Libguides.usc.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
85% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.72 s
File size
88.30 kB
Words
61
Media files
0
Number of links
1 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Research Guides at University of Southern California
The length of the page title is perfect. (547 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 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
robotsnoarchive
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@springshare
og:titleResearch Guides
og:descriptionUSC Libraries Research Guides
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://libguides.usc.edu/
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 61 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
23% 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)
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)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
There are no headings specified on the page. Headings are important for search engine optimization and help to structure your content.
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
H2 Empty heading
This page seems to be an entry page, because only very few links were found.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://libraries.usc.edu/External Subdomain Home
https://www.usc.edu/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://libguides.usc.edu/Subdomain Research Guides
https://libraries.usc.edu/ask-...External Subdomain Ask Us / FAQS
http://www.springshare.com/External Subdomain Springshare
https://usc.libapps.com/libapp...External Subdomain Login to LibApps
https://accessibility.usc.edu/...External Subdomain USC Digital Accessibility
https://twitter.com/USCLibrariesNew window External twitter
https://instagram.com/usclibra...New window External instagram
https://www.facebook.com/USCLi...New window External Subdomain facebook
https://www.youtube.com/usclib...New window External Subdomain youtube
https://www.pinterest.com/uscd...New window External Subdomain pinterest

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://libguides.usc.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 0.72 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 (88 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateSat, 27 Jul 2024 08:35:44 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-backend-serverlibguides-us-4.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 page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 3,081 referring domains.
This page has 13,128 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,001 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: discobot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AddThis.com
Disallow: /

User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider-video
Disallow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider-image
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot-SA
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

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.usc.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
guide62%Check
Guides58%Check
Research Guides52%Check
Research46%Check
University46%Check
Southern California46%Check
USC46%Check
Core39%Check
title39%Check
SUBJECT34%Check
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