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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.09 s
File size
90.70 kB
Words
64
Media files
0
Number of links
2 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Research Guides at University of Southern California
The length of the page title is perfect. (544 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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
robotsnoarchive
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@springshare
og:titleResearch Guides
og:descriptionUSC Libraries Research Guides
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://libguides.usc.edu/
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 64 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
15.6% 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.
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)
USC Libraries Research Guides
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 USC Libraries Research Guides
H2 Empty heading
This page seems to be an entry page, because only very few links were found.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://libguides.usc.edu/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://libraries.usc.edu/External Subdomain USC Libraries
A-TITLE USC Libraries
https://www.usc.edu/New window External Subdomain University of Southern California
https://libguides.usc.edu/Subdomain Research Guides
https://libraries.usc.edu/ask-...External Subdomain Ask Us / FAQS
http://www.springshare.com/External Subdomain Springshare
https://usc.libapps.com/libapp...External Subdomain Login to LibApps
https://accessibility.usc.edu/...External Subdomain USC Digital Accessibility
https://twitter.com/USCLibrariesNew window External twitter
https://instagram.com/usclibra...New window External instagram
https://www.facebook.com/USCLi...New window External Subdomain facebook
https://www.youtube.com/usclib...New window External Subdomain youtube
https://www.pinterest.com/uscd...New window External Subdomain pinterest

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://libguides.usc.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 (1.09 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 (91 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateMon, 04 Aug 2025 04:16:43 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-backend-serverlibguides-us-1.springyaws.com
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 80 referring domains.
This page has 98 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 56 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider-image
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User-agent: Baiduspider-video
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User-agent: Bytespider
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User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: discobot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Gemini-Deep-Research
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
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User-agent: SemrushBot-SA
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User-agent: TikTokSpider
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User-agent: Twitterbot
Crawl-delay: 0
Disallow:

User-Agent: W3C-checklink
Crawl-delay: 0

User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexAdditional
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
    Disallow: /az.php?
    Disallow: /az/databases?
    Disallow: /er.php
    Disallow: /err.php
    Disallow: /friendly.php
    Disallow: /go.php
    Disallow: /ld.php
    Disallow: /srch.php

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Research Guides68%Check
Research62%Check
USC62%Check
USC Libraries56%Check
Libraries50%Check
University46%Check
Southern California46%Check
Core39%Check
title39%Check
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