Nibbler SEO audit for www.realclimate.org
Summary
Overall8.5
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility9.7
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
The following tests contribute to this score:
Experience9.3
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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Technology8.8
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 11:54 AM on Apr 3, 2024 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Consider a leading website analytics solution, such as WebTrends or Google Analytics. (read more)
- 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. (read more)
- Enable GZIP compression on your web server or in your application. (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 behavior7.0
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.
- This website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect between URLs with/without trailing slashes. This is ideal.
- This website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect from http://realclimate.org to http://www.realclimate.org. This is ideal.
Images8.0
100% of images have a clearly defined size
74 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.
- 74 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.
Meta tags8.4
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
RealClimate: Frontpage
www.realclimate.org/
RealClimate:Climate science from climate scientists...
- All pages include at least some metadata, but only 80.0% 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 |
| www.realclimate.org/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.realclimate.org/ | description | RealClimate:Climate science from climate scientists... |
| www.realclimate.org/ | robots | max-image-preview:large |
| www.realclimate.org/ | google-site-verification | 5-5cpEuryTX8bKt_pnL8bRcqfVflejqKS-2UK8aSA3c |
| www.realclimate.org/ | generator | All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 4.5.9.2 |
| www.realclimate.org/ | twitter:card | summary |
| www.realclimate.org/ | twitter:site | @ClimateOfGavin |
| www.realclimate.org/ | twitter:title | RealClimate: Frontpage |
| www.realclimate.org/ | twitter:description | RealClimate:Climate science from climate scientists... |
| www.realclimate.org/ | twitter:creator | @ClimateOfGavin |
| www.realclimate.org/ | msapplication-tileimage | https://www.realclimate.org/images//cropped-cropped-realclimate-banner-1-270x270.jpg |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | description | RealClimate: [Note this is page is updated regularly. Please notify us of any dead links. Last update: 10 May 2022.] We're often asked to provide a one stop link for resources that people can use to get up to speed on the issue of climate change, and so here is a selection. Unlike our other postings, |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | robots | max-image-preview:large |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | google-site-verification | 5-5cpEuryTX8bKt_pnL8bRcqfVflejqKS-2UK8aSA3c |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | generator | All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 4.5.9.2 |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | twitter:card | summary |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | twitter:site | @ClimateOfGavin |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | twitter:title | RealClimate: Start here |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | twitter:description | RealClimate: [Note this is page is updated regularly. Please notify us of any dead links. Last update: 10 May 2022.] We're often asked to provide a one stop link for resources that people can use to get up to speed on the issue of climate change, and so here is a selection. Unlike our other postings, |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | twitter:creator | @ClimateOfGavin |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | msapplication-tileimage | https://www.realclimate.org/images//cropped-cropped-realclimate-banner-1-270x270.jpg |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | description | RealClimate: The current contributors to content on this site are: Gavin Schmidt Michael Mann Rasmus Benestad Stefan Rahmstorf Eric Steig William Connolley was a contributor, but has now left academia; Ray Bradley, David Archer, and Ray Pierrehumbert are no longer active; Jim Bouldin was a contributor from 2009 and Caspar Ammann and Thibault de Garidel were |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | robots | max-image-preview:large |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | google-site-verification | 5-5cpEuryTX8bKt_pnL8bRcqfVflejqKS-2UK8aSA3c |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | generator | All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 4.5.9.2 |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | twitter:card | summary |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | twitter:site | @ClimateOfGavin |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | twitter:title | RealClimate: Contributors |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | twitter:description | RealClimate: The current contributors to content on this site are: Gavin Schmidt Michael Mann Rasmus Benestad Stefan Rahmstorf Eric Steig William Connolley was a contributor, but has now left academia; Ray Bradley, David Archer, and Ray Pierrehumbert are no longer active; Jim Bouldin was a contributor from 2009 and Caspar Ammann and Thibault de Garidel were |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | twitter:creator | @ClimateOfGavin |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | msapplication-tileimage | https://www.realclimate.org/images//cropped-cropped-realclimate-banner-1-270x270.jpg |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | description | RealClimate: Archives by Month: Archives by Category: |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | robots | max-image-preview:large |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | google-site-verification | 5-5cpEuryTX8bKt_pnL8bRcqfVflejqKS-2UK8aSA3c |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | generator | All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 4.5.9.2 |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | twitter:card | summary |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | twitter:site | @ClimateOfGavin |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | twitter:title | RealClimate: Archives |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | twitter:description | RealClimate: Archives by Month: Archives by Category: |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | twitter:creator | @ClimateOfGavin |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | msapplication-tileimage | https://www.realclimate.org/images//cropped-cropped-realclimate-banner-1-270x270.jpg |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | robots | max-image-preview:large |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | google-site-verification | 5-5cpEuryTX8bKt_pnL8bRcqfVflejqKS-2UK8aSA3c |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | generator | All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 4.5.9.2 |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | msapplication-tileimage | https://www.realclimate.org/images//cropped-cropped-realclimate-banner-1-270x270.jpg |
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
Internal links9.3
- 22 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 content9.3
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 1,879 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.realclimate.org/ | 6486 | 1051 |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | 27069 | 4496 |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | 1596 | 254 |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | 4302 | 680 |
| www.realclimate.org/index.php/.../ | 17635 | 2912 |
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
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
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 April 3, 2024
- It looks like this website was last updated on Wednesday, April 3, 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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Nibbler tested the following pages
- https://www.realclimate.org/
- https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/05/start-here/
- https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/contributors/
- https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/archives/
- https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/author/gavin/