Guides.library.brandeis.edu - SEO Checker

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Meta information
79% 
Page quality
50% 
Page structure
92% 
Link structure
90% 
Server
82% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.77 s
File size
94.60 kB
Words
205
Media files
13
Number of links
32 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Research Guides at Brandeis University
The length of the page title is perfect. (431 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)
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
(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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og:descriptionResearch Guides Brandeis Library's research guides provide tips on how to do library research, as well as recommended resources for specific subject areas, courses, or types of research.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 205 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
22% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
4 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 22.5 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)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on this page.
The amount of tags is very high (9). We recommend using a maximum of 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

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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 do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Research Guides
H2 Icon Banner - Desktop View
H2 Icon Banner - Mobile View
H2 Empty heading
H2 Search
H2 Additional Guides for Your Research Needs
H2 Library Databases A-Z
H2 Ways to Get Research Help
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 6 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
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/citationsSubdomain IMG-ALT Citing Sources Guide
/citationsSubdomain Citing Sources
/more_guides/stats_dataSubdomain IMG-ALT Statistics and Data Guides
/more_guides/stats_dataSubdomain Statistics & Data
/more_guides/gisSubdomain IMG-ALT GIS & Mapping Guides
/more_guides/gisSubdomain GIS & Mapping
/more_guides/digital_scholarshipSubdomain IMG-ALT Digital Scholarship Guides
/more_guides/digital_scholarshipSubdomain Digital Scholarship
/govdocsSubdomain IMG-ALT Government Information Research Guide
/govdocsSubdomain Government Information
/more_guides/ascSubdomain IMG-ALT Archives & Special Collections Guides
/more_guides/ascSubdomain Archives & Special Collections
/citationsSubdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Citing Sources Guide
/citationsSubdomain Text duplicate Citing Sources
/more_guides/stats_dataSubdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Statistics and Data Guides
/more_guides/stats_dataSubdomain Text duplicate Statistics & Data
/more_guides/gisSubdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT GIS & Mapping Guides
/more_guides/gisSubdomain Text duplicate GIS & Mapping
/more_guides/digital_scholarshipSubdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Digital Scholarship Guides
/more_guides/digital_scholarshipSubdomain Text duplicate Digital Scholarship
/govdocsSubdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Government Information Research Guide
/govdocsSubdomain Text duplicate Government Information
/more_guides/ascSubdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Archives & Special Collections Guides
/more_guides/ascSubdomain Text duplicate Archives & Special Collections
/more_guides/libraryinfoSubdomain Using the Brandeis Library
/more_guides/coursesSubdomain Course Guides
/todaysnewsSubdomain Today's News
/URMSubdomain Records Management
/more_guides/openaccessSubdomain Share Your Scholarly and Creative Work
/az.phpGo to Library Databases
https://www.brandeis.edu/libra...External Subdomain service hours
https://www.brandeis.edu/libra...External Subdomain research consultation with a subject librarian or specialist
https://www.brandeis.edu/libra...External Subdomain Text duplicate service hours
https://brandeis.libapps.com/l...External Subdomain Login to LibApps

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://guides.library.brandeis.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 0.77 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 (95 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 125 referring domains.
This page has 238 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 105 different ip addresses.

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Research68%Check
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