Nibbler SEO audit for www.uz.ac.zw
Summary
Overall8.5
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility9.7
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience9.1
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing7.4
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
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Technology8.8
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 22:24 on 3 Apr 2024 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Consider a leading website analytics solution, such as WebTrends or Google Analytics. (read more)
- Use a 301 redirect or a canonical meta tag to force search engines to see the correct version. (read more)
- Consider the amount of text on this website and increase it if appropriate. (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.
Server behaviour6.0
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 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.
- There was no website found on http://uz.ac.zw. This is bad, as visitors might presume they can visit this website by visiting that address.
- Put a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect to http://www.uz.ac.zw on http://uz.ac.zw.
Amount of content7.8
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 446 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.uz.ac.zw/ | 2391 | 319 |
| www.uz.ac.zw/index.php/research-innov-dir | 1350 | 170 |
| www.uz.ac.zw/index.php/quality-top | 7877 | 1135 |
| www.uz.ac.zw/index.php/contact-uz | 2685 | 555 |
| www.uz.ac.zw/index.php/gallery | 581 | 52 |
Internal links8.7
- 5 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
- Consider using descriptive words or phrases (e.g. 'News', 'September 2012 financial results') in your anchor tag to benefit search engine optimisation.
- 50 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.
Images9.6
22% of images have a clearly defined size
16 images are being resized by the browser
- Most images (78.0%) 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.
- 16 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.
Headings9.8
- 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.
- Some headings (4.0%) were found to be empty, or incorrectly defined. Empty or invalid headings are of no value to search engines and make a website less accessible.
- Make sure all headings have content which is relevant to the page of content.
Page headings detail
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.
Page titles
| Page title | Notes |
| UZ | University of Zimbabwe | OK |
| Research & Innovation Directorate | OK |
| Quality Assurance | OK |
| Contact Us | OK |
| Gallery | OK |
Meta tags10.0
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
UZ | University of Zimbabwe
www.uz.ac.zw/
University of Zimbabwe's Main Website
- 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.uz.ac.zw/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.uz.ac.zw/ | keywords | uz, uofz, UZ, University of Zimbabwe, university of zimbabwe |
| www.uz.ac.zw/ | description | University of Zimbabwe's Main Website |
| www.uz.ac.zw/index.php/research-innov-dir | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.uz.ac.zw/index.php/research-innov-dir | keywords | uz, uofz, UZ, University of Zimbabwe, university of zimbabwe |
| www.uz.ac.zw/index.php/research-innov-dir | description | University of Zimbabwe's Main Website |
| www.uz.ac.zw/index.php/quality-top | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.uz.ac.zw/index.php/quality-top | keywords | uz, uofz, UZ, University of Zimbabwe, university of zimbabwe |
| www.uz.ac.zw/index.php/quality-top | description | University of Zimbabwe's Main Website |
| www.uz.ac.zw/index.php/contact-uz | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.uz.ac.zw/index.php/contact-uz | keywords | uz, uofz, UZ, University of Zimbabwe, university of zimbabwe |
| www.uz.ac.zw/index.php/contact-uz | description | University of Zimbabwe's Main Website |
| www.uz.ac.zw/index.php/gallery | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.uz.ac.zw/index.php/gallery | keywords | uz, uofz, UZ, University of Zimbabwe, university of zimbabwe |
| www.uz.ac.zw/index.php/gallery | description | University of Zimbabwe's Main Website |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| www.uz.ac.zw/ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| www.uz.ac.zw/ | content-type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| www.uz.ac.zw/index.php/research-innov-dir | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| www.uz.ac.zw/index.php/research-innov-dir | content-type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| www.uz.ac.zw/index.php/quality-top | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| www.uz.ac.zw/index.php/quality-top | content-type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| www.uz.ac.zw/index.php/contact-uz | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| www.uz.ac.zw/index.php/contact-uz | content-type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| www.uz.ac.zw/index.php/gallery | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| www.uz.ac.zw/index.php/gallery | content-type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
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
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 March 25, 2024
- It looks like this website was last updated on Monday, 25 March 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
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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