Nibbler SEO audit for www.ibm.com
Summary
Overall7.9
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility6.7
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience7.0
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing5.7
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
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Technology8.1
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 1 pages from this website at 09:38 on 25 Apr 2024 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Check how the website looks using a mobile and a tablet. Consider adding mobile-only styling using media queries. Some websites employ other techniques for mobile visitors which we cannot currently detect. (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)
- Sign up for a Twitter account and make sure it is linked to from your site. (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.
Mobile3.0
- None of this website appears to be fully optimised for viewing on a mobile or tablet (using CSS media queries). It is important to make sure your content can be viewed easily across a wide range of devices as a growing percentage of web browsing is now done on phones and tablets.
- Check how the website looks using a mobile and a tablet. Consider adding mobile-only styling using media queries. Some websites employ other techniques for mobile visitors which we cannot currently detect.
Media specific CSS detected
Amount of content8.2
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 356 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.
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.
- This website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect between URLs with/without trailing slashes. This is ideal.
- This website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect from http://ibm.com to http://www.ibm.com. This is ideal.
Analytics10.0
100% of pages use analytics
Google Analytics
- Every page in this website is using Google Analytics. 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.
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.
Internal links10.0
- Every link tested appears to be well defined. This is good because well defined links help SEO and aid accessibility.
Meta tags10.0
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
IBM - United States
www.ibm.com/us-en
For more than a century, IBM has been a global technology innovator, leading advances in AI, automation and hybrid cloud solutions that help businesses grow.
- All pages were found to include a meta description. This is good because search engines (like Google) show this text in search result pages.
Meta Tags (name attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| www.ibm.com/us-en | languagecode | en |
| www.ibm.com/us-en | countrycode | us |
| www.ibm.com/us-en | searchtitle | IBM - United States |
| www.ibm.com/us-en | focusarea | Cross IBM - All |
| www.ibm.com/us-en | description | For more than a century, IBM has been a global technology innovator, leading advances in AI, automation and hybrid cloud solutions that help businesses grow. |
| www.ibm.com/us-en | template | full-width-layout |
| www.ibm.com/us-en | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.ibm.com/us-en | robots | index, follow |
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
Freshness10.0
Last updated April 2, 2024
- It looks like this website was last updated on Tuesday, 2 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.
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