Nibbler SEO audit for www.builders.co.za
Summary
Overall5.9
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility6.9
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience6.0
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing1.8
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
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Technology6.5
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 04:57 on 23 Apr 2024 (BST).
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)
- 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 the amount of text on this website and increase it if appropriate. (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.
Headings0.0
- No pages were found to be using defined headings. This means that users and search engines may find it harder to determine the content of this website's page. 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.
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.builders.co.za/ Not detected www.builders.co.za/my-account/my-lists Not detected www.builders.co.za/Interactive-Catalogue Not detected www.builders.co.za/shop-by-room Not detected www.builders.co.za/cart 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
| Media | Min width | Max width | CSS file |
| only screen | - | 1024px | www.builders.co.za/ |
| only screen | - | 1024px | www.builders.co.za/my-account/my-lists |
| only screen | - | 1024px | www.builders.co.za/Interactive-Catalogue |
| only screen | - | 1024px | www.builders.co.za/shop-by-room |
| only screen | - | 1024px | www.builders.co.za/cart |
Amount of content0.0
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 19 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.
- 5 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 |
| www.builders.co.za/ | 141 | 19 |
| www.builders.co.za/my-account/my-lists | 141 | 19 |
| www.builders.co.za/Interactive-Catalogue | 141 | 19 |
| www.builders.co.za/shop-by-room | 140 | 19 |
| www.builders.co.za/cart | 141 | 19 |
Internal links1.7
- 10 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 tags2.0
- All pages include at least some metadata, but no 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.builders.co.za/ | viewport | initial-scale=1,width=device-width,interactive-widget=resizes-content |
| www.builders.co.za/my-account/my-lists | viewport | initial-scale=1,width=device-width,interactive-widget=resizes-content |
| www.builders.co.za/Interactive-Catalogue | viewport | initial-scale=1,width=device-width,interactive-widget=resizes-content |
| www.builders.co.za/shop-by-room | viewport | initial-scale=1,width=device-width,interactive-widget=resizes-content |
| www.builders.co.za/cart | viewport | initial-scale=1,width=device-width,interactive-widget=resizes-content |
Server behaviour6.4
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.
- This website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect from http://builders.co.za to http://www.builders.co.za. This is ideal.
Mobile10.0
- All of this website appears to be optimised for viewing on a mobile phone or a tablet.
Media specific CSS detected
| Media | Min width | Max width | CSS file |
| only screen | - | 1024px | www.builders.co.za/ |
| only screen | - | 1024px | www.builders.co.za/my-account/my-lists |
| only screen | - | 1024px | www.builders.co.za/Interactive-Catalogue |
| only screen | - | 1024px | www.builders.co.za/shop-by-room |
| only screen | - | 1024px | www.builders.co.za/cart |
Analytics10.0
100% of pages use analytics
Google Tag Manager
- Every page in this website is using Google Tag Manager. This is excellent and should allow for a complete analysis of visitor behaviour.
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
100% of images have a clearly defined size
No images are being resized by the browser
- All images 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.
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.
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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