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Meta information
59% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
86% 
Server
86% 
External factors
48% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.69 s
File size
22.00 kB
Words
80
Media files
0
Number of links
1 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Cornell University Research Guides - LibGuides at Cornell University
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 689 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page 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
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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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DC.CreatorPhil Robinson
DC.SubjectEmpty
DC.DescriptionFind research guides created by Cornell library staff. Browse through the categories below.
DC.PublishersCornell University
DC.RightsCopyright Cornell University 2024
DC.Languageen
DC.Identifierhttps://guides.library.cornell.edu/c.php?g=1108159&p=8079700
DC.Date.CreatedDec 16, 2020
DC.Date.ModifiedAug 16, 2022
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 80 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
No paragraphs were detected.
18.8% of the text are stop words.
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)
Cornell University Research Guides
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Cornell University Research Guides
H2 Course Guides
H2 Course Guides Duplicate text
H2 Subject Guides
H2 Subject Guides Duplicate text
H2 Search All Guides
H2 Search All Guides Duplicate text
H2 Getting Started
H2 Getting Started Duplicate text
H2 Help
H2 Help Duplicate text
H2 Librarians
There are too few (1) 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 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/homeAnchor Skip to Main Content
http://www.cornell.edu/External Subdomain Cornell University
https://library.cornell.edu/External Subdomain Library
https://www.library.cornell.ed...External Subdomain Ask a librarian!
https://cornell.libapps.com/li...External Subdomain Login to LibApps
https://www.library.cornell.ed...External Subdomain Web Accessibility Assistance

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://guides.library.cornell.edu/home"
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 0.69 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 (22 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 6 referring domains.
This page only has 22 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 6 different ip addresses.
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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