Libguides.lib.msu.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
38% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
87% 
Server
90% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.59 s
File size
45.60 kB
Words
138
Media files
10
Number of links
3 internal / 26 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - LibGuides at Michigan State University Libraries
The length of the page title is perfect. (502 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)
The domain name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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
robotsnoarchive
langen
twitter:imagehttps://libguides.lib.msu.edu/ld.php?_=1726790320&size=twitter&screenshot=site_screenshot.png
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@springshare
og:titleLibGuides
og:descriptionResearch & Course Guides
og:imagehttps://libguides.lib.msu.edu/ld.php?_=1726790320&size=facebook&screenshot=site_screenshot.png
og:image:width1200
og:image:height627
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://libguides.lib.msu.edu/
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 138 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
No paragraphs were detected.
18.1% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
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=1.0" is provided.
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)
7 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
...u/brand/images/masthead-helmet-white.svgMichigan State University
...apps/customers/1464/images/telephone.pngNo alt attribute provided
...customers/1464/images/email_envelope.pngNo alt attribute provided
...libapps/customers/1464/images/engage.pngNo alt attribute provided
...images/MSUL_Helmet-Signature_reverse.pngMichigan State University Libraries
...sul_bootstrap5/images/Icons_Facebook.svgNo alt attribute provided
...ul_bootstrap5/images/Icons_Instagram.svgNo alt attribute provided
...msul_bootstrap5/images/Icons_Twitter.svgNo alt attribute provided
...msul_bootstrap5/images/Icons_YouTube.svgNo alt attribute provided
....edu/brand/images/msu-wordmark-green.svgMichigan State University

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Research & Course Guides
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Research & Course Guides
H2 MSU Libraries
H2 Guides
H2 Empty heading
H2 The Database List
H2 Need Help? Ask A Librarian!
There are too few (3) 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 too many external links (26) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://msu.edu/External IMG-ALT Michigan State University
https://www.lib.msu.edu/External Subdomain MSU Libraries
https://libguides.lib.msu.edu/Guides
https://lib.msu.edu/contact/as...Nofollow External Subdomain Ask Us
http://lib.msu.edu/External Subdomain Michigan State University Libraries
https://libguides.lib.msu.edu/Subdomain LibGuides
/az.phpGo to The Database List
https://lib.msu.edu/rds/askusNew window External Subdomain Send us your question
http://www.lib.msu.edu/contact...New window External Subdomain Subject Librarian
http://www.springshare.com/External Subdomain Springshare
https://msu.libapps.com/libapp...External Subdomain Login to LibApps
https://lib.msu.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Michigan State University Libraries
https://goo.gl/maps/PsFndYZqwF...External MSU Libraries 366 W. Circle Drive East Lansing, MI 48824 USA
https://lib.msu.edu/site-feedbackExternal Subdomain Library Website Feedback
https://lib.msu.edu/accessibilityExternal Subdomain Accessibility
https://lib.msu.edu/policies/p...External Subdomain Privacy Statement
https://lib.msu.edu/orgchartExternal Subdomain Library Units
https://lib.msu.edu/staffExternal Subdomain Staff Directory
https://lib.msu.edu/spacesExternal Subdomain Discover Library Spaces
https://lib.msu.edu/human-reso...External Subdomain Employment
https://lib.msu.edu/supportExternal Subdomain Support the Libraries
https://lib.msu.edu/sitemapExternal Subdomain Site map
https://www.facebook.com/msu.l...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/msul...External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/msulibrariesExternal No Text
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain No Text
https://msu.edu/visit/External msu.edu
https://civilrights.msu.edu/po...External Subdomain Notice of Nondiscrimination
https://www.msu.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Michigan State University

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://libguides.lib.msu.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 0.59 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 (46 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateThu, 19 Sep 2024 23:58:40 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-backend-serverlibguides-us-2.springyaws.com
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
content-security-policyupgrade-insecure-requests
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; preload
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,165 referring domains.
This page has 9,761 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 885 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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User-agent: Yandex
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User-agent: Baiduspider-video
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User-agent: Baiduspider-image
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User-agent: SemrushBot
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User-agent: SemrushBot-SA
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User-agent: Amazonbot
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User-agent: GPTBot
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User-Agent: W3C-checklink
Crawl-delay: 0

User-agent: Twitterbot
Crawl-delay: 0
Disallow:

User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
    Disallow: /er.php
    Disallow: /err.php
    Disallow: /go.php
    Disallow: /friendly.php
    Disallow: /ld.php
    Disallow: /srch.php

    Sitemap: https://libguides.lib.msu.edu/sitemap.xml

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Guides77%Check
LibGuides58%Check
MSU52%Check
Libraries51%Check
MSU Libraries51%Check
Search50%Check
Research50%Check
Course50%Check
Michigan State University Libraries49%Check
Michigan48%Check
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