Nibbler SEO audit for www.columbusga.gov
Summary
Overall8.8
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility9.2
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience9.3
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
The following tests contribute to this score:
Marketing8.1
How well marketed and popular the website is.
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Technology9.0
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 2:41 PM on May 9, 2024 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Make sure all headings have content which is relevant to the page of 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)
- Consider adding your analytics solution to the pages which aren't currently monitored. (read more)
Printability4.0
40% of pages are optimized for printing
- 3 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.columbusga.gov/ Not detected www.columbusga.gov/.../Roll-with-US Optimized www.columbusga.gov/Boards Optimized www.columbusga.gov/Resource-Directory Not detected www.columbusga.gov/Departments 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 tags5.2
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
Columbus Consolidated Government
www.columbusga.gov/
The Official Web Site of the Columbus, Georgia Consolidated Government (CCG). Quality People, Providing Quality Service. 100 10th Street, Columbus, GA 31901
- 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.columbusga.gov/ | description | The Official Web Site of the Columbus, Georgia Consolidated Government (CCG). Quality People, Providing Quality Service. 100 10th Street, Columbus, GA 31901 |
| www.columbusga.gov/ | keywords | ccg, ccg columbus, ccg georgia, columbus, georgia, georgia jobs, jobs, southeast region, central georgia, west georgia, historic columbus, consolidated government, government, city government, columbus government, government jobs |
| www.columbusga.gov/ | robots | INDEX, FOLLOW |
| www.columbusga.gov/ | charset | UTF-8 |
| www.columbusga.gov/ | author | Columbus Consolidated Government |
| www.columbusga.gov/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.columbusga.gov/.../Roll-with-US | google-translate-customization | d04581caf633029d-e2790ebd8037e584-gc89125dfec2ddf8c-10 |
| www.columbusga.gov/.../Roll-with-US | description | Columbus, Georgia's public transportation service. |
| www.columbusga.gov/.../Roll-with-US | robots | INDEX, FOLLOW |
| www.columbusga.gov/.../Roll-with-US | viewport | width=device-width,initial-scale=1 |
| www.columbusga.gov/Boards | robots | INDEX, FOLLOW |
| www.columbusga.gov/Boards | charset | UTF-8 |
| www.columbusga.gov/Boards | author | Columbus Consolidated Government |
| www.columbusga.gov/Boards | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.columbusga.gov/Resource-Directory | robots | INDEX, FOLLOW |
| www.columbusga.gov/Resource-Directory | charset | UTF-8 |
| www.columbusga.gov/Resource-Directory | author | Columbus Consolidated Government |
| www.columbusga.gov/Resource-Directory | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.columbusga.gov/Departments | robots | INDEX, FOLLOW |
| www.columbusga.gov/Departments | charset | UTF-8 |
| www.columbusga.gov/Departments | author | Columbus Consolidated Government |
| www.columbusga.gov/Departments | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| www.columbusga.gov/ | Content-Type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
| www.columbusga.gov/.../Roll-with-US | Content-Type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
| www.columbusga.gov/Boards | Content-Type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
| www.columbusga.gov/Resource-Directory | Content-Type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
| www.columbusga.gov/Departments | Content-Type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
Headings6.0
- 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 headings (1.0%) 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
Analytics8.0
80% of pages use analytics
Google Tag Manager
- 80.0% of this website is using Google Tag Manager but 1 pages have no analytics. It is still possible to gather a great deal of information for the other 1 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.
Amount of content8.7
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 646 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.columbusga.gov/ | 5924 | 845 |
| www.columbusga.gov/.../Roll-with-US | 1098 | 141 |
| www.columbusga.gov/Boards | 1546 | 219 |
| www.columbusga.gov/Resource-Directory | 7176 | 1070 |
| www.columbusga.gov/Departments | 5967 | 957 |
Internal links9.1
- One link is weakly described. Common weak links include 'click here' and 'read more'. These links fail to describe the content the link points to.
- Consider using descriptive words or phrases (e.g. 'News', 'September 2012 financial results') in your anchor text to benefit search engine optimisation.
Weak link text
Link URL Link text Page URL www.columbusga.gov/.../Roll-with-US More www.columbusga.gov/.../Roll-with-US
- Consider using descriptive words or phrases (e.g. 'News', 'September 2012 financial results') in your anchor text to benefit search engine optimisation.
- One link uses text that is too long. Links should describe what they link to briefly. Linking a long block of text usually indicates an attempt to trick search engines into ranking those keywords highly (a strategy which does not work). Long linked blocks of text are also harder for people to scan.
- Consider shortening long anchor text.
Overly long link text
Link URL Link text Page URL www.columbusga.gov/ Street ClosuresThere will be street closures on the following Dates and Streets: 10/6/2023: 1200 block of Broadway 11/4/2023 (8 Am - 1:30 Pm): 13th Street from Bridge to Broadway: Broadway South to 9th 11/4/2023 (5 Am - 9 Pm): 1000 Bay Ave, Dillingham Bridge, 10th Street from Bay to Front Ave www.columbusga.gov/
- Consider shortening long anchor text.
- 9 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.
Mobile10.0
- All of this website appears to be optimised for viewing on a mobile phone or a tablet.
Media specific CSS detected
Server behavior10.0
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.
- 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://columbusga.gov to http://www.columbusga.gov. This is ideal.
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
Images10.0
0% of images have a clearly defined size
No images are being resized by the browser
- No images have defined sizes.
- 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.
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
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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