Nibbler SEO audit for www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk
Summary
Overall8.2
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility9.7
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience9.4
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing6.8
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
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Technology8.8
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 21:37 on 28 Apr 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 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. (read more)
- Put a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect to http://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk on http://leicestershospitals.nhs.uk. (read more)
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 tags3.6
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
Welcome to Leicester's hospitals website
www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/
Welcome to Leicester's Hospitals website - contact us on 0300 303 1573 or by email
- All pages include at least some metadata, but only 20.0% 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 |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/ | generator | EIBS - Easysite v6 Content Management System v6.5.4.5 |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/ | creator | Claire Grange |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/ | description | Welcome to Leicester's Hospitals website - contact us on 0300 303 1573 or by email |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/ | date | 2005-08-30T11:27:06Z |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/ | keywords | leicester royal, Leicester's hospitals, leicester, contact us, hospital, emergency, royal infirmary, general hospital, glenfield hospital |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | generator | EIBS - Easysite v6 Content Management System v6.5.4.5 |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | creator | Simon Andrews |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | description | |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | date | 2012-05-24T10:02:43Z |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | generator | EIBS - Easysite v6 Content Management System v6.5.4.5 |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | creator | Tom Phelan |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | description | |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | date | 2014-08-07T13:28:40Z |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | generator | EIBS - Easysite v6 Content Management System v6.5.4.5 |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | creator | UHL Site Administrator |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | description | |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | date | 2011-09-08T10:32:42Z |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | generator | EIBS - Easysite v6 Content Management System v6.5.4.5 |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | creator | Adam King |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | description | |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | date | 2011-09-08T10:27:57Z |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=10 |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=10 |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=10 |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=10 |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=10 |
Server behaviour7.6
404 page
Compression
- This website handles missing pages correctly by sending a 404 HTTP status code.
- This website was served with GZIP encoding. This is very good because it reduces the loading time of a web page.
- This website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect between URLs with/without trailing slashes. This is ideal.
- There was no website found on http://leicestershospitals.nhs.uk. This is bad, as visitors might presume they can visit this website by visiting that address.
- Put a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect to http://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk on http://leicestershospitals.nhs.uk.
Images8.6
70% of images have a clearly defined size
69 images are being resized by the browser
- Some images (30.0%) 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
- 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.
- 69 images are 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
- 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.
Amount of content8.7
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 530 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 |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/ | 4677 | 618 |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | 3422 | 511 |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | 4959 | 790 |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | 2354 | 327 |
| www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/.../ | 2894 | 406 |
Headings8.9
- 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.
- Some headings (2.0%) 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
Internal links9.3
- 6 links have no text describing their 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.
Empty link text
- Add meaningful anchor text that describes the link's destination. If the link contains an image, ensure you have provided alt text.
Mobile10.0
- All of this website appears to be optimised for viewing on a mobile phone or a tablet.
Media specific CSS detected
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.
Printability10.0
100% of pages are optimised for printing
- All of this website appears to be optimised for printing (using CSS).
Media specific CSS detected
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 18, 2024
- It looks like this website was last updated on Thursday, 18 April 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.
All dates found
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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Nibbler tested the following pages
- https://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/
- https://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/about-this-website/cookie-guidance/
- https://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/our-purpose-strategy-and-values/uhl-recognition-awards/
- https://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/patients/getting-to-hospital/leicester-general-hospital/
- https://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/patients/getting-to-hospital/leicester-royal-infirmary/