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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
79% 
Page structure
92% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
89% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.63 s
File size
46.50 kB
Words
710
Media files
2
Number of links
103 internal / 13 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Ask a Librarian - Ask a Librarian
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (289 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
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 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
(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, shrink-to-fit=no
msapplication-TileColor#ffffff
msapplication-TileImagehttps://www.loc.gov/ms-icon-144x144.png
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 710 words. That's ok.
27% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
7 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 11.33 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, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
2 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
....gov/libguide/images/logo-loc-padded.svgNo alt attribute provided
...v/libguide/images/logo-ask-librarian.svgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Ask a Librarian
The H1 heading is too short (15 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Ask a Librarian
H2 Empty heading
H2 Other Ways to Connect
H2 Related Resources
H3 Subjects & Formats
H3 Regions & Languages
H3 Programs & Services
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 13 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://ask.loc.gov/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-2...External Subdomain More information
https://www.loc.gov/External Subdomain Library of Congress
https://ask.loc.gov/Ask a Librarian
https://www.loc.gov/External Subdomain Text duplicate Library of Congress
https://ask.loc.gov/Text duplicate Ask a Librarian
https://ask.loc.gov/search/All
/loan-reserves-accounts/Access Services
/africa-middle-east/Africa, Middle East
/american-folklife/American Folklife
https://ask.loc.gov/asia/Asia
https://ask.loc.gov/business/Business
https://ask.loc.gov/crowd/By The People
/caribbean-iberia-latin-america/Caribbean, Iberia, Latin America
/special-search/Collections Management Division
/congressdotgov/Congress.gov
https://ask.loc.gov/europe/Europe
/film-tv-video/Film, TV, Video
/genealogy-local-history/Genealogy, Local History
https://ask.loc.gov/General Reference
/history-humanities-social-sci...History, Humanities, Social Sciences
https://ask.loc.gov/law/Law
https://ask.loc.gov/manuscripts/Manuscripts
/map-geography/Maps, Geography
/national-library-service/National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled
/newspapers-periodicals/Newspapers, Periodicals, Comic Books
/performing-arts/Performing Arts
/poetry-literature/Poetry, Literature
https://ask.loc.gov/preservation/Preservation
/prints-photographs/Prints and Photographs
/rare-books-special-collections/Rare Books, Special Collections
/recorded-sound/Recorded Sound, Audio
https://ask.loc.gov/science/Science, Technical Reports
/teacher-resources/Teacher Resources
/veterans-history/Veterans History
/search/?t=0&g=6133&topics=Abo...4About the Library of Congress
/search/?t=0&g=6133&topics=Acc...13Access Services
/search/?t=0&g=6133&topics=Acc...1Accessibility
/search/?t=0&g=6133&topics=Acc...1Accounts
/search/?t=0&g=6133&topics=Acq...1Acquisitions
/search/?t=0&g=6133&topics=App...3Appraisals
/search/?t=0&g=6133&topics=Cat...5Catalog
/search/?t=0&g=6133&topics=Cat...1Cataloging
/search/?t=0&g=6133&topics=Col...18Collections
/search/?t=0&g=6133&topics=Cop...4Copyright
/search/?t=0&g=6133&topics=Cor...1Correspondence Policy
/search/?t=0&g=6133&topics=Don...4Donations
/search/?t=0&g=6133&topics=Gen...22General Info
/search/?t=0&g=6133&topics=Geo...1Geography and Map Reading Room
/search/?t=0&g=6133&topics=Int...13InterLibrary Loan
/search/?t=0&g=6133&topics=Mai...5Main Reading Room
/search/?t=0&g=6133&topics=New...1Newspapers and Current Periodicals Reading Room
/search/?t=0&g=6133&topics=Pub...4Publishing
/search/?t=0&g=6133&topics=Rea...8Reading Rooms
/search/?t=0&g=6133&topics=Res...21Research
/search/?t=0&g=6133&topics=Usi...25Using the Library
/search/?t=0&g=6133&topics=Usi...6Using the Library Online
/search/?t=0&g=6133&topics=Web...2Website
https://ask.loc.gov/Anchor Ask a Specialist
https://ask.loc.gov/Anchor Ask a General Question
https://ask.loc.gov/Anchor Browse Frequently Asked Questions
https://ask.loc.gov/businessSubdomain Text duplicate Business
https://ask.loc.gov/film-tv-videoSubdomain Text duplicate Film, TV, Video
/genealogy-local-history/Subdomain Text duplicate Genealogy, Local History
/history-humanities-social-sci...Subdomain Text duplicate History, Humanities, Social Sciences
https://ask.loc.gov/lawSubdomain Text duplicate Law
https://ask.loc.gov/manuscriptsSubdomain Text duplicate Manuscripts
https://ask.loc.gov/map-geographySubdomain Map, Geography
/newspapers-periodicalsSubdomain Text duplicate Newspapers, Periodicals, Comic Books
/performing-artsSubdomain Text duplicate Performing Arts
/prints-photographsSubdomain Text duplicate Prints and Photographs
/rare-books-special-collectionsSubdomain Text duplicate Rare Books, Special Collections
/recorded-soundSubdomain Text duplicate Recorded Sound, Audio
https://ask.loc.gov/scienceSubdomain Text duplicate Science, Technical Reports
/africa-middle-eastSubdomain Text duplicate Africa, Middle East
https://ask.loc.gov/asiaSubdomain Text duplicate Asia
/caribbean-iberia-latin-americaSubdomain Text duplicate Caribbean, Iberia, Latin America
https://ask.loc.gov/europeSubdomain Text duplicate Europe
/american-folklifeSubdomain American Folklife Center
https://ask.loc.gov/crowdSubdomain By the People
/congressdotgovSubdomain Text duplicate Congress.gov
https://www.copyright.gov/help/External Subdomain Copyright
https://www.loc.gov/duplicatio...New window External Subdomain Duplication Services
/loan-reserves-accountsSubdomain Loan, Reserves, Accounts
/national-library-serviceSubdomain Services for the Blind and Print Disabled
/poetry-literatureNew window Subdomain Text duplicate Poetry, Literature
https://ask.loc.gov/preservationSubdomain Text duplicate Preservation
/teacher-resourcesSubdomain Text duplicate Teacher Resources
/veterans-historySubdomain Veterans History Project
https://ask.loc.gov/faq/299727Subdomain I am coming to the Library to do research. Where do I start?
/search/?t=0&adv=1&topics=Read...Reading Rooms
/search/?t=0&adv=1&topics=Rese...Research
/search/?t=0&adv=1&topics=Usin...Using the Library
https://ask.loc.gov/faq/300072Subdomain How do I request materials to use in a reading room?
/search/?t=0&adv=1&topics=Coll...Collections
/search/?t=0&adv=1&topics=Read...Text duplicate Reading Rooms
/search/?t=0&adv=1&topics=Rese...Text duplicate Research
/search/?t=0&adv=1&topics=Usin...Text duplicate Using the Library
https://ask.loc.gov/faq/300372Subdomain Can I sign up online for a Library of Congress library card?
/search/?t=0&adv=1&topics=Rese...Text duplicate Research
/search/?t=0&adv=1&topics=Usin...Text duplicate Using the Library
/search/?t=0&adv=1&topics=Usin...Using the Library Online
https://ask.loc.gov/faq/304547Subdomain Can I reserve materials in advance of my arrival to the Library or request a large amount of volumes?
/search/?t=0&adv=1&topics=Usin...Text duplicate Using the Library
https://ask.loc.gov/faq/301696Subdomain How do I donate materials to the Library?
/search/?t=0&adv=1&topics=Dona...Donations
https://guides.loc.gov/External Subdomain Research Guides
https://www.loc.gov/rr/External Subdomain Text duplicate Using the Library
https://www.loc.gov/rr/video-t...External Subdomain Getting Started Tutorials
https://loc.gov/events/?fa=sub...External Upcoming Courses and Workshops
/form?queue_id=6743Subdomain Orientations and Consultations
https://www.loc.gov/visitExternal Subdomain Visitor Information
https://springshare.com/External Springshare
https://ask.loc.gov/admin/loginLogin to LibApps
https://www.loc.gov/legal/New window External Subdomain Library of Congress Legal
https://springshare.com/privac...New window External SpringShare Privacy Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://ask.loc.gov/"
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 (47 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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servernginx
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content-typetext/html;charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-frame-optionsdeny
set-cookie105 Characters
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strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
content-security-policyupgrade-insecure-requests
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 850 referring domains.
This page has 29,993 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 583 different ip addresses.

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
Disallow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider-video
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User-agent: Baiduspider-image
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User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

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

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /process_
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: */search/
Disallow: /utility
Disallow: /utility/
Disallow: /load_chat.php

Sitemap: https://ask.loc.gov/sitemap.xml

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