Nibbler SEO audit for www.venturelab.ca
Summary
Overall8.0
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility8.3
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience8.2
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing8.6
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
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Technology7.9
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 08:36 on 22 Apr 2024 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Consider using descriptive words or phrases (e.g. 'News', 'September 2012 financial results') in your anchor tag to benefit search engine optimisation. (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)
- 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. (read more)
Printability0.0
0% of pages are optimised for printing
- 5 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 www.venturelab.ca/ Not detected www.venturelab.ca/search?query=innovation+space Not detected www.venturelab.ca/search?query=startups Not detected www.venturelab.ca/search?query=entrepreneurship Not detected www.venturelab.ca/programs/hardware-catalyst-initiative 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
Internal links1.9
- 28 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.
- 216 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.
Meta tags3.6
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
Home | ventureLAB
www.venturelab.ca/
Powering hardtech founders to build and scale globally competitive ventures that advance Canada's knowledge-based economy.
- 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.
Meta Tags (name attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| www.venturelab.ca/ | description | Powering hardtech founders to build and scale globally competitive ventures that advance Canada's knowledge-based economy. |
| www.venturelab.ca/ | twitter:card | summary_large_image |
| www.venturelab.ca/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.venturelab.ca/ | generator | Webflow |
| www.venturelab.ca/search?query=innovation+space | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.venturelab.ca/search?query=innovation+space | generator | Webflow |
| www.venturelab.ca/search?query=startups | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.venturelab.ca/search?query=startups | generator | Webflow |
| www.venturelab.ca/search?query=entrepreneurship | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.venturelab.ca/search?query=entrepreneurship | generator | Webflow |
| www.venturelab.ca/programs/hardware-catalyst-initiative | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.venturelab.ca/programs/hardware-catalyst-initiative | generator | Webflow |
URL format6.4
3 URLs are less than ideal
- 3 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.
Images8.8
46% of images have a clearly defined size
330 images are being resized by the browser
- Most images (54.0%) 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.
- 9 images are not in a web-friendly format.
- Make sure all images on this website are JPEG, PNG, SVG or GIF format.
Non Web-Format Images
- Make sure all images on this website are JPEG, PNG, SVG or GIF format.
- 330 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.
Mobile10.0
- All of this website appears to be optimised for viewing on a mobile phone or a tablet.
Media specific CSS detected
Server behaviour10.0
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.
- One page of this website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect between its URL with/without a trailing slash. This page is ideal.
- This website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect from http://venturelab.ca to http://www.venturelab.ca. This is ideal.
Analytics10.0
100% of pages use analytics
Multiple Analytics Solutions
- Every page in this website is using some form of analytics software. This is excellent and should allow for a complete analysis of visitor behaviour.
Analytics Software Found
| Software Name |
| Google Analytics |
| Google Tag Manager |
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 |
| Home | ventureLAB | OK |
| Search Results | OK |
| Search Results | OK |
| Search Results | OK |
| Hardware Catalyst Initiative | ventureLAB | OK |
Headings10.0
- 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.
Page headings detail
Amount of content10.0
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 2,249 words per page. The amount of content on a website has been shown to correlate with its search engine ranking.
Amount of content discovered
| Page | Characters | Words |
| www.venturelab.ca/ | 22824 | 3103 |
| www.venturelab.ca/search?query=innovation+space | 13995 | 1991 |
| www.venturelab.ca/search?query=startups | 14009 | 2016 |
| www.venturelab.ca/search?query=entrepreneurship | 14250 | 1999 |
| www.venturelab.ca/programs/hardware-catalyst-initiative | 15183 | 2136 |
Freshness10.0
Last updated April 19, 2024
- It looks like this website was last updated on Friday, 19 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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