Researchguides.library.wisc.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
67% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
92% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.56 s
File size
35.10 kB
Words
82
Media files
0
Number of links
5 internal / 16 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Research Guides at University of Wisconsin-Madison
The length of the page title is perfect. (549 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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
robotsnoarchive
msapplication-TileColor#333333
theme-color#ffffff
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@springshare
og:titleResearch Guides
og:descriptionEmpty
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://researchguides.library.wisc.edu/
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 82 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
17.1% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
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=1.0" 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

No media files were found.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Research Guides
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (15 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Research Guides
H1 Welcome to the UW-Madison Research Guides
H2 Course Guides
H2 Subject Guides
H2 Search All Research Guides
H2 Libraries
There are too few (5) 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 16 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.wisc.edu/External Subdomain University of Wisconsin–Madison
https://www.library.wisc.edu/External Subdomain Libraries
https://account.library.wisc.edu/External Subdomain Sign In
https://www.library.wisc.edu/h...External Subdomain Help
https://www.library.wisc.edu/g...External Subdomain Give
/Subdomain Research Guides
/courseguidesSubdomain Course Guides
/subjectguidesSubdomain Subject Guides
/courseguidesSubdomain View Course Guides
/subjectguidesSubdomain View Subject Guides
https://www.wisc.edu/External Subdomain No Text
https://www.library.wisc.edu/a...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://www.library.wisc.edu/c...External Subdomain Copyright Statement
https://www.library.wisc.edu/p...External Subdomain Policies
https://www.library.wisc.edu/h...External Subdomain Contact Us
https://www.facebook.com/UWMad...External Subdomain No Text
https://x.com/UWMadLibrariesExternal No Text
https://www.library.wisc.edu/a...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.library.wisc.edu/g...External Subdomain Support Libraries
https://www.wisc.edu/privacy-n...External Subdomain Privacy Notice
https://www.wisconsin.edu/External Subdomain © Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://researchguides.library.wisc.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 0.56 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 (35 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateTue, 08 Oct 2024 15:02:21 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-backend-serverlibguides-us-5.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 1,059 referring domains.
This page has 2,075 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 662 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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User-Agent: W3C-checklink
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User-agent: Twitterbot
Crawl-delay: 0
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User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
    Disallow: /er.php
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    Disallow: /go.php
    Disallow: /friendly.php
    Disallow: /ld.php
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    Sitemap: https://researchguides.library.wisc.edu/sitemap.xml

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Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
Research77%Check
Research Guides76%Check
Guides75%Check
wisc56%Check
Course Guides55%Check
Subject Guides55%Check
University46%Check
edu46%Check
Wisconsin45%Check
Wisconsin-Madison45%Check
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