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Meta information
80% 
Page quality
40% 
Page structure
92% 
Link structure
88% 
Server
89% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.63 s
File size
37.20 kB
Words
247
Media files
1
Number of links
11 internal / 13 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Research Guides at University of Michigan Library
The length of the page title is perfect. (522 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 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

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twitter:site@springshare
og:titleResearch Guides
og:descriptionWelcome to Research Guides Research resources and help guides created by experts from the University of Michigan Library (Ann Arbor).
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 247 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
28.3% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
3 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 18 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)
1 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
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Research Guides
The H1 heading is too short (15 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Research Guides
H2 Homepage Subject Select
H2 Subject guides
H2 Homepage Course Select
H2 Course guides
H2 Homepage How-to Guides
H2 How-to guides
H2 Get help from an expert
H2 University of Michigan Library
H2 Research Guides Duplicate text
H2 Copyright
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.umich.edu/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.lib.umich.edu/External Subdomain No Text
https://guides.lib.umich.edu/Research Guides
/srch.php?qSubdomain Search
/sb.php?subjectSubdomain View all Subject Guides
/citationhelpSubdomain Citation Help
/ebooksSubdomain Finding and Using Electronic Books (Ebooks)
/libraryresearchprocessSubdomain The Library Research Process, Step by Step
/citationmanagementoptionsSubdomain Manage Citations with Zotero, Mendeley, and EndNote
/WordDissertationSubdomain Microsoft Word for Dissertations
/librarysearchSubdomain Tips for Using Library Search
/sb.php?subject_id=246636Subdomain View all How-to Guides
https://umich.libcal.com/appoi...External Subdomain Make an online appointment with a librarian
https://www.lib.umich.edu/subj...External Subdomain Consult with a subject specialist in your area of study
https://teamdynamix.umich.edu/...External Subdomain Submit questions through Ask a Librarian email reference
https://lib.umich.edu/External Subdomain U-M Library
https://www.lib.umich.edu/abou...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://www.lib.umich.edu/abou...External Subdomain Library Privacy Statement
https://umich.libapps.com/liba...External Subdomain Login to LibApps (login for editors)
https://www.lib.umich.edu/rese...External Subdomain About Research Guides
https://creativecommons.org/li...External Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license
https://www.lib.umich.edu/abou...External Subdomain Library Copyright Policy
https://design-system.lib.umic...External Subdomain U-M Library Design System
https://springshare.com/External Springshare

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://guides.lib.umich.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 0.63 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 (37 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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content-security-policyupgrade-insecure-requests
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 3,739 referring domains.
This page has 17,611 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,793 different ip addresses.

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Research Guides70%Check
Research66%Check
How-to Guides59%Check
Subject guides59%Check
University50%Check
Michigan Library50%Check
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