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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/display/?id=5516
- http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/structure/academic/
- http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk
- http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/unilife/
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Summary
Good
Overall
Summary score for this website.
Excellent
Accessibility
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
Excellent
Experience
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
Good
Marketing
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
Good
Technology
How well designed and built the website is.
This website is ranked #93 in Nibbler's top websites!
Test Detail
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/display/?id=5516 | Content-Type | text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/structure/academic/ | Content-Type | text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 |
| http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk | Content-Type | text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1 |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/unilife/ | Content-Type | text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 |
Layout
- 4 of the 5 tested pages of this site appear to use tables to layout content. 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).
Pages Using a Table Layout
Social media
3,056 Tweets reference this website
127 Delicious bookmarks
22 Digged pages
Public Opinion
29% Happy
66% Neutral
5% Sad
- We found 3,056 Tweets about this website on Twitter.
- 29.1% of Tweets about this website were positive and 5.0% were negative. The remainder were neutral.
- Generally, people's comments about this website are indifferent.
- There are 22 articles on Digg relating to this website.
- This website has been bookmarked 127 times on Delicious.
Most Digged Pages
| Page URL | Digg Page | Diggs | Status | Category |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=3892 | http://digg.com/d3Y54P | 113 | upcoming | news in Science / Environment |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=3894 | http://digg.com/d3Y54J | 111 | upcoming | news in Science / General Sciences |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=127843 | http://digg.com/d3HZQc | 63 | upcoming | news in Science / General Sciences |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/index.htm?id=126176 | http://digg.com/d3GMu7 | 49 | upcoming | news in Science / General Sciences |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/index.htm?id=127193 | http://digg.com/d3H1TR | 35 | upcoming | news in Science / General Sciences |
Visual Interest
- 2 pages on this website have a low text-to-image ratio.
- On average there are 2.6 unique images per page.
- 40.0% 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/display/?id=5516 | OK | None |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/structure/academic/ | Low | OK |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/unilife/ | Low | None |
W3C compliance
- A total of 4 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/aboutus/structure/academic/ | ERROR | 160 | 179 | there is no attribute "target" |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/unilife/ | ERROR | 119 | 45 | there is no attribute "color" |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/unilife/ | ERROR | 119 | 54 | element "font" undefined |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/unilife/ | ERROR | 152 | 119 | there is no attribute "target" |
W3C Testing Results
| Page | Errors | Warnings | Doctype | Valid |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ | 0 | 0 | XHTML 1.0 Strict | Valid |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=5516 | 0 | 0 | XHTML 1.0 Strict | Valid |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/structure/academic/ | 1 | 0 | XHTML 1.0 Strict | Invalid |
| http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk | 0 | 0 | XHTML 1.0 Strict | Valid |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/unilife/ | 3 | 0 | XHTML 1.0 Strict | Invalid |
Popularity
11,904th Most popular website in the world
This website recently saw no mentionable change in popularity.
- This is the 11,904th most popular website in the world. Over the past 3 months, it has experienced no mentionable change in popularity.
Printability
- The majority 80.0% 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.
URL format
- A significant proportion (20.0%) of web addresses (URLs) are less than ideal.
- One URL is particularly hard to type or remember.
- A very small amount (20.0%) of URLs are 'dirty'
- 20.0% of URLs include an ID query parameter (e.g. www.example.com?sessionid=1234).
Recommendations
- 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.
- Remove or reduce the number of dirty URLs.
- 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.
Incoming links
5,650pages link to this website
3,737pages link to this website
- About 9,387 other pages were found linking to this website (5,650 links from Google, out of 9,387). The website is reasonably well linked to, although there is room for improvement.
Images
- Some images (12.0%) don't have defined sizes.
- 2 images are being stretched in the browser.
Stretched Images
Non Explicitly Sized Images
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 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.
Page Headings Tag Cloud
08 09 1 10 2 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 3 4 5 6 7 academic achievements among and articles british bsl college community courses deaf deansgate dementia departments diagnosis doctoral does early editors engineering experience faculty graduation have heroes history human humanities improve information john kings language launched library life links management manchester medical news notes people physical plan project quick related researchers rylands sciences search sign structure study unilife unique university use videos visit volume welcome what's within your
Recommendations
- 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
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.
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/display/?id=5516 | Unfiltered | |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/structure/academic/ | Unfiltered | |
| http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk | Unfiltered | |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/unilife/ | Unfiltered |
Titles
- All pages were found to use page titles appropriately.
Page Titles Tag Cloud
academic community deaf dementia departments john launched library manchester rylands study unilife university within
Page title detail
| URL | Page title | Issue |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ | The University of Manchester | |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=5516 | Dementia study launched within the Deaf community (The University of Manchester) | |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/structure/academic/ | Academic departments (The University of Manchester) | |
| http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk | The John Rylands University Library (The University of Manchester) | |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/unilife/ | UniLife (The University of Manchester) |
Links
- Every link tested appears to be well defined.
- Links contain appropriate descriptive text and don't link repeatedly to separate locations with identical text.
Feeds
All feeds are valid
This website's feed is updated 5 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 5 times every week.
Feeds on this website
| Feed URL | Type | Valid | Items | Last Update | Found on |
| http://www.manchester.ac.uk/rss/ | RSS | Yes | 23 | 03/03/10 | http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ |
Website age
- The technical age of your website is 2000. 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.
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