Nibbler SEO audit for medium.com
Summary
Overall6.1
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility7.2
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
The following tests contribute to this score:
Experience7.1
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing3.0
How well marketed and popular the website is.
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Technology7.2
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 3:21 PM on Mar 28, 2024 (GMT).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Consider a leading website analytics solution, such as WebTrends or Google Analytics. (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)
- Consider shortening long anchor text. (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.
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 optimized 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 optimized pages
Page Print medium.com/ Not detected medium.com/about?autoplay=1 Not detected medium.com/membership Not detected medium.com/m/signin...&source=--------------------------lo_home_nav----------- Not detected medium.com/m/signin...&source=--------------------------lo_home_nav----------- 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
Headings1.0
- A large number (40.0%) 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 optimization.
- 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
| URL | Heading | Level |
| medium.com/ | Stay curious. | H2 |
| medium.com/ | Trending on Medium | H2 |
| medium.com/ | Create Mixtures of Experts with MergeKit | H2 |
| medium.com/ | Navigating the Netflix Data Deluge: The Imperative of Effective Data Management | H2 |
| medium.com/ | Why I Don’t Believe Trans Women Are “Women Like Me” | H2 |
| medium.com/ | How does Single Sign-On (SSO) work? | H2 |
| medium.com/ | My Statement on the 14th Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act | H2 |
| medium.com/ | Why Constant Criticism Got Me Fired By My Personal Trainer | H2 |
| medium.com/ | Discover more of what matters to you | H2 |
| medium.com/ | The Embrace of Sports Gambling Has Gone Too Far | H2 |
| medium.com/ | When Honesty Hurts: Between Authenticity and “Sincericide” at Work | H2 |
| medium.com/ | The Brain Science Behind Aging and Forgetting | H2 |
| medium.com/ | My Friend Won the US$100,000 Debate on the Origin of COVID-19 | H2 |
| medium.com/ | The Future of Poetry | H2 |
| medium.com/ | Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter | H2 |
| medium.com/ | It happened on Medium: February roundup | H2 |
| medium.com/ | Would Albert Einstein End Up in Academia in 2024? | H2 |
| medium.com/ | The Infinite Shades of Saudade Blue | H2 |
| medium.com/ | Disruption Comes to Google | H2 |
| medium.com/ | Discover more of what matters to you | H2 |
| medium.com/ | Get the Medium app | H2 |
| medium.com/ | Discover stories, thinking, and expertise from writers on any topic. | H3 |
| medium.com/ | Why young men, like myself, are particularly susceptible to sports gambling addiction | H3 |
| medium.com/ | A personal experience of how too much honesty can backfire, and a good way to navigate the thin line between being sincere and being… | H3 |
| medium.com/ | Are younger people smarter? Are older people wiser? Living longer affects the brain, but exactly how may surprise you | H3 |
| medium.com/ | An achievement that we hope will make a greater impact. | H3 |
| medium.com/ | Is AI Smarter Than an 8th Grader? | H3 |
| medium.com/ | Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s open letter to mark the occasion of the Web’s 35th Birthday. | H3 |
| medium.com/ | Last month’s most-read stories, most-highlighted sentences, and stories by writers new to Medium | H3 |
| medium.com/ | Imagine that you are a young Albert Einstein in Gen Z, born 120 years after the legendary scientist, with a new concept for explaining the… | H3 |
| medium.com/ | Saudade isn’t just a word, it’s a color, and a feeling | H3 |
| medium.com/ | The tech industry is extremely dynamic and the only constant is change. Companies that once appeared to be invulnerable can be regularly… | H3 |
| medium.com/ | Maxime Labonne | H4 |
| medium.com/ | in | H4 |
| medium.com/ | Towards Data Science | H4 |
| medium.com/ | Netflix Technology Blog | H4 |
| medium.com/ | Natalie S. Ohio | H4 |
| medium.com/ | in | H4 |
| medium.com/ | Prism & Pen | H4 |
| medium.com/ | Dr Milan Milanović | H4 |
| medium.com/ | Barack Obama | H4 |
| medium.com/ | Karen Marie Shelton | H4 |
| medium.com/ | in | H4 |
| medium.com/ | Thirty over Fifty | H4 |
| medium.com/ | Ryan Fan | H4 |
| medium.com/ | in | H4 |
| medium.com/ | Invisible Illness | H4 |
| medium.com/ | Jaime Martínez Bowness | H4 |
| medium.com/ | in | H4 |
| medium.com/ | Work City | H4 |
| medium.com/ | Kathleen Murphy | H4 |
| medium.com/ | in | H4 |
| medium.com/ | Wise & Well | H4 |
| medium.com/ | Shin Jie Yong, MSc (Res) | H4 |
| medium.com/ | in | H4 |
| medium.com/ | Microbial Instincts | H4 |
| medium.com/ | Sierra Elman | H4 |
| medium.com/ | Tim Berners-Lee | H4 |
| medium.com/ | Medium Staff | H4 |
| medium.com/ | in | H4 |
| medium.com/ | The Medium Blog | H4 |
| medium.com/ | Avi Loeb | H4 |
| medium.com/ | Maria Garcia | H4 |
| medium.com/ | in | H4 |
| medium.com/ | A-Culturated | H4 |
| medium.com/ | Dare Obasanjo | H4 |
| medium.com/about?autoplay=1 | Everyone has a story to tell. | H2 |
| medium.com/membership | Support human stories | H2 |
| medium.com/membership | The Case For Reforesting Our Cities | H2 |
| medium.com/membership | Don’t Just Set Goals. Build Systems | H2 |
| medium.com/membership | Why membership? | H2 |
| medium.com/membership | Reward writers | H2 |
| medium.com/membership | Unlock every story | H2 |
| medium.com/membership | Enhance your reading experience | H2 |
| medium.com/membership | Elevate your writing | H2 |
| medium.com/membership | Support a mission that matters | H2 |
| medium.com/membership | What members are saying | H2 |
| medium.com/membership | Membership plans | H2 |
| medium.com/membership | Medium Member | H2 |
| medium.com/membership | Friend of Medium | H2 |
| medium.com/membership | Writers earn 4x when you read their stories | H2 |
| medium.com/membership | Unlock a world of wisdom | H2 |
| medium.com/membership | Become a member to read without limits or ads, fund great writers, and join a global community of people who care about high-quality storytelling. | H3 |
Meta tags3.6
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
Medium – Where good ideas find you.
medium.com/
Medium is an open platform where readers find dynamic thinking, and where expert and undiscovered voices can share their writing on any topic.
- All pages include at least some metadata, but only 20.0% 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 |
| medium.com/ | viewport | width=device-width,minimum-scale=1,initial-scale=1,maximum-scale=1 |
| medium.com/ | theme-color | #000000 |
| medium.com/ | twitter:app:name:iphone | Medium |
| medium.com/ | twitter:app:id:iphone | 828256236 |
| medium.com/ | robots | index,follow |
| medium.com/ | title | Medium – Where good ideas find you. |
| medium.com/ | description | Medium is an open platform where readers find dynamic thinking, and where expert and undiscovered voices can share their writing on any topic. |
| medium.com/ | twitter:card | summary_large_image |
| medium.com/ | twitter:creator | @Medium |
| medium.com/ | twitter:description | Medium is an open platform where readers find dynamic thinking, and where expert and undiscovered voices can share their writing on any topic. |
| medium.com/ | twitter:image:src | https://miro.medium.com/v2/4*EBuOxSGT7JZTGq0n4W8A5w.png |
| medium.com/ | twitter:site | @Medium |
| medium.com/ | twitter:title | Medium – Where good ideas find you. |
| medium.com/about?autoplay=1 | viewport | width=device-width,minimum-scale=1,initial-scale=1,maximum-scale=1 |
| medium.com/about?autoplay=1 | theme-color | #000000 |
| medium.com/about?autoplay=1 | twitter:app:name:iphone | Medium |
| medium.com/about?autoplay=1 | twitter:app:id:iphone | 828256236 |
| medium.com/membership | viewport | width=device-width,minimum-scale=1,initial-scale=1,maximum-scale=1 |
| medium.com/membership | theme-color | #000000 |
| medium.com/membership | twitter:app:name:iphone | Medium |
| medium.com/membership | twitter:app:id:iphone | 828256236 |
| medium.com/m/signin...&source=--------------------------lo_home_nav----------- | viewport | width=device-width,minimum-scale=1,initial-scale=1,maximum-scale=1 |
| medium.com/m/signin...&source=--------------------------lo_home_nav----------- | theme-color | #000000 |
| medium.com/m/signin...&source=--------------------------lo_home_nav----------- | twitter:app:name:iphone | Medium |
| medium.com/m/signin...&source=--------------------------lo_home_nav----------- | twitter:app:id:iphone | 828256236 |
| medium.com/m/signin...&source=--------------------------lo_home_nav----------- | viewport | width=device-width,minimum-scale=1,initial-scale=1,maximum-scale=1 |
| medium.com/m/signin...&source=--------------------------lo_home_nav----------- | theme-color | #000000 |
| medium.com/m/signin...&source=--------------------------lo_home_nav----------- | twitter:app:name:iphone | Medium |
| medium.com/m/signin...&source=--------------------------lo_home_nav----------- | twitter:app:id:iphone | 828256236 |
Internal links4.9
- One link uses text that is too long. Links should describe what they link to briefly. Linking a long block of text usually indicates an attempt to trick search engines into ranking those keywords highly (a strategy which does not work). Long linked blocks of text are also harder for people to scan.
- Consider shortening long anchor text.
Overly long link text
Link URL Link text Page URL medium.com/workcity/when-honesty-hurts-between-authenticity-and-sincericide-at-work-10af06f35299?source=home---------1------------------0---------- When Honesty Hurts: Between Authenticity and “Sincericide” at WorkA personal experience of how too much honesty can backfire, and a good way to navigate the thin line between being sincere and being… medium.com/
- Consider shortening long anchor text.
- 21 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 content5.2
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 299 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.
- 2 pages of this website have very little content (20 words or less).
- Ensure all pages have a sufficient amount of content.
Amount of content discovered
URL format5.6
3 URLs are less than ideal
- 2 URLs are 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.
- 3 URLs are 'dirty'. 'Dirty' URLs include one or more parameters after a question mark (e.g. www.example.com/?pagename=news), instead of a clean URL (e.g. www.example.com/news). Dirty URLs should generally be avoided wherever possible - they are almost impossible for human beings to remember, may expose the technology of the website to hackers and can confuse search engines among other problems. Their use is sometimes necessary for specific applications, and acceptable in small amounts.
- Remove or reduce the number of query parameters in URLs. Consider URL rewriting as an effective and transparent means of creating appropriate URLs.
Images8.0
100% of images have a clearly defined size
32 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 faster.
- 32 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
Server behavior10.0
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.
- One page of this website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect between its URL with/without a trailing slash. This page is ideal.
- This website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect from http://www.medium.com to http://medium.com. This is ideal.
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
| Page title | Notes |
| Medium – Where good ideas find you. | OK |
| About Medium | OK |
| Medium Membership | OK |
| Medium | OK |
| Medium | OK |
Freshness10.0
Last updated March 27, 2024
- It looks like this website was last updated on Wednesday, March 27, 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
| Date | File | Source |
| 3/27/24 | medium.com/ | Body text |
| 3/26/24 | medium.com/ | Body text |
| 3/24/24 | medium.com/ | Body text |
| 3/23/24 | medium.com/ | Body text |
| 3/13/24 | medium.com/ | Body text |
| 3/14/24 | medium.com/ | Body text |
| 3/7/24 | medium.com/ | Body text |
| 3/17/24 | medium.com/ | Body text |
| 3/12/24 | medium.com/ | Body text |
| 3/15/24 | medium.com/ | Body text |
| 3/5/24 | medium.com/ | Body text |
| 2/12/24 | medium.com/ | Body text |
| 3/3/24 | medium.com/ | Body text |
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Nibbler tested the following pages
- https://medium.com/
- https://medium.com/about?autoplay=1
- https://medium.com/membership
- https://medium.com/m/signin?operation=register&redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2F&source=--------------------------lo_home_nav-----------
- https://medium.com/m/signin?operation=login&redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2F&source=--------------------------lo_home_nav-----------