Nibbler SEO audit for msgwrites.wordpress.com
Summary
Overall8.5
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility9.1
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
The following tests contribute to this score:
Experience7.3
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
The following tests contribute to this score:
Marketing5.6
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
The following tests contribute to this score:
Technology9.3
How well designed and built the website is.
The following tests contribute to this score:
Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 18:24 on 26 Apr 2024 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- 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)
- Consider using descriptive words or phrases (e.g. 'News', 'September 2012 financial results') in your anchor tag to benefit search engine optimisation. (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.
Freshness0.9
Last updated September 18, 2020
- It looks like this website was last updated on Friday, 18 September 2020. This is bad because visitors may dismiss this website as outdated.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
Internal links7.5
- 2 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
Link URL Link text Page URL msgwrites.wordpress.com/about/ More msgwrites.wordpress.com/about/ msgwrites.wordpress.com/2020/.../ More msgwrites.wordpress.com/2020/.../
- Consider using descriptive words or phrases (e.g. 'News', 'September 2012 financial results') in your anchor tag to benefit search engine optimisation.
- 29 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.
Mobile8.6
- This website delivers a mobile optimised version of the HTML when accessed on a phone. This is good because visitors on a mobile device will be able to access this website easily.
- Having mobile optimised HTML is good, but the best way of adapting a website for different screen sizes is to use CSS media queries.
Media specific CSS detected
Images8.8
58% of images have a clearly defined size
57 images are being resized by the browser
- Some images (42.0%) 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.
- 57 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.
Amount of content9.0
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 1,451 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 |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/ | 19762 | 3469 |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/about/ | 1766 | 265 |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/page/.../ | 3171 | 546 |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/2020/.../ | 2816 | 458 |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/category/.../ | 14469 | 2517 |
Headings9.3
- 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.
- Many headings (15.0%) 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.
Page headings detail
Server behaviour10.0
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://www.msgwrites.wordpress.com to http://msgwrites.wordpress.com. This is ideal.
Analytics10.0
100% of pages use analytics
Google Analytics
- Every page in this website is using Google Analytics. This is excellent and should allow for a complete analysis of visitor behaviour.
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.
Page titles
Meta tags10.0
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
MsG Writes as Digital Diva | Technology in plain English as explored by ...
msgwrites.wordpress.com/
Technology in plain English as explored by Sarah George
- 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 |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/ | robots | max-image-preview:large |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/ | google-site-verification | u-SHqdsvMHEQCFoyHU7YaxPk3B3hn_WjSMj2nxaHiLY |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/ | msvalidate.01 | AB0CB101228C99C8F57481A76DDB49E6 |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/ | generator | WordPress.com |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/ | twitter:creator | @msg_writes |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/ | application-name | MsG Writes as Digital Diva |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/ | msapplication-window | width=device-width;height=device-height |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/ | msapplication-tooltip | Technology in plain English as explored by Sarah George |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/ | description | Technology in plain English as explored by Sarah George |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/ | msapplication-tileimage | https://msgwrites.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/msgwritesemails-2.png?w=270 |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/about/ | robots | max-image-preview:large |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/about/ | google-site-verification | u-SHqdsvMHEQCFoyHU7YaxPk3B3hn_WjSMj2nxaHiLY |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/about/ | msvalidate.01 | AB0CB101228C99C8F57481A76DDB49E6 |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/about/ | generator | WordPress.com |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/about/ | twitter:text:title | About Me |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/about/ | twitter:image | https://msgwrites.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/sarah1.jpg?w=144 |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/about/ | twitter:card | summary |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/about/ | application-name | MsG Writes as Digital Diva |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/about/ | msapplication-window | width=device-width;height=device-height |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/about/ | msapplication-tooltip | Technology in plain English as explored by Sarah George |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/about/ | description | Portrait by Stephen Cotterell Who is MsG Writes? I am a technology explorer, writer, photographer, artist and teacher.Having spent years fixing and supporting people with their technology issues. I diversified into teaching and training; to help them avoid some of those issues. It has now evolved into writing about the opensource and paid for software… |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/about/ | msapplication-tileimage | https://msgwrites.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/msgwritesemails-2.png?w=270 |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/page/.../ | robots | max-image-preview:large |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/page/.../ | google-site-verification | u-SHqdsvMHEQCFoyHU7YaxPk3B3hn_WjSMj2nxaHiLY |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/page/.../ | msvalidate.01 | AB0CB101228C99C8F57481A76DDB49E6 |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/page/.../ | generator | WordPress.com |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/page/.../ | application-name | MsG Writes as Digital Diva |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/page/.../ | msapplication-window | width=device-width;height=device-height |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/page/.../ | msapplication-tooltip | Technology in plain English as explored by Sarah George |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/page/.../ | description | Technology in plain English as explored by Sarah George |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/page/.../ | msapplication-tileimage | https://msgwrites.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/msgwritesemails-2.png?w=270 |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/2020/.../ | robots | max-image-preview:large |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/2020/.../ | google-site-verification | u-SHqdsvMHEQCFoyHU7YaxPk3B3hn_WjSMj2nxaHiLY |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/2020/.../ | msvalidate.01 | AB0CB101228C99C8F57481A76DDB49E6 |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/2020/.../ | generator | WordPress.com |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/2020/.../ | twitter:creator | @msg_writes |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/2020/.../ | twitter:text:title | 2020 Year of the Chat (Rat) |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/2020/.../ | twitter:image | https://msgwrites.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/image_thumb-5.png?w=144 |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/2020/.../ | twitter:card | summary |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/2020/.../ | application-name | MsG Writes as Digital Diva |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/2020/.../ | msapplication-window | width=device-width;height=device-height |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/2020/.../ | msapplication-tooltip | Technology in plain English as explored by Sarah George |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/2020/.../ | description | 2020, the year coffee mornings and watercooler chats went virtual. The uniques circumstances forced us to push the boundaries of our use of tech. |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/2020/.../ | msapplication-tileimage | https://msgwrites.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/msgwritesemails-2.png?w=270 |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/category/.../ | robots | max-image-preview:large |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/category/.../ | google-site-verification | u-SHqdsvMHEQCFoyHU7YaxPk3B3hn_WjSMj2nxaHiLY |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/category/.../ | msvalidate.01 | AB0CB101228C99C8F57481A76DDB49E6 |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/category/.../ | generator | WordPress.com |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/category/.../ | twitter:creator | @msg_writes |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/category/.../ | application-name | MsG Writes as Digital Diva |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/category/.../ | msapplication-window | width=device-width;height=device-height |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/category/.../ | msapplication-tooltip | Technology in plain English as explored by Sarah George |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/category/.../ | description | Posts about Free Applications written by MsG |
| msgwrites.wordpress.com/category/.../ | msapplication-tileimage | https://msgwrites.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/msgwritesemails-2.png?w=270 |
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
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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