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Meta information
79% 
Page quality
50% 
Page structure
39% 
Link structure
85% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.68 s
File size
21.10 kB
Words
232
Media files
4
Number of links
48 internal / 14 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Harold B. Lee Library
The page title is too short. (192 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
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)
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=1
mobile-web-app-capableyes
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 232 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.
18.5% of the text are stop words.
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)
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=1" 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...sets/images/2.0.0/byu-hbll-logo-full.svgHBLL Logo
...hot-2024-09-04-at-4.49.12-PM-150x150.pngImage for this news item
...nt/uploads/2024/08/Power-Outage-copy.jpgImage for this news item
.../exhibits/BoM_winners_2024_thumbnail.jpgImage for this exhibit

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
HBLL Logo
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (9 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.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 HBLL Logo
H1 Find Materials
H2 Materials
H2 Help & Info
H2 Open Today7 a.m. – midnight
H2 Services view all
H2 Places view all
H2 Upcoming Events view all
H2 Library News view all
H2 Current Exhibits view all
H4 Photoshop Essentials
H4 Illustrator Essentials
H4 Portuguese Night FHE
H4 September 27, Celebrate a Century of Filmmaking in Utah: The Covered Wagon, 1924
H4 August 16 BYU Library Will Be Closed For Electrical Maintenance
H4 2024 Book of Mormon Art Contest Winners
H4 Empty heading
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.
There are 2 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 14 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://lib.byu.edu/guides/Guides
https://lib.byu.edu/databases/Databases
https://lib.byu.edu/journals/Journals
https://lib.byu.edu/collections/Collections
https://lib.byu.edu/formats/Formats
https://lib.byu.edu/articles/Articles
https://lib.byu.edu/books/Books
https://lib.byu.edu/audio/Audio
https://lib.byu.edu/video/Video
https://lib.byu.edu/formats/Trivial anchor text
More
https://lib.byu.edu/directory/Directory
https://lib.byu.edu/faq/FAQ
https://lib.byu.edu/services/Services
https://lib.byu.edu/places/Places
https://lib.byu.edu/events/Events
https://lib.byu.edu/about/About
https://lib.byu.edu/IMG-ALT HBLL Logo
/auth/login/?target=/Login
https://lib.byu.edu/guides/Research Guides
https://lib.byu.edu/databases/Text duplicate Databases
https://lib.byu.edu/journals/Text duplicate Journals
https://lib.byu.edu/collections/Text duplicate Collections
https://lib.byu.edu/formats/Formats Books, audio, video, etc.
https://lib.byu.edu/articles/Text duplicate Articles
https://lib.byu.edu/audio/Text duplicate Audio
https://lib.byu.edu/books/Books & E-books
https://lib.byu.edu/music-scores/Music Scores
/theses-and-dissertations/Theses & Dissertations
https://lib.byu.edu/video/Text duplicate Video
https://lib.byu.edu/formats/View all formats
https://lib.byu.edu/about/hours/7 a.m. – midnight
https://floormaps.lib.byu.edu/External Subdomain View Floor Maps
https://lib.byu.edu/services/view all
/services/course-reserve/Course Reserve
/services/interlibrary-loan/Interlibrary Loan
/library-instruction/Library Instruction
https://byu.libcal.com/r/searc...External Subdomain Reserve a Study Room
https://lib.byu.edu/places/Text duplicate view all
https://familyhistory.lib.byu....External Subdomain Family History
/services/software-training-lab/Software Training Lab
/books/popular-reading/Popular Reading
/special-collections/Special Collections
https://lib.byu.edu/events/Text duplicate view all
/services/software-training/re...Photoshop Essentials
/services/software-training/re...Illustrator Essentials
https://calendar.byu.edu/stude...External Subdomain Portuguese Night FHE
https://lib.byu.edu/about/news/Text duplicate view all
https://news.lib.byu.edu/2024/...External Subdomain September 27, Celebrate a Century of Filmmaking in Utah: The Covered Wagon, 1924
https://news.lib.byu.edu/2024/...External Subdomain August 16 BYU Library Will Be Closed For Electrical Maintenance
https://lib.byu.edu/exhibits/Text duplicate view all
https://art.lib.byu.edu/Exhibi...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Image for this exhibit
https://art.lib.byu.edu/Exhibi...External Subdomain 2024 Book of Mormon Art Contest Winners
https://lib.byu.edu/Home
https://lib.byu.edu/site-index/Site Index
https://www.facebook.com/byuhbllExternal Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/byu_hbllExternal Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/user/h...External Subdomain YouTube
/about/social-media/Trivial anchor text
more
/about/copyright/©2024
A-TITLE Copyright and Use Information
https://www.byu.edu/External Subdomain Brigham Young University
https://privacy.byu.edu/External Subdomain Privacy Notice
https://infosec.byu.edu/cookie...External Subdomain Cookie Preferences

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://lib.byu.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 of 0.68 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.
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 3 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (21 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateFri, 13 Sep 2024 11:53:06 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length5996
set-cookie50 Characters
expiresThu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
cache-controlno-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
pragmano-cache
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
strict-transport-securitymax-age=10368000
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,139 referring domains.
This page has 27,427 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,080 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /chewbacca/
Disallow: /coned/
Disallow: /internal/
Disallow: /ws/
Disallow: /search/
Crawl-Delay: 5

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KeywordResultRecheck
Library54%Check
HBLL54%Check
BYU52%Check
View43%Check
Materials43%Check
Essentials43%Check
Night43%Check
News42%Check
Exhibits40%Check
Winners40%Check
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