Press.uchicago.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
76% 
Page quality
60% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
66% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.28 s
File size
37.50 kB
Words
388
Media files
10
Number of links
65 internal / 20 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The University of Chicago Press
The length of the page title is perfect. (289 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Books Division of the University of Chicago Press has been publishing books for scholars, students, and general readers since 1892. The Books Division has published more than eleven thousand books since the Press was founded. It has more than five thousand books in print at the present time, including such well-known works as The Chicago Manual of Style; The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas Kuhn; A River Runs Through It, by Norman Maclean; and The Road to Serfdom, by F. A. Hayek.
The meta description is too long: 3175 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

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descriptionThe Books Division of the University of Chicago Press has been publishing books for scholars, students, and general readers since 1892. The Books Division has published more than eleven thousand books since the Press was founded. It has more than five thousand books in print at the present time, including such well-known works as The Chicago Manual of Style; The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas Kuhn; A River Runs Through It, by Norman Maclean; and The Road to Serfdom, by F. A. Hayek.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 388 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
25% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 15.25 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 8 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" 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 8 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
/.resources/ucp/img/logo.svgThe University of Chicago Press
/.resources/ucp/img/icons/icon-cart.svgCart
...839608.jpg/jcr:content/9780226839608.jpgThe Buried City
...604428.jpg/jcr:content/9780226604428.jpgThe Odyssey
...837970.jpg/jcr:content/9780226837970.jpgInventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
...839684.jpg/jcr:content/9780226839684.jpgPenelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World through the Women Written Out of It
...g-img.jpg/jcr:content/National parks.jpgNews feed
...092959.jpg/jcr:content/9780226092959.jpgLions in the Balance
/.resources/ucp/img/logo-inverted.svgThe University of Chicago Press

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The University of Chicago Press
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 The University of Chicago Press
H2 The Buried City
H2 Featured Books
H2 Newsfeed
H2 Journals
H2 Free Ebook
H2 Be the first to know
H2 Contact Information
H2 The University of Chicago Press Duplicate text
H2 Books
H2 Information for
H2 Reference
H2 Related Sites
H3 The Odyssey
H3 Inventing the Renaissance
H3 Penelope’s Bones
H3 A National Parks Road trip Reading List, with an Excerpt from Robert B. Keiter’s “Conserving Nature in Greater Yellowstone”
H3 Lions in the Balance
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 20 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/index.htmlAnchor Skip to main content
/index.htmlIMG-ALT The University of Chicago Press
https://cdcshoppingcart.uchica...External Subdomain Shopping cart: items
IMG-ALT Cart
/books/subject.htmlBrowse by Subject
/books/series.htmlBrowse by Series
/ucp/books/virtualCatalog/vc52...Browse by Courses
/books/instructors.htmlDesk & Exam Copies
/books/catalogs.htmlSeasonal Catalogs
/books/Subject-Catalogs.htmlSubject Catalogs
/books/audiobooks.htmlAudiobooks
/journals.htmlJournals
/resource/publishing_with_chic...Publishing with Chicago
/resource/books_submissions_ne...Book Submissions
/resource/emsguide.htmlMS Prep Guide
/resource/artdigest.htmlArt Prep Guide
/resource/permissions.htmlPermissions
/resource/auth_resources.htmlMarketing Resources
/resource/ordermybook.htmlOrder My Book
/resource/author_name_changes....Author Name Changes
/books/instructors.htmlInstructors
/books/catalogs.htmlCatalogs
/books/bookdata.htmlBook Data
/books/booksellers-dom.htmlDomestic
/books/booksellers-intl.htmlInternational
/resource/media.htmlMedia
/resource/rights.htmlRights & Permissions
/resource/accessibility.htmlDisability Officers
/resource/pub_services.htmlPublishers Seeking Distribution
https://press.uchicago.edu/cdcDistribution
/press/about.htmlAbout the Press
/press/contact.htmlContacts
https://diversityandinclusion....New window External Subdomain Diversity & Inclusion
/resource/editorialstaff.htmlAcquiring Editors
/resource/open_access.htmlOpen Access
/books/list/endowments.htmlEndowment Funds
/books/publishers.htmlPublishers We Represent
/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo24...Subdomain IMG-ALT The Buried City
/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo24...Subdomain Learn more about The Buried City
/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo24...The Odyssey Homer
IMG-ALT The Odyssey
/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo24...Inventing the Renaissance Ada Palmer
IMG-ALT Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo25...Penelope’s Bones Emily Hauser
IMG-ALT Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World through the Women Written Out of It
https://pressblog.uchicago.edu/New window External Subdomain View all blog posts
https://pressblog.uchicago.edu...New window External Subdomain A National Parks Road trip Reading List, with an Excerpt from Robert B. Keiter’s “Conserving Nature in Greater Yellowstone”
https://pressblog.uchicago.edu...New window External Subdomain Read full post about A National Parks Road trip Reading List, with an Excerpt from Robert B. Keiter’s “Conserving Nature in Greater Yellowstone”
/journals.htmlView Journals
/books/freeEbook.htmlIMG-ALT Lions in the Balance
/books/freeEbook.htmlGet this E-book: Lions in the Balance
https://www.instagram.com/uchi...New window External Subdomain View this profile on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/uchi...New window External Subdomain University of Chicago Press
https://www.instagram.com/uchi...New window External Subdomain uchicagopress
/books/mailnotifier/subscribe....Sign up here for updates about the Press
/index.htmlText duplicate IMG-ALT The University of Chicago Press
https://twitter.com/UChicagoPressExternal Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/Unive...External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain Linkedin
https://www.instagram.com/uchi...External Subdomain Instagram
/press/about.htmlText duplicate About the Press
https://journals.uchicago.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Journals
/press/contact.htmlContact Us
https://pressblog.uchicago.edu/External Subdomain News
/books/orders.htmlOrdering Information
/books/publishers.htmlPublishers We Distribute
/press/giving.htmlGiving to the Press
/press/privacy.htmlPrivacy Policy
https://accessibility.uchicago...External Subdomain Accessibility
/books/subject.htmlSubjects
/books/series.htmlSeries
/books/instructors.htmlDesk and Exam Copies
/books/catalogs.htmlText duplicate Catalogs
/books/freeEbook.htmlFree Ebook of the Month
/books/events.htmlAuthor Events
/resource/emsguide.htmlCurrent Authors
/resource/books_submissions.htmlProspective Authors
/books/instructors.htmlText duplicate Instructors
/books/booksellers-dom.htmlBooksellers
/resource/media.htmlText duplicate Media
/resource/rights.htmlRights and Permissions
/resource/accessibility.htmlText duplicate Disability Officers
/resource/pub_services.htmlText duplicate Publishers Seeking Distribution
https://www.chicagomanualofsty...External Subdomain Chicago Manual of Style
https://www.chicagomanualofsty...External Subdomain Turabian Style
https://www.csemanual.org/Home...External Subdomain The CSE Manual
https://www.bibliovault.org/External Subdomain BiblioVault
https://press.uchicago.edu/cdcChicago Distribution Center
https://www.uchicago.edu/External Subdomain The University of Chicago

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://press.uchicago.edu/index.html"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
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 (1.28 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.
This page loads 8 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 1 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (38 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 131 referring domains.
This page has 3,977 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 128 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

User-agent: CCBot
Crawl-Delay: 20

User-agent: SemrushBot
Crawl-Delay: 50

User-agent: gsa-crawler
Disallow: *

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Sitemap: https://press.uchicago.edu/docroot/authorsSitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://press.uchicago.edu/docroot/cBooksSitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://press.uchicago.edu/docroot/dBooksSitemap.xml
User-Agent: *
Crawl-Delay: 2
Disallow: /books/compcopy*
Disallow: /books/textadoption*
Disallow: /books/downloadSubjectCsv*
Disallow: /journals/e-readers/processor/*
Disallow: *.ctl
Disallow: *.epl

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The University of Chicago Press
The Books Division of the University of Chicago Press has been publishing books for scholars, students, and general readers since 1892. The Books Division has published more than eleven thousand books since the Press was founded. It has more than five thousand books in print at the present time, including such well-known works as The Chicago Manual of Style; The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas Kuhn; A River Runs Through It, by Norman Maclean; and The Road to Serfdom, by F. A. Hayek.

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