Nibbler SEO audit for vatforum.co.uk
Summary
Overall7.0
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility9.6
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
The following tests contribute to this score:
Experience6.8
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
The following tests contribute to this score:
Marketing3.2
How well marketed and popular the website is.
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Technology8.3
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 12:14 AM on Apr 10, 2024 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Consider a leading website analytics solution, such as WebTrends or Google Analytics. (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)
- Sign up for a Twitter account and make sure it is linked to from your site. (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 vatforum.co.uk/ Not detected vatforum.co.uk/vat-guides/ Not detected vatforum.co.uk/about/ Not detected vatforum.co.uk/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword Not detected vatforum.co.uk/wp-login.php 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
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 |
| vatforum.co.uk/ | robots | max-image-preview:large |
| vatforum.co.uk/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| vatforum.co.uk/ | generator | WordPress 6.4.3 |
| vatforum.co.uk/ | msapplication-tileimage | https://vatforum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/cropped-union-jack-gb71ade2df_640-270x270.jpg |
| vatforum.co.uk/vat-guides/ | robots | max-image-preview:large |
| vatforum.co.uk/vat-guides/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| vatforum.co.uk/vat-guides/ | generator | WordPress 6.4.3 |
| vatforum.co.uk/vat-guides/ | msapplication-tileimage | https://vatforum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/cropped-union-jack-gb71ade2df_640-270x270.jpg |
| vatforum.co.uk/about/ | robots | max-image-preview:large |
| vatforum.co.uk/about/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| vatforum.co.uk/about/ | generator | WordPress 6.4.3 |
| vatforum.co.uk/about/ | msapplication-tileimage | https://vatforum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/cropped-union-jack-gb71ade2df_640-270x270.jpg |
| vatforum.co.uk/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword | robots | max-image-preview:large, noindex, noarchive |
| vatforum.co.uk/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword | referrer | strict-origin-when-cross-origin |
| vatforum.co.uk/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword | viewport | width=device-width |
| vatforum.co.uk/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword | msapplication-tileimage | https://vatforum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/cropped-union-jack-gb71ade2df_640-270x270.jpg |
| vatforum.co.uk/wp-login.php | robots | max-image-preview:large, noindex, noarchive |
| vatforum.co.uk/wp-login.php | referrer | strict-origin-when-cross-origin |
| vatforum.co.uk/wp-login.php | viewport | width=device-width |
| vatforum.co.uk/wp-login.php | msapplication-tileimage | https://vatforum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/cropped-union-jack-gb71ade2df_640-270x270.jpg |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| vatforum.co.uk/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword | Content-Type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
| vatforum.co.uk/wp-login.php | Content-Type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
Freshness3.8
Last updated September 7, 2023
- It looks like this website was last updated on Thursday, September 7, 2023. Visitors perceive up-to-date websites as more credible. Websites that are updated regularly are also spidered by search engines more 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
| Date | File | Source |
| 9/7/23 | vatforum.co.uk/.../union-jack-gb71ade2df_640.jpg | Last modified header |
Amount of content6.3
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 192 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 |
| vatforum.co.uk/ | 1911 | 312 |
| vatforum.co.uk/vat-guides/ | 1883 | 337 |
| vatforum.co.uk/about/ | 1365 | 238 |
| vatforum.co.uk/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword | 277 | 45 |
| vatforum.co.uk/wp-login.php | 189 | 28 |
URL format7.2
2 URLs are less than ideal
- 1 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.
- 2 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.
Page extensions
- 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.
Images8.0
100% of images have a clearly defined size
3 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.
- 3 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.
Server behavior9.2
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.
- 2 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.
- 2 of the pages of this website return page content with or without a trailing slash on their URLs. Search engines might see these as separate pages with duplicate content which they could penalize for.
- Use a 301 redirect or a canonical meta tag to force search engines to see the correct version.
Duplicate pages
- Use a 301 redirect or a canonical meta tag to force search engines to see the correct version.
- This website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect from http://www.vatforum.co.uk to http://vatforum.co.uk. This is ideal.
Mobile9.4
- All of this website appears to be optimised for viewing on a mobile phone (using CSS media queries) but only 60.0% of pages are optimised for tablet viewing. It is important to make sure your content is optimised for a wide range of devices as a growing percentage of web browsing is done on phones and tablets.
- Check how the website looks using a tablet and consider adding tablet-only styling using media queries. Some websites employ other techniques for mobile and tablet visitors which we cannot currently detect.
Device optimized pages
Page Mobile Tablet Viewport vatforum.co.uk/ Detected Detected Detected vatforum.co.uk/vat-guides/ Detected Detected Detected vatforum.co.uk/about/ Detected Detected Detected vatforum.co.uk/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword Detected Not detected Detected vatforum.co.uk/wp-login.php Detected Not detected Detected
- Check how the website looks using a tablet and consider adding tablet-only styling using media queries. Some websites employ other techniques for mobile and tablet visitors which we cannot currently detect.
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.
Headings10.0
- 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.
Page headings detail
| URL | Heading | Level |
| vatforum.co.uk/ | Forum Categories | H1 |
| vatforum.co.uk/vat-guides/ | What is VAT? | H1 |
| vatforum.co.uk/about/ | About | H1 |
| vatforum.co.uk/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword | Powered by WordPress | H1 |
| vatforum.co.uk/wp-login.php | Powered by WordPress | H1 |
Internal links10.0
- Every link tested appears to be well defined. This is good because well defined links help SEO and aid accessibility.
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