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Meta information
59% 
Page quality
51% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
86% 
External factors
0% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.13 s
File size
46.20 kB
Words
192
Media files
6
Number of links
22 internal / 16 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Subject Guides - Guides & Tutorials - LibGuides at Portland State University
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 679 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
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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theme-color#ffffff
DC.TitleLibGuides: Guides & Tutorials: Subject Guides
DC.CreatorMike Flakus
DC.SubjectEmpty
DC.DescriptionEmpty
DC.PublishersPortland State University
DC.RightsCopyright Portland State University 2026
DC.Languageen
DC.Identifierhttps://guides.library.pdx.edu/home/subject
DC.Date.CreatedMay 12, 2015
DC.Date.ModifiedSep 29, 2025
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X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 192 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
The average number of words per sentence of 8.33 words is low.
18.8% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
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.
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)
3 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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
...tent/uploads/header_icon_my_accounts.pngNo alt attribute provided
.../uploads/header_icon_ask_a_librarian.pngNo alt attribute provided
.../wp-content/uploads/header_icon_chat.pngNo alt attribute provided
...tent/themes/psu_library/img/psu_logo.pngPortland State University logo
...emes/psu_library/img/psu-logo-mobile.pngPortland State University logo
...manager/43258/rs8074_pdx_2329_04-scr.jpgHistorical photo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Guides & Tutorials: Subject Guides
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Guides & Tutorials: Subject Guides
H2 What are Subject, Course, and How to Guides?
H2 Guides by Subject
H2 Who is Your Subject Librarian?
H2 Find by Type
H2 Course Guides
H2 Special Topics
H2 Contact
H2 Hours
H2 Quick Links
H2 Connect
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 16 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/homeAnchor Skip to Main Content
https://library.pdx.edu/about/...External Subdomain TODAY'S HOURS
https://library.pdx.edu/MyAcco...External Subdomain My Accounts
https://library.pdx.edu/servic...External Subdomain Ask a Librarian
https://library.pdx.edu/about/...External Subdomain Give to the Library
https://www.pdx.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Portland State University logo
https://library.pdx.edu/External Subdomain Library
https://library.pdx.edu/External Subdomain Portland State University
https://guides.library.pdx.edu/Subdomain LibGuides
/homeSubdomain Guides & Tutorials
/home/subjectSubdomain Subject Guides
/home/courseSubdomain Course Guides
/home/howtoSubdomain How to Guides & Tutorials
/home/topicsSubdomain Special Topics
https://library.pdx.edu/servic...New window External Subdomain Librarians by Subject
/ebooksSubdomain Ebooks
/newspapersSubdomain Newspapers
/imagesSubdomain Images
/mapsSubdomain Maps & Cartographic Information
/usingfilm/findfilmsSubdomain Streaming Media
/c.php?g=265596&p=1775706Subdomain View all course guides
/portlandSubdomain Portland & Oregon
/fakenewsSubdomain Identify & Challenge Fake News
/copyright-guidanceSubdomain Copyright
/oersSubdomain Open Educational Resources
/culturallyresponsivecurriculumSubdomain Culturally Responsive & Inclusive Curriculum Resources
/immigrationSubdomain Immigration
/cannabisSubdomain Cannabis
/electionsSubdomain Elections & Politics
/home/courseSubdomain Next: Course Guides >>
https://pdx.libapps.com/libapp...External Subdomain Login to LibApps
https://library.pdx.edu/about/...External Subdomain Staff Directory
https://library.pdx.edu/about/...External Subdomain Maps & Directions
https://library.pdx.edu/servic...External Subdomain Fines & Charges
https://library.pdx.edu/servic...External Subdomain Library Accessibility
https://www.pdx.edu/accessibil...External Subdomain ADA Accessibility Inquiries
https://library.pdx.edu/about/...External Subdomain Comments & Suggestions
https://www.instagram.com/psul...External Subdomain Instagram

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://guides.library.pdx.edu/home"
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 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (46 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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servernginx
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content-security-policyupgrade-insecure-requests
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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: *
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Most important keywords

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

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Guides73%Check
Subject68%Check
Subject Guides68%Check
Guides Tutorials66%Check
Tutorials62%Check
Course Guides60%Check
Portland State48%Check
State University48%Check
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Portland47%Check
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