Nibbler SEO audit for boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov
Summary
Overall5.6
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility7.1
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience6.8
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing2.5
How well marketed and popular the website is.
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Technology7.1
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 2 pages from this website at 5:27 PM on Apr 29, 2024 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Consider a leading website analytics solution, such as WebTrends or Google Analytics. (read more)
- Make sure that all pages have a title in the head of the document. (read more)
- Define meaningful headings for all webpages. This is likely to help this website's search engine placement and assist visitors in navigating content. (read more)
Twitter0.0
This website does not appear to be associated with a Twitter account.
- This website did not contain a link to Twitter.
- Sign up for a Twitter account and make sure it is linked to from your site.
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 tags1.0
- No pages were found to use the description 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.
Pages with no meta description
- 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 |
| boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/ | google-site-verification | aDan0dk-8cqsVgwGh6i6b5j_G9daxKiXTXTJQpAEpFc |
Headings2.5
- A large number (50.0%) of pages do not use defined headings. This means that users and search engines may find it harder to determine the content of this website's pages. Correctly defined headings aid accessibility and are particularly important for search engine optimization.
- Define meaningful headings for all webpages. This is likely to help this website's search engine placement and assist visitors in navigating content.
Page headings detail
| URL | Heading | Level |
| boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/ | Professional Boards & Licensing | H1 |
| boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/ | Professional Boards & Licensing Employment Standards Division | H3 |
| boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/ | Warning | H4 |
| boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/ | Warning | H4 |
| boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/ | Occupational and Professional Licensing | H4 |
| boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/ | Public | H4 |
| boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/ | Professionals | H4 |
| boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/ | Careers at DLI | H4 |
| boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/ | DLI Divisions | H4 |
| boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/ | DLI Directory | H4 |
| boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/ | Mailing Address | H4 |
| boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/ | Choose a Board or Program | H4 |
| boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/ | Contact Information | H5 |
| boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/ | Login for | H5 |
| boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/ | Create an Account for | H5 |
| boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/ | Mailing Address | H6 |
| boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/ | Phone | H6 |
| boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/ | H6 | |
| boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/ | Work Opportunity Tax Credit | H6 |
| boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/ | Work Opportunity Tax Credit | H6 |
Amount of content3.9
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 143 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.
- One page of this website has very little content (20 words or less).
- Ensure all pages have a sufficient amount of content.
Amount of content discovered
| Page | Characters | Words |
| boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/ | 2409 | 268 |
| boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/safety-health/workplace-safety-training | 104 | 18 |
Page titles5.0
50% of pages have defined titles
0% of page titles are weak
- One page does not specify a title. 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.
- Make sure that all pages have a title in the head of the document.
Printability5.0
50% 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 boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/ Optimized boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/safety-health/workplace-safety-training Not detected
- 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
Mobile6.5
- Some pages (50.0%) of this website appear to be optimized for viewing on a mobile phone or tablet (using CSS media queries). It is important to make sure your content is optimized 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 boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/ Detected Detected Detected boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/safety-health/workplace-safety-training Not detected Not detected Not 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
Images6.7
67% of images have a clearly defined size
1 image is being resized by the browser
- Some images (33.0%) 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
Image URL Format Page URL dli.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=6&rec=1 unknown boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/ montanaworks.gov/.../background50.jpg jpg boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/
- 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.
- 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 montanaworks.gov/.../grizzly-test.png png boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/
- 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.
Server behavior7.7
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.
- Adding or removing a trailing slash to all URLs of this site returns an error page (404). This is OK as no content is being duplicated, but visitors might try browsing to the pages of this website with or without a trailing slash. Ideally, the alternate URL should redirect to the correct page.
- Add a 301 redirect from the other version to the canonical URL.
Unhandled alternate URLs
- Add a 301 redirect from the other version to the canonical URL.
- This website uses a temporary (HTTP 302) redirect from http://www.boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov to http://boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov. This is OK, but a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect is considered best practice.
- If possible, change the temporary redirect to a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect.
Internal links10.0
- Every link tested appears to be well defined. This is good because well defined links help SEO and aid accessibility.
URL format10.0
Every URL is well written
- This website uses appropriate web addresses (URLs) throughout. This is excellent and will help search engine placement, usability and the marketability of this website.
Freshness10.0
Last updated April 29, 2024
- It looks like this website was last updated on Monday, April 29, 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.
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