Nibbler SEO audit for langara.ca
Summary
Overall8.7
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility8.7
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
The following tests contribute to this score:
Experience8.5
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
The following tests contribute to this score:
Marketing9.4
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
The following tests contribute to this score:
Technology7.9
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 01:51 on 18 Mar 2023 (GMT).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Consider using descriptive words or phrases (e.g. 'News', 'September 2012 financial results') in your anchor tag to benefit search engine optimisation. (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)
- 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. (read more)
Printability2.0
20% of pages are optimised for printing
- 4 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 optimised pages
Page Print langara.ca/ Optimised langara.ca/reg-guide/index.html Not detected langara.ca/admissions/.../index.html Not detected langara.ca/login/ Not detected langara.ca/programs-and-courses/index.html 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
URL format6.4
3 URLs are less than ideal
- 3 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.
Server behaviour7.0
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.
- One page of this website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect between its URL with/without a trailing slash. This page is ideal.
- This website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect from http://www.langara.ca to http://langara.ca. This is ideal.
Headings7.0
- 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 optimisation.
- Define meaningful headings for all webpages. This is likely to help this website's search engine placement and assist visitors in navigating content.
Page headings detail
| URL | Heading | Level |
| langara.ca/reg-guide/index.html | Registration Guide - Summer 2023 | H1 |
| langara.ca/reg-guide/index.html | Click here to access the Summer Semester 2023 Course Schedule | H2 |
| langara.ca/reg-guide/index.html | Registration Helpline | H2 |
| langara.ca/reg-guide/index.html | Key Steps for Registration | H2 |
| langara.ca/reg-guide/index.html | Online (off campus) Courses | H3 |
| langara.ca/reg-guide/index.html | Mixed Mode Courses | H3 |
| langara.ca/reg-guide/index.html | Fully On-Campus Courses | H3 |
| langara.ca/reg-guide/index.html | Log into web registration. Only log into one device and one browser at a time. | H3 |
| langara.ca/reg-guide/index.html | Activate Your Registration | H3 |
| langara.ca/reg-guide/index.html | Register for Courses | H3 |
| langara.ca/reg-guide/index.html | Pay Your Fees Online | H3 |
| langara.ca/reg-guide/index.html | Important: Check your account the day after to verify all your desired transactions have been successfully completed. | H4 |
| langara.ca/admissions/.../index.html | Apply to Langara | H1 |
| langara.ca/admissions/.../index.html | Applications are open. | H1 |
| langara.ca/admissions/.../index.html | Interested in becoming a student at Langara? Here’s how to do it in five easy steps: | H2 |
| langara.ca/admissions/.../index.html | Contact Us | H2 |
| langara.ca/admissions/.../index.html | Deadlines | H2 |
| langara.ca/login/ | Log in | H1 |
| langara.ca/login/ | Students | H2 |
| langara.ca/login/ | Regular Studies Students | H2 |
| langara.ca/login/ | Employees | H2 |
| langara.ca/login/ | Help Links | H2 |
| langara.ca/programs-and-courses/index.html | Programs & Courses | H1 |
Amount of content7.6
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 362 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 |
| langara.ca/ | 1112 | 146 |
| langara.ca/reg-guide/index.html | 4948 | 748 |
| langara.ca/admissions/.../index.html | 4860 | 707 |
| langara.ca/login/ | 683 | 72 |
| langara.ca/programs-and-courses/index.html | 1297 | 137 |
Internal links7.8
- 4 links are 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 tag to benefit search engine optimisation.
Weak link text
- Consider using descriptive words or phrases (e.g. 'News', 'September 2012 financial results') in your anchor tag to benefit search engine optimisation.
- 41 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.
Meta tags8.4
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
Langara. The college of higher learning
langara.ca/
Langara College, located in Vancouver, B.C., provides university, career, and continuing studies programs to over 23,000 students annually. We offer the largest ...
- 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 |
| langara.ca/ | description | Langara College, located in Vancouver, B.C., provides university, career, and continuing studies programs to over 23,000 students annually. We offer the largest university transfer program in Canada, with a proven record of student success. |
| langara.ca/ | keywords | |
| langara.ca/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| langara.ca/ | facebook-domain-verification | clreaagbtpnb7d1bn8emtfgv0e16g4 |
| langara.ca/reg-guide/index.html | description | |
| langara.ca/reg-guide/index.html | keywords | |
| langara.ca/reg-guide/index.html | viewport | initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no |
| langara.ca/reg-guide/index.html | facebook-domain-verification | clreaagbtpnb7d1bn8emtfgv0e16g4 |
| langara.ca/admissions/.../index.html | description | Langara College, located in Vancouver, B.C., provides university, career, and continuing studies programs to over 23,000 students annually. We offer the largest university transfer program in Canada, with a proven record of student success. |
| langara.ca/admissions/.../index.html | keywords | |
| langara.ca/admissions/.../index.html | viewport | initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no |
| langara.ca/admissions/.../index.html | facebook-domain-verification | clreaagbtpnb7d1bn8emtfgv0e16g4 |
| langara.ca/login/ | description | Langara College, located in Vancouver, B.C., provides university, career, and continuing studies programs to over 23,000 students annually. We offer the largest university transfer program in Canada, with a proven record of student success. |
| langara.ca/login/ | keywords | |
| langara.ca/login/ | viewport | initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no |
| langara.ca/login/ | facebook-domain-verification | clreaagbtpnb7d1bn8emtfgv0e16g4 |
| langara.ca/programs-and-courses/index.html | description | Langara College, located in Vancouver, B.C., provides university, career, and continuing studies programs to over 23,000 students annually. We offer the largest university transfer program in Canada, with a proven record of student success. |
| langara.ca/programs-and-courses/index.html | keywords | |
| langara.ca/programs-and-courses/index.html | viewport | initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no |
| langara.ca/programs-and-courses/index.html | facebook-domain-verification | clreaagbtpnb7d1bn8emtfgv0e16g4 |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| langara.ca/ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| langara.ca/reg-guide/index.html | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| langara.ca/admissions/.../index.html | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| langara.ca/login/ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| langara.ca/programs-and-courses/index.html | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
Images9.5
25% of images have a clearly defined size
5 images are being resized by the browser
- Most images (75.0%) 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.
- 5 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.
Twitter10.0
This website is linked with the Twitter account @langaracollege
This website's Twitter account has
11,442 followers
- This website was found to link the Twitter account Langara College (@langaracollege).
- This website's Twitter account has made 16,200 tweets to 11,442 followers.
Source: Twitter
Mobile10.0
- All of this website appears to be optimised for viewing on a mobile phone or a tablet.
Media specific CSS detected
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 |
| Google Tag Manager |
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.
Incoming links10.0
3,959,218 pages link to this website
4,729 domains link to this website
- There are 3,959,218 pages on 4,729 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.
Source: Ahrefs
Popularity10.0
183733Estimated monthly organic visitors
- This website appears to have a high number of monthly website visits each month
Source: Ahrefs
Freshness10.0
Last updated March 17, 2023
- It looks like this website was last updated on Friday, 17 March 2023. 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
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