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Meta information
100% 
Page quality
80% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
43% 
Server
76% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.22 s
File size
541.20 kB
Words
509
Media files
45
Number of links
30 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The New York Public Library
The length of the page title is perfect. (254 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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The New York Public Library (NYPL) has been an essential provider of free books, information, ideas, and education for all New Yorkers for more than 100 years.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (989 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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No canonical link is specified.
Language
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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
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There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
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The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
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The URL does not have too many subdirectories.
Charset encoding
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
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The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Content
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This page contains 509 words. That's ok.
28.1% 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.
3 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 19.33 words is good.
Frames
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This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
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No Apple touch icon is specified.
The file size of the HTML document is very large (541.2 kB).
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 10 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
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HTTPS
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This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

Media list

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Summer at the Library
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 54 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Summer at the Library
H2 Spotlight
H2 What's On
H2 Discover
H2 Staff Picks
H2 In the Collection
H2 From Our Blog
H2 Explore More
H3 Dive into Our Summer Staff Picks
H3 Celebrate 100 Years of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture!
H3 Get Your Special Edition Centennial Library Card—While Supplies Last
H3 Good News for NYC! Seven Day Service Expansion Coming This Fall
H3 Author Talks & Conversations
H3 Reading Rhythms: Summer Romance Reading Party with Lana Schwartz
H3 Exhibitions
H3 The Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library's Treasures
H3 Kids & Teens
H3 Summer Learners Lab
H3 Other Events
H3 Summer Performing Arts Workshops
H3 Reading Rhythms: Summer Romance Reading Party with Lana Schwartz Duplicate text
H3 Celebrate 70 Years of the Muppets: A Screening of 'The Muppets Take Manhattan'
H3 Reading Rhythms at NYPL: Reading Parties for Book Lovers
H3 Discover More Author Talks at NYPL
H3 Reading Rhythms: Summer Romance Reading Party with Lana Schwartz Duplicate text
H3 Celebrate 70 Years of the Muppets: A Screening of 'The Muppets Take Manhattan' Duplicate text
H3 Reading Rhythms at NYPL: Reading Parties for Book Lovers Duplicate text
H3 Discover More Author Talks at NYPL Duplicate text
H3 NYPL Service Updates
H3 Explore Our Online Catalog
H3 Learning Resources for Kids, Teens & Educators
H3 Events & Classes for All Ages
H3 Start Your Research
H3 Get a Library Card Today
H3 Discover the Polonsky Exhibition
H3 Say Goodbye to Late Fines
H3 E-Books & More
H3 NYPL en Español & More Multilingual Resources
H3 Accessible Resources
H3 Get Help: Ask NYPL
H3 Written in the Waters
H3 Hotel Ukraine
H3 The Dry Season
H3 Green Gold
H3 A Year of Last Things
H3 Is a River Alive?
H3 Poets Square: A Memoir in 30 cats
H3 Maggie; Or a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar
H3 This Dog Will Change Your Life
H3 Salt Bones
H3 Heading to a Wedding? Make One of These Nuptial-Themed Books Your Plus One
H3 Teen Zines: Represent Your Library!
H3 Plan Your Visit
H3 Get Email Updates
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.
2 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 10 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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/books-more/recommendations/st...Subdomain Dive into Our Summer Staff Picks
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/spotlight/schomburg-centennialSubdomain Celebrate 100 Years of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture!
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/blog/2025/05/01/get-your-own-...Subdomain Get Your Special Edition Centennial Library Card—While Supplies Last
/blog/2025/05/01/get-your-own-...Subdomain IMG-ALT Pile of purple special edition Schomburg Center library cards featuring the Rivers cosmogram
/blog/2025/08/04/five-new-nypl...Subdomain Good News for NYC! Seven Day Service Expansion Coming This Fall
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https://www.showclix.com/event...External Subdomain Reading Rhythms: Summer Romance Reading Party with Lana Schwartz
https://www.showclix.com/event...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Lana Schwartz with the cover of Set Piece.
/spotlight/treasuresSubdomain The Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library's Treasures
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/events/calendar?keyword=summe...Subdomain Summer Learners Lab
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/events/calendar?keyword=summe...Subdomain IMG-ALT An audience raises their hands, interacting with a performer on stage.
https://www.showclix.com/event...External Subdomain Text duplicate Reading Rhythms: Summer Romance Reading Party with Lana Schwartz
https://www.showclix.com/event...External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Lana Schwartz with the cover of Set Piece.
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/events/calendar?series=751580Subdomain Reading Rhythms at NYPL: Reading Parties for Book Lovers
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https://www.showclix.com/event...External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Lana Schwartz with the cover of Set Piece.
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https://www.showclix.com/event...External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT The muppets smile above a neon outline of the New York City skyline next to the title of the movie.
/events/calendar?series=751580Subdomain Text duplicate Reading Rhythms at NYPL: Reading Parties for Book Lovers
/events/calendar?series=751580Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Young people sit in a semi-circle chatting and laughing while holding books.
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/books-more/recommendations/st...Subdomain Text duplicate See More . . .
https://www.nypl.org/blogSubdomain Text duplicate See More . . .
https://www.nypl.org/locationsSubdomain Text duplicate See More . . .

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
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This page redirects to "https://www.nypl.org/"
HTTP header
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The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.22 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 very large (541 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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