Libguides.ucalgary.ca - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
58% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
60% 
Server
89% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.62 s
File size
68.40 kB
Words
353
Media files
6
Number of links
10 internal / 57 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Library at University of Calgary
The length of the page title is perfect. (346 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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robotsnoarchive
msapplication-TileColor#da532c
google-site-verificationaHMiDOC_TI_H1GzntOg5M0S6ZK0r3gEixtAwGiRACd8
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twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@springshare
og:titleLibrary
og:descriptionEmpty
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://libguides.ucalgary.ca/
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 353 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
These Typos were found:
  • univeristy => university
The average number of words per sentence of 53.33 words is high.
28.6% 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.
3 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
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 7 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
...onaws.com/sites/546/include/UCalgary.svgUniversity of Calgary
...front.net/apps/common/images/profile.jpgMichele Hardy's picture
...s/3863/profiles/5597/whs-hayden-alix.jpgAlix Hayden's picture
...4629/profiles/84703/hs-andrew-waller.jpgAndrew Waller's picture
...front.net/apps/common/images/profile.jpgJames Murphy's picture
...ry/ucws_theme/images/start-something.svgStart something.

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 Libraries & Cultural Resources
H2 Research Guides
H2 Empty heading
H2 Research Database List
H2 Your Librarians
H2 Help is Just a Click Away
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (57) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://libguides.ucalgary.ca/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://my.ucalgary.ca/New window External Subdomain My UCalgary
https://office365.ucalgary.ca/New window External Subdomain Webmail
https://www.ucalgary.ca/it/New window External Subdomain IT
https://d2l.ucalgary.ca/New window External Subdomain D2L
https://www.ucalgary.ca/iriss/New window External Subdomain IRISS
https://myfacilities.ucalgary.ca/New window External Subdomain ARCHIBUS
https://www.ucalgary.ca/hr/New window External Subdomain HR
https://library.ucalgary.ca/External Subdomain Library
https://www.godinos.com/New window External Subdomain Go Dinos
https://csprd.my.ucalgary.ca/p...New window External Subdomain Class Schedule
https://profiles.ucalgary.ca/New window External Subdomain UCalgary Directory
https://conted.ucalgary.ca/New window External Subdomain Continuing Education
https://careers.ucalgary.ca/New window External Subdomain Careers
https://www.calgarybookstore.ca/New window External Subdomain Bookstore
https://www.ucalgary.ca/active...New window External Subdomain Active Living
https://www.ucalgary.ca/pubs/c...New window External Subdomain Academic Calendar
https://www.ucalgary.ca/map/New window External Subdomain UCalgary Maps
https://cumming.ucalgary.ca/New window External Subdomain Cumming School of Medicine
https://arts.ucalgary.ca/New window External Subdomain Faculty of Arts
https://grad.ucalgary.ca/New window External Subdomain Faculty of Graduate Studies
https://www.ucalgary.ca/knes/New window External Subdomain Faculty of Kinesiology
https://law.ucalgary.ca/New window External Subdomain Faculty of Law
https://nursing.ucalgary.ca/New window External Subdomain Faculty of Nursing
https://www.ucalgary.edu.qa/New window External Subdomain Faculty of Nursing (Qatar)
https://science.ucalgary.ca/New window External Subdomain Faculty of Science
https://fsw.ucalgary.ca/New window External Subdomain Faculty of Social Work
https://vet.ucalgary.ca/New window External Subdomain Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
https://haskayne.ucalgary.ca/New window External Subdomain Haskayne School of Business
https://sapl.ucalgary.ca/New window External Subdomain School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape
https://schulich.ucalgary.ca/New window External Subdomain Schulich School of Engineering
https://werklund.ucalgary.ca/New window External Subdomain Werklund School of Education
https://ucalgary.ca/New window External IMG-ALT University of Calgary
https://library.ucalgary.ca/New window External Subdomain Libraries & Cultural Resources
https://libguides.ucalgary.ca/Subdomain Research Guides
https://library.ucalgary.ca/re...External Subdomain Research
https://library.ucalgary.ca/se...External Subdomain Services
https://library.ucalgary.ca/se...External Subdomain Bookings
https://library.ucalgary.ca/co...External Subdomain Contact Us
https://library.ucalgary.ca/my...External Subdomain My Account
http://library.ucalgary.ca/External Subdomain Text duplicate University of Calgary
https://libguides.ucalgary.ca/Subdomain Text duplicate Library
/az.phpView Database List
/prf.php?id=2bbfa8ac-7cd6-11ed...Subdomain Michele Hardy
IMG-ALT Michele Hardy's picture
/prf.php?id=2bbb1bd7-7cd6-11ed...Subdomain Alix Hayden
IMG-ALT Alix Hayden's picture
/prf.php?id=2bc79f59-7cd6-11ed...Subdomain Andrew Waller
IMG-ALT Andrew Waller's picture
/prf.php?id=2bcd259d-7cd6-11ed...Subdomain James Murphy
IMG-ALT James Murphy's picture
/prf.phpMore Librarians
http://libanswers.ucalgary.ca/External Subdomain Ask Us
https://ucalgary.libapps.com/l...External Subdomain Login to LibApps
/aboutText duplicate Libraries & Cultural Resources
https://library.ucalgary.ca/co...External Subdomain Contact us
https://library.ucalgary.ca/fr...External Subdomain FAQs
https://library.ucalgary.ca/ho...External Subdomain Hours
https://www.facebook.com/UCalg...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Univeristy of Calgary | Facebook
https://twitter.com/UCalgaryLi...New window External A-TITLE Univeristy of Calgary | Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/ucal...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Univeristy of Calgary | Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/user/l...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Univeristy of Calgary | Youtube
https://ucalgary.ca/top-fiveNew window External IMG-ALT Start something.
A-TITLE Univeristy of Calgary | Start something.
https://www.facebook.com/unive...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate A-TITLE Univeristy of Calgary | Facebook
https://www.twitter.com/ucalgaryNew window External Subdomain Text duplicate A-TITLE Univeristy of Calgary | Twitter
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Univeristy of Calgary | Linkedin
https://www.instagram.com/ucal...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate A-TITLE Univeristy of Calgary | Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/c/UCal...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate A-TITLE Univeristy of Calgary | Youtube
https://www.ucalgary.ca/websit...New window External Subdomain Website Terms & Conditions
https://www.ucalgary.ca/polici...New window External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://survey.ucalgary.ca/jfe...New window External Subdomain Website feedback

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://libguides.ucalgary.ca/"
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 (68 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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servernginx
dateSun, 13 Apr 2025 08:58:54 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-backend-serverlibguides-ca-1.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 228 referring domains.
This page has 1,259 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 215 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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User-agent: Amazonbot
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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.ucalgary.ca/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
Calgary61%Check
Guides50%Check
University48%Check
UCalgary48%Check
Calgary Alberta48%Check
Library University47%Check
Library46%Check
Research43%Check
title39%Check
List38%Check
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