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Meta information
79% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
92% 
Link structure
83% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.77 s
File size
38.20 kB
Words
137
Media files
5
Number of links
3 internal / 29 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - LibGuides at Duke University
The length of the page title is perfect. (330 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

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og:descriptionWelcome to LibGuides Research assistance, subject guides, and useful resources compiled by your friendly librarians. Know what we know - find it in LibGuides!
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 137 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
16.1% of the text are stop words.
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 11.5 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
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...ensebuttons.net/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/80x15.pngCreative Commons LicenseThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
...mages/legacy/dukelogo_vert_60pct_140.pngDuke University

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Research Guides
The H1 heading is too short (15 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Research Guides
H2 Empty heading
H2 More help with your research
H2 Search research guides
H2 Chat
H3 Contact Us
H3 Services for...
There are too few (3) internal links on this page.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (29) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://guides.library.duke.edu/Anchor Skip to Main Content
http://library.duke.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Duke University Libraries
http://library.duke.edu/External Subdomain Home
https://guides.library.duke.edu/Subdomain LibGuides
https://library.duke.edu/researchExternal Subdomain Plan & conduct research
https://directory.library.duke...External Subdomain Contact subject specialists
/az.phpSubdomain A-Z databases
https://library.duke.edu/External Subdomain library.duke.edu
https://duke.libapps.com/libap...External Subdomain Login to LibApps
http://library.duke.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Duke University Libraries
https://library.duke.edu/about...External Subdomain Contact Us
https://library.duke.edu/servicesExternal Subdomain Services for...
https://library.duke.edu/servi...External Subdomain Faculty & Instructors
https://library.duke.edu/servi...External Subdomain Graduate Students
https://library.duke.edu/servi...External Subdomain Undergraduate Students
https://library.duke.edu/servi...External Subdomain International Students
https://library.duke.edu/servi...External Subdomain Alumni
https://library.duke.edu/servi...External Subdomain Donors
https://library.duke.edu/servi...External Subdomain Visitors
https://library.duke.edu/servi...External Subdomain Patrons with Disabilities
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain LinkedIn
A-TITLE LinkedIn
https://www.facebook.com/dukel...External Subdomain Facebook
A-TITLE Facebook
http://www.youtube.com/user/Du...External Subdomain YouTube
A-TITLE YouTube
http://www.flickr.com/photos/d...External Subdomain Flickr
A-TITLE Flickr
https://instagram.com/dukelibr...External Instagram
A-TITLE Instagram
http://blogs.library.duke.edu/External Subdomain Blogs
A-TITLE Blogs
https://library.duke.edu/about...External Subdomain Harmful Language Statement
https://library.duke.edu/about...External Subdomain Re-use & Attribution
https://library.duke.edu/about...External Subdomain Privacy
https://library.duke.edu/supportExternal Subdomain Support the Libraries
http://creativecommons.org/lic...External IMG-ALT Creative Commons License
https://duke.edu/External IMG-ALT Duke University

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://guides.library.duke.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (1.77 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (38 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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servernginx
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content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
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x-content-type-optionsnosniff
content-security-policyupgrade-insecure-requests
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; preload
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 123 referring domains.
This page has 342 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 39 different ip addresses.

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