Lib.byu.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
78% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
87% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.68 s
File size
15.70 kB
Words
111
Media files
7
Number of links
16 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Harold B. Lee Library
The page title is too short. (190 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
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)
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=1
mobile-web-app-capableyes
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 111 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
No paragraphs were detected.
13.5% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=1" 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
...du/web-assets/images/1.0.0/wht_rooms.svgIcon of a door. Click to reserve a room
...eb-assets/images/1.0.0/wht_databases.svgIcon of a magnifying glass and database symbol. Click to see databases
...u/web-assets/images/1.0.0/wht_guides.svgIcon of a magnifying glass and website. Click to see research guides
...edu/web-assets/images/1.0.0/wht_maps.svgIcon of a map. Click to see floor maps
....edu/web-assets/images/1.0.0/wht_faq.svgIcon of a question mark. Click to see frequently asked questions
...ed6343ffce865b/casablanca-red-poster.jpgThe Casablanca movie poster
...byu.edu/exhibits/studyfaiththumbnail.pngImage for this exhibit

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The H1 heading is empty
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Empty heading
H2 Open Today7:00 a.m. – 11:45 p.m.
H2 Services view all
H2 Places view all
H2 Upcoming Events view all
H2 Library News view all
H2 Current Exhibits view all
H4 Craft Night: Paper Bag Kites
H4 Lecture: Saints in Denver by Prof. Fred E. Woods
H4 Lightroom Essentials
H4 Library Film Series 2026 Schedule
H4 By Study and By Faith: 150 Years of Brigham Young University
H4 Empty heading
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://byu.libcal.com/r/searc...External Subdomain Reserve a Room
IMG-ALT Icon of a door. Click to reserve a room
https://lib.byu.edu/databasesSubdomain Databases
IMG-ALT Icon of a magnifying glass and database symbol. Click to see databases
https://lib.byu.edu/guidesSubdomain Research Guides
IMG-ALT Icon of a magnifying glass and website. Click to see research guides
https://lib.byu.edu/floormapsSubdomain Floor Maps
IMG-ALT Icon of a map. Click to see floor maps
https://lib.byu.edu/faqSubdomain FAQs
IMG-ALT Icon of a question mark. Click to see frequently asked questions
https://lib.byu.edu/about/hours/7:00 a.m. – 11:45 p.m.
https://floormaps.lib.byu.edu/External Subdomain View Floor Maps
https://lib.byu.edu/services/view all
/services/course-reserve/Course Reserve
/services/interlibrary-loan/Interlibrary Loan
/library-instruction/Library Instruction
https://byu.libcal.com/r/searc...External Subdomain Reserve a Study Room
https://lib.byu.edu/places/Text duplicate view all
https://familyhistory.lib.byu....External Subdomain Family History
/services/software-training-lab/Software Training Lab
/books/popular-reading/Popular Reading
/special-collections/Special Collections
https://lib.byu.edu/events/Text duplicate view all
https://calendar.byu.edu/stude...External Subdomain Craft Night: Paper Bag Kites
https://calendar.byu.edu/Educa...External Subdomain Lecture: Saints in Denver by Prof. Fred E. Woods
/services/software-training/re...Lightroom Essentials
https://news.lib.byu.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate view all
https://news.lib.byu.edu/libra...External Subdomain Library Film Series 2026 Schedule
https://lib.byu.edu/exhibits/Text duplicate view all

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://lib.byu.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 0.68 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 (16 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateTue, 03 Mar 2026 18:43:53 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length5217
set-cookie50 Characters
expiresThu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
cache-controlno-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
pragmano-cache
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
strict-transport-securitymax-age=10368000
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 252 referring domains.
This page has 1,093 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 118 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Sitemap: https://lib.byu.edu/sitemap.txt
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /chewbacca/
Disallow: /coned/
Disallow: /internal/
Disallow: /ws/
Disallow: /search/
Crawl-Delay: 15

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Library59%Check
Study45%Check
Exhibits45%Check
Faith45%Check
Brigham45%Check
Young45%Check
View44%Check
Room43%Check
Maps43%Check
Paper Bag43%Check
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