Nibbler SEO audit for uk.search.yahoo.com
Summary
Overall5.8
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility6.6
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
The following tests contribute to this score:
Experience6.1
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
The following tests contribute to this score:
Marketing2.6
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
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Technology7.1
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 08:39 on 2 May 2024 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Define meaningful headings for all webpages. This is likely to help this website's search engine placement and assist visitors in navigating content. (read more)
- Consider the amount of text on this website and increase it if appropriate. (read more)
- Consider adding your analytics solution to the pages which aren't currently monitored. (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.
Printability0.0
0% of pages are optimised for printing
- 5 pages of this website do not appear to be optimised for printing (using CSS).
- Add printable stylesheets for all pages, wherever possible. In most cases, websites can share printable stylesheets over many or all pages, as with screen-based stylesheets.
Print optimised pages
Page Print uk.search.yahoo.com/ Not detected uk.search.yahoo.com/preferences/preferences Not detected uk.search.yahoo.com/search Not detected uk.search.yahoo.com/preferences/preferences Not detected uk.search.yahoo.com/search Not detected
- Add printable stylesheets for all pages, wherever possible. In most cases, websites can share printable stylesheets over many or all pages, as with screen-based stylesheets.
Media specific CSS detected
Meta tags2.8
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
Yahoo Search - Web Search
uk.search.yahoo.com/
The search engine that helps you find exactly what you're looking for. Find the most relevant information, video, images, and answers from all across the Web.
- 20.0% 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.
Pages with no meta description
- 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 |
| uk.search.yahoo.com/ | description | The search engine that helps you find exactly what you're looking for. Find the most relevant information, video, images, and answers from all across the Web. |
| uk.search.yahoo.com/ | oath:guce:consent-host | guce.yahoo.com |
| uk.search.yahoo.com/preferences/preferences | referrer | origin |
| uk.search.yahoo.com/preferences/preferences | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| uk.search.yahoo.com/preferences/preferences | oath:guce:consent-host | guce.yahoo.com |
| uk.search.yahoo.com/preferences/preferences | referrer | origin |
| uk.search.yahoo.com/preferences/preferences | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| uk.search.yahoo.com/preferences/preferences | oath:guce:consent-host | guce.yahoo.com |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| uk.search.yahoo.com/ | content-type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
| uk.search.yahoo.com/preferences/preferences | content-type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
| uk.search.yahoo.com/preferences/preferences | content-type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
Headings3.0
- A large number (40.0%) of pages do not use defined headings. This means that users and search engines may find it harder to determine the content of this website's pages. Correctly defined headings aid accessibility and are particularly important for search engine optimisation.
- Define meaningful headings for all webpages. This is likely to help this website's search engine placement and assist visitors in navigating content.
- Some pages did not define headings correctly. The H1 tag should be used for the most top-level heading, with H2 being used for sub-headings and H3 for further sub-headings and so-on. Not conforming to this convention may confuse visitors.
- Ensure that headings are defined in a semantically correct way, i.e. always start with a H1 tag. This is used to summarise the page content. Further tags (H2, H3, H4 etc) are meant to summarise and partition sections within the content.
Page headings detail
| URL | Heading | Level |
| uk.search.yahoo.com/ | Hello! | H3 |
| uk.search.yahoo.com/preferences/preferences | Yahoo Web Search | H1 |
| uk.search.yahoo.com/preferences/preferences | Search Preferences | H1 |
| uk.search.yahoo.com/preferences/preferences | SafeSearch | H2 |
| uk.search.yahoo.com/preferences/preferences | Open search results | H2 |
| uk.search.yahoo.com/preferences/preferences | Yahoo Web Search | H1 |
| uk.search.yahoo.com/preferences/preferences | Search Preferences | H1 |
| uk.search.yahoo.com/preferences/preferences | SafeSearch | H2 |
| uk.search.yahoo.com/preferences/preferences | Open search results | H2 |
URL format3.6
4 URLs are less than ideal
- 4 URLs are particularly hard to type or remember.
- Consider URL rewriting as an effective and transparent means of creating appropriate URLs. URLs using unusual characters (such as semi-colons or underscores), long numerals or complex phrasing are very difficult for real people to use or exchange. They also tend to be less favoured by search engines. Wherever possible ensure web addresses are 'human readable' - i.e. they should be easy to read, remember and type. In particular, avoid the use of obscure characters (including the underscore, which is not widely understood by non-technical users, or particularly memorable) and long numerals, e.g. example.com/23857984325.
- 4 URLs are 'dirty'. 'Dirty' URLs include one or more parameters after a question mark (e.g. www.example.com/?pagename=news), instead of a clean URL (e.g. www.example.com/news). Dirty URLs should generally be avoided wherever possible - they are almost impossible for human beings to remember, may expose the technology of the website to hackers and can confuse search engines among other problems. Their use is sometimes necessary for specific applications, and acceptable in small amounts.
- Remove or reduce the number of query parameters in URLs. Consider URL rewriting as an effective and transparent means of creating appropriate URLs.
Analytics4.0
40% of pages use analytics
Google Analytics
- 40.0% of this website is using Google Analytics but 3 pages have no analytics. It is still possible to gather a great deal of information for the other 3 of pages from webserver logs, however complete visitor analysis requires client-side Javascript or an image not found here.
- Consider adding your analytics solution to the pages which aren't currently monitored.
- Note that this test can only detect recognised analytics solutions. If an analytics solution is new, obscure or used in a non-standard way (e.g. it has been customised) it may not be detected.
Amount of content4.0
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 101 words per page. The amount of content on a website has been shown to correlate with its search engine ranking.
- Consider the amount of text on this website and increase it if appropriate.
- 2 pages of this website have very little content (20 words or less).
- Ensure all pages have a sufficient amount of content.
Amount of content discovered
| Page | Characters | Words |
| uk.search.yahoo.com/ | 9692 | 334 |
| uk.search.yahoo.com/preferences/preferences | 517 | 85 |
| uk.search.yahoo.com/search | 0 | 1 |
| uk.search.yahoo.com/preferences/preferences | 517 | 85 |
| uk.search.yahoo.com/search | 0 | 1 |
Page titles6.0
60% of pages have defined titles
0% of page titles are weak
- 2 pages do not specify a title. 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
| Page title | Notes |
| Yahoo Search - Web Search | OK |
| Yahoo Search Preferences | OK |
| No Title | Missing |
| Yahoo Search Preferences | OK |
| No Title | Missing |
Internal links7.8
- 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.
Mobile8.0
- This website delivers a mobile optimised version of the HTML when accessed on a phone. This is good because visitors on a mobile device will be able to access this website easily.
- Having mobile optimised HTML is good, but the best way of adapting a website for different screen sizes is to use CSS media queries.
Media specific CSS detected
Server behaviour9.2
404 page
Compression
- This website handles missing pages correctly by sending a 404 HTTP status code.
- This website was served with GZIP encoding. This is very good because it reduces the loading time of a web page.
- 2 of the pages of this website return page content with or without a trailing slash on their URLs. Search engines might see these as separate pages with duplicate content which they could penalise for.
- Use a 301 redirect or a canonical meta tag to force search engines to see the correct version.
- This test is not applicable as this website appears to be on a subdomain.
Images9.3
33% of images have a clearly defined size
1 image is being resized by the browser
- Most images (67.0%) 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.
Stretched Images
Image URL Format Page URL s.yimg.com/.../31_clear-202211231919.svg svg uk.search.yahoo.com/
- 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.
Freshnessi
- Sorry, we couldn't determine when this website was last updated. This is usually because its web server isn't reporting this information and we couldn't find enough other dates in the content of pages.
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Nibbler tested the following pages
- https://uk.search.yahoo.com/
- https://uk.search.yahoo.com/preferences/preferences;_ylt=AwrEq_ojQzNmbjIEMWNKBQx.?pref_done=https%3A%2F%2Fuk.search.yahoo.com%2F%3Fei%3DUTF-8&.bcrumb=Iz9UNbn2wYC
- https://uk.search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AwrEq_ojQzNmbjIEOWNKBQx.;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZAMEc2VjA2hlYWRlcg--?ei=UTF-8&p=Weather+Ashburn&fr=sfp&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Asfp%2Cm%3Aheader
- https://uk.search.yahoo.com/preferences/preferences;_ylt=AwrEq_ojQzNmbjIEPWNKBQx.?pref_done=https%3A%2F%2Fuk.search.yahoo.com%2F%3Fei%3DUTF-8&.bcrumb=Iz9UNbn2wYC
- https://uk.search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AwrEq_ojQzNmbjIEOmNKBQx.;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZAMEc2VjA2hlYWRlcg--?ei=UTF-8&p=Weather+Ashburn&fr=sfp&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Asfp%2Cm%3Aheader