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Meta information
80% 
Page quality
81% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
85% 
Server
82% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.77 s
File size
87.30 kB
Words
341
Media files
1
Number of links
21 internal / 34 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Research Guides at University of Minnesota Minneapolis
The length of the page title is perfect. (578 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)
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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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 341 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
31.1% 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.
6 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 12.5 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 7 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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
...sets/0.1.24/img/logos/fdlp-emblem-bw.svgFederal Depository Library Program

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Databases by subject
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Databases by subject
H2 More resources
H2 University of Minnesota Libraries
H3 Find a database by name
H3 Course guides
H3 How to find resources by format
H3 Contact us
H4 612-624-3321
H4 Email us
H4 Mail us
H4 Live chat 24/7
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 too many external links (34) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://twin-cities.umn.edu/External Subdomain No Text
https://onestop.umn.edu/External Subdomain One Stop
https://www.myu.umn.edu/External Subdomain MyU
https://www.lib.umn.edu/about/...External Subdomain Give
https://www.lib.umn.edu/External Subdomain No Text
https://www.lib.umn.edu/myaccountExternal Subdomain My Library Account
https://www.lib.umn.edu/spacesExternal Subdomain Spaces
https://www.lib.umn.edu/servicesExternal Subdomain Services
https://www.lib.umn.edu/collec...External Subdomain Collections
https://www.lib.umn.edu/aboutExternal Subdomain About
https://www.lib.umn.edu/myaccountExternal Subdomain Text duplicate My Library Account
https://z.umn.edu/libraryguidesExternal Subdomain What are library guides and why would I use them? (1 min video)
/az.php?t=30801A-Z database list
https://www.lib.umn.edu/myaccountExternal Subdomain My course guides
https://libguides.umn.edu/exploreExplore all guides
/FindResourcesbyFormat/archivesSubdomain Archives
/FindResourcesbyFormat/articlesSubdomain Articles
/FindResourcesbyFormat/booksSubdomain Books
/FindResourcesbyFormat/citationSubdomain Citation guides and style manuals
/FindResourcesbyFormat/FindRes...Subdomain Databases
/FindResourcesbyFormat/datasetsSubdomain Datasets and statistics
/FindResourcesbyFormat/diction...Subdomain Dictionaries and encyclopedias
/FindResourcesbyFormat/dissert...Subdomain Dissertations and theses
/FindResourcesbyFormat/e-booksSubdomain Ebooks at University Libraries
/FindResourcesbyFormat/eisSubdomain Environmental Impact Statements
/FindResourcesbyFormat/govdocsSubdomain Government information
/FindResourcesbyFormat/journalsSubdomain Journals
/FindResourcesbyFormat/mapsSubdomain Maps
/FindResourcesbyFormat/mediaSubdomain Media (video, images, and more)
/FindResourcesbyFormat/musicSubdomain Music
/FindResourcesbyFormat/newsSubdomain News sources
/FindResourcesbyFormat/patentsSubdomain Patents
/FindResourcesbyFormat/primary...Subdomain Primary sources
/FindResourcesbyFormat/StandardsSubdomain Standards
https://www.lib.umn.edu/spacesExternal Subdomain Library hours and locations
https://www.lib.umn.edu/aboutExternal Subdomain About the Libraries
https://www.lib.umn.edu/collec...External Subdomain We are a member of the Federal Depository Program
IMG-ALT Federal Depository Library Program
https://www.lib.umn.edu/about/...External Subdomain Our approach to inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility
https://www.lib.umn.edu/servic...External Subdomain Accessibility services
https://www.lib.umn.edu/about/...External Subdomain Privacy statement
https://www.lib.umn.edu/aboutExternal Subdomain Anchor All policies
https://www.lib.umn.edu/aboutExternal Subdomain Anchor Jobs at the Libraries
https://www.lib.umn.edu/about/...External Subdomain Staff directory
https://www.facebook.com/umnlibExternal Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/umnlibExternal No Text
https://pinterest.com/umnlibra...External No Text
https://www.youtube.com/user/u...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/umnlib/External Subdomain No Text
https://lib.prd.umn.edu/about/...External Subdomain Give to the Libraries
https://www.lib.umn.edu/about/...External Subdomain Email us
https://www.lib.umn.edu/apps/q...External Subdomain Live chat 24/7
https://policy.umn.edu/it/itre...External Subdomain Acceptable Use of IT Resources
https://z.umn.edu/report-acces...External Subdomain Report web accessibility issues
https://www.lib.umn.edu/apps/q...External Subdomain 24/7 chat
https://umn.libapps.com/libapp...External Subdomain Staff login

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://libguides.umn.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 0.77 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 (87 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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servernginx
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content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
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content-security-policyupgrade-insecure-requests
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content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 88 referring domains.
This page has 113 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 26 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
    Disallow: /az.php?
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