Projectcora.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
61% 
Page quality
40% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
73% 
Server
44% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.13 s
File size
42.50 kB
Words
443
Media files
19
Number of links
83 internal / 2 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Community of Online Research Assignments | an open access resource for faculty and librarians
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 865 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Librarians and faculty can search the Community of Online Research Assignments (CORA) for information literacy assignments, library instruction activities, and teaching tips.
The meta description is too long: 1073 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://projectcora.org/
There is a valid canonical link 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, maximum-scale = 1.0
descriptionLibrarians and faculty can search the Community of Online Research Assignments (CORA) for information literacy assignments, library instruction activities, and teaching tips.
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og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://projectcora.org/
og:titleCommunity of Online Research Assignments
og:descriptionan open access resource for faculty and librarians
ImageToolbarfalse
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 443 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 32.5 words is high.
24.8% 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.
3 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 10 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, maximum-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 9 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
5 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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Community of Online Research Assignments
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Community of Online Research Assignments
H2 an open access resource for faculty and librarians
H2 Gallery Walk: What Shapes Information?
H2 Twitter Politics - Metaphor, Enthymeme + Trump
H2 Keepin It Real: Tips and Strategies for Evaluating Fake News
H2 Scholarly Party
H2 Latest Assignments
H2 Recent Blog Posts
H2 Teaching Toolkit Resources
H2 Leaderboards
H2 Most Popular Assignments
H2 Most Adapted Assignments
H2 Most Commented On Assignments
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.
4 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 4 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 2 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://projectcora.org/Anchor Skip to main content
/about/help-centerFAQ
/cora-aboutAbout CORA
https://projectcora.org/userMy Account
https://projectcora.org/IMG-ALT Home
A-TITLE Home
https://projectcora.org/Community of Online Research Assignments
A-TITLE Community of Online Research Assignments
/welcome?qt-search_our=0Search
/library-searchText duplicate Search
/assignmentsAssignments
https://projectcora.org/blogBlog
https://projectcora.org/resourcesTeaching Toolkit
/assignment/gallery-walk-what-...No Text
/assignment/gallery-walk-what-...Gallery Walk: What Shapes Information?
/users/gschlesselmanGina Schlesselman-Tarango
/assignment/gallery-walk-what-...Trivial anchor text
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/assignment/twitter-politics-m...No Text
/assignment/twitter-politics-m...Twitter Politics - Metaphor, Enthymeme + Trump
/users/drjarvislmuJason Jarvis
/assignment/twitter-politics-m...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/assignment/keepin-it-real-tip...No Text
/assignment/keepin-it-real-tip...Keepin It Real: Tips and Strategies for Evaluating Fake News
/users/elisaElisa Acosta
/assignment/keepin-it-real-tip...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/assignment/scholarly-partyNo Text
/assignment/scholarly-partyScholarly Party
/users/ryerbantaRyer Banta
/assignment/scholarly-partyText duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/assignment/breaking-code-unde...Breaking the Code: Understanding Algorithmic Bias
/assignment/“according-cdc…”-v...“According to the CDC...” vs. “Someone just said...”: Identifying Scholarly and Popular Conversations on TikTok
/assignment/pictorial-research...Pictorial Research: Finding and Choosing the Best Images for Your Project
/assignment/hidden-layer-intel...Hidden Layer: Intellectual Privacy and Generative AI
/assignment/dark-patterns-surv...Dark Patterns: Surveillance Capitalism and Business Ethics
/assignmentsView All
/assignments/feedSubscribe to RSS »
/news/cora-wins-2019-merlot-ic...CORA wins 2019 MERLOT ICT Literacy Classics Award
/news/new-cora-promotional-videoNew CORA Promotional Video!
/news/cora-newsCORA in the News!
/news/wilu-conferenceWILU Conference
/news/check-out-new-cora-leade...Check Out the New CORA LeaderBoards!
https://projectcora.org/blogText duplicate View All
https://projectcora.org/blog/feedText duplicate Subscribe to RSS »
/library-collection/streamlini...Streamlining LIS Research: A Compendium of Tried and True Tests, Measurements, and Other Instruments
/library-collection/ets-profic...ETS Proficiency Profile
/library-collection/library-le...In the Library with the Lead Pipe
https://projectcora.org/resourcesText duplicate View All
/users/cbsmallradfordeduIMG-ALT [email protected]'s picture
/assignment/evaluating-news-si...Evaluating news sites: Credible or Clickbait?
/users/cbsmallradfordeduCandice Benjes-Small
/assignment/rubric-assessing-r...Rubric for assessing research questions
/users/sgerstleSteve Gerstle
/users/lanewilkinsonIMG-ALT lanewilkinson's picture
/assignment/information-needs-...Information Needs, Types, and Qualities
/users/lanewilkinsonLane Wilkinson
/users/buddhabrarianIMG-ALT buddhabrarian's picture
/assignment/proven-source-eval...P.R.O.V.E.N. Source Evaluation Process
/users/buddhabrarianEllen Carey
/users/ccaffreyIMG-ALT ccaffrey's picture
/assignment/pass-problemPass the Problem
/users/ccaffreyCarolyn Caffrey
/users/susan-archambaultIMG-ALT Susan Archambault's picture
/assignment/research-explorati...Research Exploration Exercise
/users/susan-archambaultSusan Archambault
/users/dzingsweetIMG-ALT dzingsweet's picture
/assignment/citation-mapping-r...Citation Mapping for Religious Studies
/users/dzingsweetDesirae Zingarelli-Sweet
/users/lindsey-mcleanIMG-ALT Lindsey McLean's picture
/assignment/literature-reviewLiterature Review
/users/lindsey-mcleanLindsey McLean
/users/campbellsIMG-ALT campbells's picture
/assignment/library-database-t...Library Database Teach-In
/users/campbellsSheena Campbell
/users/lanewilkinsonText duplicate IMG-ALT lanewilkinson's picture
/assignment/information-needs-...Text duplicate Information Needs, Types, and Qualities
/users/lanewilkinsonText duplicate Lane Wilkinson
/users/raypun101IMG-ALT raypun101's picture
/assignment/basic-first-year-c...Basic First Year Communication Studies Assignment
/users/raypun101Raymond Pun
/users/librariananayaIMG-ALT librariananaya's picture
/assignment/cast-your-students...Cast Your Students as Scholars
/users/librariananayaAnaya Jones
https://www.facebook.com/openp...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT CORA's Facebook Page
A-TITLE CORA's Facebook Page
https://twitter.com/ProjectCORANew window External IMG-ALT Cora's Twitter Feed
A-TITLE Cora's Twitter Feed
https://projectcora.org/about/aupTerms of Use
/about/cora-policies-procedure...Copyright
https://projectcora.org/sitemapSite map

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://projectcora.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.13 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
This page loads 7 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 10 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (43 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateMon, 01 Jul 2024 09:18:00 GMT
serverApache/2.4.57 () OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips
x-powered-byPHP/7.4.33
x-drupal-cacheHIT
content-languageen
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-generatorDrupal 7 (http://drupal.org)
link<https://projectcora.org/>; rel="canonical",<https://projectcora.org/>; rel="shortlink",<https://projectcora.org/sites/default/files/CORA-logo-140.png>; rel="shortcut icon"
cache-controlpublic, max-age=600
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
varyCookie,Accept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
last-modifiedMon, 01 Jul 2024 07:20:06 GMT
transfer-encodingchunked
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

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 291 referring domains.
This page has 3,894 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 251 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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# robots.txt
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# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /misc/*.css$
Allow: /misc/*.css?
Allow: /misc/*.js$
Allow: /misc/*.js?
Allow: /misc/*.gif
Allow: /misc/*.jpg
Allow: /misc/*.jpeg
Allow: /misc/*.png
Allow: /modules/*.css$
Allow: /modules/*.css?
Allow: /modules/*.js$
Allow: /modules/*.js?
Allow: /modules/*.gif
Allow: /modules/*.jpg
Allow: /modules/*.jpeg
Allow: /modules/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /themes/*.css$
Allow: /themes/*.css?
Allow: /themes/*.js$
Allow: /themes/*.js?
Allow: /themes/*.gif
Allow: /themes/*.jpg
Allow: /themes/*.jpeg
Allow: /themes/*.png
# Directories
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips/
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /user/logout/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/

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projectcora.org
Community of Online Research Assignments | an open access resource ...
Librarians and faculty can search the Community of Online Research Assignments (CORA) for information literacy assignments, library instruction activities, and teaching tips.

Most important keywords

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

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assignment76%Check
Assignments73%Check
Research73%Check
Community73%Check
Online73%Check
Research Assignments73%Check
Online Research73%Check
Online Research Assignments72%Check
CORA61%Check
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