Nibbler SEO audit for musiciansarchive.com
Summary
Overall6.6
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility7.3
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience4.7
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing5.8
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
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Technology6.2
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 2 pages from this website at 21:24 on 13 May 2024 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Check how the website looks using a mobile and a tablet. Consider adding mobile-only styling using media queries. Some websites employ other techniques for mobile visitors which we cannot currently detect. (read more)
- Ensure your web server returns a 404 HTTP status code for error pages. (read more)
- Consider adding your analytics solution to the pages which aren't currently monitored. (read more)
Printability0.0
0% of pages are optimised for printing
- 2 pages of this website do 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 Musiciansarchive.com/ Not detected Musiciansarchive.com/content/guitar-lesson-1-getting-started.htm 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.
Freshness2.6
Last updated March 26, 2023
- It looks like this website was last updated on Sunday, 26 March 2023. This is bad because visitors may dismiss this website as outdated. Websites that are not updated regularly are also spidered by search engines less often.
- Consider updating this website regularly with new content.
- 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
| Date | File | Source |
| 26/03/2023 | Musiciansarchive.com/ | Last modified header |
| 09/09/2009 | Musiciansarchive.com/img/guitar_main.jpg | Last modified header |
| 09/09/2009 | Musiciansarchive.com/img/myspace.png | Last modified header |
| 09/09/2009 | Musiciansarchive.com/img/twitter.png | Last modified header |
| 05/10/2009 | Musiciansarchive.com/musarchive.css | Last modified header |
Mobile3.0
- None of this website appears to be fully optimised for viewing on a mobile or tablet (using CSS media queries). It is important to make sure your content can be viewed easily across a wide range of devices as a growing percentage of web browsing is now done on phones and tablets.
- Check how the website looks using a mobile and a tablet. Consider adding mobile-only styling using media queries. Some websites employ other techniques for mobile visitors which we cannot currently detect.
Device optimised pages
Page Mobile Tablet Viewport Musiciansarchive.com/ Not detected Not detected Not detected Musiciansarchive.com/content/guitar-lesson-1-getting-started.htm Not detected Not detected Not detected
- Check how the website looks using a mobile and a tablet. Consider adding mobile-only styling using media queries. Some websites employ other techniques for mobile visitors which we cannot currently detect.
Server behaviour3.7
404 page
Compression
- This website does not return a 404 error HTTP status code for missing pages. This is bad because search engines like Google might mistake this for a real page of content.
- Ensure your web server returns a 404 HTTP status code for error pages.
- 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.
- This website returns page content with or without a trailing slash on the 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.
- There is duplicate content on http://www.Musiciansarchive.com and http://Musiciansarchive.com. This is bad, as technically they are classed as two different websites. Search engines may lower a website's rank if they find the same content on two different URLs.
- Choose one domain that you would like to use and then set a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect to forward users who visit the other.
Analytics5.0
50% of pages use analytics
Google Analytics
- 50.0% of this website is using Google Analytics but 1 pages have no analytics. It is still possible to gather a great deal of information for the other 1 of pages from webserver logs, however complete visitor analysis requires client-side Javascript or an image not found here.
- Consider adding your analytics solution to the pages which aren't currently monitored.
- 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 tags5.0
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
MusiciansArchive.com - The Musician's Free Online Library Since 2003
Musiciansarchive.com/
Helping Musicians Make Great Music Since 2003. Articles on Learning Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Drums, Vocals, Songwriting, Recording, and Music Software.
- 50.0% of 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.
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 |
| Musiciansarchive.com/ | description | Helping Musicians Make Great Music Since 2003. Articles on Learning Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Drums, Vocals, Songwriting, Recording, and Music Software. |
| Musiciansarchive.com/ | keywords | Musician, Music, Learn To Play, Bass, Music Business and Law, Drums, Effects, Guitar, Keyboard and Synth, Live Sound, MIDI, Mixing and Mastering, mp3, Music Software, Music Theory, Piano, Recording, Singing and Vocal, Songwriting |
| Musiciansarchive.com/ | robots | index, follow |
| Musiciansarchive.com/ | verify-v1 | xiLmAmxHoW98Bgf+ad6cn2kL/lL6hBPnk9fjW6ZXeTI= |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| Musiciansarchive.com/ | Content-Type | application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8 |
Amount of content6.1
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 100 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.
Amount of content discovered
| Page | Characters | Words |
| Musiciansarchive.com/ | 941 | 124 |
| Musiciansarchive.com/content/guitar-lesson-1-getting-started.htm | 508 | 76 |
Headings6.9
- 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.
- Many headings (13.0%) 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.
- Make sure all headings have content which is relevant to the page of content.
- 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
| URL | Heading | Level |
| Musiciansarchive.com/ | MusiciansArchive.com | H2 |
| Musiciansarchive.com/ | Featured Articles | H2 |
| Musiciansarchive.com/ | Weekly Best Music & Gear Sales | H2 |
| Musiciansarchive.com/ | Articles | H2 |
| Musiciansarchive.com/ | Resources | H2 |
| Musiciansarchive.com/ | Top Music Sites | H3 |
| Musiciansarchive.com/content/guitar-lesson-1-getting-started.htm | Internal Server Error | H1 |
URL format7.0
1 URLs are less than ideal
- 1 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.
Internal links9.2
- 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
Images10.0
0% of images have a clearly defined size
No images are being resized by the browser
- No images have defined sizes.
- 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.
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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