Researchguides.library.vanderbilt.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
98% 
Page quality
40% 
Page structure
66% 
Link structure
95% 
Server
89% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.63 s
File size
39.20 kB
Words
227
Media files
2
Number of links
17 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Research Guides at Vanderbilt University
The length of the page title is perfect. (440 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Vanderbilt Library ResearchGuides
The length of the meta description is perfect. (218 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 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
DescriptionVanderbilt Library ResearchGuides
Keywordsresearch guides, researchguides, Vanderbilt libraries,
langen
twitter:imagehttps://researchguides.library.vanderbilt.edu/ld.php?_=1736036606&size=twitter&screenshot=site_screenshot.png
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@springshare
og:titleResearch Guides
og:descriptionWelcome to Research Guides Research assistance, subject guides, and useful resources compiled by your friendly librarians. Know what we know - find it in Research Guides!
og:imagehttps://researchguides.library.vanderbilt.edu/ld.php?_=1736036606&size=facebook&screenshot=site_screenshot.png
og:image:width1200
og:image:height627
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://researchguides.library.vanderbilt.edu/
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 227 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 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
27.3% 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 14.83 words is good.
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)
Some tags are too long. With 76 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"view a list of guides for specific courses created by vanderbilt librarians:"
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.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
.../1705/images/question-balloon_yellow.pngNo alt attribute provided
...reativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.pngCreative Commons License

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to Research Guides
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 Research Guides
H2 Search All Guides
H2 How to ... Guides
H2 Need Research Help?
H2 Campus Library Guides
H2 Course Guides
H2 Empty heading
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.library.vanderbilt...External Subdomain No Text
/Subdomain Research Guides
https://www.library.vanderbilt...External Subdomain Vanderbilt University Libraries
/Subdomain Text duplicate Research Guides
/AI-teachingNew window Subdomain AI for Teaching & Research
/c.php?g=882675New window Subdomain Data Analysis and Visualization
/researchNew window Subdomain Jump Start Your Research!
/toolsNew window Subdomain Tools for Accessing Library Resources
/vuoaagreementsSubdomain Vanderbilt's Agreements Supporting Open Access Publishing
https://www.library.vanderbilt...External Subdomain FAQ
https://www.library.vanderbilt...External Subdomain Ask a Librarian
/heardSubdomain Heard Library
/centralSubdomain Central Library
/divinitySubdomain Divinity Library
/biomedicalNew window Subdomain Eskind Biomedical Library
/lawSubdomain Law Library
/managementSubdomain Management Library
/musicSubdomain Music Library
/peabodySubdomain Peabody Library
/scienceSubdomain Science and Engineering Library
/specialcollectionsSubdomain Special Collections
http://www.springshare.com/External Subdomain Springshare
https://vanderbilt.libapps.com...External Subdomain Login to LibApps
http://creativecommons.org/lic...External IMG-ALT Creative Commons License
http://creativecommons.org/lic...External Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://researchguides.library.vanderbilt.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 0.63 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 (39 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateSun, 05 Jan 2025 00:23:26 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
set-cookie195 Characters
x-backend-serverlibguides-us-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 website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 399 referring domains.
This page has 972 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 333 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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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
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User-agent: Applebot
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User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
    Disallow: /er.php
    Disallow: /err.php
    Disallow: /go.php
    Disallow: /friendly.php
    Disallow: /ld.php
    Disallow: /srch.php

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