Nibbler SEO audit for bvcentre.ca
Summary
Overall7.7
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility8.0
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience5.2
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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Technology7.7
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 17:29 on 17 Mar 2023 (GMT).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Check how the website looks using a mobile and a tablet. Consider adding mobile-only styling using media queries. Some websites employ other techniques for mobile visitors which we cannot currently detect. (read more)
- Consider updating this website regularly with new content. (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.
Freshness2.2
Last updated October 8, 2021
- It looks like this website was last updated on Friday, 8 October 2021. This is bad because visitors may dismiss this website as outdated. Websites that are not updated regularly are also spidered by search engines less 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 |
| 27/02/2014 | bvcentre.ca/images/.../Our_People.jpeg | Last modified header |
| 03/03/2014 | bvcentre.ca/.../subsite-button-whitebark.jpg | Last modified header |
| 03/03/2014 | bvcentre.ca/.../subsite-button-sortie.jpg | Last modified header |
| 03/03/2014 | bvcentre.ca/.../subsite-button-integrated.jpg | Last modified header |
| 22/06/2021 | bvcentre.ca/images/.../pro-tech.png | Last modified header |
| 14/12/2017 | bvcentre.ca/images/.../FLNRORD-logo.jpg | Last modified header |
| 08/10/2021 | bvcentre.ca/.../SS_Website_image_280_200_s_c1.jpg | Last modified header |
| 08/03/2021 | bvcentre.ca/.../6999-LCEF_Infrastructure_Element-02.png | Last modified header |
| 17/03/2021 | bvcentre.ca/.../Evelyns_project_280_200_s_c1.png | Last modified header |
| 06/07/2020 | bvcentre.ca/.../BVRC_Instagram_280_200_s_c1.png | Last modified header |
| 07/01/2014 | bvcentre.ca/css/normalize.min.css | Last modified header |
Mobile3.0
- None of this website appears to be fully optimised for viewing on a mobile or tablet (using CSS media queries). It is important to make sure your content can be viewed easily across a wide range of devices as a growing percentage of web browsing is now done on phones and tablets.
- Check how the website looks using a mobile and a tablet. Consider adding mobile-only styling using media queries. Some websites employ other techniques for mobile visitors which we cannot currently detect.
Device optimised pages
Page Mobile Tablet Viewport bvcentre.ca/ Not detected Not detected Detected bvcentre.ca/about Not detected Not detected Detected bvcentre.ca/people Not detected Not detected Detected bvcentre.ca/about/governance-policies Not detected Not detected Detected bvcentre.ca/about/minutes Not detected Not detected Detected
- Check how the website looks using a mobile and a tablet. Consider adding mobile-only styling using media queries. Some websites employ other techniques for mobile visitors which we cannot currently detect.
Popularity5.0
110Estimated monthly organic visitors
- This website appears to have a good number of monthly website visits each month
Source: Ahrefs
Server behaviour5.4
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 returns page content with or without a trailing slash on the URLs. 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.
- This website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect from http://www.bvcentre.ca to http://bvcentre.ca. This is ideal.
Amount of content5.7
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 159 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 |
| bvcentre.ca/ | 1920 | 260 |
| bvcentre.ca/about | 2873 | 384 |
| bvcentre.ca/people | 717 | 96 |
| bvcentre.ca/about/governance-policies | 251 | 27 |
| bvcentre.ca/about/minutes | 406 | 30 |
Internal links8.2
- 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.
Images9.7
14% of images have a clearly defined size
3 images are being resized by the browser
- Most images (86.0%) 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 more quickly.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
Analytics10.0
100% of pages use analytics
Multiple Analytics Solutions
- Every page in this website is using some form of analytics software. This is excellent and should allow for a complete analysis of visitor behaviour.
Analytics Software Found
| Software Name |
| Google Analytics |
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 optimisation.
Headings10.0
- All pages were found to use defined headings. This is excellent as it allows visitors and search engines to summarise the content of webpages quickly. Correctly defined headings aid accessibility and are particularly important for search engine optimisation.
Page headings detail
| URL | Heading | Level |
| bvcentre.ca/ | Bulkley Valley Research Centre - Science in the Public Interest | H1 |
| bvcentre.ca/ | Carbon Dynamics of Planted and Natural Regeneration Stands in the Northern Interior Following Wildfires | H2 |
| bvcentre.ca/ | About the BVRC | H3 |
| bvcentre.ca/ | Recent News | H3 |
| bvcentre.ca/ | Featured Research | H3 |
| bvcentre.ca/ | Seminar Series | H3 |
| bvcentre.ca/about | Bulkley Valley Research Centre - Science in the Public Interest | H1 |
| bvcentre.ca/about | About | H2 |
| bvcentre.ca/about | Administration & Financial Support | H3 |
| bvcentre.ca/about | Community Nexus | H4 |
| bvcentre.ca/about | Project Administration | H4 |
| bvcentre.ca/about | Research for Sustainability and Stewardship | H4 |
| bvcentre.ca/about | H4 | |
| bvcentre.ca/about | Admin Assistance & Fees | H4 |
| bvcentre.ca/people | Bulkley Valley Research Centre - Science in the Public Interest | H1 |
| bvcentre.ca/people | People | H2 |
| bvcentre.ca/about/governance-policies | Bulkley Valley Research Centre - Science in the Public Interest | H1 |
| bvcentre.ca/about/governance-policies | Governance & Policies | H2 |
| bvcentre.ca/about/governance-policies | Governance | H3 |
| bvcentre.ca/about/governance-policies | Strategic Plan | H3 |
| bvcentre.ca/about/minutes | Bulkley Valley Research Centre - Science in the Public Interest | H1 |
| bvcentre.ca/about/minutes | Minutes | H2 |
| bvcentre.ca/about/minutes | Annual General Meetings | H3 |
| bvcentre.ca/about/minutes | Board Meetings | H3 |
| bvcentre.ca/about/minutes | Research Planning Committee | H3 |
Incoming links10.0
19,594,412 pages link to this website
24,568 domains link to this website
- There are 19,594,412 pages on 24,568 domains linking to this website. The volume and quality of incoming links is known to influence a website's search engine ranking.
- To appear higher in search engine results, consider link building activity as a way to build your search ranking. Be careful though, because incoming links which are obviously artificial are likely to be detected by search engines and could have an adverse effect.
- Many of the domains that link to this website are hosted on servers with similar IP addresses. Search engines may ignore these incoming links or penalise this website's ranking as this behaviour can be an indicator of artificial link building.
Source: Ahrefs
Meta tags10.0
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
Bulkley Valley Research Centre - Smithers, BC
bvcentre.ca/
The Bulkley Valley Research Centre is an independent not-for-profit society based in Smithers, Northwest British Columbia, Canada, that conducts high quality ...
- All pages were found to include a meta description. This is good because search engines (like Google) show this text in search result pages.
Meta Tags (name attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| bvcentre.ca/ | description | The Bulkley Valley Research Centre is an independent not-for-profit society based in Smithers, Northwest British Columbia, Canada, that conducts high quality interdisciplinary research on our environment, including its human dimensions. |
| bvcentre.ca/ | viewport | width=device-width |
| bvcentre.ca/about | description | The Bulkley Valley Research Centre (BVRC) is an independent, not-for-profit society conducting high-quality, interdisciplinary research on natural and cultural... |
| bvcentre.ca/about | viewport | width=device-width |
| bvcentre.ca/people | description | The Bulkley Valley Research Centre takes pride in a strong group dynamic and its ability to work creatively, proactively and professionally with a diversity... |
| bvcentre.ca/people | viewport | width=device-width |
| bvcentre.ca/about/governance-policies | description | Governance Constitution & Bylaws Governance Structure Strategic Plan BVRC Strategic Plan 2018-2022 |
| bvcentre.ca/about/governance-policies | viewport | width=device-width |
| bvcentre.ca/about/minutes | description | placeholder |
| bvcentre.ca/about/minutes | viewport | width=device-width |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| bvcentre.ca/ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge,chrome=1 |
| bvcentre.ca/about | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge,chrome=1 |
| bvcentre.ca/people | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge,chrome=1 |
| bvcentre.ca/about/governance-policies | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge,chrome=1 |
| bvcentre.ca/about/minutes | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge,chrome=1 |
Printability10.0
100% of pages are optimised for printing
- All of this website appears to be optimised for printing (using 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.
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