Nibbler SEO audit for contractorsedge.com
Summary
Overall7.1
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility8.1
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience6.9
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing4.1
How well marketed and popular the website is.
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Technology8.4
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 4:39 PM on Apr 6, 2024 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Consider using descriptive words or phrases (e.g. 'News', 'September 2012 financial results') in your anchor tag to benefit search engine optimization. (read more)
- 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. (read more)
- Consider updating this website regularly with new content. (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.
Freshness0.1
Last updated November 20, 2017
- It looks like this website was last updated on Monday, November 20, 2017. This is bad because visitors may dismiss this website as outdated.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
Internal links0.2
- 9 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 optimization.
Weak link text
- Consider using descriptive words or phrases (e.g. 'News', 'September 2012 financial results') in your anchor tag to benefit search engine optimization.
- 46 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.
Meta tags2.0
- All pages include at least some metadata, but no 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.
Pages with no meta description
- 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 |
| contractorsedge.com/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| contractorsedge.com/ | csrf-param | _csrf |
| contractorsedge.com/ | csrf-token | R3BlWU5UT3EwGj8aDDYeIgwJFT4PBQIZEgUuNyIbGyYtPjY.YyUAFg== |
| contractorsedge.com/login | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| contractorsedge.com/login | csrf-param | _csrf |
| contractorsedge.com/login | csrf-token | S0lmc3ZSakU8IzwwNDA7FgAwFhQ3AyctHjwtHRodPhIhBzUUWyMlIg== |
| contractorsedge.com/sign-up | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| contractorsedge.com/sign-up | csrf-param | _csrf |
| contractorsedge.com/sign-up | csrf-token | NkVCcXZkQUtBLxgyNAYQGH08MhY3NQwjYzAJHxorFRxcCxEWWxUOLA== |
| contractorsedge.com/ho_infographic_w_sidebar | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| contractorsedge.com/ho_infographic_w_sidebar | csrf-param | _csrf |
| contractorsedge.com/ho_infographic_w_sidebar | csrf-token | aUlEb3ZnTDceIx4sNAUdZCIwNAg3NgFfPDwPARooGGADBxcIWxYDUA== |
| contractorsedge.com/web | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| contractorsedge.com/web | csrf-param | _csrf |
| contractorsedge.com/web | csrf-token | Q28zcmhqTUQ0BWkxKggcFwgWQxUpOwAsFhp4HAQlGRMpIWAVRRsCIw== |
Amount of content8.0
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 406 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 |
| contractorsedge.com/ | 5735 | 808 |
| contractorsedge.com/login | 849 | 122 |
| contractorsedge.com/sign-up | 1528 | 231 |
| contractorsedge.com/ho_infographic_w_sidebar | 1312 | 189 |
| contractorsedge.com/web | 4624 | 681 |
URL format8.8
1 URLs are less than ideal
- One URL is particularly hard to type or remember.
- Consider URL rewriting as an effective and transparent means of creating appropriate URLs. URLs using unusual characters (such as semi-colons or underscores), long numerals or complex phrasing are very difficult for real people to use or exchange. They also tend to be less favoured by search engines. Wherever possible ensure web addresses are 'human readable' - i.e. they should be easy to read, remember and type. In particular, avoid the use of obscure characters (including the underscore, which is not widely understood by non-technical users, or particularly memorable) and long numerals, e.g. example.com/23857984325.
Headings9.0
- All pages were found to use defined headings. This is excellent as it allows visitors and search engines to summarize the content of webpages quickly. Correctly defined headings aid accessibility and are particularly important for search engine optimization.
- 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
Server behavior9.7
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.
- Adding or removing a trailing slash to all 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.
- This website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect from http://www.contractorsedge.com to http://contractorsedge.com. This is ideal.
Images9.8
8% of images have a clearly defined size
5 images are being resized by the browser
- Most images (92.0%) 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 faster.
- 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.
- 5 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.
Mobile10.0
- All of this website appears to be optimised for viewing on a mobile phone or a tablet.
Media specific CSS detected
Analytics10.0
100% of pages use analytics
Multiple Analytics Solutions
- Every page in this website is using some form of analytics software. This is excellent and should allow for a complete analysis of visitor behavior.
Analytics Software Found
| Software Name |
| Google Analytics |
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 optimization.
Page titles
Printability10.0
100% of pages are optimized for printing
- All pages of this website appear to be optimized for printing (using CSS).
Media specific CSS detected
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