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Meta information
79% 
Page quality
54% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
41% 
Server
90% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.60 s
File size
46.20 kB
Words
380
Media files
1
Number of links
67 internal / 79 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - LibGuides at Duke University Medical Center
The length of the page title is perfect. (472 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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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
No paragraphs were detected.
There are only 380 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
10.8% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
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=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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)
The H1 heading is empty
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Empty heading
H2 Help is Just a Click Away
H2 Empty heading
H5 Access
H5 Databases
H5 Journals
H5 Books
H5 Guides For
H5 Conducting Research
H5 Using Databases
H5 Finding & Accessing
H5 Writing & Citing
H5 Meet a Librarian
H5 Classes
H5 Search Services
H5 Citation Mgmt
H5 Scholarly Communications
H5 Building
H5 Library Updates
H5 Staff
H5 Other
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (79) on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://mclibrary.duke.edu/acc...External Subdomain Computers & Equipment
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https://mclibrary.duke.edu/acc...External Subdomain My Accounts
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/dat...External Subdomain Text duplicate Access From Off Campus
/mobileSubdomain Mobile Apps
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/new...External Subdomain Known Access Issues
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https://guides.library.duke.ed...External Subdomain Non-Medical Databases
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https://mclibrary.duke.edu/dat...External Subdomain Search for Print & E-Journals
/ebooksSubdomain Search for E-Books
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/dat...External Subdomain Search for Print & E-Books
/az/ebooksSubdomain E-Book Collections
/biostatisticsSubdomain Biostatistics
/clinicaltoolsSubdomain Clinicians
/educatorsSubdomain Educators
/globalhealthSubdomain Global Health
/mbs/Subdomain MBS Program
/medstudentsSubdomain Medical Students
/mmciSubdomain MMCi Program
/nursingSubdomain Nursing
/OTresourcesSubdomain Occupational Therapy
/pathSubdomain Path Asst Program
/ptSubdomain Physical Therapy
/paSubdomain PA Program
/pophealthSubdomain Population Health
/researchersSubdomain Researchers
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/archivesSubdomain Archival & Historical Research
/afamSubdomain Black History at Duke Health
/dataSubdomain Data Analytics & Viz Software
/datasharingSubdomain Data: Find and Share
/ebmSubdomain Evidence-Based Practice
/nihpapcomplianceSubdomain NIH Public Access Policy Compliance
/researchimpactSubdomain Publication Metrics
/qualitativeSubdomain Qualitative Research
/animalalternativesSubdomain Searching Animal Alternatives
/sysreviewSubdomain Systematic Reviews
/testinstrumentsSubdomain Test Instruments
/searchtips/cinahlSubdomain CINAHL
/searchtips/embaseSubdomain Embase
/searchtips/ericSubdomain ERIC
/searchtips/global_healthSubdomain Text duplicate Global Health
/searchtips/jcrSubdomain JCR Impact Factors
/searchtips/lexidrugSubdomain Lexidrug
/searchtips/psycinfoSubdomain PsycINFO
/searching_pubmedSubdomain PubMed
/searchtips/scopusSubdomain Scopus
/searchtips/wosSubdomain Web of Science
/searchtips/Subdomain More...
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/req...External Subdomain Text duplicate Course Reserves
/ebooksSubdomain E-Books
/healthliteracySubdomain Health Literacy
/healthstatisticsSubdomain Health Statistics & Data
/imagesSubdomain Images
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/tut...External Subdomain Journals
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/tut...External Subdomain Library Orientation
/mobileSubdomain Text duplicate Mobile Apps
/copyrightSubdomain Copyright
/creating-links/Subdomain Creating Links
/refmanagement/endnoteSubdomain EndNote
/gettingpublishedSubdomain Getting Published
/refmanagementSubdomain Reference Mgmt
/refmanagement/refworksSubdomain RefWorks
/scientificwritingSubdomain Scientific Writing
/refmanagement/zoteroSubdomain Zotero
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/tra...External Subdomain Request a Consultation
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/tra...External Subdomain Find Your Liaisons
http://mclibrary.duke.libcal.c...External Subdomain Register for a Class
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/tra...External Subdomain Request a Class
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/gui...External Subdomain Self-Paced Learning
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/abo...External Subdomain Literature Search
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/tra...External Subdomain Systematic Review
/animalalternativesSubdomain Animal Alternatives (IACUC)
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/tra...External Subdomain Research Impact
/refmanagement/endnoteSubdomain Text duplicate EndNote
/refmanagement/zoteroSubdomain Text duplicate Zotero
/refmanagement/startSubdomain Other Software
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/tra...External Subdomain About Scholarly Communications
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/tra...External Subdomain Publish Your Work
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/tra...External Subdomain Measure Your Research Impact
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/tra...External Subdomain Engage in Open Science
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/tra...External Subdomain Libraries and Publishers
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/abo...External Subdomain Directions & Maps
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/abo...External Subdomain Hours
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/abo...External Subdomain Floor Plans
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/abo...External Subdomain Text duplicate Reserve Spaces
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/abo...External Subdomain Text duplicate Reserve a Locker
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/abo...External Subdomain Text duplicate Study & Meeting Rooms
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/abo...External Subdomain Text duplicate Computers & Equipment
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/abo...External Subdomain Text duplicate Wifi Access
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/newsExternal Subdomain News
https://snapshot.mclibrary.duk...External Subdomain Annual Snapshot
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/abo...External Subdomain Directory
https://medspace.mc.duke.edu/c...External Subdomain Conference Presentations
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/abo...External Subdomain Employment
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/abo...External Subdomain Contact Information
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/abo...External Subdomain Text duplicate Accounts & Access
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/abo...External Subdomain Exhibits
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/abo...External Subdomain Give to the Library
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/External Subdomain Library
/Subdomain LibGuides
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/askExternal Subdomain Ask A Librarian
http://www.springshare.com/External Subdomain Springshare
https://mclibrary-duke.libapps...External Subdomain Login to LibApps
http://www.dukemedicine.org/External Subdomain Duke Health
http://duke.edu/External Duke University
http://library.duke.edu/External Subdomain Duke Libraries
http://archives.mc.duke.edu/in...External Subdomain Medical Center Archives
http://directory.duke.edu/External Subdomain Duke Directory
https://www.instagram.com/duke...External Subdomain A-TITLE Instagram
https://mclibrary.duke.edu/new...External Subdomain A-TITLE News RSS
https://signup.e2ma.net/signup...External Subdomain A-TITLE Newsletter
https://goo.gl/maps/viQWPN2c6P...External Seeley G. Mudd Building

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://guides.mclibrary.duke.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.60 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

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 41 referring domains.
This page has 55 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 40 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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