Nibbler SEO audit for www.maine.gov
Summary
Overall8.6
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility9.5
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience8.9
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing7.8
How well marketed and popular the website is.
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Technology8.7
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 3:46 AM on Apr 17, 2024 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Consider adding your analytics solution to the pages which aren't currently monitored. (read more)
- Enable GZIP compression on your web server or in your application. (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)
Analytics2.0
20% of pages use analytics
Google Tag Manager
- 20.0% of this website is using Google Tag Manager but 4 pages have no analytics. It is still possible to gather a great deal of information for the other 4 of pages from webserver logs, however complete visitor analysis requires client-side Javascript or an image not found here.
- Consider adding your analytics solution to the pages which aren't currently monitored.
- 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 behavior6.7
404 page
Compression
- This website handles missing pages correctly by sending a 404 HTTP status code.
- This website was not served using GZIP encoding. GZIP compression is widely supported and reduces the load time of a web page.
- Enable GZIP compression on your web server or in your application.
- 3 of the pages of this website follow the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect between URLs with/without trailing slashes. These pages are ideal.
- One page of this website returns page content with or without a trailing slash on its URL, but it uses a canonical tag to denote the correct versions. This is usually ideal, as search engines will know which version to index, but there are links on this website which point to the non canonical version.
- Make sure all internal links to this page go to the canonical version.
Incorrectly linked pages
Tested page Alternate www.maine.gov/moveit-global-data-security-incident/home www.maine.gov/.../
- Make sure all internal links to this page go to the canonical version.
- This website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect from http://maine.gov to http://www.maine.gov. This is ideal.
Printability8.0
80% of pages are optimized for printing
- One page of this website does 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.maine.gov/portal/index.html Optimized www.maine.gov/moveit-global-data-security-incident/home Not detected www.maine.gov/portal/.../ Optimized www.maine.gov/portal/business/ Optimized www.maine.gov/portal/.../ Optimized
- 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
Amount of content8.0
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 665 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.maine.gov/portal/index.html | 1868 | 269 |
| www.maine.gov/moveit-global-data-security-incident/home | 15622 | 2405 |
| www.maine.gov/portal/.../ | 2158 | 273 |
| www.maine.gov/portal/business/ | 1871 | 238 |
| www.maine.gov/portal/.../ | 1235 | 142 |
Internal links8.5
- 18 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.
URL format8.8
1 URLs are less than ideal
- 1 URLs include a file extension.
- Avoid use of file extensions wherever possible. File extensions appear at the end of web addresses, and have several negative effects. They make the address harder to remember or type (particularly for non-technical users), and can reveal the underlying technology of the website making it very slightly more vulnerable to hackers. They also tie the implementation of the website to a specific technology, which can make subsequent migration of URLs difficult. Consider URL rewriting as an effective and transparent means of creating appropriate URLs.
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
Images9.6
18% of images have a clearly defined size
7 images are being resized by the browser
- Most images (82.0%) 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.
- 7 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
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
Meta tags10.0
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
Maine.gov
www.maine.gov/portal/index.html
Maine.gov - Official site includes links to services available online, Governor, state agencies, Legislature, US Congressional delegation, state parks, and tax ...
- Nearly every page was found to include the 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.maine.gov/portal/index.html | description | Maine.gov - Official site includes links to services available online, Governor, state agencies, Legislature, US Congressional delegation, state parks, and tax information. |
| www.maine.gov/portal/index.html | author | maine.gov |
| www.maine.gov/portal/index.html | robots | index,follow |
| www.maine.gov/portal/index.html | rating | Safe for kids |
| www.maine.gov/portal/index.html | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| www.maine.gov/portal/index.html | msvalidate.01 | 5365D1E7B38DC8A576E19E9CEAE39C3C |
| www.maine.gov/moveit-global-data-security-incident/home | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| www.maine.gov/moveit-global-data-security-incident/home | description | Maine.gov information relating to a recent cyber incident that occurred due to the exploitation of a vulnerability in a widely used file transfer tool, MOVEit. |
| www.maine.gov/moveit-global-data-security-incident/home | generator | Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org) |
| www.maine.gov/moveit-global-data-security-incident/home | mobileoptimized | width |
| www.maine.gov/moveit-global-data-security-incident/home | handheldfriendly | true |
| www.maine.gov/moveit-global-data-security-incident/home | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| www.maine.gov/portal/.../ | description | Maine.gov - Official site includes links to services available online, Governor, state agencies, Legislature, US Congressional delegation, state parks, and tax information. |
| www.maine.gov/portal/.../ | author | maine.gov |
| www.maine.gov/portal/.../ | robots | index,follow |
| www.maine.gov/portal/.../ | rating | Safe for kids |
| www.maine.gov/portal/.../ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| www.maine.gov/portal/business/ | keywords | Maine.gov, Maine, state of Maine, business, corporations, small business, starting a business, employer, labor, labor market, licensing, economic development, licensing, business license, business regulations, state procurement |
| www.maine.gov/portal/business/ | description | Maine.gov - resources for Maine businesses and starting a business in Maine. |
| www.maine.gov/portal/business/ | description | Maine.gov - Official site includes links to services available online, Governor, state agencies, Legislature, US Congressional delegation, state parks, and tax information. |
| www.maine.gov/portal/business/ | author | maine.gov |
| www.maine.gov/portal/business/ | robots | index,follow |
| www.maine.gov/portal/business/ | rating | Safe for kids |
| www.maine.gov/portal/business/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| www.maine.gov/portal/.../ | description | Maine.gov - resources for employees, retirees, and job seekers in Maine. |
| www.maine.gov/portal/.../ | keywords | Maine.gov, state of maine, employment, working, jobs, career, job opportunities, job listings, job openings, employees, worker, unemployment, retirement, retiring, volunteering, maine jobs, employee rights |
| www.maine.gov/portal/.../ | description | Maine.gov - Official site includes links to services available online, Governor, state agencies, Legislature, US Congressional delegation, state parks, and tax information. |
| www.maine.gov/portal/.../ | author | maine.gov |
| www.maine.gov/portal/.../ | robots | index,follow |
| www.maine.gov/portal/.../ | rating | Safe for kids |
| www.maine.gov/portal/.../ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| www.maine.gov/portal/index.html | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| www.maine.gov/portal/.../ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| www.maine.gov/portal/business/ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| www.maine.gov/portal/.../ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
Freshness10.0
Last updated April 15, 2024
- It looks like this website was last updated on Monday, April 15, 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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