anyone can contribute!
/get-started/how-to-transcribe/Transcribe No account needed! Type what you see on the page.
/get-started/how-to-review/Review Review is the crucial final step! Register to edit and complete transcriptions.
/campaigns/clara-barton-angel-...Subdomain LET'S GO!
/campaigns/olmsted/Subdomain Text duplicate LET'S GO!
/campaigns/arendt/Subdomain Text duplicate LET'S GO!
/campaigns/garfield-correspond...Text duplicate LET'S GO!
/campaigns/herencia-centuries-...Text duplicate LET'S GO!
https://crowd.loc.gov/Anchor Previous
https://crowd.loc.gov/Anchor Next
/next-transcribable-asset/Jump into a transcription
/next-reviewable-asset/Jump into a review
/campaigns/herencia-centuries-...Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents
/campaigns/musical-theater/Sheet Music of the Musical Theater
/campaigns/arendt/Woman of the World: Political Thinker Hannah Arendt
/campaigns-topics/Browse All Campaigns
https://github.com/LibraryOfCo...External A-TITLE GitHub
https://www.twitter.com/Crowd_LOCExternal Subdomain A-TITLE Twitter
https://updates.loc.gov/accoun...External Subdomain A-TITLE Newsletter
/for-educators/For Educators
https://historyhub.history.gov...External Subdomain Text duplicate Discuss
https://ask.loc.gov/crowdNew window External Subdomain Contact Us
/get-started/Help
https://www.loc.gov/accessibil...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://www.loc.gov/legal/External Subdomain Legal
https://www.loc.gov/about/offi...External Subdomain Inspector General
https://www.loc.gov/legal/stan...External Subdomain External Link Disclaimer
https://www.congress.gov/External Subdomain Congress.gov
https://copyright.gov/External Copyright.gov

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://crowd.loc.gov/"
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 excellent with 0.19 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (30 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateMon, 06 Jan 2025 13:48:10 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
cache-controlpublic, max-age=300
varyAccept-Encoding, Cookie
x-frame-optionsDENY
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
referrer-policyorigin
cross-origin-opener-policysame-origin
last-modifiedMon, 06 Jan 2025 13:46:25 GMT
cf-cache-statusHIT
servercloudflare
cf-ray8fdc2a02788a6985-CDG
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 661 referring domains.
This page has 1,869 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 427 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /account/

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By the People Home
Crowdsourcing project By the People invites anyone to become a Library of Congress virtual volunteer. Explore, transcribe, review, and tag digital collections to improve search and readability and open new avenues of research.

Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

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Transcribe54%Check
New54%Check
Review50%Check
volunteer50%Check
Congress50%Check
virtual50%Check
collections50%Check
explore50%Check
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