Nibbler SEO audit for ucsd.edu
Summary
Overall9.5
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility9.6
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience9.2
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing9.6
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 22:41 on 19 Sep 2023 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Enable GZIP compression on your web server or in your application. (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)
- Consider the amount of text on this website and increase it if appropriate. (read more)
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.
- 2 of the pages of this website follow the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect between URLs with/without trailing slashes. These pages are ideal.
- This website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect from http://www.ucsd.edu to http://ucsd.edu. This is ideal.
URL format7.6
2 URLs are less than ideal
- 2 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.
Amount of content8.8
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 564 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 |
| ucsd.edu/ | 4641 | 668 |
| ucsd.edu/about/.../index.html | 6001 | 887 |
| ucsd.edu/academics/index.html | 3780 | 507 |
| ucsd.edu/admissions-aid/ | 2543 | 347 |
| ucsd.edu/research-innovation/ | 2987 | 412 |
Internal links9.4
- 15 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.
Headings9.9
- 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.
- Some headings (2.0%) 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
Images9.9
5% of images have a clearly defined size
5 images are being resized by the browser
- Most images (95.0%) 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.
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
Google Tag Manager
- Every page in this website is using Google Tag Manager. 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
| Page title | Notes |
| University of California San Diego | OK |
| Visiting & Tours | OK |
| Academics | OK |
| Admissions & Aid | OK |
| Research and Innovation | OK |
Meta tags10.0
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
University of California San Diego
ucsd.edu/
The University California San Diego is one of the world's leading public research universities, located in beautiful La Jolla, California
- 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 |
| ucsd.edu/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| ucsd.edu/ | organization | University of California, San Diego |
| ucsd.edu/ | robots | index,follow,noarchive |
| ucsd.edu/ | site | UCSD |
| ucsd.edu/ | pagetitle | University of California San Diego |
| ucsd.edu/ | description | The University California San Diego is one of the world's leading public research universities, located in beautiful La Jolla, California |
| ucsd.edu/about/.../index.html | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| ucsd.edu/about/.../index.html | organization | University of California, San Diego |
| ucsd.edu/about/.../index.html | robots | index,follow,noarchive |
| ucsd.edu/about/.../index.html | site | UCSD |
| ucsd.edu/about/.../index.html | pagetitle | Visiting & Tours |
| ucsd.edu/about/.../index.html | description | Visiting & Tours |
| ucsd.edu/academics/index.html | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| ucsd.edu/academics/index.html | organization | University of California, San Diego |
| ucsd.edu/academics/index.html | robots | index,follow,noarchive |
| ucsd.edu/academics/index.html | site | UCSD |
| ucsd.edu/academics/index.html | pagetitle | Academics |
| ucsd.edu/academics/index.html | description | Read information about undergraduate and graduate degrees, academic departments and programs at UCSD. |
| ucsd.edu/admissions-aid/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| ucsd.edu/admissions-aid/ | organization | University of California, San Diego |
| ucsd.edu/admissions-aid/ | robots | index,follow,noarchive |
| ucsd.edu/admissions-aid/ | site | UCSD |
| ucsd.edu/admissions-aid/ | pagetitle | Admissions & Aid |
| ucsd.edu/admissions-aid/ | description | Find admissions information for UC San Diego undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools. |
| ucsd.edu/research-innovation/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| ucsd.edu/research-innovation/ | organization | University of California, San Diego |
| ucsd.edu/research-innovation/ | robots | index,follow,noarchive |
| ucsd.edu/research-innovation/ | site | UCSD |
| ucsd.edu/research-innovation/ | pagetitle | Research and Innovation |
| ucsd.edu/research-innovation/ | description | Find information on research related topics at UC San Diego including research news, initiatives, and opportunities. |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| ucsd.edu/ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| ucsd.edu/about/.../index.html | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| ucsd.edu/academics/index.html | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| ucsd.edu/admissions-aid/ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| ucsd.edu/research-innovation/ | 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
Popularity10.0
99573Estimated monthly organic visitors
- This website appears to have a high number of monthly website visits each month
Source: Ahrefs
Freshness10.0
Last updated September 19, 2023
- It looks like this website was last updated on Tuesday, 19 September 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
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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