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Meta information
79% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
67% 
Server
84% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.73 s
File size
67.70 kB
Words
372
Media files
4
Number of links
35 internal / 63 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Research Guides at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
The length of the page title is perfect. (490 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
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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
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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
(Somewhat important)
The domain name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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
(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)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 372 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
18.8% 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 10 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 7 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

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Page structure

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

Heading structure

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H1 Empty heading
H2 Empty heading
H2 Databases
H2 Special Topics Guides
H2 Librarians and Specialists
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 too many external links (63) on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://lib.calpoly.edu/help-a...External Subdomain Research Help Desk
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https://lib.calpoly.edu/search...External Subdomain Special Collections and Archives
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https://lib.calpoly.edu/search...External Subdomain University Archives
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https://lib.calpoly.edu/events...External Subdomain Exhibits
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https://lib.calpoly.edu/about-...External Subdomain Publications
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https://lib.calpoly.edu/about-...External Subdomain Careers
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https://lib.calpoly.edu/about-...External Subdomain Contact
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https://afd.calpoly.edu/facili...External Subdomain Library Renovation Project
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https://lib.calpoly.edu/about-...External Subdomain Vision and Values
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https://lib.calpoly.edu/about-...External Subdomain Student Library Advisory Council
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https://lib.calpoly.edu/about-...External Subdomain Faculty Advisory Committee
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https://lib.calpoly.edu/about-...External Subdomain Dean’s Advisory Council
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https://lib.calpoly.edu/about-...External Subdomain History of Kennedy Library
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https://lib.calpoly.edu/about-...External Subdomain Policies
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https://lib.calpoly.edu/External Subdomain Robert E. Kennedy Library
https://guides.lib.calpoly.edu/Subdomain Text duplicate Research Guides
/az.phpGo to Databases
/onesearchfaqsUsing OneSearch and Off Campus Access to Library Resources
/researchhelpdeskResearch Help Desk and Reference Resources
/citationhelpText duplicate Citation Help and Annotated Bibliographies
/DPLData, GIS, Digital Projects Lab
/datasourcesData Sources & Repositories
/digitalcommonsDigitalCommons@CalPoly
/ebookguideFinding Ebooks
/governmentinformationGovernment Information and Resources
/gradGraduate Thesis Research Guide
/research-101Text duplicate Research 101
/DEIResources for Learning about DEI
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https://calpoly.libapps.com/li...External Subdomain Login to LibApps
https://lib.calpoly.edu/about-...External Subdomain Report a problem.
https://schedule.lib.calpoly.edu/New window External Subdomain Hours
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https://lib.calpoly.edu/about-...New window External Subdomain Staff Directory
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https://lib.calpoly.edu/about-...New window External Subdomain Jobs at Kennedy Library
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https://securelb.imodules.com/...New window External Subdomain Give to Kennedy Library
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/updatesNew window Subdomain Library Operations Updates Guide
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https://schedule.lib.calpoly.edu/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Hours
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https://lib.calpoly.edu/about-...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Staff Directory
A-TITLE Staff Directory
https://lib.calpoly.edu/about-...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Jobs at Kennedy Library
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https://securelb.imodules.com/...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Give to Kennedy Library
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https://lib.calpoly.edu/help-a...New window External Subdomain Research Help
A-TITLE Research Help
https://lib.calpoly.edu/search...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Borrow, Renew, Request
A-TITLE Borrow, Renew, Request
https://tech.calpoly.edu/servi...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Where can I print?
A-TITLE Where can I print?
https://calpoly.getconnect2.com/New window External Subdomain Tech Rental
A-TITLE Tech Rental
https://csu-calpoly.primo.exli...New window External Subdomain My Library Account
A-TITLE My Library Account
https://lib.calpoly.edu/help-a...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Research Help
A-TITLE Research Help
https://lib.calpoly.edu/search...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Borrow, Renew, Request
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https://tech.calpoly.edu/servi...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Where can I print?
A-TITLE Where can I print?
https://calpoly.getconnect2.com/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Tech Rental
A-TITLE Tech Rental
https://csu-calpoly.primo.exli...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate My Library Account
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A-TITLE Research Databases
https://guides.lib.calpoly.edu/New window Subdomain Text duplicate Research Guides
A-TITLE Research Guides
/DPL/New window Subdomain Digital Projects Lab
A-TITLE Digital Projects Lab
https://digitalcommons.calpoly...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Digital Commons @ Cal Poly
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/az/databases/New window Subdomain Text duplicate Research Databases
A-TITLE Research Databases
https://guides.lib.calpoly.edu/New window Subdomain Text duplicate Research Guides
A-TITLE Research Guides
/DPL/New window Subdomain Text duplicate Digital Projects Lab
A-TITLE Digital Projects Lab
https://digitalcommons.calpoly...New window External Subdomain Digital Commons
A-TITLE Digital Commons
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A-TITLE ONESEARCH
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https://accessibility.calpoly....New window External Subdomain Web Accessibility Statement
https://www.calpoly.edu/divers...New window External Subdomain Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
https://www.calpoly.edu/privacyNew window External Subdomain Privacy Notice
https://afd.calpoly.edu/public...New window External Subdomain Campus Safety

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://guides.lib.calpoly.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 0.73 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 (68 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 75 referring domains.
This page has 133 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 70 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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