Libguides.rowan.edu - SEO Checker

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Meta information
79% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
45% 
Link structure
81% 
Server
90% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.60 s
File size
32.20 kB
Words
164
Media files
5
Number of links
8 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Research Guides at Rowan University
The length of the page title is perfect. (414 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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
robotsnoarchive
msapplication-TileColor#ffc40d
msapplication-config//d2jv02qf7xgjwx.cloudfront.net/apps/common/favicon/browserconfig.xml
theme-color#ffffff
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@springshare
og:titleResearch Guides
og:descriptionWelcome to Research Guides! If you're writing a research paper and want to find good sources, you've come to the right place. Rowan University librarians have created research guides for each academic program, plus topic guides, general research guides, and course guides.
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://libguides.rowan.edu/
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 164 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.
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
20.7% 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.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 20.67 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)
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
...06206/profiles/204319/Baer_photo2020.jpgAndrea Baer's picture
...counts/43394/profiles/36936/IMG_0420.jpgSamantha Kennedy's picture
...0438/profiles/177077/20240207_161837.jpgAsh Lierman's picture
...2/profiles/155505/KipnisProfileImage.pngDaniel Kipnis's picture
...rary2/assets/images/logos/rul-logo-h.pngRowan University Libraries

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to Research Guides!
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
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 Welcome to Research Guides!
H2 Empty heading
H2 Database Finder
H2 Help is Just a Click Away
H2 Your Friendly Librarians
H4 Libraries
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
There are too few (8) internal links on this page.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 10 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://libguides.rowan.edu/Anchor Skip to Main Content
http://www.rowan.edu/External Subdomain Rowan University
https://www.lib.rowan.edu/camp...External Subdomain Campbell Library
https://www.lib.rowan.edu/camp...External Subdomain Text duplicate Campbell Library
https://libguides.rowan.edu/Subdomain Research Guides
/az.phpGo to Database Finder
http://askus.lib.rowan.edu/cam...External Subdomain LibAnswers & LibChat
/prf.php?id=5d13a7fb-7cdb-11ed...Subdomain Andrea Baer
IMG-ALT Andrea Baer's picture
/prf.php?id=5900a6fc-7cdb-11ed...Subdomain Samantha Kennedy
IMG-ALT Samantha Kennedy's picture
/prf.php?id=5c48c407-7cdb-11ed...Subdomain Ash Lierman
IMG-ALT Ash Lierman's picture
/prf.php?id=5bbde15b-7cdb-11ed...Subdomain Daniel Kipnis
IMG-ALT Daniel Kipnis's picture
/prf.phpMore...
https://rowan.libapps.com/liba...External Subdomain Login to LibApps
http://askus.lib.rowan.edu/cam...External Subdomain Report a problem.
https://www.lib.rowan.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Rowan University Libraries
https://www.lib.rowan.edu/camp...External Subdomain Text duplicate Campbell Library
https://www.lib.rowan.edu/cmsruExternal Subdomain CMSRU Library
https://www.lib.rowan.edu/somExternal Subdomain RowanSOM Health Sciences Library

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://libguides.rowan.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 0.60 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 (32 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateSun, 21 Apr 2024 16:11:09 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

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 377 referring domains.
This page has 1,344 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 278 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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User-agent: AddThis.com
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User-agent: Yandex
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User-agent: Baiduspider
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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
Disallow: /

User-Agent: W3C-checklink
Crawl-delay: 0

User-agent: Twitterbot
Crawl-delay: 0
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.rowan.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
Guides73%Check
Research Guides68%Check
Guides Rowan67%Check
Research62%Check
Rowan61%Check
Rowan University55%Check
Welcome50%Check
Research Paper48%Check
University47%Check
Library41%Check
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