Openscholarship.indiana.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
76% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
28% 
External factors
99% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.77 s
File size
34.70 kB
Words
166
Media files
0
Number of links
20 internal / 25 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Open Access | Open Scholarship
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (298 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Scholarly Communication Department at IU Bloomington Libraries provides infrastructure and services to support the IU community in creating, sharing, and preserving their scholarly work.
The meta description is too long: 1187 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://openscholarship.indiana.edu/
There is a valid canonical link 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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
descriptionThe Scholarly Communication Department at IU Bloomington Libraries provides infrastructure and services to support the IU community in creating, sharing, and preserving their scholarly work.
generatorDrupal 7 (https://www.drupal.org)
langen
og:site_nameOpen Scholarship
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://openscholarship.indiana.edu/
og:titleOpen Scholarship
og:imagehttps://openscholarship.indiana.edu/sites/default/files/openscholarship-services.jpg
og:image:altopen scholarship logo
og:image:typeimage/jpg
og:image:width753
og:image:height502
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 166 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
12.7% 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.
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)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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

No media files were found.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Open Scholarship @ IU Bloomington
H2 Open Access»
H2 Open Data »
H2 Open Journals »
H2 Open Education »
H2 Social media
H2 Additional resources
H3 Open Scholarship
H3 Open Access Policy
H3 For Authors
H3 IUScholarWorks
H3 CV Service
H3 FAQ
H3 OpenScholarship Resources
H3 IU Libraries
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 25 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to main content
/Subdomain Open Scholarship IUB Libraries
/accessOpen Access
/dataOpen Data
/journalsOpen Journals
/educationOpen Education
/accessOpen Access»
/dataOpen Data »
/journalsOpen Journals »
/educationOpen Education »
/oa-open-scholarshipOpen Scholarship Open Scholarship at IU
/oa-policyOpen Access Policy Learn about the IU OA Policy
/for-authorsFor Authors Discover options for open access funding and impact
/oa-iuswIUScholarWorks Indiana University's institutional repository
/oa-cv-serviceCV Service Deposit your CV into IUScholarWorks
/oa-faqFAQ Frequently Asked Questions
/contact-usNew window Contact Form
https://twitter.com/iulibrariesNew window External Twitter for IU Libraries
https://www.instagram.com/herm...New window External Subdomain Instagram for Herman B Wells Library
https://www.facebook.com/pages...New window External Subdomain Facebook for IU Libraries
https://guides.libraries.india...New window External Subdomain Open Access Publishing Support
https://guides.libraries.india...New window External Subdomain Scholarly Visibility & Impact
https://guides.libraries.india...New window External Subdomain Open Educational Resources
https://libraries.indiana.edu/...New window External Subdomain Course Material Fellowship Program
https://orcid.org/New window External Distinguish Yourself with ORCID
https://guides.libraries.india...New window External Subdomain Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
https://datacore.iu.edu/New window External Subdomain IU DataCORE (Data Repository)
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/ds...New window External Subdomain IUScholarWorks Repository
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/jo...New window External Subdomain Open Access Journals
https://uisapp2.iu.edu/conflue...New window External Subdomain OJS Instructions for Editors
https://libraries.indiana.edu/...New window External Subdomain Diversity Resources
https://libraries.indiana.edu/...New window External Subdomain Anchor About IU Libraries
https://libraries.indiana.edu/...New window External Subdomain Alumni & Friends
https://libraries.indiana.edu/...New window External Subdomain Departments & Staff
https://libraries.indiana.edu/...New window External Subdomain Jobs & Libraries HR
https://www.myiu.org/one-time-...New window External Subdomain Give Now
/contact-usNew window Contact Us
/about-usNew window About OpenScholarship
https://blogs.libraries.indian...New window External Subdomain IU Libraries Blog
https://indiana.sharepoint.com...New window External Subdomain Intranet (Staff)
/user/loginLogin (OSS admin)
https://accessibility.iu.edu/a...New window External Subdomain Accessibility
https://libraries.indiana.edu/...New window External Subdomain Privacy Notice
https://www.iu.edu/copyright/i...New window External Subdomain Copyright
https://www.iu.edu/New window External Subdomain Indiana University

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://openscholarship.indiana.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.77 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.
A Content Delivery Network like Bootstrap CDN can save bandwidth for Bootstrap front-end component library.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (35 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx/1.14.1
dateTue, 24 Sep 2024 07:21:44 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
cache-controlno-cache, must-revalidate
content-languageen
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-generatorDrupal 7 (https://www.drupal.org)
link<https://openscholarship.indiana.edu/>; rel="canonical",<https://openscholarship.indiana.edu/>; rel="shortlink"
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is very well linked from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 33 referring domains.
This page has 43 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 31 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /misc/*.css$
Allow: /misc/*.css?
Allow: /misc/*.js$
Allow: /misc/*.js?
Allow: /misc/*.gif
Allow: /misc/*.jpg
Allow: /misc/*.jpeg
Allow: /misc/*.png
Allow: /modules/*.css$
Allow: /modules/*.css?
Allow: /modules/*.js$
Allow: /modules/*.js?
Allow: /modules/*.gif
Allow: /modules/*.jpg
Allow: /modules/*.jpeg
Allow: /modules/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /themes/*.css$
Allow: /themes/*.css?
Allow: /themes/*.js$
Allow: /themes/*.js?
Allow: /themes/*.gif
Allow: /themes/*.jpg
Allow: /themes/*.jpeg
Allow: /themes/*.png
# Directories
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips/
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /user/logout/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/

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openscholarship.indiana.edu
Open Access | Open Scholarship
The Scholarly Communication Department at IU Bloomington Libraries provides infrastructure and services to support the IU community in creating, sharing, and preserving their scholarly work.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Scholarship66%Check
Open Scholarship63%Check
Open61%Check
Open Scholarship IU60%Check
Open Access57%Check
IU Libraries54%Check
IU Bloomington54%Check
Libraries50%Check
Bloomington50%Check
OpenScholarship50%Check

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