Librarything.com - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
89% 
Page quality
51% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
86% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.02 s
File size
71.20 kB
Words
247
Media files
11
Number of links
28 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
LibraryThing | Catalog your books online | LibraryThing
The length of the page title is perfect. (488 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
LibraryThing catalogs yours books online, easily, quickly and for free.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (423 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
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 meta tags: 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)
HTTP-Header Content-Type: utf-8
Meta http-equiv Content-Type: ;charset-utf-8
Meta Charset Attribut: utf-8
The specified character encodings are different.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The Doctype markup is not in the first line of your HTML document. There must be no white spaces before the doctype markup.
The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
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mobile-web-app-capableyes
msapplication-confignone
librarything_envbeta
librarything_langEmpty
librarything_productlt2
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=5.0, user-scalable=1, viewport-fit=cover
descriptionLibraryThing catalogs yours books online, easily, quickly and for free.
keywordslibrarything, library, thing, catalog your books, catalogue your books, book cataloging, library, free book catalog, catalogue
languageen
apple-itunes-appapp-id=948824489
google-play-appapp-id=com.librarything.librarything
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:site@LibraryThing
twitter:titleLibraryThing | Catalog your books online | LibraryThing
twitter:descriptionLibraryThing catalogs yours books online, easily, quickly and for free.
fb:app_id79305890602
og:site_nameLibraryThing.com
og:urlhttps://www.librarything.com
og:titleLibraryThing | Catalog your books online | LibraryThing
og:typewebsite
og:descriptionLibraryThing catalogs yours books online, easily, quickly and for free.
Content-Typetext/html; charset-utf-8
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 247 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.
31.2% of the text are stop words.
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, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=5.0, user-scalable=1, viewport-fit=cover" 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)
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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
LibraryThing A Home For Your Books.
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 LibraryThing A Home For Your Books.
H1 What People are Saying
H1 Recent Activity
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
2 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 2 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 8 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.librarything.com/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.librarything.com/IMG-ALT LibraryThing Home
A-TITLE Home
https://www.librarything.com/Home
/ngroupsGroups
https://www.librarything.com/talkTalk
https://www.librarything.com/moreTrivial anchor text
More
/zeitgeistZeitgeist
https://www.librarything.com/Text duplicate Home
/ngroupsText duplicate Groups
https://www.librarything.com/talkText duplicate Talk
https://www.librarything.com/moreText duplicate Trivial anchor text
More
/zeitgeistText duplicate Zeitgeist
https://wiki.librarything.com/...External Subdomain Help
https://wiki.librarything.com/...External Subdomain Text duplicate Help
/hunt/36Come join our Spring Treasure Hunt!
/enter/start/facebookNo Text
/lostsomethingForgot username or password?
/enter/start/facebookNo Text
/ngroupsgroups
https://www.librarything.com/talktalk
https://www.librarything.com/nerEarly Reviewers
https://itunes.apple.com/us/ap...External Subdomain iPhone
https://play.google.com/store/...External Subdomain Android
https://www.librarything.com/Text duplicate Home
/aboutAbout
/contactContact
/privacyPrivacy
https://wiki.librarything.com/...External Subdomain Text duplicate Help
https://blog.librarything.com/New window External Subdomain Blog
https://wiki.librarything.com/External Subdomain WikiThing
/commonknowledge/Common Knowledge
https://www.librarything.com/nerText duplicate Early Reviewers
/legacylibrariesLegacy Libraries
/localLocal
/developerAPIs
https://www.librarycat.org/External Subdomain TinyCat

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.librarything.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.02 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (71 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateWed, 30 Apr 2025 22:24:24 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
x-powered-byPHP/7.4.33
set-cookie77 Characters
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self'
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
varyaccept-encoding
servercloudflare
cf-ray938a72f5990def43-CDG
content-encodingbr
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
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 1,785 referring domains.
This page has 927,393 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,222 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

#robots_txt_lt_english.php

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User-agent: *
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Disallow: /ajaxinc_*
Disallow: /api_*
Disallow: /api-*
Disallow: /api-*
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /api/*
Disallow: /catalog_bottom
Disallow: /catalog_bottom*
Disallow: /catalog_top
Disallow: /catalog_top*
Disallow: /catalog/
Disallow: /catalog.php
Disallow: /combine.php*
Disallow: /combine.php
Disallow: /author_split.php
Disallow: /author_split.php*
Disallow: /author_claim.php
Disallow: /author_cloud.php
Disallow: /authormerge.php
Disallow: /tagcloud.php
Disallow: /dotimer.php
Disallow: /files/
Disallow: /inc_*
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Disallow: /isbn/
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Disallow: /readmessage.php*
Disallow: /search_works*
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Disallow: /profile/*/recommendations
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Disallow: /signup_twitter.php
Disallow: /signup_fb.php
Disallow: /signup_verify.php

Disallow: /local/map/*

User-agent: bingbot
Crawl-delay: 2

User-agent: PetalBot
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User-agent: AccompanyBot
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LibraryThing | Catalog your books online | LibraryThing
LibraryThing catalogs yours books online, easily, quickly and for free.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
LibraryThing89%Check
book77%Check
Books Book76%Check
Books75%Check
catalog58%Check
Book Lovers56%Check
love books55%Check
Online Library54%Check
books online49%Check
free46%Check

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