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Meta information
79% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.30 s
File size
44.20 kB
Words
131
Media files
0
Number of links
10 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Research Guides at UCLA Library
The length of the page title is perfect. (374 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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twitter:site@springshare
og:titleResearch Guides
og:descriptionWelcome to the UCLA Library Research Guides Research assistance, course guides, subject guides, and useful resources compiled by UCLA librarians.
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og:urlhttps://guides.library.ucla.edu/
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 131 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
22.1% 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 13 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-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 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

No media files were found.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to the UCLA Library Research Guides
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to the UCLA Library Research Guides
H2 Get Help
H2 A-Z Database List
H2 More Guides
H2 Featured Guides
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 7 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.library.ucla.edu/External Subdomain No Text
https://www.library.ucla.edu/v...External Subdomain Locations and Hours
https://www.library.ucla.edu/h...External Subdomain Ask Us
http://www.library.ucla.edu/External Subdomain UCLA Library
https://guides.library.ucla.edu/Subdomain Research Guides
https://calendar.library.ucla....New window External Subdomain Schedule a Research Consultation
/az.phpGo to A-Z List
/courseguidesSubdomain Course Guides Selected classes and workshops.
/directory/advice-guidesSubdomain Research Tips and Tools General advice, software, citation styles, etc.
/directory/formatsSubdomain Special Formats E-books, maps, news, images, audio, video, statistics, etc.
/directory/exhibitsSubdomain Exhibits
/databases-by-subjectNew window Subdomain Databases by Subject
/startNew window Subdomain Getting Started: Information Research Tips
/bruin-successNew window Subdomain Bruin Success with Less Stress
/library-special-collections/u...New window Subdomain UCLA University History
http://www.springshare.com/External Subdomain Springshare
https://ucla.libapps.com/libap...External Subdomain Login to LibApps

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://guides.library.ucla.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 slow (1.30 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 (44 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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servernginx
dateMon, 16 Mar 2026 18:21:10 GMT
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 168 referring domains.
This page has 482 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 41 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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Research Guides76%Check
UCLA73%Check
Library73%Check
UCLA Library73%Check
Research66%Check
course guides62%Check
Research Tips53%Check
Welcome50%Check
course39%Check
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