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Meta information
79% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
92% 
Link structure
88% 
Server
95% 
External factors
38% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.67 s
File size
35.90 kB
Words
68
Media files
1
Number of links
3 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Research Guides at US Naval Academy
The length of the page title is perfect. (428 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)
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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twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@springshare
og:titleResearch Guides
og:descriptionResearch Guides Use the guides below to get research tips to start your project.
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://libguides.usna.edu/
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 68 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
No paragraphs were detected.
30.9% of the text are stop words.
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...usna.edu/Library/_files/images/logo.gifThe U.S. Naval Academy Nimitz Library

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Research Guides
The H1 heading is too short (15 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Research Guides
H2 Empty heading
There are too few (3) 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 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://libguides.usna.edu/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.usna.edu/Library/External Subdomain IMG-ALT The U.S. Naval Academy Nimitz Library
https://www.usna.edu/Library/New window External Subdomain Library Home
https://usna.primo.exlibrisgro...New window External Subdomain Nimitz Search
https://www.usna.edu/Library/s...New window External Subdomain Check out & Loan Polices
https://www.usna.edu/Library/h...New window External Subdomain Research Help
https://www.usna.edu/homepage.phpNew window External Subdomain USNA Home
https://www.usna.edu/Library/External Subdomain Nimitz Library
https://libguides.usna.edu/Subdomain Research Guides
https://libguides.usna.edu/az.phpNew window Subdomain DATABASES & RESOURCES BY TITLE
https://usna.libapps.com/libap...External Subdomain Log in to LibApps

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://libguides.usna.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 is very slow (1.67 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (36 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateSat, 26 Jul 2025 15:51:59 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-backend-serverlibguides-us-1.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 has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 11 referring domains.
This page only has 11 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 11 different ip addresses.
This page is referenced by wikipedia.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
Guides73%Check
Research Guides68%Check
Guides US66%Check
Research Guides US64%Check
Research62%Check
USNA48%Check
TITLE39%Check
Library38%Check
Nimitz36%Check
Log36%Check
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