Infoguides.gmu.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
43% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
86% 
Server
84% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.74 s
File size
32.40 kB
Words
109
Media files
6
Number of links
4 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - InfoGuides at George Mason University
The length of the page title is perfect. (426 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

NameValue
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robotsnoarchive
msapplication-TileColor#ffc40d
msapplication-config//d2jv02qf7xgjwx.cloudfront.net/apps/common/favicon/browserconfig.xml
theme-color#ffffff
langen
twitter:imagehttps://infoguides.gmu.edu/ld.php?_=1719778572&size=twitter&screenshot=site_screenshot.png
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@springshare
og:titleInfoGuides
og:descriptionWelcome! Subject and discipline research guides created by Mason librarians.
og:imagehttps://infoguides.gmu.edu/ld.php?_=1719778572&size=facebook&screenshot=site_screenshot.png
og:image:width1200
og:image:height627
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://infoguides.gmu.edu/
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 109 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
20.2% 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)
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.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 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
..._logo_George-Mason-University-2024_0.pngGeorge Mason University
https://library.gmu.edu/img/infoguides2.pngInfoguides
...es/common/icons/search/course-guides.pngNo alt attribute provided
...es/common/icons/search/databases_etc.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ommon/icons/use/science-metafinder_4.pngNo alt attribute provided

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 Empty heading
H2 Additional Subject Guides
H2 Ask A Librarian
H2 Attend A Workshop
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
There are too few (4) internal links on this page.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://infoguides.gmu.edu/Subdomain IMG-ALT Infoguides
https://library.gmu.edu/External Subdomain University Libraries
https://library.gmu.edu/covid-...External Subdomain Updates
https://library.gmu.edu/faq-pageExternal Subdomain FAQss
https://library.gmu.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate University Libraries
https://infoguides.gmu.edu/Subdomain InfoGuides
/cat.php?cid=2050New window Subdomain Course Guides
https://infoguides.gmu.edu/dbsNew window Subdomain Articles & Databases
http://mason.deepwebaccess.com...New window External Subdomain Science Metafinder
https://library.gmu.edu/ask/External Subdomain Ask a Librarian
https://library.gmu.edu/locationsExternal Subdomain Hours & Directions
https://library.gmu.edu/External Subdomain Mason Libraries Home

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://infoguides.gmu.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 0.74 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 (32 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateSun, 30 Jun 2024 20:16:12 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-backend-serverlibguides-us-3.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 238 referring domains.
This page has 1,010 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 207 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

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Robots.txt

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User-Agent: W3C-checklink
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User-agent: Twitterbot
Crawl-delay: 0
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User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
Disallow: /er.php
Disallow: /err.php
Disallow: /go.php
Disallow: /friendly.php
Disallow: /ld.php
Disallow: /srch.php

Sitemap: https://infoguides.gmu.edu/sitemap.xml

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Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

KeywordResultRecheck
guides65%Check
InfoGuides61%Check
Mason50%Check
George50%Check
George Mason University50%Check
title39%Check
subject38%Check
Ask38%Check
Librarian38%Check
Additional38%Check
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