Report for www.studentpad.co.uk
Summary
Overall9.4
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility9.8
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience8.7
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing8.5
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
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Technology9.4
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 15:04 on 23 Feb 2021 (GMT).
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Top priorities for website improvement
- 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)
- Add meaningful anchor text that describes the link's destination. If the link contains an image, ensure you have provided alt text. (read more)
- 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. (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.studentpad.co.uk/ Not detected www.studentpad.co.uk/student-accommodation/london Not detected www.studentpad.co.uk/housing-guide Not detected www.studentpad.co.uk/news Not detected www.studentpad.co.uk/contact 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
Popularity3.6
7,221,435 Most popular website in the world
This website recently saw a slight decrease in popularity.
- This is the 7,221,435 most popular website in the world.
- Over the past 3 months, this website has experienced a slight decrease in popularity.
Source: Alexa
Amount of content8.8
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 661 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.studentpad.co.uk/ | 8283 | 1058 |
| www.studentpad.co.uk/student-accommodation/london | 4907 | 716 |
| www.studentpad.co.uk/housing-guide | 2367 | 351 |
| www.studentpad.co.uk/news | 6252 | 1010 |
| www.studentpad.co.uk/contact | 1143 | 168 |
Internal links8.9
- 20 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.
Twitter9.3
This website is linked with the Twitter account @studentpad
This website's Twitter account has
2,200 followers
- This website was found to link the Twitter account Studentpad (@studentpad).
- This website's Twitter account has made 1,710 tweets to 2,200 followers.
Source: Twitter
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.
- 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://studentpad.co.uk to http://www.studentpad.co.uk. 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.
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
Incoming links10.0
112,333 pages link to this website
1,897 domains link to this website
- There are 112,333 pages on 1,897 domains linking to this website. The volume and quality of incoming links is known to influence a website's search engine ranking.
- To appear higher in search engine results, consider link building activity as a way to build your search ranking. Be careful though, because incoming links which are obviously artificial are likely to be detected by search engines and could have an adverse effect.
Source: Ahrefs
Images10.0
1% of images have a clearly defined size
1 image is being resized by the browser
- Most images (99.0%) 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.
- 1 image is 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.
Meta tags10.0
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
Studentpad - Find Student Accommodation and Housing in the UK and ...
www.studentpad.co.uk/
Find and rent the best student accommodation and student housing in the UK and Ireland today, including student flats, shared houses and private halls, with ...
- 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.studentpad.co.uk/ | description | Find and rent the best student accommodation and student housing in the UK and Ireland today, including student flats, shared houses and private halls, with Studentpad's student accommodation search engine! We have been helping landlords and students for over 21 years. |
| www.studentpad.co.uk/ | twitter:card | summary_large_image |
| www.studentpad.co.uk/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.studentpad.co.uk/student-accommodation/london | description | Find student accommodation in London and take the first step to moving into your perfect student home today with Studentpad! |
| www.studentpad.co.uk/student-accommodation/london | twitter:card | summary_large_image |
| www.studentpad.co.uk/student-accommodation/london | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.studentpad.co.uk/housing-guide | description | Find out everything you need to know about living in student accommodation in the UK & Ireland with the Studentpad housing guide. |
| www.studentpad.co.uk/housing-guide | twitter:card | summary_large_image |
| www.studentpad.co.uk/housing-guide | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.studentpad.co.uk/news | description | Keep current with the fast paced world of student accommodation, studying and student life with Studentpad. |
| www.studentpad.co.uk/news | twitter:card | summary_large_image |
| www.studentpad.co.uk/news | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.studentpad.co.uk/contact | description | Contact the team at Studentpad with your questions today or connect with us on social media. |
| www.studentpad.co.uk/contact | twitter:card | summary_large_image |
| www.studentpad.co.uk/contact | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
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 January 24, 2021
- It looks like this website was last updated on Sunday, 24 January 2021. 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 |
| 24/01/2021 | www.studentpad.co.uk/news | Body text |
| 09/11/2020 | www.studentpad.co.uk/news | Body text |
| 02/07/2020 | www.studentpad.co.uk/news | Body text |
| 13/05/2020 | www.studentpad.co.uk/news | Body text |
| 20/03/2020 | www.studentpad.co.uk/news | Body text |
| 06/04/2019 | www.studentpad.co.uk/news | Body text |
| 31/01/2020 | www.studentpad.co.uk/news | Body text |
| 30/10/2017 | www.studentpad.co.uk/news | Body text |
| 20/09/2017 | www.studentpad.co.uk/news | Body text |
| 25/09/2017 | www.studentpad.co.uk/news | Body text |
| 04/10/2017 | www.studentpad.co.uk/news | Body text |
| 03/02/2020 | www.studentpad.co.uk/news | Body text |
| 22/09/2017 | www.studentpad.co.uk/news | Body text |
| 09/01/2017 | www.studentpad.co.uk/news | Body text |
| 01/09/2020 | www.studentpad.co.uk/news | Body text |
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