Libguides.nybg.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
41% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
78% 
Server
89% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.62 s
File size
45.10 kB
Words
80
Media files
2
Number of links
8 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Research Guides at New York Botanical Garden
The length of the page title is perfect. (501 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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
robotsnoarchive
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@springshare
og:titleResearch Guides
og:descriptionPlant & Research Guides
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://libguides.nybg.org/
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 80 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
No paragraphs were detected.
16.3% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
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 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

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Plant & Research Guides
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Plant & Research Guides
H2 LuEsther T. Mertz Library Plant & Research Guides
H2 Empty heading
H2 Contact Us
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
There are too few (8) internal links on this page.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 5 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://libguides.nybg.org/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.nybg.org/External Subdomain IMG-ALT NYBG Logo
https://www.nybg.org/learn/mer...External Subdomain Library Home
/?group_id=13609Plant Help
/?group_id=13610Research Support
https://libguides.nybg.org/Subdomain All Guides
https://www.nybg.org/learn/mer...External Subdomain Text duplicate Library Home
/?group_id=13609Text duplicate Plant Help
/?group_id=13610Text duplicate Research Support
https://libguides.nybg.org/Subdomain Text duplicate All Guides
https://www.nybg.org/learn/mer...External Subdomain Mertz Library Homepage
https://libguides.nybg.org/Subdomain Research Guides
https://nybg.libapps.com/libap...External Subdomain Librarian Login

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://libguides.nybg.org/"
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 0.62 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 (45 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateMon, 17 Feb 2025 23:13:12 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-backend-serverlibguides-us-2.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

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 37 referring domains.
This page has 38 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 35 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

User-agent: discobot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AddThis.com
Disallow: /

User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider-video
Disallow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider-image
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot-SA
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-Agent: W3C-checklink
Crawl-delay: 0

User-agent: Twitterbot
Crawl-delay: 0
Disallow:

User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
    Disallow: /az.php?
    Disallow: /az/databases?
    Disallow: /er.php
    Disallow: /err.php
    Disallow: /friendly.php
    Disallow: /go.php
    Disallow: /ld.php
    Disallow: /srch.php

    Sitemap: https://libguides.nybg.org/sitemap.xml

Search preview

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Guides77%Check
Research Guides72%Check
Research66%Check
Plant Research Guides66%Check
Plant54%Check
nybg50%Check
org46%Check
Library43%Check
Mertz43%Check
LuEsther43%Check

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