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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
87% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.68 s
File size
36.60 kB
Words
91
Media files
1
Number of links
2 internal / 4 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Research Guides at University of Alabama
The length of the page title is perfect. (450 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)
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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twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@springshare
og:titleResearch Guides
og:descriptionUniversity Libraries Research Guides Compiled by UA librarians, our guides feature handpicked library resources, such as recommended databases, reference books, journals, videos, and more – tailored to a subject, course, or academic topic.
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://guides.lib.ua.edu/
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 91 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
The average number of words per sentence of 28 words is high.
25.3% 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.
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...ualib/assets/img/ualib-logo-capstone.pngUniversity of Alabama Libraries

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
University Libraries Research Guides
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 University Libraries Research Guides
H2 Empty heading
H2 We're here to help!
H2 Prefer a different contact method?
This page seems to be an entry page, because only very few links were found.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 4 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://guides.lib.ua.edu/Anchor Skip to Main Content
http://lib.ua.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT University of Alabama Libraries
http://www.lib.ua.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate University of Alabama Libraries
https://guides.lib.ua.edu/Subdomain Research Guides
https://ua.libapps.com/libapps...External Subdomain Login to LibApps
https://www.lib.ua.edu/library...External Subdomain Report a problem.

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://guides.lib.ua.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 0.68 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 (37 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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servernginx
dateTue, 22 Jul 2025 23:45:23 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-backend-serverlibguides-us-3.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 105 referring domains.
This page has 181 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 27 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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Research Guides68%Check
University63%Check
Research62%Check
Libraries52%Check
Alabama47%Check
title39%Check
help38%Check
Prefer38%Check
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