Nibbler SEO audit for www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com
Summary
Overall6.3
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility7.1
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience6.5
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing5.0
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
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Technology7.8
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 13:08 on 17 Apr 2024 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Consider a leading website analytics solution, such as WebTrends or Google Analytics. (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)
- 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)
Analytics0.0
0% of pages use analytics
No Analytics Solution
- None of this website is using any recognised analytics software. It is still possible to gather a great deal of information from webserver logs, however complete visitor analysis requires client-side Javascript or an image not found here.
- Consider a leading website analytics solution, such as WebTrends or Google Analytics.
- 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.
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.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/ Not detected www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/previous-issues Not detected www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/Issues/Issue-47 Not detected www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/subscribe Not detected www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/Featured 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.
Freshness1.2
Last updated July 1, 2021
- It looks like this website was last updated on Thursday, 1 July 2021. This is bad because visitors may dismiss this website as outdated. Websites that are not updated regularly are also spidered by search engines less often.
- Consider updating this website regularly with new content.
- 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 |
| 01/07/2021 | www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/subscribe | Body text |
| 01/01/2010 | www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/subscribe | Body text |
Headings4.0
- A significant amount (20.0%) of pages do not use defined headings. This means that users and search engines may find it harder to determine the content of this website's pages. 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.
- Some pages did not define headings correctly. The H1 tag should be used for the most top-level heading, with H2 being used for sub-headings and H3 for further sub-headings and so-on. Not conforming to this convention may confuse visitors.
- Ensure that headings are defined in a semantically correct way, i.e. always start with a H1 tag. This is used to summarise the page content. Further tags (H2, H3, H4 etc) are meant to summarise and partition sections within the content.
Page headings detail
Internal links4.5
- 16 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.
Amount of content6.4
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 256 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.
- One page of this website has very little content (20 words or less).
- Ensure all pages have a sufficient amount of content.
Amount of content discovered
| Page | Characters | Words |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/ | 2575 | 416 |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/previous-issues | 1469 | 258 |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/Issues/Issue-47 | 2 | 1 |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/subscribe | 2714 | 406 |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/Featured | 1256 | 200 |
Mobile7.2
- This website delivers a mobile optimised version of the HTML when accessed on a phone. This is good because visitors on a mobile device will be able to access this website easily.
- Having mobile optimised HTML is good, but the best way of adapting a website for different screen sizes is to use CSS media queries.
Page titles8.0
80% of pages have defined titles
0% of page titles are weak
- One page does not specify a title. 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.
- Make sure that all pages have a title in the head of the document.
Page titles
Meta tags8.4
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
Home | The Dark Horse Magazine
www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/
The Dark Horse was founded in 1995 by the Scottish poet Gerry Cambridge. It is an international literary magazine committed to British, Irish and American poetry ...
- 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)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/ | generator | Wix.com Website Builder |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/ | wix-dynamic-custom-elements | DropDownMenu |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/ | format-detection | telephone=no |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/ | skype_toolbar | skype_toolbar_parser_compatible |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/ | description | The Dark Horse was founded in 1995 by the Scottish poet Gerry Cambridge. It is an international literary magazine committed to British, Irish and American poetry, and is published from Scotland. |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/ | google-site-verification | RyCEfp4ejMUufRKRjH2EsU1gFgmdhtxEV_lMyjg0-qU |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/ | twitter:card | summary_large_image |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/ | twitter:title | Home | The Dark Horse Magazine |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/ | twitter:description | The Dark Horse was founded in 1995 by the Scottish poet Gerry Cambridge. It is an international literary magazine committed to British, Irish and American poetry, and is published from Scotland. |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/ | twitter:image | https://static.wixstatic.com/media/32a481_7d718cd056d24b70bb5700bfd6a66814%7Emv2.png/v1/fit/w_2500,h_1330,al_c/32a481_7d718cd056d24b70bb5700bfd6a66814%7Emv2.png |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/previous-issues | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/previous-issues | generator | Wix.com Website Builder |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/previous-issues | wix-dynamic-custom-elements | DropDownMenu |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/previous-issues | format-detection | telephone=no |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/previous-issues | skype_toolbar | skype_toolbar_parser_compatible |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/previous-issues | description | Browse previous issues of The Dark Horse Magazine |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/previous-issues | google-site-verification | RyCEfp4ejMUufRKRjH2EsU1gFgmdhtxEV_lMyjg0-qU |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/previous-issues | twitter:card | summary_large_image |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/previous-issues | twitter:title | Previous Issues | The Dark Horse Magazine |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/previous-issues | twitter:description | Browse previous issues of The Dark Horse Magazine |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/previous-issues | twitter:image | https://static.wixstatic.com/media/32a481_7d718cd056d24b70bb5700bfd6a66814%7Emv2.png/v1/fit/w_2500,h_1330,al_c/32a481_7d718cd056d24b70bb5700bfd6a66814%7Emv2.png |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/Issues/Issue-47 | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/Issues/Issue-47 | generator | Wix.com Website Builder |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/Issues/Issue-47 | wix-dynamic-custom-elements | DropDownMenu |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/Issues/Issue-47 | format-detection | telephone=no |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/Issues/Issue-47 | skype_toolbar | skype_toolbar_parser_compatible |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/subscribe | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/subscribe | generator | Wix.com Website Builder |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/subscribe | wix-dynamic-custom-elements | DropDownMenu |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/subscribe | format-detection | telephone=no |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/subscribe | skype_toolbar | skype_toolbar_parser_compatible |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/subscribe | description | Subscribe to The Dark Horse Magazine |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/subscribe | google-site-verification | RyCEfp4ejMUufRKRjH2EsU1gFgmdhtxEV_lMyjg0-qU |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/subscribe | twitter:card | summary_large_image |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/subscribe | twitter:title | Subscribe | The Dark Horse Magazine |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/subscribe | twitter:description | Subscribe to The Dark Horse Magazine |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/subscribe | twitter:image | https://static.wixstatic.com/media/32a481_7d718cd056d24b70bb5700bfd6a66814%7Emv2.png/v1/fit/w_2500,h_1330,al_c/32a481_7d718cd056d24b70bb5700bfd6a66814%7Emv2.png |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/Featured | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/Featured | generator | Wix.com Website Builder |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/Featured | wix-dynamic-custom-elements | DropDownMenu |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/Featured | format-detection | telephone=no |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/Featured | skype_toolbar | skype_toolbar_parser_compatible |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/Featured | description | Read featured prose highlights from issues of The Dark Horse |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/Featured | google-site-verification | RyCEfp4ejMUufRKRjH2EsU1gFgmdhtxEV_lMyjg0-qU |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/Featured | twitter:card | summary_large_image |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/Featured | twitter:title | Featured Texts | The Dark Horse Magazine |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/Featured | twitter:description | Read featured prose highlights from issues of The Dark Horse |
| www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/Featured | twitter:image | https://static.wixstatic.com/media/32a481_7d718cd056d24b70bb5700bfd6a66814%7Emv2.png/v1/fit/w_2500,h_1330,al_c/32a481_7d718cd056d24b70bb5700bfd6a66814%7Emv2.png |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
Images9.3
37% of images have a clearly defined size
30 images are being resized by the browser
- Most images (63.0%) 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.
- 30 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.
Server behaviour9.6
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 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
- Use a 301 redirect or a canonical meta tag to force search engines to see the correct version.
- 3 of the pages of this website return page content with or without a trailing slash on their URLs, but they use a canonical tag to denote the correct version. This is ideal, as search engines will know which version to index.
- This website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect from http://thedarkhorsemagazine.com to http://www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com. This is ideal.
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.
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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