Nibbler SEO audit for store.steampowered.com
Summary
Overall7.3
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility7.4
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience8.4
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing6.6
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
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Technology7.5
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 16:54 on 23 Apr 2024 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Consider a leading website analytics solution, such as WebTrends or Google Analytics. (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)
- Consider URL rewriting as an effective and transparent means of creating appropriate URLs. 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. (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.
Headings0.0
- A large number (60.0%) 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 optimisation.
- Define meaningful headings for all webpages. This is likely to help this website's search engine placement and assist visitors in navigating content.
- Some headings (4.0%) 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 format3.6
4 URLs are less than ideal
- 4 URLs are particularly hard to type or remember.
- Consider URL rewriting as an effective and transparent means of creating appropriate URLs. 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.
- 4 URLs are 'dirty'. 'Dirty' URLs include one or more parameters after a question mark (e.g. www.example.com/?pagename=news), instead of a clean URL (e.g. www.example.com/news). Dirty URLs should generally be avoided wherever possible - they are almost impossible for human beings to remember, may expose the technology of the website to hackers and can confuse search engines among other problems. Their use is sometimes necessary for specific applications, and acceptable in small amounts.
- Remove or reduce the number of query parameters in URLs. Consider URL rewriting as an effective and transparent means of creating appropriate URLs.
Server behaviour6.8
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.
- This website was served with GZIP encoding. This is very good because it reduces the loading time of a web page.
- 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.
- This test is not applicable as this website appears to be on a subdomain.
Meta tags8.4
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
Welcome to Steam
store.steampowered.com/
Steam is the ultimate destination for playing, discussing, and creating games.
- All pages include at least some metadata, but only 80.0% 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.
Meta Tags (name attribute)
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| store.steampowered.com/ | Content-Type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
| store.steampowered.com/login/...&snr=1_4_4__global-header | Content-Type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
| store.steampowered.com/?snr=1_4_4__global-responsive-menu | Content-Type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
| store.steampowered.com/.../?snr=1_4_4__global-responsive-menu | Content-Type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
| store.steampowered.com/news/?snr=1_4_4__global-responsive-menu | Content-Type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
Amount of content8.4
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 1,411 words per page. The amount of content on a website has been shown to correlate with its search engine ranking.
Amount of content discovered
Mobile9.2
- All of this website appears to be optimised for viewing on a mobile phone (using CSS media queries) but only 40.0% of pages are optimised for tablet viewing. It is important to make sure your content is optimised 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 tablet and consider adding tablet-only styling using media queries. Some websites employ other techniques for mobile and tablet visitors which we cannot currently detect.
Device optimised pages
Page Mobile Tablet Viewport store.steampowered.com/ Detected Detected Detected store.steampowered.com/login/...&snr=1_4_4__global-header Detected Not detected Detected store.steampowered.com/?snr=1_4_4__global-responsive-menu Detected Detected Detected store.steampowered.com/.../?snr=1_4_4__global-responsive-menu Detected Not detected Detected store.steampowered.com/news/?snr=1_4_4__global-responsive-menu Detected Not detected Detected
- Check how the website looks using a tablet and consider adding tablet-only styling using media queries. Some websites employ other techniques for mobile and tablet visitors which we cannot currently detect.
Media specific CSS detected
Internal links9.8
- 2 links are weakly described. Common weak links include 'click here' and 'read more'. These links fail to describe the content the link points to.
- Consider using descriptive words or phrases (e.g. 'News', 'September 2012 financial results') in your anchor tag to benefit search engine optimisation.
Weak link text
- Consider using descriptive words or phrases (e.g. 'News', 'September 2012 financial results') in your anchor tag to benefit search engine optimisation.
- 4 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.
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
| Page title | Notes |
| Welcome to Steam | OK |
| Sign In | OK |
| Welcome to Steam | OK |
| Steam Points Shop | OK |
| Featured News - Steam News Hub | OK |
Images10.0
1% of images have a clearly defined size
5 images are being resized by the browser
- Most images (99.0%) 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.
- 5 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.
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
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.
Freshnessi
- Sorry, we couldn't determine when this website was last updated. This is usually because its web server isn't reporting this information and we couldn't find enough other dates in the content of pages.
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Nibbler tested the following pages
- https://store.steampowered.com/
- https://store.steampowered.com/login/?redir=&redir_ssl=1&snr=1_4_4__global-header
- https://store.steampowered.com/?snr=1_4_4__global-responsive-menu
- https://store.steampowered.com/points/shop/?snr=1_4_4__global-responsive-menu
- https://store.steampowered.com/news/?snr=1_4_4__global-responsive-menu