Researchguides.library.wisc.edu - SEO Checker

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Meta information
79% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
76% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.91 s
File size
38.50 kB
Words
81
Media files
0
Number of links
6 internal / 16 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Research Guides at University of Wisconsin-Madison
The length of the page title is perfect. (546 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)
crawlable_no_youbot
crawlable_no_chatgptuser
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

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langen
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twitter:site@springshare
og:titleResearch Guides
og:descriptionEmpty
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://researchguides.library.wisc.edu/
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 81 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
14.8% 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)
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)
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)
Libraries Research Guides
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Libraries Research Guides
H1 Welcome to the UW-Madison Research Guides
H2 Course Guides
H2 Subject Guides
H2 Search All Research Guides
H2 Libraries
There are too few (6) internal links on this page.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 16 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.wisc.edu/External Subdomain University of Wisconsin–Madison
https://www.library.wisc.edu/External Subdomain Libraries
https://account.library.wisc.edu/External Subdomain Sign In
https://www.library.wisc.edu/h...External Subdomain Help
https://www.library.wisc.edu/g...External Subdomain Give
/Libraries Research Guides
/courseguidesSubdomain Course Guides
/subjectguidesSubdomain Subject Guides
/courseguidesSubdomain View Course Guides
/subjectguidesSubdomain View Subject Guides
https://www.wisc.edu/External Subdomain No Text
https://www.library.wisc.edu/a...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://www.library.wisc.edu/c...External Subdomain Copyright Statement
https://www.library.wisc.edu/p...External Subdomain Policies
https://www.library.wisc.edu/h...External Subdomain Contact Us
https://www.facebook.com/UWMad...External Subdomain No Text
https://x.com/UWMadLibrariesExternal No Text
https://www.library.wisc.edu/a...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.library.wisc.edu/g...External Subdomain Support Libraries
https://www.wisc.edu/privacy-n...External Subdomain Privacy Notice
https://www.wisconsin.edu/External Subdomain © Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://researchguides.library.wisc.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 0.91 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 (39 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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servernginx
dateThu, 28 May 2026 08:22:15 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
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 140 referring domains.
This page has 165 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 34 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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Research Guides81%Check
Guides79%Check
wisc61%Check
Course Guides60%Check
Subject Guides60%Check
Libraries59%Check
University51%Check
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Wisconsin50%Check
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