This is a free report from Nibbler. Visit nibbler.silktide.com for more information or to try Nibbler out on your website!
Want more? Our commercial product, SiteRay, can create far more detailed reports, test thousands of pages and compare websites in fine detail. You can get your own branding too! Visit www.silktide.com for more information.
Report for www.manchester.ac.uk
Report Summary
Nibbler tested the following pages
- http://www.manchester.ac.uk/
- http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/
- http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/
- http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/contactus/
- http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/travel/
Nibbler will test up to 5 pages of a website. You can test more with SiteRay, our commercial tool for testing websites.
Summary
Good
Overall
Summary score for this website.
Excellent
Accessibility
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
Good
Experience
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
Good
Marketing
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
Average
Technology
How well designed and built the website is.
This website is ranked #100 in Nibbler's top websites!
Test Detail
Layout
- All of the tested pages of this site appear to use tables for layout. This is very bad, as using tables for layout is not necessary and they should only contain tabular data.
Recommendations
- Change this website to make use of div elements and CSS to create the desired layout.
- Only use tables for tabular data (e.g. a pricing table).
Meta tags
- All pages include at least some metadata, but no pages have a description meta tag. Including meta data is important as search engines use it to determine the content of a website's pages. The description meta data is what appears in the website's Google search result.
Recommendations
- Make sure that all the website's pages include a meta description as a minimum.
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ | Content-Type | text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/ | Content-Type | text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/ | Content-Type | text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/contactus/ | Content-Type | text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/travel/ | Content-Type | text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 |
Incoming links
0pages link to this website (as of 1st Sep) See this on Google*
370,671pages link to this website (as of 1st Sep) See this on Yahoo*
- About 370,671 other pages were found linking to this website (0 links from Google, out of 370,671).
*The results here were correct at the time of running this report. The live results on Google & Yahoo may have changed.
Social media
134 Delicious bookmarks
0 Digged pages
Public Opinion
30% Happy
66% Neutral
4% Sad
- We found 3,430 Tweets about this website on Twitter.
- 30.2% of Tweets about this website were positive and 4.0% were negative. The remainder were neutral.
- Compared to most websites, this has a large proportion of positively worded tweets.
- Generally, people's comments about this website are indifferent.
- There are 0 articles on Digg relating to this website.
- This website has been bookmarked 134 times on Delicious.
Images
- Most images (88.0%) don't have defined sizes.
Non Explicitly Sized Images
Visual Interest
- 4 pages on this website have a low text-to-image ratio.
- On average there are 2.6 unique images per page.
- 20.0% of pages do not contain a single unique image.
Recommendations
- Add more images to the text heavy pages of this website. Images can help break up content heavy pages of your website.
Boring webpages
| Page | Image:Text Ratio | Unique Images |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/ | Low | OK |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/ | Low | OK |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/contactus/ | Low | None |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/travel/ | Low | OK |
Printability
- The majority 60.0% of this website appears to be optimised for printing (using CSS).
Recommendations
- 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.
W3C compliance
- A total of 24 errors and 0 warnings were found on the 5 pages tested.
- A large proportion (40.0%) of pages are not W3C compliant. Because there are errors in the code, some web browsers may not be able to read this website correctly and it may not always display correctly.
- This website was validated as XHTML 1.0 Strict
Recommendations
- Resolve the validation errors that are listed in the table below. These errors are preventing this website from being fully W3C compliant.
W3C Validation Errors
| Document | Type | Line | Column | Message |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ | ERROR | 318 | 29 | there is no attribute "src" |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ | ERROR | 318 | 134 | there is no attribute "width" |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ | ERROR | 318 | 145 | there is no attribute "height" |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ | ERROR | 318 | 161 | there is no attribute "frameborder" |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ | ERROR | 318 | 164 | element "iframe" undefined |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ | ERROR | 321 | 140 | element "iframe" undefined |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/ | ERROR | 163 | 29 | there is no attribute "src" |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/ | ERROR | 163 | 134 | there is no attribute "width" |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/ | ERROR | 163 | 145 | there is no attribute "height" |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/ | ERROR | 163 | 161 | there is no attribute "frameborder" |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/ | ERROR | 163 | 164 | element "iframe" undefined |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/ | ERROR | 166 | 140 | element "iframe" undefined |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/ | ERROR | 222 | 49 | an attribute specification must start with a name or name token |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/ | ERROR | 222 | 49 | document type does not allow element "a" here; missing one of "object", "ins", "del", "span", "bdo", "tt", "i", "b", "big", "small", "em", "strong", "dfn", "code", "q", "samp", "kbd", "var", "cite", "abbr", "acronym", "sub", "sup", "label" start-tag |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/ | ERROR | 222 | 77 | delimiter "=" invalid: only S separators and TAGC allowed here |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/ | ERROR | 222 | 48 | XML Parsing Error: error parsing attribute name |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/ | ERROR | 222 | 48 | XML Parsing Error: attributes construct error |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/ | ERROR | 222 | 48 | XML Parsing Error: Couldn't find end of Start Tag a line 222 |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/ | ERROR | 222 | 76 | XML Parsing Error: expected '>' |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/ | ERROR | 222 | > 80 | XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: li line 222 and a |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/ | ERROR | 222 | > 80 | XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: ul line 222 and li |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/ | ERROR | 225 | > 80 | XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: div line 219 and ul |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/ | ERROR | 233 | 6 | XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: body line 34 and div |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/ | ERROR | 272 | 7 | XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: html line 3 and body |
W3C Testing Results
| Page | Errors | Warnings | Doctype | Valid |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ | 6 | 0 | XHTML 1.0 Strict | Invalid |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/ | 0 | 0 | XHTML 1.0 Strict | Valid |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/ | 18 | 0 | XHTML 1.0 Strict | Invalid |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/contactus/ | 0 | 0 | XHTML 1.0 Strict | Valid |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/travel/ | 0 | 0 | XHTML 1.0 Strict | Valid |
Popularity
13,027th Most popular website in the world
This website recently saw no mentionable change in popularity.
- This is the 13,027th most popular website in the world. Over the past 3 months, it has experienced no mentionable change in popularity.
Links
- Some (1.6%) of links in this site could be defined better.
- 2 links use duplicate text to point to different pages.
- One link has no text describing its destination
Recommendations
- Links should not repeat the same text to link to different pages. Usually this is a problem where a link is non-descriptive (e.g. 'More').
- Links should describe what they link to for the benefit of both screenreader software and search engine spiders. It is possible that you have applied a link to an image and are relying on the user having a visual browser.
- Note that it is possible to change the text a link points to without changing the appearance of the link. For example, 'Read more' could be a valid link, if you add a description into the 'title' attribute to the tag.
Duplicate link text
| Link URL | Link text | Page URL |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/undergraduate | Undergraduate | http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses | Undergraduate | http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ |
Empty link text
Trustworthiness
Trustworthiness excellent
Vendor reliability excellent
Privacy excellent
Child safety excellent
See more on this website's WOT Scorecard
- Users of the Web of Trust submit reviews about websites they visit. These reviews are then used to warn other users of malicous, untrustworthy and adult websites.
- This website is rated excellent for Trustworthiness.
- This website is rated excellent for Vendor Reliability.
- This website is rated excellent for Privacy.
- This website is rated excellent for Child Safety.
- The information WOT holds on this website is likely to be reliable, as many people have submitted testimonies on this website.
Headings
- 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.
- Some headings (3.0%) were found to be empty, or incorrectly defined. Empty or invalid headings are of no value to search engines and make a website less accessible.
Page Headings Tag Cloud
and attendance conferences confirm contact courses day departments do download email enquiries excellence find get gift here history individual links manchester maps members mission news open our post president's prospectus qualification quick register related research responsible services shop staff student students support telephone travel university us verification welcome your
Page headings detail
Analytics
- Every page in this website is using Google Analytics v2. This is excellent and should allow for a complete analysis of visitor behaviour.
Alternative text
- All images were found to have an appropriate text equivalent. This will help users with visual disabilities use the website and aid legal compliance in many countries.
Inoffensive content
- None of the pages tested will be blocked by filtering systems.
- Filtering systems are used in homes, schools and companies to stop inappropriate content being displayed.
Filtering Results
| Page URL | Status | Filter Reason |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ | Unfiltered | |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/ | Unfiltered | |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/ | Unfiltered | |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/contactus/ | Unfiltered | |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/travel/ | Unfiltered |
Titles
- All pages were found to use page titles appropriately.
Page Titles Tag Cloud
and contact manchester maps news travel university us
Page title detail
| URL | Page title | Issue |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ | The University of Manchester | |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/ | News (The University of Manchester) | |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/ | About Us (The University of Manchester) | |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/contactus/ | Contact us (The University of Manchester) | |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/travel/ | Maps and travel (The University of Manchester) |
Feeds
All feeds are valid
This website's feed is updated 3 times every week
- One feed was found on the 5 pages tested. This is good as it allows search engines and visitors to follow updates to this website.
- The one feed found is valid. This is excellent.
- All of the feeds tested have been updated in the last month. This is excellent as regular updates to feeds keep subscribers interested in this website.
- Your syndicated content is updated about 3 times every week.
Feeds on this website
| Feed URL | Type | Valid | Items | Last Update | Found on |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/rss/ | RSS | Yes | 11 | 24/08/10 | http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ |
URL format
- This website uses appropriate web addresses (URLs) throughout. This is excellent and will help search engine placement, usability and the marketability of this website.
Website age
- The technical age of your website is 2006. This is not the true age of your site, but how old it seems based on the technology behind it.
- This test does not contribute to the overall score of your website.
Add a Nibbler badge to your website
Step 3 - Copy the following code onto your website or blog:
<a href="http://nibbler.silktide.com/reports/www.manchester.ac.uk"><img width="88" height="31" src="http://score.icons.nibbler.silktide.com/l/www.manchester.ac.uk" alt="Nibbler report for www.manchester.ac.uk" /></a>
Preview:
Step 3 - Copy the following code onto your website or blog:
<a href="http://nibbler.silktide.com/reports/www.manchester.ac.uk"><img width="88" height="16" src="http://score.icons.nibbler.silktide.com/s/www.manchester.ac.uk" alt="Nibbler report for www.manchester.ac.uk" /></a>
Preview:
Did you find Nibbler useful? Why not...
- Check out our the best websites in our Top 100
- Give us some feedback
- Try a free demo of Siteray, our commercial version for web professionals
.jpg){kind=link}
