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Meta information
80% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
72% 
Link structure
72% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.14 s
File size
22.20 kB
Words
234
Media files
16
Number of links
43 internal / 23 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The Keep: Institutional Repository of Eastern Illinois University
The length of the page title is perfect. (557 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Keep is the institutional repository (IR) of Eastern Illinois University. The Keep collects and provides access to the faculty research, student works and publications, administrative documents, archival content, historical images, and special collections associated with the university. The Keep also hosts multiple journals and annual conferences/events. The Keep is an excellent platform for working papers, university documents, copies of published articles, and conference papers. Presentations, senior theses/honors projects, exhibits and other works not published elsewhere can also be published in The Keep.
The meta description is too long: 3786 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
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
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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 is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
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
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
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The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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descriptionThe Keep is the institutional repository (IR) of Eastern Illinois University. The Keep collects and provides access to the faculty research, student works and publications, administrative documents, archival content, historical images, and special collections associated with the university. The Keep also hosts multiple journals and annual conferences/events. The Keep is an excellent platform for working papers, university documents, copies of published articles, and conference papers. Presentations, senior theses/honors projects, exhibits and other works not published elsewhere can also be published in The Keep.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 234 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
25.6% of the text are stop words.
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 12.25 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" 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
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...ges/c16648627f87753f72d6f3415f9815b0.pngEastern Illinois University
...ges/9327cc4179873f9b65727e517d3ce308.pngThe Keep
...ges/666a46138951333a9bb02f41dc5d3218.pngAcademics
...ges/f94f6819b4a2a82bf1c39b300583400f.pngMaster's Theses
...ges/41c6fa3775624f1f3a921336e529f4f9.pngDigital Archives
...ges/63c44a8c2aa9826215de1d579a7579e0.pngJournals
...ges/149549de46a80e4ef185006158457621.pngScholars@EIU
...ges/0cf34ae5acc252650d2525a809484b65.pngPanther Tracks
...ges/d1307052fbf4b3989a13359217cd273d.pngDigital Exhibits
...ges/4d6395db17afe2f08a3da08904898352.pngEvents
...ges/8e240588cf8cd3a028768d4294acd7d3.pngDC Network
...ges/8e240588cf8cd3a028768d4294acd7d3.pngDC Network
...ges/5f092a21a69e280081361f424d2ed198.pngStudent Selfies QR CodeStudent Selfies QR Code
...ges/e9921f83f7ae4d93713d4c34aa8458be.jpgDisciplines WheelDisciplines Wheel
/assets/images/portal_badges/illinois.pngLogo of Illinois Research Commons

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The Keep
The H1 heading is too short (8 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 The Keep
H2 Browse Research and Scholarship
H2 About the Repository
H2 At a Glance
H2 Paper of the Day
H2 Find
H2 Browse
H2 Graduate Students
H2 Authors
H2 Student Scholar Selfies
H2 Connect
H4 Academics
H4 Master's Theses
H4 Digital Archives
H4 Journals
H4 Scholars@EIU
H4 Panther Tracks
H4 Digital Exhibits
H4 Events
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 23 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://thekeep.eiu.edu/Subdomain Home
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/do/search/advanced/Subdomain Search
A-TITLE Search
/communities.htmlSubdomain Browse All Works
A-TITLE Browse
/cgi/myaccount.cgi?contextMy Account
A-TITLE My Account
/about.htmlSubdomain About
A-TITLE About
https://network.bepress.com/External Subdomain Digital Commons Network™
IMG-ALT DC Network
A-TITLE Digital Commons Network
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/External Text duplicate Home
A-TITLE Home
/about.htmlSubdomain Text duplicate About
A-TITLE About
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/faq.htmlSubdomain FAQ
A-TITLE FAQ
/cgi/myaccount.cgi?contextSubdomain Text duplicate My Account
A-TITLE My Account
http://www.eiu.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Eastern Illinois University
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/Subdomain IMG-ALT The Keep
A-TITLE The Keep
https://network.bepress.com/ap...Nofollow External Subdomain Follow
A-TITLE Follow The Keep
/communities.htmlSubdomain Academics
IMG-ALT Academics
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/Subdomain Master's Theses
IMG-ALT Master's Theses
/digital_archives/Subdomain Digital Archives
IMG-ALT Digital Archives
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/journals/Subdomain Journals
IMG-ALT Journals
https://scholars.eiu.edu/en/External Subdomain Scholars@EIU
IMG-ALT Scholars@EIU
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/students/Subdomain Panther Tracks
IMG-ALT Panther Tracks
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/exhibit/Subdomain Digital Exhibits
IMG-ALT Digital Exhibits
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/events/Subdomain Events
IMG-ALT Events
/submission_guidelines.htmlSubdomain Submission Guidelines
/eiu_oa_policy.pdfSubdomain EIU Open Access Policy
/updated_strategic_plan_2020_2...Subdomain Strategic Plan
https://e.givesmart.com/events...External Subdomain Donate to the library today!
/topdownloads.htmlSubdomain Top 10 Downloads
/recent_additions.htmlSubdomain Recent Additions
/activity.htmlSubdomain Activity by year
/herbarium_specimens_byname/16115Subdomain Quercus velutina Lindl. Gordon C. Tucker and Bob Edgin
A-TITLE Published in Specimens by Name
https://network.bepress.com/External Subdomain This collection is part of the Digital Commons Network™
IMG-ALT DC Network
https://network.bepress.com/External Subdomain IMG-ALT DC Network
https://network.bepress.com/ar...External Subdomain Architecture
A-TITLE Architecture
https://network.bepress.com/ar...External Subdomain Arts and Humanities
A-TITLE Arts and Humanities
https://network.bepress.com/bu...External Subdomain Business
A-TITLE Business
https://network.bepress.com/ed...External Subdomain Education
A-TITLE Education
https://network.bepress.com/en...External Subdomain Engineering
A-TITLE Engineering
https://network.bepress.com/lawExternal Subdomain Law
A-TITLE Law
https://network.bepress.com/li...External Subdomain Life Sciences
A-TITLE Life Sciences
https://network.bepress.com/me...External Subdomain Medicine and Health Sciences
A-TITLE Medicine and Health Sciences
https://network.bepress.com/ph...External Subdomain Physical Sciences and Mathematics
A-TITLE Physical Sciences and Mathematics
https://network.bepress.com/so...External Subdomain Social and Behavioral Sciences
A-TITLE Social and Behavioral Sciences
/do/search/advanced/?fq=virtua...Subdomain Advanced Search
/announcements.htmlSubdomain Notify me via email or RSS
A-TITLE Email or RSS Notifications
/allcommunities.htmlSubdomain A-Z Communities List
A-TITLE Browse by A-Z Communities List
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/den/Subdomain Daily Eastern News
A-TITLE Daily Eastern News
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/warbler/Subdomain The Warbler
A-TITLE The Warbler
/authors.htmlSubdomain All Authors
A-TITLE Browse by Author
/communities.htmlSubdomain All Works
A-TITLE Browse by All Works
/cgi/ir_submit.cgi?context=thesesSubdomain Deposit Your Thesis
/submit_research.htmlSubdomain Submit Content
A-TITLE Submit Content
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/faq.htmlSubdomain Author Rights/Terms of Service
A-TITLE Author Rights/Terms of Service
/student_selfies_research/Subdomain View Gallery
/cgi/ir_submit.cgi?context=stu...Subdomain Add Your Selfie:
https://www.eiu.edu/booth/External Subdomain Booth Library
/sunburst.htmlSubdomain IMG-ALT Disciplines Wheel
/sunburst.htmlSubdomain View Larger
http://illinois.researchcommon...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Logo of Illinois Research Commons
A-TITLE Illinois Research Commons
https://www.elsevier.com/solut...External Subdomain Elsevier - Digital Commons
A-TITLE Elsevier - Digital Commons
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/Subdomain Text duplicate Home
A-TITLE Home page
/about.htmlSubdomain Text duplicate About
A-TITLE About
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/faq.htmlSubdomain Text duplicate FAQ
A-TITLE FAQ
/cgi/myaccount.cgi?contextText duplicate My Account
A-TITLE My Account Page
/accessibility.htmlSubdomain Accessibility Statement
A-TITLE Accessibility Statement
https://www.elsevier.com/legal...External Subdomain Privacy
A-TITLE Privacy Policy
https://www.elsevier.com/legal...External Subdomain Copyright
A-TITLE Copyright Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://thekeep.eiu.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.14 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (22 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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servernginx
dateFri, 04 Apr 2025 22:20:07 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
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strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload;
referrer-policyno-referrer, strict-origin-when-cross-origin
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self';
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 67 referring domains.
This page has 112 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 63 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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The Keep: Institutional Repository of Eastern Illinois University
The Keep is the institutional repository (IR) of Eastern Illinois University. The Keep collects and provides access to the faculty research, student works and publications, administrative documents, archival content, historical images, and special collections associated with the university. The Keep also hosts multiple journals and annual conferences/events. The Keep is an excellent platform for working papers, university documents, copies of published articles, and conference papers. Presentations, senior theses/honors projects, exhibits and other works not published elsewhere can also be published in The Keep.

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