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Meta information
80% 
Page quality
82% 
Page structure
52% 
Link structure
88% 
Server
99% 
External factors
45% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.41 s
File size
86.60 kB
Words
552
Media files
14
Number of links
50 internal / 19 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - RGU Library - LibGuides at Robert Gordon University
The length of the page title is perfect. (548 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: Ireland
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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DC.PublishersRobert Gordon University
DC.RightsCopyright Robert Gordon University 2025
DC.Languageen
DC.Identifierhttps://library.rgu.ac.uk/c.php?g=670776&p=4899279
DC.Date.CreatedApr 11, 2019
DC.Date.ModifiedJul 16, 2025
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 29.2 words is high.
This page contains 552 words. That's ok.
29.2% 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.
6 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
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 11 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
11 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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

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...naws.com/customers/2246/images/TEiLA.pngTechnology Excellence in Libraries Award

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
RGU Library: Home
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (17 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 RGU Library: Home
H1 RGU Library
H2 Opening hours
H2 N9 open
H2 Services and Facilities
H2 Subject Resources
H2 Workshops & Appointments
H2 Online Learners
H2 Support for Academic Staff
H2 Research Support
H2 Referencing and RefWorks
H2 Reading Lists
H2 Art & Heritage Collections
H2 Opening Hours and Contact Us
H3 Level 6
H3 Level 6 Duplicate text
H3 Level 7
H3 Level 7 Duplicate text
H3 Level 8
H3 Level 8 Duplicate text
H3 Level 9
H3 Level 9 Duplicate text
H3 Quick Links
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 19 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://library.rgu.ac.uk/homeAnchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.rgu.ac.uk/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Robert Gordon University
/libguidesSubdomain LibGuides
https://library.rgu.ac.uk/Subdomain Library
https://librarysearch.rgu.ac.u...External Subdomain LibrarySearch
https://library.rgu.ac.uk/homeAnchor Text duplicate Skip to Main Content
https://www.rgu.ac.uk/External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Robert Gordon University
/libguidesSubdomain Text duplicate LibGuides
https://library.rgu.ac.uk/Subdomain Text duplicate Library
https://librarysearch.rgu.ac.u...External Subdomain Text duplicate LibrarySearch
https://library.rgu.ac.uk/Subdomain Text duplicate Robert Gordon University
https://library.rgu.ac.uk/Subdomain Text duplicate LibGuides
https://library.rgu.ac.uk/homeSubdomain RGU Library
/opening-hours-and-contactSubdomain Anchor opening hours
https://library.rgu.ac.uk/homeAnchor Services & Facilities
https://library.rgu.ac.uk/homeAnchor Subject Resources
https://library.rgu.ac.uk/homeAnchor Workshops & Appointments
https://library.rgu.ac.uk/homeAnchor Online Learners
https://library.rgu.ac.uk/homeAnchor Support for Academic Staff
https://library.rgu.ac.uk/homeAnchor Research Support
https://library.rgu.ac.uk/homeAnchor Referencing & RefWorks
https://library.rgu.ac.uk/homeAnchor Reading Lists
https://library.rgu.ac.uk/homeAnchor Art & Heritage Collections
https://library.rgu.ac.uk/homeAnchor Opening Hours & Contact Us
/n9-timetableSubdomain See when Level 9 is available
/n9-timetableSubdomain Text duplicate See when Level 9 is available
/services-and-facilitiesSubdomain Services and Facilities
/services-and-facilitiesSubdomain Find out more&nbspabout services and facilities
/subject-resourcesSubdomain Text duplicate Subject Resources
/subject-resourcesSubdomain Find out more&nbspabout subject resources
https://library.rgu.ac.uk/classesSubdomain Text duplicate Workshops & Appointments
https://library.rgu.ac.uk/classesSubdomain Find out more&nbspabout Workshops & Appointments
/online-learnersSubdomain Text duplicate Online Learners
/online-learnersSubdomain Find out more&nbspabout services for online Learners
/support-for-academic-staffSubdomain Text duplicate Support for Academic Staff
/support-for-academic-staffSubdomain Find out more&nbspabout support for Academic Staff
/research-supportSubdomain Text duplicate Research Support
/research-supportSubdomain Find out more&nbspabout research support
/referencing-and-refworksSubdomain Referencing and RefWorks
/referencing-and-refworksSubdomain Find out more&nbspabout referencing and RefWorks
/readinglistSubdomain Text duplicate Reading Lists
/readinglistSubdomain Find out more&nbspabout reading lists
https://www.rgu.ac.uk/about/ar...External Subdomain Text duplicate Art & Heritage Collections
https://www.rgu.ac.uk/about/ar...External Subdomain Find out more&nbspabout the art and heritage collection
/opening-hours-and-contactSubdomain Opening Hours and Contact Us
/opening-hours-and-contactSubdomain Find out more&nbspabout opening hours and contacting us.
https://librarysearch.rgu.ac.u...External Subdomain Text duplicate LibrarySearch
https://librarysearch.rgu.ac.u...External Subdomain My Library Account
https://library.rgu.ac.uk/az.phpSubdomain Databases A-Z
/subject-databasesSubdomain Databases by Subject
https://openair.rgu.ac.uk/External Subdomain OpenAIR @ RGU
https://rgu.alma.exlibrisgroup...External Subdomain LibrarySearch Collections
https://rgu.libwizard.com/f/pr...External Subdomain Suggest a Print Book
https://rgulibraryblog.wordpre...External Subdomain Library Blog
/new-students-welcomeSubdomain New Students - Welcome
https://library.rgu.ac.uk/homeSubdomain Anchor Library Occupancy
https://rgu.libapps.com/libapp...External Subdomain Login to LibApps
https://www.instagram.com/rgul...External Subdomain No Text
https://bsky.app/profile/rguli...External No Text
https://rgulibraryblog.wordpre...External Subdomain No Text
/opening-hours-and-contactSubdomain Library Contact & Opening Hours
https://librarysearch.rgu.ac.u...External Subdomain Text duplicate LibrarySearch
https://librarysearch.rgu.ac.u...External Subdomain Text duplicate My Library Account
https://library.rgu.ac.uk/az.phpSubdomain Text duplicate Databases A-Z
/subject-databasesSubdomain Text duplicate Databases by Subject
https://openair.rgu.ac.uk/External Subdomain Text duplicate OpenAIR @ RGU
/new-students-welcomeSubdomain Text duplicate New Students - Welcome
https://library.rgu.ac.uk/homeSubdomain Anchor Text duplicate Library Occupancy
/accessibilitystatementSubdomain Accessibility Statement

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://library.rgu.ac.uk/home"
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 0.41 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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External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 15 referring domains.
This page only has 42 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 12 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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