Nibbler SEO audit for library.tcu.edu
Summary
Overall8.9
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility9.5
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience7.9
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing8.9
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
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Technology8.1
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 10:48 on 18 Apr 2024 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Ensure your web server returns a 404 HTTP status code for error pages. (read more)
- Consider updating this website regularly with new content. (read more)
- 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. (read more)
Server behaviour3.9
404 page
Compression
- This website does not return a 404 error HTTP status code for missing pages. This is bad because search engines like Google might mistake this for a real page of content.
- Ensure your web server returns a 404 HTTP status code for error pages.
- 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, but each page has a canonical tag to denote the correct version. This is usually ideal, as search engines will know which version to index, but there are links on this website which point to the non canonical version.
- Make sure all internal links to this page go to the canonical version.
Incorrectly linked pages
- Make sure all internal links to this page go to the canonical version.
- This website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect from http://www.library.tcu.edu to http://library.tcu.edu. This is ideal.
Freshness4.3
Last updated October 26, 2023
- It looks like this website was last updated on Thursday, 26 October 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
URL format5.2
4 URLs are less than ideal
- 4 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.
Amount of content8.9
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 623 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 |
| library.tcu.edu/ | 6702 | 943 |
| library.tcu.edu/ask-a-librarian.asp | 6670 | 872 |
| library.tcu.edu/index.asp | 3289 | 519 |
| library.tcu.edu/ejournals-and-ebooks.asp | 1573 | 227 |
| library.tcu.edu/locations.asp | 3737 | 554 |
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.
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
Images10.0
2% of images have a clearly defined size
1 image is being resized by the browser
- Most images (98.0%) 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.
- 1 image is 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
Image URL Format Page URL d3e1o4bcbhmj8g.cloudfront.net/.../widget_footer.png png library.tcu.edu/
- 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.
Internal links10.0
- Every link tested appears to be well defined. This is good because well defined links help SEO and aid accessibility.
Meta tags10.0
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
library.tcu.edu/
Library for Texas Christian University. Catalog, databases, electronic and print journals, A/V collections; Federal, State and EU documents.
- 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 |
| library.tcu.edu/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1, user-scalable=yes |
| library.tcu.edu/ | apple-mobile-web-app-title | TCU Library |
| library.tcu.edu/ | application-name | TCU Library |
| library.tcu.edu/ | msapplication-tilecolor | #4d1979 |
| library.tcu.edu/ | msapplication-config | /img/icons/browserconfig.xml?v=kP3xR66w20 |
| library.tcu.edu/ | theme-color | #ffffff |
| library.tcu.edu/ | description | Library for Texas Christian University. Catalog, databases, electronic and print journals, A/V collections; Federal, State and EU documents. |
| library.tcu.edu/ask-a-librarian.asp | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1, user-scalable=yes |
| library.tcu.edu/ask-a-librarian.asp | apple-mobile-web-app-title | TCU Library |
| library.tcu.edu/ask-a-librarian.asp | application-name | TCU Library |
| library.tcu.edu/ask-a-librarian.asp | msapplication-tilecolor | #4d1979 |
| library.tcu.edu/ask-a-librarian.asp | msapplication-config | /img/icons/browserconfig.xml?v=kP3xR66w20 |
| library.tcu.edu/ask-a-librarian.asp | theme-color | #ffffff |
| library.tcu.edu/ask-a-librarian.asp | description | Contact a librarian at TCU with your questions. Find out who the librarian is for your subject area. |
| library.tcu.edu/index.asp | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1, user-scalable=yes |
| library.tcu.edu/index.asp | apple-mobile-web-app-title | TCU Library |
| library.tcu.edu/index.asp | application-name | TCU Library |
| library.tcu.edu/index.asp | msapplication-tilecolor | #4d1979 |
| library.tcu.edu/index.asp | msapplication-config | /img/icons/browserconfig.xml?v=kP3xR66w20 |
| library.tcu.edu/index.asp | theme-color | #ffffff |
| library.tcu.edu/index.asp | description | Alphabetical index of topics covered by the TCU Library web site. |
| library.tcu.edu/ejournals-and-ebooks.asp | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1, user-scalable=yes |
| library.tcu.edu/ejournals-and-ebooks.asp | apple-mobile-web-app-title | TCU Library |
| library.tcu.edu/ejournals-and-ebooks.asp | application-name | TCU Library |
| library.tcu.edu/ejournals-and-ebooks.asp | msapplication-tilecolor | #4d1979 |
| library.tcu.edu/ejournals-and-ebooks.asp | msapplication-config | /img/icons/browserconfig.xml?v=kP3xR66w20 |
| library.tcu.edu/ejournals-and-ebooks.asp | theme-color | #ffffff |
| library.tcu.edu/ejournals-and-ebooks.asp | description | Ejournal and ebook resources available to the TCU community. |
| library.tcu.edu/locations.asp | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1, user-scalable=yes |
| library.tcu.edu/locations.asp | apple-mobile-web-app-title | TCU Library |
| library.tcu.edu/locations.asp | application-name | TCU Library |
| library.tcu.edu/locations.asp | msapplication-tilecolor | #4d1979 |
| library.tcu.edu/locations.asp | msapplication-config | /img/icons/browserconfig.xml?v=kP3xR66w20 |
| library.tcu.edu/locations.asp | theme-color | #ffffff |
| library.tcu.edu/locations.asp | description | Maps and floor plans to locate different sections of the library, including service desks, study rooms, special purpose rooms, and book stacks. |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| library.tcu.edu/ | content-type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
| library.tcu.edu/ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| library.tcu.edu/ask-a-librarian.asp | content-type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
| library.tcu.edu/ask-a-librarian.asp | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| library.tcu.edu/index.asp | content-type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
| library.tcu.edu/index.asp | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| library.tcu.edu/ejournals-and-ebooks.asp | content-type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
| library.tcu.edu/ejournals-and-ebooks.asp | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| library.tcu.edu/locations.asp | content-type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
| library.tcu.edu/locations.asp | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
Printability10.0
100% of pages are optimised for printing
- All of this website appears to be optimised for printing (using CSS).
Media specific CSS detected
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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