Nibbler SEO audit for pdbns.ca
Summary
Overall9.1
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility9.2
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience9.0
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
The following tests contribute to this score:
Marketing8.5
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 3:08 AM on Apr 29, 2024 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Consider the amount of text on this website and increase it if appropriate. (read more)
- 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. (read more)
- Consider adding your analytics solution to the pages which aren't currently monitored. (read more)
Amount of content7.5
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 237 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
| Page | Characters | Words |
| pdbns.ca/ | 2172 | 319 |
| pdbns.ca/index.html | 1351 | 209 |
| pdbns.ca/home | 2172 | 319 |
| pdbns.ca/hearings | 1054 | 150 |
| pdbns.ca/public | 1404 | 187 |
Analytics8.0
80% of pages use analytics
Multiple Analytics Solutions
- 80.0% of this website is using some form of analytics software but 1 pages have no analytics. It is still possible to gather a great deal of information for the other 1 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.
Analytics Software Found
| Software Name |
| Google Analytics |
Headings8.0
- All pages were found to use defined headings. This is excellent as it allows visitors and search engines to summarize the content of webpages quickly. Correctly defined headings aid accessibility and are particularly important for search engine optimization.
- 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 |
| pdbns.ca/ | Search Near You | H2 |
| pdbns.ca/ | Uniquely Nova Scotian | H3 |
| pdbns.ca/ | Protecting the public interest in dental care | H3 |
| pdbns.ca/ | A professional standard of care | H3 |
| pdbns.ca/ | Visiting the Dental Board Office | H3 |
| pdbns.ca/ | Releases | H3 |
| pdbns.ca/ | For the Public | H4 |
| pdbns.ca/ | For Licensees | H4 |
| pdbns.ca/ | For Applicants | H4 |
| pdbns.ca/ | Medical Emergencies Course- Sept 1, 2022 | H4 |
| pdbns.ca/ | Statement by Dr. Doug Mackey, Registrar - February 25, 2022 | H4 |
| pdbns.ca/index.html | Welcome To Nexcess! | H1 |
| pdbns.ca/index.html | Available Services | H2 |
| pdbns.ca/index.html | Committed Support | H2 |
| pdbns.ca/index.html | Flexibility | H2 |
| pdbns.ca/index.html | Our Own Data Centers | H2 |
| pdbns.ca/index.html | Shared Hosting | H5 |
| pdbns.ca/index.html | Magento E-Commerce Hosting | H5 |
| pdbns.ca/index.html | WordPress Hosting | H5 |
| pdbns.ca/index.html | Clustered Servers | H5 |
| pdbns.ca/index.html | Content Delivery Network | H5 |
| pdbns.ca/index.html | Domain Registration | H5 |
| pdbns.ca/index.html | Reseller Hosting | H5 |
| pdbns.ca/index.html | Magento Enterprise Hosting | H5 |
| pdbns.ca/index.html | WordPress Enterprise Hosting | H5 |
| pdbns.ca/index.html | Dedicated Servers | H5 |
| pdbns.ca/index.html | Michigan Colocation | H5 |
| pdbns.ca/index.html | SSL Certificates | H5 |
| pdbns.ca/home | Search Near You | H2 |
| pdbns.ca/home | Uniquely Nova Scotian | H3 |
| pdbns.ca/home | Protecting the public interest in dental care | H3 |
| pdbns.ca/home | A professional standard of care | H3 |
| pdbns.ca/home | Visiting the Dental Board Office | H3 |
| pdbns.ca/home | Releases | H3 |
| pdbns.ca/home | For the Public | H4 |
| pdbns.ca/home | For Licensees | H4 |
| pdbns.ca/home | For Applicants | H4 |
| pdbns.ca/home | Medical Emergencies Course- Sept 1, 2022 | H4 |
| pdbns.ca/home | Statement by Dr. Doug Mackey, Registrar - February 25, 2022 | H4 |
| pdbns.ca/hearings | Discipline Decisions | H1 |
| pdbns.ca/hearings | Ms. Bonnie Priest, RDA | H5 |
| pdbns.ca/hearings | Dr. Joshua Profitt | H5 |
| pdbns.ca/hearings | Dr. Eun Jung Shin | H5 |
| pdbns.ca/hearings | Dr. Julie Knoll | H5 |
| pdbns.ca/hearings | Dr. Louis Bourget - Oral Surgeon | H5 |
| pdbns.ca/hearings | Dr. Daniel Tam | H5 |
| pdbns.ca/hearings | Dr. Louis Bourget - Oral Surgeon | H5 |
| pdbns.ca/hearings | Ms. Lindsay Nichole Brown, RDA | H5 |
| pdbns.ca/public | What is the Provincial Dental Board? | H1 |
Printability8.0
80% of pages are optimized for printing
- One page of this website does 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 optimized pages
Page Print pdbns.ca/ Optimized pdbns.ca/index.html Not detected pdbns.ca/home Optimized pdbns.ca/hearings Optimized pdbns.ca/public Optimized
- 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
Mobile8.6
- Most pages (80.0%) 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 optimized pages
Page Mobile Tablet Viewport pdbns.ca/ Detected Detected Detected pdbns.ca/index.html Not detected Not detected Not detected pdbns.ca/home Detected Detected Detected pdbns.ca/hearings Detected Detected Detected pdbns.ca/public Detected Detected 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.
Media specific CSS detected
URL format8.8
1 URLs are less than ideal
- 1 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.
Server behavior9.4
404 page
Compression
- This website handles missing pages correctly by sending a 404 HTTP status code.
- One page of this website was not served using GZIP encoding. GZIP compression is widely supported and reduces the load time of a web page.
- Enable GZIP compression on your web server or in your application for all pages.
- 3 of the pages of this website return page content with or without a trailing slash on their URLs, but they use a canonical tag to denote the correct version. This is ideal, as search engines will know which version to index.
- This website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect from http://www.pdbns.ca to http://pdbns.ca. This is ideal.
Internal links9.8
- 4 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.
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 optimization.
Images10.0
0% of images have a clearly defined size
No images are being resized by the browser
- No images have defined sizes.
- 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.
Meta tags10.0
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
Welcome | Provincial Dental Board of Nova Scotia
pdbns.ca/
The Provincial Dental Board of Nova Scotia is a legislated body mandated to protect the general public interests in matters related to the delivery of dental care and ...
- All pages were found to include a meta description. This is good because search engines (like Google) show this text in search result pages.
Meta Tags (name attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| pdbns.ca/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1 |
| pdbns.ca/ | description | The Provincial Dental Board of Nova Scotia is a legislated body mandated to protect the general public interests in matters related to the delivery of dental care and administer the provisions of the Dental Act and Regulations. |
| pdbns.ca/ | keywords | dental board, nova scotia, licensing, licensees, dental act, public interests, dental regulations, provincial body, legislated body, oversight |
| pdbns.ca/ | msapplication-tilecolor | #2a2a2a |
| pdbns.ca/ | msapplication-tileimage | /images/interface/tileicon.png |
| pdbns.ca/index.html | description | The default index page for your new Nexcess hosting account. |
| pdbns.ca/home | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1 |
| pdbns.ca/home | description | The Provincial Dental Board of Nova Scotia is a legislated body mandated to protect the general public interests in matters related to the delivery of dental care and administer the provisions of the Dental Act and Regulations. |
| pdbns.ca/home | keywords | dental board, nova scotia, licensing, licensees, dental act, public interests, dental regulations, provincial body, legislated body, oversight |
| pdbns.ca/home | msapplication-tilecolor | #2a2a2a |
| pdbns.ca/home | msapplication-tileimage | /images/interface/tileicon.png |
| pdbns.ca/hearings | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1 |
| pdbns.ca/hearings | description | The Provincial Dental Board of Nova Scotia is a legislated body mandated to protect the general public interests in matters related to the delivery of dental care and administer the provisions of the Dental Act and Regulations. |
| pdbns.ca/hearings | keywords | dental board, nova scotia, licensing, licensees, dental act, public interests, dental regulations, provincial body, legislated body, oversight |
| pdbns.ca/hearings | msapplication-tilecolor | #2a2a2a |
| pdbns.ca/hearings | msapplication-tileimage | /images/interface/tileicon.png |
| pdbns.ca/public | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1 |
| pdbns.ca/public | description | The Provincial Dental Board of Nova Scotia is a legislated body mandated to protect the general public interests in matters related to the delivery of dental care and administer the provisions of the Dental Act and Regulations. |
| pdbns.ca/public | keywords | dental board, nova scotia, licensing, licensees, dental act, public interests, dental regulations, provincial body, legislated body, oversight |
| pdbns.ca/public | msapplication-tilecolor | #2a2a2a |
| pdbns.ca/public | msapplication-tileimage | /images/interface/tileicon.png |
Freshness10.0
Last updated February 16, 2024
- It looks like this website was last updated on Friday, February 16, 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
Twitteri
This website does not appear to be associated with a Twitter account.
- There was a problem checking the Twitter accounts associated with this website.
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Nibbler tested the following pages
- http://pdbns.ca/
- http://pdbns.ca/index.html
- http://pdbns.ca/home
- http://pdbns.ca/hearings
- http://pdbns.ca/public