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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
53% 
Page structure
92% 
Link structure
95% 
Server
84% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.73 s
File size
39.80 kB
Words
238
Media files
2
Number of links
7 internal / 21 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Research Guides at Ohio State University
The length of the page title is perfect. (444 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)
crawlable_no_youbot
crawlable_no_chatgptuser
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)
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

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twitter:site@springshare
og:titleResearch Guides
og:descriptionSubject Guides Our Research Guides are organized into four different categories: Subject Guides, Resource Type Guides, Course Guides and Topic Guides. For guides focused on your academic subject area, browse the list below. Select the subject you’re interested in to see a list of associated guides.
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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 238 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
23.9% 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.
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 14.57 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)
Some tags are too long. With 117 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"call us: 614-292-8463 chat with us send question by email browse faq recommend a purchase contact a su..."
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
...8/images/RGB-UniversityLibrariesLogo.jpgUniversity Libraries Logo
.../TheOhioStateUniversity-Horiz-RGBHEX.pngThe Ohio State University

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Subject Guides
The H1 heading is too short (14 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Subject Guides
H2 Ohio State nav bar
H2 Empty heading
H2 Search Research Guides
H2 More Guides
H2 Resource Type Guides
H2 Course Guides
H2 Topic Guides
H2 Subject Librarians
H2 Research Databases List
H2 More Ways to Ask Questions
There are too few (7) 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 21 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://guides.osu.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
https://osu.edu/External The Ohio State University
https://www.osu.edu/help.phpExternal Subdomain Help
https://buckeyelink.osu.edu/External Subdomain BuckeyeLink
https://www.osu.edu/map/External Subdomain Map
https://www.osu.edu/findpeople...External Subdomain Find People
https://email.osu.edu/External Subdomain Webmail
https://www.osu.edu/search/External Subdomain Search Ohio State
https://library.osu.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT University Libraries Logo
https://guides.osu.edu/Subdomain RESEARCH GUIDES
A-TITLE Research guides
http://library.osu.edu/External Subdomain Ohio State University Libraries
https://guides.osu.edu/Subdomain Research Guides
https://guides.osu.edu/resourcesResource Type Guides
https://guides.osu.edu/coursesCourse Guides
https://guides.osu.edu/topicsTopic Guides
https://guides.osu.edu/prf.phpFind librarians who have created guides.
http://library.osu.edu/subject...External Subdomain Find a complete list of OSU subject librarians.
https://search.library.osu.edu...External Subdomain Search for a Research Database
http://libanswers.osu.edu/External Subdomain Chat with us
http://libanswers.osu.edu/q.phpExternal Subdomain Send question by email
http://libanswers.osu.edu/External Subdomain Browse FAQ
https://library.osu.edu/sugges...External Subdomain Recommend a purchase
https://library.osu.edu/subjec...External Subdomain Contact a subject librarian
http://library.osu.edu/External Subdomain University Libraries
https://library.osu.edu/access...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://library.osu.edu/polici...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://libanswers.osu.edu/askExternal Subdomain Contact Us
https://osul.libapps.com/libap...External Subdomain Login to LibApps

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://guides.osu.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 of 0.73 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (40 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
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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 129 referring domains.
This page has 228 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 27 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
GUIDES74%Check
RESEARCH GUIDES64%Check
Subject59%Check
Course Guides55%Check
Topic Guides55%Check
RESEARCH54%Check
Ohio54%Check
State54%Check
Ohio State54%Check
Search Research54%Check
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