Libguides.reading.ac.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
47% 
Page structure
66% 
Link structure
81% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.20 s
File size
34.20 kB
Words
112
Media files
11
Number of links
8 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - LibGuides at University of Reading
The length of the page title is perfect. (383 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
msapplication-TileColor#ffc40d
msapplication-config//dkou0skpxpnwz.cloudfront.net/apps/common/favicon/browserconfig.xml
theme-color#ffffff
langen
twitter:imagehttps://libguides.reading.ac.uk/ld.php?_=1731595596&size=twitter&screenshot=site_screenshot.png
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@springshare
og:titleLibGuides
og:descriptionWelcome to University of Reading LibGuides! Guides to finding and using information and developing your study skills, compiled by your Library, Research Engagement, Study Advice and Maths Support teams.
og:imagehttps://libguides.reading.ac.uk/ld.php?_=1731595596&size=facebook&screenshot=site_screenshot.png
og:image:width1200
og:image:height627
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://libguides.reading.ac.uk/
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 112 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
24.1% of the text are stop words.
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 23 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)
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)
4 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
...t/sites/4458/banner/libguides_header.jpgBanner
...ROPsupporting-services-accommodation.pngNo alt attribute provided
...orting-services-library-reading-book.pngNo alt attribute provided
.../accounts/32215/images/CROPit-laptop.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ustomers/2747/images/questionmark100.jpgQuestion mark
...es/CROPwayfinding-stopwatch-duration.pngNo alt attribute provided
...counts/32215/images/CROPit-presenter.pngAn instructor
...es/26685/jackie_skinner_2015_140x170.jpgJackie Skinner's picture
...ounts/91326/profiles/81115/Photo2019.jpgKaren Rowlett's picture
...1310/profiles/81099/tim_chapman_2019.jpgTim Chapman's picture
...rofiles/81100/gordon_connell_2019_lg.jpgGordon Connell's picture

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to University of Reading LibGuides!
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to University of Reading LibGuides!
H2 Empty heading
H2 Key links
H2 A-Z database list
H2 Your friendly Library team
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.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://libguides.reading.ac.uk/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.reading.ac.uk/libraryExternal Subdomain IMG-ALT Banner
https://www.reading.ac.uk/libraryExternal Subdomain Library
https://libguides.reading.ac.uk/Subdomain LibGuides
https://www.reading.ac.uk/libraryNew window External Subdomain Library Homepage
https://rdg.ent.sirsidynix.net...New window External Subdomain Search Enterprise catalogue
https://www.reading.ac.uk/libr...New window External Subdomain Search Summon discovery service
https://www.reading.ac.uk/libr...New window External Subdomain Can't get the item you need?
IMG-ALT Question mark
https://www.reading.ac.uk/libr...New window External Subdomain Opening Hours
https://www.bb.reading.ac.uk/New window External Subdomain Blackboard
IMG-ALT An instructor
/az.phpGo to A-Z List
/prf.php?id=31507d39-7be3-11ed...Subdomain Jackie Skinner
IMG-ALT Jackie Skinner's picture
/prf.php?id=315e4342-7be3-11ed...Subdomain Karen Rowlett
IMG-ALT Karen Rowlett's picture
/prf.php?id=315e35f4-7be3-11ed...Subdomain Tim Chapman
IMG-ALT Tim Chapman's picture
/prf.php?id=315e3966-7be3-11ed...Subdomain Gordon Connell
IMG-ALT Gordon Connell's picture
/prf.phpMore...
https://reading.libapps.com/li...External Subdomain Admin login

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://libguides.reading.ac.uk/"
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 0.20 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (34 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateThu, 14 Nov 2024 14:46:36 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-backend-serverlibguides-eu-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 website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 476 referring domains.
This page has 2,083 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 404 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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User-agent: Yandex
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User-agent: Baiduspider-video
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User-agent: Amazonbot
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User-agent: GPTBot
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User-Agent: W3C-checklink
Crawl-delay: 0

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

User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /

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://libguides.reading.ac.uk/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
LibGuides75%Check
Reading74%Check
University62%Check
Welcome50%Check
Library40%Check
title39%Check
list38%Check
A-Z38%Check
Key38%Check
links38%Check
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