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Report for www.metoffice.gov.uk
Report Summary
Nibbler tested the following pages
- http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/
- http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/news/
- http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/pws/invent/
- http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/faqs/
- http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/accessibility/
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Summary
Excellent
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.
Excellent
Technology
How well designed and built the website is.
This website is ranked #2 in Nibbler's top websites!
Test Detail
Analytics
- 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. 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.
Images
- Most images (66.0%) don't have defined sizes.
- 12 images are being stretched in the browser.
Stretched Images
Non Explicitly Sized Images
Invalid Images
Visual Interest
- 2 pages on this website have a low text-to-image ratio.
- On average there are 6.4 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.metoffice.gov.uk/public/pws/invent/ | Low | OK |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/faqs/ | Low | None |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/accessibility/ | OK | None |
Social media
5,497 Tweets reference this website
621 Delicious bookmarks
16 Digged pages
Public Opinion
6% Happy
89% Neutral
5% Sad
- We found 5,497 Tweets about this website on Twitter.
- 6.2% of Tweets about this website were positive and 4.6% were negative. The remainder were neutral.
- Generally, people's comments about this website are indifferent.
- There are 16 articles on Digg relating to this website.
- This website has been bookmarked 621 times on Delicious.
Most Digged Pages
| Page URL | Digg Page | Diggs | Status | Category |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/cgi-bin/newsid?article=17180224&epoch=1150473115 | http://digg.com/d31bbP | 17 | upcoming | news in Science / General Sciences |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2007/pr20070411.html | http://digg.com/d37KOS | 13 | upcoming | news in Science / Environment |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/impacts/200701/18040517.html | http://digg.com/d35BUY | 8 | upcoming | news in Offbeat / Odd Stuff |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2010/pr20100305.html | http://digg.com/d31KiCW | 5 | upcoming | news in Science / Environment |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2008/pr20080804.html | http://digg.com/d3WwOR | 3 | upcoming | news in Technology / Hardware |
Incoming links
2,110pages link to this website
2,170pages link to this website
- About 4,280 other pages were found linking to this website (2,110 links from Google, out of 4,280). The website is reasonably well linked to, although there is room for improvement.
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.
Feeds
All feeds are valid
- 3 feeds were found on the 5 pages tested. This is good as it allows search engines and visitors to follow updates to this website.
- All of the 3 feeds tested were found to be valid. This is excellent.
- Nibbler couldn't determine the date of some of the items in your feed.
Recommendations
- Ensure your feeds contain valid date elements.
Feeds on this website
| Feed URL | Type | Valid | Items | Last Update | Found on |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/xml/jobs_rss.xml | RSS | Yes | 3 | 12/03/10 | http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/ |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/xml/news_rss.xml | RSS | Yes | 10 | 12/03/10 | http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/ |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/xml/warnings_rss.xml | RSS | Yes | 0 | - | http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/ |
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.
Popularity
2,839th Most popular website in the world
This website recently saw a significant increase in popularity.
- This is the 2,839th most popular website in the world. Over the past 3 months, it has experienced a significant increase in popularity.
Links
- Some (1.3%) of links in this site could be defined better.
- 4.0 links use duplicate text to point to different pages.
- 2 links are missing link descriptive text.
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 |
| Climate science | http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/ | |
| Climate science | http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/ | |
| Advertisement | http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/ | |
| Advertisement | http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/ |
Empty link text
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.metoffice.gov.uk/ | Unfiltered | |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/news/ | Unfiltered | |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/pws/invent/ | Unfiltered | |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/faqs/ | Unfiltered | |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/accessibility/ | Unfiltered |
Titles
- All pages were found to use page titles appropriately.
Page Titles Tag Cloud
- accessibility and change climate help invent met new news office site using visualisation weather
Page title detail
| URL | Page title | Issue |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/ | Met Office: Weather and climate change | |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/news/ | Met Office: News | |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/pws/invent/ | Met Office : Invent - New Weather Visualisation | |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/faqs/ | Met Office: Help using this site | |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/accessibility/ | Met Office: Accessibility |
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.
Page Headings Tag Cloud
1 2 3 4 5 access accessibility and answers archive asked browsealoud browser change climate close-ups conditions customise display explorer feedback firefox forecasts frequently give government headline help home internet invent keys larger latest making map measurement met miscellaneous mozilla new news office page questions rainfall releases response saturday site specific terms text today tonight uk units us use using view weather website your
Page headings detail
Meta tags
Your Search Listing
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
Met Office: Weather and climate change
Met Office weather and climate change forecasts for the UK and worldwide. World leading weather services for the public, business, and government.
www.metoffice.gov.uk/
- Appropriate metadata is used throughout. All pages were found to include a meta description. This is excellent and means that search engines can determine the content of the website pages easily.
Meta Tags (name attribute)
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/ | Content-Type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/ | expires | 0 |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/ | Pragma | no-cache |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/ | PICS-Label | (PICS-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://www.metoffice.gov.uk" r (cz 1 lz 1 nz 1 oz 1 vz 1) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://www.metoffice.gov.uk" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0)) |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/news/ | Content-Type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/news/ | Pragma | no-cache |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/news/ | Expires | 0 |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/pws/invent/ | Content-Type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/pws/invent/ | expires | 0 |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/pws/invent/ | Pragma | no-cache |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/pws/invent/ | PICS-Label | (PICS-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://www.metoffice.gov.uk" r (cz 1 lz 1 nz 1 oz 1 vz 1) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://www.metoffice.gov.uk" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0)) |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/faqs/ | Content-Type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/faqs/ | expires | 0 |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/faqs/ | Pragma | no-cache |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/faqs/ | PICS-Label | (PICS-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://www.metoffice.gov.uk" r (cz 1 lz 1 nz 1 oz 1 vz 1) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://www.metoffice.gov.uk" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0)) |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/accessibility/ | Content-Type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/accessibility/ | expires | 0 |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/accessibility/ | Pragma | no-cache |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/accessibility/ | PICS-Label | (PICS-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://www.metoffice.gov.uk" r (cz 1 lz 1 nz 1 oz 1 vz 1) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://www.metoffice.gov.uk" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0)) |
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.
W3C compliance
- No errors or warnings were found on the 5 pages tested.
- All pages were found to be W3C compliant. This is excellent and means that this website can be read by the widest possible range of applications.
- This website was validated as HTML 4.01 Transitional
W3C Testing Results
| Page | Errors | Warnings | Doctype | Valid |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/ | 0 | 0 | HTML 4.01 Transitional | Valid |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/news/ | 0 | 0 | HTML 4.01 Transitional | Valid |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/pws/invent/ | 0 | 0 | HTML 4.01 Transitional | Valid |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/faqs/ | 0 | 0 | HTML 4.01 Transitional | Valid |
| http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/accessibility/ | 0 | 0 | HTML 4.01 Transitional | Valid |
Layout
- None of the tested pages of this site use tables for layout. This is excellent, as using tables for layout is not necessary and they should only contain tabular data. A well built website should use div elements and CSS to create the desired layout.
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.
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