Nibbler SEO audit for www.croydon.qld.gov.au
Summary
Overall8.8
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility9.9
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience7.9
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing5.6
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
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Technology9.2
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 23:18 on 10 Apr 2024 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Sign up for a Twitter account and make sure it is linked to from your site. (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)
- 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.
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.croydon.qld.gov.au/ Not detected www.croydon.qld.gov.au/directions Not detected www.croydon.qld.gov.au/.../email-protection Not detected www.croydon.qld.gov.au/council-11 Not detected www.croydon.qld.gov.au/about-council/administration 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
Amount of content7.9
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 339 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.croydon.qld.gov.au/ | 3689 | 500 |
| www.croydon.qld.gov.au/directions | 2730 | 367 |
| www.croydon.qld.gov.au/.../email-protection | 607 | 98 |
| www.croydon.qld.gov.au/council-11 | 2730 | 365 |
| www.croydon.qld.gov.au/about-council/administration | 2741 | 364 |
Analytics8.0
80% of pages use analytics
Multiple Analytics Solutions
- 80.0% of this website is using some form of analytics software but 1 pages have no analytics. It is still possible to gather a great deal of information for the other 1 of pages from webserver logs, however complete visitor analysis requires client-side Javascript or an image not found here.
- Consider adding your analytics solution to the pages which aren't currently monitored.
- 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.
Analytics Software Found
| Software Name |
| Google Analytics |
| Google Tag Manager |
Meta tags8.4
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
THE Homepage – Croydon Shire Council
www.croydon.qld.gov.au/
Homepage of Croydon Shire Council
- 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 |
| www.croydon.qld.gov.au/ | x-ua-compatible | ie=edge |
| www.croydon.qld.gov.au/directions | x-ua-compatible | ie=edge |
| www.croydon.qld.gov.au/.../email-protection | Content-Type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
| www.croydon.qld.gov.au/.../email-protection | X-UA-Compatible | IE=Edge |
| www.croydon.qld.gov.au/council-11 | x-ua-compatible | ie=edge |
| www.croydon.qld.gov.au/about-council/administration | x-ua-compatible | ie=edge |
Server behaviour8.9
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.
- 2 of the pages of this website follow the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect between URLs with/without trailing slashes. These pages are ideal.
- One page of this website returns page content with or without a trailing slash on its URL. 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
Tested page Alternate www.croydon.qld.gov.au/about-council/administration www.croydon.qld.gov.au/.../
- Use a 301 redirect or a canonical meta tag to force search engines to see the correct version.
- Adding or removing a trailing slash to one of the URLs of this site returns an error page (404). This is OK as no content is being duplicated, but visitors might try browsing to the pages of this website with or without a trailing slash. Ideally, the alternate URL should redirect to the correct page.
- Add a 301 redirect from the other version to the canonical URL.
Unhandled alternate URLs
Tested page Alternate www.croydon.qld.gov.au/.../email-protection www.croydon.qld.gov.au/cdn-cgi/.../
- Add a 301 redirect from the other version to the canonical URL.
- This website uses a temporary (HTTP 302) redirect from http://croydon.qld.gov.au to http://www.croydon.qld.gov.au. This is OK, but a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect is considered best practice.
- If possible, change the temporary redirect to a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect.
Internal links9.6
- 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
Link URL Link text Page URL www.croydon.qld.gov.au/.../gulflander-train More www.croydon.qld.gov.au/ www.croydon.qld.gov.au/.../gulflander-train More www.croydon.qld.gov.au/
- Consider using descriptive words or phrases (e.g. 'News', 'September 2012 financial results') in your anchor tag to benefit search engine optimisation.
- 4 links use text that is too long. Links should describe what they link to briefly. Linking a long block of text usually indicates an attempt to trick search engines into ranking those keywords highly (a strategy which does not work). Long linked blocks of text are also harder for people to scan.
- Consider shortening long anchor text.
Overly long link text
Link URL Link text Page URL www.croydon.qld.gov.au/.../croydon-anzac-day-dawn-service Croydon Anzac Day Dawn Service 24 April 2024 You are invited to join us for the Anzac Day 2024 memorial celebrations See details www.croydon.qld.gov.au/ www.croydon.qld.gov.au/.../unleash-your-creativity-with-the-mobile-jewellery-tutor Unleash Your Creativity with The Mobile Jewellery Tutor 11 April 2024 - 31 December 2025 Daily Create your own piece of jewellery during a fun filled silversmithing workshop here in Croydon. See details www.croydon.qld.gov.au/ www.croydon.qld.gov.au/.../bush-telegraph Croydon's Bush Telegraph Step into the heart of our community with the Bush Telegraph! Dive into the stories, events, and buzz that make our town special. Click the link to explore and stay connected Learn more www.croydon.qld.gov.au/ www.croydon.qld.gov.au/community-empowerment Community Empowerment Shaping the future www.croydon.qld.gov.au/
- Consider shortening long anchor 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.
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
Images10.0
0% of images have a clearly defined size
No images are being resized by the browser
- No images have defined sizes.
- 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.
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 5, 2024
- It looks like this website was last updated on Friday, 5 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
| Date | File | Source |
| 03/04/2024 | www.croydon.qld.gov.au/site/.../Logo.png | Last modified header |
| 04/03/2019 | www.croydon.qld.gov.au/.../empty_style.css | Last modified header |
| 05/04/2024 | www.croydon.qld.gov.au/.../cf.errors.css | Last modified header |
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