Libguides.wpi.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
61% 
Page quality
53% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
47% 
Server
73% 
External factors
0% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.98 s
File size
28.20 kB
Words
309
Media files
1
Number of links
18 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - WPI Library Research Guides - Guides at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 725 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page 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
Language defined in HTTP-Equiv meta tag: en-us
Server location: United States of America
There are different language information within the page markup.
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
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, all
msapplication-TileColor#ffc40d
msapplication-config//d2jv02qf7xgjwx.cloudfront.net/apps/common/favicon/browserconfig.xml
theme-color#ffffff
DC.TitleGuides: WPI Library Research Guides: Home
DC.CreatorAnna Gold
DC.SubjectEmpty
DC.DescriptionEmpty
DC.PublishersWorcester Polytechnic Institute
DC.RightsCopyright Worcester Polytechnic Institute 2025
DC.Languageen
DC.Identifierhttps://libguides.wpi.edu/c.php?g=1332222&p=9811877
DC.Date.CreatedJul 10, 2023
DC.Date.ModifiedFeb 13, 2025
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@springshare
og:titleGuides: WPI Library Research Guides: Home
og:descriptionGuides: WPI Library Research Guides: Home
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://libguides.wpi.edu/c.php?g=1332222&p=9811877
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Languageen-us
imagetoolbarfalse

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
There are only 309 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
31.4% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
7 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 13.17 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
Multiple viewport tags are given. There should only be one.
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)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on this page.
The amount of tags is very high (13). We recommend using a maximum of 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
...oudfront.net/sites/971/banner/WPILib.pngBanner

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
WPI Library Research Guides: Home
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 WPI Library Research Guides: Home
H2 Welcome
H2 Search All Guides
H2 Community Guides
H2 Current Course Guides
H4 How can we help?
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.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://libguides.wpi.edu/welcomeAnchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.wpi.edu/libraryExternal Subdomain IMG-ALT Banner
https://www.wpi.edu/libraryExternal Subdomain Gordon Library
https://libguides.wpi.edu/Subdomain Guides
https://libguides.wpi.edu/welcomeSubdomain WPI Library Research Guides
/c.php?g=1332222&p=9811877Subdomain Home
/c.php?g=1332222&p=9811880Subdomain Tools and Tips
/c.php?g=1332222&p=9811878Subdomain Course Guides
/c.php?g=1332222&p=9811879Subdomain Subject Guides
/c.php?g=1332222&p=9811881Subdomain Just for Students
/c.php?g=1332222&p=9812184Subdomain Just for Faculty
/c.php?g=1332222&p=9811880Subdomain Tools & Tips
/c.php?g=1332222&p=9811878Subdomain Text duplicate Course Guides
/c.php?g=1332222&p=9811879Subdomain Text duplicate Subject Guides
/c.php?g=1332222&p=9811881Subdomain Text duplicate Just for Students
/c.php?g=1332222&p=9812184Subdomain Text duplicate Just for Faculty
https://wpi.libapps.com/libgui...External Subdomain No Text
/az/databasesNew window Subdomain Databases & Electronic Resources
https://www.wpi.edu/libraryNew window External Subdomain Gordon Library web site
https://wpi.libcal.com/appoint...External Subdomain Request a consultation
/communityNew window Subdomain Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB)
/c.php?g=1333694&p=9822158New window Subdomain Special Topics
/c.php?g=1332222&p=9811880Subdomain Next: Tools and Tips >>
https://wpi.libapps.com/libapp...External Subdomain Login to LibApps
http://libraryh3lp.com/chat/as...New window External Chat
http://www.wpi.edu/academics/l...External Subdomain Consultation

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://libguides.wpi.edu/welcome"
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 0.98 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 (28 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateMon, 17 Feb 2025 18:30:03 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-springy-cache-disabled0
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

We didn't find any backlinks to this page.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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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
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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.wpi.edu/sitemap.xml

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Search70%Check
WPI69%Check
Research Guides69%Check
WPI Library68%Check
Library Research Guides67%Check
WPI Library Research Guides67%Check
Library66%Check
Research66%Check
Course Guides57%Check
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