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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
62% 
Page quality
54% 
Page structure
91% 
Link structure
75% 
Server
84% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.74 s
File size
86.80 kB
Words
430
Media files
0
Number of links
16 internal / 89 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Subject and Course Guides at University of Illinois at Chicago
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 624 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)
The domain name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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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robotsnoarchive
google-site-verificationhZzxRg9yKq9oYpemwxDf-SaZiBH8EtA36DEHfugZAlI
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twitter:imagehttps://researchguides.uic.edu/ld.php?_=1725674878&size=twitter&screenshot=site_screenshot.png
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@springshare
og:titleSubject and Course Guides
og:descriptionSubject & Course Guides Subject Guides provide help with Library services and resources.<br />Course Guides are custom made for specific courses by UIC Librarians. Contact the Library for more information, or to request a Guide for your course.
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og:image:height627
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://researchguides.uic.edu/
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 430 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
11.6% 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.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 12.5 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)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 9 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)
Subject & Course Guides
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Subject & Course Guides
H2 University of Illinois Chicago
H2 University Library
H2 Empty heading
H2 Library Information
H2 University Library Duplicate text
H2 Library Footer Links
H2 University Information and Links
H2 UIC.edu
H2 University of Illinois System Information and Links
H3 Skip Navigation
H3 University Primary Navigation
H3 Search UIC Library Collections
H3 Search UIC Library Website
H3 Library Locations
H3 Library footer navigation
H3 Library Website Actions
H3 Follow the Library
H3 UIC footer navigation
H3 University of Illinois System
H3 University Legal Notices
H4 Richard J. Daley Library
H4 Library of the Health Sciences, Chicago
H4 Library of the Health Sciences, Peoria
H4 Crawford Library of the Health Sciences, Rockford
H4 UIC Law Library
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 too many external links (89) on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://researchguides.uic.edu/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://researchguides.uic.edu/Anchor Main Content
https://researchguides.uic.edu/Anchor UIC Primary Navigation
https://researchguides.uic.edu/Anchor UIC Miscellaneous Links
https://researchguides.uic.edu/Anchor UIC Campus Locations
https://researchguides.uic.edu/Anchor Library Primary Navigation
https://researchguides.uic.edu/Anchor Library Secondary Navigation
https://researchguides.uic.edu/Anchor Library Footer Navigation
https://researchguides.uic.edu/Anchor Library Actions
https://researchguides.uic.edu/Anchor Library Social Links
https://researchguides.uic.edu/Anchor Library Building Locations
https://researchguides.uic.edu/Anchor Search Systems
https://uic.edu/External University of Illinois Chicago
https://uic.edu/External UIC.edu
https://maps.uic.edu/External Subdomain Campus Map
https://library.uic.edu/External Subdomain University Library
https://library.uic.edu/about/...External Subdomain My Accounts
https://library.uic.edu/about/...External Subdomain Contact Us
https://library.uic.edu/hours/External Subdomain Hours
https://library.uic.edu/about/...External Subdomain Give to the Library
https://library.uic.edu/help/External Subdomain Help
https://library.uic.edu/help/External Subdomain Help Center
https://library.uic.edu/about/...External Subdomain Using the Library
https://library.uic.edu/servic...External Subdomain Research Help
https://library.uic.edu/help-a...External Subdomain Get help from a Librarian
https://library.uic.edu/about/...External Subdomain Text duplicate Contact Us
https://library.uic.edu/collec...External Subdomain Collections
https://library.uic.edu/collec...External Subdomain Articles
https://library.uic.edu/collec...External Subdomain Books & Media
/az.phpSubdomain Databases
https://library.uic.edu/collec...External Subdomain Digital Images & Media
https://i-share-uic.primo.exli...External Subdomain Journals
https://library.uic.edu/collec...External Subdomain Maps & Geographic Information Systems
https://library.uic.edu/scua/External Subdomain Special Collections & University Archives
https://library.uic.edu/collec...External Subdomain Theses, Dissertations & UIC Publications
https://library.uic.edu/librar...External Subdomain Libraries
https://library.uic.edu/librar...External Subdomain Chicago - Daley
https://library.uic.edu/librar...External Subdomain Peoria - Health Sciences
https://library.uic.edu/librar...External Subdomain Rockford - Health Sciences
https://library.uic.edu/about/External Subdomain About
https://library.uic.edu/about/...External Subdomain Events
https://library.uic.edu/about/...External Subdomain News
https://library.uic.edu/about/...External Subdomain Jobs & Careers
https://library.uic.edu/about/...External Subdomain People
https://library.uic.edu/about/...External Subdomain Student Success
https://library.uic.edu/about/...External Subdomain Library Faculty
https://library.uic.edu/about/...External Subdomain Policies
https://library.uic.edu/about/...External Subdomain Strategic Plan
https://library.uic.edu/about/...External Subdomain Exhibits
https://library.uic.edu/hours/External Subdomain Library Hours
https://library.uic.edu/about/...External Subdomain Text duplicate Using the Library
https://library.uic.edu/services/External Subdomain Services
https://library.uic.edu/servic...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://library.uic.edu/servic...External Subdomain Faculty
https://library.uic.edu/servic...External Subdomain Visitors
https://library.uic.edu/servic...External Subdomain Alumni
https://library.uic.edu/servic...External Subdomain Corporate Membership
https://library.uic.edu/servic...External Subdomain Course Reserves
https://library.uic.edu/servic...External Subdomain Digital Scholarship
https://library.uic.edu/servic...External Subdomain Library Instruction
https://library.uic.edu/servic...External Subdomain Text duplicate Research Help
https://library.uic.edu/servic...External Subdomain Interlibrary Loan
https://i-share-uic.primo.exli...External Subdomain Advanced Search
https://library.uic.edu/External Subdomain UIC Library
https://researchguides.uic.edu/Subdomain Subject and Course Guides
/az.phpDatabases A-Z
/healthHealth Science Guides
https://uic.libapps.com/libapp...External Subdomain Staff Login
https://go.library.uic.edu/lib...External Subdomain Report a problem.
https://library.uic.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate University Library
https://library.uic.edu/librar...External Subdomain Richard J. Daley Library
https://library.uic.edu/librar...External Subdomain Library of the Health Sciences, Chicago
https://library.uic.edu/librar...External Subdomain Library of the Health Sciences, Peoria
https://library.uic.edu/librar...External Subdomain Crawford Library of the Health Sciences, Rockford
https://library.law.uic.edu/External Subdomain UIC Law Library
https://library.uic.edu/External Subdomain Library Home
https://library.uic.edu/hours/External Subdomain Text duplicate Hours
https://library.uic.edu/servic...External Subdomain Accessibility Services
https://library.uic.edu/servic...External Subdomain Visitor Services
https://library.uic.edu/servic...External Subdomain Faculty Services
https://library.uic.edu/servic...External Subdomain Alumni Services
https://library.uic.edu/about/...External Subdomain Text duplicate Contact Us
https://library.uic.edu/about/...External Subdomain Text duplicate My Accounts
https://www.facebook.com/uicda...External Subdomain No Text
https://x.com/uiclibraryExternal No Text
https://www.instagram.com/uicl...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/user/U...External Subdomain No Text
https://uic.edu/External Text duplicate UIC.edu
https://catalog.uic.edu/ucat/a...External Subdomain Academic Calendar
https://uicflames.com/External Athletics
https://www.uic.edu/apps/depar...External Subdomain Campus Directory
https://disabilityresources.ui...External Subdomain Disability Resources
https://emergency.uic.edu/External Subdomain Emergency Information
https://today.uic.edu/eventsExternal Subdomain Event Calendar
https://uic.edu/about/job-oppo...External Job Openings
https://library.uic.edu/External Subdomain Library
https://maps.uic.edu/External Subdomain Maps
https://ready.uic.edu/digital-...External Subdomain UIC Safe Mobile App
https://today.uic.edu/External Subdomain UIC Today
https://uihealth.uic.edu/External Subdomain UI Health
https://dos.uic.edu/student-ve...External Subdomain Veterans Affairs
https://illinois.edu/External Urbana-Champaign
https://www.uic.edu/External Subdomain Chicago
https://www.uis.edu/External Subdomain Springfield
https://www.vpaa.uillinois.edu...External Subdomain Privacy Statement

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://researchguides.uic.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 0.74 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 (87 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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x-content-type-optionsnosniff
content-security-policyupgrade-insecure-requests
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; preload
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 938 referring domains.
This page has 5,339 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 741 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

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User-agent: AddThis.com
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User-agent: Yandex
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User-agent: Baiduspider
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User-agent: Baiduspider-video
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User-agent: Baiduspider-image
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User-agent: SemrushBot
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User-agent: SemrushBot-SA
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User-agent: Amazonbot
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User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-Agent: W3C-checklink
Crawl-delay: 0

User-agent: Twitterbot
Crawl-delay: 0
Disallow:

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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Course Guides68%Check
Subject Guides68%Check
Subject Course Guides65%Check
Course62%Check
Subject62%Check
UIC54%Check
Search54%Check
University53%Check
Chicago53%Check
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