Bibme.org - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
42% 
Page structure
66% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
76% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.92 s
File size
151.70 kB
Words
453
Media files
13
Number of links
25 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
BibMe: Free Bibliography & Citation Maker - MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 657 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
BibMe Free Bibliography & Citation Maker - MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard
The length of the meta description is perfect. (449 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
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

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viewportwidth=device-width
descriptionBibMe Free Bibliography & Citation Maker - MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard
next-head-count7
turbolinks-visit-controlreload
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 453 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
32.5% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
9 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 15.71 words is good.
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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 9 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
6 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
https://www.bibme.org/static/logo.svgBibMe, a Chegg service
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
data:[...] Base64Create citations
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
data:[...] Base64Check your paper
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
data:[...] Base64cite using APA, MLA, Chicago and more
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
data:[...] Base64check for potential plagiarism
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
data:[...] Base64experts will proofread your paper
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
data:[...] Base64check for grammar mistakes and writing issues

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
BibMe — The Online Writing Center
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 BibMe — The Online Writing Center
H1 Take your paper to the next level
H1 Empty heading
H2 powered by Chegg
H2 Check your paper for grammar and plagiarism
H2 Know you're citing correctly
H2 Check for unintentional plagiarism
H2 Strengthen your writing
H2 Find and fix grammar errors
H2 Guides & Resources
H3 Complete Guide to MLA format
H3 Useful guide to APA format
H3 Practical guide to Chicago syle
H3 Company
H3 Resources
H3 Follow Us
H3 Business
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 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/grammar-and-plagiarism/Plagiarism and grammar
/citation-guide/Citation guides
https://www.chegg.com/contactu...External Subdomain Support
https://www.bibme.org/upgradeUpgrade
https://www.bibme.org/IMG-ALT BibMe, a Chegg service
https://www.bibme.org/upgradeText duplicate Upgrade
https://www.bibme.org/registerSign up
https://www.bibme.org/loginSign in
https://www.bibme.org/apaCreate citations
/grammar-and-plagiarism/Check your paper
https://www.bibme.org/apaGet started
/grammar-and-plagiarism/Text duplicate Get started
/grammar-and-plagiarism/Text duplicate Get started
/grammar-and-plagiarism/Text duplicate Get started
https://www.bibme.org/registerText duplicate Sign up
https://www.bibme.org/upgradeTry for free
/terms-and-conditions/New window *See Terms and Conditions
https://www.bibme.org/mlaComplete Guide to MLA format
https://www.bibme.org/apaUseful guide to APA format
/citation-guide/chicagoPractical guide to Chicago syle
https://www.bibme.org/blogBlog
https://www.chegg.com/External Subdomain Chegg Inc.
https://www.chegg.com/contactu...External Subdomain Contact Us
https://www.chegg.com/contactu...External Subdomain Text duplicate Support
https://collegemarketing.chegg...External Subdomain Advertise with us
https://www.bibme.org/upgradeBibMe Plus
/citation-guideCitation Guides
https://www.bibme.org/apaAPA
https://www.bibme.org/mlaMLA
https://www.bibme.org/chicagoChicago Style
https://www.facebook.com/bibme/Nofollow External Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/bibmeNofollow External Twitter
https://www.chegg.com/termsofuseExternal Subdomain Terms of Use
https://www.chegg.com/privacyp...External Subdomain Global Privacy Policy
https://www.chegg.com/cookie-n...External Subdomain Cookie Notice
https://privacyportal.onetrust...External Subdomain Your Privacy Choices

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.bibme.org/"
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 0.92 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 (152 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
serverCloudFront
dateTue, 04 Nov 2025 09:50:22 GMT
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cache-controlmax-age=0, private, must-revalidate
set-cookie97 Characters
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
x-cacheMiss from cloudfront
via1.1 816b7f4e336674d9d7828ef4700482e8.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
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x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 583 referring domains.
This page has 2,511 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 525 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /bibliographies

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