Guides.library.illinoisstate.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
60% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
90% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.16 s
File size
59.90 kB
Words
245
Media files
0
Number of links
15 internal / 33 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Guides at Milner Library, Illinois State University
The length of the page title is perfect. (498 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
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)
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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X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 245 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
21.2% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
3 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 16.67 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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)
Milner Library Guides
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Milner Library Guides
H2 Search all guides
H2 Guides by Subject
H2 Start Your Research
H2 Library Databases
H2 Using Milner Library
H2 Citing and Writing
H2 Specialized Information
H2 Need More Help?
H2 Additional Links
H2 Milner Library
H3 Follow us on:
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 (33) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to Main Content
http://illinoisstate.edu/External Illinois State University
https://giving.illinoisstate.edu/External Subdomain Giving
https://news.illinoisstate.edu/External Subdomain News
https://events.illinoisstate.edu/External Subdomain Events
http://maps.illinoisstate.edu/External Subdomain Map
https://illinoisstate.edu/ApplyExternal Apply
https://my.illinoisstate.edu/External Subdomain No Text
https://library.illinoisstate....External Subdomain Milner Library
https://library.illinoisstate....External Subdomain Home
https://library.illinoisstate....External Subdomain Research
https://library.illinoisstate....External Subdomain Services
https://library.illinoisstate....External Subdomain Collections
https://library.illinoisstate....External Subdomain Exhibits
https://library.illinoisstate....External Subdomain About
https://library.illinoisstate....External Subdomain Getting Started
/sb.phpSubdomain Find your Subject or Course
/howtoresearchSubdomain How to Research
/evaluatingSubdomain Determine Credibility
/gradstudentsSubdomain Graduate Student Portal
/az/databasesSubdomain View the Databases
/orientationSubdomain Get Started in the Library
/citing/guidesSubdomain Style Guides
/zoteroSubdomain Zotero
/citing/plagiarismSubdomain Plagiarism
/tmc/Subdomain Teaching Materials Center
/govdocsSubdomain Government Information
/copyrightSubdomain Copyright
/specialtopicguidesSubdomain View Special Topic Guides
https://library.illinoisstate....External Subdomain Contact Milner Library
https://library.illinoisstate....External Subdomain Subject Librarians
/prf.phpSubdomain Guide Authors
https://library.illinoisstate....External Subdomain Anchor Directions and Parking
https://library.illinoisstate....External Subdomain Accessibility Services
https://library.illinoisstate....External Subdomain Library Spaces
https://library.illinoisstate....External Subdomain Staff Directory
https://library.illinoisstate....External Subdomain FDLP
https://library.illinoisstate....External Subdomain Contact Us
https://maps.illinoisstate.edu...External Subdomain Text duplicate Milner Library
https://www.facebook.com/ISUMi...External Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/isumilnerlibExternal Twitter
http://www.flickr.com/photos/i...External Subdomain Flickr
https://www.instagram.com/isum...External Subdomain Instagram
https://illinoisstate.edu/External Illinois State university Illinois' first public university
https://illinoisstate.edu/External Illinois State University, Normal, IL USA
https://illinoisstate.edu/down...External Privacy Statement
https://policy.illinoisstate.e...External Subdomain Appropriate Use Policy
https://illinoisstate.edu/acce...External Accessibility

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://guides.library.illinoisstate.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 is slow (1.16 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 (60 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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content-security-policyupgrade-insecure-requests
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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 132 referring domains.
This page has 389 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 119 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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    Disallow: /go.php
    Disallow: /friendly.php
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Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

KeywordResultRecheck
Library77%Check
Guides77%Check
Milner Library72%Check
Guides Milner72%Check
Milner66%Check
Illinois State58%Check
library spaces58%Check
Illinois56%Check
Illinois State University54%Check
State University52%Check
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