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Meta information
79% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
66% 
Link structure
78% 
Server
73% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.98 s
File size
19.40 kB
Words
210
Media files
3
Number of links
30 internal / 19 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Bridgewater State University Virtual Commons
The length of the page title is perfect. (413 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Virtual Commons is Bridgewater State University’s open-access repository for the scholarly works, research, publications, creative activity, and reports produced by the faculty, students, and staff of Bridgewater State University and its collaborative partners. Coordinated by the Maxwell Library, the Commons promotes the discovery, dissemination and preservation of this intellectual capital.
The meta description is too long: 2396 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
descriptionVirtual Commons is Bridgewater State University’s open-access repository for the scholarly works, research, publications, creative activity, and reports produced by the faculty, students, and staff of Bridgewater State University and its collaborative partners. Coordinated by the Maxwell Library, the Commons promotes the discovery, dissemination and preservation of this intellectual capital.
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 210 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 25.5 words is high.
24.3% 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)
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.

Media list

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Virtual Commons - Bridgewater State University
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Virtual Commons - Bridgewater State University
H1 Virtual Commons - Bridgewater State University Duplicate text
H2 Browse Research and Scholarship Follow
H2 About Virtual Commons
H2 At a Glance
H2 Paper of the Day
H2 Browse
H2 Contribute
H2 Links
H3 Colleges, Departments, and Administrative Units
H3 Journals and Campus Publications
H3 Faculty Scholarship & Creative Work
H3 Student Success & Scholarship
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 19 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://vc.bridgew.edu/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
https://vc.bridgew.edu/about.htmlSubdomain About
A-TITLE About
https://network.bepress.com/External Subdomain Digital Commons Network™
IMG-ALT DC Network
A-TITLE Digital Commons Network
https://vc.bridgew.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
https://vc.bridgew.edu/Subdomain Virtual Commons - Bridgewater State University
A-TITLE Virtual Commons - Bridgewater State University
/contact.htmlSubdomain Contact Us
A-TITLE Contact Us
/cgi/myaccount.cgi?contextSubdomain Text duplicate My Account
A-TITLE My Account
https://vc.bridgew.edu/faq.htmlSubdomain FAQ
A-TITLE FAQ
https://vc.bridgew.edu/about.htmlSubdomain Text duplicate About
A-TITLE About
https://vc.bridgew.edu/Subdomain Text duplicate Home
A-TITLE Home
https://network.bepress.com/ap...Nofollow External Subdomain Follow
A-TITLE Follow Virtual Commons - Bridgewater State University
/communities.htmlSubdomain Colleges, Departments, and Administrative Units
A-TITLE Colleges, Departments, and Administrative Units
/campus_pubsSubdomain Journals and Campus Publications
A-TITLE Campus Journals & Publications
https://vc.bridgew.edu/fac_pubsSubdomain Faculty Scholarship & Creative Work
A-TITLE Faculty Scholarship & Creative Work
/featured.htmlSubdomain Student Success & Scholarship
A-TITLE Student Success & Scholarship
/topdownloads.htmlSubdomain Top 10 DownloadsAll time
/jiws/vol24/iss6/5Subdomain Labour as Violence in Dalit Households: Reading Autobiographical Narratives by Dalit Women Pratibha
A-TITLE Published in Journal of International Women's Studies
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
/do/discipline_browser/discipl...Subdomain Disciplines
A-TITLE Browse by Disciplines
/authors.htmlSubdomain Authors
A-TITLE Browse by Author
https://vc.bridgew.edu/faq.htmlSubdomain Author FAQs
A-TITLE Author FAQs
/submit_research.htmlSubdomain Submit
A-TITLE Submit
http://library.bridgew.edu/External Subdomain Maxwell Library
A-TITLE Maxwell Library
http://www.bridgew.edu/External Subdomain Bridgewater State University
A-TITLE Bridgewater State University
https://www.elsevier.com/solut...External Subdomain Elsevier - Digital Commons
A-TITLE Elsevier - Digital Commons
https://vc.bridgew.edu/Subdomain Text duplicate Home
A-TITLE Home page
https://vc.bridgew.edu/about.htmlSubdomain Text duplicate About
A-TITLE About
https://vc.bridgew.edu/faq.htmlSubdomain Text duplicate 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://vc.bridgew.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 (19 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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servernginx
dateWed, 21 May 2025 16:59:47 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
etagW/"682d3088-4b3d"
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 74 referring domains.
This page has 139 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 65 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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Disallow: /unsubscribe.cgi
Disallow: /upload_additional.cgi
Disallow: /user_subscribe.cgi
Disallow: /useradd.cgi
Disallow: /do/email_editor
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Bridgewater State University Virtual Commons
Virtual Commons is Bridgewater State University’s open-access repository for the scholarly works, research, publications, creative activity, and reports produced by the faculty, students, and staff of Bridgewater State University and its collaborative partners. Coordinated by the Maxwell Library, the Commons promotes the discovery, dissemination and preservation of this intellectual capital.

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