Research.library.gsu.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
73% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
88% 
Server
92% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.55 s
File size
32.70 kB
Words
106
Media files
2
Number of links
3 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - GSU Library Research Guides at Georgia State University
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 593 pixels long. Optimize title
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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viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
robotsnoarchive
msapplication-TileColor#ffc40d
msapplication-config//d2jv02qf7xgjwx.cloudfront.net/apps/common/favicon/browserconfig.xml
theme-color#ffffff
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@springshare
og:titleGSU Library Research Guides
og:descriptionEmpty
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://research.library.gsu.edu/
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 106 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
21.7% 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.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 22 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)
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...347/banner/Research_Guides_Header-03.pngBanner
...dtoany.com/buttons/share_save_171_16.pngShare

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 Empty heading
H2 A-Z Database List
H2 Looking for E-Reserves?
H2 Help is Just a Click Away
There are too few (3) internal links on this page.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://research.library.gsu.edu/Anchor Skip to Main Content
http://library.gsu.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Banner
http://library.gsu.edu/External Subdomain Georgia State University Library
https://research.library.gsu.edu/Subdomain GSU Library Research Guides
/az.phpGo to A-Z List
http://answers.library.gsu.edu/External Subdomain LibAnswers & LibChat
https://gsu.libapps.com/libapp...External Subdomain Login to LibApps
https://www.addtoany.com/share...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Share

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://research.library.gsu.edu/"
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 of 0.55 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 (33 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateThu, 14 Nov 2024 20:24:54 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 website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,502 referring domains.
This page has 74,013 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 637 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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User-agent: Baiduspider-image
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User-agent: SemrushBot-SA
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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://research.library.gsu.edu/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
Search59%Check
Research59%Check
Library58%Check
GSU58%Check
Research Library58%Check
GSU Library Research58%Check
GSU Library Research Guides55%Check
Guides48%Check
Georgia State University46%Check
title39%Check
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