Digitalcommons.humboldt.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
80% 
Server
73% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.98 s
File size
375.40 kB
Words
220
Media files
10
Number of links
32 internal / 21 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Cal Poly Humboldt and digital works from Cal Poly Humboldt
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (542 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
Digital Commons @ Cal Poly Humboldt promotes research, scholarly publications, and creative works from Call Poly Humboldt and The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt. We advance knowledge as a publisher of educational, scholarly, trade books, and creative works. Cal Poly Humboldt Library provides opportunities to publish and share research with the academic and global community, including: journal hosting, conference management, book publishing, editorial and peer-review tools, and scholar pages.
The meta description is too long: 3111 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)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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viewportwidth=device-width
robotsnoodp, noydir
descriptionDigital Commons @ Cal Poly Humboldt promotes research, scholarly publications, and creative works from <a href="https://www.humboldt.edu">Call Poly Humboldt</a> and <a href="http://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/press">The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt</a>. We advance knowledge as a publisher of educational, scholarly, trade books, and creative works. Cal Poly Humboldt Library provides opportunities to publish and share research with the academic and global community, including: journal hosting, conference management, book publishing, editorial and peer-review tools, and scholar pages.
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 220 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
24.1% 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.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 23.33 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 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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Digital Commons @ Cal Poly Humboldt
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Digital Commons @ Cal Poly Humboldt
H2 About the Repository
H2 At a Glance
H2 Paper of the Day
H2 Search
H2 Browse
H2 Author Corner
H2 Links
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 21 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Subdomain Home
A-TITLE Home
/do/search/advanced/Subdomain Search
A-TITLE Search
/communities.htmlSubdomain Browse Collections
A-TITLE Browse
/cgi/myaccount.cgi?contextMy Account
A-TITLE My Account
/about.htmlSubdomain About
A-TITLE About
https://network.bepress.com/External Subdomain Digital Commons Network™
IMG-ALT DC Network
A-TITLE Digital Commons Network
/Anchor Skip to main content
/Subdomain IMG-ALT Digital Commons @ Cal Poly Humboldt
A-TITLE Digital Commons @ Cal Poly Humboldt
/Subdomain Text duplicate Home
A-TITLE Home
/about.htmlSubdomain Text duplicate About
A-TITLE About
/cgi/myaccount.cgi?contextSubdomain Text duplicate My Account
A-TITLE My Account
/pressSubdomain IMG-ALT The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt
/journalsSubdomain IMG-ALT Journals
/special_collSubdomain IMG-ALT Special Collections
/studentSubdomain IMG-ALT Student Publications
/facultySubdomain IMG-ALT Faculty Publications
/oer_sustainabilitySubdomain IMG-ALT OER and Sustainability
https://network.bepress.com/ap...Nofollow External Subdomain Follow
A-TITLE Follow Digital Commons @ Cal Poly Humboldt
/topdownloads.htmlSubdomain Top 10 DownloadsAll time
/recent_additions.htmlSubdomain Recent Additions20 most recent additions
/activity.htmlSubdomain Activity by year
/etd/781Subdomain Transitional course for incoming transfer students at Cal Poly Humboldt Marissa Carla Holguin
A-TITLE Published in Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects
https://network.bepress.com/External Subdomain This collection is part of the Digital Commons Network™
IMG-ALT DC Network
https://network.bepress.com/External Subdomain IMG-ALT DC Network
https://network.bepress.com/ar...External Subdomain Architecture
A-TITLE Architecture
https://network.bepress.com/ar...External Subdomain Arts and Humanities
A-TITLE Arts and Humanities
https://network.bepress.com/bu...External Subdomain Business
A-TITLE Business
https://network.bepress.com/ed...External Subdomain Education
A-TITLE Education
https://network.bepress.com/en...External Subdomain Engineering
A-TITLE Engineering
https://network.bepress.com/lawExternal Subdomain Law
A-TITLE Law
https://network.bepress.com/li...External Subdomain Life Sciences
A-TITLE Life Sciences
https://network.bepress.com/me...External Subdomain Medicine and Health Sciences
A-TITLE Medicine and Health Sciences
https://network.bepress.com/ph...External Subdomain Physical Sciences and Mathematics
A-TITLE Physical Sciences and Mathematics
https://network.bepress.com/so...External Subdomain Social and Behavioral Sciences
A-TITLE Social and Behavioral Sciences
/do/search/advanced/?fq=virtua...Subdomain Advanced Search
/announcements.htmlSubdomain Notify me via email or RSS
A-TITLE Email or RSS Notifications
/communities.htmlSubdomain Collections
A-TITLE Browse by Collections
/etdSubdomain Theses
A-TITLE Browse Theses
/capstoneSubdomain Capstones
A-TITLE Browse Capstones
/authors.htmlSubdomain Authors
A-TITLE Browse by Author
/faq.htmlSubdomain FAQs
A-TITLE FAQs
https://library.humboldt.edu/p...External Subdomain Publishing Opportunities
A-TITLE Publishing Opportunities
https://canvas.humboldt.edu/en...New window External Subdomain Accessible Humboldt Resource Guide
https://library.humboldt.edu/g...New window External Subdomain Giving to the Library
http://library.humboldt.edu/New window External Subdomain The Library at Cal Poly Humboldt
https://www.elsevier.com/solut...External Subdomain Elsevier - Digital Commons
A-TITLE Elsevier - Digital Commons
/Subdomain Text duplicate Home
A-TITLE Home page
/about.htmlSubdomain Text duplicate About
A-TITLE About
/faq.htmlSubdomain FAQ
A-TITLE FAQ
/cgi/myaccount.cgi?contextText duplicate My Account
A-TITLE My Account Page
/accessibility.htmlSubdomain Accessibility Statement
A-TITLE Accessibility Statement
https://www.elsevier.com/legal...External Subdomain Privacy
A-TITLE Privacy Policy
https://www.elsevier.com/legal...External Subdomain Copyright
A-TITLE Copyright Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://digitalcommons.humboldt.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 0.98 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 (375 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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servernginx
dateThu, 26 Jun 2025 03:08:45 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
etagW/"685b89be-5dafa"
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload;
referrer-policyno-referrer, strict-origin-when-cross-origin
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self';
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 112 referring domains.
This page has 173 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 64 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

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User-agent: *
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Disallow: /disciplines.cgi
Disallow: /editor.cgi
Disallow: /errordoc.cgi
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Disallow: /institutions.cgi
Disallow: /ir_submit.cgi
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Disallow: /mail_assets.cgi
Disallow: /maileditor.cgi
Disallow: /mysubscriptions.cgi
Disallow: /nellco_setup.cgi
Disallow: /notification.cgi
Disallow: /openurl_forwarder.cgi
Disallow: /proquest_setup.cgi
Disallow: /query.cgi
Disallow: /review_history.cgi
Disallow: /site_setup.cgi
Disallow: /submit.cgi
Disallow: /submit_lawreview.cgi
Disallow: /subscription_orders.cgi
Disallow: /subscription_request.cgi
Disallow: /unsubscribe.cgi
Disallow: /upload_additional.cgi
Disallow: /user_subscribe.cgi
Disallow: /useradd.cgi
Disallow: /do/email_editor
Disallow: /do/
Disallow: /fe-journals/

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digitalcommons.humboldt.edu
Cal Poly Humboldt and digital works from Cal Poly Humboldt
Digital Commons @ Cal Poly Humboldt promotes research, scholarly publications, and creative works from Call Poly Humboldt and The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt. We advance knowledge as a publisher of educational, scholarly, trade books, and creative works. Cal Poly Humboldt Library provides opportunities to publish and share research with the academic and global community, including: journal hosting, conference management, book publishing, editorial and peer-review tools, and scholar pages.

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