Hi, > we have deployed a prototype of a free tool that can analyze a few SEO > properties for your DSpace repository. More precisely, the tool can take a > look at your robots.txt file to see if there potential problems.
Having just upgraded to v4.1 and done my best to carry out SEO, I thought I'd have a look at this out of curiosity and have a couple of questions: - the Itemcount for our repository shows as 7536 items, but the actual number of items in our repository is 8496 - any ideas where the discrepancy is creeping in? The sitemap referenced from our robots.txt lists 8626 objects (which includes Items along with Community and Collection Homepages) so I don't think it is the case that the Itemcount is being (correctly?) generated from the sitemap referenced in robots.txt (or is it?!) . . . . - I wanted to see the Extended Analysis but it is asking for an email address with the same domain as our repository - as our repository is dspace.stir.ac.uk I thought it would be OK with michael.wh...@stir.ac.uk but I've not received anything as yet (and the email didn't appear to have been Junked either) - should I have received anything, or is that email domain not acceptable? - the response time for the homepage of my repository is generally being reported at around 2000 milliseconds (I tried it a few times :-)), but the text on that page says some DSpace sites can serve pages in under 100ms: "The faster your site is, the better. Some DSpaces can serve pages under 100ms. If you experience substantially slower loading times you may need to optimize." I didn't think of our repository as slow, but should I (i.e. does 2000 milliseconds constitute a "substantially slower loading time")? And if so, any thoughts why our repository is 20 times slower than the potential value noted on that page (yes, I appreciate this is "why is my bit of string longer than yours" type question ;-) )? Perhaps it is just a "geographical" issue (I'm guessing the analysis is being done stateside, so repositories on this side of the pond might expect longer response times?)? Or maybe, in certain configurations, DSpace just runs faster/slower (e.g. we are using JSPUI with Apache in front of Tomcat along with Postgres, all on the same Virtual Linux box) . . . ? And, if relevant, what is the optimization that is being alluded to in the text on that page? Thanks in advance for any insights anyone might have. Cheers, Mike Michael White eLearning Liaison and Development (eLD) Information Services S8, Library University of Stirling Stirling SCOTLAND FK9 4LA Email: michael.wh...@stir.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1786 466877 Fax: +44 (0) 1786 466880 http://www.stir.ac.uk/is/staff/about/teams/aldt/#eld > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:06:48 +0200 > From: Bram Luyten <b...@atmire.com> > Subject: [Dspace-tech] Free web tool for analyzing DSpace SEO analysis > To: DSpace Tech <dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net>, General List > <dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net> > Message-ID: > <CACwo3X0_5w=c1xJ=dQFJhJeh+MboTFMqetxi17Ved5SAYUmo9g@ > mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi, > > we have deployed a prototype of a free tool that can analyze a few SEO > properties for your DSpace repository. More precisely, the tool can take a > look at your robots.txt file to see if there potential problems. > > You can access the tool here: > https://bitly.com/or14-analysis > > If the tool identifies certain problems, you can find more information at: > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC4x/Search+Engine+Optimization > > This tool was partly developed at the Open Repositories 2014 Developer > Challenge. A short slidedeck is available at: > http://www.slideshare.net/bramluyten/big-elephant > > If you have any suggestions for this tool, please feel free to send them. > We intend to extend this tool with a few more tests in the future. > > enjoy the weekend, > > Bram Luyten > > -- > [image: logo] > *Bram Luyten* +1 202 684 6365 > *2888 Loker Avenue East, Suite 315, Carlsbad, CA. 92010* > *Esperantolaan 4, Heverlee 3001, Belgium* > www.atmire.com > <http://atmire.com/website/?q=services&utm_source=emailfooter&utm_me > dium=email&utm_campaign=braml> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > -- The University of Stirling has been ranked in the top 12 of UK universities for graduate employment*. 94% of our 2012 graduates were in work and/or further study within six months of graduation. *The Telegraph The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce. Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
