Nibbler SEO audit for www.cliffsnotes.com
Summary
Overall7.2
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility8.5
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience8.7
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing5.9
How well marketed and popular the website is.
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Technology8.0
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 9:44 AM on May 9, 2024 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Consider a leading website analytics solution, such as WebTrends or Google Analytics. (read more)
- 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. (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)
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.
Images5.1
36% of images have a clearly defined size
4 images are being resized by the browser
- Most images (64.0%) 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.
- 10 images are not in a web-friendly format.
- Make sure all images on this website are JPEG, PNG, SVG or GIF format.
Non Web-Format Images
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- Make sure all images on this website are JPEG, PNG, SVG or GIF format.
- 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.
Meta tags5.2
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
CliffsNotes Study Guides | Book Summaries, Test Preparation & Homework ...
www.cliffsnotes.com/
CliffsNotes is the original (and most widely imitated) study guide. CliffsNotes study guides are written by real teachers and professors, so no matter what you're ...
- All pages include at least some metadata, but only 40.0% 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.cliffsnotes.com/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| www.cliffsnotes.com/ | keywords | cliffnotes, cliff notes, cliffsnotes, study guide, into the wild, to kill a mockingbird, catching fire, lit notes, review, quizzes, free, test prep, aid, help, book, review, summary, analysis |
| www.cliffsnotes.com/ | description | CliffsNotes is the original (and most widely imitated) study guide. CliffsNotes study guides are written by real teachers and professors, so no matter what you're studying, CliffsNotes can ease your homework headaches and help you score high on exams. Founded in 1958 by Clifton Keith Hillegass, CliffsNotes is the original company that produced study guides and book summaries ranging from Shakespeare to Algebra and the SAT! |
| www.cliffsnotes.com/search | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| www.cliffsnotes.com/search | description | |
| www.cliffsnotes.com/literature | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| www.cliffsnotes.com/literature | keywords | Lit notes, homework help, study guides, test prep, quiz, CliffsNotes, cliff notes, shakespeare, into the wild, the hunger games, summer reading, books, reading help |
| www.cliffsnotes.com/literature | description | Having trouble understanding Shakespeare or 1984, come to CliffsNotes Literature Study Guides for help! Book summaries, quizzes, study help and more FREE! CliffsNotes free study guides are written by teachers and professors for students as a supplement to their reading. Some of our popular LitNotes include Into the Wild, Catching Fire, Macbeth, Fahrenheit 451 and over 300 more titles! CliffsNotes also offers test preparation, college help, and other resources for multiple subjects including Accounting, Math, Science and Foreign Language! |
| www.cliffsnotes.com/study-guides | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| www.cliffsnotes.com/study-guides | description | |
| www.cliffsnotes.com/sitemap/documents | viewport | width=1000 |
| www.cliffsnotes.com/sitemap/documents | robots | noindex, nofollow |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| www.cliffsnotes.com/sitemap/documents | cache-control | no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate |
| www.cliffsnotes.com/sitemap/documents | pragma | no-cache |
| www.cliffsnotes.com/sitemap/documents | expires | 0 |
Headings5.4
- A significant amount (20.0%) 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.
- Many headings (12.0%) 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.
- 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
Amount of content6.6
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 153 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 |
| www.cliffsnotes.com/ | 1548 | 205 |
| www.cliffsnotes.com/search | 575 | 66 |
| www.cliffsnotes.com/literature | 2490 | 297 |
| www.cliffsnotes.com/study-guides | 1021 | 109 |
| www.cliffsnotes.com/sitemap/documents | 565 | 89 |
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.cliffsnotes.com/ Optimized www.cliffsnotes.com/search Optimized www.cliffsnotes.com/literature Optimized www.cliffsnotes.com/study-guides Optimized www.cliffsnotes.com/sitemap/documents 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
Mobile8.6
- Most pages (80.0%) of this website appear to be optimised for viewing on a mobile phone or tablet (using CSS media queries). 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 mobile and consider adding mobile and tablet styling using media queries. Some websites employ other techniques for mobile visitors which we cannot currently detect.
Device optimized pages
Page Mobile Tablet Viewport www.cliffsnotes.com/ Detected Detected Detected www.cliffsnotes.com/search Detected Detected Detected www.cliffsnotes.com/literature Detected Detected Detected www.cliffsnotes.com/study-guides Detected Detected Detected www.cliffsnotes.com/sitemap/documents Not detected Not detected Detected
- Check how the website looks using a mobile and consider adding mobile and tablet styling using media queries. Some websites employ other techniques for mobile visitors which we cannot currently detect.
Media specific CSS detected
Internal links8.7
- 11 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.
Server behavior9.0
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 returns page content with or without a trailing slash on its URL. Search engines might see these as separate pages with duplicate content which they could penalise for.
- Use a 301 redirect or a canonical meta tag to force search engines to see the correct version.
Duplicate pages
Tested page Alternate www.cliffsnotes.com/sitemap/documents www.cliffsnotes.com/sitemap/.../
- Use a 301 redirect or a canonical meta tag to force search engines to see the correct version.
- 3 of the pages of this website return page content with or without a trailing slash on their URLs, but they use a canonical tag to denote the correct version. This is ideal, as search engines will know which version to index.
- This website uses a temporary (HTTP 302) redirect from http://cliffsnotes.com to http://www.cliffsnotes.com. 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.
Page titles9.0
100% of pages have defined titles
20% of page titles are weak
- All pages were found to specify page titles, but one page has a relatively weak title which could be improved. 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 optimisation.
- Make sure that all pages have a descriptive title. Do not include the address of the page in the title, try not to use excessive punctuation and avoid common words like 'page'.
Page titles
| Page title | Notes |
| CliffsNotes Study Guides | Book Summaries, Test Preparation & Homework Help | Written by Teachers | OK |
| Search | OK |
| Literature Notes | Homework Help | Study Guides | Test Prep | CliffsNotes | This title appears to be overly complex. Consider a more meaningful title |
| Study Guides | CliffsNotes | OK |
| Pardon Our Interruption | OK |
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 May 8, 2024
- It looks like this website was last updated on Wednesday, May 8, 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 |
| 5/3/24 | www.cliffsnotes.com/.../ajax-loader.gif | Last modified header |
| 5/8/24 | www.cliffsnotes.com/.../icon-instagram-color.png | Last modified header |
| 5/8/24 | www.cliffsnotes.com/.../icon-youtube-color.png | Last modified header |
| 5/8/24 | www.cliffsnotes.com/.../icon-facebook-color.png | Last modified header |
| 5/8/24 | www.cliffsnotes.com/.../icon-twitter-color.png | Last modified header |
| 5/1/24 | www.cliffsnotes.com/.../menu-dc7865b4f0a337cb32044419465c1480.svg | Last modified header |
| 5/1/24 | www.cliffsnotes.com/.../logo-f4695b6976554a7697030601517a11e7.svg | Last modified header |
| 5/3/24 | www.cliffsnotes.com/.../vendor.css | Last modified header |
| 5/3/24 | www.cliffsnotes.com/.../main.css | Last modified header |
| 5/3/24 | www.cliffsnotes.com/.../original_frontend-3de238da.css | Last modified header |
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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