Nibbler SEO audit for talkingoftrains.co.uk
Summary
Overall5.6
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility5.8
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience6.5
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing2.6
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
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Technology6.6
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 10:32 on 29 Mar 2024 (GMT).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Add meaningful anchor text that describes the link's destination. If the link contains an image, ensure you have provided alt text. (read more)
- 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)
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.
Headings0.0
- A large number (80.0%) 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 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.
Internal links0.0
- 18 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.
Amount of content2.6
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 86 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.
- 3 pages of this website have very little content (20 words or less).
- Ensure all pages have a sufficient amount of content.
Amount of content discovered
| Page | Characters | Words |
| talkingoftrains.co.uk/ | 2089 | 353 |
| talkingoftrains.co.uk/menu.html | 23 | 1 |
| talkingoftrains.co.uk/video.html | 295 | 53 |
| talkingoftrains.co.uk/gwr.html | 67 | 11 |
| talkingoftrains.co.uk/slideshow | 70 | 11 |
URL format5.2
4 URLs are less than ideal
- 4 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.
Page extensions
- 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.
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.
- There was no website found on http://www.talkingoftrains.co.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://talkingoftrains.co.uk on http://www.talkingoftrains.co.uk.
Printability8.0
80% of pages are optimised 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 optimised pages
Page Print talkingoftrains.co.uk/ Optimised talkingoftrains.co.uk/menu.html Not detected talkingoftrains.co.uk/video.html Optimised talkingoftrains.co.uk/gwr.html Optimised talkingoftrains.co.uk/slideshow Optimised
- 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
| Media | Min width | Max width | CSS file |
| only screen | 481px | - | talkingoftrains.co.uk/css/fluid3.css |
| only screen | 769px | - | talkingoftrains.co.uk/css/fluid3.css |
| - | - | talkingoftrains.co.uk/css/boilerplate.css |
Meta tags8.4
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
Talking of trains
talkingoftrains.co.uk/
Talking of Trains are evening meetings held at Surbiton Library on all railway subjects old and new, steam, diesel and electric
- 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)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| talkingoftrains.co.uk/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| talkingoftrains.co.uk/ | keywords | trains, railways, railway club, enthusiasts, evening classes, welcome, Dick Crane |
| talkingoftrains.co.uk/ | description | Talking of Trains are evening meetings held at Surbiton Library on all railway subjects old and new, steam, diesel and electric |
| talkingoftrains.co.uk/menu.html | viewport | width=device-width,initial-scale=1 |
| talkingoftrains.co.uk/menu.html | generator | CoffeeCup HTML Editor (www.coffeecup.com) |
| talkingoftrains.co.uk/menu.html | dcterms.created | Sun, 14 Nov 2021 12:56:23 GMT |
| talkingoftrains.co.uk/menu.html | description | |
| talkingoftrains.co.uk/menu.html | keywords | |
| talkingoftrains.co.uk/video.html | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| talkingoftrains.co.uk/video.html | keywords | trains, railways, videos, railway club, enthusiasts, videos, Dick Crane |
| talkingoftrains.co.uk/video.html | description | Talking of Trains videos by Dick Crane in lieu of live presentions |
| talkingoftrains.co.uk/gwr.html | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| talkingoftrains.co.uk/gwr.html | keywords | trains, railways, railway club, enthusiasts, evening classes, welcome, Dick Crane, Committee Members |
| talkingoftrains.co.uk/gwr.html | description | Talking of Trains Committee Members |
| talkingoftrains.co.uk/slideshow | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| talkingoftrains.co.uk/slideshow | keywords | trains, railways, railway club, enthusiasts, evening classes, welcome, Dick Crane, Committee Members |
| talkingoftrains.co.uk/slideshow | description | Talking of Trains Committee Members |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| talkingoftrains.co.uk/video.html | Content-Type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
| talkingoftrains.co.uk/gwr.html | Content-Type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
| talkingoftrains.co.uk/slideshow | Content-Type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
Mobile8.6
- Most pages (80.0%) of this website appear to be optimised for viewing on a mobile phone or tablet (using CSS media queries). 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 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 optimised pages
Page Mobile Tablet Viewport talkingoftrains.co.uk/ Detected Detected Detected talkingoftrains.co.uk/menu.html Not detected Not detected Detected talkingoftrains.co.uk/video.html Detected Detected Detected talkingoftrains.co.uk/gwr.html Detected Detected Detected talkingoftrains.co.uk/slideshow Detected Detected 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
| Media | Min width | Max width | CSS file |
| only screen | 481px | - | talkingoftrains.co.uk/css/fluid3.css |
| only screen | 769px | - | talkingoftrains.co.uk/css/fluid3.css |
Images9.6
21% of images have a clearly defined size
5 images are being resized by the browser
- Most images (79.0%) 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.
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 |
| Talking of trains | OK |
| No Title | Missing |
| Talking of trains | Video presentations | OK |
| Talking of trains | OK |
| Talking of trains | OK |
Freshness10.0
Last updated March 6, 2024
- It looks like this website was last updated on Wednesday, 6 March 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
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