Nibbler SEO audit for arstropica.com
Summary
Overall8.4
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility9.5
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
The following tests contribute to this score:
Experience7.3
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
The following tests contribute to this score:
Marketing5.1
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
The following tests contribute to this score:
Technology9.2
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 15:22 on 2 May 2024 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Consider updating this website regularly with new content. (read more)
- Sign up for a Twitter account and make sure it is linked to from your site. (read more)
- Consider using descriptive words or phrases (e.g. 'News', 'September 2012 financial results') in your anchor tag to benefit search engine optimisation. (read more)
Twitter0.0
This website does not appear to be associated with a Twitter account.
- This website did not contain a link to Twitter.
- Sign up for a Twitter account and make sure it is linked to from your site.
Freshness0.2
Last updated March 9, 2018
- It looks like this website was last updated on Friday, 9 March 2018. This is bad because visitors may dismiss this website as outdated. Websites that are not updated regularly are also spidered by search engines less often.
- Consider updating this website regularly with new content.
- To find this information we used the last modified dates reported by this website's server in addition to looking for dates written on each page.
All dates found
Internal links7.2
- 8 links are weakly described. Common weak links include 'click here' and 'read more'. These links fail to describe the content the link points to.
- Consider using descriptive words or phrases (e.g. 'News', 'September 2012 financial results') in your anchor tag to benefit search engine optimisation.
Weak link text
Link URL Link text Page URL More arstropica.com/ More arstropica.com/ More arstropica.com/ More arstropica.com/about/ More arstropica.com/about/ More arstropica.com/about/ More arstropica.com/about/ More arstropica.com/about/
- Consider using descriptive words or phrases (e.g. 'News', 'September 2012 financial results') in your anchor tag to benefit search engine optimisation.
- 3 links have no text describing their destination. Links on a page should describe their destination for the benefit of both screen readers and search engine spiders.
- Add meaningful anchor text that describes the link's destination. If the link contains an image, ensure you have provided alt text.
Empty link text
- Add meaningful anchor text that describes the link's destination. If the link contains an image, ensure you have provided alt text.
Server behaviour8.0
404 page
Compression
- This website does not return a 404 error HTTP status code for missing pages. This is bad because search engines like Google might mistake this for a real page of content.
- Ensure your web server returns a 404 HTTP status code for error pages.
- This website was served with GZIP encoding. This is very good because it reduces the loading time of a web page.
- This website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect between URLs with/without trailing slashes. This is ideal.
- This website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect from http://www.arstropica.com to http://arstropica.com. This is ideal.
Amount of content8.2
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 901 words per page. The amount of content on a website has been shown to correlate with its search engine ranking.
Amount of content discovered
| Page | Characters | Words |
| arstropica.com/ | 558 | 61 |
| arstropica.com/about/ | 8578 | 1355 |
| arstropica.com/case-studies/ | 664 | 78 |
| arstropica.com/blog/ | 11806 | 1487 |
| arstropica.com/case-studies/.../ | 10142 | 1525 |
Meta tags8.4
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
ArsTropica | Web Design & Development from Atlanta, GA
arstropica.com/
Atlanta based, full service creative agency providing UX web design, application development, WordPress & e-commerce services for businesses & individuals.
- All pages include at least some metadata, but only 80.0% of pages have a description meta tag. The description meta data is important as it appears on Google's search result pages.
- Make sure that all the pages of this website include a meta description. If you don't include one, Google will choose a sample of text from the page to appear in the search engine result. By including a meta description, you can control how your search engine result will appear.
Meta Tags (name attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| arstropica.com/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no |
| arstropica.com/ | handheldfriendly | True |
| arstropica.com/ | msapplication-tilecolor | #ffffff |
| arstropica.com/ | msapplication-tileimage | /ms-icon-144x144.png |
| arstropica.com/ | theme-color | #ffffff |
| arstropica.com/ | description | Atlanta based, full service creative agency providing UX web design, application development, WordPress & e-commerce services for businesses & individuals. |
| arstropica.com/ | keywords | web design, website design, atlanta website designers, atlanta web development, atlanta web design, internet consulting, small business, atlanta, affordable website, wordpress, wordpress design, wordpress development, wordpress themes, wordpress templates, wordpress blog design, wordpress portfolio, blog design, blog theme, website builder, website design atlanta, web designer atlanta, ecommerce, ecommerce atlanta |
| arstropica.com/ | generator | WordPress 4.9.8 |
| arstropica.com/about/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no |
| arstropica.com/about/ | handheldfriendly | True |
| arstropica.com/about/ | msapplication-tilecolor | #ffffff |
| arstropica.com/about/ | msapplication-tileimage | /ms-icon-144x144.png |
| arstropica.com/about/ | theme-color | #ffffff |
| arstropica.com/about/ | description | Atlanta based, full service creative agency providing UX web design, application development, WordPress & e-commerce services for businesses & individuals. |
| arstropica.com/about/ | keywords | web design,website design,atlanta website designers,atlanta web development,atlanta web design,internet consulting,small business,atlanta,affordable website,wordpress,wordpress design,wordpress development,wordpress themes,wordpress templates,wordpress blog design,wordpress portfolio,blog design,blog theme,website builder,website design atlanta,web designer atlanta,ecommerce,ecommerce atlanta |
| arstropica.com/about/ | generator | WordPress 4.9.8 |
| arstropica.com/case-studies/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no |
| arstropica.com/case-studies/ | handheldfriendly | True |
| arstropica.com/case-studies/ | msapplication-tilecolor | #ffffff |
| arstropica.com/case-studies/ | msapplication-tileimage | /ms-icon-144x144.png |
| arstropica.com/case-studies/ | theme-color | #ffffff |
| arstropica.com/case-studies/ | description | Atlanta based, full service creative agency providing UX web design, application development, WordPress & e-commerce services for businesses & individuals. |
| arstropica.com/case-studies/ | keywords | web design,website design,atlanta website designers,atlanta web development,atlanta web design,internet consulting,small business,atlanta,affordable website,wordpress,wordpress design,wordpress development,wordpress themes,wordpress templates,wordpress blog design,wordpress portfolio,blog design,blog theme,website builder,website design atlanta,web designer atlanta,ecommerce,ecommerce atlantaweb design,ecommerce atlanta |
| arstropica.com/case-studies/ | generator | WordPress 4.9.8 |
| arstropica.com/blog/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no |
| arstropica.com/blog/ | handheldfriendly | True |
| arstropica.com/blog/ | msapplication-tilecolor | #ffffff |
| arstropica.com/blog/ | msapplication-tileimage | /ms-icon-144x144.png |
| arstropica.com/blog/ | theme-color | #ffffff |
| arstropica.com/blog/ | keywords | php,google analytics,clientlogin,http auth,curl,array_intersect_key,recursive,array_filter,key filter,index filter,max,highest value,multidimensional,array,key search |
| arstropica.com/blog/ | generator | WordPress 4.9.8 |
| arstropica.com/case-studies/.../ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no |
| arstropica.com/case-studies/.../ | handheldfriendly | True |
| arstropica.com/case-studies/.../ | msapplication-tilecolor | #ffffff |
| arstropica.com/case-studies/.../ | msapplication-tileimage | /ms-icon-144x144.png |
| arstropica.com/case-studies/.../ | theme-color | #ffffff |
| arstropica.com/case-studies/.../ | description | Atlanta based, full service creative agency providing UX web design, application development, WordPress & e-commerce services for businesses & individuals. |
| arstropica.com/case-studies/.../ | keywords | web design,website design,atlanta website designers,atlanta web development,atlanta web design,internet consulting,small business,atlanta,affordable website,wordpress,wordpress design,wordpress development,wordpress themes,wordpress templates,wordpress blog design,wordpress portfolio,blog design,blog theme,website builder,website design atlanta,web designer atlanta,ecommerce,ecommerce atlanta |
| arstropica.com/case-studies/.../ | generator | WordPress 4.9.8 |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| arstropica.com/ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| arstropica.com/about/ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| arstropica.com/case-studies/ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| arstropica.com/blog/ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| arstropica.com/case-studies/.../ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
Images9.9
6% of images have a clearly defined size
1 image is being resized by the browser
- Most images (94.0%) don't have defined sizes using width and height attributes in the HTML. These attributes are optional, but strongly recommended as they help the browser arrange the page more quickly.
- Add width and height attributes to all image tags. The width and height you specify should be the same as the source image. If you want to resize an image in the browser, use CSS.
Non Explicitly Sized Images
- Add width and height attributes to all image tags. The width and height you specify should be the same as the source image. If you want to resize an image in the browser, use CSS.
- 1 image is being stretched in the browser.
- The width and height you specify in an image tag should be the same as the source image. If you want to resize an image in the browser, use the CSS width and height properties.
Mobile10.0
- All of this website appears to be optimised for viewing on a mobile phone or a tablet.
Media specific CSS detected
Analytics10.0
100% of pages use analytics
Multiple Analytics Solutions
- Every page in this website is using some form of analytics software. This is excellent and should allow for a complete analysis of visitor behaviour.
Analytics Software Found
| Software Name |
| Google Analytics |
Page titles10.0
100% of pages have defined titles
0% of page titles are weak
- All pages were found to use page titles appropriately. Page titles appear in search results and at the top of the browser's window when visiting the site. Appropriate page titles are particularly important for search engine optimisation.
Page titles
Headings10.0
- All pages were found to use defined headings. This is excellent as it allows visitors and search engines to summarise the content of webpages quickly. Correctly defined headings aid accessibility and are particularly important for search engine optimisation.
Page headings detail
Printability10.0
100% of pages are optimised for printing
- All of this website appears to be optimised for printing (using CSS).
Media specific CSS detected
URL format10.0
Every URL is well written
- This website uses appropriate web addresses (URLs) throughout. This is excellent and will help search engine placement, usability and the marketability of this website.
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