Onesearch.library.utoronto.ca - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
98% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
97% 
Link structure
81% 
Server
98% 
External factors
14% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.44 s
File size
38.90 kB
Words
346
Media files
8
Number of links
51 internal / 36 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Research guides | University of Toronto Libraries
The length of the page title is perfect. (435 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Research advice, useful tools, and the best resources for your needs curated by expert University of Toronto librarians.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (730 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/research-guides
There is a valid canonical link 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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 346 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 37 words is high.
20.5% 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.
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, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 7 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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Research guides
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
H2 Main navigation
H2 Guides by subject
H2 Guides by course code
H2 General Purpose
H2 Guides by library
H2 Help with ...
H3 Helpful links
H3 Libraries
H3 Support the Libraries
H3 Find Us
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (36) on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/research-guidesAnchor Skip to main content
/University of Toronto Libraries University of Toronto Libraries
IMG-ALT Home
A-TITLE Home
https://safety.utoronto.ca/External Subdomain Feeling distressed?
https://librarysearch.library....External Subdomain My Account
IMG-ALT my-account icon
/askAsk
IMG-ALT ask icon
/library-hoursHours
IMG-ALT hours icon
https://donate.utoronto.ca/lib...External Subdomain Donate
https://www.utoronto.ca/External Subdomain U of T
IMG-ALT uoft icon
/IMG-ALT home
/studying-and-learningStudying and Learning
/researching-and-publishingResearch and Publishing
/teaching-and-classroom-supportTeaching and Classroom Support
/find-by-formatFind Books, Articles, Media and Other Formats
/explore-our-unique-collectionsExplore our Unique Collections
/loan-servicesBorrow Library Resources
/request-items-other-instituti...Request Items from other Libraries
/technology-loansTechnology Loans
/suggest-titleSuggest a Title
/visitLibraries and Hours
/study-spaces-and-carrelsStudy Spaces and Carrels
/wifi-and-computersWifi and Computers
/copy-print-scanCopy, Print and Scan
/toursTours
/publicMembers of the Public
/leadershipWelcome from Library Leadership
/library-staff-directoryStaff Directory
/mission-statement-and-valuesMission Statement and Values
/inclusion-diversity-and-equit...Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Statement
/anti-racism-statementAnti-racism statement
/strategic-plan/strategic-plan...Strategic Plan
/policies-and-guidelinesPolicies and Guidelines
/newsNews
/donateSupport the Libraries
/careersWork with Us
/askContact Us
https://guides.library.utoront...New window External Subdomain Bora Laskin Law Library
https://guides.library.utoront...New window External Subdomain Dentistry Library
https://guides.library.utoront...New window External Subdomain E.J. Pratt Library
https://guides.library.utoront...External Subdomain Engineering & Computer Science Library
https://guides.library.utoront...New window External Subdomain Gerstein Science Information Centre
https://guides.library.utoront...External Subdomain Industrial Relations & HR Library
https://guides.library.utoront...External Subdomain John W. Graham Library (Trinity & Wycliffe Colleges)
https://guides.library.utoront...External Subdomain Music Library
https://guides.library.utoront...External Subdomain OISE Library
https://guides.library.utoront...New window External Subdomain St. Mike's Kelly Library
https://library.utm.utoronto.ca/External Subdomain Anchor UTM Library
https://utsc.library.utoronto....New window External Subdomain UTSC Library
https://utoronto.libapps.com/l...External Subdomain Login to Libguides
/studying-and-learningText duplicate Studying and Learning
/researching-and-publishingText duplicate Research and Publishing
/teaching-and-classroom-supportText duplicate Teaching and Classroom Support
/Subdomain Library Home
https://librarysearch.library....External Subdomain Renew items and pay fines
/library-hoursSubdomain Library hours
/askSubdomain Text duplicate Ask
/report-online-resource-problemReport online resource problem
/sitemapSubdomain Site map
https://q.utoronto.ca/External Subdomain Quercus
/visitSubdomain All libraries
/library-info/ROBARTSSubdomain Robarts
https://gerstein.library.utoro...External Subdomain Gerstein
https://oise.library.utoronto.ca/External Subdomain OISE
https://engineering.library.ut...External Subdomain Engineering & Computer Science
https://library.utm.utoronto.ca/External Subdomain U of T Mississauga Library
https://utsc.library.utoronto.ca/External Subdomain U of T Scarborough Library
/ic-homeSubdomain Information Commons
/donateSubdomain Text duplicate Support the Libraries
/donateOur Priorities
https://donate.utoronto.ca/lib...External Subdomain Text duplicate Donate
https://fisher.library.utoront...External Subdomain Donate Rare Items and Collections
https://fisher.library.utoront...External Subdomain Become a Friend of the Fisher
https://boundless.utoronto.ca/...External Subdomain Legacy Gift
/library-info/AdvancementSubdomain Contact the Advancement Office
https://www.google.ca/maps/pla...External Subdomain 130 St. George St.,Toronto, ON, M5S 1A5
/question-formSubdomain Get Library Help
/key-contactsKey Contacts
https://twitter.com/uoftlibrariesExternal Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.instagram.com/uoft...External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.threads.net/@uoftl...External Subdomain Threads
IMG-ALT threads utl
https://exhibits.library.utoro...External Subdomain IMG-ALT UTL icon
/Subdomain University of Toronto Libraries
https://exhibits.library.utoro...External Subdomain Since 1892
/key-contactsText duplicate Key Contacts
/university-toronto-libraries-...Subdomain Web accessibility
/online-privacy-data-collectionSubdomain Online privacy and data collection
https://www.utoronto.ca/External Subdomain University of Toronto

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
The checked page does not redirect to another URL.
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 0.44 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

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servernginx
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x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
varyCookie,Accept-Encoding
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 3 referring domains.
This page only has 4 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 3 different ip addresses.
This page is referenced by wikipedia.

Robots.txt

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# robots.txt
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# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /onesearch/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

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onesearch.library.utoronto.ca › research-guides
Research guides | University of Toronto Libraries
Research advice, useful tools, and the best resources for your needs curated by expert University of Toronto librarians.

Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
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Research79%Check
Research guides73%Check
guides69%Check
Toronto65%Check
Research advice63%Check
Toronto Libraries62%Check
University Toronto61%Check
University Toronto Libraries60%Check
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