About.library.ubc.ca - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
30% 
Page structure
98% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
0% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
3.44 s
File size
55.20 kB
Words
242
Media files
2
Number of links
14 internal / 13 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
About UBC Library - About UBC Library
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (353 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
About UBC Library With more than nine million items in its digital and print collections, the Library is a vital support for research, learning and teaching excellence at UBC. Learn more about our collections, stay up to date with Library news and meet our team.
There are more than one meta descriptions on the page. Only one is allowed.
The meta description is too long: 1585 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://about.library.ubc.ca/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: Canada
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)
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
descriptionAbout UBC Library With more than nine million items in its digital and print collections, the Library is a vital support for research, learning and teaching excellence at UBC. Learn more about our collections, stay up to date with Library news and meet our team. News Publications Collections Teaching and Learning Executive Team Work With […]
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
templateUBC Collab 1.0.5
google-site-verification6X6gul2r3x40HTZd_eupQUrpbpefvYSWXXaeqRS5cFQ
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:titleAbout UBC Library - About UBC Library
twitter:descriptionAbout UBC Library With more than nine million items in its digital and print collections, the Library is a vital support for research, learning and teaching excellence at UBC. Learn more about our collections, stay up to date with Library news and meet our team. News Publications Collections Teaching and Learning Executive Team Work With […]
twitter:site@ubclibrary
og:typewebsite
og:site_nameAbout UBC Library
og:titleAbout UBC Library
og:urlhttps://about.library.ubc.ca/
og:descriptionAbout UBC Library With more than nine million items in its digital and print collections, the Library is a vital support for research, learning and teaching excellence at UBC. Learn more about our collections, stay up to date with Library news and meet our team.
og:localeen_US
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 242 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
33.9% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
4 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 22.6 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 18 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width" 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)
2 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
...InLibraryResearch-Homepage-920x512-1.pngNo alt attribute provided
...nguage-dictionaries_BlogPost_920x512.jpgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
About UBC Library
The H1 heading is too short (17 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 About UBC Library
H2 Vision & Values
H2 What’s Happening at UBC Library
H2 SENATE REPORT
H2 MEET THE TEAM
H3 Discover our STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK
H3 Explore our COLLECTIONS
H3 University-Wide INITIATIVES
H4 TOP STORY
H4 AWARDS
H4 CREATE AND DELIVER RESPONSIVE COLLECTIONS
3 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 13 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.ubc.ca/External Subdomain The University of British Columbia
A-TITLE The University of British Columbia (UBC)
https://cdn.ubc.ca/clf/ref/apl...External Subdomain UBC - A Place of Mind
A-TITLE UBC a place of mind
https://www.ubc.ca/External Subdomain Text duplicate The University of British Columbia
A-TITLE The University of British Columbia (UBC)
http://www.library.ubc.ca/External Subdomain Library
A-TITLE Library
http://www.library.ubc.ca/External Subdomain Library Home
https://about.library.ubc.ca/About Us
A-TITLE About UBC Library
/news/News
/news/publications/Publications
https://collections.library.ub...External Subdomain Collections
/teaching/Teaching and Learning
/executive-team/Executive Team
/work-with-us/Work With Us
/contact-us/Contact Us
http://support.library.ubc.ca/External Subdomain Support Us
/about-us/strategic-framework/No Text
https://collections.library.ub...External Subdomain Explore our COLLECTIONS
/initiatives/University-Wide INITIATIVES
/2025/04/10/2025-ubc-undergrad...No Text
/2024/04/09/ubc-library-digiti...No Text
/news/View all news and events
/news/publications/senate-repo...Get report
/meet-the-team/Read our stories
https://www.ubc.ca/External Subdomain Text duplicate The University of British Columbia
A-TITLE The University of British Columbia (UBC)
https://cdn.ubc.ca/clf/ref/eme...External Subdomain Emergency Procedures
A-TITLE Emergency Procedures
https://cdn.ubc.ca/clf/ref/termsExternal Subdomain Terms of Use
A-TITLE Terms of Use
https://cdn.ubc.ca/clf/ref/cop...External Subdomain Copyright
A-TITLE UBC Copyright
https://cdn.ubc.ca/clf/ref/acc...External Subdomain Accessibility
A-TITLE Accessibility

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://about.library.ubc.ca/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (3.44 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 10 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 18 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (55 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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x-powered-byPHP/8.2.18
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
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connectionclose
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
set-cookie49 Characters
strict-transport-securitymax-age=16070400
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 111 referring domains.
This page has 122 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 56 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
Disallow: /wp-admin
Disallow: /wp-includes
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /readme.html
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins
Allow: /wp-content/plugins/*.js
Allow: /wp-content/plugins/*/*.js
Allow: /wp-content/plugins/*/*.css
Allow: /wp-content/plugins/*.css
Allow: /wp-content/plugins/*/*/*.js
Allow: /wp-content/plugins/*/*/*.css
Allow: /wp-content/plugins/*/*/*/*.js
Allow: /wp-content/plugins/*/*/*/*.css
Allow: /wp-includes/*.js
Allow: /wp-includes/*/*.js
Allow: /wp-includes/*/*/*.js
Allow: /wp-includes/*/*/*/*.js
Allow: /wp-includes/*.css
Allow: /wp-includes/*/*.css
Allow: /wp-includes/*/*/*.css
Allow: /wp-includes/*/*/*/*.css
Disallow: /wp-content/cache
Disallow: /wp-content/themes
Allow: /wp-content/themes/wp-hybrid-clf/
Disallow: /trackback
Disallow: /comments

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: SeekportBot
Disallow: /

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about.library.ubc.ca
About UBC Library - About UBC Library
About UBC Library With more than nine million items in its digital and print collections, the Library is a vital support for research, learning and teaching excellence at UBC. Learn more about our collections, stay up to date with Library news and meet our team.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
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UBC91%Check
UBC Library91%Check
Library news70%Check
collections54%Check
print collections52%Check
team50%Check
meet50%Check
research48%Check
news46%Check

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