Guides.lib.berkeley.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
81% 
Server
91% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.57 s
File size
46.10 kB
Words
158
Media files
2
Number of links
16 internal / 13 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Library Guides at UC Berkeley
The length of the page title is perfect. (345 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)
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 name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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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robotsnoarchive
msapplication-TileColor#ffc40d
msapplication-config//d2jv02qf7xgjwx.cloudfront.net/apps/common/favicon/browserconfig.xml
theme-color#ffffff
langen
twitter:imagehttps://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/ld.php?_=1712742112&size=twitter&screenshot=site_screenshot.png
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@springshare
og:titleLibrary Guides
og:descriptionEmpty
og:imagehttps://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/ld.php?_=1712742112&size=facebook&screenshot=site_screenshot.png
og:image:width1200
og:image:height627
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 158 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
22.2% 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 11.5 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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 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)
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
...ey.edu/themes/custom/ucblibrary/logo.svgLibrary Home
...es/custom/ucblibrary/img/footer_logo.svgUC Berkeley Logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The H1 heading is empty
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Empty heading
H2 Secondary menu
H2 Empty heading
H2 Ask a Librarian
H2 A-Z Database List
H2 Course Guides
H2 The Library
H2 Research Tools & Tips
H2 UC Berkeley Community
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 13 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://ucberkeley.libanswers....External Subdomain Ask Us
https://search.library.berkele...New window External Subdomain Log in to your Library account
https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/h...External Subdomain Hours and Maps
https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/h...External Subdomain Connect from Off Campus
https://www.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain UC Berkeley Home
https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Library Home
A-TITLE Home
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain UC Berkeley
https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/Subdomain Library Guides
/az.phpGo to A-Z List
/course-guidesNew window Subdomain All Course Guides
/research101New window Subdomain Research 101
/uclibrarysearchNew window Subdomain UC Library Search User Guide
/scholarly-resourcesNew window Subdomain Scholarly Resources
/accessNew window Subdomain Internet Access & Technology
/events-and-workshopsNew window Subdomain Events, Programs, & Workshops
/exhibits?b=g&d=a&group_id=22913New window Subdomain Exhibits & Galleries
/evaluating-resourcesNew window Subdomain Evaluating Resources
/?b=g&d=a&group_id=23009New window Subdomain Managing Research Data
/?b=g&d=a&group_id=23079New window Subdomain Resource Types and Formats
/?b=g&d=a&group_id=22993New window Subdomain More Research/Library Resources
/healthNew window Subdomain Health & Wellness
/?b=g&d=a&group_id=111New window Subdomain Faculty, Instructors, & Graduate Students
https://berkeley.libapps.com/l...New window External Subdomain UC Berkeley History
https://berkeley.libapps.com/l...External Subdomain Login to LibApps
https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/a...External Subdomain Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
https://lib.berkeley.edu/about...External Subdomain Privacy
https://dac.berkeley.edu/web-a...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://ophd.berkeley.edu/poli...External Subdomain Nondiscrimination

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/"
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 of 0.57 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (46 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateWed, 10 Apr 2024 09:41:52 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-backend-serverlibguides-us-4.springyaws.com
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
content-security-policyupgrade-insecure-requests
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; preload
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

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 2,950 referring domains.
This page has 14,515 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,480 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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Disallow: /er.php
Disallow: /err.php
Disallow: /go.php
Disallow: /friendly.php
Disallow: /ld.php
Disallow: /srch.php

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Guides62%Check
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Library Guides58%Check
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Course Guides50%Check
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Research38%Check
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