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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
74% 
Page quality
45% 
Page structure
64% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.03 s
File size
69.50 kB
Words
291
Media files
4
Number of links
35 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
University of Michigan Library
The length of the page title is perfect. (267 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The University of Michigan Library's mission is to support, enhance, and collaborate in the instructional, research, and service activities of the faculty, students, and staff, and contribute to the common good by collecting, organizing, preserving, communicating, sharing, and creating the record of human knowledge.
The meta description is too long: 1927 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.lib.umich.edu/
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
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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generatorGatsby 5.13.7
theme-color#FFCB05
descriptionThe University of Michigan Library's mission is to support, enhance, and collaborate in the instructional, research, and service activities of the faculty, students, and staff, and contribute to the common good by collecting, organizing, preserving, communicating, sharing, and creating the record of human knowledge.
langen
twitter:descriptionThe University of Michigan Library's mission is to support, enhance, and collaborate in the instructional, research, and service activities of the faculty, students, and staff, and contribute to the common good by collecting, organizing, preserving, communicating, sharing, and creating the record of human knowledge.
og:titleUniversity of Michigan Library
og:urlhttps://www.lib.umich.edu/
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og:descriptionThe University of Michigan Library's mission is to support, enhance, and collaborate in the instructional, research, and service activities of the faculty, students, and staff, and contribute to the common good by collecting, organizing, preserving, communicating, sharing, and creating the record of human knowledge.
og:typewebsite
x-ua-compatibleie=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 291 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
25.8% 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.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 12 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, shrink-to-fit=no" 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)
2 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
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Home page
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (9 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Home page
H1 What can we help you find?
H2 Popular databases
H2 Plan your visit
H2 We're here to help
H2 Feature
H2 Recent news
H2 University of Michigan Library
H2 Our community
H2 Privacy and copyright
H3 September 6, 2024Exploring Mixed Race and Interracial Family Experiences
H3 September 27, 2024Hispanic Heritage Month
H3 September 25, 2024Librarian Awards 2024
H3 September 24, 2024Read "Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility"
H3 September 6, 2024Banned Books Week 2024, September 22-28
H3 April 24, 2024Sustainability Resources
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 12 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://lib.umich.edu/No Text
https://lib.umich.edu/No Text
/locations-and-hoursLocations and Hours
https://lib.umich.edu/informationInformation for
/ask-librarianAsk a Librarian
https://lib.umich.edu/giveGive
https://lib.umich.edu/accountAccount
https://search.lib.umich.edu/c...External Subdomain catalog
https://search.lib.umich.edu/a...External Subdomain articles
https://www.govote.umich.edu/External Subdomain Hail to the Voters!
/database/link/9817Subdomain PubMed @ U-M
/database/link/9825Subdomain Google Scholar
/database/link/8375Subdomain PsycINFO
/database/link/8235Subdomain JSTOR
/database/link/10165Subdomain Web of Science
/database/link/8749Subdomain ProQuest
/database/link/10075Subdomain WorldCat
/database/link/10427Subdomain EBSCOhost
https://search.lib.umich.edu/d...External Subdomain View all databases
/locations-and-hours/hatcher-l...Hatcher LibraryTODAY: ...
/locations-and-hours/shapiro-l...Shapiro LibraryTODAY: ...
/locations-and-hours/art-archi...Art, Architecture, and Engineering LibraryTODAY: ...
/locations-and-hours/taubman-h...Taubman Health Sciences LibraryTODAY: ...
/locations-and-hours/hours-viewView all hours, locations, and access details
/ask-librarianText duplicate Ask a Librarian
/about-us/news/exploring-mixed...September 6, 2024Exploring Mixed Race and Interracial Family Experiences Exhibit and events to raise the visibility of, and a sense of community for, mixed r...
/about-us/news/hispanic-herita...September 27, 2024Hispanic Heritage Month
/about-us/news/librarian-award...September 25, 2024Librarian Awards 2024
/about-us/news/read-not-too-la...September 24, 2024Read "Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility"
/about-us/news/banned-books-we...September 6, 2024Banned Books Week 2024, September 22-28
/about-us/news/sustainability-...April 24, 2024Sustainability Resources
/about-us/newsView all news and stories
https://www.google.com/maps/di...External Subdomain 913 S. University Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190
https://teamdynamix.umich.edu/...External Subdomain Send us an email
/about-us/about-library/divers...Accessibility
https://lib.umich.edu/site-mapSite map
/about-us/staff-directoryStaff directory
/about-us/work-usWork for us
https://apps.lib.umich.edu/blogsExternal Subdomain Blogs
https://www.facebook.com/pages...External Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/umichlibraryExternal X (formerly Twitter)
http://www.youtube.com/user/um...External Subdomain YouTube
/about-us/policies/library-pri...Library Privacy Statement
http://creativecommons.org/lic...External Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license
/about-us/policies/copyright-p...Library Copyright Policy
/about-us/about-library/territ...Territorial Acknowledgement
https://design-system.lib.umic...External Subdomain U-M Library Design System

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://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 is excellent with 0.03 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (70 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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accept-rangesbytes
age5742
cache-controlmax-age=0,no-cache,no-store,must-revalidate
cache-status"Netlify Edge"; hit
content-encodinggzip
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
dateWed, 02 Oct 2024 05:01:18 GMT
etag"66013b18512ad06817302bb55647c46b-ssl-df"
referrer-policysame-origin
serverNetlify
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
varyAccept-Encoding
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsDENY
x-nf-request-id01J95SN8M9HA9T8EM5TF3T3E6C
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
content-length16114
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 133 referring domains.
This page has 356,712 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 121 different ip addresses.

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Host: https://www.lib.umich.edu

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