Nibbler SEO audit for www.distributed-systems.net
Summary
Overall7.1
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility10.0
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience6.7
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing3.4
How well marketed and popular the website is.
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Technology8.6
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 10:10 PM on Apr 16, 2024 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Consider a leading website analytics solution, such as WebTrends or Google Analytics. (read more)
- Consider updating this website regularly with new content. (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)
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 www.distributed-systems.net/ Not detected www.distributed-systems.net/.../ Not detected www.distributed-systems.net/.../ Not detected www.distributed-systems.net/.../ Not detected www.distributed-systems.net/.../ 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
Freshness0.1
Last updated September 12, 2017
- It looks like this website was last updated on Tuesday, September 12, 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
Meta tags3.6
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
- DISTRIBUTED-SYSTEMS.NET
www.distributed-systems.net/
welcome to distributed systems
- 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.
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 |
| www.distributed-systems.net/ | robots | index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1 |
| www.distributed-systems.net/ | description | welcome to distributed systems |
| www.distributed-systems.net/ | twitter:card | summary_large_image |
| www.distributed-systems.net/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1 |
| www.distributed-systems.net/ | generator | WordPress 6.5.2 |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | robots | index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1 |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | twitter:card | summary_large_image |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | twitter:label1 | Est. reading time |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | twitter:data1 | 1 minute |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1 |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | generator | WordPress 6.5.2 |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | robots | index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1 |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | twitter:card | summary_large_image |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | twitter:label1 | Est. reading time |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | twitter:data1 | 4 minutes |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1 |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | generator | WordPress 6.5.2 |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | robots | index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1 |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | twitter:card | summary_large_image |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | twitter:label1 | Est. reading time |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | twitter:data1 | 30 minutes |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1 |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | generator | WordPress 6.5.2 |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | robots | index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1 |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | twitter:card | summary_large_image |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | twitter:label1 | Est. reading time |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | twitter:data1 | 2 minutes |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1 |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | generator | WordPress 6.5.2 |
Images6.8
100% of images have a clearly defined size
4 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.
- 4 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.
- 1 images on this website could not be downloaded. Broken images may cause the website to display incorrectly for visitors.
- Check any images which could not be downloaded and fix them if necessary.
Amount of content7.1
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 1,592 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.distributed-systems.net/ | 203 | 22 |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | 1676 | 248 |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | 4723 | 731 |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | 48010 | 6782 |
| www.distributed-systems.net/.../ | 1171 | 175 |
Server behavior9.4
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 uses a temporary (HTTP 302) redirect from http://distributed-systems.net to http://www.distributed-systems.net. This is OK, but a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect is considered best practice.
- If possible, change the temporary redirect to a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect.
Headings9.9
- 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 headings (2.0%) 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 optimization.
Internal links10.0
- Every link tested appears to be well defined. This is good because well defined links help SEO and aid accessibility.
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.
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Nibbler tested the following pages
- https://www.distributed-systems.net/
- https://www.distributed-systems.net/index.php/research/
- https://www.distributed-systems.net/index.php/research/current-projects/
- https://www.distributed-systems.net/index.php/research/217-2/
- https://www.distributed-systems.net/index.php/research/collaborators/