Nibbler SEO audit for milkyway.cs.rpi.edu
Summary
Overall7.6
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility8.6
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience8.4
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing6.1
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
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Technology8.0
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 15:02 on 20 Mar 2024 (GMT).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Consider a leading website analytics solution, such as WebTrends or Google Analytics. (read more)
- 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. (read more)
- 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. (read more)
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.
Meta tags2.0
- All pages include at least some metadata, but no 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 |
| milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/science.php | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/welcome.php | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/server_status.php | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/information.php | Content-Type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
URL format4.8
4 URLs are less than ideal
- One URL is 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 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.
Popularity5.0
1747Estimated monthly organic visitors
- This website appears to have a good number of monthly website visits each month
Source: Ahrefs
Headings7.0
- 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.
- 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
Printability8.0
80% of pages are optimised 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 optimised pages
Page Print milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ Optimised milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/science.php Optimised milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/information.php Not detected milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/welcome.php Optimised milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/server_status.php Optimised
- 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
Server behaviour8.4
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.
- One page of this website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect between its URL with/without a trailing slash. This page is ideal.
- 4 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.
Duplicate pages
- 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.
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 optimised pages
Page Mobile Tablet Viewport milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ Detected Detected Detected milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/science.php Detected Detected Detected milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/information.php Not detected Not detected Not detected milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/welcome.php Detected Detected Detected milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/server_status.php 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
Amount of content9.0
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 1,222 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 |
| milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ | 9350 | 1420 |
| milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/science.php | 18629 | 3100 |
| milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/information.php | 8497 | 1159 |
| milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/welcome.php | 1557 | 231 |
| milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/server_status.php | 1673 | 201 |
Images9.1
11% of images have a clearly defined size
1 image is being resized by the browser
- Most images (89.0%) 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.
- One image is not in a web-friendly format.
- Make sure all images on this website are JPEG, PNG, SVG or GIF format.
Non Web-Format Images
Image URL Format Page URL milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/.../776213_sm.jpg unavailable boinc.berkeley.edu/logo/boinc32.bmp unknown
- Make sure all images on this website are JPEG, PNG, SVG or GIF format.
- 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 milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/.../nsf1.jpg jpg milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/
- 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.
Internal links9.9
- One link has no text describing its 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 optimisation.
Page titles
| Page title | Notes |
| No Title | Missing |
| No Title | Missing |
| Milkyway@home Project Information | OK |
| No Title | Missing |
| No Title | Missing |
Freshness10.0
Last updated March 20, 2024
- It looks like this website was last updated on Wednesday, 20 March 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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