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Meta information
79% 
Page quality
54% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
82% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.12 s
File size
36.60 kB
Words
135
Media files
10
Number of links
9 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Research Guides at MCPHS University
The length of the page title is perfect. (421 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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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
msapplication-TileColor#ffc40d
msapplication-config//d2jv02qf7xgjwx.cloudfront.net/apps/common/favicon/browserconfig.xml
theme-color#ffffff
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@springshare
og:titleResearch Guides
og:descriptionWelcome Research Guides are mini-universes of resources to support your academic work so that you can quickly get to the information you need.
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://mcphs.libguides.com/
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 135 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
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
25.2% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 22 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 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...19/images/MCPHS_Libraires_logo_horiz.pngMCPHS Library Logo
...eries_2024-2025_Carousel_Title_Slide.pngMCPHS Libraries Faculty Research Workshops Series 2025-26 with the MCPHS Libraries logo above
...40/images/25-26__This_is_Me_Carousel.pngThis is Me: Setting Up Your Digital Footprint in Scholarly Spaces 10/28/25 12:30-1:30 PM with the MCPHS Libraries logo over it
...es/25-26__Setting_the_Stage_Carousel.pngSetting the Stage for Your Research: Crafting Quality Literature Searches 11/20/25 12:30-1:30 PM with the MCPHS Libraries logo above it
...Slipping_Past_the_Predators_Carousel.pngSlipping Past the Predators: Tip for Recognizing and Avoiding Publishing Scams 2/17/26 12:30-1:30 PM with the MCPHS Libraries logo over it
...Collaborate_and_Communicate_Carousel.pngCollaborate and Communicate: Tools for Finding and Working with Research Partners 3/24/26 12:30-1:30 PM with the MCPHS Libraries logo above
..._Randall_Garnick_Photography_Resized.jpgPhoto of Karen Alcorn
...rofiles/28287/prof_photo_irena_final.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...CPHSLibraries_Square_For_LibApps__1_.pngNo alt attribute provided
...utchinson_07_Best_for_Profile_-_Copy.jpgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (7 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome
H2 Empty heading
H2 A-Z Database List
H2 Announcements
H2 Announcements Carousel
H2 Your Friendly Librarians
H2 Ask a Library Question
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
There are too few (9) internal links on this page.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://mcphs.libguides.com/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.mcphs.edu/libraryExternal Subdomain MCPHS Libraries
https://mcphs.libguides.com/Subdomain Research Guides
/az.phpGo to A-Z List
https://ezproxymcp.flo.org/log...External Subdomain additional guides
/prf.php?id=58a29c17-7cdb-11ed...Subdomain Karen Alcorn
IMG-ALT Photo of Karen Alcorn
/prf.php?id=58ead69d-7cdb-11ed...Subdomain Irena Bond
/prf.php?id=589b115e-7cdb-11ed...Subdomain Erica Cataldi-Roberts
/prf.php?id=5fa95f39-7cdb-11ed...Subdomain Natalie Hutchinson
/prf.phpMore...
https://mcphs.libanswers.com/f...External Subdomain Submit a Question
/prf.phpSubdomain Find Your Librarian
https://mcphs.libanswers.com/External Subdomain Explore our FAQs
https://mcphs.libcal.com/r/sea...External Subdomain Reserve a Library Study Room
https://mcphs.libwizard.com/f/...External Subdomain Request a Research Guide
https://mcphs.libapps.com/liba...External Subdomain Login to LibApps
https://www.instagram.com/mcph...External Subdomain Instagram

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://mcphs.libguides.com/"
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 (1.12 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 (37 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateThu, 12 Mar 2026 00:02:35 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
set-cookie187 Characters
x-backend-serverlibguides-us-5.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 159 referring domains.
This page has 167 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 31 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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User-agent: discobot
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User-agent: FacebookBot
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User-agent: Gemini-Deep-Research
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User-agent: Twitterbot
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User-agent: Yandex
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User-agent: YandexAdditional
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User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot
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User-agent: YouBot
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User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
    Disallow: /az.php?
    Disallow: /az/databases?
    Disallow: /er.php
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    Disallow: /friendly.php
    Disallow: /go.php
    Disallow: /ld.php
    Disallow: /srch.php

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Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
MCPHS61%Check
Guides58%Check
Research Guides54%Check
Research50%Check
Welcome50%Check
MCPHS Libraries50%Check
Announcements43%Check
title41%Check
library40%Check
Carousel40%Check
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