Nibbler SEO audit for www.icewavehosting.com
Summary
Overall5.1
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility4.5
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
The following tests contribute to this score:
Experience5.0
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
The following tests contribute to this score:
Marketing3.6
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
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Technology5.6
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 10:30 on 3 May 2024 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Consider using descriptive words or phrases (e.g. 'News', 'September 2012 financial results') in your anchor tag to benefit search engine optimisation. (read more)
- Consider a leading website analytics solution, such as WebTrends or Google Analytics. (read more)
- 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)
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.
Analytics0.0
0% of pages use analytics
No Analytics Solution
- None of this website is using any recognised analytics software. It is still possible to gather a great deal of information from webserver logs, however complete visitor analysis requires client-side Javascript or an image not found here.
- Consider a leading website analytics solution, such as WebTrends or Google Analytics.
- 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.
Headings0.0
- A large number (60.0%) 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 |
| www.icewavehosting.com/ | Hot Sales | H3 |
| www.icewavehosting.com/ | Business News | H3 |
| www.icewavehosting.com/ | Company News | H3 |
| www.icewavehosting.com/.../email-protection | Email Protection | H1 |
| www.icewavehosting.com/.../email-protection | You are unable to access this email address icewavehosting.com | H2 |
Internal links0.0
- 2 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 www.icewavehosting.com/index.php...&tid=26 More www.icewavehosting.com/ www.icewavehosting.com/index.php...&tid=27 More www.icewavehosting.com/
- Consider using descriptive words or phrases (e.g. 'News', 'September 2012 financial results') in your anchor tag to benefit search engine optimisation.
- 56 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.
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 www.icewavehosting.com/ Not detected www.icewavehosting.com/.../email-protection Not detected www.icewavehosting.com/index.php...&tid=24 Not detected www.icewavehosting.com/index.php...&tid=20 Not detected www.icewavehosting.com/index.php...&tid=21 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
| Media | Min width | Max width | CSS file |
| screen | 49.2em | - | www.icewavehosting.com/.../cf.errors.css |
| screen | 66em | - | www.icewavehosting.com/.../cf.errors.css |
| screen | 49.2em | - | www.icewavehosting.com/.../cf.errors.css |
| screen | 66em | - | www.icewavehosting.com/.../cf.errors.css |
Mobile4.0
- Some pages (20.0%) of this website appear to be optimised for viewing on a mobile phone or tablet (using CSS media queries). It is important to make sure your content is optimised for a wide range of devices as a growing percentage of web browsing is done on phones and tablets.
- Check how the website looks using a mobile and consider adding mobile and tablet styling using media queries. Some websites employ other techniques for mobile visitors which we cannot currently detect.
Device optimised pages
Page Mobile Tablet Viewport www.icewavehosting.com/ Not detected Not detected Not detected www.icewavehosting.com/.../email-protection Detected Detected Detected www.icewavehosting.com/index.php...&tid=24 Not detected Not detected Not detected www.icewavehosting.com/index.php...&tid=20 Not detected Not detected Not detected www.icewavehosting.com/index.php...&tid=21 Not detected Not detected Not detected
- Check how the website looks using a mobile and consider adding mobile and tablet styling using media queries. Some websites employ other techniques for mobile visitors which we cannot currently detect.
- This website was found to use elements of Adobe Flash. Flash is commonly used to add interactivity or video to a website, but it can only be viewed on devices which have the Flash plugin. The Flash plugin is not available to many mobile phones and tablets so they cannot view Flash content. Additionally, web spiders like Google also have problems spidering Flash based content, so heavy use of Flash may not be good for SEO.
- Consider the use of Flash carefully. Where possible, change elements made in Flash for HTML equivalents. If this is not possible, try and provide a Flash alternative.
Media specific CSS detected
| Media | Min width | Max width | CSS file |
| screen | 49.2em | - | www.icewavehosting.com/.../cf.errors.css |
| screen | 66em | - | www.icewavehosting.com/.../cf.errors.css |
| screen | 49.2em | - | www.icewavehosting.com/.../cf.errors.css |
| screen | 66em | - | www.icewavehosting.com/.../cf.errors.css |
URL format5.2
3 URLs are less than ideal
- 3 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.
- 3 URLs include a file extension.
- Avoid use of file extensions wherever possible. File extensions appear at the end of web addresses, and have several negative effects. They make the address harder to remember or type (particularly for non-technical users), and can reveal the underlying technology of the website making it very slightly more vulnerable to hackers. They also tie the implementation of the website to a specific technology, which can make subsequent migration of URLs difficult. Consider URL rewriting as an effective and transparent means of creating appropriate URLs.
Page extensions
- Avoid use of file extensions wherever possible. File extensions appear at the end of web addresses, and have several negative effects. They make the address harder to remember or type (particularly for non-technical users), and can reveal the underlying technology of the website making it very slightly more vulnerable to hackers. They also tie the implementation of the website to a specific technology, which can make subsequent migration of URLs difficult. Consider URL rewriting as an effective and transparent means of creating appropriate URLs.
- 60.0% of URLs include an ID query parameter (e.g. www.example.com?sessionid=1234).
- Avoid use of any query parameter ending in id, e.g. 'sessionid;' Google explicitly states that it will not include pages with this format in their index. Consider URL rewriting as an effective and transparent means of creating appropriate URLs.
Amount of content6.0
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 104 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.
Amount of content discovered
Meta tags8.4
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
DIY Power System-Diesel/Gasoline Generator
www.icewavehosting.com/
- 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 |
| www.icewavehosting.com/ | keywords | Generator |
| www.icewavehosting.com/ | description | |
| www.icewavehosting.com/.../email-protection | robots | noindex, nofollow |
| www.icewavehosting.com/.../email-protection | viewport | width=device-width,initial-scale=1 |
| www.icewavehosting.com/index.php...&tid=24 | keywords | |
| www.icewavehosting.com/index.php...&tid=24 | description | |
| www.icewavehosting.com/index.php...&tid=20 | keywords | |
| www.icewavehosting.com/index.php...&tid=20 | description | |
| www.icewavehosting.com/index.php...&tid=21 | keywords | |
| www.icewavehosting.com/index.php...&tid=21 | description |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| www.icewavehosting.com/ | Content-Type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| www.icewavehosting.com/.../email-protection | Content-Type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
| www.icewavehosting.com/.../email-protection | X-UA-Compatible | IE=Edge |
| www.icewavehosting.com/index.php...&tid=24 | Content-Type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| www.icewavehosting.com/index.php...&tid=20 | Content-Type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| www.icewavehosting.com/index.php...&tid=21 | Content-Type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
Server behaviour8.7
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.
- 3 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.
- Adding or removing a trailing slash to one of the URLs of this site returns an error page (404). This is OK as no content is being duplicated, but visitors might try browsing to the pages of this website with or without a trailing slash. Ideally, the alternate URL should redirect to the correct page.
- Add a 301 redirect from the other version to the canonical URL.
Unhandled alternate URLs
Tested page Alternate www.icewavehosting.com/.../email-protection www.icewavehosting.com/cdn-cgi/.../
- Add a 301 redirect from the other version to the canonical URL.
- This website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect from http://icewavehosting.com to http://www.icewavehosting.com. This is ideal.
Images8.9
46% of images have a clearly defined size
29 images are being resized by the browser
- Most images (54.0%) 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.
- 29 images are 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
- 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.
- 1 images on this website could not be downloaded. Broken images may cause the website to display incorrectly for visitors.
- Check any images which could not be downloaded and fix them if necessary.
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.
Freshness10.0
Last updated April 30, 2024
- It looks like this website was last updated on Tuesday, 30 April 2024. This is good because visitors perceive up-to-date websites as more credible. Websites that are updated regularly are also spidered by search engines more often.
- 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
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Nibbler tested the following pages
- https://www.icewavehosting.com/
- https://www.icewavehosting.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection
- https://www.icewavehosting.com/index.php?c=article&a=type&tid=24
- https://www.icewavehosting.com/index.php?c=product&a=type&tid=20
- https://www.icewavehosting.com/index.php?c=article&a=type&tid=21